We’re curating a short list of sites celebrating this lovely date. Happy 11-11-11 Friday Focus!

Like the parallax effect, horizontal scrolling is a popular technique to grab people’s attentions and making a website stand out. It also challenges the usual top to bottom browsing we are accustomed to, so it should always be used with caution. Let’s see if this week’s featured designs are on point. Happy Friday Focus!

It’s almost Halloween dear Friday Focus followers! While these designs won’t scare the lights out of you, the use of hands without showing much else of the rest of the person’s body is a somewhat creepy concept. Don’t let that chase you away though, their use in these designs are clever too.

This week on Friday Focus, we’re investigating illustrated creatures posing as mascots on different websites.

The wonderful discipline of grid systems and boxy layouts is a wonderful thing to behold, but breaking out of them is probably more fun. This week on Friday Focus: we’re looking at freeform layouts.

This week’s Friday Focus features designs revolving around maps, both as embellishment and a tool.

Clouds are one of the most popular graphic elements on websites and designers have upped the ante by making them move across visitors’ screens. Let’s see how this week’s featured sites did it.

Happy Friday Focus! Today we’re looking at designs with a bit of a “dip” in them—one content area leading into another with a nice little curve. Can you spot them? Read on!

This week on Friday Focus, we’re zooming in on designs with a superhero slant. We’ve had robots and ninjas before, so it’s no surprise people turn to yet another persona to welcome visitors to their sites.

This week on Friday Focus we’re featuring a specific type of texture being used in websites: denim. Is it the new wood pattern? Let’s find out.

This week’s Friday Focus features designs that incorporate the moon in them.

The featured designs in this week’s Friday Focus have something subtle in common: thin, repeating patterns you often see in important documents such as bills, checks, and passports, known as guilloché, and similar to the patterns generated by spirographs.