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

You might remember a feature on split designs over a year ago. The look is alive and kicking in 2011, and this week we’re taking another look. Happy Friday Focus!

This week’s Friday Focus features not just any kind of bird, but owls. They’ve been used everywhere from personal portfolios to mainstream portals and we’re going to check them out.

Here’s an interesting technique to try out in this week’s Friday Focus: designs that have four main navigational items arranged at right angles to each other, much like the four main directions on a compass.

This week’s designs feature illustrations with the isometric perspective in them, giving the sites an interesting birds-eye view.

In a previous Friday Focus we featured portfolios with self-portraits of designers that own them. This week we’re looking at agency websites that also feature the people behind them.

This week’s Friday Focus features designs that use smart, stunning slideshow techniques that are sure to inspire you. Take some notes!

Here’s another popular color combination making the rounds: it’s yellow and black on this week’s Friday Focus.

Last week I mentioned a site that uses a shelf as a nice metaphor for holding content, so let’s look at several more in this week’s Friday Focus.

Check out how these designs brought printed books to life online on this week’s Friday Focus.

This week on Friday Focus: vines, blooms, and other foliage that do a great job of framing your website.

Sites usually place logos at the top left corner of the page, but nudge them to the center and it makes quite an impact, as a red wax seal does on a white letter envelope. Let’s check out sites with centered logos on this week’s Friday Focus.