Here’s an old-school pattern that hasn’t gone the way of the dodo: left-aligned designs. Symmetry is great, but asymmetry? Even better. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Going dirty has never looked this good! It’s grungy websites this week on Friday Focus.

Just because monitors have gotten bigger doesn’t mean we should jump into wide layouts all the time. See how these designs make use of narrower widths effectively.

This week on Friday Focus: excellent websites that happen to have fixed elements in them.

Well-optimized CSS can be a beautiful thing. Get the job done with these four (free!) tools.

This week on Friday Focus: these folded, boxy 3D-looking designs pose an interesting challenge to the designer in creating perspective and breaking out of boundaries. See how these websites did it!

At one point in our internet lives, we learned to avoid typing in all caps, because it meant we were yelling. At another point, we became attachmented to typing in lowercase, because it looked and felt cool. We see a lot of designs going lowercase in many portions of text, but nowadays, going uppercase is is all the rage. These designs seem to pull that off quite well.

Want to be a better web designer this year? Five things to add to your New Year’s Resolutions list.

A quick tip on how to prettify your photo captions.

A quick guide to improving your design with the CSS property line-height.

This week on Friday Focus: websites that will make you want to get in the car or on a plane and head to these exquisite destinations. At least we can enjoy their views from within our own browsers!

This week on Friday Focus, we have websites that feature circular shapes prominently in their designs. Time to break out of the boxiness and round things up!