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Friday Focus 10/22/10: Beautiful Data

Pie charts and graphs have never looked sexier with their integration into these websites. It’s beautiful data visualizations on this week’s Friday Focus.

12 Old and New CSS Menu Techniques

A navigation menu, something unmissable in all websites, one of the most important factor besides content. You can have a simple navigation or a very intricate one, design and code wise. Once I learned some key navigation techniques I went on to learn how to work around WordPress generated navigation to still be able to [...]

Friday Focus 09/03/10: Ribbons

Using ribbons is really big these days, bringing both sophistication and a hint of nostalgia to designs.

Friday Focus 07/16/10: The Many Faces of Paper

The many different textures, colors, and treatments for paper allow infinite possibilities for their use in websites. Not one of these designs look remotely alike, and that keeps things very interesting. Happy Friday Focus!

Friday Focus 06/25/10: Kid-Friendly

No, these websites aren’t just for the little ones, but their designs certainly have a child-focused appeal to them. Check out the elements that make up a Kid-Friendly look on this week’s Friday Focus.

Friday Focus 06/18/10: Layered Screens

Showing screenshots of websites on websites isn’t terribly exciting in theory, but let’s see how these designs dealt with it.

Gorgeous Headlines With @font-face And Letterpress Styles

Jazz up your website or blog headlines with this simple effect, a combination of @font-face and CSS text-shadow.

Friday Focus 05/27/10: In Your Face Illustrations

This week on Friday Focus: illustrations that appear front and center in these websites, because we want them big, bright, and beautiful.

CSS Breadcrumbs In 5 Minutes

Website breadcrumbs help us find our way. Here’s how to implement and style them in 5 minutes.

Friday Focus 05/14/10: Icon Parade

This week’s Friday Focus will tackle websites for a designer’s best friend: icons. Icon sites have been around for the longest time but we’re seeing a lot of sites pushing the envelope in interface innovation, both with their offerings and the website designs they’re found in. The latest trend so far? Websites created for a single icon set—now that’s a great way to promote work.

Friday Focus 05/07/10: Power Lines

This week on Friday Focus: website designs that use strong lines to guide the eye in navigating around them.

10 Awesome CSS3 Techniques to Improve Your Designs

CSS3 Is together with Canvas one of the more exciting elements of web design. With this post we want to showcase some awesome techniques to improve your design with the help of CSS3.