As a web designer having a good resource of icons is essential. The web is full of free icons, finding them is easy, finding the good ones is another matter. A good icon pack contains a broad selection of icons from documents to control icons. For a serious and professional look the icons must be [...]

I’m seeing a lot of sites whose color palette consists almost exclusively of light grayish, brownish hues. Sounds boring? No such thing for a smart designer.

Social Media has become the norm on websites and weblog, if you want more interaction, higher traffic and incoming links your website needs to be social media ready. And with that social media icons are indispensable.

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.

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!

Subtlety is the name of the game this week on Friday Focus. We’re featuring designs with light hues and textures for a relaxing, elegant feel overall.

This week, I’ve come across a lot of sites with sunbursts, a specific type of lighting that’s popular with not just the Web 2.0 look anymore. You decide if they’re crucial to the design or not.

We have some pumpkin-colored sites this week on Friday Focus, just in time for Halloween. Enjoy!

This week on Friday Focus, we’re featuring light on dark sites with little to no use of color, just the neutral gray, brown, and black.

This week’s Friday Focus features designs with pretty little birds in them. (No, this isn’t another collection of Twitter-related sites—only two of them are.)

This week on Friday Focus, we celebrate great icon design which carries the overall look of our featured websites.

This week on Friday Focus: websites that look like they made of paint, not pixels.