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

Use less Flash- without losing any of the pizazz. Here are four ways how.

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.

Welcome to the first Friday Focus of the year and the new decade! Here are some fantastically designed websites that should inspire you to be more daring and adventurous than ever starting right now. Ready?

Here’s another interesting look that’s being used in websites lately: blueprints. See how they’re translated into this week’s featured websites on Friday Focus.

We have unmistakably girly illustrations here on this week’s Friday Focus! Girl power, baby!

This week on Friday Focus: websites with a fair amount of texture and a lot of personality.

Elegant, exquisite, and extreme details on these sites that are sure to please. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

The Movable Type Asset Manager is a great way to organize your blog photos, but it doesn’t include a way to show them off. In this tutorial, learn how to combine the Asset Manager with a JavaScript photo gallery to easily create a great-looking photos page for your blog.

It’s Friday the 13th, so let’s celebrate this eerie date with some dark designs.

When you unpack your shiny new version of Rails and generate your first Ajax link, you are using the Prototype library. It’s beautiful to use. It adds many Rails-like constructs into the JavaScript language, e.g. the each method to iterate a closure over an array. Sexy stuff. But, how do you create a hover effect without using prototype?