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Friday Focus 03/12/10: Grit & Grime

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

Friday Focus 02/26/10: Fine Type

This week on Friday Focus: designs that are dressed in fine typography and details.

Friday Focus 02/19/10: Fixed

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

Friday Focus 11/20/09: You’re My Type

We love our fonts around these parts, so here’s another batch for this week’s Friday Focus featuring excellent typography, and nothing but.

Friday Focus 10/09/09: 10-in-1

I’m doing something different this week on Friday Focus. I found one site with ten different styles on the same content (plus one homepage). Each one tries to match the visitor’s mood for the day. It’s also a good way to showcase one’s design repertoire. The designer also employs many interesting techniques into each style, so be sure to check all of them out!

Friday Focus 07/10/09: Featuring Food

Apologies for posting this a day late, but I will try to make it up to you with yummy-looking websites. It’s a food-centric Friday Focus!

Friday Focus 07/03/09: Chaotic & Whimsical

Design usually means arranging things in an orderly, meaningful manner, but this week we’re throwing that out of the window and going for chaotic and whimsical sites. Happy 4th of July weekend, everyone, and welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Friday Focus 06/19/09: Iconic Design

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

Sites Without Menus: Do You Really Need a Main Nav?

In this post we’ll have a look at usability by removing one of the biggest staples of design: Navigation. Plus 15 sites to prove that it’s possible (showcase).

Are You Tempted to Soup up Your Website?

Our jobs as designers, programmers, or web developers is never done. It seems that once a design is finished, we start thinking of things that can be tweaked, added, or taken away. It’s even worse with all the Web 2.0 speak and AJAX that seems to be everywhere. We don’t want to be left in the dust. However, in our efforts to have the latest and greatest incorporated into designs, we may have left someone else in the dust: our visitors.