You don’t see many horizontal websites being launched especially because many designers are against it thinking that visitors would be confused by the fact that they don’t scroll like they got used to till now. That seems a bit protective towards the visitor. After all, people are adaptable and most of these site’s visitors I’m sure are actually intrigued and somehow impressed by the fact that the design is something else than they’re used to.

In this article there are 33 examples of horizontal scrolling websites for inspiration and I hope these will help you if you are trying to make a horizontal website design.

liptonicetea.pl

lovebento.com.au

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jQuery plugins are released more often than people would expect and that is a good thing because this way you have a whole bunch of them to choose from. In this article I featured 38 of these wonderful jQuery plugins along with other tools useful for web designers and web developers.

tablecloth.js

We’ve all been there. Either you’re redesigning a large site or working on a completely new one… styling tables is typically tedious and time-consuming. If you’d rather spend your valuable time making the other elements of your site pretty, use tablecloth to do the heavy lifting.

JQVMa

JQVMap is a jQuery plugin that renders Vector Maps. It uses resizable Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer 9. Legacy support for older versions of Internet Explorer 6-8 is provided via VML.
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It is really impressive to see how some designers work, how much passion they put in their artworks and how much imagination they have. Every time I make an article like this one I am astonished by the drawing illustrations that I come across.

In this article there are 36 marvelous high quality artworks from a few talented artists who I am sure you will look up to if you are a newbie illustrator.

Grand Abolisher

Some Action After Hours Press

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Creating custom blog posts can have many advantages. For starters, they look a lot better than the plain old repetitive style that normal posts have which makes your site look dynamic in the eyes of your readers who are, maybe, border with your old post style. Besides this, you are appreciated as a designer, your skills are acknowledged by people who see the article and this could get you a few clients.

I have seen custom blog posts which organize the information the same way print magazines do it and that is really helpful. You can use custom column, text-wrapping or you can add pictures to the article to make it have an editorial look.

This article contains 50 amazing examples of unique blog post designs for inspiration. They all have interesting techniques and if you ever want to create a custom blog post, you should take these below as a starting point.

The Potential of Web Typography: @font-face and Firefox 3.5

Mobb Deep – Survival of the Fittest

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Flash sites inspiration has been a neglected subject here, because I focused my attention, and implicitly yours since you are reading the articles, on CSS and HTML sites, to be more specific on CSS3 and HTML5 ones.

However, I decided to put my latest shortlist of Flash based sites in an article and present it to you. There are 32 sites in this article and, unlike CSS sites, these won’t be that fast to browse through. They have a lot of dynamic elements and you could be mesmerized by their coolness. Beware!

aisaexpress.com

discoverthecabininthewoods.com

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