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48 great pink powered websites

15. February 2010

Although pink makes you think of cotton candy, bubble gum and girly stuff, it’s actually a very interesting color to use in a web environment. Some designers use it as a predominant color in their website filling the background with it, while others just use a more subtle approach and use just for links, headings [...]

The different styles of blue site design

13. January 2010

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Alongside red and green blue is one of the most common color that you find or use in the site’s design. Firstly, because the clients asks it. Secondly, because you want to use it, as a designer because it suggests smartness, cold and trust and you want that in your designs. Thirdly, because it looks [...]

The beautiful style of black websites – 41 examples

7. December 2009

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You have to admit that black is a classy color and it is used a lot in fashion sites, for example. Better looking in Flash but, of course, also used in CSS based sites, with different gradients, suggests elegance, sophistication, maybe mystery. Note: this is not a ‘dark websites article’, everything here is based on [...]

Nature in web design – best practices

30. November 2009

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There are designers who simply love to add a natural element in one of their designs, like a leaf, some grass, a tree branch or even the whole tree. These elements give the website a fresh breath of air, which is complementary to the cold and inexpressive menus, titles and text areas. Besides the small [...]

The element wood in web sites – 33 examples

24. November 2009

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Mostly, the wood is used for background in web design on the whole page, but sometimes you find it either in the header or the center part of the site or even in the footer. Don’t expect to see just the usual texture tiled across the site, you will also see sites that embrace the [...]