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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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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Staying up-to-date with the trends is important in every domain and especially in technology related ones, like web design, in which trends change very fast. An obvious examples are the parallax scrolling based sites that you see around these days; this day, next year they’ll probably outdated.

As I was saying, it is important to stay up-to-date and searching for inspiration is important, especially by looking at newly created sites which utilize new techniques which appeared along with CSS3 and HTML5.

kickers.it

jagex.com

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