I thought I’d share with you another great design example. This website has inspired me to actually start doing some 3d modeling and graphics design stuff. Now I don’t do much with it, but stunning 3d images still make me excited. You’ll see what I’m talking about here soon…

It’s Chapter Three by a Swedish creative director Jens Karlsson. These images are simply breathtaking. That kind of art could perfectly fit into a business brochure or a book cover for example. It’s really great.

If you need some creativity flowing, get some inspiration for whatever design you do, Chapter3 is worth taking a look at.

Hi,

Today I wanted to share with you another great example of quality web design. In my opinion, it’s just awesome. If the look of the site hasn’t changed yet, go and check out the DevFly design company’s website right now.

I especially loved the drawing in the background. The fly was probably done with some kind of 3d modeling software like 3s max or Maya. I’ve tried 3d modeling long time ago and it was quite painful. I’ll post a website where I was inspired to go in 3d modeling stuff. There are lots of cool 3d pictured…

Anyway, getting back to this design, I’d say it looks really great.

But the problem is that images here take hell of a lot of time to load. They’re quality, which means that they’re larger in size. Still, I could congratulate guys for optimizing the fly pics. Great job.

I know, I know, this design maybe won’t bring obvious results for money seekers. Clean site with big bold headline in front is what makes sales. Otherwise, why would so many marketers use that huh

But isn’t it just nice to stumble on such a cool website when there are tons and tons of mom & pop site out there? I love browsing the web and seeing such great designs. Whenever I see something worth your attention, I’ll post here…

And of course, I’ll be posting some crappy design examples too. Stay tuned

Here’s another website, I thought you might like. The design is simple, yet attractive. It’s not very easy to read because of the dark background, but I’ve seen worse… This is actually a blog. So if you’ve thought that blog design isn’t as flexible as website’s then this one should change your mind. Colors are well mixed together. It doesn’t use more than 2. This is good thing, because combining more than 2 colors might get you in trouble if you’re not a pro.

What else I liked about this design is the pictures. Images, no matter how small or large they are, are put in frames, which in turn are attached to the endings of the posting area. Frankly I’m not sure how it’s done yet, but it looks good. Seems like the image fits into the whole blog design here. Looks professional.

You can check out the website at: Ifelse

I thought, I’ll share a website that inspired me to website and graphics designing. It’s 2advanced company. Until now, I think they’re one of the most quality and professional website design companies around.

The version of their site that impressed me the most was the third one. You can check the archive at:
http://v3.2a-archive.com

Or you can go to the main site and see the new version here: 2Advanced

I mean this kind of design is just awesome. Of course, it’s not a money generating design. If you want to make money, then you should use simple design and go straight to the point (whatever you want to accomplish: get a lead, sell a product, make them call you, etc.). But there are companies that simply want to represent their identity online and not to make any sales from the site.

In that case, such design is awesome.

And not only that. Just look at how nicely the colors are balanced. Look at the images and the whole subtle flash design there. It’s really impressing. I see many websites that try to look a bit professional, but they just make it worse. Now this kind of design should be an inspiration for you if you create sites yourself.

In the future, I’ll post more of great design examples, so you could strive to look as professional and good looking as possible.

Hi,

Today I’d like to give you a tip when designing your website. I’ll use my site as an example here.

If you’re not a PHP geek or you don’t use some CMS (content management system), then you may have a pretty flexible website even with CSS (cascading style sheets). That’s what I basically use for my website design.

If you look at the picture below, you’ll see that the layout of the site is broken into 3 chunks – left, center and right sides.

Each of these is just a table with CSS assigned to it. Now, if you use HTML formatting on every single page, there’s no way you can change the layout of all the pages at once. However, if you use external CSS on every page, you can change almost any layout detail and have it updated on all the pages.

For instance, the sidebar (image on the left) has a CSS class assigned to the table and also CSS class assigned to links. Those borders around links are just CSS. Now I can open the main CSS file any time and remove those, change the color, size, font, width or height of the whole table. At the moment the sidebar is 200px in width. But with CSS, I can change it to 150px or 300px if I want to.

I can actually change the main table (centered table) width or background color, as well as sub navigation menu layout.

So, talking about CSS layout, it’s really easy to use and update. If you’re using just a simple HTML for your pages (not ASP or PHP scripting), I suggest using CSS for all your website elements (tables, cells, H1 or H2 tags, links, etc.). This will really save you time if you decide to change the layout of your site.

I think these days almost every (at least decent) web development software has the option to use external CSS for your website layout. I like to use Adobe Golive for editing websites. You may use FrontPage or Dreamweaver. They’re also quite powerful tools.