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10 Fantastic and Creative Web Design Styles

November 8th, 2009 — 96 Comments

When designing a website, there are a number of different styles you can adopt to get the message of a brand across effectively to customers, users or readers. The important thing to consider is to pick a style that matches the brand you are designing for. Also, there’s no reason why you need to stick to one particular style. Multiple different styles can merge together perfectly fine as you’ll spot in some of the examples below.

Here is a look at ten of the most creative styles in use in web design today with examples of some of the best websites that utilise them.

Simple CSS Tips that Go a Long Way

November 5th, 2009 — 61 Comments

Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the difference and there are plenty of neat little CSS tips that can help with all aspects of design and development. Here are a few great tips that will help you improve your CSS work and help you get the most out of your code.

Inspect Element and Smashing Magazine's Smashing Network!

November 3rd, 2009 — 4 Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few days, you will have seen Smashing Magazine launch a redesign as well as their new adventure, the Smashing Network and Inspect Element is very proud to be part of it from launch.

Overlaying Text on Images: What You Need to Consider

November 2nd, 2009 — 29 Comments

When overlaying text onto images, the most important thing you need to consider is readability. If the text being placed on top of the image doesn’t have enough contrast with the image itself, the message will get lost and frustrate visitors as they try to work out what it actually says. You don’t want visitors to have to work hard just to read something on a website. This can contribute to them ignoring the message you want to get across or even cause them to leave the site.

Showcase of Some of the Most Inspiring Travel & Tourism Websites

October 29th, 2009 — 37 Comments

The travel and tourism industry is a great source of inspiration when it comes to web design. The main goal of any site in this industry is to entice visitors to travel. Imagery plays a huge part in this because any potential customer wants to see exactly where they are travelling to. Here are a few great examples of inspirational travel and tourism websites.

8 Simple Tips for Freelancers to Keep Focused

October 19th, 2009 — 12 Comments

One of the difficulties of working for yourself as freelancer is keeping focused on your work. Chances are that if you’re a freelancer, you’re working from home complete with all the distractions that it brings.

Here are a few tips to make sure you get the best out of your work by keeping focused.

55 Invitations to Typekit to Give Away

October 15th, 2009 — 164 Comments

Recently I received an invitation to Typekit and now have some invitations of my own and have decided to give them away here on Inspect Element. You may have heard of it by now but if by any chance you haven’t or have had trouble getting an invite, I’ve got five to give away.