Posts Tagged as inspiration

15 Stunning and Fresh Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes

January 19th, 2010 6 Comments

A benefit of building a portfolio using WordPress is you have the ability to use the powerful blog features alongside your portfolio. A blog discussing your work or more about your processes and inspiration will add to the personality and allow potential clients to get to know you more increasing the attractiveness of you as a web designer. WordPress can also act as a more than adequate CMS for displaying your portfolio work.

Previously we’ve looked at Fantastic Presentation Styles of Web Designers’ Portfolios so taking what has been learnt from there, let’s look at WordPress themes which make great portfolio displays. Many people are of the assumption that WordPress is nothing more than a blogging platform but it can easily be adapted to behave more like a traditional content management system as the following themes demonstrate.

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Making the Most of Icons in Web Design

August 13th, 2009 13 Comments

When used effectively, icons can add so much to a site’s design. They can help identify list items and make navigation a more visual experience as long as the icons have enough relevance to what they’re representing. A visual representation of content allows a user to scan a page easier than plain text.

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27 Stunning Examples of Header Design Inspiration

July 13th, 2009 34 Comments

Headers are the usually the first thing you see so the examples shown have gone for big, bold and beautiful headers that give the design character while also making them very memorable.
Alexandra Tong

Duirwaigh Studios

Designslurp

Matt Mullenweg

Cosmive

PSD Layout Design

Webstaze

Ectomachine

CSS Leak

CTL

Dragon Interactive

Gummisig

Feed Stitch

Jesús Rodríguez Velasco

Vidget Inspire

Corvus Design Studio

Pixel Resort

Frisk Design

RCI UK

Mirasim

Squarespace

Firefox 3.5

Delicious Monster

Cult Foo

Versions

Dizzain

Toucouleur

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Creative Uses of Navigation

July 6th, 2009 No Comments

With the combination of javascript and CSS, navigation doesn’t have to be static transitions between content or just another standard boring menu. Below is a showcase of creative navigation that can make the user experience more interesting and memorable.

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Creating a Web Design from Scratch: Getting Started

June 23rd, 2009 4 Comments

Often the most difficult part of web design is getting a design off the ground. It is important to sufficiently research whatever project you’re working on before you really get stuck into the design. Even then you may find yourself staring at that daunting blank PhotoShop screen. There are a couple of things that can help you get going.

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Superb Examples of Form Design

June 22nd, 2009 16 Comments

Following on from our look at fantastic login pages comes a look at more comprehensive form design such as contact forms, order forms, sign up forms and comment forms.

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20 Great Examples of the Use of Brown in Web Design

June 15th, 2009 21 Comments

This is an extensive follow up to a post that I wrote on my own personal blog a little while ago before Inspect Element was even a twinkle in my eye. Now time to let the designs to do the talking:

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