I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Eva Solo.
How much more simple can you get?
This site showcases their salad spinner product in a clean, simple and elegant manor. What more do I need to say?
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Small White Bear.
It’s a site about climate change, polar bears and why you should care! It’s a very simple site, nice rounded corners give it a smooth look and there’s plenty of space between the letters and words to make it easy to read and understand.
The site makes their point very well.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Lakeside Heritage Society.
I really like the overall look of this site. It looks historical and classic, but the site works really well. You know right away what it’s about, it’s warm and inviting and the navigation is clear, easy to find and use.
A 404 error is an error that you get when a page that’s requested can’t be found. Either you’re typing an address that was never there or the page was taken down or moved. Through the main htaccess file you can direct your visitors to a page that you made instead of the generic 404 page provided by your web host.
A while back I wrote about why you should have custom 404 error pages and found a link to some really cool custom ones to inspire you. I recently found a post on 10steps.sg with 60 more great ideas for 404 error pages and thought I would share it.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Tri-Win Mailing Services.
This site is a mailing service. Any doubt about that from the first glance?
Everything that they do is right there in front of you. Navigation is easy to find and use. I would prefer some sort of hover effect so that visitors know that they are links, I do like that the main navigation is in plain text, though.
I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre.
The other day I wrote about not using pictures of words in place of real words on your web page. Well, here’s an example of a site where it works well. The site is for a cartoon so you want the text to look cartoonish, but there are alt tags on every image that tells the search engines (and human visitors with images turned off) what the picture is about. This included the navigation, but even with the image rollovers for navigation it uses CSS that search engines can read and not some kind of scripting that is not easy for them to read.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Bird-Malaysia.
I love the main picture. The bird appears to be breaking out of the image. A cool trick.
One look at the rest of the page and you can understand exactly what the site is about. Main site navigation is at the top, right below the header, easy to find and use.
I’m not crazy about the tan text on a brown background. It looks very stylish, but I think is hard to read.
I like that they ask you for your contact information right away. It’s out of the way, but still noticeable.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Fresh Air Home Cleaning.
With a company called Fresh Air you would expect a site that looks clean and bright. That’s what what you get with this site, plenty of white space and great clear pictures of blue skies and flowers. It looks like a “Green” company so using the green colors of their logo throughout works well and if it’s possible to look like Fresh Air, I think this site does.
They only have a few pages and there are links to all of them on the main navigation that are very clear and easy to find. My only comment would be that the links in the body of the page don’t stand out as links. They don’t look like links to begin with and the color change for the hover effect is barely noticeable. They do begin each link with a “»”, but I don’t think that’s enough.
Overall a very nice looking site.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Langkawi Nature, Wildlife and Birding Tours.
I think that you can probably see from just the thumbnail here that that’s what the site looks like. Jungle looking, very green and lush. Nice use of shadows.
The navigation is right below the header and is easy to use.
I like that you see a new first page header picture every time you visit.
It really makes the site seem fresh
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Lucy Blackmore.
Lucy is an artist and crafty person living in the Harrogate UK. Her site is a blog and it’s designed in way that lets you know exactly what she’s in to.
The site really shows off her paintings well, which is exactly what it’s purpose is. There are only a couple of links to her site pages and they stand out right at the top. I also like the date and comment tags that look like tabs on the sides, a very nice touch.
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