25 Fresh Examples of Beautiful UI Elements
By Gisele Muller on
UI elements - user interface elements - are a really important part of the design process. They are what we can call the face of interaction between your site and it
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In this category you will find articles about web design, web development and related topics. Here we also feature inspirational collections, opinions and articles about best practices.
60+ Interior Design and Furniture Websites for Your Inspiration
By Mary Lou on
It is interesting to explore the design of websites associated to a certain category. There are many collections out there that showcase websites from certain areas,
Share the Love: Social Bookmark Designs in Blogs
By Mary Lou on
The other day it came to my attention that there are so many beautiful social bookmark icon sets around but no blog seems to use them. Now, that has to do a lot with
A Love Letter to the Design Community
By Mary Lou on
Dear Design Community, I don’t really know if I can consider myself a part of you, but I have the strong urge to tell you how I feel about you. About six month
Our 10 Absolute Favorite Smashing Magazine Articles
By Mary Lou on
Some years back when I was starting to study I began to regularly read news and blogs on the web. It was a very exciting time back then since there were many “
66 Famous Fashion Websites for your Inspiration
By Mary Lou on
Here is a list of inspirational web designs from the fashion design industry. Most of them use Flash to create a “fashion experience” when visiting their
Design Inspiration from Music Videos: Sick Muse by Metric
By Mary Lou on
As a web designer it is sometimes hard to get inspired. When a client asks for a specific design and has some concrete ideas, it can be much easier than inventing so
Fresh Set of CSS-only Menus
By Mary Lou on
Here is a set of fresh CSS-only menus for your website – no images, no JavaScript. The markup for the menus is always the same and I used 12 different styleshe
24 Beautiful Hotel Website Designs to Get Inspired
By Mary Lou on
A great website design can be a powerful tool for establishing a brand. In the hotel business, a website gives the chance to present the services and atmosphere that
Free Glossy Icons: The jFeedback Icon Set with Source
By Mary Lou on
For our last post Cody asked me to create these two glossy icons for the jFeedback jQuery plugin. We thought, we could post the icons as well with the Photoshop file
The “new” design of IMDb
By Mary Lou on
Some time ago the incredible happened: our beloved movie database site IMDb finally realized that it was not 1996 anymore and dared to hire some designers in order t
Styling Forms with CSS: Sophisticated Registration Form
By Mary Lou on
Here is a pretty complete registration form, nicely juiced up with some neat CSS. Here you can see a DEMO Download the ZIP file from here: CSS Registration ZIP Enjoy
42 Famous Login and Registration Forms
By Mary Lou on
Today, I want to showcase some of the most famous login and registration forms on the web. As a web developer you might be interested in having a compact overview of
Codrops’ New Style: Lessons learned from applying CSS3
By Mary Lou on
… or why your Mozilla could be slow when scrolling As you can see, we changed the style of our beloved site. The original WordPress theme can be found here: ht
CSS3 Styled jQuery Dropdown
By Mary Lou on
I found a really nice and simple jQuery dropdown menu on CSS Tricks and I thought, let’s add some neat style to it. You can find the original here: http://css-
32 free arrow icons for your web page
By Mary Lou on
Here is a very neat set of arrow icons in 8 colors and png format (18 x 18 px):
Free Web 2.0 style glossy buttons
By Mary Lou on
Here is a set of some colorful glossy web 2.0 style buttons in png format (size: 203 px wide, 71 px high). You can use them as you like!