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30 Beautiful Blog Designs

Jordan — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:00:02 +0000

There’s nothing more amazing than a beautifully crafted blog design. The way in which the layout has been approached with the content at the forefront, is a lesson in usability and user-centric design. We’ve compiled a list of our 30 favourite blog designs, all of which display their own unique approach to blog design.
Let us know which blog is your favourite, and if there are any we have missed!

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30 Stunningly Simple Websites

Jordan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:56:31 +0000

Although complex websites can certainly be impressive, there’s something to be said for a designer just stripping everything away and using minimal elements to achieve a stunning design. We’ve highlighted 30 websites that keep things simple but achieve brilliant results.

50 Outstanding Web Designer Wallpapers

Jordan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:33:49 +0000

A good looking wallpaper is essential to any designer workspace, what says more about a designer, his expensive setup or his super cool desktop wallpaper?

Below we’ve complied a list of 50 of the newest and most outstanding web designer wallpapers that are sure to give your desktop a whole new lease of life!

32 Must Have iPhone Applications For Web Designers and Developers

Jordan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:09:35 +0000

A lot of web designers and developers like Apple products, a lot of people that like Apple products have an iPhone.

I put 2 and 2 together and thought it would be a good idea to complile a list of the most useful iPhone applications for web designers and developers, clever eh?

Reference & Cheat Sheets

Web Developer Bible

Price: Free

CSS Cheat Sheet

Price: £0.59

CheatSheet

Price: £1.79

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

Price: £0.59

jQuery Cheat Sheet

Price: £0.59

MySQL Cheat Sheet

Price: £0.59

PHP Cheat Sheet

Price: £0.59

Analytics

Price: £0.59

Price: Free

Price: £3.49

Price: Free

Colour tools

Palettes

Price: £5.99

Cliqcliq colours

Price: £1.79

Blog Editors

Price: £5.99

Price: £179

Price: £1.19

Price: Free

Wi-Fi Finders

Price: £0.59

Price: £1.79

Price: Free

Price: £1.19

Domain tools

Price: Free

Price: Free

Price: Free

Price: £0.59

FTP and SSH tools

Price: £3.99

Price: £1.79

Price: £2.39

Price: £0.59

Other useful things

TouchFS

Transfer files wirelessly to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Price: £2.99

Full Screen Web Browser

A nice app that fills the screen with your browser

Price: £0.59

Free RSS Reader

Syndicate your feeds on the go!

Price: Free

21 Designer Workspaces

Jordan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:36:06 +0000

Every designer is different, we all use different tools and applications, we all set about a new design in a different way and we all have our own unique style.

One big difference I find especially interesting however, is the design workspace a designer uses and works in everyday. This can include your companies workspace, your freelance office or even your bedroom where you do your clients work from everyday.

I contacted (and also Flickr’d) some of the best freelancers and designers around recently and asked for one thing, a picture of their workspace. Check the results out below.

1. Benjamin Tollady

2. Brian Kieffer

3. Jeff Lewis

4. Ross Lauderdale

5. Bill Keaggy

6. Fernando Lins

7. Tobias Mikkelsen

8. evildeggs

9. david martinez suarez

10. Ben Mautner

11. CleverSubtleties

12. Brian Biggs

13. Hawk Sugano

14. Christiaan Hemerik

15. Joe Futrelle

16. Aaron Russell

17. Clearleft

18. bittbox

19. Claudia Dias

20. Sergio Recabarren

21. My own!

15 Great Light Website Designs

Jordan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:07:20 +0000

I always think one of the hardest things to do in web design is using bright colours in a design but not pulling the user away from the content and navigation.

Below are some of my favourite light website designs, let me know your thoughts.

15 Great Dark Website Designs

Jordan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:35:25 +0000

I do love a nice dark website design, especially when they have bit of vibrant colour in to bring them alive.

A Web Design Blog. » Inspiration

30 Beautiful Blog Designs

30 Stunningly Simple Websites

50 Outstanding Web Designer Wallpapers

32 Must Have iPhone Applications For Web Designers and Developers

Reference & Cheat Sheets

Analytics

Colour tools

Blog Editors

Wi-Fi Finders

Domain tools

FTP and SSH tools

Other useful things

21 Designer Workspaces

15 Great Light Website Designs

15 Great Dark Website Designs

1. Dandypark

2. Kiluka

3. Brian Wilkins

4. Nine lion

5. Maurice Krijtenberg

6. Mix online

7. Mike poss

8. Valeria evdemon

9. okb estudio

10. Chernobyl nuclear disaster

11. Abstract hitman

12. 383 project

13. Syncplicity

14. Andrew Hoffman

15. Backboard