It looks like everybody lost their minds and gone wild about this amazing sport event that will take place this weekend. Beware football fans because big day is coming! But, fans probably know it’s coming by now. Anyways, without a doubt Super Bowl is a really great show and we at TemplateMonster are also big fans of it. So there’s no chance we could have stayed aside from it because, there are just many football fans surrounding our blog and TemplateMonster in general. So we’ve decided to provide you guys with a small research about football and web design.
Our aim was to find the originally designed football websites that are certainly worth seeing. As a result we have got a collection of tremendous football websites. This roundup includes websites of football teams, major tournaments and associations. By the way there are some trends that are typical for football websites and first one is that many websites have photo of their home arena in the background. We’re not sure why – well, of course it does look good but we don’t know why so many websites use this same tool – perhaps because someone was the first to integrate it and – since the football teams management is a pretty much a closed club – the rest of the teams did the same. The second trend is that they all use slide shows on the homepages. Ok, enough of alanytics. Enter the designs!
Websites of Footbal Teams
San Diego Chargers
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San Francisco 49ers
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Seattle Seahawks
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Have you ever heard about accordions, tabs, rollovers or carousels? Yep, the presence of these words means only one thing – that today’s blog entry is about different smart jQuery navigation plugins and tricks. We have gathered a small collection of amazing examples that contain various methods that help a lot to navigate through websites. For example if you are big fan of one page design – you’ll be glad to find out that it is not that hard to implement this type of navigation with the help of some jQuery scripts.
We believe that jQuery is a real treasure for developers because it gives opportunity to solve complicated tasks in a simple way. Flexibility and versatility are the main features that have been combined in jQuery plugins and that’s why so many developers and designers really love these scripts. Ok let’s now move to these original designs and unique navigation solutions.
Visual Designer
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Fluffy
Click here to see this template’s jQuery in action!
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Today is the high time to complete the first part of community-based choice of the best web design trends for 2010. And the following information demands you to take notice, for we’ll announce those trends which appeared to be the most popular among TemplateMonster audience.
Having analyzed the solid number of comments, we’ve revealed the most popular web design trends according to our devoted audience. They are:
- white space;
- huge typography;
- huge images;
- minimalism;
- out-of-the-box layouts;
- change of perspective;
- and finally elements transparency.
These web design trends appear to be that important key of users’ attention, carrying on an intrigue feeling to click in. The ones to lose in trends voting are one-page layouts, slideshows, hand-drawn designs, oversized headers and footers, speaking navigation and multi-column layout. They numbered far less visitors’ votes.
Right now let us announce the winners of the previous “Help Us Choose the Best Web Design Trends for 2010 – Everyone’s an Expert!” voting. Having randomly chosen from the persons who commented on the post, we present a free template to a man who in our comments has called himself Ktevlin, 50% discount goes to Lisa Chestnut, and the last 30% will be fortunately delivered to Pavel K. Our congratulations and many thanks for participation! Following the results of the second part voting, the winners will be as well chosen to receive pleasant freebies from the kind TemplateMonster (also a free template, 50% discount and a 30% discount).
Now coming back to the rest of web design trends. For this once we’ll outline the remaining fourteen trends, so please vote for your favorites to make them best and foremost!
1. Magazine Layouts
Another big trend is magazine style layout for websites. Like in traditional print media, such designs have the specific use of text, illustrations, and content arrangement. Many heavy sites can benefit from this approach to guarantee concise and carefully organized structural balance in terms of informational stuff.
Mica.edu
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City Portal
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Having social media bookmarking or sharing options has become an absolutely essential feature for all websites, especially the design-related ones. What’s also important is that those social media sections are becoming a place for the designers to show off their skills and very frequently we can spot highly stylized social media icons linking to or referencing different social networks. They help to grab visitors’ attention and make the logos immediately recognizable.
So we’ve taken the time to round up the best social media icons out there. And now here is a list of 150 cool social networks sections used on various designers’ websites that are sure to attract more bookmarks and shares. Here they go!
Chethstudios.net
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Wecritiquedesigns.com
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Ok, we have some good news here! Earlier today TemplateMonster has launched VirtueMart Templates preciously designed to become the premium quality and brilliant solution for the maximum e-commerce activity.
These ultimate VirtueMart templates present harshly different and fresh approach towards Joomla design and will help you add one of the best possible online store designs at your Joomla website.
You can set up e-commerce-oriented design easily armed with VirtueMart templates for they enable convenient intercommunication that will convert your web store into an even more multifunctional and eye-catching online shop. Plus, such themes put in things such as a shopping cart bar, more shop-like graphics, etc. So you can pick your own look and feel for the shopping site of your dream and have a totally modified perfect layout.
Each VirtueMart template supports a number of module positions ideal for online e-commerce performance. In terms of functionality they have practically everything you could ever want being incredibly easy to customize. In addition to arranging the product data in easy-to-navigate tabs, these themes provide the possibilities to swap images, create extra product categories, number of galleries, variety of payment methods and much more.
VirtueMart for sure is a perfect blend of style and utility that brings you and your customers a lot of pleasure. It is just good using all the benefits in these designs to showcase exactly what such e-commerce oriented website is all about.
So, why not to purchase a new theme today and give your e-commerce website a new irresistible look. Here you can access a variety of VirtueMart designs that will give your shop that extra shine in the market place.
You may have heard that earlier we announced a great contest – Share Your Template Customizations and Win A Free Template! And we are glad to inform you that today is a great day because we are ready to unveil the names of our lucky winners and show their great customization works. Actually it was really interesting to check out all the good stuff that you’ve sent us – there is no better fun for TemplateMonster than just surfing trough live websites that are based on our templates. This is a great experience for our team because we can see live results of our work and make many useful conclusions. It is a great opportunity to see the world of web design from another point of view – the point of website owners. So let’s start summing up the results of January 2010!
#5. Andres Betancourt
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Comments from the author:
I originally like this template because in its main landing page it displays the gallery, with the option of maximizing the size of your art work characteristic which I wanted my site to feature. Adding to this the cool transitions from page to page. What I did was to create an intro page using my logo that now covers the entire site with a transparency, I also minimize the amount of gallery pieces from 32 to 16 changing the overall look of the gallery.
We are happy to announce that our dearest partner VideoSmash.com has launched another striking solution for motion design – this time it’s a new Heart Flash Animation Pack that is now available instead of the Abstract video effects pack previously offered at TemplateMonster. This new pack will also be available at a 50% discount, after all TemplateMonster clients are very special, everybody knows that.
What’s exciting about the pack given is that it comprises 10 majestic video effects of whirling and dancing hearts which all bring the charming feeling of love. Each video effect in this pack is enclosed into real HD quality (HD 720p) in the latest H.264 format and with a frame rate of 29.97 fps. Not to mention a stunning musical accompaniment for the greater emotional impact.
Thus by paying just $17 ($35 regular price) you can now get this thrilling set in a single purchase for maximum savings. Plus there is St. Valentine’s Day just round the corner, so heart animation could serve you a big deal expressing your inmost sensations.
Hurry up to browse our templates and right after you pick the one you like this marvelous Heart Flash Animations Pack will be offered to you!
You may have noticed that we’ve started highlighting some interesting jQuery solutions and last week’s post was about jQuery-based online portfolios. So, we are glad to continue our jQuery series and today’s blog entry is about some really stunning effects that will spice up your website and amaze your visitors with supa-troopa details.
There is no doubt that jQuery scripts deserve to be called one of the best inventions in web design for last years. It’s not so easy to find a solution that would be more functional and effective than these scripts. The following solutions are hard to categorize but it doesn’t mean that these are not worth your attention. So let’s dive in the world of dynamic and spectacular jQuery gismos.
Paralax
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In this blog entry we’ll introduce you the first part of what we think are the widespread web design trends so far. This actually comes down to everything that is currently of any significant design relevance. Thus we ask you, our friends, to help us define the top web design trends for the year of 2010 by choosing what you consider to be the most important ones and voting for them in the comments section of this post. You know we always appreciate communication and for this little help you will be able to win a free template (either a template containing your favorite trend or any other item) and one of two discounts – one for 50% and another for 30%. The voting will last for one week (until Feb 2nd 2010) and the winners will be randomly chosen from the ones who comment on this post so make sure you type in the valid email address.
In the long run, many blogs and publications individually define what trends will eventually become the most prominent ones. As for us – we’re sure that our numerous audiences have their personal thoughts on this issue to share. After all, the whole situation could be observed only on conditions of the maximum number of people having there opinions expressed. So feel free to bring your own unique ideas to the discussion:
1. More Whitespace:
The increasing prominence of white space has now become a conspicuous tendency. Being the key for simplicity, white in web design is extremely beneficial to build a page structure with an intelligible flow of content. This helps to focus users’ attention on the most important areas of the website.
Nest-living.com
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Flash template #27378
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2. Change of Perspective:
If we take a close look at the image perspective on websites of this web design trend, we’ll be able to spot the shift to a more realistic view since lots of web designers now play around with different image proportions, slants, and standpoints.
Kusoyama.com
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