Using big font size to get visitors’ attention is nothing new. With following designs, font is also the most important part of the designs. It may be followed by the second most important items – images, graphics, layout style or whatever, but such visual hierarchy clearly tells the visitor how each page is meant to be viewed. Users’ eyes are drawn to the most important element on the page – big font – and the larger the font size is for every single element here the more important it appears. You would probably agree that if to attempt to make everything on a page emphasized, it’s that easy to end up with a page that has very little appeal or, even worse, blend everything into a boring muddle. Here we have web designs that are using typography to get attention. Using big fonts is actually a good way of performing this task. We’ve however tried to gather designs that don’t go overboard with this technique. Today’s website and template examples simply choose the right font to compliment the website’s style and make it attractively over-sized to establish certain one-of-a-kind mood.
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Giftrocket.com
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Arbol.com.au
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We’re pretty sure that many of you, our fellow web designer, use Photoshop patterns because of their simplicity and flexibility. Often it is much easier to use patterns in your designs instead of .jpg textures because the .pat files mostly cover the area with larger resolution comparing to simple .jpg textures. Also we know that grunge is considered to be one of the most widely used styles in web design (it was even proved to be one of the all-star trends in one our earlier gallery design trends researches). So, here you are – please welcome the collection of 25 free grunge Photoshop patterns. Here you’ll find various high quality patterns that can seamlessly be integrated into website design. Some images from our list contain larger collections of free patterns which will be a nice surprise for you.
We also thought it would be useful for you to check out some of the ready web designs using grungy patterns in their elements. Please take a quick look at the screenshots below to see what you can do with the free Photoshop patterns we’re providing to you today:
Grunge Patterns in Website Designs
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Facebook now has over 800 million active users that’s just about as many as the entire Internet had back in 2004 [according to Yahoo news]. And you still don’t have a custom Facebook page for your business? Today, it is an absolute must-have thing for every business, no matter how small it is. If your Facebook page does not have a solidly customized landing page you are no longer interesting to the audience, face it. People vaguely want to stare at your boring wall. You should make it engaging! Once landing on your attractive branded page users are more willing to ‘Like’ it than if they just land on your wall, plus such unique mini websites within Facebook will convert much better.
So don’t leave the layout of your profile the same as everyone else’s. You can easily customize what people see when they land on your page by using Facebook Flash CMS Templates offered at TemplateMonster. These MotoCMS powered designs are basically full-fledged Flash websites delivered within Facebook. And you can publish them instantly. Right now we’ll show you what you can get with them, just scroll down and see. This article embraces some fresh goodies.
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Prospero Flash CMS Template
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Mr. Design Facebook Flash CMS Template
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Angel Facebook Flash CMS Template
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Why are website forms so important? Logically enough, forms play a crucial role for the website conversion, and therefore impact the project success indicators on the whole. Having some basic knowledge of HTML, you’ll find it pretty easy to generate a standard form. But it’s not as easy to design and style your website form to make it look exquisite and be easy-to-use and accessible for all users at the same time. Hopefully you’ll find the article valuable while designing and coding website forms.
Most of web forms are known to be created with PHP, because it is an open-source coding environment which works perfectly with all major browsers and is widely available. But we shouldn’t stay too conservative and consider the other back-end coding options like ASP, Pearl, Ajax and JavaScript as well as advanced CSS properties to diversify the form appearance and functionality.
Generally, any web form acts in two ways: it generates an email or works with a database. The first rule while working with forms might be to avoid “re-inventing the wheel”. There are tons of open source services for generating the necessary codes and make the form do what it is supposed to do. One of such solution is Web Form Factory and is available for free on the Internet.
Wufoo is another popular option to make the web form creation an easy and painless task. They offer the creation wizard both for free and for the fee. But their prices are quite reasonable for such an efficient way of forms implementation.
Make Use of <Fieldset> And <Legend> Elements
It’s always good to group the related fields together, especially if you generate a lengthy form and require additional usability. The form is to be divided into separate manageable visual components.
The elements like <fieldset> and <legend> are the options to provide such a structuring for your form. The <fieldset> element features a border by default and you may just change or remove it within CSS.
You may group several related fields of a single form using <fieldset> and <legend> elements exactly like in the piece of code below:
label {
float: left;
text-align: right;
margin-right: 15px;
width: 100px;
}
Add a creative touch to the site of your design studio! Right now you are welcome to pick up the new cool freebie for your online design project – Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio. It’s high time to go and get the last one of September themes that feature effective slideshows/sliders in their headers.
The theme presented here will be useful both for those who are going to start their online project, or just want to renovate the existing one. This free website template will jazz up your web presence and present your business idea in the effective and memorable way to your customers. Stylish design in contrasting colors and the visually-arresting layout along with the professional execution make this theme ideal for your design purposes. The cool slider in its header is created by TemplateMonster’s team and you’re absolutely free to keep it. Before you start working with the theme, click through to the free template live demo page to see it in full size, quality and with all features integrated in it. Create your project that will speak best to your visitors!
Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio:
Feel free to get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Follow the link below and download HTML source files. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio with PSD files (18,4 MB)
Download Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio without PSD (1,14 MB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
The invasion of minimal style in web design has caused an uneven situation when minimal design has been glorified from each corner of the web. Young designers consider working with the clean style/minimal designs to be the only ultimate approach, what we want to say with today’s post is that the world is bigger than just that and that in a lot of cases cluttered/magazine-style designs can also look great. So the big point is that this style we’re talking about today is widely used by many respected web projects, but it’s quite underrated by the web design community. This is a cluttered, piled style which is presented by mostly online magazines and news agencies websites. We’ve tried to collect some original examples of cluttered designs in this little showcase and we strongly believe these examples will prove our point. When you need to deliver tons of information from the home page to your visitors there is no place for minimal solution because you must use every single pixel very wisely and prudently.
For those skeptic people that adore minimal style we want to demonstrate the aesthetics of the well-designed websites with good usability and tons of various items on a single page. It is a very difficult task to create such websites because you must keep the right ratio in putting together many various items and implementing design elements at the same time. The examples below prove that cluttered designs have their own unique charm and we hope you’ll take all the best features from these to use them in your work.
Cosmopolitan
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Spacecollective
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What we have for you today is a compilation of real-life Facebook reveal tab designs with unparalleled styles. The reveal tab tactic is now widely adopted to offer exclusive, fans-only content. People see it as a way to get more likes on their Facebook fan pages and offer something special to loyal customers. Cause after a person hits the Like button, the reveal tab disappears and main exclusive content appears. In other words, Facebook reveal tab is the initial tab (or landing/welcome page) new visitors to your page land on. And only official fan can see it turning into different content that is available to fans only. Clever trick to increase the fan base! Well… Now you can browse the most creative designs of the reveal tabs we’ve found on Facebook. If you want to have the similar trick and hide content from non-fans, consider our newly-crafted HTML5 Facebook Reveal Tab Templates that have been renewed for extended features.
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MTV India
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REI
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jQuery with its great features can be a great usability enhancement for an eCommerce Magento site, as it can improve the customer experience by introducing dynamic interactive elements. The layout of Magento website, being enhanced with jQuery content sliders or image galleries, creates a great deal of sense of attraction to site visitors. They will see all the information that appears at the top of your homepage as the content will be in constant rotation or displayed in a very modular and tidy way. Our blog team has already reviewed designs like this before and if you want to see them check out 20 Magento Themes with Extra jQuery Features. These attractive designs will make the browsing experience of every visitor of your website really enjoyable. Now you can also see the list of fresh Magento templates that give us all the standard theme features and are delivered with various jQuery plugins. You can find the full assortment of such designs seeing all Magento themes with jQuery elements.
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Dress Store Magento Theme
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Flooring Online Store Magento Theme
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A web form is an entrance, a phase transition from sheer interest to turning into an actual customer. Therefore, it is reasonable to make the form design inviting and user-friendly. The process of filling out a form should be as easy as putting two and two together, since people to who face some issues and get failures more likely associate it with your brand. And your reputation instantly looses its balance. So believe it or not, but one tiny form can mess up your brand reputation. You don’t want that, do you?
How to avoid such a fail? First of all you are to remember that any form is a business card of your brand, a face of your company. It is the very first step in your interaction with your potential clients, and it should look easy, warm and inviting.
20 Tips To Make Forms Rock!
Today we are offering you some tips to help avoid the epic fails and unconveniences associated with your web forms.
- Make forms visible and easy-accessible. Don’t hide them.
- Make them short – ask for essential info only. Avoid asking for unnecessary information not to distract the customers. Get the ball rolling with the really important data you need to know to get messages from clients or sign them up. You may ask something like “How did you know about our company?” on further stages.
- Make up a status bar to set clear expectations. People want to know how much time it’s going to take them to complete the form, and a progress bar would be a great advantage in this case. At least display the info like “Step 1 of 3″, but the best thing would be to keep it short enough to be at one little form.
If you want to get more out of your online project, you have to start with its professionally done design. It’s not a problem for mature designers to work out the effective design, but even they have dull days that lack for inspiration. And again, it’s not a problem, ‘cause you can always find something catchy among our cool freebies. Let’s see what we have for you today – Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business.
This theme provides you with the whole set of all useful features that are needed for creating the visually-appealing and user-friendly online project. The only thing you have to do is to customize it according to the business needs of your project. It will not take you a lot of time, because this ready-made free website template offers you everything you need under one package. So, you get catchy layout with accordion effect in the header images (it is done using “Kwicks Gallery” plugin) and efficient functionality. The mentioned above jQuery plugin is widely used for creating such kind of attractive effects for presenting some images on the page. Check out the free template live demo to see this theme in work! Try it and start your successful projects!
Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Follow the link below and download HTML source files. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business with PSD files (14,9MB)
Download Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business without PSD (1,16MB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
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