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Help Us Choose the Best Web Design Trends for 2010 – Your Expert Opinions Wanted! Part II

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

Help Us Choose the Best Web Design Trends for 2010   Your Expert Opinions Wanted! Part II

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City Portal

Help Us Choose the Best Web Design Trends for 2010   Your Expert Opinions Wanted! Part II

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7 Useful jQuery-Powered Website Add-ons

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

Stephband

7 Useful jQuery Powered Website Add ons

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HTMLexpress

7 Useful jQuery Powered Website Add ons

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Koorman

7 Useful jQuery Powered Website Add ons

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Awesome jQuery Solutions for Online Portfolios

It’s not a secret that jQuery and other JavaScript-based tools are getting more and more popular these days among web designers and developers. jQuery in turn has become the primary tool for adding dynamics to a static website because of how easy it is to use and how many pre-made script templates are available.

Today we are happy to present a series of reviews of websites using jQuery tools for various purposes. And we start with the collection of websites using jQuery for their awesome portfolios. Plus, we’ll provide a tip on how to start for those who are interested in this kind of solution for online portfolio.

1MD

Awesome jQuery Solutions for Online Portfolios

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Charlie Gentle

Awesome jQuery Solutions for Online Portfolios

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