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Showcase of Artistic Hand Lettering in Web Design

With websites being built from digital code it’s difficult to imagine them being crafted by hand, but this post showcases a bunch of websites that feature custom hand lettering in traditional mediums. In place of fonts these websites boast hand crafted typography to add a real artistic touch to the design. G’nosh Austin Eastciders The [...]

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May 14, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for May 11th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Guided Creative, Peaxl, Rdio, DS22 and Column Five. Guided Creative View the website Peaxl View the website Rdio View the website DS22 View [...]

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May 11, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Handy Roundup of CSS3 Generators and Tools

With the latest advances in CSS3 many of the effects that were once only achievable in Photoshop can now be replicated in CSS code, but it’s sometimes difficult to visualise the appearance of these effects when staring at a few lines of syntax. This is where CSS generators come in handy, this roundup of tools [...]

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May 7, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for May 4th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from dConstruct, Lore, Lifetree Creative, redpepper and Elaine Fisher. dConstruct View the website Lore View the website Lifetree Creative View the website redpepper View [...]

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May 4, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

20 Pure Websites with Clean White Backgrounds

Whenever we start work designing a website one of the first things we always do is throw a bunch of colours and textures onto the canvas, but sometimes a design will benefit from the clean and crisp appearance of a pure white background. This showcase rounds up 20 minimal website designs that prove that sometimes [...]

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April 30, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for April 27th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Ghost Horses, FO, Saismo, Bundlr and Pocket. Ghost Horses View the website FO View the website Saismo View the website Bundlr View the [...]

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April 27, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for April 20th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from ShopLocket, Paper, Face Fun, Leaflet and CSS Igniter. ShopLocket View the website Paper View the website Face Fun View the website Leaflet View [...]

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April 20, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for April 13th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Go Beyond Pixels, Formfett, Colorz, Barrelhouse Flat and Last Minute Illustration. Go Beyond Pixels View the website Formfett View the website Colorz View [...]

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April 13, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for April 6th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Viget, 39Argyle, Wantful, Circles Conference and Designing Monsters. Viget View the website 39Argyle View the website Wantful View the website Circles Conference View [...]

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April 6, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for March 30th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Mediumrare, Digital Telepathy, Loft Resumes, The Layout Lab and JUST Creative. Mediumrare View the website Digital Telepathy View the website Loft Resumes View [...]

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March 30, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Showcase of Interactive Websites Powered by jQuery

Whenever we think of interactive websites Flash immediately springs to mind, but nowadays we’re seeing websites featuring all that cool interactivity and animation that are based purely on HTML and CSS. This post rounds up some of the coolest websites powered by Javascript (particularly the jQuery framework) that all offer a rich browsing experience. Hard [...]

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March 26, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Showcase of Interactive Websites Powered by jQuery

Whenever we think of interactive websites Flash immediately springs to mind, but nowadays we’re seeing websites featuring all that cool interactivity and animation that are based purely on HTML and CSS. This post rounds up some of the coolest websites powered by Javascript (particularly the jQuery framework) that all offer a rich browsing experience. Hard [...]

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March 26, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Handy Roundup of Free Vector Ornaments & Flourishes

Ornate and floral elements are extremely useful for creating traditional or vintage design styles. These kinds of ornamental vectors can be very time consuming to create manually, but thankfully there’s a range of ready-made vectors available for free download and use in your design projects to help speed up your workflow. This post rounds up [...]

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March 26, 2012 at 6:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for March 23rd 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Theory, Readmill, Viewport Industries, The Mischief Co. and LightCMS. Theory View the website Readmill View the website Viewport Industries View the website The [...]

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March 23, 2012 at 8:00 am Comments (0)

20 Examples of Landscape Themed Web Designs

Despite being confined to the Internet some website designs reflect the awe and freedom of the vast outdoors through their design. This post showcases 20 awe-inspiring websites based on a landscape theme, each one featuring a beautiful landscape image in the form of a large photograph or a hand drawn illustration. Dave Gamache momentum Lake [...]

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March 19, 2012 at 8:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for March 16th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Codiqa, Superawesome, Ostmodern, The Great Discontent and Bones. Codiqa View the website Superawesome View the website Ostmodern View the website The Great Discontent [...]

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Line25 Sites of the Week for March 9th 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Stripe, Wunderkit, cxpartners, Maryland Craft Beer Festival and Interactive for Good. Stripe View the website Wunderkit View the website cxpartners View the website [...]

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March 9, 2012 at 8:00 am Comments (0)

20 Free Sans-Serif Fonts Licensed for @Font-Face

Remember back when @font-face and Google Fonts were first introduced? We only had the choice of a handful of custom fonts we could use. Nowadays it’s quite the opposite, we’re spoilt for choice with hundreds of cool fonts licensed for free @font-face embedding. This post rounds up a collection of 20 stylish sans-serif fonts, all [...]

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March 5, 2012 at 8:00 am Comments (0)

Line25 Sites of the Week for March 2nd 2012

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Impending, Code by Monkey, Rachilli, Kern and Burn, and Osmosis. Impending View the website Code by Monkey View the website Rachilli View the [...]

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March 2, 2012 at 8:00 am Comments (0)

Showcase of Solid Color Backgrounds in Web Design

We often assume the more detail we put into our website designs the better they will be, but great design doesn’t always have to include all the bells and whistles. This post showcases a variety of sites that are based on solid colour backgrounds. You won’t see a gradient, texture or pattern but all these [...]

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February 27, 2012 at 8:00 am Comments (0)

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