Vote for the Most Promising Web Design Trends
Last week we encouraged you to vote for the best web design trends for 2010. The voting was announced by Blog.TemplateMonster.com and we hope you took part in it.
By voting for the most popular web design trends not only you share your personal opinion but also influence the way web design will develop in the future. Every opinion is a brick that builds a tremendous wall called web design.
Today you have another chance to choose what web design trends should be on the top this year. You can choose from the following web design trends: Magazine Layouts, Intuitive Flash Design and Mobile Design, Social Elements, Letterpress and Dynamic Tabs, Icons, Retro, Modal Boxes and Introduction Blocks, Functional Tiling, Rich Textures, Navigation Scattered around Image Grid and Numbered Navigation Bars. The choice is yours!
If you want to share your point of view, please comment the second part of the article on the best web design trends for 2010. To find this article simply click the link in the previous sentence.
Web Designs with Transparent Elements
As it was mentioned in a recent article on web design trends, transparency has become one of the main trends in modern web design. Perhaps you’ve noticed how many websites are built from transparent elements. These websites look like they have been created from a few different layers – one of them is a transparent one and the other is not. Usually the background of the website is a non-transparent image or an illustration and the main content is placed on a transparent layer. This technique helps visitors focus on the most important part of the website – the content. Still the background image can be viewed “between the lines”.
Here are 10 web designs that come with transparent elements – five of them are websites, the others are website templates. While websites should be regarded as sources of inspiration; the website templates are ready-to-use solutions.
Dezinezync.com
What Are the Top Web Design Trends for 2010?
According to the official blog of Template Monster, the world’s largest provider of website templates, the most striking web design trends for the upcoming year are
- More Whitespace
- Change of Perspective
- Multi-Column Layouts
- Out-of-the-Box Layouts
- Oversized Headers
- Elements Transparency
- Slideshows
- Hand-drawn Designs
- Huge Typography
- One-page Layouts
- Minimalism
- Huge Images
- “Speaking” Navigation
- Oversized Footers
Do you agree with this list of the top web design trends or not? Would you add a new trend or otherwise remove any of them? Which of the above mentioned trends is going to be the most popular this year?
Whatever your answers to the above questions, make sure you share them with others. With this said we encourage you to visit the official blog of Template Monster and vote for this year’s Best Web Design Trends. Keep in mind people who follow Template Monster’s blog are mostly web designers, bloggers and other creative folks just like you. Therefore, your point of view will be heard by those who have an impact on modern web design.
Brick Wall Textures in Use
How do you like websites using brick wall textures? If you find them visually appealing or even inspiring you should be pleased to find a list of such websites. As you may see from the samples below brick wall textures don’t necessarily look dark or scaring. Sometimes they seem bright and optimistic.
We hope you’ll enjoy browsing unique websites which come with brick wall textures and in case you’d like to see more websites with organic textures we suggest that you read an article introducing 150 Website Designs Based on Rich Textures.
Swapafrock.co.uk
The most annoying web design trends
When creating a website web designers should never forget how important it is to create visually appealing designs and not annoying ones. I doubt one will be happy to build a website that would distract visitors. Great content is not enough; a website should be eye-catching and never irritating!
The best way to avoid annoying elements is ask yourself what would annoy you and what would not. In other words analyze each website you build from the visitor’s perspective.
Also, it might be helpful for you to read a list of the most annoying web design trends. We bet you’ll become a successful web designer in case you avoid using
- A font that is difficult to read
- Background music (don’t forget the music you like is not necessary the music everyone likes)
- A lot of pop up windows
- The font’s color almost the same as the background color
- Too complicated navigation menus
- Blinking text messages
- Oversized social icons
- Bad quality images
- Video spokesperson
- Too much advertising
- Images of people whose heads are bigger than their bodies
- Flash intros with no skipping option
- Images that are changing so fast that you can hardly understand what they are about
To our opinion all above mentioned elements are very irritating. As you can see, we just list the most common mistakes of web designers but we don’t provide examples. That’s because we don’t want to offend anyone. We just hope this post will inspire web designers to avoid annoying web design trends.