Archive for the ‘Backgrounds/Patterns’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
While searching for wood grain textures yesterday, I found Alex Buga’s website. Yes, it does have a great wood texture in the background, but I saved his site to highlight other features that I like about it.
- As noted before, I like it when sites include hand drawn elements. Alex’s site does this very well with the character sketch and introduction. I also like the fluffy little clouds scattered here and there. The footer also incorporates more hand drawn elements.
- I also like his choice of colors.
- The pendant light is cool. I really like the way it “lights” up his comments section. Very clever idea.
- Navigation menu. Simple and not overloaded with too many choices. I don’t necessarily like the “skip to content” feature as it doesn’t really accomplish much (I can scroll down an inch and a half just as easily as I can hit that button). But, this does not take away from the nice, simple navigation menu he’s created.
So, check out his site and let me know what you think of it. I think it’s great!
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Okay, I’m copying Valik’s idea (sorry Valik)! But, I had to see if I could find another great looking wood grain texture. Success! HighResolutionTextures.com’s background texture is really cool. It looks like a nice weather wooden fence gate (see the hinge?). I also like the way it fades out into black as you scroll down the page. There are also plenty of other great looking textures featured on this website that could be of use to designers too. Check them all out. If you see something else of interest there, let me know about it and we’ll post it here!
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
I’m sure once you view Min Tran’s blog, it will come as no surprise that I really like it. It’s rich with earth tones and the leather textures are wonderful. I particularly like the way the stitching separates the header from the body of the page. I also like the separation of the main navigation with the creation of the leather scroll. The footer is also nicely put together by remaining consistent with the header style. All together it creates a nice “classic” book feel to it. It also kind of reminds me of an expensive desktop blotter (the kind you see on an executive desk where no one really does much work, haha).
In addition to checking out the layout of this site, please don’t forget to look through the content as well. There are some great resources available here. There’s a really sharp looking set of icons available for free (Milky) too. This is a site that I will be keeping an eye on periodically…it’s full of good stuff!
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Are you in need of some great quality, seamless patterns for backgrounds or other purposes? Check out the fantastic patterns available at Mujka.ca. Burcu has some wonderful, up to date, popular, and well priced patterns available there.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
All Things Designed has twelve excellent, seamless textures available for FREE. As I’ve said before, FREE is fits into my budget very nicely. The only caveat attached to these textures is a request that you pass the link on to other people who may find them useful too.
Again, as Web Design Ideas finds sites like this one, we want to share them with you. We consider our site as a kind of ‘toolbox’ for Web Designers. Lots of ideas, lots of links to good resources and information. We hope you enjoy it!
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