I’m an experienced Web site designer who loves lean HTML and happy clients. When I'm not doing pure design for sites, I specialize in building sites that include a Content Management System (CMS). My clients can update their Web sites at any time.
Rather than abstract design elements, these layouts are based on strong life-like imagery that anchors the design. Notice how each site's color scheme is based on, or is chosen to work with, the saturation of hues and shades in each picture. These are highly emotionally suggestive designs.
Via: http://thinkdesignblog.com/inspiration-beautiful-website-design.htm
You know what, overall, I like it. Big pictures, logical layout, no cramming, readable typography all around, and a clear global navigation system (even if the labeling is obscure for some of the nav elements). The inner pages are equally pleasant and orderly.
Site: http://www.rwm.com.au/
Via: http://dezinspiration.com/
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Some clunky choices (horrible line length in the main column, too many photos, nothing is anchored, and WTF is with that logo?) but I love the helpful dude top right; click on Lektori and his hand moves too!
Nice color scheme, hawt girl in various stages of expository cleavage on almost every page (couple of token guys thrown in for "balance"). Subtle? No. Fun? Quite possibly. Perhaps it's time to take that TEFL course...
Site: http://www.slc-online.sk/
Via: http://faveup.com/
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I'm always looking for a better way to present my own work. I'm not a fan of the wide-slice you see on so many portfolio sites. I really like the way Leigh has one big 'un up front, and then half-width slices for the rest; big enough to give a good sense of the design and in correct proportions too.
More: http://www.leightaylor.co.uk/
Via: http://ever-real.com/blog/the-top-10-very-best-dark-portfolio-sites/
Similar idea: http://www.authenticstyle.co.uk/
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PLUS: Logical and tidy: the eye can find what it needs quickly. The textures and hand-drawn icons are suggestive of custom design.
MINUS: Text is too small, non-standard global nav requires too much interpretation, and the clickable portfolio icons present the work in a JavaScript light box, a horrible way to showcase such solid work.
More: http://astuteo.com/
Via: http://dezinspiration.com/
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I hate to say anything complementary about a stock design company but I really, really love the header and footer treatment here.
Via: FaveUp.com
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Niggles: typography and main elements suffer from a combination of too much air and not enough air. The contact form is hidden on the About Me page—it should have its own page and a dedicated global navigation link—and it doesn't guide users into providing any particular information. But I do love that big fresh bulb, and the gray/blue palette.
More: http://www.tomaldesign.com/
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Minimal yet vivacious! Rob Morris' new site design is shockingly scrumptious and makes me want to mallet my head.
The Journal and Work sections are a little odd in terms of expectations and behavior. But those are minor crits for a site that does a great job of selling the designer as a thoroughly creative and gifted dude—which is something that designers, paradoxically, often have a terrible time doing.
More: http://www.digitalmash.com/
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