There is a Chinese saying about how the websites of the best restaurants look horrendous.   There isn’t?  Well, there might as well be one, judging by how most restaurant website designs go.  Flash intros, quirky music and PDF menus usually spoil the user experience for the visitor and would-be... 

Web design trends go in cycles.  The minimalist style that was dumped a couple of years ago for content-rich, magazine-style layouts seems to have made its revival.  Using typography, minimal graphics and lots of white space, this style of web design just spells “cool”. It’s also... 

Building a gallery or portfolio site?  Consider incorporating horizontal layouts into your web design.  Horizontally-scrolling websites are a fun and modern way to showcase a growing list of work, also they provide a fresh experience for users who are used to the vertical layouts more commonly found... 

After our posts on Water-Based Web Design and Eco-Inspired Website Design, readers have been asking for more of the latest trends in web design.  This week, we take a look at web designs that use abstract lighting effects to fill up an otherwise ordinary looking website.  Lighting effects in web design... 

Got Twitter? Sure you do. There are regular users that use the service to connect to friends, companies that use their accounts to reach out to customers and fans, and more enthusiastic users who want to amass hordes of followers. Whatever your reason for being on Twitter, there’s no harm spicing...