Gavin McNamee

The quality of design sites around has just been escalating and escalating. Last year we published two articles on finding design inspiration – 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration On and Off and the follow up 60 More Places to Get Design Inspiration. Since then I’ve been collecting new sites that didn’t make those two lists, and today I’m happy to deliver 33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration!

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Carl Heaton wrote a couple of day’s ago 50 Ways to Get Your Site Noticed on the blog of ThemeForest.net. These tips can be of use if you want to boost your stats. I must say there are a couple of very useful tips.

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When designing a website, there are a number of different styles you can adopt to get the message of a brand across effectively to customers, users or readers. The important thing to consider is to pick a style that matches the brand you are designing for. Also, there’s no reason why you need to stick to one particular style. Multiple different styles can merge together perfectly fine as you’ll spot in some of the examples below.

Here is a look at ten of the most creative styles in use in web design today with examples of some of the best websites that utilise them.

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Some examples of how people use light effects to enhance their web designs either by giving it more colour or by giving it more depth, check out my selection from around the web for some inspiration.

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In past articles, we’ve shown you where to find plenty of great textures for vintage and retro style design. So now if you’re wanting to learn some techniques to put those to use, you’re in luck. Here are 30 very useful Photoshop tutorials that will teach you techniques to add vintage and retro elements to your designs

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