Textured backgrounds in website design are common, especially in grunge designs. But they’re used in a variety of other design styles, too.

Showcase: Textures in Web Design
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Portfolio designs can be a great source of inspiration. After all, a portfolio is not only a place to showcase one’s work, but is also a designer’s home on the web.

40 Inspiring Portfolio Designs
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Every week Design Shack takes a look at a new website and analyzes the design. They point out both the areas that are done well as well as those that could use some work.

This time: We Can Service Your Car.

Web Design Critique #15: We Can Service Your Car

Sometimes a site can be visually stunning not so much because of the content but because of the lack of content. Though often attractive, this is a tricky style to pull off correctly without just looking like you’ve got a boring page.

very nice collection done by Design Shack. I like the short explanation why…

25 Brilliantly Simple Web Page Designs

The success of an e-commerce website is defined by sales, not by design. However, that doesn’t mean that design does not matter.

25 E-Commerce Websites for Your Design Inspiration
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Not at all surprising, a few really interesting sites have emerged from web designers’ creativity and hard work and I’m honored to present you here 31 of these superb new websites that you need to see.

some really different web designs spotted by Design your way. Can recommend to have a browse…

31 Superb New Websites That You Need To See

In this post we’ll be looking at some awesome site backgrounds that have been created in Adobe Illustrator or in other similar programs, and have an unmistakable, specific ‘vector look’ which is very trendy currently.

30 Cool Websites with Vector Like Background
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