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Joomla Showcase: 44 Beautiful Joomla Website Designs

Dicky — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:07:37 +0000

Joomla, one of the most popular PHP CMS, has been used by tons of websites. It is very customizable and extendable through various plugins. Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites and etc.

Back to few months ago, we showcase beautiful WordPress blogs. Some readers ask me to collect beautiful Joomla designs, as not everyone use WordPress as their CMS. So, we decided to collect cool Joomla designs over the world and present to our readers.

If you are a Joomla designer and are scratching your head for a new Joomla design, then you had reached to the right place. Today, we are going to share 44 beautiful Joomla designs that may inspired you.

Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites etc. And with Joomla web hosting you can ensure the smooth working of your Joomla website.

omy.sg

omy.sg is Singapore’s bilingual news and interactive web portal leading by media group Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.

The USI Underground Community

Compagnie Antarès

Pirogue Orphelinat Association

CS Doua Aikido

Agevo

Aixam Italia

aktúa

azrul

azrul is a professional web application developer, who develope a lotof great component for Joomla. One of the example is Jomcomment.

Boogie Pimps

Rustedfables

Crispystock 09

Cross Creek Ranch

Elephant Pharm

Frizopedium

General Villamill

Grundschule Levern

Duirwaigh Studios

Duirwaigh Studios specializes in products and services that inspire creative consciousness.

Spacemaker Wardrobes

Spacemaker Wardrobes specialise in stylish built in wardrobes, sliding wardrobe doors and storage solutions which will improve and add value to your home.

Turkish Gazete

Friendswood Development Company

Novaxove

Sam Cool

Online Portfolio For Syamsul Arifi

Tunisia Clubbing

StudioPetrov

Killer Web Directory

Creative Web Directory built with Joomla.

Joomla creme

Joomlacreme is a place where they share about beautiful websites based on Joomla. You can submit yours to the directory.

Yeni Bir Adim

Les Saisons du Blanc

Leyendas de Toledo

Magenta

Midwife in Mannheim

A midwife providing her services to help pregnant woman.

Mop Head Design

A design agency which specialise in quality, cutting-edge design and functional, good-looking websites.

naranchdesign

Metro Restaurant & Lounge

UNRIC Cool Planet

Custard Media

Pixelosaurus World Design

Passport To Australia

Grab your friends and family and head off for whirlwind tours of Australia that promise plenty of fun and remarkable facts.

Rapkolik.net

Shakoda

The Porchlight Community

Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation

ToolboxCreations

Professional Joomla! Website Design & Development

70 Gorgeous Blog Footer Designs

Dicky — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:54:45 +0000

Any blog or website is basically divided to header, content, sidebar and footer. Among these sections, footer is the most underused and unnoticeable area.

However, you can do a lot of things with your blog footer. For example, recent comments, Flickr photo stream, author bio/list of blog’s authors, blogroll, Twitter updates, contact form and so on. Besides these, you can have your avatar or simply any creative illustration at the blog footer too.

Today, we are going to share 70 Gorgeous Blog Footer Designs. We hope this list will not only brings inspiration to you, but also give idea on what you can actually insert to your blog footer, either extra info or new features.

Meomi Cloud House

Bio :: Windows & Doors

Colégio Bela Alvorada

Blog Amuki

bcandullo.com

Design Log of Ayaka ito

Bristol Archive Records

Doejo Interactive Media

HEBAtec Internet Systems

Gisele Jaquenod

Graduate Talent Pool

Huxley Prairie Festival

Outdoor Italia official site

Restaurant Nuevo Aurich

Ritchie Linao

Samantha Warren’s Blog

45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See

Dicky — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:45:46 +0000

Navigation menu is the most important element in the web design. It guides users to your content and also shows them your site structure. A well-designed and user friendly navigation menu will definitely attract more users to click and browse your content.

Designing a navigation menu is not easy. The designer needs to understand the site structure before start. Furthermore, designer needs to make sure the navigation menu can cope for future needs. One of the example is the number of elements in the menu increase in future.

In this article, you will see 45 inspiring, user-friendly and well-designed navigation menus. Although they may not necessary suit your design, but we hope these navigation menus can bring inspiration to our readers.

The English Riviera Comedy Film Festival 2008

David Hellmann

La Privata Repubblica

okb – estudio interactivo

Intereactive

Dawghouse Design Studio

Best Colorado web design

Worship Leader Insights

Graphic Design Portfolio of Ben Barry

Understanding Webpage Usability

Editorial Staff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:17:43 +0000

Often when designers are creating new web pages, they rely on the design of the elements within a page. Banners have to look pleasant; navigation buttons have to be consistent and so on. But when these elements are placed together within a page, they create dynamics that attract user attention. The study on user attraction, or attentiveness, is a part of what is called usability – a guide on how to assess purposefulness of a user interface.

That is why you might notice that the most popular websites like Google and Facebook have minimalistic designs and there is a good reason for such approach.

Less Is More

There is a common saying amongst designers and developers alike – Keep It Simple and stupid. A webpage that sells shampoos to customers should only have the necessary webpages to sell that particular product and not anything else. Users don’t need to know the size of the bottle or even what colour of the shampoo would be.

When things are kept simple, users get to do tasks quickly and when they do, they will appreciate and come back to your website again.

Gestalt Psychology

There is a popular research subject called Cognitive Psychology that a lot of designers are paying attention to. It involves studying how humans perceive things around them and assess how long can we pay attention to a particular detail.

Gestalt Laws are a set of rules that define how we group objects together; take a look at these example diagrams.

See how you tend to ‘group’ a particular pattern and arrangement of items within that diagram? Designers now take advantage of these Gestalt Laws by applying them in their websites during the design phase. It might seem obvious, but that is why navigation bars are always a straight line and grouped items get our first attention.

I’ll be coming up with another article explaining Cognitive Psychology in detail, so stay tuned.

Users Are Highly Critical, Even If We Don’t Realise It

Most designers often think of designing the best looking websites, because of course, that’s what they do. But good designers are able to look at a website design not from a designers point of view, but from the user’s point of view. This is because users are often critical about any webpages they visit.

A website would look incredibly unreliable once they detect spelling errors or links that are broken. Why should a website promote the designer at the bottom of every page when that is not what they are looking for? These errors are subtle, yet they provide the most impact subconsciously when users are browsing the Internet.

Avoiding Pitfalls

The bottom line for a good design is always simplicity and a lot of common sense. Being able to think like the user and not the designer would give you the biggest advantage in designing not only purposeful websites but pleasing looking ones.

WordPress Showcase: 40+ Beautiful And Well Designed Blogs Powered By WordPress

Dicky — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:30:49 +0000

In the previous post, we showcase 50 creative portfolios and soon there are readers who request us to share beautiful blog designs. A great portfolio will attract more clients to a designer while great blog design will bring you more visitors too.

Although content is king, but with a unique and awesome blog design, you can attract visitors and catch their attentions. So I would say beautiful blog design together with good content will definitely bring your blog stand out from the crowd.

Since most of us use WordPress as our blogging platform, we decided to list out 40+ really awesome and beautiful blogs powered by WordPress. We will see blogs from other platforms in the future.

1. Assault Blog

2. BestBlogBox

3. Cheaper Than Therapy

4. Cult-foo

5. Narstuff

6. Jason Bradbury

7. Juan Diego Velasco

8. Ecoki

9. All For Design

10. Hatch

11. heyIndy

12. 1stwebdesigner

13. Behind The Websites

14. Design Your Way

15. Digital Deceptions

16. Brown Blog Films

17. Elitist Snob

18. Studio 7 Designs

19. Getting Crazy

20. Gisele Jaquenod

21. ilovecolors

22. Inspiredology

23. garamiz blog

24. Jeses Rodriguez Velasco

25. Kulturbanause

26. Larissa Meek

27. LeBloe

28. Macalicious

29. Loop

30. Matblogg

31. Melech Mizrahi

32. Missionpoken

33. No Sleep for Sheep

34. One Nation Magazine

35. Outlaw Design Blog

36. No Milk Today

37. Luthier Services

38. Owltastic

39. UX Booth

40. PopCultureTees

41. Jeffrey Sarmiento

42. Julius Mattsson

30+ Well Designed Online Shopping Carts

Dicky — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:41:36 +0000

There are more and more online stores within the internet. You can build an online shopping cart easily by using open source ecommerce shopping cart solution. After all, you just need to customize the look and feel of the website.

One of the famous open source ecommerce shopping cart software is Magento, and we had covered magento template in our previous post. A well designed online shopping cart will certainly bring you more revenue. So, it is advised that you put more efforts in your shopping cart’s design.

Today, we are going to look into 30+ well designed online shopping carts. We try not to cover those famous ecommerce websites such as Amazon and Ebay. The intention of this article is to share some simple and well design ecommerce websites with our readers.

1. Better Closet

2. Brand Neusense

3. bees and gees

4. Dripping In Fat

5. Candy Candy Jewellery

6. 14tracks.com

7. SuperPoke Store

8. Adventure Time

9. Koochycoo Baby Needs

10. The Organic Supermarket

11. Chop Shop

12. mia & maggie

13. Loop De Lou

14. crocs

15. inkd

16. hmv.com

17. Spreadshirt

18. Fashion Hire

19. Lane Bryant

20. Flax Matters

21. Ginger Pup Lane

22. GotMojo

23. Jme Collection Shop

24. iWorkwear

25. Kuhn’s Jewelers

26. LadyBugsPicnic

27. Macy’s

28. HelloThemes

29. bridge55

30. Threadless

31. RIPT Apparel

30+ Easy To Follow Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials

Dicky — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:39:24 +0000

Photoshop is an excellent application for web designers. No matter you are beginner of expert of Photoshop, you can easily get tutorials and resources by using the search engine.

Most of the theme developers/designers will done their website design using Photoshop, and then slice and convert them into CSS/HTML template. Here, i had collected 30+ easy to follow Photoshop layout design tutorials. You can follow them step by step to learn how to create a website layout design by using Photoshop.

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2. BestBlogBox

3. Cheaper Than Therapy

4. Cult-foo

5. Narstuff

6. Jason Bradbury

7. Juan Diego Velasco

8. Ecoki

9. All For Design

10. Hatch

11. heyIndy

12. 1stwebdesigner

13. Behind The Websites

14. Design Your Way

15. Digital Deceptions

16. Brown Blog Films

17. Elitist Snob

18. Studio 7 Designs

19. Getting Crazy

20. Gisele Jaquenod

21. ilovecolors

22. Inspiredology

23. garamiz blog

24. Jeses Rodriguez Velasco

25. Kulturbanause

26. Larissa Meek

27. LeBloe

28. Macalicious

29. Loop

30. Matblogg

31. Melech Mizrahi

32. Missionpoken

33. No Sleep for Sheep

34. One Nation Magazine

35. Outlaw Design Blog

36. No Milk Today

37. Luthier Services

38. Owltastic

39. UX Booth

40. PopCultureTees

41. Jeffrey Sarmiento

42. Julius Mattsson

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30+ Well Designed Online Shopping Carts

1. Better Closet

2. Brand Neusense

3. bees and gees

4. Dripping In Fat

5. Candy Candy Jewellery

6. 14tracks.com

7. SuperPoke Store

8. Adventure Time

9. Koochycoo Baby Needs

10. The Organic Supermarket

11. Chop Shop

12. mia & maggie

13. Loop De Lou

14. crocs

15. inkd

16. hmv.com

17. Spreadshirt

18. Fashion Hire

19. Lane Bryant

20. Flax Matters

21. Ginger Pup Lane

22. GotMojo