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Corporate Website Designs: The Creative 19 List

awards4webdesign — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:06:57 +0000

A corporate website is a part of corporate style and demands a very thought over design. And it would be a huge mistake to think the design of your corporate website be unimportant and not worthy to spend money on. Sometimes the corporate website can be the main or at least one of the most important factors of your success.
Usually web designers when creating a corporate website try to use the corporate style of the company, especially the corporate colors. This is a reason why the corporate websites category is full of websites of different color schemes, though still the blue designs, as well as grey and green remain as the most popular colors.

The design for the corporation website has to be very capacious presenting all the important information and still be not too overcrowded with text. It also needs to be not too extravagant, unless it is a corporate website design for a fashion store or a very progressive design company. But still you should not be afraid to make your corporate website look interesting and unlike the other web pages it has to impress a visitor with something what he/she will remember and what will make him/her come back to your corporate website.

I tried to make a collection of corporate websites that stay in memory for some reason, though still there are thousands of other corporate website designs, that are worth taking a look at.

A very nice color selection for an online fashion store.

Golly Gumdrops

A corporate website in corporate colors: great job!

Hard Graft

A very nice and stylish website.

Micron

I like the grey scale. In fact, it works really well for corporate websites.

Arca Liu Noe

A hotel corporate website. The room pictures slide show seems to be a great idea for a hotel website.

Istanbul Dental Works

The blue color is really pleasant to look at.

Lia Sophia

I like the minimalism of this website design, and the logo.

Odopod

A very catchy pink color design.

E-invent

A very nice green design.

Intel

The blue color and the design itself look very high-technological.

Trent Cruising

One more blue design: magnificent colors, magnificent picture.

Nicholas Deakins

A nice green cartoon style corporate website design.

Conigen Corporation

An almost plain white design with nice graphic works.

Sprint Bio

This corporate website is very pleasant to look at due to the green and blue design and transparent elements.

Orange Label

An extremely creative single page corporate website, a very interesting portfolio too.

Omni-Tech Incorporated

I like the combination of the background and the light bulb design. Simple and elegant.

Baltic Producers

A clean minimal design in green color.

Project15

This is a very neat web design. Designer did a marvellous job creating this web site.

Professional Administrative Resources

The website looks very elegant: nice colors, beautiful lines, creative logo.

19 Creative 2 Column Layout Designs

awards4webdesign — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:28:42 +0000

The design of a website is one of the most important assets to an online presence. The numerous researches have proven that the average person spends from 4 to 7 seconds to decide if he or she wants to stay on a website or move on, and this is the reason why it is so important that your website is well designed. But what do we mean when we say well designed? In fact, the design is not only about color selection, logo, fonts etc. A great role plays the way the information is located and organized on the web page. The web designer always needs to care about how easy it is to read and find the info.
Column layout came to web design from typography, and it has been proven that this way of presenting the information is the most convenient for the reader.
In website design the designers usually use a 2 or 3 column layout, depending on the type of a website. A 2 column layout is mostly used for smaller websites, while 3 column layout works for websites with a bigger amount of content.
2 column layout is not a design feature, it is a way the information and menus are located on the website. But still it plays an important role for website design, and when working on the website, the first thing the designer is to think and speak with a client about is the structure of the future website.
Below I tried to select the most interesting and creative websites with 2 column layout.

Owlastic

That’s a funny one! A two-columns layout with light blue background and funny graphics looks really nice.

Feedstitch

Looks simple and stylish, very juicy.

Bert Timmermans

two column layout website

A two column layout designed as a book: a very good solution.

Stack Overflow

I like the color combination and the scrolling effect with background.

Sunrise Design

An extremely impressive artistic web design: the aquarelle background is gorgeous!

Illusiodesign

A stylish two column design in beige color.

Studio Racket

A sketch-style two column website layout. I like the menu.

Matt

The word creative is not strong enough for this web design.

HugsForMonsters

A two column layout with wonderful sketch drawings. Looks like a book for kids.

Alpine Camp

A grey 2 column layout design with bright elements.

Mini Cook

A cute kids style two column layout in bright colors.

Trent Walton

Like the paper style background and the drawings.

DasBlau

This is a rather stylish black color website design. The classic elegance of black.

Blossom Graphic Design

A very neat and feminine design in pink and purple colors.

Simply Creative

Yes, the design stands for the name: it sure is very simple and creative at the same time.

Web Designer Depot

A very colorful website design: looks very juicy.

Astheria

A very clean, white and minimalistic web design: supreme elegance.

Beyond Current Horizons

The color selection is extremely great, I also like the logo.

Binocle

A wonderful job with the header. The website looks very fashionable.

The websites with 2 column layout make probably the largest category of websites. Such websites are very easy to use and read, they do not look stuffed with information and elements.
The layout type plays a more important role for the web design than it might seem, and you’ve got to choose it depending on the kind of the website.

Retro Flashback: 20 Retro Website Designs to Admire.

awards4webdesign — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:18:50 +0000

Vintage, old style, old-fashion are all the synonyms for retro. Retro style is widely used in all kinds of design, such as interior design, fashion design, photography and even in probably the newest type of design - website design.
What we call retro style is a certain review of past trends that come back to life in contemporary design. But it would be a mistake to understand “retro” just as “old style”. Retro is not only a tribute to past, much more it is a past’s contribution to the future. Retro style, retro design is the reincarnation of the past in modern design, when the design solutions of the past gain new features and elements.

Today we can see that the use of old-style typography, old cars, illustrations from old posters, old packaging and old photos are becoming more and more popular also in web design. Many web designers now use collage of old pictures to advertise products or to express the idea of the website.

Although the following selection is based on retro designs, all these websites look really fresh and ironically modern. The clarity of these designs and the enormous effort, put into to them is incredible. And it is amazing how great retro style looks being incorporated with modern technologies of web design. Enjoy!

Jeff Sarmiento

Sometimes web designers when creating a retro website mix different old styles and such websites usually fail to make a solid impression. But here the designer did a great job!

Devotchka

Great vintage design.

Custom Design

The idea with the old-fashioned TV is wonderful, the realization is great!

Forty-Seven Media

The retro fonts are great!

Colazionedamichi

A very elegant retro website design.

NYMoon Radio

A wonderful idea for online radio station website.

The Dollar Dreadful Family Library

This one is my favourite. A very stylish old newspaper design.

CSS Tinderbox

Another one in newspaper style. The designer tried to fool around with cyrillic fonts.

Philosophic Allies

Nice old paper background.

Thigpen Designs

A very nice and clean vintage web design.

Dirty Boudoir

Good color selection, retro font are good as well.

Basmati Tree

Wonderful graphic work

Macsbeer

Retro company style and website design.

http://www.archer-group.com/

Retro picture on the background looks very good and adds some spice to the web page design.

E-knjige

A great idea for retro design: an old fashioned book on the old-fashioned wallpaper background. Especially great for online library website

YesterdayIsHere

Very vintage-looking colors and font.

Reject Robot

A very nice retro-style portfolio website. A really elegant design.

Noel Designs

Cute retro cartoon style website design.

Mister-Aero

Wonderful colors. A very pleasant retro design.

Black Moon Design

A very fashionable retro web design and an amazing graphic work.

Retro website design always looks very catchy. Websites, created in vintage style look like pictures and impress visitors with colors and retro fonts. And though almost any retro design looks extremely creative and unique, I tried to select 20 most impressive ones for your inspiration.

What Makes a Good Design?

awards4webdesign — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:16:59 +0000

Either you are involved in your first website creation or already redesigning the current website which is not running well, your goals should be very clear and distinct when you start a website. For instance, if you run a web design business, you may want to demonstrate your high quality services with your customers in mind. Make your web design as plain and as direct as the site functionality and purpose allows you to.

Since the web page display mainly depends on the browser, a web designer has very little control on it. On the other hand, making a page look the same on several browsers may be challenging as well as rewarding. Keep these things in mind while creating a site:

- Various browsers and versions of browsers compatibility
- Operating system used by the online visitor
- Screen display area
- Availability of plugins and extensions

Professional web designers look at their website through the eyes of their visitors: if you are planning a site to sell products for elderly, the site layout and structure should be easy, design simple and the font size large.
One of the most significant aspects of web design is optimizing web pages since the optimized web pages load quicker and your web visitor can promptly get the information they came for.

Another important point in web design is your website should reflect what your business is all about. This can be achieved with colors selection: blues and greys are treated as good colors for professional websites. And of course the color used in your web site should harmonize with your company’s logo.
When considering the font for your web page, use only the browser compatible ones since what looks good in your browser may significantly differ at your customer’s browser. Little color and lots of white space, simple and clean design with fewer graphics can be a good web site. Equip your site navigation system with

- left-side menu
- site search in the top corner
- main categories highlighted in the dark color bar
- services or shopping in grey blocks
- recent releases.

Photos can be an effective solution for business websites adding a touch of class to your web presence.

These are only the building blocks of a good web design and of course I will cover more points later here; however following just these ones you will build a great web site prone to a successful practice.

Excellent Website Design Strategy

awards4webdesign — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:25:43 +0000

When designing a website, following some certain basic techniques may guarantee a complete online success. Website design can easily create a positive impression on your site visitors which is considered to be a half the battle won. The other half depends on the quality of product or service you provide to the clients. The basic tips for an award-winning web design are as follows:
• Every website should be designed with a certain goal or objective. Consider your exact business goals, and base your website design on that. In case you have an eCommerce website, thus all the site features are to be determined to the aim of selling your products.
• Who is your target audience? Knowing this would assist in planning how to design a website so that it seizes the attention of your target customers. Their geographical location, religion, interests, age group influences the outline of website designing.
• Build a site map, it would show the way in which your website will be constructed. The site map will be simple or complex depending on your website needs.
• Website visitor does not like to wait for web pages to load. Award-winning web design will not help your business if it keeps your site visitors waiting. Design a website that loads quickly and does not take more than 15 seconds. Faster loading pages are an advantage for your website.
• Make sure your website navigation links are provided in the appropriate location on the web page. This would help your online visitors in going through the website easily. Usually top position of a web page or header is a place where a visitor looks for links. Menus can be placed on right and left side of the web page.
• As soon as the website design model is laid down, convert it into a set of website templates viewable in web browsers. This will give you a clear idea about how your real website is going to look like and function.
• Test whether the mock up model of your website is built in accordance with the standards. It has to look great in major browsers. And make sure the website is search engine friendly.
These tips would enhance your website turning it into a valuable business asset.

Up-To-Date Web Design Approaches

awards4webdesign — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:58:40 +0000

A lot of respectable web design companies and designers will tell you that the most significant features for the flourishing website are the original content to your website readers presented in the special way that will assist the search engine results.

Make Your Website Hot

Your website will keep regular viewers and will attract the new ones by achieving the above. When adding unique content of a good quality, one can be confident not to lose visitors to the competitor sites every once in a while.

Serve the Branding Right

Working on the design of the company logo, try to choose from several variations created. Ask your colleagues and friends for their advice to help you make the right decision.

Don’t Addict to the Oversized Homepage Text Content

Try to keep the business homepage text content light: apply to the short paragraphs, bullet points and line breaks where possible to make the information easy to absorb. Otherwise you may put off the skim readers with too much of information.

Text Size Matters

Mind that the target market of your company or your niche may be much older than you requiring screen reader tools as well as much larger text usage. Think of this at the very beginning making sure that your site design can hold this.

Easy Page Navigation

Organize the website menu structure to make it simple to move between pages. The one viewing the site will probable leave in case he or she is struggling to understand how to get around.

How to Tell A Thousand Words

A careful usage of images can really improve our ability not only to skim read the page but to analyze the content more easily also. Stick to the theme of the site pages when choosing images. And try to avoid confusing the non appropriate images and pictures.

Give To Receive

Usually online users are fine to provide their details to you to use for the future marketing in case you give them a freebie. To encourage an action from your visitors a simple pdf download is often enough in trade for an email address.

Learn From Your Peers

Research and learn your competitors’ sites to find the things that they do well and try to include that into your site. You don’t need to be completely original sometimes.

Web Design Dogmas

awards4webdesign — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:39:59 +0000

Web design appealing to the visual senses and appreciated by the customers would of course succeed. In case the targeted or the end user does not like the look of the website, there are not many chances they will stick to it. In order to create such a design you can refer to the professional web design services.

Web designer would build an eye-catching website that will fetch greater web traffic through the search engines at cheaper rates. So apply to website design services that rank higher in search engine results as well as score high on visibility marks.

Superior web design is not always enough to keep the visitor hooked to the site and make them do a purchase. Apart from designing, a website should present relevant information to its users, educating about the products or services being offered. Website content has to excite and be interesting enough to keep the zest level high.

Handy navigation links are an important part of website design. Make sure that the designer doing the service for you makes easily navigable sites. The onsite information should be traced naturally by the site visitor.

Another significant part of a web design that is usually ignored by the site developers is ‘contact’ details of the organization. Make certain that your business details are mentioned clearly and visible enough. Inserting details like phone number and fax, email address and physical address helps strengthening the trust factor of the clients on your company.

However, there are things that one should avoid when designing a website including errors in the site design or content. The site font size should to be normal neither too small nor large straining your readers eyes.

Web design elements need equal attention and consideration: state-of-the-art graphics only would not help much; web content, site layout, navigation, etc have to be perfect.

Placing the advertisements or banners in between the text can be extremely disturbing and irritating for the website visitor. It can cause the loss of interest and people might not read the information seriously enough.

For that reason before applying to the professional web design services, please be confident that the web design dogmas are followed thoroughly.

An Ultimate Web Design Guide. Will It Help?

awards4webdesign — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:34:21 +0000

Going into web design and web development, one should be able to distinguish them since web development supposes the more technical aspects of launching a website; while web design relates to the concept of putting together web pages and creating an online presence with good content. Web design utilizes different design and graphic principles. A web design guide may be an important resource to own when you decide to build a website: there are many aspects of web design that you must be familiar about.

It is practical that you equip yourself with the decent knowledge on web designing whether you outsource web design services or not. There are people who might take advantage of your ignorance and a guide to web designing can spare you from being conned by some web designers later on. So, make certain you are not naive on things that concern your own business. Don’t worry if you are not experienced in the internet’s technical aspects. It will not be too tough for you to learn about designing a web page in case there is an easy to consult and to use web design guide.

One can find tips on web design including how to create and develop professional web site on your own. In the past, web designing was only for professionals, these days any Jane or John can design by themselves. Many companies can offer you a cheap guide to web design which you can choose from: learning from web design masters is the best option for learning so far. When you pick out your sources be selective. Only cognizant experts can teach you the right properties your website must possess.

Since everything is laid down within the web design guide for your easy understanding, you will not go through a lot of technical difficulties. By having a good design for your website, you will be able to serve a quality content for your users. The more satisfied visitors measure up into the higher possible sales that you can get corresponding to a more prosperous business.