10 Inspiring Websites

Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time designing websites, whether it’s WordPress theme development or Joomla! template design. A huge part of this process, (for me), is finding inspiration. Below are 10 carefully crafted examples of good web design that I’ve been inspired by as of late.

American Airlines site redesign

I heard about a week ago that someone had done a mockup of a possible redesign for the American Airlines website, and the first thing I did was take a look at their existing site. It’s unbelievable to me that such a huge corporation with so many resources could produce such a terrible, unusable site. [...]

Version 0.5 of Simplixity is now live

Today I submitted an update to my WordPress theme Simplixity, which improves how images are handled in posts and fixes an issue that existed while no widgets were activated in the admin panel. You can view and download it here.
I’ve already begun working on the next update, which should include an easily customizable client.css file, [...]

Is the browser the new WYSIWYG?

I’ve been thinking a lot about this concept lately. Have we come to a point where the Dreamweaver style IDE, (integrated development environment), has become a thing of the past? Ninety percent of my formal training has been heavily dependent on this model, yet I can’t see any forward thinking web designer/developer continuing to rely [...]