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Billy\'s Downtown Diner

A brilliant restaurant site with an active header that brings the street to life. The way the menu bar and logo use perspective to jump out at you is great! I also particularly like the use of colour set against a desaturated background.

1st Stop Claims Company

While this design doesn\'t push the boundaries and sticks with a fairly standard formula it\'s worth noting the high quality of photograph used. The body illustration on the right is an interesting touch.

Pascal Bajorat

The header on this site steals the show. It features a great cityscape photo with an animated transition. Notice how the text on the photographic background has been treated. It is not easy to place text over such a busy photo but this solution is both easy and attractive.

Fusion Ads Bundle

This Fusion Ads Holiday Bundle is a great deal for designers, offering some fantastic software and icons for an excellent price. The design makes strong use of typography, feels festive, and has some of the most carefully crafted copy I\'ve read in a long time. A must see (and buy!)

The Bones Brigade DJs

A strangely morbid but attractive site announcing the end of a group of DJs. Check out the interesting diamond graphics used for the music players, a refreshingly unique idea.

TidyPSD

An interesting service idea, this site will convert your messy PSDs to tidy ones. The content is nicely organized with subtle dashed lines for structure and two clear sections created by different background colors. Overall a great layout.

NZ By Bike

Stop by this page and see the unique sketchy 3D style they have going on with the text and boxes of content. The page does a great job of organizing a ton of content in a really attractive manner.

NeedStyle

A refreshingly original designer portfolio with lots of personalization. Obviously, the large letterpress effect is the hero of the design and really grabs your attention with contrast.

One Page Wonders

One Page Wonders is a really unique looking web design gallery showcasing single page sites. The treatment of the page previews is really nice: I love the large vertical thumbnails and the ticket theme.

Yiipu

This is a very simple site with two key design elements: typography and color. The type choices are really quite nice, I like the inset letterpress look. The colors are mostly uniform but still quite bright and friendly.

c3 Media

This site uses dark colors and grunge textures to set a young and edgy vibe. I particularly liked the hover effect on the navigation area. It stretches all the way to the top and is sort of a faux lighting illusion.

Robert Padbury

A strong but simple page design utilizing a single column. I love how big everything on the page seems. Every element on display takes up nearly the full browser window and the typography is well above normal.

TekRoc

A really sharp looking design that is very horizontal and uses lots of contrast to really grab the viewer. The images in the huge slider are fantastic, the textured black background is perfect and the six service section are handled very well. This is an excellent site to use for solid layout inspiration.

Colin Lewis

Definitely one of the more unique sites we have ever featured. The page is essentially a block of text with icons thrown in. I love both the idea and the execution, it conveys a sense of fun and lightheartedness.

Edward Dark

This unique portfolio site features sort of a dark and mysterious design. It is a bit different than the type of design we normally feature and should inspire you to consider alternate styles when creating something that really fits your personality.

Jon Victorino

This single page portfolio does an excellent job of organizing important information into a visual hierarchy that would be effective for potential employers and clients. The design is light and airy, with a nice CSS3 letterpress effect on the headline and a thick white border providing strong contrast between the photos and background.

Brett Chaney

This site utilizes paper textures, a mix of both serif an san serif typography, and a nice large jquery slider. The overall design is simple but effective though there is definitely room for some improvement in the layout.

Vuu

I really like the soft abstract background on this site and the rounded content area with its transparent border. The blue color scheme works great with the grays and makes for a really classy looking page. Overall, a refreshingly different design!

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