Beyond the Walls

When you’re designing a website, it helps to have some inspiration for ideas. One of the best ways to create a new look is to take an old look and remodel it. Other times only a kick-start is needed to get your creative juices flowing. With that in mind, here are a few design galleries I like to use for when I need some inspiration.

• Design Meltdown
• Open Source Web Design
• CSS Beauty
• Minimal Sites

For the first post on “Beyond the Walls” I bring you one of my favorite Web resources, SmashingMagazine. They’re really great with their posts in that you can easily skim the article, but you’re still able to get in depth information when you really care about it.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/02/10-impressive-simple-design-techniques

“Simple effects and techniques are the building blocks of today’s designs… With a ‘less is more’ mentality, we’ve selected 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.”