40 Amazing Minimalist Website Designs For Your Inspiration

Minimalism is beautiful. It truly is. The best part about minimalism in web design is that it comes in many styles, colors and sizes, but they always have the same goal in mind – saying the most while saying the least.

A great quote by Albert Einstein can sum up minimalism (in my opinion) 100%.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

In essence, this is exactly what minimalism in web design is – saying something as simple as possible, but not simpler. It’s a beautiful thing. So, below I’ve rounded up 40 amazing minimalist web designs for you to be inspired by.

5 Can’t-Miss Usability Tips for Mobile Website Designs

Finding your way around a majority of the mobile websites that exist has become a nightmare with the lack of proper usability being implemented into their designs.

This has caused the quality of designs (especially the mobile usability factor) to decrease on a larger scale when compared to the sites that not only practice good mobile aesthetics, but allow their users a smooth transition between the regular site to an enticing experience on their mobile devices

Because of the instability in a lot of the mobile web design information that is being distributed on the web, a lot of websites have very poor mobile interface designs. Below, we’re going to cover a few simple, yet prominent steps to designing a much more effective interface and increasing the quality of a mobile websites usability.

MediaLoot Launch – Come In, We’re Open!

MediaLoot is now live! After many months of hard work and a lot of sweat, tears and blood… ok I may be exaggerating a bit here (or not), but I’m very excited that this project finally sees the light of day.

Regular readers here on SpyreStudios probably already know about MediaLoot as I’ve talked about it in earlier posts, but for those of you who don’t know, MediaLoot is a brand new site for designers offering premium resources like textures, print templates, web elements, icon sets, vectors, etc…

CSS In Depth: Margins, Padding & The Box Model

In the first of the CSS In depth series, we’ll be talking about margins, padding and the box model. Margins and padding are some of the most widely used styles in CSS, but are often the source of frustration in cross-browser compatibility.

In this post, we’ll explain the difference between padding and margins, how the box model effects browsers and some tips and tricks dealing with cross-browser issues.

5 Things That Can Make (or break) A Killer Website Design

Starting the website design process can either give you a really great feeling, or can leave you feeling hollow in the pit of your stomach. The feeling you get is usually dependent on how great of a kick start you get with your design process.

What if I were to tell you that you can control those feelings even more than you’re used to? The truth is, you can control the feelings you have by utilizing some tips on how to make sure you’re creating a killer website design right from the start.

There are things that you should (and shouldn’t) be doing during your website design process. These things can be as small as subtle color choices or as large as advertisement placement or layout. Regardless of the size of each item on the list, the impact of each item is equally huge when you look at the bigger picture.

So today i want to go over 5 things you can do that will either make, or break, your next website design. Of course you should always start by brainstorming, sketching, wireframing and go through a couple rounds of revisions before you actually start designing a site in Photoshop or Fireworks.

15 Quality Web-Based Applications to Create Mock-Ups and Wireframes

To effectively manage a project with very little mistakes, you must make it a priority to plan. Diving into the development process with not a single clue as to what elements go where or how certain aspects of a websites interface differ from one another is dooming yourself to hard-earned headaches.

For as long as humans have been able to hold a pen and a paper in hand, we have been prototyping and although different from now, “wireframing“. This dates back to thousands of years ago when architects and artists began converting their artwork into an actual physical presence.

This is to outline that we are no strangers to the planning, prototyping, and executing process…