Archives July, 2009

29
Jul

30 Great Examples Of Drop-Down And Sliding Menus

30 Great Examples Of Drop-Down And Sliding Menus

While building a site for a client, I had to figure out the best way to display additional navigation in a horizontal menu (and not make it look like it’s 1999 again), so I went ahead and started looking for some inspiration. I’ve found many sites that had drop-down and sliding menus and I thought you’d be interested in my findings.

Please let me know what you think in the comment section. Know of any really cool drop-down and sliding menus that I missed? Share it with the rest of us!

27
Jul

6 Easy Ways To Cure A Nasty Case Of Redesign-itis

How To Cure Redesign-itis

If you’ve been following me on Twitter or this blog in the past couple months I’m sure you’ve noticed that I had a bad case of redesign-itis… I must have redesigned SpyreStudios something like 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months. Maybe more. You see, I can’t even keep track of how many times I did it. Ouch!How To Cure Redesign-itis

If you’ve been following me on Twitter or this blog in the past couple months I’m sure you’ve noticed that I had a bad case of redesign-itis… I must have redesigned SpyreStudios something like 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months. Maybe more. You see, I can’t even keep track of how many times I did it. Ouch!

24
Jul

50 More Amazing Apple/Mac Desktop Wallpapers

50 Amazing Mac Desktop Wallpaper

Well, I guess it’s no secret I’m addicted to Apple! And I love wallpapers (who doesn’t?). Some time ago I posted 50 Apple desktop wallpapers, and I thought it was time for another post. So I went ahead and collected another 50 wallpapers.

22
Jul

50 Kick-Ass And Creative Dark Website Designs

Creative Dark Web Designs

Dark web designs are my personal favorite so I felt it was needed for me to showcase some of the best from around the web. Not only are they creative, eye catching and interactive, but they’re truly different than what most websites look like today – with the light, clean minimal designs taking center stage lately, there’s something to be said about a killer creative website that’s dark & eye catching.Creative Dark Web Designs

Dark web designs are my personal favorite so I felt it was needed for me to showcase some of the best from around the web. Not only are they creative, eye catching and interactive, but they’re truly different than what most websites look like today – with the light, clean minimal designs taking center stage lately, there’s something to be said about a killer creative website that’s dark & eye catching.

19
Jul

20 jQuery Tutorials And Plugins To Impress Your Friends

20 jQuery Tutorials And Plugins To Impress Your Friends

I have always liked playing around with jQuery and I’m sure many of you do too! In fact we’ve published some jQuery ‘getting started‘ guides here on SpyreStudios in the past. So this time I thought we’d go more in depth and I’ve hand-picked 20 awesome jQuery tutorials (most of them have working demos)

16
Jul

Design Trends: 40 Awesome Illustrative Web Designs

Illustrative Web Design

There are a ton of awesome web design trends going around. I call them awesome – you may call them oversaturated and ‘old school’ – however, I feel that any design trend out there has its place in the web design community and this one is a trend that I hope NEVER goes away.Illustrative Web Design

There are a ton of awesome web design trends going around. I call them awesome – you may call them oversaturated and ‘old school’ – however, I feel that any design trend out there has its place in the web design community and this one is a trend that I hope NEVER goes away.