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25 Awful Web Designs From 25 of MMA’s Top Fighters

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With the steady rise of Mixed Martial Arts in the mainstream and the new followers of the sport, you would think that the marketing teams for the fighters would know that their target demographic spend hours every day online and would probably be their biggest promoters. But judging by the style of the following 25 websites from 25 of MMA’s top fighters, I am assuming they didn’t get that memo.

5 Ways To Break Your Design Habits – Just For Fun

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Are you addicted to gradients, big fonts, a typical set of icons to explain that there’s 39 comments on your great post? It’s very easy to get stuck in the same old look and feel, even though your designs are very different from each other. We tackle this in different ways (although some people doesn’t […]

Widgets: What’s Good, Dubious, and Plain Bad

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I’ve never been a big fan of widgets. Lots of bling bling for your sidebar might sound like a good idea at the time, but it just adds clutter, clutter, perhaps some functionality, and then some clutter. And it usually looks like crap. However, I’m starting to turn to the widget functionality in WordPress. I’ve […]

25 Website Designs To Draw Inspiration From

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One of the pet peeves of being a web designer is that you sometimes end up not feeling very creative and in need of inspiration. Of course there are thousands of CSS galleries out there, but we thought we could just go ahead and make our own list of great website designs. Hoping this will […]

How-To Create A Life-Stream & Social Media Hub

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NOTE: This post was written in 2008 and I’ve since changed the design (and domain name) of my personal site – this tutorial is still quite relevant though, and I invite you to use it to create your own life streaming site. You can still check out my lifestream/social media hub (I put it on […]

25 Kick-Ass Blog Designs (My Favorites)

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There are a lot of really slick blog designs from very talented designers out there. So I thought I’d make a list of my all time favorite ones, hopefully you’ll find some you’ve never seen on this list. Here we go: A List Apart is probably one of my favorite blogs because of the quality […]