When designing digital products you want to strive for the most compatible user experience for every visitor. Designing a product is very difficult – whether a website or mobile application. You need to understand current trends in the market. And most importantly you should be confident in your design skills!

But even very skilled artists can get hung up on big projects. This is why I suggest starting off any design with a prototype, or wireframe graphic. This will map out each unique piece of your user interface to explain how page layouts will appear and which buttons do what. It’s almost like a blueprint before you jump into Photoshop. For those unfamiliar with the process I’ve added a few tips in this article.

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Web designers are moving forward with many of the different content management systems. WordPress is certainly a popular option – but when it comes to discussion boards I have to go with vBulletin. Their web software has been around for years and powers many of the infamous forums you can find through Google.

Although these are common place with some web communities, it can be difficult to find some of the really great designs. That’s why in this showcase I have put together a collection of vBulletin forums running their own custom themes. You can use these for inspiration on your own projects in the future. vBulletin is likely to be around for the long haul. Having this gallery of vB designs at your disposal makes templating all the more easier.

Web Developer

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When sitting down to construct a web layout there are certain elements you must pay attention to. Your header design, logo, and navigation links are just a few to consider. But many web designers don’t spend as much time on pagination effects. These links help your users to move between archives and past articles.

But if you find yourself short on inspiration don’t fret! I’ve cataloged a beautiful set of pagination nav designs which are sure to kick up some creative ideas. Although this set contains some really awesome effects it’s by no means a complete gallery. If you know of other layouts or websites please share with us in the discussion area below.

Pet in Canvas

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There are many different organizations which are constantly striving to help the world become a nicer place to live. The Internet is one medium of communication which cannot be ignored in the 21st century. And for all the sorry excuses of .org websites we have found a collection of 31 brilliant designs and layouts. If you have other links or know of similar websites we missed please let us know in the comments below.

National Public Radio

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As many of us have learned Tumblr may possibly be the most connected form of blogging. Setting up your own Tumblr blog only takes a few minutes, and you can find millions of different people posting new content every minute! With this you’ll likely be looking for a snazzy template design to match your blog’s attitude.

Check out the exhilarating designs I’ve included below. These are mostly all recent from within the past few months, and also totally free to install! There are premium themes available but these won’t suit your average Tumblr user. Share your thoughts and any favorite themes you find in the post discussion area below.

Royal Cameleon

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Interface designers have become very clever over the recent years. We’ve seen Apple introduce the breathtaking iOS format, followed shortly by Google’s Android. Additionally Chrome has re-defined how we build websites and jQuery offers tons of unique effects on the user end. below are 30 amazing examples of new web interfaces and how you can jump ahead of the curve in your own designs.

Glossi Timeline

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Previously DzineBlog.com has added Single Page Website Design collection. Below is this week collection of excellent minimalist website design. If you believe your website (or you know other websites) is considered minimalist, feel free to inform us the web address by adding at the comment form below. A short paragraph explaining design aspects and features will be appreciated. It would be great if you also briefly introduce about you (Web Designer who loves Toy Story 3) and your location (Seattle, USA). We might include them in the next update for this weekly series.

Benny Roth, Graphic and Web Designer, Munich, Germany.
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Finch, Designer & Writer, USA.
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In most online business the revenue of the site solely depends on the registered and active users and Making the visitor of your site to sign up isn’t easy, nobody likes to fill in forms .

Web forms bridge the gap between the product and the customer therefore, we designers, need to figure out sound design make the form completion process easy.

But while designing the Signup page / form lot question will arise in designers mind like how should the text box / buttons should look? alignment of labels in form? the size of the textbook, where to place the tooltip link ?, to name a few. To help you in that, here i’ve collected 30 examples of nicely designed and implemented sing-up page/ form design, in various style formats which suit the over all website design perfectly , hope you like this collection

1. )PSDThemes

2. )Nibbledish

3. )Livestream

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If you have a broken link on your site or the pages, which don’t exist any longer, have moved to a new server or have never existed at all, visitors will get an internal error message from the server. However, by default these messages aren’t that helpful

Whilst a well designed page can provide a means to find what they are looking for, wouldn’t it be great to display related information visitor might be interested or even redirecting them back to main page in a custom 404 page, here we have collected some 50 cool custom 404 pages just to inspire you, well not all are very informative some are simply an image or just with funny message but still it goes with the site itself..

1.) Carsonified

2.) Youcastr

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This post is a part for dzineblog’s interface design inspiration series, the series which focuses on inspiration on graphic user interface designs that will help you in enhancing your interface design skills,

Sometimes Before footers were used for the copyright notice and secondary navigation. Most footers are rather boring and uninspiring. Designers often use the bottom area to mention everything they haven’t found place for at the top of the site. E.g. disclaimers, W3C-buttons, copyright but etc, now In a lot of sites, footers are no longer a single line copyright text and/or a simple secondary navigation; They count as a factor every web designer needs to pay attention to when designing, just like to any other element.

Each footer is unique and has its own role of the site. I have collected 30 Beautiful Footer Designs around the web, each with different style and content. Some of the examples here use visual elements to make the design of the footer more interesting, and others are simply providing navigation or information in the footer

1. Bcandullo

2. Creamy CSS

3. Brand 07

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