A year or so ago, it was “all the rage” to have diagonal line backgrounds on headers and buttons etc. but when you look through the various CSS galleries now, that diagonal line background style seems to be fading out if not already gone.
Nowadays it seems to be the trend to have big background images [...]

This is one of those websites that you like straight away. It certainly grabs your attention and makes you want to click around checking everything out.

CustomPortraits.co.uk
Straight away you are hit by the great bright colour scheme. Clicking on the menu at the top takes you all the great sections within the site and the nice [...]

This week it’s nice to see the good old BBC getting a nicely designed website together. I’m not for one minute suggesting that they don’t usually design nice websites though!

BBCGoodFood.com
Nice navigation tabs across the top, and a nice use of two columns splitting the page up vertically.
Some of the adverts get a bit annoying but [...]

I actually came across this site 5 minutes ago whilst trying to find a site to feature in today’s showcase. I subscribe to various CSS gallery feeds but somehow missed this one completely.

http://www.ydeveloper.com
This website is very pleasing on the eye. Everything from the cool logo in the top left to the icons in the middle [...]

Firstly, sorry I didn’t get this posted on Friday like I usually do.

http://www.cinemafrica.org/
I liked this site straight away. The orange colour scheme is nice and I like the header image montage.
The homepage is nicely put together and although there is quite a lot going on, it’s not too overcrowded.
A nice website overall.

This is one of those sites that oozes quality!

macrabbit.com
From the very first time I landed on this site I was admiring the design (even though they are a little slow at taking the Christmas theme down!).
It’s got everything this website; cool icons, gradients and rounded corners and they all work so well together.
I especially love [...]

This is the personal blog of Justin Shattuck, and it is an excellent demonstration of clean design, without a rounded corner in sight!

justinshattuck.com
First thing you notice about this excellent design is the nice bold blue header. Then there’s his simple but very nice logo. Not sure if I would have chosen that pink colour, but [...]

Today’s showcase is another web design agency, this time from New York.

Dizzain.com
Straight away this one stands out because of the great underwater theme. I love the colour scheme and the tags that tell you what page you are on (”Hello World!” on homepage).
Again, it’s nice to see a web design company with such a good [...]

This week we are visiting another web design company, but this time in Brazil.

d.onestudio.com.br
This is another really thin design that we’ve seen before and I like the way the navigation tabs run down the right hand side. One thing I would change is that there isn’t enough white space around the main text. It seems [...]

This is a classic, dare I say it, “Web 2.0″ style website. Great colours, great icons and very easy to use. There are subtle features that work well like the fading main images when you hover your mouse over them, and I love the slide out login form at the top. Also a nice subtle [...]