It is seen that most of the designers and developers overlook the “About” page.  We simply throw hastily written words in “About” page instead of treating this page as an important part of the website. About page is a great way to distinguish you among the crowed and present yourself in a unique manner. In this post my focus is to grab your attention to “About” page that is a highest ranked page in many custom web design sites. Check the examples given bellow and give a unique look to your “About” page.

“Floating Asian Kid” gag

Guðmundur

Janis’ about page

Joseph

Jon Tangerine

Daveharrison

Daniel

Michael’s BCW

Nicholaspatten

Ftdesigne

In this post, you will find amazing Grunge type Photoshop brushes that are the need of every web designer. Designing without Photoshop is almost impossible in current era. Try out these brushes to give a different look to your custom web design and make everyone notice that you have done something extra ordinary. If you want to use any of these brushes then do read license agreement first.

How to install:

• Open your Adobe Photoshop then Edit
• Preset Manager
• Set Preset type to brushes
• Click to load
• Browse and select your favorite brush set
• Click done

Texture effects play an important role to enhance user experience. It can be used in specific part of a website like in header, footer or as page background. Textures can make your custom web design more stylish and beautiful. Here are some examples of excellent textures in website to inspire you.

Solid Giant

thinkup.org

Hummingbird and Maskarade

Life Church

Reklama-Audio

Enliven

All Star Lanes

Jumbalaya

GreenOlivz

theiheartfilm.com

jeroenhoman.com

Healthy Harvest

I have great news for all web designers who have iPad. There are fabulous iPad applications out there that you can use for web designing. So if you are fed up of working on your desk then try out these applications on your iPad and take a break.  In this post I’m sharing some fabulous iPad application for web designers. Check them out and feel free to comment. You can also find different ideas for custom web design, ecommerce web designs and other design inspirations by exploring our blog. Enjoy!

Punultimate

SketchyPad

WordPress

iMockups

Photobucket

Analytics

WhatTheFont

FTP On The Go

CSS Cheatsheet

CliqCliq Colours

Source Viewer

Ego

Few years back, only Flash was assumed to be used in animated website but today JavaScript frameworks are gaining much popularity. JQuery is becoming favorite for most of the web designers because of several JavaScript frameworks are available for animation effects. If you happen to work on custom web design that requires animation, then JQuery is the best thing to be used. In this post you will find some fresh and useful JQuery plugins and tutorials to enhance your website’s user experience.

Plugins:

jSquares

jQuery-Notes

ZURB JavaScript Annotation Plugin

jQuery Photoshoot

Zoomooz

Tutorials:

How to Create a Simple iTunes-like Slider

Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider

A Beautiful Apple-style Slideshow Gallery With CSS & jQuery

Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery