15 Creative Contact Forms for your Inspiration

In a website, the presence of "contact us" page is a very vital and important thing. It usually contains information of address, phone number, or email from the website owner. The other contains location map of the company. But the most important thing is the presence of a form which can be used to contact the website owner directly.

The following websites have unique and interesting contact form. They are creative enough to create the contact form so it looks interactive conform to the website’s theme. These forms are unnatural but still can be easily understood and easy to use by the site visitor. Below are 15 websites with interesting contact form.

Lionways

15 best Photoshop tutorial to make 3d text effect

Creating text with an interesting effect is a challenge for a web designer. One effect that is still a trend and will never die is 3d effect. But to make 3d effect, we need 3d processing software such as 3dsmax or Maya.

If you don’t have 3d processing software, but instead you only have Adobe Photoshop, you still can create text with interesting 3d effect which is comparable with 3d effect that resulted by 3d processing software. The following are 15 Photoshop tutorials to make 3d effect that you can follow easily. The whole tutorials only need Adobe Photoshop to make 3d effects.

Quick Tip: Create an Extruded Glossy 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

19 Websites with green colors which are inspired by nature

Nature is one of inspirations for designers to create a website. Such websites usually dominated by green color and consist of objects related to nature, such as; grass, leaves, trees, sky, land, and various kind of animals and plants. Those websites are quite nice to be viewed and do not make the eyes tired when seen in a long time due the use of attractive green color.

Website design inspired by nature has always been one trend in designing website. One of the reasons is the design with nature themes will never be outdated. Here are 19 green color websites which are inspired by nature that could be your inspiration if you want to create a website with nature themes.

Ecoki iPhone Reader

25 Websites with an interesting illustration of cartoon characters

The use of cartoon characters illustrations in your website can make your website look different and unique. The use of interesting character illustrations can make your website look more live, and the most important thing website visitors can more remember your website. But of course, not all web designers can make illustration of interesting characters.

Here are beautiful websites with illustration of characters on it that make the website more lively and interesting. They place the character illustration in the right place and with a beautiful drawing, so the character looks appropriate on their websites.

Formee

The best 32 Simple and Minimalist Websites

Minimalist website design has become a popular trend lately. The minimum usage of charts and photos make the minimalist website opened more quickly and not burden the server. Many people assume that minimalist website design is boring. But we found some minimalist websites that have an attractive design. The following minimalist websites remain interesting to be seen although they're not using many graphics and photos.

They utilize typography and the empty areas precisely to produce an interesting website to look at. Here are 20 websites with a minimalist design that can be used as an inspiration. We also collected 12 minimalist websites with dark colors/ black which is interesting to look at.

Light Website

DM Stockholm

12 Most Interesting CSS 3 Effects

The use of CSS3 is growing very rapidly lately. Latest browsers already support many functions of CSS3, even though not all CSS3 functions have been implemented into it. Safari 5, Chrome and Firefox 3.6 are browsers that already support many CSS3 functions.

This make a lot of creative people create interesting effects with CSS3. We found 12 interesting effects are produced only by HTML code and CSS3, oh and one more thing, these effects are made without using a picture / photo at all. They are produced purely using CSS3. Here are 12 best effects created using CSS3, and one thing, use Safari or Google Chrome 5 to see these effects. And another thing, do not try to view it with Internet Explorer 8.

iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS

The best 24 Photos Slideshow and Slider

Slideshow on web pages has become a common thing. In fact, almost all new website is currently using slideshow animation on the homepage. Yes it can be said, is obligatory to use a slideshow on the website. If formerly the web designers using Flash to create slideshow, now they use Javascript to create it especially Frameworks like jQuery, Mootools and Prototype. The trend of using Javascript has been happening in the past few years, and many free slideshow plugins has sprung up which is ready to use.

The following are slideshow and photo gallery that you can use for your website. We group them based on frameworks that make it easier for you to find a slideshow which suitable for the Javascript frameworks that you use.

jQuery

jQuery Cycle Plugin

Demo - Download jQuery Cycle Plugin

20 iPhone optimized Websites

iPhone users in the world today is very much, although lately started being invaded by the presence of mobile phones with Android operating system. Because users are quite a lot, of course a lot of people browse the internet using the iPhone. But, did your website optimized for iPhone?

With one-third screen smaller than PC screen, it is a challenge for web designers to provide information on narrow screen. Many websites already provide their iPhone version so it is easier for visitor using iPhone both in landscape or portrait mode. Here are 20 examples of websites that is already optimized for iPhone, we also present the original display for a comparison:

Amazon

Trends in Business Card shaped Websites

You might often see a minimalist website layout in a small form that resembles a business card. Such website trends are being used to create a website that contains your profile and your portfolio.

This website trend was first started by Tim Van Damme. He designed minimalist websites shaped like business cards and then it was followed by other designers. In a website like this, the designers must be creative in order to provide information on a small area.

If you plan to create a business card website, you can see some examples of them in the following websites:

Tim Van Damme

The best 20 PSD to HTML Conversion Service

Currently there are a lot of PSD to HTML conversion service that can be used by web designer. This service is very useful for designers who want to safe time and focus more on making the design rather than make the HTML code. Service like this are also suitable for designers that cannot make HTML code.

But choosing the best service with the best code result is a challenge. Here we try to collect the best PSD to HTML conversion service. We checked the HTML and CSS code on their website as well as in their portfolio to see how neat and clean the HTML and CSS code. And the result is quite surprising, only half of what we just check that we deem to have the best coding result.

Here is the 20 PSD to HTML conversion services:

Less than $100

Nifty XHTML

Price: Homepage $79, Additional Page $39 / page
Additional Service: -

PSDCutout

Price: Homepage $89, Additional Page $39 / page, 2-3 days
Additional Service: -

29 Best Photoshop Tutorials to create a website layout

Adobe Photoshop is the right tool to make a website layout design. Although there are many other software that can be used to create a website, Adobe Photoshop remains the most popular and most widely used by web designers to create a website design.

Here are 29 best Photoshop tutorials for creating a website design. It is perfect for those who need inspiration or for those who are new or have just entered the world of web design. Here you can find many different types of layouts for websites and they vary from easy to difficult. In fact, most of them provide .PSD files for free which you can download and learn.

Simple and Cloudly Portfolio Layout

9 Websites that are built entirely using Javascript

You often see a lot of websites that are built entirely using Flash. These websites look very interesting and superior with lots of animations everywhere. But now in this 2010 era, where the use of CSS and Javascript is essential in building a website, the web designer is required to be a lot more creative.

They use Javascript mainly jQuery Framework to create websites full of interesting animations. It is built entirely with JavaScript without using Flash at all. However, the animations in such websites have not been able to compete with the animations created using Flash, but some of them do have great quality.

Here is a list of 9 Websites created entirely with Javascript by creative web designers.

Alex Buga