Will’s Blog

Was just looking around the web and saw this link on Matt Mullenweg’s blog to a page with some nice overviews for Web Design Patterns.

Very cool. On that page they’ve put things into several different categories ranging from web design patterns for different Site Types, different User Experiences, ECommerce type websites, to different methods of web navigation through to different designs for searching, and so on.

Interestingly, they also have a page for GUI Design Patterns, as well as Mobile UI Design Patterns (that’d be WAP/WML based sites).

Since i’m not exactly a web designer, and my current work requires me to not only code (among many other things), I have to do a bit of web design. So this Web Design Patterns page will be nice to bookmark and go back to for ideas.

If you’re after some inspiration for a general web design though, have a look around at somewhere such as the Open Source Web Design website, or the CSS Beauty website. There’s a lot out there. But please, don’t just blatantly “rip” the design off someone. Try to come up with something original, even if you are basing some elements from different places. And if you do, it is nice to credit individuals/websites that inspired you!

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