The web is a goldmine of fantastic websites and inspirational designs to keep your mind motivated and creative.

Many sites are overall ‘pleasing’ to look at which give you that “ah, this is nice” feeling but what is in the detail which makes you come back for a second look? Great design is something that sticks without even being sticky - a little flare, light or edge which either brings you back to that site and inspires you to create.

These designs recently caught my eye and have inspired me to create.

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Mulling over some ideas for website designs and future projects I usually turn straight to my favourite source of inspiration CSS Mania…

You; You are the hardest client to please - well not you personally, but I mean when you decide to create yourself a personal website it has to be absolutely perfect. No exception. This is the key reason I love CSS Mania because it is full of people doing the same thing – pleasing client number 1.

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“Oh dear God they didn’t, did they?” - yes, yes they did.

I stumbled accross this video earlier and I find it almost hard to believe that this is real and that someone, at some point, in the Windows dev team said “Hey, I have an idea to promote service pack 1…”.

I can understand the words “I have an idea” within any reach of a Microsoft building being the phrase to strike fear into the hearts of PC users but I just can’t understand why this was created.

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Shutdown Day is just is not going to happen for me I hate to say because GTA4 is out April 29th and that Xbox is going to be burning it’s little heart out.

It’s a great idea, a bit like Googles’ “Lights out” hour they did recently where they turned the background to black on the search engine page, but I’m just one of those people who could live without a computer easily but given the gun wielding madman opportunity… well, it’s just not going to happen.

Incidentally I rarely use the PC/laptop on the weekend so when this is happening I guess that counts right?

I think this comes down to one thing: is an Xbox a computer. If not, then I’m in.

“New Design!, Handsome Appearance, Top-Quality”

Me and a mate digitalgravy from work decided to buy a couple of ‘infrared combat tanks’ for a bit of lunch break desktop world warfar (LBDWW for short?).

Cutting a short story shorter I went for the cheap option on eBay. “OMFG” cheap from a ebayer called hobby*planet. Heres the listing.

This has to have some of the funniest badly translated Chinese I’ve ever had the misfortune of reading on a toy (or high quality model if you believe the listing). (more…)

I bet a million people have seen this but Greg Martin’s Illustration, Photography and Photoshop work is just stunning and the website just holds the same feeling.

I’m not one for flash websites, in fact I pretty much disliked all of them that I have found so far, however this is just ‘right’. It does not make you feel like you’re using an application (which most flash sites make me feel like) and it is relatively easy to navigate.

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