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25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins

Published August 6th, 2009 in Web Development

jQuery image galleries and sliders are very common on portfolio sites and are also useful for any other type of site for displaying images and photos. Fortunately, adding a jQuery gallery does not have to be difficult, even if you don’t have much experience with JavaScript and jQuery. In this post we’ll see tutorials and plugins that can provide you with the resources that you need to get a gallery of slider on your site.

jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials:

Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery)

Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery) Tutorial

25 Magazine-Style Layouts for Your Design Inspiration

Published August 3rd, 2009 in Galleries

Magazine and news-style designs have become increasingly popular. Content management systems like WordPress have a wide selection of themes for this type of site, making it easy for the average website owner or blogger to achieve a look that is similar to a news site. In this post we will feature 25 sites that provide inspiration for magazine-style layouts.

bmi Voyager

bmi Voyager

Announcing the Winners from the E-Commerce Week Giveaway

Published July 31st, 2009 in Reviews

Thank you to everyone who left a comment to participate in the e-commerce week giveaway. There were some great prizes that had been donated and here are the six winners:

BrookeShopp Plugin for WordPress
Juggles – Magento theme and widget from Silverthemes
Sonali Agrawal – Premium template from AlgoZone
Welshstew – Magento theme from MagThemes
Vincent – Shopify theme from ThemeForest
Jorde – Shopify theme from ThemeForest

9 Characteristics of Well-Designed E-Commerce Websites

Published July 29th, 2009 in Design

E-commerce web design and development presents some unique challenges that you won’t always face with other types of web design. For sites that exist primarily to sell products, it’s very easy to look at sales and have a measuring stick to use when evaluating the success of the website. However, there are any number of factors that can influence the success of an e-commerce site, and identifying areas of strength and weakness is not always so simple.

In this article we’ll look at nine specific factors that are generally present on well-designed e-commerce websites.

20 Inspirational, Clean E-Commerce Website Designs

Published July 28th, 2009 in Galleries

This post is part of e-commerce week, which features e-commerce related content on DesignM.ag and the Vandelay Design blog, as well as e-commerce design inspiration at CartFrenzy.

Many e-commerce websites tend to get very cluttered and suffer from not being user friendly. In this post we’ll showcase 20 e-commerce sites that have taken a different approach. All of these sites have very clean designs, leaning more towards minimalism rather than clutter. While this style of design is common with other types of websites, it’s not that typical for e-commerce sites. These sites may help to show that e-commerce designs do not need to be cluttered use excessive design elements.

Acne

Acne

“Add to Cart” Button Showcase

Published July 27th, 2009 in Galleries

As you look at various e-commerce websites you will notice a lot of variety in buttons that are used by visitors to add an item to their shopping cart. Once an item has been added to the shopping cart, you’ll also notice that most e-commerce sites will have some method for displaying what items are in the cart, or at least the number of items in the cart.

In this post we will feature more than 60 items for your design inspiration. First, we will showcase the “add to cart” buttons. Then, we will also showcase the display of shopping cart icons and items.

Add to Cart Buttons:

If you’re designing an e-commerce site, hopefully these buttons will provide some inspiration for your own work.

Active

Active

E-Commerce Week Giveaway! 6 Prizes for Online Shops

Published in Reviews

This week at Vandelay Design and DesignM.ag we will be publishing content that focuses on e-commerce web design. The post frequency will be up a little bit this week and to get things started we have 6 prizes from 5 different sponsors to give away to readers!

This is a joint giveaway being done at both Vandelay Design and DesignM.ag so be sure to read the details below about how it will be run, plus you’ll obviously want to check out the great prizes that are available. All of the prizes will help you get your own e-commerce site up and running, or if you already have one, to improve it in some way.

If you’re interested in e-commerce design I hope that you will benefit from the content this week, and be sure to check out our gallery of e-commerce sites, CartFrenzy, to get some design inspiration.

25 Outstanding Church Websites – Part III

Published July 22nd, 2009 in Galleries

In the past we have published two collections of excellent church website designs. Today we will continue by showcasing another 25 inspiration church websites. If you know of others that you think should be included, please leave a comment.

Grace Church of Alexandria

Grace Church of Alexandria

Win a Premium WordPress Theme from FlashMint.com

Published July 21st, 2009 in Reviews

FlashMint.com

FlashMint.com has offered to give premium WordPress themes for free to five readers of Vandelay Design. If you’re not familiar with FlashMint.com, they offer a variety of premium Flash templates, Flash CMS templates and Stock Music Packages. In addition to WordPress themes, they also have templates for other content management systems like osCommerce and Joomla.

55 Niche Web Design Galleries for Your Inspiration

Published July 20th, 2009 in Galleries

Designers are always looking somewhere for inspiration, and there are plenty of design galleries online that have been created for this purpose. Personally, many of my favorite galleries are niche-specific, which makes them stand out from the hundreds of other galleries and unique in some way.

Over a year ago Muhashar Iqbal published a list of niche galleries on the Most Inspired blog. I decided to put this list together because a number of great additions have been launched since that post was published.

In this post I’ve tried to focus on the niche galleries that are currently active (or at least point out those that are not being updated) so that they can be useful resources to you if the topic is of interest.

E-Commerce Galleries:

CartFrenzy
Our own gallery that showcases the best e-commerce designs.

CartFrenzy

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