As times go by we notice a lot of changes and improvements on the web. Typography has always been a main element of graphic design and today a lot of web designers are bringing this into the web showing that the different use of typography can be an extra weapon on their design.

Here you will see 20 amazing samples of typography taken from different websites and show you how they look apart from the design that brought them alive.

One of the biggest trends of today is the creation of CSS galleries to help web designers research for some type of inspiration, or just to check out what others are doing. For others, it is a way to get good exposure and recognition for a nice design.

Here will go over some of the most famous CSS galleries of today to see how we can get the best out of them.

In joy of the very day Webitect was born, we are giving away a free blue icon set — great for bloggers, designers, or webmasters of any sort.

A special thanks to one of our bloggers, Nick Parsons, for providing this free icon set to our readers.

These icons are 48×48 in PNG format. Click on the image preview to download the zip file.

This is something that always instigates me, how web designers should present their portfolio on the website. Should they use the same principals and trends from the graphic design portfolio to present their web work?

I’ve selected some very well known web designers, to check closely how they present their work within their website and give you a good idea of how you could present yours.

When it comes to designing a blog, one of the main elements of the design is how the posts are going to be displayed on the front page. Here you see some trends and samples of how other blogs are displaying their posts.

There is no perfect recipe for designing the way a blog will be displayed, it vary mostly depending on the content of the blog, the style of it’s design, the amount of posts made and much more. The most important thing is to first select all elements that you want to display and place them the way it will play out the best on your design.

We always love to post great inspiration for our designers, or perhaps just those who appreciate art, but we especially love to appreciate the hard work of individual artists.

Recently on the Behance network, we came across Jerico Santander’s digital illustrations — definitely worth a look.

As Kayla mentioned earlier: “Minimalistic design is here to stay!”, and indeed it is. Below is a fine collection of 40 black & white minimal WordPress themes, most of which are 100% free for download!

Minimalistic design is here to stay, and black and white web design is one of the ways to approach that. For both inspiration and example, here are twenty-five black & white themed web designs — with perhaps only the slightest hints of color or gray.