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Italian Web Designs Made to Inspire

The beautiful thing about web development is anyone (with the required skills), of any race or ethnicity can design a website and be viewed by the (online) masses. Today we’re going to dive in and take a look at some amazing websites that were developed by Italian designers.

Italy’s Style

Italian web designs tend to use a variety of styles such as photo manipulations, surreal art, and illustrations. It’s the combination of two or three of these that really manages to make the designs stand out. Below you will see even grunge effects and styles being implemented. A large portion of Italian designed websites are Flash based, have several have animation effects.

TheBrainbox – Mauro Gatti’s playground

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How to create an elegant web layout in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to create an elegant web layout in Photoshop using thin lines, subtle gradients and beautiful typography.

Final Result

Have a look at the layout that we’ll be creating in this tutorial.

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Creating A Web Design Contract

A good contract is necessary to every freelance web designer. Without a contract, there’s no legal requirement for the other party to pay you upon completion of work (at the very least difficult to prove). Here are important parts to include in your own web design contract. More »