Geek Trends: 21 Fantastic Footers in Web Design

Increasingly Footers are becoming an essential integrated part for User Interface on web design, an area that just some time ago was practically unexplored. Footers are getting into the big picture, and is more noticeable how designers and User Interface designers are starting to give areas bellow content more importance.

We present you 21 more websites with incredible footer usability that have and the incredible ability to push content to areas that still to some degree unexplored.

Please check our previous post about footers for more inspiration 15 Footers with great Usability

1. 43 Folders, since it's last redesign the community site have proven that they are vanguard leads in web design performing and standards, from some of the first very well designed themes to implementing creativity to an area not well explored by others.



2. Abduzeedo, what else to expect from this guys!



3. Bits & Pixels, a very similar approach to abduzeedo, a colorful horizon with great expectations for tomorrow.



4. Boagworld, illustrations are also making their way into footers.



5. Boxwish, an navigational extension a very common use for footers that I noticed that more and more web designers are implementing these days.



6. College Park Church, a practical site map...



7. COLOUR Lovers, latest and newest at glance!



8. CSS Tricks, friends and microblogging, huge karma, please check Chris CSS Video Screen casts, thank you Chris!



9. Freelenz, Newest activity in the Blog, with some pretty stylish feng shui.



10. Kovy Design, a very personal approach, we have noticed this trend in Headers but not that many implemented in footers... crafts really make their own signature in web design.



11. Letter Photo, a very interesting online service, the footer is not very impressive, however shows a very good way to blend a site altogether.



12. MeinBrandenburg, an organized footer.



13. National Mechanics, Featured sections, social networks, and the classic a navigational section for the entire site.



14. Noupe, Newest and Categories... yet another web designers resourceful destination giving Footers a good name.



15. Power to the Poster, and Power to the People, credits...



16. StrawPoll, another great example of how illustrations are making they way in the footer area.



17. Tulsa Tough, a Proud community...



18. Wallet Pop, an extensive navigational section, the site is an exceptional example of well organized User Interface, I featured Wallet Pop in our previous post on How to Place Big Stuff in Little Places.



19. Web 4 Biz, Illustrations getting Cool!



20. Web Designer Wall, activity at glance! and one of the prettiest footer ever.



21. Yo Div, karma once again... eye candy for the graphic lover!



Please tell us what you think about Footers and how they could be used as part of User Interface in Web Design.

Geek Trends: More Extraordinary Sliders & Ribbons

Exposing content is a hard task for web designers and there is not easy solution to this specific task, however we continuously finding more sites that feature smart ways to reach content exposure. Previously we featured 21 websites that features Extraordinary Sliders & Ribbons, here are 21 more Extraordinary Sliders & Ribbons examples that take feature content to the next level.

1. Apple



2. Auditude



3. Biola



4. Causecast



5. Eventful



6. Expression Engine



7. Fox



8. Going



9. Miro



10. National Geographic



11. NBC



12. Popsci



13. Portfolio



14. Stumble Upon



15. The Huffington Post



16. Tokyo Cube



17. Topix



18. USA Today



19. Wallet Pop



20. Wall Street Journal



21. Yahoo! Video

Geographically Streaming: 15 Excellent Services - Part 2

The Internet is reaching our backyards... and we see more sites that are devoting their services to enhance our geographical experiences, in a previous post we showcase 15 Excellent Geographical Service - Part 1, in this post we showcase 15 more excellent geographically services.

Center'd, a tool that make easier the fact of putting plans together by involvement of rated places, and trusted friends.


Chow, valuable information about food, drinks, and social places is just the beginning, it features audio, video and anything else the web has to offer.


Couch Surfing, is as simple, CouchSurfing provide with the necessary tools to connect with travelers worldwide and create insiders point of view from local communities, and the greatest part of the community is that they provide shelter to each other in their travel arrangements.


Dopplr, share your future travel plans with friends or privately. It keeps you on the loop of who and wheres may happen.

Driftr, community members share their traveling experiences through blogs, videos, and photos.


Going, Share the party animal within, and see if the rest of the world share that wild side with you!


Loopt, real time location and a social compass, use your mobile phone as a tool to enhance your daily experiences and the ability to share experiences and enjoy recommendations.


Mixx Local, Even popular aggregated content sites are giving a more local side to their main streams of information. Still in its infancy and personally I hope to see a more enhanced navigation through the local capability of the service.


Topix, another site that aggregates news from all over the web and then classifieds these news on geographical groups, the navigation and interface makes it one of the best sources to present local news, Top Stories, Community Favorites, Categories, Conversations...


Travellers Point, yet another community for sharing travel experiences.


Tribe, an almost complete way to stay connected with your local community, reviews, conversations, suggestions, lifestyle...


Trip Say, connect with traveling friends and strangers to exchange tips and experiences.


Tripwolf, a social travel guide, to easy customize your next trip.


Whrrl, a tool that lets you locate your self in the map and share experiences, a very useful navigational interface makes the service a must try!


World 66, It promotes that travelers are the source of travel information, and are the ones that should be writing the travel guides.


We hope you have enjoyed the showcase and take advantage of these fabulous ways to enhance your real positioning in the planet, remember to leave comments to make the post more fun...

Microblogging: is the end of Blogging approaching?

Is there room for non commercial blogs? Bellow are some insiders opinions about where blogging is heading.

Dwight Silverman - Are blogs obsolete?
Paul Boutin - Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
Jason Calacanis - retirement from blogging.
Jeremy Wagstaff - The End of Blogging Utopia
Darren Rowse - 5 Emerging Trends in Blogging

Geek Trends: 20 Extraordinary Obama Illustrations

From very well know artists of the illustration stardom to uprising stars, all the designs have something in common, self consciousness represented from the artist through their own creations, and not a well elaborate campaign. We present you an alphabetical collection of 20 extraordinary Obama illustrations.

1. Antar Dayal


2. Art of Change


3. Burlesque Design


4. Change the Thought


5. Cody Hudson


6. Creative Rescue


7. David Choe


8. Felix Jackson Jr


9. James and Loretta


10. Hyperakt


11. Kitsch Worth


12. Mac


13. Munk


14. Shepard Fairey


15. Carlos Ramirez Armando Lerma


16. Richard Rodriguez


17. Sam Flores


18. Viva Che!


19. Xtra Pop


20. Zoltron