As you will see in the following showcase, the most common section where textures are used is the background image. The goal is to make clear and immediate the contents and to higlight the typography creating a good contrast between textured backgrounds and texts. The results are absolutely stunning, and it’s fantastic to see as a soft texture can create a beautiful effect

Here goes third Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration collection. This week collection also includes some recommendations from our readers. We would love to hear from you for our next week roundup. You can write us about your recommendations through Contact page. Hope you will enjoy your stay here.

Using an open source PHP forum scripts can save you a lot of time to setup the forum. In this article, we are going to look into 12 free and open source PHP forum scripts where you can easily setup your forum.

Minimalist design means using simple and basic elements only in the design. This article shares 60+ beautiful web designs that showcase minimalism in web design.

Here goes second Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration collection. We spend our time searching best web designs all week, so we can showcase them for design community and our reader's inspiration.

A web site must work; it should be interactive, it should communicate ideas, it should present in a unique way products and service, it should involve the users. In modern web design, fortunately, designers and user experience developers are saying “NO” to boring and standard footers.

In the process of designing websites, we go through a lot of iterations until we are finally satisfied. So, why is it that our designs go through so many different iterations?

Added Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration feature to Smashing Share. We will update this weekly and showcase multiple best and inspirational website designs.

In this photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create a blog design from scratch using a combination of gradients and selections.

Experimentation is very important in web design and graphic design. In this post, we will discuss experimentation in design and the benefits of doing so.