Below you’ll find 100+ creative website designs 2012. We sincerely hope that you’ll enjoy all of them. And don’t forget to share your thoughts on the footers issue in the comments section to the post.

20 Inspiring Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design

One way to easily define the tone and mood of a website is to use a big background image. However, when doing this, you need to consider that big images often have a lot going on, so it’s important to take a minmal approach with other aspects of the design. Not doing so could result in a website that is far too busy, cluttered, and difficult to navigate. So for your inspiration, here are 20 examples of how to effectively use big background images in web design.

40+ Creative uses of Ribbons in Web Design

You must have noticed the increasing trend of using ribbons in web design. By using ribbons in web design you can make the noteworthy objects of your website more appealing and prominent. More often than not, a ribbon is used as background for navigation. Here is a beautiful and inspiring showcase of some visually appealing web designs that feature ribbons.

45 Fresh and Inspiring Examples of Big Typography in Web Design

Typography is one of the most important aspect of successful website design and the layout of website’s typography can make it stand out from the crowd or can break the whole design.Especially in 2011,a new trend has begun to gain strength and that is utilizing huge and bold fonts to attract visitors.

40 Great Examples Of Parallax Scrolling Websites

Parallax scrolling has been used in computer games for years – it is the effect where the background remains static and the foreground scrolls vertically or horizontally, or vice versa – the foreground remains static and the background moves. This technique can also be applied in web design. In this post we have collected some of the best parallax scrolling websites for your perusal. Please visit each site to see the effect.

23 Interesting HTML5 and CSS3 Websites

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the web, a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990) and most recently standardized as HTML4 in 1997. HTML5 and CSS3 were introduced not so long ago, but they have already been incorporated in the design of a number of websites.

35 Beautiful, Simple and Minimalist Web Designs

With fierce competition and high demands within the web design industry, many web designers tried their best to express their creativity through their designs, making their work as impressive as possible by coming with the best design for their clients. However, while most of those complicated and intricate web designs make a strong impression to their viewers, some designers took the risk to make things as simple as possible by creating minimalist web designs instead. Most often with the right kind of designs, their gamble and the risk they took is worth it, because sometimes less is more and amidst all the complicated and mind design, the viewers find it refreshing to see something simple that stands out from the crowd.

50+ Outstanding Header Designs for Inspiration

Here’s a collection of beautiful website header designs for inspiration! Headers play an important role when engaging with the viewer and making them stay on the website longer. These header’s are creative and fit their website’s theme to a tea!

Creative Footers in Website Designs

Footer space is often undervalued by web designers. Usually footers contain some boring copyright stuff and several links that lead to such useful and “popular” pages as Terms of service, Privacy Policy etc. Some time ago we’ve published a research called Website Footers as a User Experience Solution. There you’ll find tips and great examples that would help you to add extra functionality while designing website footer.