Social Media Examiner
is a free online magazine designed to help businesses discover how to
best use social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to find
leads, increase sales and generate more brand awareness (via: Inspired Magazine)

There isn’t much to explain why this is an especially important share. But for colleagues not already in the loop, music is integral in our product portfolio. We run 8 radio websites, music charts are key parts of these portals, song downloads will be available if not already, mobile music is the defacto keyword in Asian music distribution, and lastly, entertainment is big in our digital product plays.

Again, I have broken it up into 2 parts – Most Beautiful 5, and the rest of the other 25. Beauty = function and aesthetics.

The Top 5

Last.fm

Gigotron

just hear !t

LyricSift

iLike

The Other 25

Mx3

midomi.com

Apple – iTunes

Deezer

evelMerch

Virb

Mugasha

Songbird

14 tracks

Bandize.com

Champion Sound

Lasttweet.com

Echodio

Dorble.com

Jamseed

Taste Kid

NYLVI

Pitchfork

Twisten.FM

Sellaband

Slicethepie

Tunerec

Songza

Better Than The Van

audiolife

• Large image headers are a key part of the the design. Like LARGE.
• Image headers state clearly that one item that the company do. ONE.
• There is always a product showcase, demo or a walk through of a product or products.
• Large typography is in trend.
• Dark is in.

Know of any more beautiful corporate website designs? Please do share or join the discussion.

(Source: WebDesignerDepot)

The Top 5

The Other 45

Noticed taht in the top 10 websites, the design is focused on bringing the beauty of the content forward. Style is minimal, yet when doing so, it made the site so much more visually striking.

1. guardian.co.uk

2. BBC – Homepage

3. Wired News

4. UX Magazine – The User Experience Magazine

5. Vanity Fair: vanityfair.com

6. The New York Times

7. Frieze Magazine

8. New York City News Service

9. The New Yorker

10. CNN.com

11. National Gazette

12. TIME.com

13. The Morning News

14. Grand Sierra Magazine

15. Economist.com

16. JPG Magazine: Your World in Pictures

17. La Repubblica.it

18. Salient.org

19. FILE Magazine – Unexpected Photography.

20. Azure Magazine

21. art and design magazine

22. CREATIVEurope

23. washingtonpost.com

24. Archfarm: Non-periodical fascicles on architecture

…also worth a look…

25. Schematic.com

26. Creative And Live

27. Reform and Revolution

28. Slate Magazine

29. Peshku pa uje

30. Computerworld

Here’s a quick feature list of what current web design style consists of:

• Simple layout
• Centered orientation
• Design the content, not the page
• 3D effects, used sparingly
• Soft, neutral background colours
• Strong colour, used sparingly
• Cute icons, used sparingly
• Plenty of whitespace
• Nice big text

For definitions of what all these are about, visit HERE as they have already elaborate each and every thing you need to know about current web design style

It’s been a while since I last visited Razorfish, and now it has a brand new spanking name, and an amazing portfolio to boot.

Check it out, I believe you won’t regret it. Oh yeah, the background are live camera feeds from different countries.

Catch the fish here

It’s a whole new level in chatroom!
Yes you can create avatars and chat with friends in rooms we designed ourselves
But basically its like The Sims game, but online!

You need to download a small plugins, and it runs in your browser!
Give it a try, you might be surprise what it can do!

..and let’s meet here :)

This time, into Smashing Magazine. Read full article here. Dive straight into point 5 – Hand Drawing Used Extensively and you’ll find his work among other greats.

Is it time for a Joshua-Rames collab on Brainiacs at Work skin design?

Select and celebrate what is beautiful and enduring from all that is sought-after in architecture, design, gadgets, lifestyle, urban living, fashion, travel and pop culture.

Deluxe Apartments In The Sky

Exclusive Private Residential Estate, Abu Dhabi

Baumraum Treehouses

It’s a pretty cool blog, you can subscribe their weekly mailing list for free, just to probably drool over or get impressed by the cool stuff they introduced.

And if you have no time, just take a glance at their architecture and design sections, since most of the goodies are there. Sometimes I do hope they provide pictures with higher resolution without their watermarks, lol.

“Celebrate creativity in all of its modern manifestations.”

Go visit – Six Revisions

hitz.fm is the official station for Coldplay Live in London on June 16, 2008. Win an all expense paid trip for 2 to go watch Coldplay perform in London! This promo is to promote Coldplay concert in London and Coldplay ringtones from Hotlink.

http://www.astro.com.my/euro2008

After weeks of hard labor and sleepless nights (really!), we have finally launched the site for EUFA EURO 2008 on Stadium Astro. With our amazing google mashup for the team profiles and a couple of widgets to boot.

Dive head first into EURO 2008 with exclusive news, photos, videos and show your support by downloading games and other freebies on the site! Don’t forget our schedule widget and message board widget (coming soon), put it up on your blogs and spaces so you won’t miss a thing!

And if you’re stuck in the office with no television, don’t fret, we have live SIMULCAST of matches on the site including 10 exclusive matches only on STADIUM ASTRO.

Today, I came across this site from FWA. I kinda like the simplicity of the site – the navigation and the design. And it invloves interactions from the user and but interesting presentation. To develop a good web site, UI and UX are really important (quoted by N), I totally agree! But not forgetting, good concept! :)

Want to experince the site? Just click HERE!

This is the latest Xfresh.com theme. With a background themed by a local Malaysia comics illustrator. This follows through the site concept of enabling it to grow around different themes and styles.

This theme comes hot after the original launch theme. Just about a month ago.

Built on CSS, the site was a labour of love of resident design expert Jason Goh and content editor Raja Faradiana. Well done!

Those not in the know, a short history of Xfresh.com below.

Xfresh.com has been around since late 2000 and the community has been changing names and it has been refining it’s ‘community’ essence since then.

Xfresh.com year 2003

From “Xfresh Teen Community” to “Hitzfm Teen Community” to “Hitz.fm Teen Community” and finally it got its original name back in 2003.

Xfresh.com year 2004

It started off as a web community for teens and the whole website was in English. Now it has evolved into a full blown local music radio station whereby the language used in both the radio programming and the website is in Bahasa Malaysia.

Xfresh.com year 2005

From 2005 till late 2007. The site stayed with that look until this fresh update.

Stay tuned for more exciting stuff.

Straight to the point, one button navigation. Some of the featured works are really random, really funny and what I’d call “idea-food.” Hop on to www.ffffound.com

His website – rames.blogspot.com contain links to some lots of beautiful, well-done photoshoped image collections. Most of which were created himself from scratch combining his love for photography, image compositing and photoshop. Personally I’m proud and would like to see more of this kind of surprises coming out from the team.

Well done Rames!

I think this is one of the agencies that specializes in web-based marketing that is very promising to its clients. From the website itself we can see that they really can produce good web marketing.

Love the way they present each sections of their website using animated office scenes and each room represents a section in the website.

Try to look into the capabilities section and you are presented with a crossword puzzle. User has to find the underlined words that mathes what the company does.

Check out Agencynet.com