Today’s freebie is a dark vertical expandable menu. Free PSD designed by Ivo Ivanov.
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Vertical expandable menu PSD
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
17 of the Best WordPress Hotel Themes
If you’re looking for a solution for a quality hotel website the options can sometimes be underwhelming. Whether you are looking for a website for your own business or working on a client project for a hotel, inn, or bed and breakfast, WordPress presents some attractive options. There are an increasing number of quality WordPress themes that are created specifically for hotels. Most of these themes have attractive designs, custom features, and can be purchased at a reasonable price.
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Majestic – 9
Majestic uses a full-screen slideshow to make a strong visual impact, and comes with both light and dark color schemes. Its features include optimization for mobile users, a photo gallery template, rooms and rates templates, attractions templates, and a powerful theme options panel.
The Ambassador – 9
The Ambassador uses an elegant and professional design style, and it comes with 13 different color schemes. Its features include optimization for mobile users, a photo gallery template, attractions templates, a testimonials module, and a powerful theme options panel.
Palazio – 9
Palazion uses a simple, but profession design, and it comes with 13 different color schemes. Its features include optimization for mobile users, a photo gallery template, attractions templates, a testimonials module, and a powerful theme options panel.
Royal Chateau – 9
Royal Chateau uses a basic design that will suit the needs of most hotels, and it comes with 12 different color schemes. Its features include optimization for mobile users, a photo gallery template, attractions templates, a testimonials module, and a powerful theme options panel.
Welcome Inn comes in 3 different “flavors”: Welcome Inn, Ski Resort, and Beauty Spa. The design uses a nice patterned background that will be a good fit for many hotel websites. Its features include shortcodes, dynamic sidebar widget creation, custom widgets, and the use of custom fonts.
SixtyOne –
SixtyOne is a responsive theme with a clean, minimalist design. It features custom page templates, a booking form, shortcodes, color variations, and a theme options panel.
Aegean Resort uses a large photo background, so you make a big impression with a great photo. The rest of the design is clean and professional-looking. Its features include a responsive layout, templates and layout options, a booking form, photo galleries, shortcodes, color variations, and a theme options panel.
Philoxenia’s design and layout makes use of a large background photo slider. Its features include a room carousel to showcase photos of the hotel rooms, a booking form, a blog template, shortcodes, color variations, and a theme options panel.
HotelPress uses a patterned background and a homepage slider to showcase the hotel rooms. Its features include room management, an online and offline booking system, a reservation calendar, payment system for the booking process, and an advanced theme options panel.
WpHotel –
WpHotel uses a design that emphasis the booking and reservation process. Its features includes a custom system for accepting reservations and bookings online, MailChimp integration, Google Maps integration, page templates, shortcode generator, and a contact form.
Nice Hotel uses an attractive design with a customizable homepage slider. Its features include accommodation management and a custom booking wizard, a responsive layout, 4 pre-design skins, create your own skin, events management, testimonials management, and a theme options panel.
Guesthouse uses a clean and professional design. Its features include a simple order form (without payment), create your own skin, unlimited color options, shortcodes generator, widget-ready, and more.
Hermes –
Hermes uses a professional design and a customizable homepage slider. Its features include unlimited colors, drag and drop homepage layout, font manager, contact form manager, custom widgets, shortcodes, and more.
Hotel Classica’s design uses a full-width slider on the homepage. Its features include font color options, testimonial post type, 4 page templates, gallery page, shortcodes, and more.
The Palace uses a stunning full-width slider that is sure to impress your visitors. Its features include a responsive layout, homepage options, unlimited colors, unlimited sidebars, a custom booking system, and a theme options panel.
Queen Hotel uses an elegant design that will be a good fit for many hotels. Its features include a room page template, testimonials, gallery, 5 page templates, threaded comments, shortcodes, and more.
Lamoon –
Lamoon’s design uses a nice full screen blurred background image, and it comes with 5 different color presets. Its features include a responsive layout, custom sidebars, custom post types, a shortcode generator, Google Fonts, integration, a theme options panel, and more.
For more WordPress themes please see:
- Comparison of WordPress Theme Clubs
- The Best WordPress Real Estate Themes
- Showcase of the Best WordPress Magazine Themes
- 15 Free WordPress Theme Frameworks
17 of the Best WordPress Hotel Themes
The Basics of Emotional Design
Have you ever thought what makes things ‘good’ or ‘bad’? Why do people like one thing and hate others? Aarron Walter has found the answer to this question and you can find it in his book “Designing for Emotions“.
I have read this book and would like to share a few secrets with you on how to use knowledge about emotions in web design Singapore creation and in the promotion of your products and services. To understand the issue better you can watch Don Norman’s video "3 Ways Good Designs Make You Happy" , one more experienced specialist in this field.
We face a huge number of generic and repetitive web design Singapore designs but monotony is definitely not the best tool to attract customers.
Often all the attempts of web design Singapore creators to stand out from the crowd break down. Instead of attracting customers, developers and designers push them away. So does it take to create a web design Singapore that will attract clients like a magnet?
Recommended Reading: 30 Quick Ideas to Make your Website Look Nicer
Key Elements of Emotional Design
There are tons of books and guides all over the Web on how to create a right web design Singapore design: add beautiful images, combine typography and colors, write interesting texts, and follow the latest web trends. But none of them will tell you how to create a web design Singapore that may impress visitors so deeply that they will keep coming back.
The answer is quite simple (like all genius things are), you should evoke positive emotions, emotions like:
- pleasure
- joy
- surprise (do something unexpected and pleasant)
- attention (a suggestion for help, even if you’re not obliged to)
- expectation (tell something interesting before the launch)
- exclusivity (suggest something exclusive to people from your niche, for example, housewives)
- anticipation combined with a strong personality
All these factors are the basis of emotional design. However, appropriate tactics should be chosen for each specific brand and target audience. Let’s take a look at a few good examples of web design Singapores that put knowledge about emotional design into practice.
Human Nature
Parents love their children, even when they cry all the time and challenge your sense of smell with their poo, but why do parents endure this? Our brain perceives the proportion of child’s face (big eyes and a tiny nose) as something special, innocent and fragile.
The baby’s look evokes a sense of trust and love. Looking at a defenseless child’s face, you forget about how demanding they are and submit wholeheartedly. The same logic is applied to the use of cartoons. Here are some examples:
I’m pretty sure that you know plenty of web design Singapores that use this principle to create an emotional connection with their audience.
Smile
Design of the Volkswagen Beetle car is recognized as the most successful in the history of vehicle construction. Its headlights look like eyes the rounded hood makes it look like it is smiling at you. This is human-like in design, which has helped many Beetle owners feel a personal connection to it.
If a person that you like smiles at you, you smile back. And it works on the web design Singapores too. Take a look at the launched page of these web design Singapores:
You want to smile too, don’t you? You think that this particular product or service makes these people feel happy and in response, you want to buy it too. It’s a smart marketing step.
Humor
As I have mentioned before, to hook a visitor you should do something unexpected and evoke only positive feelings. It’s like when you fail to enter the right web design Singapore address on Freakify’s 404 page.
If you push “I will shoot you? YES! Shoot me” you may be pretty surprised with the results.
Another funny 404 page is that of Apartment Home Living web design Singapore.
If you move your cursor over the toilet, you will get:
The web design Singapore that makes you laugh will be remembered. It can even become viral, because you might want to share the joke with friends.
Attention
If you do something to show that you care about your every visitors, he or she will appreciate and remember it. For example, take a look at this web design Singapore, Xixi.
The mascot on Xixi asks “Do you want me to be your English translator?”. Click yes then enter your name in a field, and when you hover your cursor over a word, the mascot translates it for you. How’s that for personalized attention?
Details
You should pay attention to detail like how Photojojo does. There is a shopping cart on every page of Photojojo web design Singapore. It’s gray and unhappy.
But if you add an item to the cart, it becomes happy and green. It’s an amazing example of emotional design.
Moreover, there is one more cool detail on the page. There is a lever with the instruction: Do not pull near the photo of the product. Of course, curious visitors will pull it anyway. Give it a go and see what it has in store for you.
Another shop that uses elements of emotional design is Threadless. Here is one more example of a “happy shopping cart” on T-shirt online shop.
If you remove the items from a cart, it becomes "sad and lonely". Aww….
Oops, Trouble
You can turn trouble with your service into advantages like how Tumblr does it. A big blogging platform like that has no time for breaks, but occasionally things don’t go as planned. These two down pages show how they tackle the situation effectively.
Tumblr – We’ll be back shortly
A funny and unusual “Tumblr is down” page will appease and soothe your anger.
Here’s one that reminds you that there are more serious problems in your life than your Tumblr page not working.
Wrap Up
I have collected this stuff to show you how different brands express their personality by putting emotions into design. How would you approach design using emotions? Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas in the comment section below.
The Basics of Emotional Design
Free PSD navigation knob
Today on dribbble we have found a really nice white navigation knob. Free PSD web design Singaporeed by Miguel Ángel Avila.
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Free PSD navigation knob
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
17 of the Best Minimal Print Advertisements
Print advertising is something that traditionally tends to be quite uninspiring and boring but there are a handful of a companies out there that over the years, have grabbed the bull by the horn (so to speak) and created some pretty creative advertisements.
Not only this, but they’ve only opted for an extremely minimalistic approach which surprisingly, helps to create eye-catching, high-impact ads that capture the attention of readers all around the world. So much so, that these ads have consistently been featured as some of the most creative, inspiring ads ever produced and once you take a look at them, you’ll quickly be able to see why.
So, if you’re a particular fan of the minimalistic advertising approach predominantly made famous by companies such as Apple and Braun, here’s some incredible, yet minimal print ads for your inspiration.
#1 – WWF
#2 – MTV
#3 – Lego
#4 – Levis
#5 – Hut Weber
#6 – Faber Castell
#7 – Listerine
#8 – Veet
#9 – BMW
#10 – Colgate
#11 – FedEx
#12 – Hospital Aleman
#13 – Heinz
#14 – Mitsubishi
#15 – Playdoh
#16 – Sandisk
#17 – Sensodyne
About the Author:
Joshua is an advertising/marketing enthusiast with a particular passion for “out of the box” thinking. He currently works for the UK-based printing company, Discount Banner Printing and takes great pride in helping clients to make their marketing dreams into reality.
17 of the Best Minimal Print Advertisements
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