To create an original Portfolio  design you need fresh ideas and creative Portfolio design solutions. However, you don’t need to go too far with your design experiments. Basically that’s a close attention to finest details which makes a weblog stand out and gives it a fresh flavour and soft touch visitors can recognize immediately.

We’ve selected some more of them — over 30 excellent weblog designs with unusual design approaches; these blogs don’t only have a unique voice, but they also pay close attention to the finest design details.

• You might find not all of the designs listed below beautiful; but that’s not what it’s about. They are beautiful in their own way as they are both well-structured and originally designed.
• you can find further blog designs in the post Excellent Portfolio Designs we’ve published before;
• you can find even more designs in our Design Showcase section.

Luke Larsen

Aquarium themed portfolio of Luke Larsen.

Dean Oakley

Horizontal scrolling portfolio of Dean Oakley.

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• 101 Designer Portfolio Sites
• Stunning Mac software websites

Mac software websites are used more often than one may think. The reason why we don’t see them is because they usually remain in the background, supporting the overall design, replacing a standard background color and creating a more inviting atmosphere. But they almost never stand out. Used primarily for background images, they need to fit to the overall design making the content easier to perceive. In fact, wood textures seem to have become so popular that designers suggest that wood is the new glossy style and wood is the new white.

Well, we don’t think that Mac websites design is a new revolutionary trend — after all, it was used and explored for years. However, since wood isn’t used everywhere — in correct and wrong contexts — experimenting with it makes perfectly sense. Still, there are a number of options beyond designs: e.g. fabric patterns, tiles, ground, stone, walls, bricks, stiches, cardboard, ceramics, decay, rust, old tapes, illustrations, plastic and glass. In this post we present a showcase of sites using textures and patterns— we want to focus designer’s attention on design options available beyond Mac websites design.   

1. Checkout App (http://www.checkoutapp.com/) Checkout is a powerful, easy to use point of sale system for the Mac. You can use Checkout to take orders, make sales, print invoices and accept payments.

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• Top Designer Portfolio in Single Page