The idea and the primary objective of website design is to draw everybody’s attention to your online project. If you know the key secrets of the great design you will certainly make your website successful and most in-demand. The secret is a simple one. It is a notorious fact that beautiful women illustrations in the website design call positive impressions and arouse unimitated interest to your site. Naturally, pretty, stylish, gorgeous and breathtaking women illustrations can make website eye-candy. These images are evidently effective for sites with women as the targeted audience, for example for women blogs, lingerie stores and forums. Nevertheless, such kind of illustrations can brighten up not only women-oriented sites. Bold and stunning, they are also in place for hundreds of men sites. As you have noticed, there are millions of sites with women illustrations and these sites are, without a doubt, impressive and memorable. The idea of the following collection of sites with female themes is simple – to clarify the positive effect from women images in website design.

The sites that you will find here are the clear examples of the successful and creative usage of women illustrations in website design. Among them you will find great concepts and original design ideas.

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Shoonya Design

This is the online portfolio of Varshesh Joshi who specializes in creating unique design solutions for web. His creativity, artistic skills and great technical experience find way out in his hobby - creating high-grade illustrations. Beautiful woman illustration from this site is the example of his maturity.This black and white image catches attention and sends you immediately to this site.

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The Brayant Park Hotel
Design by 6fd.com

Even in the design of sites that are oriented at the general public, women illustrations can bring in positive tone and emotional note. This site is such an example. The stylish and gorgeous image of the girl creates the pleasant impression and fleshes out the whole tone of the site.

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Here we continue elaborating the theme about the opposition of striking androids and people.

This post will give you a kind of future perspective of the technical progress on earth. These awesome images develop the theme of innovative creatures that possess the human appearance, but at the same time they are highest qualitative ranking androids. The mentioned above spitting illustrations of people and robots create a strong and ambiguous impression: on one side they are similar to people (in their appearance) and on the other they represent eye-catching metal surfaces and intricate schemes. Being the emanation of the human fantasy and the result of progressive technologies these robots bring to life the long-cherished idea of humanity about the artificial integrity. Humanlike machines have always been of a vast interest for all people and this post will nourish such an interest.

Here you will find the great mix of imagination and reality, the desired things and the existing entity. Turn on your imagination and admire this incredible collection.

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Title: Selfportrait as Merchant
Author: Peter Aversten
Software: Maya, Photoshop
Portfolio here

What makes this image interesting for me is its original and wonderful execution. The author’s technique is great and it creates a real masterpiece, not just a simple CG work. The main idea and the execution are impressive!

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Title: Boddyshopping
Author: Franz Steiner
Software: Maya
Portfolio here

Here is one more variation on the theme of body shopping. This girl is trying on the parts of the legs in order to find the right size and the desired shape. According to the author’s idea such a strange shopping is a kind of future perspective.

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The popularity of Magento picks up steam. This eCommerce software application is of the premium space among a number of web designers, thought it was launched not long ago. Among the existing eCommerce platforms Magento possess a great value due to its excellent distinctive features. It is a notorious fact, that Magento is perfectly designed, functional and flexible. Due to these characteristics Magento is in great requisition.
With Magento it is possible to customize the product in minutes, it provides you with plenty of unique designs and you always can get qualified help from Magento community.
Because of this brisk demand for Magento, we have decided to continue the topic “Magento Themes” on our blog. Here is a collection of Premium Magento Themes

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Online Store/Shop Magento Theme
Magento 1.1.8

The most peculiar feature of this Magento theme is its fascinating style. The whole image is perfectly worked out in the least details. Certainly, positively, definitely, it is impossible to ignore the project that has such a catchy look due to Magento Templates.

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Beach Theme

This Magento beach theme takes your thoughts away to the days of beautiful summer full of sun and joy. The eye-candy header in restful colors and easy navigation of this Magento theme will freshen your project. Enjoy it!

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The right time to try your creativity has come! Templates.com starts St.Valentine’s Wallpapers Contest and you are welcome to take part in it. The theme of the contest - «Love Will Save the World».
Make this St.Valentine’s day memorable — create an astonishing wallpaper to St.Valentine’s day and send it to info@templates.com. You can send as many wallpapers as you want (with Templates.com logo on them), but remember that the last day of the contest is February 14th 2009. All wallpapers will be displayed on the site Templates.com (and other associated websites) and will be available for free download. Send the wallpapers from your e-mail that is noted in your member’s account on Templates.com. For registration on Templates.com use register here.

Wallpapers requirements:
* Accepted format: JPEG (.jpg)
* 4 resolutions of each wallpaper:
800 x 600
1024 x 768
1280 x 1024
1600 x 1200
* The presence of Templates.com logo on the wallpaper here.

Prize: $150 in Cash.

Note: The winner will be determined on February 16th 2009 on the basis of votes from Templates.com team and the contest jury. The jury consists of 2 well-known artists: Feebee – an artist and an Adobe Illustrator lecturer from Japan. Get more details here;
and Philip Straub - studio art director, illustrator, concept art teacher and writer. Find more about this artist here. The selection will be based on quality, creativity and technical execution.
Our media sponsors: Free Templates Online - regularly updated collection of free website templates and Web Design Library - one-stop web design resource.

Hurry up – the contest lasts till February 14th 2009. We are waiting for your great ideas!

Templates.com team is glad to announce that Zen Cart templates and Cre Loaded templates of premium quality are already available on the site. Our vast collection contains web templates that will be perfect for any type of business and services, e.g. art and photography, fashion, electronics, cars, sport and travel, music and media, etc.

Zen Cart, being a free, user-friendly open source shopping cart software, can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills. It provides everything needed to maintain a shopping cart web site. But you shouldn’t disregard the design, as it is a face of your store. So, if you want to give your website a design it deserves, then our Zen Cart templates are the perfect solution for you. Just take a look at some of them.

Fashion Zen Cart Template # 139	Fashion Zen Cart Template # 133

Set up an online store in minutes with our Zen Cart Templates - all you have to do is to change the images and texts so they fit your brand.

Food & Drink Zen Cart Template # 116	Zen Cart Template # 138

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Hey, just look around! Christmas is in the air! And I hope, in people’s hearts as well. Everyone is involved in a pre-holiday rush, trying to manage all things and finish the started work. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given — Christmas was and will always be one of the pleasant days of the year!

Wherever you might throw a look at, you will see the catchy and attractive decorations, ornaments and Christmas. All this once again reminds us of the forth coming holidays, brings joy to our hearts, encourages us and inspires vigour in us. Even if you enter some website, you will definitely see the differences in the interface we accustomed to.

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For example, DeviantArt - the largest art community in the world. It was one of the first who prepared for holidays season beforehand.
At DeviantArt you may share and sell your artwork, start your Art Collection and track your favorite artists.

Template Monster - world leading web design company. Of course it should look modern and up-to-date to maintain its reputation.
TemplateMonster provides customers with valuable web design products and services.It’s a pioneer in creating and selling high quality website templates.

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Christmas! The very word brings happiness to our hearts. And there is no matter how old we are, we always wait impatiently for this magic holiday that makes us tremble with joy. And when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children. But maybe the most pleasant part of this celebration is the holiday greetings and gift-giving .

Templates.com also wants to give a present to you, our dear customers, and make your holiday joyful and brighter. And on this occasion Templates.com holds Christmas Bonus Action. The action starts on December 5th 2008 and lasts till January 1st 2009. During this period every customer who downloads a 30-credit+ value product will be given a small gift - Christmas Icon Set!

This Christmas icon set consists of 12 high quality icons for: Company, Favorites, Forum, About Us, Entertainment, Gifts, Home, Surprises, Testimonials, Register, Schedule and Friends. Each icon is available in the following dimension: 110px x 85px.
For more information, please visit our presentation page.

Try to keep Christmas in your heart for the whole year!

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While surfing around I have noticed a couple of beautiful website designs with smoky effects and images. Impressed by such amazing designers’ works I decided to create a selection of the most beautiful smoky web designs for your inspiration. Here you will find web designs of different categories and types: for business, entertainment, stores and etc. But all of them are united by one common thing - smoke images or effects.

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Noe Design Studio
Noe Design Studio is the personal portfolio of Dan Noe, an Iowa-based multi-media designer specializing in branding, advertising and web design solutions.

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Saizen Media Studios
Saizen Media Studios is an international design company specializing in highly cinematic and detail oriented imagery.

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With Christmas coming soon, many are thinking about how to decorate their web sites. As Drupal has grown in popularity, more and more people have started using it. But unfortunately, there are not so many choices of Christmas Drupal themes. We spent a great deal of time in searching them and were unpleasantly surprised. But nevertheless, we would like to bring to your notice some attractive professional Drupal themes created especially for this joyful holiday.

When selecting a theme it is probably best to consider the needs and preferences of your project. But if your main goal is to decorate your web pages, to meet the holiday in the proper way, to impress your customers and visitors or just create a festive atmosphere, then the following Drupal themes for Christmas will be right for you!

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Christmas Drupal Template # 112
Product type: Drupal Template 6.3

This stylish Christmas Drupal template will greatly work for beauty salons, fashion houses, boutiques, model agencies, design studios, fashion blogs, women’s portals, personal pages, online galleries and etc. The black background makes the template more elegant and powerful. It contrasts well with bright colors and makes the other colors stand out. The red color is used as an accent color, it brings text to the foreground. So, on the whole, the template looks bright and welcoming and evokes cheerful feelings.

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Christmas Drupal Template # 111
Product type: Drupal Template 6.3

If you are looking for neat and simple Christmas design for Drupal, this theme will be perfect for you. It is not overwhelmed with obtrusive images and bright and sharp color, but at the same time fully conveys the idea of this holiday. The reserved color scheme is diluted with red and green what makes the template more catchy and attractive.

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This blogpost is a sequel to the previous post: Free Magento Themes for Your Web Store! It’s a collection of attractive, original and high quality Magento templates gathered all over the Internet for those who is already using Magento. But please note that only commercial web templates are presented here.

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Fashion Magento Template #9

This Magento Theme done in dark gray and black colors looks very elegant and stylish. Dark colors are used not without purpose there. They contrast well with other bright colors and make them stand out.

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Christmas Magento Theme #22011

Christmas holidays are near at hand! Customize your web store using this original Christmas Magento theme. With the help of this theme you can easily decorate your website and create a festive atmosphere for your customers.

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