To be honest, I have no idea what pirogov.ru is about, since it is all in Russian. But the moment I saw the website, I knew I had to list it.

It shows you a relaxing view from the beach, waves rolling in and a gnetle breeze moving the palmtree in the picture. A great source for some relaxing and inspiration.

PenguinPages.co.uk is a free online directory filled with UK based businesses and companies.

The website is fairly simple, and the focus is mostly on the search form and the large mascot, called Joey B.  They chose to use a carbon looking background, and bright colors of orange to make it all stand out. The mix of serious content with a playful theme worked out pretty well!

Paul Berkey is an artist on many fronts: architectural, tattoos, paint, air brush, draw and even computer design. Certainly someone with a ‘wide’ set of skills.

His website is a combination of his arts, and makes it look pretty awesome. Paul combined tattoo graphics with web design to setup the navigation. The rest of the website mainly consists of showcases with his artwork. An impressive portfolio!

This time a darker website for review: Discoapp.com. The website is all about Disco, a disc burning tool for Mac users.

The bright red creates a nice contrast with the darker surroundings, and really makes the logo stand out.  The website is clean and accessible, and they made sure the more important part of the text stood out by making it brighter.

Further more this website does not contain a lot of pages; most of the information is right there on the homepage. It gives a clean and easy overview of all the possibilites.

WebdesignerDepot.com (called WDD) is a platform to showcase the latest trends in graphical and design techniques. The weblog itself is a collaboration between some of the best experts in the field. This includes programming, typography, graphical, writing and much more.

The website stats a bold header with a lot of creativity put into it. Next to that we see a few Apple products in there, which still seem to be linked to graphical artists and designers. Make sure to check out the site, it contains a ton of useful stuff and inspiration.

This is a weblog known by many: Veerle’s blog. She is one of the two owners of “Duoh!“. Veerle Pieters started her blog quite a while ago, but is now known as one the most popular female bloggers.

Her blog is based on a dark design, with bright colored highlights and images. Veerle’s primary focus is actively “promoting the beneftis of  web standards through her personal journal”. Next to that she is quite the designer, check out her artwork on the website.

The site is well known for the layout; it’s pretty clear where everything stands, and it feels natural. She put a lot of thought in the design, and it paid out very well.

This is a site like you rarely find them; Funny, bright coloured, loads of animations, and still slick enough to sell pretty much everything to everyone. WMteam.com did a great job at their website.

The site itself is written in German, but there is an English option available. The animations and graphics should give you a pretty good idea what the site is about anyway.

The first site to be mentioned here: Smashingmagazine.com.

This website offers a lot of inspiration and knowledge about the internet itself. The website itself is well-known mostly from several huge round-ups. Think of graphic collections, blog templates, fonts, beautiful designs, etc. If you need some inspiration for a new project, Smashingmagazine is the site to visit.

The design is simple and easy to read, with a lot of categories to choose from. The only downside is the amount of banners on the right side, taking up a lot of space.