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With our newest Business Site/Store/Blog design we are taking you to Downtown Memphis, Tennessee to the “Home of the Blues.” Beale Street connects downtown Memphis to the Mississippi River, and is so well known for its blues clubs and restaurants that in the 1960s it was declared a national historic landmark.
Beale Street is our fourth Business Site design to feature left side navigation. You’ll notice the logo appears directly above the navigation bar with a color coordinated bar matching the selected menu item color.
Throughout the design there is a beautiful double border with a drop shadow to add an extra dimension to the content area. It gives the appearance of a double mat frame. The page titles appear just above the frame to bring extra emphasis.
A sawtooth pattern closes out the design, and provides additional contrast between the background and the core of the site.
This design is versatile so that it can be used for any style of photography, or type of small business.
Special thanks to Lori Nordstrom for sharing her images for the sample of Beale Street, which is now available in your Business Site, Store, and Blog control panels. Make the switch today for free!
Lombard Street is best known for the one-way section on Russian Hill in San Francisco where the roadway has eight sharp turns that have earned the street the distinction of being the “crookedest street”. Lombard Street is also one of the most popular settings for movies and TV ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to an episode of “The Simpsons”.
The street is featured in multiple video games including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. But who can forget it’s appearance in one the most iconic car chase scenes in American film history in the movie Bullit as Steve McQueen launches his Mustang after the bad guys. It’s from these scenes that the stylized “racing” stripes on Lombard Street take their cues from.
The striped elements built into the background very nicely complement and contrast with the stripes at the top of the page design that forms the menu bar, and each set of stripes have their own color controls. The lower stripe of the menu bar is subtly wider and a touch darker than the upper stripe which further enhances the layered look of the Lombard Street design.
The design is “closed” at the bottom of the page with two more stripes; one thin and the other very thick by comparison for a touch of asymmetry, which gives the design a bit of edginess. The Sign In and View Cart tabs are stacked one atop the other at the very top of the page.
In the body of Lombard Street the list items can also be stacked but there are no borders or stripes here, so the page maintains an overall sleek look. The list items do have a highlight roll-over for ease of navigation.
So is your BizSite, Store, or Blog ready for a sportier look? Checkout the Lombard Street design and thanks to Jim Zuckerman for sharing his images for the BizSite, Store, and Blog site samples.
Black Sand Beach (also called Punaluʻu Beach) is one of the most unique beaches in the world; you can actually drink the water! The beach has a large amount of underground fresh water that flows in it. Legend has it that in the time of drought, the ancient Hawaiians living in the area would dive underwater with a jug to get their fresh water.
This blending of two different elements into one is the inspiration for the Black Sand HTML5 Portfolio Site design. Two broad vertical bars at either side of the image are perfectly matched to a bar to the left of the menu. All three bars are visually unified by the use of a drop shadow effect, and when a menu item is clicked on, it merges with the bar beside it.
The navigation menu appears to the left of the image area with your logo directly above it. A very clever feature of the drop-down menu items is that when they are selected the sub-menus are revealed, and when one of them is clicked on the page comes up and the menu reverts back to its original appearance.
The gallery page is where all the various elements come together for a gorgeous presentation. PhotoBiz’s industry leading color shifting can be applied to the vertical bars, selected menu item, and in the case of the gallery pages, the border that frames the selected gallery thumbnail.
And as if PhotoBiz color shifting weren’t amazing enough it’s now even better. From your gallery page control panel you can see if color shifting has been set up, and hover over that color to see the hexcode.
Special thanks to Cherie Steinberg of CherieFoto in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for sharing her images for the sample of Black Sand HTML5 Portfolio Site design!
The Cape of Good Hope is the legendary home of The Flying Dutchman. Crewed by tormented and damned ghostly sailors, it is doomed forever to beat its way through the adjacent waters without ever succeeding in rounding the corner from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
Cape Hope is one of the most important navigational points on Earth, literally going from due south to due east turning the corner from one world to another. From cold Atlantic to balmy Indian Ocean the “corner” motif is a natural fit for our latest HTML5 Portfolio Site design.
Obviously the most compelling feature of the Cape Hope HTML5 Portfolio Site design is the squares in the corners unified by a broad border that pulls it all together. With the logo and social media icons at the top of the design, and the menu bar centered across the bottom, Cape Hope has a really strong structure to build your site.
You can build on this by using PhotoBiz’s industry leading color shifting technology. By combining the page background, corner squares, selected menu item and drop-down menu background with a highlight color that you choose from your photo each image can be uniquely accented.
When you extend all of this to the gallery pages Cape Hope really comes to life. The thumbnail images are arrayed vertically along the left side of the page seemingly suspended. This is where using a background from our exclusive background library (or upload your own) can have a dramatic effect.
An additional design feature for the gallery pages is how the selected thumbnail will appear with a solid, rounded corner border that can also be color selected to coordinate with all the other design elements.
Special thanks to Richard Esposito of Photographer RE, LLC for sharing his images for the sample of Cape Hope HTML5 Portfolio Site design!
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