Best Travel Web Templates

July 1st, 2009

Summer is the hot time for travel agencies of all kinds and sizes. The heat and sultry air of the big cities make people migrate to the seaside and exotic countries. These days travel agencies websites are on top of popularity. Thus if you planned to launch a website for the travel agency now is the time. Here is a small showcase of the most creative travel and vacation website templates to inspire you. A well designed travel web design should not only be informative and easy to navigate, it should inspire your visitors and call the desire to hit the road and get away towards the pleasant discoveries and adventures. This is the main uniting feature of the showcased web templates – they all are creatively designed to give your clients the feel of close discoveries and create the atmosphere of exciting adventures.

Travel Agency Website Template

This plain HTML design is the best choice if you are looking for a simple but well designed web solution. Deep colors and tempting images fulfill their goal to create a feel of good vacation and give inspiration.

Travel Network CSS Template

This bright and plain CSS design is rather minimalistic regarding the color palette, but the slight use of blue color makes it stylish and reminds the sea.

Travel Agency Flash Animated Template

This vivid design is a perfect example of good use of the vintage elements in web design.

Travel Agency Web Design Template

The ingenious header of this CSS template definitely makes me want to leave everything behind and go to an island somewhere in the Mediterranean. Do you feel the urge to do the same thing?

Check out our vacation and travel templates for even more inspiring travel web designs.

Firefox Plugins for Web Designers and Developers

June 24th, 2009

Firefox is a very popular browser nowadays, especially among the designers and developers. Not only it is fast and comfortable to use, but also offers dozens of fruitful add-ons that every designer will appreciate, these Firefox plugins will make your work faster and easier.
Well, I’ve prepared a selection of the most helpful plugins that simplify the lives of many designers and developers.

Aardvark
This powerful selector utility selects elements. It will show the HTML element type and its class or id if they exist and let you do various actions with the selected elements like delete the element or set the element’s background to a random color for instance.

Firebug
This powerful plugin integrates development tools into Firefox thus allowing you to debug, edit and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript right in a web page.

HTML Validator
Shows the number of errors of a HTML page in your status bar. Very handy tool for developers

ColorZilla
This one is a great tool that lets you select any color you liked then adjust it and put in any other program.

Web Developer
This plugin adds a menu of various web development tools. It has window resizing options, validation tools for CSS, HTML and links and gives info on various objects on the page.

X-Ray
This Firefox extension lets you view a webpage code

Pixel Perfect
This Firefox extension requires Firebug and allows you easily overlay a web composition over the top of HTML you developed.

Total Validator
Great plugin that gives true HTML validation using the official DTDs.

Font Finder
This simple plugin identifies CSS details of the text you select. Gives such info as color, font, decoration, spacing and element details.

Window Resizer
You’ll find this plugin great for testing your web designs in different screen sizes. Supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolutions.

Do you use Firefox extensions in your work? If so, which ones do you find to be the most useful?