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Designers have enough to worry about when doing a design. From trying to decipher what the client wants, to getting a hold of the appropriate assets and choosing the right colors and fonts to use, which only scratches the surface of what goes into a good web design.

Here are a few thing that you are safe to forget about when you’re designing the website, you’ll have plenty of time to think about them later on with the other people involved in building the website.

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Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well.

You hired a designer, and worked with them to create a beautiful design for your website. They finished the design and delivered the source files and said thank you very much for the business, but wait … what now you can’t make a website with this!

Don’t panic, you’ve got past the first and often most difficult part of building a website, and you have a few different options for taking those files and building your website. Find out what they are after the jump…

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   http://www.carhartt-streetwear.com
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   http://www.abc-baseball.com
   From the good and oftentimes imitated folks at TaprootCreative.com. The distressed looking photograph in the header loads randomly on every page, as usual I can’t quite dissect exactly how they did the scripting …anyone? They have optimized and compressed all the css and javascripting, making it harder for a web layman to study, kudos to the Taproot web ninjas.
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   http://www.miamiangelproperties.com
   This Miami real-estate website, is a double-edged Samurai sword (sticking with a theme) for me. On one hand what I love about the site, is the beautifully illustrated header. On the other hand, the header is a bit large-ish for the inside pages and is constant and unchanging on all the pages of the site. Variety is the spice of life and some header variations could make this site even more unique. They’ve done a great job overall on the design, and integrating the WordPress blogging/CMS platform.
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   http://simonemaranzana.com
   Excellent Typography, Lighting Effects and 3D-style graphics are the specialty du jour, bon appetit!
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   http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/agregado
   Freebie of the week this WordPress theme featured on Smashing Magazine and created by a couple of the guys from Category4.com, namely Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson.

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   http://www.stoutlabs.com
   A web development & design laboratory, minus the mad scientist, plus the ExpressionEngine CMS.

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   http://www.catchdigital.com/

   A flash animated plasma-like background with various foreground layer alpha effects. Throw in some sIFR, jQuery accordion menus and sexy graphics & icons, and you’ve got yourself an edgy, modern and trendy website.

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   http://www.thierryschlegel.net

   Interesting use of color in vivid blue and taupe, texture with some 3-D and splatter elements, and navigation choices retaining a hover color to show categories of works. Beyond these elements the site could use a bit of background information about Thierry apart from the resume pdf. Thierry’s also bought in to the “Save the Developers” movement, which makes perfect sense to me on a portfolio site.

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   http://www.arcinspirations.com
   From the list of “Top 10 JavaScript (jQuery) Powered Sites“

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   http://www.jameslaicreative.com
   It’s no secret that I like, grungy worn-look websites and jQuery. The intro slide-in/fade-in jQuery transition, on load is the deal breaker, making this one-pager a must add to the standards gallery.

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   http://klinkov.com
   This one is an awesome layout, again jQuery functions carousel combined with realistic artist palette textures! Hmmm… this one give me some big ideas for a personal project, on my someday todo list.

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   http://www.vegaone.de
   Cool times 10 on the wow-scale, this vibrant portfolio flash site featuring some splatter-riffic graffiti art!

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   http://www.jamesb-dj.co.uk
   James B asks, “What’s Hot?”…sexy DJ beats, trendy stuff, great typography.

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   http://mamie-bouillabaisse.com
   Another stylish portfolio with a neon palette on black.

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    http://sacas.net
    Click around in the Flash intro header on the homepage, it’s really sort of awe-inspiring even if you don’t speak the language, did I see a w000t in there somewhere!

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One of the reasons some people prefer absolute sizing rather than using em and percentages is the inconsistent approach to rounding half pixels in Browsers. John Resig investigates the reasons.