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Clean Style in Web Design


All clever things are usually very simple. Many people just love lightweight designs with simple layouts, free from heavy web elements and complex color combinations. The main idea of clean designs is to achieve simplicity in form and content thereby presenting a clear message to the website visitors. It can be attained by taking into account some important aspects that make a web design clean.

I'd like to show you some tutorials on how to create clean style web layout

Learn To Create A Clean Style Portfolio Layout

In this detailed tutorial you'll be walking through the process of create a clean style portfolio layout. Don't forget the FREE PSD file is available to download at the bottom of the page.

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Clean Style Business Layout

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Create a Clean Modern Website Design in Photoshop

Build a complete website design mockup for a fictional design studio, starting with the creation of the initial layout then moving on to designing the individual page elements. The result is a modern, crisp and clean webpage layout ready for coding.

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To create cool Clean style design, you should use icons. Let me show you some amazing clean style icons. They will look great with clean and minimal web designs and also notice since almost all of them are monochromatic. You can put different colors, create your own letterpress and different effects without spending time to create your own actual icon.

30 Free Vector Icons

These icons can also be used as iPhone menu bar icons.

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"ecqlipse 2" PNG

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Minimal Social Media Icons Pack

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Snow - by iconblock

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Minimal Icon Set that I've done and that's free to download and use.

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Token

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So...how to create a clean design?

First of all, you should simplify the layout by minimizing content. Foe example, you can remove most of the images and leave the one that is the most expressive.

A million things to do

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Create a structural balance by means of grid systems.

Projectfedena

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The use of colors should be moderate and intelligent. For example, you can use an unobtrusive color as a background and then highlight the elements you need by using any accent color.

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Use images wisely. You need to find a right balance of using graphic elements and images.

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Use easily readable and expressive typography: if used appropriately, it is able to replace heavy images and visual elements.

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Clean style designs will be always popular just like the classics are. Clean Style Web Templates' popularity is completely justified by their usability and lack of eye-itching graphical extravagances.

Type: WordPress
Author: Astra
Sources Available: .PSD;.PHP;This theme is widgetized
Software Required:
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
Apache Server;
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac);
WordPress 3.2.1;
Hosting Requirements:
PHP 5.2.4 or higher
MySQL 5.0 or higher
The mod_rewrite Apache module
Width: 1920px

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Type: WordPress
Author: Elza
Sources Available: .PSD;.PHP;This theme is widgetized
Software Required:
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
Apache Server;
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac);
WordPress 3.2.1;
Hosting Requirements:
PHP 5.2.4 or higher
MySQL 5.0 or higher
The mod_rewrite Apache module
Width: 1680px

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Type: WordPress
Author: Mercury
Sources Available:.SWF; .PSD;.FLA;.PHP;This theme is widgetized
Software Required:
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
Adobe Flash 8+;
Apache Server;
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac);
WordPress 3.2.1;
Hosting Requirements:
PHP 5.2.4 or higher
MySQL 5.0 or higher
The mod_rewrite Apache module
Width: 1980px

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Type: Joomla 1.7 Template
Author: Cowboy
Sources Available: .PSD;.PHP
Software Required:
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
Adobe Dreamweaver 8+ (or any php-editor);
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac);
Joomla! 1.7.1
Width: 1400px

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Type: Joomla 1.7 Template
Author: Nessy
Sources Available: .PSD;.PHP
Software Required:
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
Adobe Dreamweaver 8+ (or any php-editor);
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac);
Joomla! 1.7.0
Width: 1500px

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Type: Joomla 1.7 Template
Author: Hugo
Sources Available: .PSD;.PHP
Software Required:
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
Adobe Dreamweaver 8+ (or any php-editor);
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac);
Joomla! 1.7.2
Width: 1920px

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Type: JS Animated Full Site
Author: Delta
Sources Available: .html?aff=wdl; .PSD
Software Required:
Adobe Dreamweaver 8+ (or Microsoft Expression Web);
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac)
Product Description:
JavaScript-Animated Full Site CSS templates contain JS-based elements that add Flash-like dynamics and animation while still leaving the templates very light-weight.
Width: 1107px

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Type: JS Animated Full Site
Author: Delta
Sources Available: .html?aff=wdl; .PSD
Software Required:
Adobe Dreamweaver 8+;
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac)
Product Description:
JavaScript-Animated Full Site CSS templates contain JS-based elements that add Flash-like dynamics and animation while still leaving the templates very light-weight.
Width: 1347px

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Type: Joomla 1.7 Template
Author: Svelte

Sources Available: .PSD;.PHP Software Required:
Adobe Photoshop CS+;
Adobe Dreamweaver 8+ (or any php-editor);
For uncompressing a template ZIP package:
WinZip 9+ (Windows);
Stuffit Expander 10+ (Mac);
Joomla! 1.7.3
Width: 1200px

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Clean websites are getting more and more popular all over the net.



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