The dreaded blank canvas! For many web artists, the first hurdle, and a would-be stopping block to creativity, is the wide open space of a blank Photoshop canvas. My first tendency is to accumulate and study a multitude of bookmarked sites that will hopefully help to influence my design style, whether its a site with great examples of color harmonies, or a site that’s got some outstanding button designs, the bookmarks keep multiplying with each new project.

I recently run across a site that has helped me to cut through all of the nonsense that’s out there, and find a range of quality website examples based on “Color Usage”, “Design Elements & Techniques”, “Site Types”, and more. Design Meltdown is an accumulation of the best site designs, categorized for easy review. Each example is discussed in a blogging-type format with samples, links, and user comments.

With interesting articles like, “Top 20 Most Popular Blog Colors“, has tons of really useful opinions and examples to help give you design inspiration…

… or at least, help you get past that stinking blank canvas.

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