For designers, having a great-looking portfolio site is one of the best ways to attract attention to your services and to quickly prove to potential clients that you are capable of high quality work. If you’re working on building or re-designing your own portfolio, you should definitely find some inspiration from sites featured here (shown in no particular order).

UPDATE: We recently launched a gallery dedicated to showcasing the best portfolio sites – Folio Focus.

Spoon Graphics

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Author: Jeffrey Way

Hi, I’m Jeff. I’m the editor of Nettuts+, and the Site Manager of both ThemeForest, and CodeCanyon. I spend too much time in front of the computer and find myself telling my fiance’, “We’ll go in 5 minutes!” far too often. I just can’t go out to dinner while I’m still producing FireBug errors…drives me crazy. During my free time, I sporadically update my Tumblog. If it will keep you in the good graces of the church, follow us on Twitter.

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January

How to Build a Login System for a Simple Website

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This post is the second part of our review. It presents design trends for 2009 in terms of layouts, visual approaches and design elements. Please notice that this post showcases trends and developments that were extensively covered in our previous articles (e.g. handwriting, retro and vintage etc.) and therefore weren’t covered in this post (they are all linked in the overview, so feel free to explore these single posts as well). Did you miss any recent development in this overview? Let us know in the comments!

You may want to take a look at the following related posts:

Web Design Trends For 2009

40 Creative Out-Of-The-Box-Layouts

Textures In Modern Web Design

Retro and Vintage in Modern Web Design

Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples

Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design

Web Design Trends For 2009

Let’s first take a closer look at some of the trends we identified, discovered and observed over the last months. In this overview, you’ll find a review of each trend and more beautiful examples that can inspire you in your next project.

Out-of-the-box layouts

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