http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100216/photos-windows-phone-7-series-live-demo/

简洁其实是一种很难被超越的界面设计。

一、以公务作为网站的重点

这类个人网站通常很简洁，首页是一些基本信息。内容的重点都是设计工作。

1、Leonardo Maia


2、skillicorn


3、Juan Diego Velasco


4、Fred Maya


5、Ersel TANIR


6、just.dot


7、Caitlin Hathaway


二、把特色/导航作为重点

通常，该形式网站的设计者会在网页显眼的地方展示自己的设计作品，而且，设计者会利用设计艺术加上视觉设计元素使网站的首页格外引人注意。

1、CamiloHolguin.com


2、theenergycell


3、84colors


4、Todd Stowell


5、Trevor Clark Photography


6、Bohoe


7、Loukotka Design


三、将服务/“关于我们”作为重点

这种网页设计会有一篇小短文宣传个人的服务或者一段关于个人的描述。这些描述也许包含在网站标题里，也可能在标题下面。这类型的网站也许有一个网络博客，或者在标题下有个展示他们作品的平台，但主要是为了突出设计者做些什么的。

1、mark mcgall


2、Havoc Inspired


3、gummisig


4、MadeToKill


5、Southern Media


6、Falcone Creative


7、55Eleven


8、RonnieSan


四、将博客作为重点

这种个人网站将网络博客作为网站的重点，旨在展示网站主人的个人魅力，获奖情况以及所取得的成就。有时一些新的工作任务及最近完成的作品会作为帖子混杂在博客中。这个方式可以有效的使潜在的顾客了解该行业，并且耐人寻味的内容会吸引众多浏览者。

1、Tyler Gaw


2、Kim Ellefsen


3、Function


4、Jeffrey Sarmiento


5、blenDesign’Blog


五、单页的公务网

该类型的网站设计利用多种解码技术，例如导航菜单及网页滚动条，使用户可以自由地在网页内移动鼠标浏览。

1、ftdesigner.net


2、Little Red


3、Andrea Cima Serniotti


4、Alexander Kaiser


5、fourtwo


6、Studio Skitz

 

一个很明显的趋势－－使用比较柔和的，圆角的字体。

A clear trend in new identities is the use of soft, rounded typefaces dominated by VAG Rounded (AKA Rundschrift), but also including Helvetica Rounded, Arial Rounded, Bryant, and FF Cocon. All of these lend a modern friendliness to what might otherwise be a cold trademark. Here are a few examples:

ClipShack — video sharing
Font:VAG Rundschrift and Light obliqued

Zimbra — collaborative calendar
Font: VAG Rundschrift Light

Wayfaring — custom Google Maps
Font: VAG Rundschrift (fattened with added stroke)

Kajeet — mobile phone service
Font: VAG Rundschrift (custom ‘j’)

Zopa — lending exchange
Font: similar to Frankfurter Medium or Bryant Bold Alt

Pando — file sharing
Font: similar to Bryant Medium Alt

MySpace — social networking
Font: Arial Rounded Bold and Bell Gothic Black

TracksLife — personal database
Font: Arial Rounded Bold

Eventful — collaborative calendar
Font: Arial Rounded Bold (slightly smooshed)

Spongecell — collaborative calendar
Font: Arial Rounded Extra Bold

Skype — internet telephony
Font: Helvetica Rounded Bold

ShoZu — photo sharing
Font: FF Cocon Bold

Tabblo and Tabblog — photo sharing
Font: FF Cocon Bold

未来主义型（The Futurists）

Some sites are reflecting the technological breakthroughs of Web 2.0 with a look that says “tomorrow’s techno”. Pixel faces, hard edges, and ultra simplified forms are not as common as the cozy shapes from the group above, but they represent a good portion of the latest internet startups:

Last.fm — musical social network
Font: ITC Ronda (customized)
Alternate: Avernus

Photobucket — photo hosting
Font: Digital Sans Medium

Plazes — geographical networking
Font: Base 9 Regular SC

NewsGator — RSS aggregator
Font: ITC Bauhaus Medium

ReminderFeed — reminders via RSS
Font: FF Dot Matrix Two Regular

Technorati — weblog search tool
Font: Neo Sans Medium

TagWorld — social networking
Font: Handel Gothic Bold

Shoutwire — news sharing
Font: Agency Bold

古典主义型（The Classics）

Safe standbys like Trade and News Gothic, Frutiger, Avenir, Interstate, FF Meta, FF DIN, and the always ubiquitous Helvetica continue to see use in new web logos:

Xanga — weblog community
Font: Trade Gothic No. 2 Bold and Light

FeedBurner — RSS optimization and tracking
Font: Trade Gothic Bold

Newsvine — news sharing
Font:FF Meta Bold and Book

StandPoint — belief sharing
Font: FF DIN Medium

DropSend — file sharing
Font: Frutiger Bold

Flickr — photo sharing
Font: Frutiger Black

PureVolume — music promotion
Font: Avenir Book and Medium

Shutterfly — photo service
Font: Avenir Heavy (customized)

9rules — web design network
Font: Helvetica Bold

Buzznet — photo/video sharing
Font: Helvetica Bold (and a familiar bundle of leaves)

PODZINGER — podcast search
Font: Interstate Black

Campfire — group chat
Font: Interstate Regular

YouTube — video sharing
Font: Alternate Gothic No. Two

Bloglines — news aggregator
Font: ITC Officina Bold

Weblogs, Inc. — blog network
Font: Syntax Bold

Wikipedia — collaborative reference
Font: Hoefler Text

最新的古典派（New Classics）

趋势是设计师不停的打破现在，才创造出来的。下面提到的几个，使用新的字体，有可能引领潮流，成为不变的经典。这些网站不仅在图片和头部区域使用这些字体，而且整个站点都在使用，这是一个增强品牌独特形象的好方法。

Just as there will always be trends, there will also be those designers who break from them. The following logotypes eschew the popular styles mentioned above and use new typefaces that have the potential to become timeless classics. The typeface is then used throughout the site in headers and graphics. It’s a great way to reinforce a brand and set it apart:

Socialtext — enterprise wiki
Font: Lisboa Sans

Facebook — social networking
Font: Klavika (customized)
Also:
cards with Vista Sans

Joyent — small business server
Font: Proxima Nova (alt ‘a’)
Not a logo, but we love Joyent’s use of Proxima — a new face that feels familiar but has its own character.

但信息大爆炸以后，文字已经不能承载这么大的信息量的传达时，迫切的需要一种新的互联网信息的传达方式.

Yahoo一个正在研发的项目Query bluster

把现有yahoo地图和搜索数据形成一个更为直观可视化结果.这里面的API没什么新鲜，到是用到了个牛烘烘的Processing.

Processing是MIT数媒实验室研发的视觉编程语言，在艺术家手中应用得比较多，以前被数媒艺术家们创造各种炫丽的视觉效果.目前Yahoo终于把它引入到了工程应用中.(另外，Jquery之父Reig也在加紧把Processing移植到Javascript上哦)，看看这个信息的分布与相互的关联是不是更明了了一些呢？

yahoo的另外一个项目,searchMonkey，用其它一些web2.0网站提供的API，来改善搜索的结果.信息的评级和一些简图被加入到搜索的结果中.信息的关联度，可信度得到的一定的提高.

另外，一些概念图，信息，数据类的网站开始采用了一些视觉化数据的方法，从文字图形转化为更为容易被人们接受的认知交互，用起来直观了很多.

最后，现在有了

JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT)

这个开源库，可以更国方便的研究这方面的应用了.

Treemaps

RGraph

Hyperbolic Trees

ST

Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons
激发你的灵感：50个优秀的Favicons

引用:
Actually it’s a pity that many designers don’t really make use of them. Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can be displayed in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. To be recognized immediately, favicons have to be visually appealing and fit to the design or logo of a given page. In fact, if you use Favicons for your sites, users can easily find your URL in their bookmarks - in this way you create some kind of a visual connection between your web-site and your sites’ visitors.

很遗憾，事实上许多设计师都不能很好的运用他们（Favicons）。Favicons，袖珍图形，适用于比较细致的网站，可以在浏览器的地址栏里显示，紧邻着书签列表里网站的名字，还紧邻着文件对话框界面的网页标题。要是立即被辨识出来的话，favicons应该悦目，并且要适合页面的设计或标识。事实上，如果你在网站上使用favicons，用户可以轻易在他们的书签里找到你的URL——通过这种方式，你在你的网站和网站的访问者之间创造了一些视觉连接。

引用:
However, the design of Favicons can be tricky - it isn’t that easy to create a beautiful 16×16px mini-icon. Still, some designers manage to achieve tremendous effects. Logotypes with clear geometric structures are easier to work with than typefaces or abstract images. The color selection corresponds to current Web 2.0 trends. Let’s take a look at 50 beautiful favicons you can inspire yourself from. You can click on favicons - they lead to a page, which uses the image as a page icon.

然而，Favicons的设计可能是有难度的——不是那么容易就能创造一个漂亮的16×16px的迷你图标。尽管如此，部分设计师的运用已经取得了巨大的成效。连合活字(含有数个常用固定字母的活字,如an) 配合清晰的几何结构比单纯的字体和抽象的图像更能起作用，颜色的选取应当符合当前Web 2.0的趋势。让我们来看看能激发你灵感的50个漂亮favicons. 你可以点击favicons——它们可以打开一个页面，而这页面是用图像作为页面图标。

Petal（花瓣）

http://www.aurea.es/
http://www.fxis.net/
http://www.divshare.com/
http://www.tanyamerone.com/
http://www.akken.com/
http://www.kepu.net.cn/english/

Rounded Elements（圆形元素）

http://www.fat-man-collective.com/
http://www.lisensa.com/
http://www.lorop-it.de/
http://www.akamai.com
http://www.cogmap.com/
http://www.colorwarepc.com/
http://www.evozon.com/
http://www.diabetesgate.de/
http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/

Letters and Typography（字母和印刷样式）

http://www.cubexagency.com/
http://www.lisensa.com/
http://www.somox.com/
http://www.piqniq.jp/
http://www.eight6.com/
http://reachgroupconsulting.com/
http://www.flexy.info/
http://www.kiva.org/

Ornaments（修饰）

http://www.imthere.com/
http://www.elevenmedia.com/
http://www.roisure.com/
http://www.pixellogo.com/
http://www.thinkpinkstudio.com/
http://www.mattwebb.com.au/

Squares（正方形）

http://www.sumagency.com/
http://www.indesign.einsteiger-portal.de/
http://www.kirkpatrickbank.com/
http://deforum.ru/
http://www.imasters.com.br/
http://www.ouvaton.coop/
http://detlog.org/
http://www.ministrycamp.com/
http://www.getpaint.net/
http://microformats.org/
http://www.kath-thun.ch/
http://www.campus-and-more.de/
http://pro-buero.com/
http://www.quada-office.de
http://www.modulio.net/

Further Favicons（更多的Favicons）

http://www.joomlart.com/
http://letterpop.com/
http://www.illustrationclass.com/
http://www.trendwatching.com/
http://www.edag.hu/
http://www.elektro.de/

Favicon Tools（Favicon工具）

Favicon Generator
Favicon Generator 2
Even More Favicon Generators
Favourite Favicons
Mysteries Of The Favicon.ico — How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop

网站链接：http://www.socwall.com

================================

1、Dual Screen Wallpapers
这个网站的壁纸都非常虚幻，而且大多数为宽屏壁纸。使用宽屏的朋友不妨一试。

2、Veer’s collection of desktop wallpapers
提供一些具有艺术气味的壁纸下载。像素囊括800*600到1920*1200。

3、collection of photos taken for Windows Vista’s default wallpaper selection
很漂亮的风景照，用来当壁纸最好不过。

Server-based solutions, implemented with Flash, JavaScript or pure CSS, offer a more flexible alternative. In fact, since Flash offers significant advantages over static data presentation with CSS and JavaScript, most solutions use it for dynamic data visualization. The data itself is often stored in XML-files which are loaded and updated via PHP or ASP. The price range varies enormously — depending on the flexibility and level of customization you’d like to have. However, if you don’t want to pay, you don’t have to — there are powerful free solutions as well.

If you use Ajax- or JavaScript-frameworks you might already have powerful chart components integrated into the library by default. If it’s not the case, you might try to search for existing add-ons. E.g. there are extensions for jQuery and Dojo you can use to generate and style your own charts with few lines of JavaScript and CSS.

The Dojo Charting Engine can generate graphs and charts with few JavaScript snippets.

Many server-based solutions are quite versatile, so you can use them to create a variety of charts and graphs in minutes. However, to use these tools you need to know where to find them.

This article presents an overview of tools, applications and techniques for visualizing data in charts and graphs. Among other things both free and commercial chart tools, services, desktop-applications and web-based solutions (Flash, JavaScript, CSS) — you can use them on your server — are presented.

Please notice that the solutions listed below don’t necessarily produce charts which serve the main purpose of data visualization — namely, to provide an easy-to-use visual presentation of (possibly) complex data sets. It’s far more important that the presented information is usable and comprehensible rather than presented in a visually appealing way. Outstanding data visualizations aren’t achieved by the beauty of data presentation, but by an effective interpretation of the data it represents.

Charts and Graphs: Flash-based Solutions

FusionCharts Free
FusionCharts Free is a Flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for web applications and presentations. It is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages or PowerPoint Presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts.

You can generate 2D/3D Column Charts, Line Charts, 2D/3D Pie & Doughnut Charts, Area Charts, Stacked Charts, Combination Charts and Candlestick Charts. The data is stored in XML. The full version of the application has more animated charts, visual effects (shadow, glow etc.) as well as a Visual XML Generator Utility. You don’t need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts. All you need to know is the language you’re programming in. Free version provides a high level of flexibility and dozens of impressive designs.

 

amCharts
amCharts offers a flexible and easily customizable solution for generating charts “on the fly”. There are 4 sets with predefined Pie & Donut, Line & Area, Column & Bar and Scatter & Bubble. Generated Flash-files are dynamic and can be presented in 2D or 3D. The loader can load data from XML or CSV, so you can easily export data from Excel, dynamically generate data file with PHP, ASP, .NET or other programming language. Some flash-charts also have animation effects.

amCharts is linkware which means that you have to place a link to the source if you’d like to use it for free. You can also purchase a single site license for 85 Euros (~$117). We’ve already reviewed amCharts previously.

 

AnyChart Flash Chart Component

AnyChart is a more powerful alternative to Open Flash Chart. It is fully cross-browser and cross-platform and can generate Pie, Bar, Line, Candlestick, Area, Column, Bubble, Spline, Dot/Marker, Scatter, Candlestick and Doughnut charts. It can be used with virtually all scripting languages — ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages and also PowerPoint presentations.

AnyCharts is driven by XML as universal data interface, so you can visualize data from any data format: from files in text, Excel, CSV formats to MySQL, MS SQL, and oracle database servers. Users can save the generated charts as an image for email sending or chart export. AnyChart is huge, but not that inexpensive - a one developer licence starts at $649.00.

 

 

 

 

Rich Chart Server for .NET

Rich Chart Server generates captivating interactive Flash charts from ASP.NET and Windows Forms applications. Rich Chart Server uses flexible templates to integrate dynamic content from a variety of data sources. Price $295.

 

 

 

Flash Charts Pro

Flash Carts Pro — ASP Chart and PHP Flash Charting tool — comes with 9 main categories and more than 30 chart types. No installation is required. Upload the Flash file and generate a list of ingoing values - or use a script. Customization is possible via the XML file itself. The tool offers multi-lingual (UTF-8) characters support, customizable animation, grid component and dynamically resizable charts. The price range starts at $59. Unfortunately there is no trial-version.

 

 

 

 

Swiff Chart Generator
Swiff Chart Generator is the server-side solution to dynamically serve eye-catching animated charts from Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP scripts or JSP scripts. Query data from a database, apply your own style template created with the Swiff Chart authoring tool and Swiff Chart Generator instantly generates high-impact charts in Flash format, PNG/JPG format, SVG format and PDF format. Use Swiff Point Player to incorporate your Flash Charts into your PowerPoint presentations. Pricing starts at $149.

XML/SWF Charts

 

 

PHP/SWF Charts offers a simple and dynamic solution for interactive Flash-based charts. Columns, circles, bars and pies can be displayed in 3D. You create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool’s flash file to generate the chart. The XML source can be prepared manually, or generated dynamically using any scripting language (PHP, ASP, CFML, Perl, etc.).

The script requires only PHP 4 support; it is free, however all charts are by default linked to the source — unless you’ve purchased a license.

 

 

Open Flash Chart (OFC)
OFC is an open-source project. The Flash chart offers 35 chart variations; among them a number of bar charts, pie charts and line charts. Provided tutorials explain how the script can be extended with further functionality such as mouse-over effects and how the database can be queried for some values and the results then displayed in a graph. Open Flash Chart uses Flash and PHP; data can be stored in plain text (.txt). The package, available via Sourceforge, includes a number of examples and samples.

 

Charts and Graphs: PHP/ASP Libraries

Libchart
Libchart is is a simple PHP-library. You can create Line-, Bar- (horizontal and vertical) and Piecharts. The tool requires PHP compiled with GD Graphics Library and FreeType. Libchart is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Image_Graph

 

 

Image_Graph (formerly known as GraPHPite) utilizes PHP’s object oriented model to enable users/developers to create highly versatile graphs in a simple way. There are 14 highly customizable chart types including line, bar, area, pie, impulse, dot/scatter, step, candlestick, box & whisker, radar, etc.

The free script requires PHP4 or PHP5 support with GD 2 support for optimal performance and PEAR package, including Image_Color and Image_Canvas package. The site offers over 80 samples of how the tool can be used.

 

 

Charts and Graphs: JavaScript-based solutions

Emprise JavaScript Charts
Emprise JavaScript Charts is done in pure JavaScript — no Flash support is required. The script includes features such as hints, mouse tracking, mouse events, key tracking and events, zooming, scrolling, and crosshairs which might raise interactivity and user experience. EJSChart supports XML-formatted data.

Every aspect of the charting display can be configured and customized through well-documented properties and methods. An interesting solution, offering a number of designs and behaviours. Pricing starts at $100.00. There is a watermarked private version available for free.

PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting

PlotKit is an experimental JavaScript-based chart and graph plotting library. It has support for HTML Canvas and SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer as well as native browser support. The script requires

 

 

 

Plotr

This lightweight charting framework based on PlotKit draws simple charts. It’s free, and there is no use of Flash. There are also no interactive elements, however you don’t always need them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSS-based Solutions

An overview of techniques and ideas to create simple charts with CSS and (X)HTML. These solutions provide easy methods to generate static charts and style them; however, they can’t compete with the interactivity Flash offers.

• Ajax MGraph
  A user interactive XHTML/CSS graph which is powered by PHP - with an easy database integration.

   

• 
  CSS Vertical Bar Graphs
   
  
  Eric Meyer’s method to design charts with CSS.

   

• 
  CSS Diagrams
   
  
  A classic. A technique to display CSS-based diagrams with absolute and relative positioning.

   

• 
  CSS for Bar Graphs
   
  
  Another CSS-technique by ApplesToOranges.

   

  
  
   
• Dynamic Pie Chart with CSS

   

• 
  Real World Bar Graphics with some CSS
   

   

• 
  SAC Simple Accessible Charts
   

   

• 
  CSS Line Graphs
   

   

• 
  Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHP
   
  
  
  
   
• An accessible bar chart

   

• 
  Stu Nicholls definition list bar chart
   

   

• 
  Chart Demo
   
  (uses Javascript as well)

   

  

   

   

Related Articles

• Displaying percentages
• CSS Bar Graphs and Charts
• Creating a graph using percentage background images
• Super simple CSS bars

Online Services and Generators

To create charts you don’t need installation or software. Of course, you can get things done online — with charts and graphs generators. The fact that charts aren’t that simple to deal with is realized once you have to input all the data manually. Be prepared: to get the final results you might need dozens of clicks and web forms to input your data.

• Rich Chart Live
  Rich Chart live offers a number of templates and styles. The image below shows the “watercolor pie”-style. Output: Flash-, PowerPoint or image you can insert in your weblog instantly.

   

• 
  FusionCharts Google Gadget
   
  
  The online-version of Fusioncharts.

   

• 
  Create a Graph
   
  
  Supposed to be used by kids, this tool offers a variety of different charts which can be generated once the data is provided. Flash is required.

   

  

   

   

Free Software and Commercial Solutions

You can find an overview of popular charts-related applications in our article Diagrams: Tools and Tutorials. Among other things we’ve covered DIA, JFreeChart, Omnigraffle and Microsoft Visio.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/18/charts-and-graphs-modern-solutions/