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It’s always going to be difficult when you work for yourself as a freelancer to get traffic to your site and of course generate leads and enquiries for your services as a result.

If you’ve not already thought about doing so, you really should be looking at design galleries as a means of getting more visitors to your site and what to do with them once they’ve come to see what you’ve designed.

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There’s a distinct trend at the moment which has thankfully seen a return to real clean cut, well laid out and above all, simple websites. I’ve always leant towards designing using as much whitespace and a limited colour palette to really display information to visitors without too much distraction.

Here is a list of 10 sites I’ve found inspiring either recently or in the past which demonstrate great understanding and application of whitespacing in their design and layout. Hope you enjoy them.

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There are a lot of ugly, hard to use and ill conceived e-commerce sites out there. As I’ve been asked recently by a number of clients to either develop a full e-commerce site or at least offer some sort of online retail functionality, I thought I’d list 20 well designed e-commerce sites.

Some range from setting up a full e-commerce site and others have simply required the ability to sell a few items online using simple means like payapl.

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Having just spent several hours testing and hacking through the promising but woefully under-developed and under-supported wordpress e-commerce plugin I thought I’d share a few links to nicely built shopping sites that I’ve been looking at while working on another design for a different client. It’s difficult to criticise the wp e-commerce developers for what they’ve built as it’s a hugely promising plugin for wordpress but I’d have to say if anyone is looking it up with half a mind to use it. I’d probably recommend something different that’s a little further down the development line than this one.

Some nicely designed e-commerce sites

That said, and while working for a different client, I’ve come across some really nicely designed and developed shopping sites which in no particular order are:

• Uniqlo
• Fox Cubs
• Shoe Guru
• Vorsat
• LightRein
• Carhartt Streetwear