Apr

Thumbnail In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

by 2E Editorial in Design Showcase

thumbnail showcase

There are numerous ways to use thumbnail in a web design to make it really be prominent, especially on the Blog Articles, Design Galleries, SideBars, and Footers or in the Comments as an Avatar.

Some of the examples below we’ve together the best looking thumbnail designs and compiled them all into a massive list for you guys.

FanCast

ItsArtist

ClearLeft

ICODesign

Nomint

Refresh

MuchLove

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ClipStampFold

BottledSky

Booreiland

Ideo

Designsensory

Livefront

Blind

BainbridgeStudios

Method

Happilycreate

Jasonsantamaria

Espiratecnologias

VisualBoxSite

Designshard

OutlawDesignBlog

Abduzeedo

WebDesignLedger

SeoDesignSolutions

DesignSnack

Custom Tshirts

CSSEnvy

PatternTap

CardObserver

Smashing Magazine

Tutorial9

FuelYourCreativity

24Ways

ThinkDesignBlog

NetTuts

TagSociety

CSSRemix

InstantShift

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33 Comments Leave a comment

Patternhead

Great post, thanks for sharing

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Marla

The perspective on these makes them hard to evaluate. If these are such good implementations, why did you feel the need to distort them?
SE7EN

lol when I clicked to read this post I didn’t expect to see my avatar at the very end, surprised surprised XD
Design-notes

nice post, I use thumbnail on my site too!

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cssah

nice work,thankssssssssssss

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Paul J

I see the examples, but where’s the discussion on best practices?
Realizzazione Siti Web Bologna

can be useful this article:

AJAX Photo Gallery Round-Up

http://www.webair.it/blog/2009/04/20/ajax-photo-gallery-round-up/
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Pablo

I guess thumbnails has become a new artform These are brilliant. Thanks for the post.
Brian Meagher

I agree with Paul J – Other than showcasing “pretty” designs and what can be done with thumbnails, what’s the point of this post? Where the tips, discussion, resources?
Ui Designer

Awesome post I love the inspiration

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Kimberly Beaven

Some absolutely wonderful thumbnails designs and inspiration here – nice work.
Horia Dragomir

And thanks to this post, I know what I’m going to do with my portfolio listing.

Thanks!

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Web Site Design Companies New York

Excellent post. Thanks for sharing it.
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Good website design gives good traffic to the site. Thanks for the share . I will really bookmark this.
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Facebook Application Developer

Thanks for sharing this example and best practices related to thumbnail in web design
Kai Lo

I think the ClearLeft ones look the best. Very nice design.
Helen Principal

It’s really great to read such posts!
All your examples are real masterpieces in fact!
Grateful to you!
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