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Sites of the Week #216

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Foundry Collective and Explanimate. Also we’re featuring the new and responsive Zee website, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site.

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

Zee – zee.com.br

We breath the internet since 2004. We work with design in order to achieve our client’s satisfaction, cause emotion to the user and transform it all in success to your company. Our mission is to help our clients, managing the project from concept to release, through a honest and open relationship.

Zee


THE MAR2 – themar2.com

Showcase of interactive designer/director Martin Ivanov, based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

THE MAR2


APP / WEB APP / SERVICE

Responsify – responsify.it

Responsify is a browser based tool, which allows you to create your own responsive template. Think of it as a foundation for you to build upon. You can customise the grid to suit your content, rather than trying to make the content fit the grid.

Responsify


Eventtus – eventtus.com

Eventtus’ website and mobile app help you explore events, express yourself and connect with people. also if you organize events, we give you all the online tools you need to promote your event, sell tickets, and manage your event’s social experience on web and mobile.

Eventtus


COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE / EVENT

Digg – digg.com

The most interesting and talked about stories, videos and pictures on the web. Breaking news on Technology, Politics, Entertainment, and more!

Digg


HDLive 2012 – 2012.hd-live.co.uk

Free simple icons for your next project.

HDLive 2012


STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Explanimate – explanimate.com.au

Put simply, Explanimate! produces animated videos that engage your audience, and help them understand why your product, service, organisation, idea or concept could benefit them. Our clients like us, and they like even more that their clients like the videos we create.

Explanimate


Foundry Collective – foundrycollective.com

Foundry Collective is a branding and digital agency in Oklahoma City, Denver, and Dallas offering world-wide service of branding, brand strategy, brand buildout, graphic design, mobile development, web design, and web development.

Foundry Collective


THEMES

Invisi – themeskingdom.com

INVISI theme design was created with a goal to promote your content in an organized and visually enjoyable manner. Theme is suitable for personal bloggers, newspapers, online magazines… With great look and very useful features you’ll leave a lasting impression upon your public.

Invisi


Sellegance – themeforest.net

Sellegance is a responsive, elegant and easy to install OpenCart theme.

Sellegance

About the author

I’m from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me or follow on Twitter.

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