Showcase of Beautiful Movie Website Designs

Posted by Harshad

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 08:01 AM PDT

True movie lovers hardly ever get satisfied with just watching a film. They want to know all the details related to the movie, details like the cast, inspiration behind a story, fresh news about it and even more. Fortunately, the Web era allows us to know a lot about a favourite movie. And film and trivia websites help us with it.

Films are made to entertain their audiences, same goes with their sites. Of course, the main aim is to spread to the world what’s great about the film and promote it via trailers with dramatic action, graphically rich animation, awesome sound effects and funny quips about what to expect.Then, there is the film website.

As a rule, a film website launches long before the highly anticipated movie in order to trigger public interest. In today’s post, I have pulled together 45 really stunning film website designs of all the best movies over the last few years. Check out the appropriate use of full size video backgrounds to show off a trailer or awesome posters.

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1. Iron Man

2. Life of Pi

3. Star Trek Into Darkness

4. The Hobbit

5. Killing Them Softly

6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

7. Hangover Part 3

8. Warm Bodies

9. A Good Day to Die Hard

10. Sherlock Holmes

17. White House Down

18. The Hunger Games

19. Stand Up Guys

20. Madagascar

21. Rush

22. To Save a Life

30. Resident Evil

31. Worlds Away 3D

32. Watchmen

33. Alice in Wonderland

34. Broken Embraces

35. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

36. Where the Wild Things Are

37. Mid-August Lunch

38. City Island

39. Brooklyns Fines

40. Halloween 2

41. Green Lantern

42. Red Riding Hood

43. Day Breakers

44. Sucker Punch

45. The Exorcist

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Adding iOS Icons for Bookmarked Website

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 06:01 AM PDT

The bookmark icon or more commonly known as favicon (favorite icon) has been around since 1999 with the introduction of Internet Explorer 5. The bookmark icon or favicon is generally specified in 16×16 px with .ico (sometimes also with .png format) and is displayed beside the URL address of the web browser or beside the page title of the Tab interface, as shown below.

Today, with mobile device advancement, the bookmark icon or favicon has also evolved. For example, iOS, which you probably are familiar with, displays icons onscreen.

Most of these icons are beautifully designed, and after Apple introduced a new meta tag named apple-touch-icon you can now display website icons on the iOS homescreen when you bookmark a site.

Recommended Reading: Generate Android Or IOS App Icons With MakeAppIcon

Adding Apple Touch Icons

The apple touch icon is specified with <link> tag, as follows.

 <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.png"/>

This icon, by default, is 57x57px. But, with iPad and Retina devices, we need to provide more sizes. iPad requires icons with the size of 72x72px, while Retina devices need icons with 114x114px size.

So, all in all, we need to provide the icon in the following specifications – within the <head> – to support iPhone, iPad and Retina devices.

 <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.png"/> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="icon.png"/> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="icon.png"/>

By default, iOS will automatically add the eye-candy effects to the icons.

If you prefer the icon to not interfere with this effect, you can add -precomposed at the end of the rel name, like so.

 <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="icon.png"/>

Refresh the webpage and re-save to the home screen. Now, the effect is not added to the icon.

Recommended Reading: Custom Icon and Image Creation Guidelines – Safari Developer Library

Creating Apple Touch Icons with Photoshop

In our previous post, we have discussed how to create apple touch icon with MacAppIcon. Alternatively – and this is also my preference – we can use PSD templates from AppIconTemplate for more flexibility in customization.

One additional feature that I really like from this PSD template is that it also comes with Photoshop Actions that automatically saves the icon into several sizes, including the ones for iTunes Artwork.

Bonus: Adding Windows 8 Pinned Icon

In addition, Windows 8 also provides similar ways to add icons on pinned (bookmarked) websites with the following meta tags.

 <meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/metro-tile.png"/> <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#015565"/>

For furthrer discussion on implementing these tags at your website, you can head over to the following MSDN post.

Further Resources

Favicon browser support – Information Gift
Making iOS icon with App Icon Template – Pixel Resorts
Specifying a Webpage Icon for Web Clip – Safari Developer Library
Understand the Favicon

Game Screen Wallpapers [Wallpaper Wednesday]

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 03:01 AM PDT

Console gamers would remember playing awesome games on the classic consoles like NES, PlayStation or Xbox in their younger days. All those long hours trying to cross level after level, digging into secret zones hidden away from general view and living up the adage that “Practice Makes Perfect”, video games were pretty much part of our childhood. Stepping out of memory lane, here are some wallpapers to appreciate games once, and currently loved.

This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday will feature 26 game screen wallpapers that will take you back to your childhood. Don’t see your favorite games here? Share with us in the comments below.

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Angry Birds. Available in 1366×768.

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