fresh styles for web designers
Problem: The look and feel of most U.S. corporate sites is very similar due to inbreeding. If they do it at Microsoft.com, that must be what a professional corporate site is supposed to look like, and then all sites look like Microsoft's site (or Amazon, or Ebay, or...)

Solution: Look elsewhere for design inspiration. Introduce some new web design ideas into the mix -- new blood for the design gene pool.

Where to look for fresh design ideas:
Experimental Home Pages/ Non-Print-Based Design firms: To them the web is not new media, it's THE media. They aren't looking to magazines for inspiration. They're looking to medical diagrams, early-80's software interfaces, grocery bags, cartoons, and the browser window itself.
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