When it comes to the best user experience, it all boils down to the details. Mouse-over effects can dramatically enhance your website user experience and turn the interface into something incredibly appealing and eye-catching. Not to mention that it makes the website seem alive. Mouse-over effects are easy to create. You can use either Java or CSS for fun effects. You can even learn how to wiggle an image. The mouse-over effects occur only when a user moves the mouse or the digital pen over a particular area. In this case, when you move the cursor over the designated area, the text could be moving, music could be playing, or some image could be popping.

Such effects counter poor user experience. For example, steer clear of websites with ‘mystery meat navigation’. No, we do not mean the ‘mystery meat’ (that no one really knows what contains) found in your favorite cold meats, but links whose destination is not visible until the user points their cursor at it. Sometimes even ‘click here’ links with no destination frustrate users since it results in poor user experience. Let’s not mention the poor search engine optimization (SEO) engendered by such links.

Keeping all these in mind, implementing mouse-over effects can bring many benefits to your website. Therefore, we hand-picked 20 creative websites with mouse-over effects to inspire you. They are absolutely stunning!

So make sure you click every link and play around with the cursor, checking the mouse-over effects!

Trubochka

trubochka

drxlr

drxlr

Shantell Martin

shantellmartin

Whale Synth

whaleclick

Lorenzo Bocchi

lorenzobocchi

FS Untitled

fs-untitled

Canva

canva

Fan Studio

fanstudio

Tomer Lerner

lerner

Minnim

minnim

McBride Design

mcbride

Sakura

sakura

Monocromo

monocromo

Full Bundle

full-bundle

Just Coded

just-coded

Clever Franke

cleverfranke

mdcenter

mdcenter

nahelmoussi

nahelmoussi

fotonaut

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Michele Angeloro

eien

Color Theory

colortheory

Which are your favorite mouse-over effects and why? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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