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

drxlr

Shantell Martin

Whale Synth

Lorenzo Bocchi

FS Untitled

Canva

Fan Studio

Tomer Lerner

Minnim

McBride Design

Sakura

Monocromo

Full Bundle

Just Coded

Clever Franke

mdcenter

nahelmoussi

fotonaut

Michele Angeloro

Color Theory

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The first website ever created went live on August 6, 1991. Are you curious about its design? This is the link to the website commissioned by CERN. But let’s fast-forward a quarter of a century. Reports show that hundreds of new websites are created every minute. Well, that sounds hard to believe, right? But there are over one billion websites out there. That’s like an endless ocean of information and content. So how do we manage it?

How do we balance between interesting content and multimedia collections? Especially when readability is a must. Or when a reader-friendly layout is crucial to the overall aesthetics. So, it may be a bit difficult to choose which websites to surf and which to avoid… For this reason, we have made it easier for you by selecting 20 websites with a fresh design to spark your imagination.

Here you will find:

a smart series of websites with animated backgrounds and huge typography;
an interactive journey through the Mausoleum of Augustus and the history of Rome;
mouse drawing effects and a full-screen overlay hamburger menu;
a design studio with a conversational interface and amazing hover letter reveal;
websites with fantastic scroll navigation and product picker animation.

We assure you that this cool list of innovative sites is worth your attention: