Today marks the first day of Tami’s series of articles for Elegant Marketplace — she will be writing about website design there on an ongoing basis. First up: a roundup of homepage ideas that forego the standard carousel-style slider that has become so omnipresent in current design. Check it out!

Tami will be writing for Elegant Marketplace once or twice a month and is super excited to have a forum for writing about design. She’ll be covering topics including design trends, best practices and the history of web design. (She’s currently penning her chef d’oeuvre, a historical survey of web design trends since the beginning of internet history.)