Radial elements is one of popular trend in web design in the end of 2007. Some of you may asked:
What is Radial Elements?
Radial is a attention stripe where its draw a more consistent attention from visitors. It will focusing in a more appealing area where radial is appear. This is a great way to present a more important intro or headline for your site so when a visitor visit your site, the first thing he/she will watch will be the attention grab radial
Here are couple of well used radial element site
A radial header from lighttherapy.org.uk
Dark and light radial from incredible box
inner radial from burenttdairy.com
layered radial from webstock.org.nz
High texture background radial from theshaun.com
exception hidden radial from thingpen designs
Some conclusion
Radial element may seems unsufficients or uneccesary for some but the elements are great in design aspect for a full attention grab from each visits. The radial elements definately taking it place in current web trend, if you would like to know how to design yourself a radial elements, you can follow my little tutorial here on how to design a simple radial based header.