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Sleek Media Player Interfaces: Best Examples and Free PSD’s

As an owner of online resource whether it is a simple blog, a magazine, a small news portal or e-shop we are tend to make it as popular and successful as possible. There are a plenty tricks and tips to attract new visitors and force them to stay. The most proven and, as a consequence, frequently used methods are:

    creating memorable unconventional design;
    include animations and various interactive elements;
    regularly giving away free goods;
    and last but not least, publishing good-quality and interesting articles.

But, as you may have noticed, the days of simple texts and plain images have worn away and the era of rich multimedia content has begun. Many authors include into articles not only visual images, but also explanatory videos. Along with many advantages that accompany use of multimedia such as enhancing page ranking, increase efficiency and general availability and much more, there are some drawbacks that, at first place, raise issues of compatibility and website loading time. Fortunately due to technical progress most of them will be solved during coming years.

Main components of Media Player

None media player cannot do without the following items:

    play/stop/pause buttons;
    volume control;
    title.

Other functions such as backward/forward, go to first/last item, menu, playlist, progress bar, timer, full screen icon, favs option, share bar are facultative. All in all there are plenty of media player interface designs, starts with minimalistic versions that include only couple of buttons and ending up with unconventional covers with page flip effects and massive navigation panel, that can fully satisfy needs of any visitor.

In the meantime I suggest you to take a look at our collection of varied player covers; we have also included more than 10 useful psd templates.

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