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88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography

Daniel Adams — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:27:18 +0000

Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.

There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning collection of Forced Perspective Photography and Pictures taken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the photographers we’ve featured below.

When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. Photography is one of the key sources of inspiration for some of our past work. Here we talking about photography of Specific form named as “Forced Perspective Photography” which I find usually amaze me. If you know how to shoot a photo then you can also change something fairly simple to something creative or abstract or otherwise more artistic. You don’t need any special skills for taking such shots. It all depends on the environment and perfect timing.

You may be interested in the following photography inspiration related articles as well.

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Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography

Photography can serve as a nice source of inspiration. We designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything around, and this collection can fulfills your Forced Perspective Photography Inspiration related needs as the creativity in shooting photos is somewhat hot trend now days. We can promise you that when you start browsing them farther in details it will surely refresh your memory.

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Global News: A Free Wordpress News Theme – Updated!

Daniel Adams — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:56:49 +0000

Many of you may know that last week we released a multi-functional free wordpress news theme named “Global News” and due to some technical reasons we had to remove it from our servers. And now, after scanning all files as we promised, we are again making it available to our readers exclusively.

“Global News”, as the name implies, is a Newspaper Style WordPress Theme that has all the features of a typical newspaper site. This theme was designed by InstantShift and developed by RapidXHTML as an exclusive gift for our readers.

The idea was to design an universal WordPress News Theme that’s focused on content and images, with an invisible, yet typical newspaper design. News themes are often very hard to customize and difficult to handle for a single person but this time we want to design this theme with various admin options and widgets to make your life simple.

You may be interested in the following related free theme as well.

Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to other free theme that our readers may like.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates.

Inspiration Behind The Design

The basic idea behind this theme first comes in mind when we looked around and saw that there are only very few good news themes available over web for WordPress platform and most of them are premium or paid once. So, we wanted to create something useful and make it available to share with design community for FREE. That is one of few strong reasons which inspired us to design this theme. Therefore, we sit together and draw the rough idea on paper. When the things had finished up with designing part the next question which comes in our mind is the conversion of design. The aim was to design an universal WordPress news theme that’s focused on content and images, with an invisible, yet typical newspaper design.

News themes are often very hard to customize and difficult to handle for a single person but this time we want to design this theme with various admin options and widgets to make your life simple. There really are very few limits to what WordPress can handle, so we’ve decided to built in a lot of custom features and some admin options to give people a little flexibility in handling, and give them a feel that how some small functionality tweaks can make a huge difference to the overall experience of browsing a news theme/blog. This time we’ve decided to not to code this theme by our own so we’ve stumbled upon many designers around and finally contacted RapidxHTML for the conversion part and i must say we’re surprised with their designing skills and we had fulfilled with all our expectations and even more.

After running few successful tests and plugin optimization we’ve finally end up with current theme. Hope you all going to like it.

About Developer

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. Each of them know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

They offer professional XHTML / CSS markup services at very affordable price. Their combine expertise in eye-catching graphic layout with modern web design standards built into one of the most powerful systems in the world.

Main Features of The Theme

Modern and beautiful web typefaces in use.
Tableless design and 100% CSS-based layout.
3 columns of fixed width.
Widget Ready.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid.
CSS 2.1 valid.
Well-commented CSS and theme PHP files for flexible customization.
Multi-browser compatibility. Tested under modern w3c compliant browsers. Firefox 3 , Safari 2 and IE7.
Instant updated news slider/tracker which displays your latest news from each category.
Highlighted gallery for featured news.

News flash

Comments style

Comments form

Post options

Agreements

By downloading this theme, under the terms of the GNU General Public License, it is vital that you understood the following terms and conditions :

A link back must be included in the footer or simply just don’t remove the credits from footer.
You can use them on as many domain names as you wish.
You may use them for your clients’ projects / websites. Number of projects is not limited.
You may not claim intellectual and exclusive ownership to any of the themes.
You may not sub-license the original themes and their individual files to and with anyone else, unless a specific license within the theme states otherwise.
You may modify them. However, you may not modify and then resell, unless the modified versions are drastically different from the originals.
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion and the right to change or modify these terms with no prior notice.
No support will be provided for any free theme by instantShift.
Do not provide the direct download link nor upload “Global News” onto other servers for your own share (Please link to this article instead – we also deserve some traffic!). If you want to spread the words, just link to this article.

Download The Themes for Free!

The theme has a 3-column-based layout and, is based on daily news paper and aimed to showcase your content in a unique package and take your news website to the whole new level. The PSD source file of the logo image has also been included with the package. This theme design can be used for any project and will be useful especially for news-related projects.

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article and also to InstantShift Release Post if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish, but if you are planning to release your modification, please ask for permission first.

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User Guide and Documentation
download the theme (.zip, 0.7 MB, including instructions)
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35 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

Daniel Adams — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:40:05 +0000

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave.

Below you’ll find Collection of Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs by which you can save money and focus on making great applications.

The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts.

You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. Just make sure to read the license agreements carefully as they can change from time to time.

You may be interested in the following professional typography and free fonts related articles as well.

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Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

We know that typography can be used as a way of mutual understanding between you and your users. To communicate effectively, typography requires appropriate typefaces as there are a lot of unsung fonts out there that have really inspired us. Color and size of type elements are much more prevalent than in text typography. Most display typography exploits type at larger sizes, where the details of letter design are magnified. Color is used for its emotional effect in conveying the tone and nature of subject matter.

01. Piron

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02. Crimson Text

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03. Amperisk

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04. AGE

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05. St Ryde (Registration Required)

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06. Planer (Registration Required)

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07. Oblik (Registration Required)

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08. Oblik Serif (Registration Required)

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09. SAF

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10. Ingleby

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11. St Marie

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12. Fat Vodka Font

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13. Sumkin

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14. Folk (Registration Required)

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15. Raptor Sans

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16. Eordeoghlakat

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17. Adec

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18. Octavius (Registration Required)

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19. Olney Light (Registration Required)

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20. Sega

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21. Aura

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22. Guayule (Registration Required)

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23. Irvine High

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24. Bext type!

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25. Alter (Registration Required)

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26. CR21 Modern

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27. HoneyScrip’

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28. A/BRU Subtle

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29. Depot Trapharet 2D (Registration Required)

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30. Nobile

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31. Legere (Registration Required)

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32. 01.BASE

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33. ElementalEnd

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34. Alt Retro

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35. RM Narrowboat (Registration Required)

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HoneyThemes: A Free XHTML-CSS-Layout for Online Theme Shop

Daniel Adams — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:28:40 +0000

Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. We’ve again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the instantShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now. We never wait for special occasions to announce good freebies. To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release this free XHTML/CSS Layout HoneyThemes. It’s our latest high-quality freebies addition for instantShift readers.

“HoneyThemes”, as the name implies, it’s something to do with themes which is actually a XHTML/CSS Layout suitable for any online theme business and has all the requirements and features of a typical theme shop. This layout was designed and developed by RapidxHTML as an exclusive gift for instantShift readers.

About a year ago we compiled a handy list of 99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates and “HoneyThemes” can be a great addition to that.

Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to other free theme that our readers may like.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates.

Main Features of The Layout

Colorful, vibrant, and attractive custom design
Modern and beautiful web typeface.
Tableless design and 100% CSS-based layout.
2 columns of fixed width.
Cufon font replacement enabled.
XHTML 1.0 Strict valid.
CSS 2.1 valid.
Delivered with source .PSD file.
Well-commented CSS and theme PHP files for flexible customization.
Multi-browser compatibility. Tested under modern w3c compliant browsers. Firefox 3 , Safari 2 and IE7.

About Developer

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. Each of them know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

Agreements

“HoneyThemes” is a free theme Layout release and we thus release it “as is”. We & RapidxHTML will not be offering any support to users of this theme layout. If you would like some assistance with “HoneyThemes” and you’d like to tap into the collective knowledge of the instantShift community.

By downloading this layout, under the terms of the GNU General Public License, it is vital that you understood the following terms and conditions:

You can use them on as many domain names as you wish.
You may use them for your clients’ projects / websites. Number of projects is not limited.
You may not claim intellectual and exclusive ownership to any of the layout.
You may not sub-license the original layout and their individual files to and with anyone else, unless a specific license within the layout states otherwise.
You may modify them. However, you may not modify and then resell, unless the modified versions are drastically different from the originals.
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion and the right to change or modify these terms with no prior notice.
No support will be provided for any free theme/layout by instantShift.
Do not provide the direct download link nor upload “HoneyThemes” onto other servers for your own share (Please link to this article instead – we also deserve some traffic!). If you want to spread the words, just link to this article.

Download The layout for Free!

The layout is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the layout as you wish, but if you are planning to release your modification, please ask for permission first.

Live Demo
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Download "HoneyThemes" Layout (.zip, 0.39 MB)
Download “HoneyThemes” .PSD (.zip, 2.51 MB)

Reference links!

Freebie: Cute Twitter Bird Icon Set

Daniel Adams — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:13:22 +0000

Twitter has grown exponentially in the past few months and Still, It’s growing like crazy. Twitter has surpassed Facebook and others to become the fastest-growing site in the “Member Communities” category. Twitter is a powerful marketing and promotion tool that no active blogger can ignore.

To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release yet another high quality cute twitter icon set for our readers.

These icons delivered as PNGs in 4 different sizes: 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512. Designed by a young talented designer Asher Abbasi from Pakistan exclusively for InstantShift.com readers only.

The “Twitter effect” is on the rise day by day. For all those who haven’t yet heard of it, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read “updates” (otherwise known as tweets) to their webpage using SMS,IM or other 3rd part applications, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Now days twitter is on top of its charm and everyone love to experiment with their designs using different icons. So again, here we present high quality cute twitter icon set for your designs

Cute Twitter Icon Set

All icons are free and you can download, edit and use them for any individual and commercial projects. If you like what you are downloading/using, consider linking back to this article. Do not provide the direct download link nor upload these icons onto other servers for your own share (Please link to this article instead – we also deserve some traffic!). If you want to spread the words, just link to this article.

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Download Cute Twitter Icon Set (.zip, 0.39 MB)
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66 Fresh Examples Of Creative Single Page Website Designs

Daniel Adams — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:40:51 +0000

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge.

In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.

The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend because your website represents you and your brand.

You may be interested in the following modern trends related articles as well.

Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to other trends that our readers may like.

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Single Page Website Designs for Design Inspiration

Throughout history, great artists always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The Definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for content. There is no “Good” and “Bad” in design. It always define as a “Different”.

01. Oh! Mai Mai!

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02. Setupyourowncamp

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03. Thebeehivemarket

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04. Goslingo

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05. Themanyfacesof

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06. Froket

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07. Kardoayoub

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08. Beandesigned

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09. DynamicPortfolio

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10. Thecybertouch

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11. Altitude

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12. Bowtieperiod

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13. Danscotton

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14. Frontenddesignconference

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15. Sillypoems

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16. Davidsalvatori

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17. Cogaoke

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18. Marcelschouwenaar

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19. Mymcreative

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20. Vibefolio

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21. Thetruthisntsexy

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22. Joshsender

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23. Aaronkato

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24. Thebrothasband

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25. Gulfcoasthope

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26. Iwit

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27. Contrast

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28. Bunton

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29. Clholloway

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30. Provenancedigital

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31. Danielmoir

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32. Pusulaweb

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33. Blendblink

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34. Curio

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35. Enlivenlabs

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36. Nickdavisdesign

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37. Vmg

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38. Prettyproduction

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39. Jaxvineyards

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40. Glingadesign

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41. Craigreville

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42. Alexbuga

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43. Anhimation

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44. The10ways

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45. Cvmcreative

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46. Searchengineoptimisationbristol

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47. Dcsalon

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48. Lubbinge

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49. Shellgreenier

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50. Markdijkstra

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51. Dawntwist

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52. Midtsommerjazz

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53. Lukechambers

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54. Shannonbartish

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55. Yourauxiliary

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56. Vjdesign

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57. Pintabianhorses

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58. Hayleysmith

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59. Helpmemacguru

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60. Tylertermini

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61. Latteperday

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62. Brunky

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63. Sirulian

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64. Forwardtrends

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65. Peytongreendesign

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66. Bokicabo

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Find Something Missing?

While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great single page resources. Feel free to share it with us.

90+ Clean and Minimal Web Designs for Design Inspiration

Daniel Adams — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:47:50 +0000

The web industry nowadays is very productive. During these years there have been many trends followed and every day the designers experiment new techniques creating new tendencies in the art of making website.

Recently is evident the necessity of a direct communication with customers and a website is the first place where a company can make know their cool stuff and services. A well-designed website is important for the growth of a business and often to create a “fresh” and clear image for a company (or a product, or a freelancer) we need the help of the art of simplicity. For these reasons a minimal and super-clean layout can be the perfect solution for an attractive website.

In this post, after a little overview, you’ll see some of the best examples of minimalism in modern web design.

A Web designer always need to improve his design and assembling skills, one can always think that how other designers and developers achieve both beautiful and creative designs. And to improve your design skills all the time you need good sources of inspiration to have a proper vision and to learn from masters who have a profound understanding of design field.

A good web designer always looking for ways to get inspired by new trends as Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. The basic point behind this post is to show you that you don’t need to just follow the routine methods for creating minimal design, there are lots of creative work out there to get inspire and break those routine bounds of choosing default design.

You may be interested in the following modern trends related articles as well.

Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to other trends that our readers may like.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates.

Clean and Minimal Web Designs for Design Inspiration

Designing of creative design is a quite difficult job for an artist as he needs to show his ability of using his design skills in it which leads him to get busy with new visitors or potential clients. The more time and effort you dedicate for a creative, eye-catching design and hitting your objectives, the higher are your chances for getting better results in the end. It’s always hard to think in right direction and even harder to find right inspiration. Here in this showcase below, we trying to present you exemplary design trends, new practices, creative ideas and designer’s skills and you’ll find a comprehensive collection of Clean and Minimal Web Designs which will give you better understanding of design capabilities as well as inspiration for your site.

Concentric-studio

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Maksimer

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Paul-rand

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Sprawsm

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Capitalgdesign

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Joyent

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Typedeskref

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Maurivan

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Projectfedena

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Wearenation

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Designisblank

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Thinkingforaliving

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Combinestudio

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Jeroenhoman

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Wordsarepictures

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Danscotton

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Havnevik

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Designwoop

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Iliketodesign

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Royale

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Sleepoversf

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Vignettedesign

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Coullon

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Iamdan

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Ilovedust

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Cynosura

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Ilovetypography

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Carbon.coop

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Things

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Videodslr

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Kylesollenberger

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Jontremaine

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Wheretheyatnola

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Divisionparis

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Wishpipe

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Northkingdom

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5oup

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Executiveedits

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Ogvidius

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9ko

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Coolandtheguide

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Corporateriskwatch

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Doublenaut

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Stevebuffoni

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Ryanevans

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Brianhoff

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Tomwahlin

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Gilesrevell

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Salvator

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Futurising

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Ryanwillms

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Worklifebalancecentre

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Ioadv

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Dailylayout

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Shiriamram

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Invoko

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Metaset

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Electricgecko

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Buzzgraphics

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Typographica

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Pixelbot

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Artypapers

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Anothercompany

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Madewithlove

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Mgiesser

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Visualcraftsman

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Kyee

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Jamiegregory

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Ideasonpurpose

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Afcook

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Tobiasahlin

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Astheria

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Circus

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Effektivedesign

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Area17

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Urbaninfluence

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Oldguard

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Glingadesign

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Nick-harrison

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52weeksofux

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Workbyitself

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Precinkt

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Davidsalvatori

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Taylorandives

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Sarahhultin

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Skylaranderson

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Winkreative

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Amillionthingstodo

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Tinyvillain

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70folk

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Lachlanbailey

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Typedesk

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Thgcreative

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Gotopublicschool

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Sharpenr

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Dalston

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Find Something Missing?

While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other inspirational resources. Feel free to share it with us.

Design Showcase, Feature Collection

50 Red Web Designs to Inspire You

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30 Negative Space Logos

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Beautiful Contact Forms for your Inspiration

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50 Informative and Well-Designed Infographics

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60 Minimal and Super Clean Web Designs

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50 Creatively Designed Twitter Backgrounds

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Photography, Digital Showcase and Art inspiration

40 Most Beautiful Mosques In The World

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88 Brilliant Examples of Bokeh Photography

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Oil reaches Louisiana shores

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35 Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography

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35 Beautiful Human Portrait Typography Art Designs

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Beautiful Black and White Photography

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50 Beautiful Examples of Architecture Photography

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Animals in the news

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Freebies Resources (Themes, Wallpapers, PSDs, Icons, Vectors, Fonts etc.)

40 Beautiful and Very High-Resolution Wallpapers

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25+ Free Vector World Maps

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Massive iPad Vector GUI Elements

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20 Fresh High Quality Free Fonts

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35 Fresh FreeFonts for Designers and Developers

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50 (More) Excellent Mini Icon Sets

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100 Incredibly Useful & Free Mac Apps

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The Ultimate List of 50 Free Mac Games

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Tutorials, Tips, Tricks & Hacks Resources

Create Beautiful 3D Graphs and Charts in Illustrator

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Hexagon Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

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Create Metallic Text on a Concrete Background

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Create an Abstract Design with Patterns

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Making a Fancy WordPress Register Form from Scratch

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40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Icon Tutorials

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Design A Print-Ready Promotional Ad Using Photoshop and Illustrator

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Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop

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Create a Cute Baby Monster Character

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7 Simple and Useful Command-Line Tips

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Create a Trendy Seamless Type Pattern

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Seven Tips for Your Design Job Interview

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CSS, xHTML, Javascript, Ajax and Design Resources

Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples

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Negative Space in Webpage Layouts

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Huge Infographics Design Resources: Overview, Principles, Tips and Examples

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Simple, Practical Color Theory

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jQuery Image Galleries & Sliders – Best Of

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18 Dos and Don’ts Of Usability On The Web

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The Ultimate Roundup of WordPress Tutorials, Themes and Guides

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The Myth of Beautiful Web Design

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Designing an Infographic with HTML, CSS & jQuery

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Appz, Tools and Development Resources

Google Fonts API

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Useful (Offline) Utensils and Toolkits for Designers

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The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World

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Why you Should be using PHP’s PDO for Database Access

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50 Fundamental jQuery Controls, Components and Plugins

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21 Free Video Players For Your Website and Blogs

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17 Free Content Management Systems For Better Content Handling

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Ten Terrific Apps to Help You Keep Track of Your Time

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10 sites developers should have in their bookmarks

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Introducing WordPress 3 Custom Taxonomies

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Freelancing Resources

The (Myth of?) the Lonely Freelancer

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Effective Tips To Start Freelancing Without Getting Too Comfy

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What Clients Say vs. What They Mean

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There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Client

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30+ Things You Have to Know about being a Freelancer

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Why You Should Never Charge Hourly

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What’s Not Your Job?

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Miscellaneous Resources

How to Know When to Walk Away

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7 Personality Types of Developers Today

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7 Personality Types of Designers Today

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Why Colors Can Make or Break Your Design

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17 Easy Steps to Brilliant Blog Posts

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Joomla And WordPress: A Matter Of Mental Models

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What is The Future of Web Development?

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6 Steps That Get Big Shots to Answer Your Email

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A DIY Web Design Education

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10 New Ideas for Getting Inspired to Write

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Insights Into the Running of a Design Business

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Some Opinions on the SEO Myths & Realities Fight

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Bulletproof of Mind Mapping

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Find Something Missing?

While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great resources of the month of May. Feel free to share it with us.

SocialClean- Free Social Network Icons

Daniel Adams — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:43:50 +0000

To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release yet another high quality icon set – “SocialClean” for our readers.

SocialClean, as the name implies, is a social network icons with crispy design. It’s a set of 12 icons delivered as PNGs in 4 different sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 and 128×128 covering various social networks like Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Google Buzz, Linked In, Mixx, MySpace, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter. Designed by IconShock.com exclusively for InstantShift.com readers only.

Man is a social animal and he can’t exist in isolation, we make friends and find common interest groups and socialize with people or society or things of our interest. Internet has provided us a great bridge and even a greater platform on which the social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg etc ) are made. The basic concept is similar to all: to find your friends or share information, get along common interest group and explore new ones.

SocialClean – Free Social Network Icons

All icons are free and you can download and use them in either personal or commercial project. If you like what you are downloading/using, consider linking back to this article. Do not provide the direct download link nor upload SocialClean onto other servers for your own share (Please link to this article instead – we also deserve some traffic!). If you want to spread the words, just link to this article.

iconshock is the largest stock icon studio, with more than 300 icon collections covering about 800.000 stock icons, To keep updated with their free collections, please follow icon library, the iconshock blog and of course, you can also follow then in twitter.

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