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115+ Famous Resources for Promote your Design Articles/News

Smashing Buzz — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:10:43 +0000

Everyone want more visitors on your website is a very multifaceted process with a lot of variations, there is many ways as examples: SEO, valuable content, link exchange and advertising on different resources. As per today need of most design and technology based bloggers who want to promote design or tech related news and want to get more traffic we presenting most active resources where you can submit your news, articles, design posts and technology news for get valuable visitors.

5 reasons you should hire a freelance designer vs a design company

Greymint Design — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:40:54 +0000

It is common for some clients to feel reluctant about hiring a freelance designer as opposed to a design company, but there are a lot of advantages to hiring a freelance designer, five of which are listed below:

• Flexibility

Freelance designers tend to be a lot more flexible when it comes to design ideas and time lines. They make sure they offer their clients flexible service in order to meet their design needs. Also, for a freelance designer, it isn’t always 9-5, 8 hours a day while working on a project, so, clients may even get revisions back within a couple of hours, which helps in speeding the process.

Amazing Whiskey Bottles And Packages For Your Inspiration

Nikola Lazarevic — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:06:43 +0000

Whisky or whiskey is a type of alcoholic beverage distilled from fermented grain mash. But, in this moment more than the definitions,we are interested in design bottles and packages. So, in this post you will see some of the best ideas and solutions which can be helpful in your creativity.

27 Great Sci-Fi Digital Arts from Deviant Art

Onextrapixel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:16:02 +0000

Science fiction has been widely popular for years. Nowadays, technology enables graphic designers and digital artists to illustrate the fantasy of their imagination through digital arts.

50 Beautiful E-Commerce Website Designs

Dibakar — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:14:11 +0000

Electronic commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

14 Important Writing Tips For Graphic Design Related Bloggers

Albert Lie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:10:40 +0000

There are some important things that i learned from being a graphic design blogger since months ago. I hope that this article will help every graphic design bloggers to grow their blog rapidly.

Advice from the Real World: What a web design firm looks for when hiring

Manda Szewczyk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:51:21 +0000

Have you ever wondered what design firms are looking for when they are hiring? What they want to see in your portfolio? What they are looking for during the interview? Creative Opera has reached out to design professionals, asking for advice and guidance.

88 Tips to Make You a Productive Freelancer

Freelance Apple — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:36:07 +0000

A Huge list to change your life in a Huge way. Manage your time properly with this in depth and informative article, guaranteed to improve your worklife.

30+ Corporate WordPress Themes

Girlie Nuqui — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:45:31 +0000

We’ve compiled 30+ excellent corporate WordPress themes from ThemeForest for your next corporate client. Either download the themes and customize them to your client’s needs or use these designs as inspiration to create a unique WordPress template from scratch.

Book Review: Logo Design Love by David Airey

The Pro Designer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:18:16 +0000

There is so much high quality information and it covers all the areas we really need to know about without all the BS.

30 Clever and Creative Advertisement Concepts

Blue Blots — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:21:24 +0000

Today, we give you a list of inspiring advertisement designs from different companies around the world. Here is 30 Clever and Creative Advertisement Concepts.

85 Fresh and New Logo Design for Inspiration

vikas ghodke — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:59:17 +0000

A unique logo formed a trademark for any brand or company. Design of a logo depends upon the kind of work done by the organization and creativity of designer. So here we have collected some of the fresh and new logo design for design inspiration.

Create A Stylish And Sleek Play-Station Portable Icon

Dainis Graveris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:39 +0000

In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll learn how to create a stylish and sleek-looking play station portable.

50+ High-Quality Photoshop Tutorials For Lighting and Abstract Effects

Themeflash — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:33:43 +0000

Photoshop gives designers the ability to create some amazing effects that can accomplish just about anything you can image. Fortunately, there are plenty of Photoshop experts who are willing to write detailed tutorials to show off the potential. Here is a look at some of the best tutorials for using various lighting and abstract effects.

Small touches for great designs

Michela Chiucini — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:32:08 +0000

This article isn’t just about pretty things but also about how to use them to improve user experience.

15 Brilliant CSS3 Based Articles

Nikhil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:55:37 +0000

CSS3 is becoming more and more popular these days and many developers are using it regardless (this is good) of compatibility issues with some browsers. Today probably everyone knows about CSS3 and its features. But you can extend its use further with following awesome tutorials or resources.

75 Photo Manipulations Art That Will Blow Your Mind

Splashnology — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:35:57 +0000

This presentation shows an incredible collection of photo manipulation art related to nature, photography, objects, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related concepts.

70+ Best Web Galleries Around for Your Inspiration

Design Dazzling — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:28:50 +0000

Web Design Galleries and Showcases are a greater source of inspiration for designers which help them to get exposure for their work. And these galleries are using for improving website rank and traffic of your website. You can submit your designs and website on these galleries and showcase. In this article you’ll find 70+ of the best and most popular web design galleries.

20+ Creative Event Invitation Card Designs

Girlie Nuqui — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:53:57 +0000

A roundup of 20+ event invitation card designs to inspire your next design project.

11 Websites To Create Contact Forms

inspirationfeed — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:05:30 +0000

Whenever you run a website you most likely will have a contact page. Don’t be so boring by just having your email address and saying “Send me an email to this address”. Instead have a contact form. That way people will simply email you their message directly from your website. It will be fast, easy, and simple. Below i have listed some useful services that will help you create a custom form. From there you can copy the given code and paste it into your page.

Community News: Are you Missing out in Submitting your Design Articles Online? | Design Juices

Jared Thompson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:36:23 +0000

Articles can be submitted in nearly every design site around, each will often either have their own page or have a submission form in the sidebar of their pages. News can be submitted quick and easily, often bringing new droves of people to your site.

More Thoughts on Language and Coding for the Web

Matt Ward — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:58:24 +0000

In this second article on the relationship between human languages and coding for the web, I will consider issues of linguistic evolution, language families, syntax and the way all of these things relate to coding for the web. I will also make a bold suggestion about your ability to code, even if you’ve never written a single line in your life!

26 Hot Free Fonts Inspired by Movies

Tyler — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:30:33 +0000

This collection of 26 free movie fonts is mainly for the hardcore fans out there. Please don’t be mad if I didn’t include the font from YOUR favorite movie. These 26 are from my point of view, the best free movie fonts out there. Enjoy!

Web Design Trends: Predictions for 2010

Manda Szewczyk — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:08:07 +0000

What types of web design trends should you expect to see in 2010? Here are my predictions.

25 Awesome Tips to Become a Successful Freelancer

Dainis Graveris — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:26 +0000

Having worked as a freelancer on and off for over ten years, I’ve created this list of my best tips on how to succeed. Maybe you already use several of these or versions of them, great!

15 Free, New and Fresh Social Media Icon Sets

Ajay — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:59:26 +0000

If are you looking some new social icon sets for your next design project? You are at the right place here where you can find 15 free, new and fresh social media icon sets . Especially, they are all free for download. Some of them are free for personal use only but others can be used without restriction.

Free Vector Art: 20 New, Useful Illustration Sets

gizelle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:17:40 +0000

The amount of free vector art that you can download is growing tremendously every day. Here are 20 fresh free vector art sets you can use to create new designs.

25+ Ads That Are Just Not Right For Public Eyes

The Pro Designer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:39:25 +0000

Sometimes we see things and really think to ourselves is that right, whether its deliberate, an accident or just simply bad placement. This selection of ads really takes us to this point.

Amazing High Quality Icons for Your Inspiration

Hein — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:46:18 +0000

We all love and admire well-designed icon sets. Because we’re always on the lookout for inspiration, we’ve gathered a …

80 Beautiful Web Design Trends Of Minimal Site

Themeflash — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:10:41 +0000

Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of superfluous elements in one’s own work. It’s applied in art, architecture, print work, and in web design. There is something extraordinary about making something magnificent with limited resources, and in this showcase, you’ll find the work of talented designers that exhibit exemplary use of Minimalism theories applied to web design.

40+ Effective Call to Action Buttons

jennywarner — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:06:51 +0000

In web designing, the Call to Action has a huge importance as this is a term used for soliciting an action from the user. The implementation of Call to Action comes in the form of Clickable buttons which leads the readers to perform an action of buying something or take him to a web page having some additional information.

Desktop Wallpaper: 80+ Most Breathtaking Places on Earth

Tony — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:25:17 +0000

There are many sources of inspiration that designers look to when trying to get their creative juices flowing. I think there is none better than the breathtaking landscapes that nature has to offer. In this post you will see some of the most beautiful places on earth. You will see everything from the mountains of Alberta, Canada to the beautiful beaches of Koh Phi Phi Island in Thailand. I hope that these images will help to inspire you. Enjoy!

25 Examples of Watercolor Art in Web Design

Chris Thurman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:32:18 +0000

Hand-painted creations in web design. Be inspired by these 25 beautiful examples of watercolor art in web design

35 Creative 404 Page Designs

inspirationfeed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:20:37 +0000

Many bloggers overlook their 404 page, leaving them looking unappealing and plain. 404 pages show up when a link gets broken or something is moved to another url. When this happens you should be prepared, because this might be the last time a visitor views your website. Here are a few hand picked examples of 404 pages. Hopefully you will find them helpful, please share your thoughts with us below.

70 Exceptional Creative Typography Desktop Wallpapers

Smashing Buzz — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:52 +0000

We always present quality stuff for you respected visitors and readers, today we have some modern and latest typography wallpapers, we simply presenting beautiful and inspiring to look at I think, typography art to desktop wallpapers seams to be quite common and it gives us a good opportunity to have a source of stunning typography inspiration in a place where we wont forget to look at it. We select some beautiful typography desktop wallpapers most of them will part of your desktop long time because you may never seen this listing before as we struggle to find that amazing roundup with full of creativity and writing art. we offering Conspicuous typography wallpapers for your beautiful typography desktop, you may get idea about graphic designing, inspirational idea, creativity, abstract art and text effects, we hope you will share your ideas and comment that will entertain in our next edition.

80 creative examples of logos featuring animals

richie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:12:49 +0000

I have showcased some of the most creative logos featuring animals. I have also showcased a few logos which have become successful corporate brands today

25 Useful CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

yugu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:38:57 +0000

Css3 have a capacity to revolutionize the way we design/develop website. css3 is intoducing loads of new and exciting features. Most of the browsers such as Firefox, Safari already support some of the CSS3 propertie

45+ Refreshing New Vector Wallpapers Collection

Rocky — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:46:33 +0000

Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. Vector graphics formats are complementary to raster graphics, which is the representation of images as an array of pixels, as it is typically used for the representation of photographic images.

40 Outstanding Mascot Designs

Psdbase — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:55:04 +0000

The internet has a wide variety of great mascot designers ive compiled a list of 40 Outstanding mascot designs from all around the internet. You will be breath taken by some of these incredibly rich and vibrant mascots designs. Enjoy the list!

Top 30 Free But Very Professional Fonts For Everyday Use In 2010

SloDive — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:22:58 +0000

Most of the free fonts listed below meet that criteria although a couple would definitely be considered a little over the top.

10 Purchases To Save You Time

Freelance Apple — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:11:39 +0000

An article discussing 10 items which will help you save time as a freelancer.

10 Amazing & Fresh Brand Identities

Union Room — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:11:28 +0000

We have the pleasure of working with an amazing brand communications company every now and again and some of our favourite websites we’ve produced are based on the branding that Projector create.

We thought it was about time we dedicated a blog post to the creative efforts of the guys over at Projector and highlight ten of their best identities they’ve produced.

Astounding Ajax/CSS Forms: 30+ Modern Trends , Tips and Techniques

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:20:36 +0000

This article with the title 30 amazing css ajax form will explain the various techniques, tutorials, examples relating to the form.

How to Create a Fancy Image Gallery with CSS3

Holly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:28:31 +0000

Today, I have prepared a tutorial about how to use CSS3 to make an image gallery with animation. I recommend to use one of these browsers to see the animations; however, the gallery is going to be usable in browsers without support of the animation.

How to Troubleshoot Slow loading Site and WordPress blog

wparena — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:24:57 +0000

Once you have your WordPress blog up and running, you will need to maintain it. This involves keeping the site’s databases optimized and keeping the blog’s theme and plugins up to date with theme maintenance and plugin security patches.

How to embarrass a friend Photoshop tutorial

Stefan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:37:54 +0000

This tutorial can help you if you want to transform your pictures, make them look cool, interesting, or just have fun with it like I did.

50 Incredible Logo Designs

inspirationfeed — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:02 +0000

Logo’s are a unique key to a sucessful brand. Here is a roundup of amazing, beautiful, and creative logo designs. I hope these logos will get you inspired. Please share your thought with us below, and let us know what you think!

How To Add An Author Bio To WordPress Posts

Chris Creed — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:58:07 +0000

There a number of benefits to adding an author bio to WordPress posts. It can create a more personal feel on your site and allows your readers to get to know you a little better. This video tutorial explains how you can easily and quickly add an author bio section to your posts.

40+ Navigation Menu Best Examples and Practices

Dibakar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:29:52 +0000

We made website to share information, sell product etc. The vital point of any website is to send the required information to the visitor.

15 Essential Freelancer Tools

Julio — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:17:36 +0000

Freelancer positions have many of the perks that 9-5’ers dream of – flexible hours, locations and the option to pick and choose what work is most interesting.

We’ve scoured the Internet to bring you – the freelancer – the top 15 online essentials for staying organized, clean and most importantly, sane.

30 Stunning Graphical Vector Tutorials for Improve your Graphics Skills

Tutorial Lounge — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:40:06 +0000

Vector graphics is playing major role in designing world, specially in Print Media where we can draw characters, shapes and other creative illustrations. Vector applications such as Adobe Illustrator that are used to create scalable graphics are ideal for creating such things as logos, characters, and icons. There were many great vector tutorials put out this year, which made it difficult to choose the best, but here are our picks. Today we’re with “30 Stunning Graphical Vector Tutorials” where you can get, amazing tips, and best trainings from some of the awesome vectors/illustrators resources. Let’s take a look at some of the most wanted Vector tutorials we’ve create a roundup for you and hope you will leave your comments, which will be appreciated.

India’s Web Industry: 30 Promising Indian Web Talents and Agencies

Onextrapixel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:27:44 +0000

A culturally rich country, India has the second largest population on earth with just 15% of the world population under its belt. With its large population, it is not surprising then that India is a country brimming with talented individuals.

40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance

Naldz Graphics — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:09:16 +0000

To aid those designers who are aiming to master 3D designs, we bring you 40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance

50 Best Green Websites, Tutorials and Color Pallets For Your Inspiration

designtutorials4u — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:55:51 +0000

Whether it is a vibrant shade of lime that makes a website design pop or a muted olive that subdues a background texture or a light sea foam that gives an overall clean, refreshing and open feel, green is a wonderful color that will help you’re design tell it’s visual story. Today lets take a look at 50 Green websites, Tutorials and Color Pallets for your Design Inspiration.

38 Cool MooTools Plugins Developers Should Know

jennywarner — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:49:35 +0000

Mootools are one of the very famous Javascript Framework. With this we can write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.

Amazing Super Street Fighter 4 Artwork for Inspiration

Smashing Share — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:26:28 +0000

Before you get your hands dirty with Super Street Fighter 4, launching in April 2010 by Capcom, we like to showcase some Amazing Artwork of this game for your inspiration.

50 Professional Photographs Showing the Culture of Egypt

Frank — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:35:44 +0000

Here are 50 great photographs showing the culture of the Egyptian people, part of their fabulous history, traditions and their environment.

60 Breathtaking Examples Of Beautiful Typography

Timothy Blake — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:33:16 +0000

The post is showcasing examples of beautiful typography designs out in the wild, all collected within one article as great source for typography inspiration.

Collection of 30+ Stunning Hand Picked CSS-based Layouts

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:52:20 +0000

Here we are presenting the showcase of ”Stunning CSS websites” By CSS masters. The best css-based layouts.

130+ Logo Tutorials, Tips and Inspiration to Get You Started Designing

tripwire — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:58:14 +0000

Good Logos are not easy to design at all but they are essential for any successful business. This article is a logo designers toolbox to get you started creating logos.

70+ Beautiful 2D Illustration Artworks

Dibakar — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:23:53 +0000

An illustration is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate textual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper article) by providing a visual representation.

How to Effectively write a tutorial

richie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:39:53 +0000

what are the ways and methodologies you can follow, which as a result produces an effective way to write to tutorial. These are a few of the points which i believe when used, will ensure your tutorial gets appreciated by many readers, beginners and experts.

42 Photoshop Tutorials Created in 2010

vikas ghodke — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:13:04 +0000

We have posted variety of List Photoshop tutorials on various category like Icon Tutorials, Photo Retouching, Retro, Grunge etc. Since last two months there are plenty of well written photoshop tutorials has been posted on various blogs so we selected some of our personal favourite tutorials. Check out this awesome photoshop tutorials that has been created in 2010.

Over 100 Design Blogs Which You Should Follow

Mihai Opariuc — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:45:20 +0000

Today’s generation is hungry for new information, each one of us wants to find out & learn new things. Here’s a list of 100 design blogs you should follow, among with a link to their RSS feed and Twitter account.

30 Latest High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates Must See Now

Themeflash — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:17:10 +0000

Thanks to all designers and developers from all over the world who freely distributed their high-quality templates for everyone on web. In this showcase below, you’ll find a 30 Latest High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates Must See Now because We all know that we’re going to use our website as a tool to promote our business, so we need to have a clean, professional, corporate look.

40+ Astounding Collection of Free Grunge Wallpapers

Naldz Graphics — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:34:20 +0000

Most of you may now have an amazing collection of wallpapers in your desktop through the various freebies that were showcased in different sites…

40 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Dibakar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:33:32 +0000

40 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Delegating and Saving Time as a Freelancer

Freelance Apple — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:18:43 +0000

There are many advantages in delegating work, find out exactly how it should be done.

65+ Popular Web Design And Development Blog To Follow On Twitter

Themeflash — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:24:00 +0000

Twitter is just simply a great tool in order to network with other design blogs within the design community. Following bloggers on twitter is great in order to learn more about about that specific design blog and, to keep up to data or simply just to network with other great people who know a lot about design.

20 Perfect Handwritten Free Fonts

Faisal Raj — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:32:04 +0000

People tend to use handwritten fonts, in the sake of old days. There is lots of fonts out there. To make it easier for you, I picked 20 beautiful handwritten fonts you may download free of charge. Enjoy!

75+ Stunning Tiltshift Photography Collection

Dibakar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:16:15 +0000

“Tilt-shift photography” refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital postprocessing; the name may derive from the tilt-shift lens normally required when the effect is produced optically.

Design a Fantasy Style Mountain River Scene in Photoshop

PSD Vault — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:11:48 +0000

In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I took to create this Fantasy Style Mountain River Scene in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some step can be tricky, but why not have a try!

40+ Fresh And Great Portfolio Design Interfaces for Inspiration

Lam Nguyen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:59:36 +0000

A collection of more than 40 fresh and great portfolio design interfaces. Maybe it’s helpful for you while you are stuck with the next portfolio design.

5 Free March 2010 Calendar Wallpapers

Tom — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:43:53 +0000

Better late than never. Here is this year’s collection of 5 high-resolution 2010 calendar wallpapers for your desktop…

How to use WordPress as an E-Commerce Store

wparena — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:55:11 +0000

If you want to sell goods from your web site, you may want to look into shopping cart software so you can process your orders. These days you don’t have to design your cart,

30+ Sites to Promote and Submit Your Articles

Teylor Feliz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:27:18 +0000

Most design and development bloggers post their articles in the more famous websites that accept community news, such as Digg, Reddit, DZone, Design Bump, Stumbleupon, Design Float and The Web Blend, but there are so many other sites out there to help promote your articles.

30 awesome Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers and Graphic Designers

Lucky Murari — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:24:38 +0000

Google Chrome is now developing craze among the Web Developers and Designers with some greatly designed extensions. This is a list of Google Chromes Extensions for WebDevelopers and Graphic Designers.

50 FREE Photoshop Brushes Sets

Splashnology — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:34:03 +0000

Today we are glad to release 50 Sets of great brushes for Photoshop, a set with 30 high-quality swirl Photoshop brushes.

45 Web Builders to Create an Insanely Awesome Free Website

Dainis Graveris — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:10:47 +0000

The ultimate collection of website creation resources to help you build a site, blog or wiki for free.

71 Magnificent Examples of Concept Art

Matthew Heidenreich — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:08:38 +0000

Concept Art consist of taking Illustrations which are usually hand drawn, and then importing them into a program like Photoshop, or Painter and digitally painting them. It is widely used for movies, video games, and other sources of media as a way to lay out what the product will look like. I have compiled a list of 71 magnificent concept art designs that will make your mouth water.

Best Practices for Building an International Website

Chris Thurman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:27:07 +0000

here are several points worth observing when building a website for an international audience.

30+ Best Logo Design Galleries for Inspiration

KarachiCorner Blog — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:25:32 +0000

I will put together a list of 30+ Best Logo Design Galleries for Inspiration and i m sure you can get great inspiration of these such sites that showcases great logos. If you’re in the process of creating a new brand for you or for a client, then these sites can really help you, any time you need a bit of inspiration you just can make a little tour and get new ideas.

15+ Free Web Design Png Icon Sets

Dibakar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:38:14 +0000

Download all the icons listed in this article. They are all free to use. Click on the images to download.

How to create your digital signature

ester liquori — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:16:56 +0000

We’ll see how to manage a scanned signature to make it suitable for all occurrences. You can follow these step to turn any handwritten signature into a high resolution drawing. In this way you will be able to use your signature everywhere without quality loss.

Blueprint For A Successful Design Blog

PelFusion — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:00:17 +0000

The blogosphere is growing by leaps and bounds, and as the design field also expands many designers are looking to take their business and brand to a blog.

Clean Style Business Flash CMS Template from FlashMoto

Tianna — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:43:43 +0000

Clean style, elaborate page layouts, convenient navigation, minimalist color scheme – everything speaks for itself. It’s a professional business Flash website design powered by FlashMoto.

30 Free eCommerce Icon Sets for nicely Decoration of your eCommerce Site

Faisal Raj — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:05:15 +0000

I have collected 30 most needed and nicely free eCommerce Icon sets for our visitors who have eCommerce sites or have interest on it.

100 Fantastic Twitter Profiles for your Inspiration

Splashnology — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:30:54 +0000

Here are some of the best twitter profiles for your inspiration

50 GREAT SNOWBOARD DESIGNS

TheLanceLife — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:10:15 +0000

As we all know, inspiration comes from everyday life and sometimes from unexpected items laying around, this time it comes from showboards and their incredible skilled design.

How to Create Inset Text with CSS3

Ajay — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:12:22 +0000

Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3. Today we are going to create inset test with CSS3. That property will support Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. Inset text being text that has been pushed into the background, almost like a reverse embossed effect. I hope that, you will find a quite useful inspiration for your next design project. Thanks!

Readers Choice Web Design Inspiration From 50+ Sites

Themeflash — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:23:52 +0000

In this post you will find 50+ websites where you can find the enormous design list and you can submit your websites as an inspiration for others as well as you can take design inspiration from others sites, Compiled list of sites are similar to cssmania.com a design showcase site

30+ Spectacular Photoshop Text Effect Tutorial

Dibakar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:49:36 +0000

In this article you will find some excellent collection of Photoshop Text Effect Tutorial.

45+ Top SEO Wordpress Plguins – Wordpress SEO

KarachiCorner Blog — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:03:31 +0000

WordPress performs really well when it comes to SEO and search engine results page (SERP) rankings. Out of the box, however, WordPress has a ton of duplicate content problems. For instance, if you’re not using excerpts on the home, tags, categories pages and you are displaying the entire post, that post is being shown not only on the homepage but also on the category, tags, and archives pages too.

Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress

Syed Balkhi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:52:03 +0000

This article has some of the most wanted and extremely useful twitter hacks and plugins that will allow you to maximize your benefits from twitter.

50+ Creative Use of Typography in Print Design and Products

desigg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:42:57 +0000

Typography now became popular and essential in designs and artworks. but it need creative designers to make it nice and amazing. These are ??50+ Creative and inspirational examples of using typography in print design and products. Hope you inspire and get new ideas.

50 Awesome Examples and Tutorials of Illustrations in Web Design For Your Inspiration

designtutorials4u — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:54:26 +0000

Illustrations on a website can be found in many places, including elaborate backgrounds, part of a header, or as an accent in the content area. Today, lets take a look at 50 awesome examples and tutorials of illustration in web design for your inspiration.

50+ Beautiful and Inspiring Drawings

desigg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:11:44 +0000

Ozan Küçükusta an Illustrator Designer from Turkey, He has creative and inspirational Drawings.

15 Quality Web-Based Applications to Create Mock-Ups and Wireframes

Jon Phillips — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:48 +0000

For as long as humans have been able to hold a pen and a paper in hand, we have been prototyping and although different from now, “wireframing“.

Decorative Elements Pack – 33 Free Vectors, Brushes, and Images

Media Militia — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:32:56 +0000

This design pack comes with 33 unique decorative elements such as flourishes, swirls, motifs, and more! They look great as text dividers or as a border surrounding your design. They are available for free as either vector, brushes, and images. The images are PNG files with a transparent background. They are all high quality and handmade.

40 Creative Skateboard Designs You Would Love To Have

Dainis Graveris — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:46:45 +0000

Kind of different art, but very cool and creative skateboard design solutions you will see here. Enjoy selection and get inspired!

45+ Nice Typography Photoshop Tutorials

jennywarner — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:08:59 +0000

Typography is an art of arranging text in such a way that it conveys a message all of its own. Typography carry a great importance with itself so we cannot ignore it.

50 Best Curvy Fonts

Stunning Mesh — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:05:33 +0000

Here are 50 Best Curvy Fonts. You can easily download ZIP file. All fonts preview is also available, so you can check before downloading. Some ZIP files are having more than 1 fonts. So hopefully you will like it.

55 Inspirational Original White and Light Web Designs

readactor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:43:27 +0000

This inspirational website list present white, light and clean websites from different domains and business what use html, flash or cms like WordPress.

25 Examples of using Fire & Flames in your Designs

Matthew Heidenreich — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:09:56 +0000

If you light a match and just stare at its flame, you can find yourself loosing track of time and getting lost in its beauty. This is why I have compiled a list of 25 examples of using fire in your design that help evoke emotion.

Submit Your Links to 45+ Top Websites and Get More Traffic

KarachiCorner Blog — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:54:01 +0000

You can submit your links, blog post, News and rss feeds to the following top websites or blogs. Follow each sites guidelines and provide a link back if requested and to increase your link popularity.

50 Shockingly Disturbing Photo Manipulations

Frank — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:34:32 +0000

50 fantastic photo manipulations – some disturbing, some gore and horror and some close to dark humor.

40 Beautiful MAC OS X and iPhone Inspired Icon Sets

Dzinepress — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:30:58 +0000

We always present quality stuff for our readers and visitors, we also creating an beautiful roundup “40 Beautiful MAC OS X and iPhone Inspired Icon Sets” they are better because all listed stuff really useful and variety of different formats. Most of peoples are fan of Apple products because they always produce powerful and fully user friendly machines what ever Mac Machines, iPod or iPhone all of these combines incredible sleek designs with advanced graphic user interface technology. All of these icons have been designed according to the modern styles which are helping to use in all mentioned products, also helping us in latest designs, hope you respected visitors and readers leave your comments.

Google Nexus One, Android GUI PSD Packs For Designers

Cheth — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:58:22 +0000

Google Nexus Android GUI PSD Packs for Designers.

How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations

Lam Nguyen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:46:35 +0000

In most cases, jQuery can do better than Flash. We’ll round up some tutorials and jQuery plugins that are simply awesome. Each of these teaches how to get a desired Flash effect, but with jQuery instead.

85 Free Famous TV / Movie Fonts

Craig Abbott — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:42:59 +0000

A great collection of 85 famous fonts that have been linked to Tv Shows and Movies.

Showcase of Excellent Underwater Photography

Naldz Graphics — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:16:25 +0000

A Showcase of Excellent Underwater Photography is provided below to help you get inspired and make your next piece of artwork.

Hospitality in Web Industry: Good Service is Good Business

Onextrapixel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:55:33 +0000

Hospitality, the art of making guests feel treasured and welcomed, is the core dictum of the service industry. However, hospitality is not just crucial to the tourism and hotel industry, but also in the web design and development industry as well.

You Have To Look At These 50 Creative & Meaningful Logos!

Albert Lie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:21:54 +0000

If you want to search for inspirations for making logo, this article will help you a lot. I found this website – Logo Faves is very helpful, especially for those who wants to design creative & meaningful logo.

7 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Every Blog

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:19:05 +0000

Basic wordpress plugins every wordpress blog should must have.

30+ High-Quality Free Website Templates to Download

yugu — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:15:49 +0000

Most Designers share their Creative design stuffs to others for free. so that others can learn from their works, At sometimes these collection will become marvelous time saver. and a learning source for beginner web designers

Attractive and Clever Uses of Youtube Channel Design

Sean Geng — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:29:35 +0000

Youtube is one of the largest sites on the internet with many dedicated users who put a lot of creative effort into producing and marketing their videos. Some of these users even generate substantial income from their productions. And the design of a users channel is one of the integral parts in bringing in viewers and subscribers.

Images Of Faces: What Do They Communicate?

Steven Bradley — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:25:51 +0000

How do we perceive images of people? How do they affect us and how do they affect the way your design is perceived? When choosing an image to convey a particular message are there certain facial features you should look for? Is there an ideal way to crop the image so it communicates best?

9 Useful Wordpress Poll And Rating Plugins

Dicky — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:29:27 +0000

These useful Wordpress plugins let you create your own polls and rating system to receive your reader’s feedback.

Watermark, watermark everywhere and not an image to copy!

Holly — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:56:01 +0000

If you decide to upload your digital media onto a personal website, or a blog, for instance, and all an individual has to do is save these pictures and images onto their own computers.

40+ Free Premium Quality Joomla Themes

tripwire — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:19:57 +0000

This article provides a list of more than 40 free Joomla themes of premium quality

How Much Do Standards And Trends Dictate Your Web Design?

PelFusion — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:17:27 +0000

Near the end of 2009 and on into the first months of the new year I have seen a number of articles and blog posts discussing web design trends, with reviews, discussions about the good and the bad, and predictions for what will happen in 2010.

40 Creative and Beautiful Package Designs For Your Design Inspiration

designtutorials4u — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:35:51 +0000

One of the best ways to have someone notice a product on the store shelves is the creativity involved in how it is packaged. Like all other areas of design, the under appreciated area of product packaging uses many methods including various shapes, vivid colors, strong typography, illustrations and unique textures to help draw initial attention. Today lets take a look at 40 Creative and Beautiful package designs for your design inspiration.

50+ Free Photoshop Brushes Resources on Special Effects

Dibakar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:19:17 +0000

In this article you find some excellent resources of Special Effect Photoshop Brushes absolutly free.

25 Excellent jQuery Tutorials for Navigation Menu

vikas ghodke — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:22:51 +0000

Lots of cool effects can be achieved using jquery so today we just started our tutorial series on Jquery starting with navigation menu. In upcoming days will write some tutorials on jquery for our readers. Check out this awesome Jquery navigation menu tutorials thank you.

50 Awesome CSS3 Animations

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:29:06 +0000

CSS3 has brought some amazing new features. And the most fun is playing with the CSS animation. Here is a compilation of 50 CSS3 animation that allows you to perform many motion-based functions normally Delegated to JavaScript.

60+ Fantastic T-Shirts That You Might Like

Sean Geng — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:53:48 +0000

Every web designer is known to own a collection of awesome shirts. Or at least, that’s the stereotype. Why not live up to that? In this article, we showcase over 60 fantastic T-Shirts that you might like.

30 Kick Ass Official Web Sites Of Rock And Pop Musicians

Nikola Lazarevic — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:20 +0000

In this post you will find 30 kick ass web page designs of popular rock and pop performers.
See how the web designers realized their ideas in creating a web site for individual music artists.

40+ Typography Designs and Colorful Wallpapers

KarachiCorner Blog — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:48:40 +0000

Great Collection of typography designs and colorful wallpaper, Adding typography designs to desktop wallpapers seams to be quite common and it gives us a good oppertunity to have a source of typography inspiration in a place where we wont forget to look at it.So we look around and pick more than 40 awesome Typography Designs and Colorful Wallpapers collected for you in this post.

30 most awesome Apple inspired concept designs

Richie — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:38:34 +0000

In this article, I have compiled some of the coolest and the most creative Apple inspired concept designs

45+ Excellent Comment Designs For Design Inspiration

Themeflash — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:44:11 +0000

Comment design is an art. Comment design is often overlooked by a lot of web designers when they are designing their blog. It tends to be one of the last things a web designer works on and because of that it suffers. This list shows 40+ blogs where the web designer didn’t just throw together the same old comment design and put extra effort into their comment design to make it fit with their blog design.

50 Beautiful Newsletter Designs For Your Inspiration

Seraph — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:35:26 +0000

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email (e-Newsletters) have gained rapid acceptance for the same reasons email in general is gaining popularity over printed correspondence. But I bet [...]

70+ Seriously Useful Handwritten Fonts and Inspirational Showcases

tripwire — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:38:10 +0000

Lots of excellent handwritten fonts and inspirational showcases

55+ Inspirations and Examples of Photo Manipulation

Rocky — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:57:06 +0000

Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means. Its uses, cultural impact, and ethical concerns have made it a subject of interest beyond the technical process and skills involved.

99 Alternatives to 99designs

Chris Thurman — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:55:25 +0000

Just getting started in design? Tempted to try out crowdsourcing or spec work? Before you head down that path check out these 99 alternatives to build your portfolio, expand your skill set, and make a few bucks.

50 Examples of Beautiful Illustration in WebDesign

vikas ghodke — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:26:02 +0000

Have a look on this beautiful illustration in website design. To stand out from the crowd designers design unique and creative websites, use of illustration or character in website design will make it unique from others.

76 Free Beautiful Twitter Button And Icon Sets

Themeflash — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:42:57 +0000

Twitter fever is upon us and it will definitely stay with us for a while. Whether you are a web designer, blogger, or developer, you simply cannot ignore the Twitter phenomenon. Twitter is also no doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now. More and more websites are trying to include Twitter as part of their social media marketing tool.

100+ Places To Promote Your Design Work For Free

Craig Abbott — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:14:56 +0000

Ever stuck for places to promote your design work? Here is over 100 working links to websites where you can promote your design work for free, and get paid up to $150 a time.

Letter from a coder to a (bad) designer

Radu Chelariu — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:40:32 +0000

In my work as a web designer I’ve come across designers that are able to work in a team and others that have no consideration for the front end coder that continues their work. I decided to develop on the subject and point out some of the most common drawbacks that arise when you don’t consider yourself a gear in a larger mechanism. Before everyone starts barking at me in the comments section, I do need to point out that this article refers (mostly) to designers that do not code. It’s been a circulated idea around the design community this past week, so this article seems to fit that pattern. So, for the purposes of this article, I shall create a distinction: designer and coder.

Here are some of the reasons most coders go bald and profanities are used in web design agencies.

10 Tips For Becoming A More Efficient Web Designer

Chris Creed — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:37:18 +0000

Want to become a more effective and productive Web Designer? If so, check out this article – it highlights ten tips that you can start utilizing today to help improve your efficiency when doing design work.

50+ Free Fonts Collection for Web Designers and Logo Artists

Dibakar — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:58:12 +0000

Fonts should speak itself about the product. So in this article you can find some excellent font collection for logo and web designing.

35 Ultimate Useful Android Applications

Smashing Buzz — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:50:38 +0000

Andriod (Google mobile operating system) market is growing day by day as this OS giving lot of user friendly applications, some of those listing today as our visitors and readers demand. Android on its way to bringing flashier features to Android phones. Android is a software platform for mobile devices, powered by the Linux kernel, initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. Please feel free to leave comments for other useful Android Applications worth our time.

50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs

Naldz Graphics — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:50:27 +0000

This 50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs are especially compiled for logo designers who are momentarily out of ideas.

21 Wonderful Logos for your Daily Dose of Inspiration

chris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:50:32 +0000

The probably most important thing of a Brand is the Logo, It gives the Costumer/viewer a Images to the Brand Name. Even Business owners now how important the logo is for their Brand. But unfortionatly most Buisnes owners (Our Clients) have no idea of Design and 99% don’t know why “white space” should be good. They dream of a shiny Logo best in Fire Red and as BIG as possible. But if their dream comes true, the Logo mostly looks like a Nightmare So i listed some wonderful Logos who now what White Space is.

50 Inspiring Sites Using Red As Their Main Color

Seraph — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:57:07 +0000

I like the red colour a lot (makes me think of Dracula). And we already know that the web is full of great examples of web designs (using red or not) to get some inspiration from, but only a few of them were listed in the same place.

45+ Latest Free Wordpress Themes (January – February 2010)

Themeflash — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:32:09 +0000

WordPress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, WordPress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Showcase Of Web Design In Ukraine

Dainis Graveris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:22:51 +0000

Here is a showcase of web design agencies and the latest trends in web design of Ukraine.

15 Gothic Fonts for Designers

Ajay — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:27:52 +0000

This is the seventh post of our awesome fonts series. Last time we posted a collection of free grunge fonts now in this post you will find 15 Gothic Fonts for Designers. These free fonts are perfect for distressing your designs. I Hope you will you enjoy this. So, have a look at these 15 Gothic fonts and let us know your thoughts in comment.

50 Newest Free Wordpress Themes for 2010

Splashnology — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:06:48 +0000

In this collection, you’ll find 50 excellent, high-quality, frash, free WordPress themes for 2010 year!

40 Colorful 3D Glass Wallpapers

tripwire — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:22:25 +0000

This post feature some of the best 3D glasses object created by computer graphics which can be download as a desktop wallpapers from competeall & koleksifoto.

60+ Walls and Soils Textures

desigg — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:31:37 +0000

These are 62 images for Walls and Soils Textures, Hope you find them useful.

31 Stunning Black And White Photographs

Dannci — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:20:01 +0000

Its clear concept with elements of aggresion, power, desire, infference, naturalness represents the essential nature of our lives.

20 Clean And Modern Free Fonts

Nikola Lazarevic — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:02:04 +0000

Business design usually requires clean fonts to be used. Clean doesn’t necessarily mean boring. We may always bring fresh air to business designs with clean modern fonts.
Take a look at my collection of 20 clean modern, and what’s really important FREE fonts.

80 Extreme Advertisements That Will Challenge Your Mind

Onextrapixel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:09:09 +0000

Here are 80 controversial advertisements that challenge the boundaries of what is socially and morally acceptable with the use of dark humour and shock tactics. These print advertisements often use gore, vulgarity, sex, violence, and sometimes religion to promote their products or bring across the organisations’ message.

Behind the Scenes of the Design Informer Redesign

Design Informer — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:41:47 +0000

I’d like to take you behind the scenes of the Design Informer redesign. Learn about my process, thoughts, ideas, and reasons behind this sudden and massive redesign.

33 Kickass Iron Man Artworks for Inspiration

Naldz Graphics — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:50:08 +0000

As a tribute to this astounding character, we have compiled 33 Kickass Iron Man Artworks for all Marvel fan out there.

100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

PSD Vault — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:42:05 +0000

In this post, I will share my collection of 100+ Great Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushsets to Decorate Your Design. Hopefully they will be of use to you and expand your own vintage collection.

40 Free Black Wordpress Themes

vikas ghodke — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:13:55 +0000

Most of bloggers use wordpress as blogging application and therefore demand of wordpress themes are increased. Custom wordpress theme costs lots of money and everyone cannot afford this much amount of money and because of that so many designers and programmers release free themes to help bloggers. There are lots of list post on free wordpress theme so we thought why don’t we collect some good looking black colored free wordpress theme. Check out this awesome 40 free black wordpress theme, comments will be appreciated. Thank You

One Good Thing About Crowdsourcing

Chris Thurman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:32:15 +0000

This article looks at one instance where a designer can benefit from the crowdsourcing model that is so negatively received.

14 Free Vector Musical Graphics

Tom — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:47:56 +0000

Looking for incredible graphics to use for a band flyer or musical ad? Well look no further! Here is an outstanding collection of 14 musical graphics…

50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

Dicky — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:31:48 +0000

With these cartoon character design tutorials, you can easily get started and arm yourself with intermediate skills for character designs.

100+ Remarkable Free Fonts

Paulius Rasytinis — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:08:57 +0000

From bold to thin, from extraordinary to minimal, exeptionally beautiful free fonts you should definately have.

10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site

Jon Phillips — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:20:25 +0000

Right now, most websites are completely unsuitable for mobile viewing, taking 60 or more seconds to load and looking jumbled and confused as they’re squashed onto smaller screens.

19 Delicious Food Websites To Sink Your Teeth Into

Union Room — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:28:44 +0000

There aren’t many websites that have the kind of impact visually like one that’s trying to sell food. Whether it’s five-feet high burgers or 10,000 calorie bowls of ice cream, the imagery and approach is vital.

60 Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop

Tutorials Palace — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:26:45 +0000

Amazing results of Photo manipulation are possible with Photoshop. In this post well feature 60+ tutorials for creating your own photo manipulation. The tutorials shown here will teach a various variety of techniques and will work towards end results of all kinds.

50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know

jennywarner — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:03 +0000

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is just an important part of Web Designing. Without CSS, Websites can look untidy as it used to happen before.

Client Tactics: Making an Impression on a Client

Dainis Graveris — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:23:44 +0000

As designers we have our skills honed; a gorgeous portfolio, well designed business cards, and a vicious social media presence. So what’s missing? Here we will be discussing the preparation for impressing a client.

50 Stunning Pieces of 3D Typography for Inspiration

Matthew Heidenreich — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:19:40 +0000

The art of type design is one that never ceases to amaze me. The idea is to convey your message in the easiest way possible and to not confuse your audience, while being creative and memorable at the same time. I have compiled a list of what I find to be 50 stunning examples of 3D type design.

28 Awesome Examples of ECommerce Websites Using Grunge Design

gizelle — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:05:59 +0000

Grunge design is popular among the young population. Here are 28 best examples of well-designed ecommerce websites that make use of grunge design style.

22 Dazzling Examples of Fire Photography

Chris Thurman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:58:59 +0000

Fire photography captures moments of the awesome power of vapors and flames. This collection of 22 fire photography examples displays various states of it’s existence and qualities, from the spark of a match to the explosion of a fireball.

Beauty is Truly in the Eyes of the Beholder

Jared Thompson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:54:39 +0000

This is a roundup of great photography and digital photo manipulations of the human eye. One of the most valuable parts of the human anatomy is so fragile and its intricacy is just amazing.

50+ Photoshopped Animals

The Pro Designer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:04:02 +0000

Now we all love Photoshop and what it can do, but these half-half Animals that have been highly photoshopped are just crazy. Not something that you see everyday.

950+ Photoshop Tutorials To Keep Your Skillset Up to Date

Jacques van Heerden — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:54:47 +0000

I know how much everyone loves tutorials, I know I love writing them too. Well in this post I have taken my time to roundup some Photoshop Tutorials and some Photoshop Roundups that I think is valid to be featured in this post. I know quite a few people are going to love me for [...]

How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

Onextrapixel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:51:37 +0000

Adding the final touches to a site can be the difference between a polished and beautiful site that looks “refined,” and a mediocre site that leaves no impression on visitors. jQuery, the versatile JavaScript library, can be leveraged to create all these fine tuned elements.

185+ Very Useful and Categorized CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets

tripwire — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:20:01 +0000

In this article you will get access to one of the largest collections ever of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc.

11 Essential Tips Every Designer Should Be Aware Of

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:09:43 +0000

Essential tips for all designers to learn actually how to live through live by learning yourself, enjoying free time and yes – LIVE life,not exist through it!

40 Artistic Classic Interior Photography

Albert Lie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:19:41 +0000

I separate all of these photo into 3 categories: nice color, bright & nice angle. All of them are very nice. I also include link to original page of every images. This article will be useful for all of you who loves photography.

CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions

Dicky — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:42:29 +0000

CSS Graphs and Charts are best way to visualize and present your data. Here we share 11 solutions for that.

60+ Colorful Illustration For Kids – Free Ai Files

desigg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:06:42 +0000

In this post you can download amazing vectors and colorful illustration for kids, You can get inspiration also. Enjoy!

30+ AMAZING TRENDS IN WALLPAPERS

TheLanceLife — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:56:53 +0000

Here it is a collection of wallpapers showing some of the new trends coming out lately in wallpapers world.

30 Creative Shoe Advertisement

vikas ghodke — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:24:01 +0000

There is a lot of competition in the world of advertisement.There are many ways of advertisement but i personally feel poster advertisement best compared to any other modes of advertisement.All of them want to sell out their products, for that they come up with new and innovative ideas. So today we thought of posting for shoe Advertisement, which are creative and unique. Many shoe companies presents various posters designed in a creative way.So i have sorted some of the unique and creative posters representing shoes. please check out…..

25 Adobe Photoshop actions for a graphic designer toolbox

readactor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:18:06 +0000

When you need to make a mockup or a render of the dvd / cd cover box / book / ecover designed, instead to spend time to make the final image, you may consider one of the following affordable Photoshop actions what can save hours with just 2$ – 15$ paid once.

Collection Of 50 Best Carefully Hand Picked Retro Designs

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:01:40 +0000

Nowadays, more and more people are creating variety of modern designs, but there are people who are attracted by the retro designs – let’s see the best examples here!

40+ Stunning jQuery Plugins and Tutorials

jennywarner — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:20:36 +0000

We all love Javascript. With jQuery, it is now so easy to write really nice JavaScript effects. jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development

70 iPhone Inspired Website Designs For Design Inspiration

Themeflash — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:35:01 +0000

The iPhone being one of the most popular mobile devices to develop on it was only a matter of time when companies and individuals started incorporating the iPhone in their web design. Here is a list of iPhone Inspired Website Designs For Design Inspiration I have found and I hope that they inspire you as much as they have inspired me.

A Word of Warning for Wordpress Theme Developers

Matt — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:00:12 +0000

An important tip for releasing your free Wordpress theme.

100 Beautiful Floral Ornament Backgrounds – Free EPS files

desigg — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:45:15 +0000

These are 100 beautiful and colorful vectors for design and inspiration. Free EPS Files for Floral Ornament backgrounds. I hope you find them useful…

50 most awesome vexel art and tutorials

richie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:45:27 +0000

In this article, I have showcased some really awesome vexel creations that is going to blow your mind away. I have also shared a few good tutorials on how to create various types of vexel images. These range from creating the detailed human hair to the most advanced human portraits.

20 Fonts made popular by or inspired by Movies and Brands

Lam Nguyen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:28:27 +0000

If you’re a movie fan I am sure you’ll enjoy this collection of 20 beautiful movie/brand fonts. All these are free and I think they should be part of any designer’s font library.

16 Blogs to Help You Master the Business of Design

Chris Thurman — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:15:24 +0000

While it’s easy to focus solely on expanding your design skills, it’s also important to be sure you understand how to market, network, and grow your design business. I’ve compiled several of the best in the business of talking about the business of design.

50 Beautiful Examples of Red Logo Designs for Inspiration

Naldz Graphics — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:29:40 +0000

These 50 Beautiful Examples of Red Logo Designs for Inspiration will surely lighten up your day and will make you feel the love surrounding you this season.

50+ sets of Latest Photoshop color gradients

Rocky — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:50:57 +0000

If you are a web or a Graphic Developer then Adobe Photoshop is a necessary tool. If you want to do powerful work quickly then your Photoshop application should be loaded with all the most important things like brushes, styles and Gradients. Everyone knows the power of Gradients.

25 Beautiful Portrait Photography of Various Animals

Ayaz Malik — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:33:50 +0000

25 Beautiful Portrait Photography of Various Animals by amazing photographers from Different Sites

10 Amazing CSS3 Tutorials and Techiques for Creating Buttons

denbagus — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:05:54 +0000

This is a collection of tutorials about CSS3 button . CSS3 has been in effect despite last year. Yet support for browsers running very slowly.

35 Amazing Stationery Pack Designs

Gavin Elliott — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:06:08 +0000

Brand creation and design is an awesome creative process and when it comes to transferring those brands across a companies stationery the fun starts all over again. I’ve decided to look for some of the most amazing and creative stationery pack designs across the web. This post shows a showcase of 35 creative stationery designs for business cards, letterheads and compliments slips. Hope you like it!

Top 40 Authors Of The Famous Design Blogs

Pelfusion — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:20:48 +0000

Today we’ve decided is to come up with an amazing list of the top 40 authors in the web design, web development and internet industry. If you’ve got your own blog that you want to increase the popularity of.

50+ Captivating Photography that Captures Human Emotion

Sean Geng — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:13:00 +0000

A picture is worth a million words. Excellent photography can perfectly capture human emotion. That’s exactly what our focus will be in this article, as we showcase over 50 amazing photos that capture emotions.

61 Free Vector Apple Graphics

Tom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:36:19 +0000

Feeling hungry? How about a fresh, juicy apple? Here is an incredible and delicious collection of 61 vector apple graphics…

40 Free Professional Useful Icon Sets for Web Designers

Smashing Buzz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:51:57 +0000

Most of the websites in this era have really graphical and illustrator based icons which using in software applications as well, the demand for well-designed icons are too much in these days also some companies specially hiring icon designers. We are with free professional icon sets where you seen an beautiful variety of icons, we listing most useful icons they belong to different platforms as you know windows, MAC OS X, mobile phones, gadgets and iPhone icons also listing for design inspirations. You can use icon sets in Web applications, website designs and on your desktop, If well designed, they make a great impression on others, hope you all really like these and leave you comments.

8 Video Series: Every Web Developer Must Watch

Nikhil — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:59:18 +0000

Everyone loves video; whether it’s Bryan Adams’s ‘Summer of 69? or TV Series ‘Friends’ or Jeffrey Way’s ‘Diving into PHP’. Visual illustrations help to understand things quickly. In this post I have some awesome Video series for Web Developers.

150+ Free Paper Textures for your Next Design

BlueBlots — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:18:16 +0000

This 150+ Free Paper Textures for your Next Design post is basically a set of unique resources you don’t want to miss.

20+ Exceptional Online Professional Image Editors and Drawing Applications

Lam Nguyen — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:34:13 +0000

Here are the list of some popular and Professional Image Editors And Drawing Applications that work online.

A Compilation of Free Retro Fonts for Designers

Naldz Graphics — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:33:46 +0000

The list is composed of 41 amazing fonts that you can choose from. This fonts are intended for retro designs, however, you can still use these for any type of concepts you can think of. Limits are void if you are a designer.

116 Creative Advertisements for Inspiration

desigg — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:50:49 +0000

These are 116 Creative and funny advertising. Advertisements for Toshiba, Samsung, Val-spar colors, WWF, Food, Tools and a lot of awesome ads. Enjoy

60 Web Design Galleries for Design Inspiration

vikas ghodke — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:43:02 +0000

Web design galleries are the best way be keep in touch with latest trends in website designing and also for design inspiration. Web Design galleries also helps bloggers like me to create a list of inspirational websites or list of beautiful websites. So here we have collected some galleries for web design inspiration.

650+ C4D Renders To Use in Your Designs

Jacques van Heerden — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:21:31 +0000

I know how many times I’ve gone looking for C4D renders to use in my designs and then it turns up I can’t find anything to use that I like. I have taken the liberty to roundup 650+ C4D Renders for you to download and use in your designs, they are created by Stinky666 a [...]

Google and Its Official Blogs

wparena — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:43:24 +0000

If you want to give your Blog a Web presence without spending a lot of time or money, a google optimization is the answer and this is all about google blogs.

30 Amazing and Meaningful Action Photos From Real Life

Arshad Cini — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:33:51 +0000

As an amateur photographer,action photography is also one of my interests.These kind of photos not only pause the life but also they are all really meaningful.With one photo you can tell everything without using hundreds of words

Eating into Restaurant & Recipe Web Design: 50+ Mouth Watering Websites

Onextrapixel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:51:42 +0000

The food industry is one of the largest categories of business in the world. While taste is generally the main focus, design & appearance are just as important when it comes to showcasing products, restaurants and recipe websites.

5 Timeless Usability Principles for Website Designers

Dainis Graveris — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:52:02 +0000

There are some usability principles which change very rarely. The reason for this is because they are deeply ingrained into our human nature. Even if they change, they change very slightly, the fundamentals remain the same.

Inspiration Served: 20 Websites Designed for the 2010 Winter Olympics

Andrew Houle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:47:44 +0000

A compilation of 20 beautifully designed websites for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

40+ Powerful Children Portraits

desigg — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:38:35 +0000

These are 45 Stunning example of Children Portraits for inspiration, Kids portraits show their feeling, happy, worry or dreaming, silence and fear. Hope you nice impression.

40 Single Page Mini Templates

Paulius Rasytinis — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:44:41 +0000

Simple, modern, well documentated mini templates for online resumes, business cards and under construction pages.

10+ Rare WordPress Theme Options Page Tutorials To Get You Started

Naeem Noor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:35:15 +0000

Theme Options Page have become a necessity in every WordPress themes free and premium, and are very user friendly and self explanatory to set up. With the presence of the Options Page the user don’t have to edit the code manually.

10 Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials

chris — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:20:33 +0000

Adobe After Effects is usually used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. It allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built in tools and third party plugins. This is really amazing and powerful. It Is even more interesting if you have some tutorials to learn. In this post, you will find best Adobe After Effects tutorials and feature.

Vital MySQL Development Security Tips

Joel Reyes — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:16:04 +0000

When you’re developing applications or a website using MySQL, there are a few tips you can follow to enhance the security of your database. When you create a database and use PHP to code your applications you’re automatically faced with hash security risks that can hinder what you’ve worked hard to develop.

7 Web Design Trends for 2010

Adrian Bornea — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:47:25 +0000

If you are a web designer you need to know what is going on design industry. In this post you will find the latest design trends.

20 Creative Warning for Global Warming

vikas ghodke — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:10:17 +0000

Our planet earth facing a huge problem named Global warming. I don’t know about the others but i always always off my car or moterbike at traffic single, try to plant as much tree as i can in my garden and request all my friends to do the same. With this post am requesting all my blog readers and friends to do the same to save our planet.Checkout this amazing advertisement posters about the effect of global warming. Comments are really appreciated regarding this topic.

50+ Stunning Example of Photo Manipulation

desigg — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:02:25 +0000

In this post we will see another creative example of photo manipulation for your inspiration. You will see dark designs, light or surreal, digital art and abstract.

40+ Websites with Awesome Backdrops

jennywarner — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:29:03 +0000

Again, now it is time for some more inspiration. Inspiration is the mother of beautiful creation. Backgrounds do play an important role in giving attractive look to the website.

45+ CSS Grid Systems, Layout Generators and Tutorials that every Designer should know

tripwire — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:45:23 +0000

In this article tripwire magazine presents a large collection of CSS Grid Systems, online generators and tutorial on how to use these in your design.

20+ Free Premium Wordpress Themes of January 2010

Ali Qayyum — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:03:33 +0000

Are you looking for the latest Free Premium Wordpress? Developer published the latest collection of wordpress themes

70+ Dangerously Funny and Creative Advertisements

Sean Geng — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:13:50 +0000

I’m not usually fond of advertisements. But sometimes, advertisers create some hilarious or extremely creative ads that make you remember them. Ad companies know that humor sells. They leave an impact with the audience and help sell your brand. In this article, we showcase over 70 humorous and creative advertisements.

21 Inspirational and Free Fonts for Beautiful Typedesign

Bane — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:04:10 +0000

Font selection is important because it can spice up the text and make it awesome. So,we want to present you and suggest some new, unusual and beautifully inspirational fonts that will make the text more and more beautiful…
They all are free, so you need to choose which you like and enjoy typing!

95+ Amazing and Colorful Floral Designs- Free EPS Files

desigg — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:15:45 +0000

Here, we’re presenting some of Vibrant and Colorful of Floral Designs – Free EPS Files. Hope you find them useful.

Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template

Tutorialzine — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:53:23 +0000

Here we are using the new version of HTML – the fundamental language of the web, to make a web template, using some of the new features brought by CSS3 and jQuery with the scrollTo plug-in.

60+ Very Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers

tripwire — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:10:13 +0000

Having the right Cheat Sheets printed out and placed on the wall next to the monitor is like adding extra memory banks to an exhausted computer – the information you need can be accessed instantly.

30 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials And Walkthroughs

Jon Phillips — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:05:28 +0000

Designing a great logo is no easy task. It’s something people will remember, something that tells a story. In fact, your logo is a very important part of your branding.

60+ Shiny Fractal Art Wallpapers, Includes Dual Desktop, iPhone & PSP Backgrounds

Albert Lie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:03:14 +0000

I found so many shiny fractal art wallpapers with high quality & nice graphics touch in Blatte’s website. I’m going to share some of the best of his wallpapers along with their download links

60 Excellent CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques You Should Know

Themeflash — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:30:53 +0000

In this post we present 60 Excellent CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques You Should Know that can strongly improve user experience, improve designer’s work-flow and replace dirty old workarounds that we used in Internet Explorer 6 & Co. Please notice that most techniques and tutorials presented below are experimental, and its good to have place at one post.

How To Get Well Prepared For The Website Creation

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:34:00 +0000

Planning to build a new website and not sure where to start? No sweat, we have a cool guide from 12 points that will help you to define your website goals, target audience, choose the images and create the right look and feel for your site.

Spectacular Art & Photography by George Rustchev

Bariski — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:48:12 +0000

George Rustchev has great eye of composition and superb ideas. His images are absolutely great.

50 Awesome Website Design Galleries

Tony — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:02:32 +0000

For the longest time, one of my best sources of inspiration has been web design galleries. My favourite being The FWA: Favourite Website Awards which was founded in 2000. The FWA showcases the most cutting edge website designs. Since then there have been many web design galleries that have been popping up. In this post you will find 50 website design galleries that showcase the best websites from around the world. Happy surfing!

Measuring Up: Are You a Good Designer or a Great One?

Andrew Houle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:01:21 +0000

This article dives into the mindset that separates good designers from great designers.

40+ Absolutely Stunning Use of Light Effects in Webdesign

tripwire — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:37:22 +0000

This article is a showcase of more than 40 sites using creative and inspiring lighting effects. Hope you like it and feel inspired and tempted to use some of the ideas for your own designs.

40+ Gorgeous and Artistic Typography Tutorials Using Photoshop

Tutorial Lounge — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:32:35 +0000

Typography is an example or designed text wave technique where we arranging of text on a page, in this modern designing world Photoshop typography tutorials which will inspire you and boost up your creativity, typography is an art which can use in Newspapers, books, print media campaigns and now also using in latest web designs. Today we are with an really professional creative typography tutorials using Adobe Photoshop learn step-by-step in these listed trainings which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your work which you presenting in your different design assignments.

10 Awesome and Creative CSS Templates For Design Inspiration

Rakesh — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:00:02 +0000

In this post I am sharing some awesome and very creative examples of CSS templates for design inspiration. So take a test drive of creativeness.

40 Fundamental Illustrator Tutorials You Must Know

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:56:16 +0000

This collection of Illustrator tutorials are covering various dialer tools and provides many useful tips and advice.

Designing for the Future with HTML5+CSS3 : Tutorials and Best Practices

Noura Yehia — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:02:15 +0000

In today’s post, we would like to showcase some of the best blogs and websites in the industry built with HTML5+CSS3. At the end of the post we would like you to check out detailed write-ups and tutorials that aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. Let’s get started marking up the blog page.

25+ STUNNING AURORA PICS

TheLanceLife — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:12:32 +0000

These amazing aurora pics can really be so inspiring when choosing colors or looking for an new way to blend them around.

100 Fresh New Photoshop And Illustrator Tutorials From 2010

Timothy Blake — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:25:41 +0000

This is a great collection of the freshest and newest design tutorials which where all created in 2010, which is a compilation of both some amazing Photoshop and illustrator tutorials.

Websites of 24 Heads of Government

Mubashar Iqbal — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:02:49 +0000

In honor of Presidents Day a showcase of 24 websites of heads of government from around the world.

40+ Quite Useful Wordpress Plugins using jQuery

tripwire — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:43:59 +0000

Bring Wordpress and jQuery together really makes sense and the plugins for Wordpress you’ll find here will make your blog theme more powerful and dynamic.

22 Free Apple iPad Wallpapers

Tom — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:09 +0000

By now you have probably heard of Apple’s latest gadget called the iPad. In the simplest of terms, the iPad is a cross between Apple’s iPhone and Mac computer…

90+ Amazing Grunge Typography Collection

Rocky — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:21:08 +0000

Grunge is a trend that is probably the opposite of everything known as clean. You call it ugly or dirty but still it has found its way to let you make some fascinating designs.

In this post we will be providing you with some amazing grunge style typography.

70 Awesome Rust Texture Packs From DeviantArt

vikas ghodke — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:44:37 +0000

Last two post regarding texture list 70 Awesome Wooden Texture Packs from DeviantArt and 70 Awesome Paper Texture Packs from DeviantArt was a huge hit so this time we decided to collect some Rust Texture for our designer friends. Check out this 70 Awesome Rust Texture packs from Devaint Art.

20 Great Logo Designs of 2009

Adrian Bornea — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:00:11 +0000

Logo design showcase of some of the best logo designs created or promoted last year.

40+ Creative And Unusual Business Card Designs

Arshad Cini — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:31:40 +0000

Today i will be showcasing of some really unusual but creative business card designs.I’m not sure if all these can be used in business and a little bit risky i think but if you ever decide to use these kind of business cards

15 Essential Tools for Windows Based Web Developers

Bogdan Sandu — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:47:32 +0000

With this in mind, I’ve drawn up a list of the essential Windows based tools that everyone should try. They perform a range of functions, from writing and editing code to checking for errors, running local servers to testing speeds, but all will make you and your web sites more efficient.

The ABC’s of a good design proposal

Vunky — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:31:09 +0000

Just the other day I was cleaning up a pile of design proposals from the competition. After browsing through a couple of them, I noticed that they where actually really really bad. Most of them just cover one page and are one step away of being written on the back of a napkin. In this post I’ll walk you through our template for design proposals.

50 Amazing Example of Yellow Inspiration

desigg — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:11:27 +0000

These are 50 Yellow Creative and inspiration designs , Sites, Cards & Brochures, Typography and Photography.. I hope you enjoy and inspire you!

54 Abstract textures added on Startextures.com

tomaz bizjan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:34:20 +0000

A new category Abstract Textures was added on Startextures.com. 54 new high resolution images were added to the category. Images are either edited with Photoshop to achieve the special abstract look or they were taken directly with the camera in special conditions.

35+ Super Cool Logos That Incorporate Bees

The Pro Designer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:23:51 +0000

A wide range of industries have used bees in there logos from apparel to designers, so see how the creative BEE has been used in so many logos.

25 Essential Tutorials And Resources For Learning CSS3

Naeem Noor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:52:42 +0000

There are many tutorials and resources for the CSS3. Most of the browsers such as Firefox, Safari already support some of the CSS3 properties. It is essential for a web designer to know about CSS3.

30+ Enormously Useful Adobe Air Applications

Smashing Buzz — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:26:15 +0000

Today we presenting some most useful Adobe Air Applications, one of the most appreciated application platform, it has become a very much popular platform for internet-enabled desktop applications. This application (Adobe Air) with rich features helping for web designers and developers too, even web developers are able to build application using HTML, Ajax, JavaScript, Flex and famous tool Adobe Flash.

Most Creative and Fantastic Error 404 Pages

Themeflash — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:47:02 +0000

The design of 404 error pages is often overlooked and underestimated. However, designed carefully, these pages can make a random visitor stay on your website, take a look around and eventually find the information he or she was looking for in the first place.

Have You Got What It Takes To Be A Freelancer?

McBonio — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:34:28 +0000

Can anyone become a freelancer? Possibly, certain types of people can succeed as a freelancer, but it takes some hard work and discipline…

Website Design: 30+ Beautifully Designed T-Shirt Sites

Tony — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:28:29 +0000

Everybody knows how trendy t-shirts are. There are some really creative and fun designs out there. Last November I wrote a post about t-shirt designs titled: T-shirt Design: 50+ Awesome Examples. When coming up with this post, I said to myself why not create a post that focuses on both the design of the website along with some really cool t-shirt designs. So here you have it, the best of both worlds…cool websites and even cooler t-shirts. Enjoy!

12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz

Lam Nguyen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:17:31 +0000

12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz.

55+ Beautiful and Colorful Vector Illustration

desigg — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:53:20 +0000

These are 55+ vibrant colors and amazing Vector Illustration from creative designers. You will see Food Illustration and animals, people and wallpapers.

30 Wonderful Websites With Illustrations

Tomas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:40:08 +0000

In this showcase you’ll find 30 beautiful examples of effective illustrations usage in web design. Hope you’ll find this collection inspirational and useful.

50+ Brilliant examples of HDR photography

Dainis — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:28:37 +0000

These images are so magical and change our dark, gray world in to colorful shiny paradise. Below you will find more than 50 newest, mystery, colorful examples of High dynamic range (HDR) Photography.

Why I hate Freelance Designing

Creative Nerds — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:01 +0000

A lot of people believe that freelance designing is a life of luxury with late starts and early finishes while drinking several cups of coffee in between.

45 Original Dark and Black Web Designs

readactor — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:13:12 +0000

Take a look at the this websites gallery to see how the black and dark colors are used to create some unique and balanced concepts, from WordPress to Joomla, html to flash.

50+ Online Design Magazines

jennywarner — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:23:03 +0000

Design magazines have always been a great source of inspiration for designers. It brings latest trends and new ideas into the mind of designers.

140+ High Quality Categorized Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

tripwire — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:59:04 +0000

This article is one of the largest categorized collections of Text Effect Tutorials will be able to find. All tutorials have large preview images and all links have been verified today.

48 Amazing Morning Dew Photo Gallery

Albert Lie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:27:57 +0000

On this gallery, there will be only grass, leaves & flowers. I’ve sorted some of the best morning dew photos from Flickr & Amolife. They’ve done very good job to get all of wonderful pictures.

Tips for Web Designers From an Internet Marketers Perspective

Dainis Graveris — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:26:33 +0000

There seems to be a disconnect across departments of a web agency. This post discusses the relationship specifically between the web designer and the internet marketer.

Top 50 Online Freelance Marketplaces That Cost Nothing To Use

Jacob Share — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:09:10 +0000

The most popular FREE freelance marketplaces on the Web according to Alexa.

50 Majestic Examples of Mountain and Canyon Photography

Frank — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:30:06 +0000

Nature as a whole is a wonder and a source of endless beauty. We sometimes don’t even realize what it is that makes it so spectacular.

65 Well Designed Ecommerce website for Design Inspiration

vikas ghodke — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:15:11 +0000

Last week i designed an Ecommerce site for one of my client and thought why not to collect some Good looking Ecommerce site for acrisdesign and here it is 65 Well Designed Ecommerce website for Design Inspiration.

30 Most Beautiful High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography – Part II

Themeflash — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:42:31 +0000

In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques.

10 Best Techniques and Resources Javascript / Ajax Scrollers

denbagus — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:31:30 +0000

jQuery and MooTools is most popular JavaScript frameworks with powerful tools that can dramatically improve user interaction with Web applications.

Showcase of 60 Inspirational Typography Designs

Matthew Heidenreich — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:17:36 +0000

Designing around type can be a complicated process, that doesn’t always end in the best looking results. Typography is all around us and can be inspiring if done in the correct way. This is why I have compiled a list of 60 outstanding pieces of typography artwork to help stir up some creativity.

70+ Business Card Designs

Tony — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:07:12 +0000

It has been almost two months since our last post on business cards. Since then I have assembled an amazing collection of fresh and creative business cards. I am confident that these new business card designs will stimulate your creative juices for your own beautiful designs. Enjoy!

30+ Tips, Tools and Resources for Taking the Pain out of Cross-Browser CSS

Nick Parsons — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:26:38 +0000

Writing cross-browser CSS doesn’t have to be painful! With the right knowledge, tools, and smarts, you can tackle a CSS design and get it working quickly and painlessly. Let’s look at some of the excellent tools, articles and resources that will help you work smarter and cut the pain out of writing cross-browser CSS.

Creative Web Form Designs: Ideas And Realizations

Nikola Lazarevic — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:11:32 +0000

Getting feedback from your customers or readers is very important, and because of that, web form must be easy to use. Web form doesn’t have to be boring. To create a standout web form, we must come up with something creative and unique. We can use icons, symbols, textured backgrounds, vintage and grunge details…
Use your imagination!

60+ Free Clean, Simple Minimalist Wordpress Themes

tripwire — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:10:55 +0000

If you’re considering to use a minimalistic theme this post will give you the inspiration needed and may help you find the theme you are looking for.

50+ Fresh Designs Photoshop Brushes released in January

Ali Qayyum — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:29:44 +0000

Photoshop brushes play an important role for creating the artful designing. We collected the January 2010 brushes published. We add creative and unique brushes of Photoshop. This collection includes the abstract, valentine themes designed.

100+ Best Free Premium Wordpress Themes of Jan 2010

Sunil Jain — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:44:09 +0000

The best free premium themes of January 2010 which has all the features of premium themes like Adsense Ready, Magazine Style ,Twitter Ready, Ads Ready, Widget Ready, Content Slider, Customized Breadcrumb,Analytics Integration, Ajax Menu…….many more

50 Years of Journey of “The Flintstones”

Rocky — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:50:19 +0000

The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions (H-B) and celebrating 50 years on the air in 2010, The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man’s life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. It has since been re-released on both DVD and VHS.

This show played like a prehistoric Honeymooners and its popularity rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern-day concerns in the Stone Age setting.

Mega Drop-Down Menu, Enjoy It Responsibly!

piervix — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:27:59 +0000

A relatively recent trend is the use of mega drop-down navigation menus. They are simple to build and have a great appeal for the users.

30 Link Submission Sites For Design Blogs

Jennifer Silverman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:25:33 +0000

Even design blogs with the best quality posts need to have strong readership and a healthy flow of web traffic to thrive. And one of the most effective ways to achieve these is to submit to graphic design news and link submission sites all over the Web.

20 Fonts Ideal For The iPhone And Other Mobile Screens

Lam Nguyen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:40:16 +0000

Fancy fonts which look awesome on large screens are often barely readable at smaller resolutions. Here is a collection of 20 free fonts which will surely work on any resolution required.

Bring your websites alive: From Boring to Exciting!

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:26:29 +0000

Some have a passion for web design; others consider it a mere task! This article is for those who consider web design more than just a task, in fact, it is ….

30 Old Car Brochures Designs Samples

Girlie Nuqui — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:05:35 +0000

A collection of old car brochure designs featuring both luxurious and affordable car models. These designs were personally handpicked to inspire you to create a vintage style brochure of your own.

30 Very Catchy Typography Design Concepts in Print Ads

gizelle — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:21:03 +0000

Typography is becoming the new black…even in print advertising. Here are 30 print ads with typography as the main or dominant element in the design.

38 Amazing FireWorks photos

desigg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:47:10 +0000

These are beautifully FireWorks have a special charm. are burn with colored flames and sparks including different colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and silver as you see in this photos.

30 Creative Examples of Glossy Effect Logo Designs

Ayaz Malik — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:16:43 +0000

30 Creative Examples of Glossy Effect and 3D Logo Designs

21 Creative online portfolio sites and applications

Graham Smith — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:17:32 +0000

The following is a healthy collection of 21 online portfolio websites and applications. Some are free and some are paid.

20 classy free sans-serif fonts

tripwire — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:12:05 +0000

Sans-serif fonts have become the de facto standard for body text on-screen, especially online. It’s mainly because the screen resolution limit makes the serifs look blurry or too large.

34 Ways to bring Traffic to your Website or Blog

Stunning Mesh — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:04:58 +0000

If you want to promote your blog/website, so here are some tips for you to make your Website/blog popular and bring traffic to your website/blog. Also it is having some useful links of most popular websites on which you have to make your account to promote your website/blog.

33 New High Quality Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Naldz Graphics — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:24:53 +0000

This post differs from the numerous tutorials in Illustrator that we have posted in this site, because not only does they provide useful information, but they are entertaining as well.We are proud to present 33 New High Quality Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for illustrator users from every level.

Learn How To Create A Clean Layout In Photoshop

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:39 +0000

This is very detailed tutorial, so if you have basic knowledge about Photoshop you should be able to easily keep up and let me guide you through this layout creation process.

100 Most Funny and Creative Advertisement Designs

Creative Nerds — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:14:31 +0000

An amazing inspirational post which features over 100 print based creative advertisement designs for you to enjoy, which will get your creativity flowing.

50 Fantastic Examples Of Origami Art Work

Arshad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:51:35 +0000

Origami,from oru meaning “folding“, and kami meaning “paper” is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds

30 Twitter Hacks and Plugins to Spice Up Your Wordpress Blog

Themeflash — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:37:58 +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.

27 Beautiful Inspiring Header Designs

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:33:45 +0000

One of the most important parts of the website is the header. This is what the visitor will see first, this will need to be appealing to the eye while functional to let the visitor find the navigation easily.

10 Best Techniques and Resources Javascript / Ajax Scrollers

denbagus — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:22:32 +0000

jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks with powerful tools that can dramatically improve user interaction with Web applications.

13 Great On-line Tools to Grow Your Business with Email Marketing

tripwire — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:44:44 +0000

This article cover some of the best on-line email marketing solutions available and hopefully it will help you find the right tool – more tools will be added soon

50 Amazing Brown Photographs

desigg — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:49:55 +0000

Amazing and inspiration photos, that tell you a story. photos with vibrant colors. These 50 images for Kids, Animals, people and Nature etc.

Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog

Lam Nguyen — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:43:07 +0000

In this article I will give you ”Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog” along with some helpful tips that will save you time when starting a new blog or website.

22 Creative Video Advertisements of January

Paulius Rasytinis — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:31 +0000

This set consists of 22 creative video advertisements, collected in January, including market giants, new players and non profits.

20 Best Color Tools For Web Designers

Ali Qayyum — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:06:00 +0000

Color determining is hub for web project and needs difficulty to find the match colors. Right Color for the Right combination is very important.These are the 20 Best Color Tools web services on internet and every designer should need to bookmark it.

43 In-Browser Web Development Tools That Will Make You A Better Web Developer

Hirvesh — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:32:46 +0000

This is a toolbox that is sure to contain most of the web developer tools you need to develop your website into something unique and make you an infinitely better web designer.

30 Free and Fresh iPad Wallpapers

Naldz Graphics — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:43:59 +0000

This post contains the first ever set of wallpapers created by several designers and photographers in the web for the iPad. 30 Fresh iPad Wallpapers are compiled below for those who are aiming to customize wallpapers for the gadget once they have it.

40 Historical Pepsi Cola Ads Which Will Make You Smile

Arshad — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:17:40 +0000

You can easily find inspirational Coca Cola ads all over the internet and especially in these kind of blogs.I’m sure you have seen most of them but today i thought that we are not interested in Pepsi ads.

31 Free Texture Websites

igor ovsyannykov — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:29:07 +0000

Sometimes graphic designer/artist need textures for their projects, but have no clue where to look. This roundup will help anyone who’s looking for textures. The websites below offer them completely free. Enjoy!

50+ Collections of Happy Valentine Day Wallpapers

Dibakar — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:58:16 +0000

Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly simply Valentine’s Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD.

21 Stunning photos and pictures with a beautiful quote

Alex — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:23:12 +0000

21 Stunning photos with lovely quotes.

40 Most Creative and Sophisticated Advertising

Themeflash — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:50:59 +0000

Advertising refers wide announcement. It is used to stimulate or even create demand or perception to some certain products, services or ideas. The increasing competition of business today asks for better ads. However, most consumers have already evaded ads, and even employed technical means to pick them out. Thus advertising makers are obliged to look for newest originality and to achieve best ads.

36 Awesome Film Noir Movie Posters

Smashing Buzz — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:40:24 +0000

Film noir is a cinematic genre characterized by stylish Hollywood dramas that deal with the big issues of sex, violence and money. The noir world is full of morally dubious crooks, corrupt cops, insurance scams, gambling, drinking, false accusations, fast talking broads, dangerously attractive femme fatales, and murder. The movies were made by some of the most important movie makers of the 20th Century including Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles; it was also a genre that attracted some of the best talent in poster designers. Film noir posters mirrored the strong design aesthetic of the movies themselves. This post brings together 36 classic designs, laid out in chronological order, from the 1940s and 50s, the golden era of film noir.

55 Funny Cartoon Posters

elmeramos — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:52:08 +0000

Why so serious? It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 muscles to smile so why choose the former when it’s much easier to sport a beaming smile every once in a while. That’s why for this edition of Online Poster Printing, we present you 55 Funny Cartoon Posters guaranteed to wipe the scowl on anyone’s face if even for just a few minutes of their existence.

Amazing X-Ray Vision, Meets Walkman: Icon of the 80’s Poster Design Tutorial

Andrew Houle — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:27:59 +0000

A fun Photoshop tutorial that shows you how to create a poster design of a surreal Walkman. You’ll strengthen your skills with paths, layer styles, smart objects, filters and lighting.

30 University Postcard Designs – Vintage Collection

Girlie Nuqui — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:51:17 +0000

This post features a collection of vintage university postcards representing each university’s rich history. Let these postcards tell you the stories and see how the old campus buildings looked like before the advent of modern technology and architecture.

Collection Of 10 Professional Web Based Image Editors

Dainis Graveris — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:47:29 +0000

These are 10 Photoshop online alternatives you may use if you don’t own PS yourself or maybe you just enjoy online applications, which don’t use your computers bandwidth.

42 Striking Examples Of Snowboard Designs

igor ovsyannykov — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:50:48 +0000

Since its Winter season, i decided to make a corresponding post. Today i bring you a showcase of snowboard designs. Snowboard design has become very popular. Almost every snowboarding company, now hold their own design contests. This gives artist the opportunity to showcase their skill, and imagination. Either if you are brainstorming for a contest, or just want to create your own design, the snowboards below should definitely inspire you. We would like to know your opinion, so dont be shy and comment below.

70+ Super Creative Wallpapers ”About Design”

cheth — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:32:26 +0000

Handpicked Creative Wallpapers which beautifully depicts what designers think ”About Design”

Showcase of Popular websites Developed using Drupal CMS

Rocky — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:26:28 +0000

Showcase of Entertainment websites, news website, corporate websites, government websites built in Drupal

45 Free Inspiring High Quality Typography Wallpapers

Ali Qayyum — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:56:41 +0000

How the designer make simple words in digital artwork. This collection has been showing the clean, mostly minimalistic and smart work of typography.

16+3 Brands You Should Consider For Your Next Startup

Lam Nguyen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:48:07 +0000

Whether to inspire new brand ideas or to inspire you to build a business for one of these, I present you 16+3 of my favorite brands that should should be brought to life.

30 Most Creative and Unusual Fonts

Paulius Rasytinis — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:48:33 +0000

Creativity comes in many shapes and forms, so do fonts. Today we’d like to feature 30 of the most creative fonts out there.

30+ jQuery Plugins to Improve Usability and Look and Feel of HTML Forms

tripwire — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:00:21 +0000

Forms are essential for communication online and they are the single most important interface to collect information from users. Why not spice you forms up a bit and make your site more appealing and user friendly?

CSS text-indent: An Excellent Trick To Style Your HTML Form

Lam Nguyen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:25:58 +0000

A simple but great trick to style your HTML Form input using CSS text-indent property.

25 Free New High Quality, Creative Icon Sets

Ravi Ahuja — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:54:54 +0000

Icons can increase beauty of any website. Webmasters look for creative and unique icons and we try to find some great icon sets.

Six Ways of Achieving Your Freelancing Goals in 2010

FreelanceApple — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:56:12 +0000

Do you have goals for 2010? Whether you do or not find out effective ways of how to set and achieve your goals this year.

Typography – 46 Cool & Useful Dingbat Fonts

Nick Pagano — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:57 +0000

46 cool & useful Dingbat fonts, including ornaments, decorations, patterns, silhouettes and much more.

Snippets and Resources to get started with .htaccess

Sean Geng — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:26:17 +0000

Not everyone knows about the capabilities of .htaccess. But if you take the time to understand it, .htaccess can play a vital part in your website, and greatly improve your server’s capabilities. So here are some quick tips on using htaccess, and snippets to help you get started.

85 Free Saint Valentine’s Day Wallpapers

Tom — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:07:16 +0000

As promised, I’m posting more freebies for this years Saint Valentine’s Day. Here is an awesome collection of 85 Saint Valentine’s Day wallpapers.

25+ beautiful examples of hand drawn elements in web design

Richie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:23:01 +0000

In this post I will show you some beautiful hand drawn websites. They push the style close to the perfection. If you look deep enough, you will notice a distinct style; whether it is the attention to detail or it is the relevance to the content, it sure it very illustrative.

65+ Smashing PSD Files on DeviantArt

Ritam Das — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:32:16 +0000

If you are beginner in photoshop®, you will surely need some inspiration to create a new work. But you will also need some cool photoshop® elements to integrate them to your design. They are very time saver and also make your design out of the world. DeviantArt is one of the cool design sites where artist submit their cool work and source files. We have handpicked 65+ PSD (Photoshop Document) files from DeviantArt which will surely give a bump to your work. At the same time to all those talented Photoshop Designers who designed and share their Creative design stuffs with their efforts, so that others can learn and get inspiration from their works.

Guidelines, Tools and Resources For Web Wireframing

W3Avenue Team — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:28:27 +0000

This articles discusses general web wireframing techniques and provide useful guidelines, tools and resources for beginners.

A Complete Guide to Writing Guest Articles

Onextrapixel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:58:36 +0000

Guest articles (articles written for a website other than your own) are popping up all over the place. Web design websites are rapidly growing at a rate that would not be possible without the help of guest articles

35+ Most Essential Wordpress Tricks and Hacks

Rocky — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:46:40 +0000

We have categorized the list into Post Hacks, Comment Hacks, Tags,categories and Archives hacks, Search hacks and Other General Hacks

Just Say ”No” to Automatic Leading

CreativePro.com — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:33:23 +0000

Sometimes automatic is very, very good. But sometimes it’s bad news. For the typographically aware, automatic leading is a pain in the neck. Here’s what you can do about it.

55+ Amazing Book Covers and Paperbacks Design That Grab Your Attention!

The Pro Designer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:18:31 +0000

An effective book cover should be able to catch the attention of the reader and should be able to impart the message in one page and what the book is all about.

You Got Design Right – Now ‘Write’ Design!

Catalin Zorzini — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:43:23 +0000

many ways we may be like night and day, you designers and us writers, but while you design with tablets or paint and we hone our craft by dancing with Miss QWERTY, there comes a time where our paths cross.

50 Excellent Footer Design Inspiration

Themeflash — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:13:27 +0000

This post is a part for Themeflash design inspiration series, the series which focuses on inspiration on graphic user interface designs that will help you in enhancing your interface design skills.

How to slice and style a wordpress theme

Sebastian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:52:44 +0000

I said that I was going to make a tutorial on how to code a theme design to work in Wordpress. I choose to code the Artists Page theme because it’s simple and you can understand better.

75 Fresh Business Cards for Design Inspiration

vikas ghodke — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:40:44 +0000

For marketing point of view to any kind of business, its very important to have a good looking business card. Business card reflects the seriousness of you involved in your own business. Therefore we have collected some nicely designed Business cards for design inspiration.

5 Things to Consider Before Designing Your Next Website

Matt Ward — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:11:18 +0000

Fundamentally, there are two different ways that we can approach starting a new website design – by creating mockups or building prototypes. In this article we will look at 5 different areas that you can consider to help you determine whether which option would be best for your project.

37 Gorgeous Space Wallpapers

Brian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:50:10 +0000

This is a collection of 37 gorgeous space wallpapers that will inspire your life.

75 Creative Architectural Models

desigg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:27:23 +0000

These are Amazing, Creative Architectural Models. You will see also Creative landmarks models from one paper each one has its own beauty. Enjoy with inspiration

11 Premium Wordpress Themes Released in January

tripwire — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:48:12 +0000

This post provides a list og 11 new Wordpress Themes all released in January 2010.

25 Websites With Awesome Mascots

Tomas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:08:14 +0000

Here we take a look at the 25 most amazing mascots on the web. You’ll find a veritable mascot menagerie below, with only nine human mascots included in our list.

25+ Inspirational Tutorials of Valentine’s Day

Tutorial Lounge — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:26:53 +0000

Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. In this romantic event we just make an beautiful roundup about Valentine’s Day Tutorials, which is most important before this event because our designers community searching related designs, tutorials and graphics for use in marketing design campaigns or want to make e-Cards for our loved ones.

21+ Javascript WebUI Frameworks

web2000 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:26:01 +0000

There are times when a web designer will have to emulate a desktop program for the web. Here are 21+ javascript based web Graphic User Interface tools which can help design consistent UI elements across different browsers.

70+ Super Creative Wallpapers ”About Design”

cheth — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:42:52 +0000

Super creative wallpapers about design..

40 Creative and Funny Advertisements Using Animals

Aidan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:22:11 +0000

Animal lovers, you’re in for a treat! Today’s collection of advertisements uses animals or creatures to attract the attention of viewers. Animals are all creatures belonging to the kingdom of Animalia, like birds, reptiles, fish, and other larger mammals. Many animals are often perceived as cute, cuddly and friendly.

How To Block a Freshly Printed Poster

Jacques van Heerden — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:38:13 +0000

We will be doing something different today, all the tutorials that we usually see and read is digitally based. I have decided I am going to do a tutorial on How to Block a Freshly Printed Poster/Image. I will walk you through the steps in a easy understandable way so that when your done you [...]

35 Mind Blowing Digital paintings by Gary Tong

Ayaz Malik — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:38:08 +0000

35 Mind Blowing Digital paintings by Gary Tong from Da

15 Valentine’s Day Photoshop Tutorials

NetKit — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:37:50 +0000

Here is a roundup of 15 Photoshop tutorials to draw inspiration from, when designing your own pretty greeting card or wallpaper for your loved one.

30 Standout Digital Photo + Conceptual Photo Manipulation Artworks

Jared Thompson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:07:35 +0000

Photo manipulation is an amazingly creative art form, it has only be accelerated in the past decade with the advancements of software such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Here we showcase thirty pieces of stunning artwork, blending real photos with synthetic elements for a surreal result.

I Love Typography

Jared Thompson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:12:15 +0000

This round-up shows off the best in typography in all forms styles, quality is of the highest callibre and approaches range for the conventional to the unique. Design can’t be made without the inclusion of characters and type, the more consideration you give to the minor details the more you will find these subtleties give your design the edge in quality.

Most Interesting Design Trends Among Blogs: 2010

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:43:39 +0000

The web is an dynamic, organic being. It evolves as people do, responding to trends in blogging and design by constantly raising the bar. With millions of bloggers out there, we see constant evolutions of the next design trend.

99 Beautiful Roads Photos

desigg — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:06:38 +0000

These are 99 beautiful roads images. Roads in forests, asphalt roads, highway, You will see also a long roads in farmland, deserts and rough roads.. etc. I hope you enjoy and get nice impression. Each picture has its own beauty!

35+ Beautiful Tooltips Scripts With Ajax, JavaScript, CSS & Tutorials

Themeflash — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:14:31 +0000

Tooltips are the easiest and coolest way to show additional information or special reference, which is often shown with mouseover or click actions, Here We’ve Collected 30+ Tooltip Scripts vary from CSS,Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation . which you can easily incorporate into your future designs.

20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business

Lam Nguyen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:52:05 +0000

Making more money and working less. Here are twenty different ways you should know to streamline your web business.

190+ Stunning Typography Showcases

tripwire — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:55:54 +0000

This is a very large showcase compilation providing you inspiration, ideas and some of the best typography artwork created.

50+ Current Tutorials From Around The Web

Tony — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:53:11 +0000

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of January. You’ll find everything from a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop, to creating a Surreal Desert Scene. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out?

Dominance: Creating Focal Points In Your Design

Steven Bradley — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:24:39 +0000

When you first come across a new design where does your eye go? What’s the first thing you see on the page? Where in the design is your attention drawn? The answer to all three questions is one of dominance.

Breaking Down The Apple iPad

Andrew Houle — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:31:42 +0000

Find out why the iPad announcement was met with a great deal of disappointment from the folks that make up the design community

50 Awesome printed ads

Julio — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:23 +0000

Printing is and will always be a strong and effected way to market it yourself, for print designers, the message must be communicated, it must be eye-catching enough to grab the viewer’s attention and convey the important information in an instant.

So in better words you get one chance to catch the viewer’s. So we selected 50 of the most well designed printed ads for your inspiration.

An Alternative Look At Valentines Day: Heartfelt Designs and Artwork

Jared Thompson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:32:27 +0000

Valentines day means different things to all of us, some of us can be cynical and look at the 14th of February as being a commercialized day made up by the card companies to get men to lavish gifts upon there loved ones. The more romantic person would say that it is the day for flowers, roses, chocolates and lavish meals laid on for beloved girlfriends, fiancees and wives.
These artworks attempt to go against the grain and the norm, showing what their interpretation of love is.

10 Hollywood Web Designs That Don’t Suck

Tom — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:16:37 +0000

One would think that a website associated with Hollywood, California would be on the cutting edge of web design. Nope, not really.

40 Out Of This World CG Space Scenes

Frank — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:02:28 +0000

We have gathered 40 Stunning Outer Space Scenes, which put the rich and creative imagination of some of the best CG designers into real mind blowing images. Let’s take a trip above the limits!

Create a glossy high tech 3D speaker icon

Grafpedia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:11:35 +0000

Learn how to design an awesome hight tech glossy icon with a 3D look in Photoshop.

The Secret of Getting Things Done When Working with Freelancers

Splashnology — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:03:57 +0000

This article will reveal you a secret, and a big one at that.

30 examples of creative infography

Mirko — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:49:06 +0000

The following examples take information architecture to another level by making it beautiful.

75+ Websites where You can Find Free Fonts

tripwire — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:08:28 +0000

This article provides one of the largest collections of Font Resources and Directories and will be your doorway to most of the Free Fonts available through the Internet!

50+ Beautiful Wallpapers for Make more Romantic this Valentine Day

Dzinepress — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:00:07 +0000

Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. Today we are with some really awesome collections of Wallpapers which are belong to an romantic day as we call Valentine’s Day, we can express our feelings to someone in this creative way of designing, we should wear these beautiful wallpapers to our computer desktop for keep celebrate everywhere this too much romantic event.

50+ Free Valentines day wallpapers for your desktop

Dainis — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:10:31 +0000

More than 50 free lovely and romantic valentines day wallpapers for your desktop. These wallpapers will add romantic mood to your workplace. All wallpapers are high resolutions and free to download.

Maximum and Minimum Width Solution for All Browsers

Ejaz Ahmad — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:42:18 +0000

min-width and max-width is very useful command of CSS, whereby you can specify a minimum width for any element. This can be particularly useful for specifying a minimum width for a page.

20 Examples of using the Color Orange in Web Design

Matthew Heidenreich — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:20:49 +0000

First we showed you that you can make a great website using the color red, and then showed you a collection of green in web design. This week we are showcasing 20 websites for your inspiration, that make good use of the color orange.

75+ Websites To Submit Your Design News

igor ovsyannykov — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:04:16 +0000

Getting exposure is not easy, this is why i made this post. I feel bad, because there are many talented blog writers, that don’t get noticed. They provide great content, but only get a few views a day. This is where i come in and help. When i first started i was clueless on how to get traffic to my blog. Thanks to all the quality blogs around, i was tought a trick or two. To gain exposure you have to submit your content to user news sites. With my own experience, i guarantee you will gain more traffic and loyal readers. Make sure to take your time and don’t rush. Think of your content as being a resource, that people will be using over and over again. Below i have listed websites you can submit your user news to. Although these are design related don’t forget the two big ones, facebook & twitter. They will be a huge key for building your brand on the web.

40 (NEW) & High Quality Icon Set For Elegant Designs

Noura Yehia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:24:38 +0000

In this post we’ll feature 40 Icon sets that are totally fresh and free for you to download. Keep these icon sets handy and they will meet your needs for most projects.

65+ Beautiful Green Typography Collection

Rocky — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:25:01 +0000

Green typography is used to represent nature and eco-friendly styles. If anyone wants to use Green Color properly it can hell lot of amazing styles.

In this post we would be providing you with some of the best green color typography you may have ever seen.

How to Design “Coming Soon” Pages with examples

Rocky — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:24:35 +0000

Tasks that you would always think of before getting your website up and running

1. What should be your domain
2. Get the hosting Space
3. Buy the domain that suites your business
4. ……………….
5. Start thinking about the look of your website

31 Rare Wordpress Themes

Bariski — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:12:18 +0000

Here are 31 High Quality Free Wordpress Themes.

50+ Beautiful Colorful and Funny Toy Design Collection

Dibakar — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:56:27 +0000

Most young mammals have been observed to play with whatever they can find, turning such things as pinecones, rocks, and food into toys. Toys and games have been unearthed from the sites of ancient civilizations. They have been written about in some of our oldest literature. Toys excavated from the Indus valley civilization (3000-1500 BCE) include small carts, whistles shaped like birds, and toy monkeys which could slide down a string.

25 Ultimate Useful Form Tutorials Using CSS and Javascript

Smashing Buzz — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:03:41 +0000

In this article I just featured many good looking contact forms, so you should know how the contact form is good looking. Now let’s take a look how to create outstanding and beautifully designed form element from scratch ourselves. Things can get tricky even if you are experienced designer.Although It Is hard to attract visitors attention, but this article should help to stand out and create semantically correct, good looking and accessible web forms, radio buttons, buttons, checkboxes, field sets and everything that come to your mind when you are creating contact or login page!

40 Most inspiring vector character illustrations

Richie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:30:31 +0000

Having a unique design is a must to get your visitor’s attention. Vector characters can establish a memorable image of your site in the reader’s mind which stands through the toughest of times.In this article, I have showcased some of the best and most inspiring character illustrations.

100+ Amazing Paintings + Sculpture + Graphics Drawings by [Boris Indrikov]

desigg — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:01:12 +0000

Boris Indrikov was born in Leningrad in 1967 and lives and works in Moscow . From 1991 – 1997 he was a book designer and worked as an illustrator for the popular science magazine “Chemistry and Life”.

180 Resources sites to download Royalty Free Stock images

sriganesh — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:36:19 +0000

Everyone like photographs and like to mix with your creative work in design community.we have to be aware of copyright policy of every image we use.-some images are to be paid and some are free. We need high resolution images for our work which is royalty free and can be used for Personal and commercial purpose. so here i have mentioned some Resource list for royalty free stock images.

30+ Very Useful Color Tools For Designers

Tony — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:47:56 +0000

Choosing the right colors and color combination for your web or print design is crucial when trying to invoke a certain feel, reaction or emotion from your viewers. In this post I have assembled an amazing collection of color selectors / color combination tools to make the selection process a little easier when trying to figure out what colors to use in your next design. All these tools are unique in their own way, so find the one that is right for your design needs and good luck with that next big project. Enjoy!

35+ Awesome Photoshop Water Effect Tutorials and Brush Collections

tripwire — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:50:16 +0000

This article provides a collection of great tutorials and brush collections focused on the most needed water effects like rain, drops, reflection etc

150 Creative interior designs of an advertising studios

Splashnology — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:44:52 +0000

Sometimes the interior of an advertising studio can inspire us to do your most creative work. In this review we will show you some interesting interior designs of advertising agencies’ and studios’ offices.

70+ Creative and Inspirational Business Cards

Sean Geng — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:12:35 +0000

Business cards can make a lasting impression on a client or potential employer. So it makes sense for that impression to stand out and make sure you are remembered. Some designers have been producing some impressive business card designs, so we thought we would round up some of our favorites and share them.

35+ Creative advertising For Creative Peoples

Ali Qayyum — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:15:16 +0000

Today advertisement is the most important part of the company. They hired highly creative minds for their marketing who have a good sense of humor, ideas, creativity and can convert their ideas into visual form

Digging Into E-Commerce Website Design: Overview, Best Practices and Examples

piervix — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:25 +0000

The World Wide Web is a privileged channel for spreading good ideas and, in this time of crisis, it could be very useful to improve a business. Internet provides many possibilities to enhance, in different ways, our activities and one of this surely is the electronic commerce.

15 Ways to Improve Freelance Creativity

vikas ghodke — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:26:21 +0000

We’re all creative, there’s no doubt about that. Nobody is born without creative tendencies and abilities; it’s just that some people are better at putting their ideas on paper and relaying them to other people. A lot of it is to do with confidence. If you’re confident that your ideas are great, other people will think so too

30 Amazing Examples of Waterscape Shots in Photography

Naldz Graphics — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:32:30 +0000

30 Amazing Examples of Waterscape Shots in Photography are featured below taken by talented Photographers around the globe.

50+ Brilliant Example of Fantasy Drawings

desigg — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:41:30 +0000

This post is part of an ongoing Daily Design Inspiration series that showcases to our readers the best designs to inspire and feed your creativity.

6 Useful HTML 5 and CSS3 Combination Resources

denbagus — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:19:39 +0000

CSS3 and HTML 5 is a revolution in the way of designing Web sites can be.

The two functions are so many new functions is difficult,

In this article will provide helpful information how the combination of the HTML Resources 5 and CSS3.

Many of the techniques discussed are supported in some parts already in some modern browsers (Safari or Firefox), to s

24 Stylish and Natural Photoshop Brush Collections

Media Militia — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:35:22 +0000

Photoshop enables endless options for image creation, an invaluable tool for designers and digital artists. A great way to create a stylish natural look in website and print design, and in digital painting, is to use natural brushes.

70 Most wanted Illustrator tutorials of all time

Richie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:14:35 +0000

In this article, I have rounded up some of the best Illustrator tutorials of all time. They include from creating simple text effects to the most advanced hand drawn elements. So, I think this ought to keep you busy for at least a month. Have fun and Good Luck!

70+ Design & Development Blogs You Should Follow On Twitter

igor ovsyannykov — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:12:53 +0000

The design community is growing rapidly more and more blogs get started daily. To help you keep up, here is a roundup of all the design blogs you should be following on twitter. I would like to suggest making a graphic designing list and adding these blogs to it. My goal is to make this post a useful resource for everybody. This will be frequently updated. If i forgot to mention your blog please comment below, and i will add you.

40 Popular Lists of Photoshop Tutorials

Albert Lie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:59:19 +0000

At first, I made this article to make me easier to search for adobe photoshop tutorials & enhance my graphic design skills and experience. But then, I’m sure that this article will be very helpful for all of you who wants to learn more about adobe photoshop.

75+ Top jQuery Plugins to improve Your HTML Forms

tripwire — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:32:03 +0000

jQuery makes it easier and simpler to provide your users with high quality, dynamic, good looking and intuitive input forms. This post lists some of the best available in different categories

Web Design – What are Client’s Requirements?

James Parker — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:49:47 +0000

The best among the best web designs are those that revolve around your clients requirements. “Client is always right”, and if your web design company acknowledges this fact, it has paved way for prosperity and long term sustainability in this field of web designing.

49 Free HD Widescreen Wallpapers

Tom — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:59:46 +0000

Here is a diverse collection of 49 high-resolution HD widescreen wallpapers. Below the samples is where you will find the free download for all 49 full-sized, original images.

Fresh Examples of web 2.0 Design and Interfaces

Ayaz Malik — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:32:13 +0000

Fresh Examples of web 2.0 Design and Interfaces gathered from DA

Best Of The Web/Design In January 2010

Creative Nerds — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:21:08 +0000

Our first monthly edition of our monthly roundup in 2010 when we collect all the best design tutorials,article and design resources.

70+ Seriously Useful Handwritten Fonts and Inspirational Showcases

tripwire — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:59:09 +0000

Lots of excellent handwritten fonts and inspirational showcases

A Collection Of MooTools Navigation Solutions

McBonio — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:50:50 +0000

What we are going to cover today is navigation as your project’s navigation is always an important design element and can greatly determine your sites usability, so to assist here are 10 MooTools solutions which will improve your navigation.

9 Interesting Mootools Examples and Tutorials ready for use

ayman — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:43:31 +0000

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.In this post, we’ll showcase some interesting Mootools examples and tutorials ready for use.

Blogging on WordPress: A Delightful Experience

Annie Dawson — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:40:20 +0000

Blogging is an art of writing your thoughts in a convincing way to establish a thread of trust between you and your target audiences. It can be a simple write-up or a personal video message. But where to host it? Over a period of time, WordPress has emerged as the most popular self-hosted blogging tool that entails multiple features to ease out the functionality and customization of your blog.

40 Latest Trend Vintage and Retro Business Cards

Dzinepress — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:31:54 +0000

Every company need an identity for advertise his brand and business cards also part of any company identity which will play major role in brand or company marketing and when we follow some latest techniques for our graphic design campaigns them brand looks more attractive as we shown in our today article “40 Latest Trend Vintage and Retro Business Cards”. Here in this beautiful vintage and retro business card designs you may take some design ideas because we specially arrange an well vintage designed showcase for our design lovers who were finding these kind of latest and different design ideas.

How to create light and lighting in Photoshop

Stefan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:32:16 +0000

Creating simple lighting effects is not only easy, but fun and rewarding for as much minimal effort it takes in Photoshop

Why everyone goes blogging?

Opariuc Mihai — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:04:09 +0000

More and more people are starting to have a blog. But I have a question, what is the main cause which determines them to make a blog? Here’s a few answers!

The Evolution of Popular Brand Logos

chris — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:45:33 +0000

This post is about logos, we see them all the time. For example on mobile phone, on cars, in TV and not at last on clothes. Some people pay a lot of money for a T-shirt with a special Logo. But what exactly is a Logo?

How To Design a Clean and Professional Resume / CV Website

Chris Creed — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:05:28 +0000

Single page resume and CV websites are becoming increasingly popular. Learn how to create your own design in Photoshop in this article – a series of simple steps are provided that describe how to put together a clean and professional template.

120+ Creative Advertisements

desigg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:02:23 +0000

120+ Creative Advertisements
These images speak for themselves. I hope you love them as much as I do.

How to Create Perfect Radial Shapes in Illustrator

Media Militia — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:38:18 +0000

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the creation process on how to effectively recreate some perfect radial shapes. Once you have completed this tutorial. I am sure you will be creating some amazing radial shapes to include in your designs.

Sweet AJAX Tabs With jQuery 1.4 & CSS3

Tutorialzine — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:27:32 +0000

In this tutorial we are making sweet AJAX-powered tabs with CSS3 and the newly released version 1.4 of jQuery.

117 Funniest Creative Job and Recruitment Ads

Jacob Share — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:20:35 +0000

The most creative and funny job ads that recruiters are using to get your attention.

Designing Your Header With the Best Practices and Examples

Joel Reyes — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:50:45 +0000

The header of your web site helps the visitors connect and understand the information that you are trying to provide. If your websites header was not designed to optimize the flow of all information contained between your web site, then the entire layout would seem unbalanced.

Create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon in Photoshop

Dawghouse Design Studio — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:14:56 +0000

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon from scratch. We will learn some basic to intermediate techniques in Photoshop such as making use of brushes, textures, masking, the burn tool and a lot more!

30 Breathtaking Examples of Nature Photography

Ali Qayyum — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:03:44 +0000

Every one loves nature beauty and these places refresh our minds . These picture are best shots of nature photography. These are different places of the world. It is very hard to explain the beauty of these places

60+ Stunning Examples of Abstract Designs.

desigg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:08:54 +0000

Many designers, painters like abstract art because it expresses the interior feelings and their ambitions etc. The paintings contain symbols and shapes that have no meaning virtual. I hope that when you look at these designs you will feel inspired like me.

5 Alternative And Tiny CSS Grid Systems

Dicky — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:17:50 +0000

CSS Grid Systems can save us a lot of development time. Despite the most popular CSS Frameworks that we covered before, there are still some tiny CSS Grid Systems that worth a look.

70+ New Example of Brochures #2

desigg — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:30:18 +0000

Brochures and Business cards are used by companies or individuals to provide brief information during formal introductions. They include information such as name, address, e-mail, telephone number and offer services etc . These 70+ New and Creative Example of Brochures. You can learn from them and get nice ideas for your designs.

40+ most breath taking night shots of Las Vegas

Richie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:26:47 +0000

In this article, I have shared over 40 beautiful night pictures of Las Vegas. These images were chosen from the best set of pictures in flickr and deviantart. So, if you are planning to visit Las Vegas to enjoy its beauty, this is definitely going to inspire the photographer in you. Without further ado, let us start our journey!

55+ Stunning Mac Motivated Wallpapers

Smashing Buzz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:46:31 +0000

Today we are with stunning MAC motivated Hi-res wallpapers because we addicted to Apple and also love to use wallpapers as we also sharing with our respected visitors and readers which are really beautiful and creative stuff for your Mac desktop. Most of People are also very passionate about their wallpapers, especially those themed around their operating system of choice, so we really care about user’s choice and modern world demand about desktop wallpapers, to make the search easier we just choose some really best ever selection as “55+ Stunning Mac Motivated Wallpapers” hope you all really like to use for your mind relaxing and design inspirations.

70 Exceptionally Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Inspiration

Simran — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:04:48 +0000

Here is a collection of 70 exceptionally beautiful and creative logo designs for inspiration.

How to create a HDR timelapse sequence

Jay Birch — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:07:06 +0000

This timelapse sequence shot on the Canon 5DII using an intervalometer and the exposure bracketing function to take a set of images ready for HDR processing (1200 images to be precise!). The technique should work on any camera that has a bracket exposure feature and timelapse (or intervalometer) feature.

7 Awesome WordPress Plugins To Give Your Dashboard A New Look

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:28:11 +0000

In the article we will take a look on some awesome plugins that can alternate the user interface of WordPress to make it more users friendly.

Show Adsense Only to Search Engine Visitors

Bariski — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:13:03 +0000

Happily, this solution displays your AdSense ads to search engine visitors only, which means more clicks and a higher CTR.

20 Indispensable Browser Based Apps

Design Informer — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:42 +0000

There are browser based alternatives to almost every traditional piece of software you frequently use. Here, we bring you 20 indispensable web apps.

Gestalt Principles: How Are Your Designs Perceived?

Steven Bradley — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:52:16 +0000

The perception someone gets from looking at your design is ultimately what you’re communicating to them. Learn to control Gestalt principles and you learn to communicate through your design.

50+ Creative Examples of Minimalist Web Design.

desigg — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:18:27 +0000

Minimalist design has been described as design removing the unnecessary elements and focus on simplicity, Typography, simple and creative layouts. You can find the content of the site easy and simple. where it doesn’t have fancy colors or effects. In this article 50 examples showcase some of the best minimal site designs out there on the web. I hope you love them as much as I do.

55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Syed Balkhi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:07:51 +0000

This article has some of the most wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks that you will definitely find useful.

50 Free Tools Every Designer Will Love

Nick Parsons — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:55:53 +0000

50 highly acclaimed typography, graphics and colors tools that are perfect for web designers, plus links to many more great designer tool roundups.

87 Fantastic Login Forms for your Inspiration

Splashnology — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:05:02 +0000

In web 2.0, design is one of the most important things to consider in a website. The better it looks, visitors become more attracted. The same rule applies to login forms.

40+ Freelancer Tools and Services for testing Web Projects

tripwire — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:47:26 +0000

This post provides a list of more than 40 tools and services that will help you clean out most of the bugs in your web projects. Good for you and your users! What tools are you using already?

9 Tips For Working with MySQL Databases

Noura Yehia — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:00:54 +0000

MySQL is a fantastic choice for any new developer, because of its open source nature, wide support and abundance of tutorials available on the subject. Here are some great tips to improve your MySQL coding, and to help you save time.

11 Fonts that are perfect for grunge web designs

Kung Karl — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:55:08 +0000

Try to design a web design with Arial as the main font in the graphic elements, such as a logo or a header. Exactly, it will not look good. Take a look at these 11 great fonts that will give your grunge web design an entirely new look.

30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:24:59 +0000

jQuery has a lot of impressive modern and trendy plugins and features and tooltips are no exception! This is very complete article featuring all the baest tooltips currently available.

50 Design Tutorials for Mastering Gimp

Creative Nerds — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:10:08 +0000

The ultimate compilation of gimp design tutorials to take a novice and turn them into an expert, the perfect guide for anyone looking to learn or even master the ins and outs of Gimp.

NEW Tips How to Make the Web Faster by Google

denbagus — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:33:10 +0000

There are several ways to run the site faster. In this section you will find the best practices, best performance how to mace the web faster from and for professional Web Developers and Software Engineer.

Photo Gallery Website Layout in Photoshop

Matthew Heidenreich — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:25:32 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a photo gallery website in Photoshop. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

How to Choose a SEO friendly Domain Name?

Annie Dawson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:55:01 +0000

Technological revolution has transformed the face of modern society at an amazing pace. A strong online presence is a must for everyone, from individuals to entrepreneurs to big corporate houses.

12 Awesome, Fresh And Free Web Social Icons Sets

Lam Nguyen — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:50:04 +0000

Enjoy 12 Awesome, Fresh And Free Web Social Icons Sets around the web. They are free for download and use without any restriction.

70+ Brilliant Examples of Logotype and Typography Inspiration.

desigg — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:17:14 +0000

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading, adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

16 Movie Poster, Movie Text, And Billing Block Tutorials

deltadesignz — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:55:57 +0000

Below are some great tutorials that teach you how to make professional quality movie posters, as well as some text tutorials from a few very popular movies and a tutorial on making a billing block!

10 Common CSS Browser Compatibility Issues/Bugs You Must Know

Rakesh — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:49:28 +0000

In today’s scenario browser bugs with CSS can be an incredible source of frustration for Web designers and developers. In this post I’m sharing some most common CSS browser compatibility Issues/Bugs.

Design Your Own Icons – 25 Tutorials and Articles Designers MUST Have

tripwire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:45:36 +0000

This article provides a large collection of icon tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator that currently is the de facto standard tools for this purpose.

100+ Truly Stunning Skateboard Designs

Tony — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:07:38 +0000

In the month of December I wrote a post titled: 60+ Amazing Snowboard Designs. I started snowboarding as a youngster and have become pretty good at it since. One of the things I never really mastered was skateboarding. While all my friends were playing and riding around with their skateboards, I was on my bike. The one thing I do appreciate about skateboards are the creative graphics on the boards.

80 Amazing African Wildlife Photos

desigg — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:08:53 +0000

Wildlife is very nice place for who have a passion for nature photography, Africa is unique location for adventures who interested in photography, Here are 80 amazing photos like lions, zebras, Giraffes, Elephants, Rhinos and another stunning animals photographs. I hope that when you look at these pictures you will feel inspired and refresh your mind.

30 Funny and Clever Emotions Egg Photography by Artist

Ali Qayyum — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:30:42 +0000

These are stunning collection of Funny Egg Design. Artist make their feeling on eggs and shown the cool art. These eggs represent the unique and different drawing on their surface. Artist show the different way of expression like smiling, weeping, stressing, war, job, happy etc

25 Creative Footer Designs

igor ovsyannykov — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:13:44 +0000

Footers play a creative roll in a blogs design. Although the footer area might sometimes go unnoticed, this doesn’t mean you should just let it be. Here are some great examples to get you inspired. We would love to hear your thoughts, so please comment below.

40 Tutorials For Creating Aamzing Icons

Joseph Victory — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:04:36 +0000

We’ve scoured the web to bring you the very best. Some are more suitable for experts, while others are accessible to anyone with the most limited graphic design experience. Take a look below and find the ones that are right for you.

25 Nice Aurora Borealis Photos

Albert Lie — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:42:05 +0000

I really love aurora borealis. It’s always very beautiful & nice looking. Although i haven’t seen it directly, i know that aurora borealis has beautiful looks. Enjoy nice gallery of aurora borealis photograph!

A Roundup of 45 Industrial Free Fonts

piervix — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:48:40 +0000

Looking for great industrial fonts? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve spent hours searching the web for the best industrial fonts available and what’s more, they’re all absolutely free!

20 Best Twitter-likes And Useful Tutorials To Work With Twitter

Lam Nguyen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:31:37 +0000

20 best tutorials and resources that are Twitter-like and useful for your web project.

100 Free HD Widescreen Nature Wallpapers

Tom — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:37:06 +0000

Download: 100 Free HD Widescreen Nature Wallpapers, Artist: SckyzO, Size: 118.3 MB, Format: JPG, Type: Raster

40 Photoshop Tutorials To Create Gorgeous 3D Text Effects

Arshad — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:57:40 +0000

You can use Photoshop perfectly but more important thing is the creativity in mind.First you will imagine and then you have to show your technical skills.Especially when you start working with text,the imagination becomes more important for us.

45 Free Most Wanted iPhone Games

Dzinepress — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:07:11 +0000

I am sharing one of my oldest hobby which is games, but today in this modern world we are striking with some amazing and most wanted free iPhone games, iPhone is like online multimedia smart phone which contains the main functions of several popular in famous gadgets.
iPhone games specially designed according to user experience and this gadget have variety of features as we can imagine before in past, as examples: Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio.

35 Exclusive And High Quality PSD Photoshop Resource Sites

Dainis Graveris — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:24:27 +0000

This article is meant to relieve you from doing repetitive works and just use some premade resources, which can be found over the Internet! Put them in good use!

Water Painting History and Artist Collections

Dibakar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:51:02 +0000

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete. Paintings may be decorated with gold leaf, and some modern paintings incorporate other materials including sand, clay, and scraps of paper.

5 Amazing Websites To Create Contact Forms

denbagus — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:49:59 +0000

Below are some popular services to make quick contact form and have an attractive appearance.

26 Well Designed Websites that Help Haiti

Jojo Toth — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:52:40 +0000

Examples of effective and well designed websites of non profit organizations that help Haiti

38 Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials

Thomson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:36:41 +0000

If you’re looking to improve your design using Photoshop to enhance a photo to make it clearer, more interesting, or more attractive, here are 38 of the awesome tutorials to show you some of the possibilities.

45 of the best High Quality PSD Files from Deviantart

Richie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:48:47 +0000

I have been searching for some of the best resources in the most reliable places possible and have collected 45 of the best psd resources there is. All of them are from DeviantArt and are of high quality. They include from simple glossy buttons to realistic planets.

30 Stunning Strength Images

desigg — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:30:25 +0000

Enjoy with these crazy strength cliparts, they have nice colors and you can use these initial materials on your design.You will see funny images with super Strength, I think strong men or annoying kids will like this stuff.

30 Web-Design Related Photoshop Tips, Tutorial Screencasts

Dainis Graveris — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:35:33 +0000

Are you ready and curious to learn from experienced designers quality screencasts? Learn new techniques, tips how to create better web-designs, which really look good!

35 WordPress Tips and Tricks You Must Know

Ali Qayyum — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:03:23 +0000

These tricks includes the SEO, Posting, Author, Page Friendly, Make your page faster, Comment box setting, Track Backs and few
videos etc.

(Another) 5 Interesting Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance to Your Design

PSD Vault — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:02:52 +0000

In this post, I will show you yet another 5 Interesting Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance to Your Design. These techniques are just little things that I found useful in Photoshop, and I think they’re quite beneficial to learn if you’re a PS beginner. So go ahead and have a try!

30 Great Adobe Illustrator Tutorials For Beginners

Tehseen Baweja — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:49:09 +0000

30 great tutorials for beginners looking to get familiar with Adobe Illustrator.

Joomla Showcase: 44 Beautiful Joomla Website Designs

Dicky — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:29:04 +0000

There are a lot of beautiful Joomla websites and this article showcases 44 Joomla designs which include E-commerce, online magazine and also personal blog.

How To Design A Clean and Minimal Portfolio Website

Chris Creed — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:31:07 +0000

Learn how to design a clean and minimal portfolio website in Photoshop. This design tutorial takes you through six simple steps that result in a clean and professional design that you can use and adapt for your own projects.

Really Useful CSS Tips and Tricks for Web Designers and Developers

Tutorial Lounge — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:33:16 +0000

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is most important language technique for web designing and development, we mostly prefer in our modern designs where some new techniques also introduce like CSS3 and some third party scripts as well which can help in latest website designs. Now CSS offering many advanced advantages which helping in table-less and web 2.0 designs, as you know number of websites offering tips and tricks about CSS, but we choose some very useful techniques which you cannot ignore as designer or developer.

50+ Amazing $$Dollars$$ Images

saoo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:49:14 +0000

Here are 50+ Amazing Dollars Images from shutterstock, You can use them to get amazing designs. Bell Gates said If you born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake. Enjoy with these money.

50 most brilliant typography designs for inspiration

Richie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:31:59 +0000

As designers, we cannot escape typography. It’s everywhere on the web. It’s in the air we breathe, the things we see and most importantly, it’s in every design that makes us go ‘Wow!!’

20 Examples of using the Color Green in Web Design

Matthew Heidenreich — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:23:19 +0000

We showed you last week that you can make stunning web designs using the color red. This week we are showcasing 20 websites for your inspiration, that make good use of the color green.

36 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials Part 4

yugu — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:19:24 +0000

When it comes to designing a website Photoshop is an excellent tool for it, No design Software gives you quite so much control as Adobe Photoshop in designing a website. For beginner web designers – design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design ,

12 really useful CSS tools

Mirko — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:49:20 +0000

Tons of cool CSS tools were created to make your life easier and keep web designers’ work barable

30 Awesome Wordpress Based Websites For Your Inspiration

designtutorials4u — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:48:23 +0000

For your inspiration here are 30 awesome websites that use WordPress with anything but ordinary results. Here you will find informational/corporate sites, portfolios and ecommerce sites that will hopefully inspire you for your next project.

60+ Fascinating Artistic Photographs of Flowers

Dany Vilela — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:05:47 +0000

As a design lover, I just love photography, especially artistic ones: they are a great source of fascination. So I could not resist to share this beautiful collection of artistic close-up photographs of flowers to get you inspired. Leave a comment to tell me what you think about these pictures!

10 Tips to Create a Motivating Working Environment at Home

Smashing Share — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:50:21 +0000

Making the decision to leave the office and work from home is a lifestyle choice more and more people are making today. No matter what line of work you are in, it’s essential that you arrange your working environment to maximize motivation and productivity

Create a Cute Little Tiger in Illustrator

Design Informer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:42:06 +0000

I will teach you how to draw a cute little tiger, all with just Adobe Illustrator. You will also learn a ton of great of Illustrator techniques as well.

80+ Professional PSD Logos (Fully Customizable)

adilaleem — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:21:30 +0000

There are a great bunch of logos out there that can inspire you to create your own, however it is very difficult to find customizable logos that are free and let you tweak them to your needs. The guys from Shaboopie.com were frustrated when they couldn’t find any customizable logos to play with so they made their own. This set of 84 logos allows for easy tweaking for the most beginner of graphic designers. Use the logos as they are, or customize to your preference and add a personal touch to reflect your website or business!

22 Stunning Free Download E-Commerce Icon Sets

Ali Qayyum — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:57:44 +0000

E-commerce is define as the buying and selling of services or product in the website. It is also called E-Business. recent times, E-Commerce growes rapidly. Every Organization creating their websites for promoting their products or services. So, Every organization tries to make user-friendly icons that easily understandable.

20 Sites to submit your logos

Gopal Raju — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:07:25 +0000

This post has a list of websites that accept logo submissions, along with the link to their submission forms. The ranking and other details of each site has been included as well, for your ease.

Top 31 Most Creative and Interesting Movie Websites Designs

Alex — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:41:20 +0000

Toplist with most interesting and creative official movie websites designs of all time. Famous movies like Avatar, The Dark Knight and Twilight are also here.

35 Popular Free Online Photo Editing Tools

Arshad Cini — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:49:34 +0000

We can use many programs to edit images and our first tool is of course Photoshop but there are many free online resources to edit,to give effects and share the final images with our friends.

65+ Awesome Example of Brochures

saoo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:47:20 +0000

35 Amazing Fantasy Art 3D Wallpapers

Dzinepress — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:41:25 +0000

We hope everyone need to change and something different for make 3D your desktop we participating with some amazing effort of Fantasy Art and 3D desktop wallpaper,s where you seen some super hero inspirational characters and also abstract art. In these digital art works we must choose wallpapers and make own gallery about creative abstract wallpapers and use in our desktop for more beautiful.

6 Tips to Keep Your Customers Coming Back

James Parker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:09:37 +0000

If your website has well defined goals like increasing sales, generating leads, disseminating information, corporate branding, products exposure…

Over 150+ tutorial sites in one list

Art Webb — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:04:26 +0000

Tutsearch Tutorial Database: This is the complete list of sites in our database. They are organized by category that include – Photoshop, CSS/HTML, Wordpress, Jquery, Vector and Design

Corporate WebSites Powered By WordPress

wparena — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:31:17 +0000

Blogging is a fast changing medium. The way internet users view blogs today is vastly different to how it was just two or three years ago.

How To Say No To Spec Work Requests

Grace Smith — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:48:18 +0000

An in-depth analysis of how I dealt with a request to compete for a project on a ’Speculative Basis’ and how you can effectively respond to similar requests.

10 Beautiful Video Blogging Wordpress Themes

igor ovsyannykov — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:53:02 +0000

Video blogs are starting to get very popular these days. Most people start on Youtube and once they get enough subscribers they launch their own website. If you are a video blogger that’s looking for a great theme you’re in luck. Below i have listed some awesome wordpress themes. Even thou a free theme seems like a better option sometimes its not. Free themes get downloaded thousands of times, that means your website will look just like someone else’s. If you want to be unique, i strongly suggest you purchase a theme. Please comment below if you know of any other theme i forgot to mention.

30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:29:03 +0000

Navigation is one of those things you have to get right in order to provide your users with easy access to your website’s content. Today we’ll take a look at 30 well-designed navigation menus.

10 Awesome Image Optimization Tools

Ajay — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:25:22 +0000

There are a lot of online photo editing tools are available on the internet where you can resize and crop without knowledge of program like Photoshop.

Timed CSS Stylesheet Switch Using PHP Tutorial

McBonio — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:46:50 +0000

Today I’m going to show you a pretty clever technique for changing the Cascading Style Sheet by time using PHP.

60 Extremely Creative Movie Posters

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:25:58 +0000

Nowadays there are many posters, but most of them do not attract people. So clearly, the poster design is one of the most important things in advertising films, but nothing outweighs their ingenuity and creativity that attracts many people.

Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox

tripwire — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:08:02 +0000

This is a toolbox for getting started and/or becoming more serious about regex. It provides details on commonly needed regexs that you can just pick up and use right away.

Six Websites to Get the Perfect Color Palette

Matthew Heidenreich — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:06:12 +0000

Lets face it. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what colors you want to use for your latest web design project. Many do not realize there are places out there to help you along with this process. I have gone ahead and compiled a short list of, what i find to be, the six best places to find a great palette.

Designing to Help Relief Work In Haiti

Matt Ward — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:15:39 +0000

I’m determined to do whatever I can to help with the relief efforts following the horrible earthquake that struck Haiti mid January. Here’s what I’m doing to help and how you can be a part of it!

40 Mind Blowing Surreal Photo Manipulations

Ayaz Malik — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:06:18 +0000

40 Mind Blowing Surreal Photo Manipulations gathered from Deviant Art

Unity In Design: Creating Harmony Between Design Elements

Steven Bradley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:10:08 +0000

Unity can be seen as the single most important goal of any design; to make your whole design more than the sum of its parts. Through unity your designs will communicate more and more effectively.

21 Purple Websites Fit for a King (or Queen)

Chris Thurman — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:39:32 +0000

21 beautiful purple websites to inspire your next design. The last in a series of posts showcasing color in web design.

25 Examples of Breathtaking Nature Photography

Ali Qayyum — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:21:12 +0000

Every one! Love Nature beauty. This post highlights the 22 of the most amazing shots of nature photography. This collection included the scenes on this earth, sunset, places etc. Photographer has given the examples of beauty of this earth and they purely focus on the nature beauty

111 Best Online Web Design Tools

ayman — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:28:50 +0000

With the progression of the Web, hundreds of web design tools have been established around the world to serve the growing demand for such work.Many of this tools are available and widely used by Web Designers and Webmasters.

40 best photoshop tutorials for web layouts

Gfxtoolkit — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:41:18 +0000

Learn how to create website layouts with one of the best layotu tutorials around.

25 Unique Die Cut Business Cards You Should Check Out

gizelle — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:23:01 +0000

Here are 25 unique examples of die cut business cards. These cards were either cut to give them unique shape or to allow special folding.

8 Don’ts For htaccess

James Parker — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:22:22 +0000

htaccess file is a configuration file which is run over Apache web server. It is used to configure different settings and functionality of the Apache server for a given website.

Whopping Collection of 600+ Light Effect Photoshop Brushes

Jon Phillips — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:48:52 +0000

We’re seeing superb lighting effects being used in design and media popping up everywhere nowadays; in print design, web design and even TV commercials – and it’s only getting more popular (good or bad thing?).

70 Free High Quality PSD File Design Resources

Timothy Blake — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:23:33 +0000

A collection of 70 high quality PSD files including a range of templates, icons, mobiles, packaging cases, and a ton of other useful design resources.

25 Excellent Night Photography + Tutorials

Albert Lie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:29:12 +0000

Night photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between dusk and dawn. Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure.

11 Stunning collections of free Wordpress themes

Kung Karl — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:44:34 +0000

Over the last year (2009) have a lot of collections from well-known web design blogs come up with many and very nice free WordPress themes. These articles are of course completely awesome so I took the opportunity to gather several of these posts and put together into one big list. I think, and hope that you will get as much benefit from these articles as I do.

20 Remarkable Examples of Websites Powered by Wordpress

tripwire — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:52:03 +0000

Are you aware that the features making Wordpress so popular for bloggers actually may be quite useful as a CMS for anyone building a website?

Create a layout for architecture or real estate website

Grafpedia — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:02:38 +0000

Learn how to create a clean layout for a real estate with this easy to follow tutorial.

22 Free High-Quality Icon Sets For Your iPhone

PelFusion — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:00:54 +0000

iPhone is getting popular day by day and those who are using it have fallen in love with it. If you love iPhone too and want to give it a personal touch, you can do it via a new icon set.

Home Run With These Amazing Baseball Designed Wallpapers

Jared Thompson — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:49:01 +0000

Some of these wallpapers have been great sources of inspiration to me and I hope they can do the same for you, whether you want to represent your team or your favourite player of the MLB these wallpapers would look great on any desktop.

13 Perfect Fonts for Minimal Style Design

Ali Qayyum — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:19:53 +0000

Finding a clean minimal style for design can be a crafty process. We collected the nice collection of fonts for your designing. Here is the perfect clean minimal style fonts design.

35+ New Websites With A Stunning And Effective Use of Textures

piervix — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:32:17 +0000

As you will see in the following showcase, the most common section where textures are used is the background image. The goal is to make clear and immediate the contents and to higlight the typography creating a good contrast between textured backgrounds and texts. The results are absolutely stunning, and it’s fantastic to see as a soft texture can create a beautiful effect.

10 Useful Tutorials to Develop WordPress Plugin

Tomas — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:00:08 +0000

If you are a developer you can develop your own plugin to other or use plugins developed by others.

50+ fresh, awesome and creative advertisements

Richie — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:44:59 +0000

In this article, i have shared over 50 awesome and creative ads which makes you look twice and appreciate the creativity behind it

5 Fresh jQuery Plugins Make You Love Your HTML Forms More

Lam Nguyen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:11:14 +0000

Working with HTML forms is really a nightmare because your forms always mess up. This post includes 5 newest and useful jQuery plugins that help you work with HTML forms better and love them more.

100+ Fresh Community Links to Share

Holly — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:52:41 +0000

Here at Admix Web, we think it is important for web designers and developers to learn and improve themselves by sharing what they know and learning from what others share!

30 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Ali Qayyum — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:44:00 +0000

These are stunning latest trends and techniques. You will learn the fire Effects, Glass Styles, Meta, Gold, Cobber Text Effects with Photoshop

Over 20 Awesome Landscape Based Web Site Designs

Sean Geng — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:15:17 +0000

Some sites I really enjoy seeing are those that build themselves around a scene such as a landscape of some sort. It’s almost like painting a picture on web page. Therefore, I’ve decided to hunt down some of my favorite sites that implement this effect.

30 Simply Amazing Graffiti Art Tutorials

Tutorial Lounge — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:00:02 +0000

We proudly presenting an amazing list of graffiti art with full of colors and some really like abstract art work, Adobe Photoshop is truly beloved tool for these kind of designing, there is not only paints their imagination in multitude of colors but also refine them to create some of the most striking graffiti graphics.There is simply awesome graffiti art techniques using tools, tips and tricks, most of the Photoshop lovers will enjoy all tutorials.

The Concept of “Intelligent Design” – Form vs. Function

Josh — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:00:08 +0000

This article examines the concept of ”intelligent design” (the unity of form and function) and discusses how it can be understood in contemporary design culture.

44+ Creative Advertising

Desigg — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:40:53 +0000

This post is part of series of posts showing the Creative Advertising

Top 50 Design with Amazing Water Color Effects

James — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:19:03 +0000

Something which is generally momentarily is called a “trend”.Trends come, get highlighted and as time passes, replaced by the new ones. Similar is the case with Web Designs. Web design trends come and go.

40 Breath taking photographs of Lightning strikes

Richie — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:59:50 +0000

In this article, I have shared over 40 of the most breath taking photographs of lightning bolts which were captured at the right moment with the right camera. I have also provided some very useful links about how to take photographs of lightning strikes and some really good articles on the same.

45 Automobile Logos That Make Their Drivers Blush!

Larry — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:46:45 +0000

The auto industry has always presented itself with innovation and style along with some of the most popular and easily recognizable logo designs. Car logos are designed to reflect up on the sleek, smooth and breathtaking cars.

10 Super jQuery and Ajax Scripts for Web Developers

Rakesh — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:35:40 +0000

In this post I have shared free jQuery and Ajax scripts to help our upcoming web developers. In this list includes – A Drop-Down Menu Plugin for jQuery, Rotating jQuery Tabs, Sliding Login Panel with jQuery, AJAX Loading Panel, Mysql Ajax Table Editor, jQuery youtube playlist plugin etc.

40+ Quite Useful Wordpress Plugins using jQuery

tripwire — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:59:17 +0000

Bring Wordpress and jQuery together really makes sense and the plugins for Wordpress you’ll find here will make your blog theme more powerful and dynamic.

100 Inspirational Logo Designs #1

igor o — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:30:20 +0000

Here is a round up of amazing, beautiful, and creative logo designs. I hope these logos will get you inspired. Please share your thought with us below, and let us know what you think!

55 Trendy Web Design Interfaces From Deviantart

Dainis Graveris — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:18:28 +0000

Let’s get inspired and check what has been created lately in design world. Such visually appealing web designs never stop to surprise with creativity, let’s get something good out of it as well!

Approaches To Testimonials In Web Design

Union Room — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:08:23 +0000

Testimonials can reinforce customer trust, and according to an Intelliseek survey customers are becoming increasingly reliant on the ‘recommendations of other consumers‘. Lets take a look at some of the different approaches to testimonials.

A Set Of jQuery Accordion Tutorials

McBonio — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:34:37 +0000

There are quite a few tutorials online for accordions, what I have done today is list 10 simple and effective jQuery accordions for you to use in your projects.

It’s about Time to change Your Twitter Bird!!

Stanley — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:06:56 +0000

If you are interested to increase Twitter followers through your blog and you have not displayed a Twitter icon just yet, we compiled here 25 Twitter Icon Sets that you can use on your site.

History of Animation Media – Innovation and Experimentation

Dibakar — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:56:30 +0000

Evidence of artistic interest in depicting figures in motion can be seen as early as the still drawings of Palaeolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple sets of legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.

Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples

Tony — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:12:33 +0000

A good newsletter campaign can be a great way to inform your subscribers of all your company’s latest news, products and specials. In this post you will see some great examples of newsletter designs from various online companies. If your in need of some design inspiration, this post just might do the job. Enjoy!

Elements of a Great Band Website

Andrew Houle — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:45:47 +0000

This article covers best practices for creating great band websites. Lots of good advice and inspiration here!

85+ Need to Check Out Fresh Articles for Designers and Developers

tripwire — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:13:07 +0000

Most new posts in the web design and development community is included making this regular post a really fast and easy consumable overview of what is going on just now.

Design Eye-catching Laser Particle Abstract Effect in Photoshop

PSD Vault — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:26:04 +0000

In this tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to design this very eye-catching, Laser Particle abstract effect in Photoshop. This is a beginner level tutorial and steps are really simple, have a try!

9 Best Wordpress Tricks and Tutorials for Designers

ayman — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:09:41 +0000

WordPress is one of the most popular blog platforms these days and it has grown so powerful that you can use it also use as Content Management System (CMS). For this article we’ve spent time searching for Wordpress Tricks and Tutorials for Designers to make a professional Wordpress theme.

20+ More Amazing Portfolio Websites

Holly — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:55:33 +0000

If your website design portfolio is not creative, eye-catching, or innovative, it will not matter what websites you have in your repertoire, you will loose that edge in the market. So, if you are like me, you love looking at amazing web development portfolios and being truly impressed.

How to improve the page rank of your twitter profile page

Gopal Raju — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:26:18 +0000

A post on how to improve the page rank of your twitter profile. A good page rank for your twitter profile means you are someone worth following.

25+ Bundle Packs of Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Tutorial Lounge — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:23:35 +0000

This is very special Photoshop Tutorials based article where we sharing some famous Adobe Photoshop Tutorial roundups where you can lean many modern techniques via these famous resources who providing many roundups about designing stuff and we choose some greatest posts for you.

8 FREE Fonts For Your Upcoming Desings

chris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:26:50 +0000

Best thing in Live are Free. Well Yes particularly the Web is full of great Stuff for Free! On thing i Learned last year, when i started designing Websites and take action in the Creative Scene, is that you can already fail by choosing the wrong Font in your Design. Now the Problem is, that Fonts are sometimes very expensive, special for Student like me.. with no Budget… But their some Font Artist out there who give away Full and part of Fonts for Free! Listed below are some of my favourite Fonts for Free – enjoy

16+ Amazing Brown Websites For Your Inspiration

chris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:26:31 +0000

Perhaps you remember the 21 Websites that are Yellow Post i published some Weeks ago. Now i went on a “find wonderful Brown Websites” search and here’s what came out. Do you now a brown website I forgot to add to the collection, write a comment.

50 Packaging Designs That Pack A Punch

Pelfusion — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:12:17 +0000

There is an old adage that taught us: “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” but in a world where there are thousands of competitors for any one specific product, this does not hold true.

25 Amazing Fish Inspired Logos

Larry — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:24:03 +0000

Your source of inspiration plays a critical role in any successful design project. Here at Company Logos we are always striving to provide you with ideas that will fuel your creativity. Today’s post looks at 25 Amazing Fish Logos.

40 Amazing CG Fantasy Environments

Frank — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:45:59 +0000

The key to most fantasy environments is grandiosity. The superb works listed below have one common denominator: they aren’t constrained to a room or a city or a planet.

Online Resources for WordPress Developers and Designers

WParena — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:26:45 +0000

Whats make the WordPress the most appealing Internet Development platform today? I thing It is a combination of flexibility and a great User Friendly Content Management System for blogging as well creating websites.

The most stylish Websites of 2009

cssstyle.me — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:18:26 +0000

Have a look at this list of 12 great website disigns. We took the best of every month to give you an overview for the best designs of 2009. Enjoy!

25+ Tools, Cheat Sheets and Inspiration for Designers working with Color Themes

tripwire — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:07:49 +0000

In this post I have collected a set of resources that I’m sure will make your life working with colors easier and more fun.

30 Stunningly Simple Websites

A Web Design Blog — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:04:44 +0000

Although complex websites can certainly be impressive, there’s something to be said for a designer just stripping everything away and using minimal elements to achieve a stunning design. We’ve highlighted 30 websites that keep things simple but achieve brilliant results.

Wordpress Plugins : 17 Handy Toolbars For Your Blog

Dainis Graveris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:44:46 +0000

I bet you’ve seen interesting toolbars on bottom of the blog, top right, fixed Twitter buttons – and if you always wanted to get one, but didn’t know where, I am here with this article to show what I’ve found after long research.

Should you Invest In Online Surveys?

Webmaster — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:31:51 +0000

An online survey is one of the key online marketing tools to analyze theonline-survey emerging trends in the business. You can also launch & use it effectively if you are clear about two concerns—(a) Prime objective of conducting a survey and (b) Using the survey results to best possible use.

The Top Overlooked Photoshop Tutorials of 2009

Slodive — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:51:47 +0000

Here’s a second chance to catch up on our top overlooked tutorials of 09. Hope you guys and gals enjoy and here’s to a great 2010.

40 (fresh) Beautiful 3D Typography Designs For Inspiration

yugu — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:50 +0000

we can notice a surge for 3D Type work on portfolio sites, Here i have collected 40 Beautiful 3D Typography Deisgns For Inspiration, I found these design realy inspiring, hope you will be inspired

Think outside the box! “the team” perfect page!

Bogdan Pop — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:47:14 +0000

A detailed tutorial on building an original team page for any kind of website. Contains full source code and code guidelines for XHTML, CSS, jQuery.

43 Free Wordpress Themes that Look Totally Premium

Liza — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:28:11 +0000

You want to compete against the biggest sites on the internet and think that you need a hell expensive wordpress theme for this? Think again. Today, you can download a totally gorgeous, premium looking wordpress theme — absolutely free. This list of 43 WP themes is a good way to get started…

50 Rarely Seen iPhone Wallpapers

Sagar — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:10:26 +0000

Most Probably, You will not find them elsewhere.

40 Awesome X-Ray View Desktop Wallpapers (Wide Screen Edition)

Moneyzeal Showcase — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:57:56 +0000

X Ray Wallpapers are something special from our day to day typical desktop wallpapers. Here are a collection of 40 HD(1920×1200px) X Ray view desktop Wallpapers, you definitely never wanted to miss!

80+ Beautiful Vintage Texture Packs

McBonio — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:54:30 +0000

Using vintage elements in your design can look superb when you get it right… the most important part of nailing the vintage look is using authentic looking resources.

31 Incredible Comic Book Cover Art Samples

Jennifer Silverman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:25:36 +0000

Comic books are close to many of us designers’ hearts, since these are likely our first encounters to the amazing world of art. These days, they continue to become even more sophisticated and expressive from when we first experienced them as kids.

This is a series of breathtaking comic book cover designs that will hopefully remind you of that exhilarating rush when you bought your first, freshly printed comic book as a child.

50 Incredible Asian Vector Portraits

Tony — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:14:04 +0000

A vector portrait is basically a computer-generated work of art made up of lines. The coordinates of these lines, which contain blocks of colour between them, are plotted with the aid of computer software. Vector images can easily be differentiated from bitmap (raster) images, which are arranged as arrays of individual pixels.

Beautiful and Clean Portfolio Layout in Photoshop

Matthew Heidenreich — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:29:46 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a beautiful and clean portfolio layout in Photoshop. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

Wet Logos: Showcase of Logo Designs Featuring Water

Chris Thurman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:18:10 +0000

25 logos that feature characteristics of water. Gushing, rushing, pouring, dripping, raining, sloshing, refreshing. Inspiration from one of the most abundant resources on Earth.

An Incredibly Inspiring Collection of Avatar Fan Art

Brian — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:15:03 +0000

This post is my collection of incredibly inspiring Avatar fan art for your enjoyment and inspiration.

The different styles of blue site design

Bogdan Sandu — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:05:00 +0000

I decided to filter them for you, depending on what type of site design you would be interested in seeing. Therefore, you have creative, business, minimalistic and e-commerce websites in this list, all of them with a blue touch. I don’t know how many are there in this article. “A lot of them” sounds enough.

25 Design Freebies From Blogs You Should Read

Girlie Nuqui — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:43:19 +0000

This week’s roundup is loaded with tons of brushes, fonts, wallpapers, tutorials, textures, icons and a grungy three column Wordpress theme. Just click on the images or link sources to download the freebies you like. Scroll down and enjoy!

54 Most Beautiful Waterfalls Photography

Ayaz Malik — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:36:19 +0000

54 Most Beautiful Waterfalls Photography gathered from Deviant Art

4 Free Website Value Calculators

igor ovsyannykov — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:32:40 +0000

Have you ever wanted to know, ”How much is my website worth if i were to sell it?” Have you ever wondered, ‘Wow this is a great website, i wonder how much money does it make a day?” Well with website value calculators you can do that plus more. With these tools you can view daily visits, websites worth, and daily ad revenue. Go ahead try’em out.

Design Your Own Icons – 25 Tutorials and Articles Designers MUST Have

tripwire — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:25:03 +0000

This article provides a large collection of icon tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator that currently is the de facto standard tools for this purpose.

4 Quick and Easy Design Theory Tips

Jacques van Heerden — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:18:58 +0000

Oftentimes you can create a snappy design that just doesn’t seem to work – it looks nice and all, but there’s something about it, something you just can’t quite put your finger on, that stalls it dead in it’s tracks.

41 Useful Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials For Creative Designers

Dainis Graveris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:03:27 +0000

Video tutorials are great and a lot more faster learning process, which is strongly recommended. There are a lot of commercial resources, but this is completely free video tutorials list!

Trend Micro House Call – online web application for secure your PC from malware

Go4webapps — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:16:22 +0000

Trend Micro House Call – online web application for secure your PC from malware

The Death of Originality in Design- Coming to Terms

Josh — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:30:12 +0000

This article asserts that originality is dead in design and provides a list of reasons why.

CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design

Jeff Starr — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:26:04 +0000

Progressive enhancement is a good thing, and CSS3 is even better. Combined, they enable designers to create lighter, cleaner websites faster and easier than ever before.

10 Best Tutorials To Learn CSS3

Lam Nguyen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:57:13 +0000

10 Best tutorials, tips and tricks to learn CSS3 that are worth seeing.

Create A jQuery Powered Author Box For Wordpress

McBonio — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:43:52 +0000

Today I’m going to show you how to make a jQuery powered sliding author box for Wordpress.
Using an author box in your blog can be a great way to tell your users a little about yourself and of course link to your personal/business website.

70+ Resources for Wordpress Theme Development and Learning

James Parker — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:57:47 +0000

Wordpress is surely a comprehensive blogging and publishing way out allowing maximum customization at every level. Custom themes can be developed too.

29 Resources for Freelance Designers Operating on a Tight Budget

Steven Snell — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:21:18 +0000

There are plenty of highly-useful resources and web apps that have been created with freelance designers and developers in mind. But for many freelancers, especially those who are just getting started, pricing can be an issue. In this post we’ll feature 29 resources that are not only very useful fore freelancers, but also extremely affordable. Many of them are free or offer a free plan, and the others are priced below the competition.

Let Your Audience Guide Your Design!

Andrew Houle — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:34:16 +0000

A well-written article about designing with a focus, and the impossibilities of pleasing all of the people, all of the time.

40+ Absolutely Stunning Use of Light Effects in Webdesign

tripwire — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:07:52 +0000

This article is a showcase of more than 40 sites using creative and inspiring lighting effects. Hope you like it and feel inspired and tempted to use some of the ideas for your own designs.

33 Beautiful Social Media Icon Sets For Designers And Bloggers

Dicky — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:56:52 +0000

Integrating social media icons to your blog can help you to boost your popularity among various social media sites. This article share 33 social media icons sets where you can use in your blogs.

45+ Corporate Design Examples from Famous Designers Gallery

Smashing Buzz — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:50:30 +0000

Its not easy to find quality work of graphic designers, but one of our team membar find some famous graphic designers work as “45+ Corporate Design Examples from Famous Designers Gallery” there is really creative awesome print designs. We have to choose some selective designs which belong to famous graphic designers gallery where many corporate identity campaigns, brand marketing campaigns, brand brochures and amazing art work in print designs.

12 Unique 404 Error Page Designs

Slodive — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:03:48 +0000

Fortunately I don’t end up on 404 pages very often but when I do, it’s nice to see something that had some thought put into it.

Design a plane crashing one a mountain in Photoshop

Grafpedia — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:58 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a great photo manipulation with a plane crashing against a mountain.

40+ Very Creative Innovative Business Card Design Exclusive Collections Version 1.0

Dibakar — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:22:43 +0000

40+ Very Creative Innovative Business Card Design Exclusive Collections Version 1.0

170+ Excellent Fresh Logos Inspirational Showcase

tripwire — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:22:59 +0000

Working on a design for a new Logo? Looking for inspiration? You have come to the right place! This article will take you through a seriously large series of intelligent, well designed and inspirational Logos.

50 Examples and Tutorials of Bokeh in Photography, Textures and Web Design

designtutorials4u — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:09:20 +0000

Check out this collection of 50 Examples and Tutorials of Bokeh in Photography, Textures and Websites. The light and tonal patterns created are very unique, giving the image or design an extra added depth and interest.

24 Amazing Ice Hockey Inspired Wallpaper Designs

Jared Thompson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:03:32 +0000

Some of these wallpapers have been great sources of inspiration to me and I hope they can do the same for you, whether you want to represent your team or your favourite player of the NHL these wallpapers would look great on any desktop.

11 Fresh HQ Bokeh Textures with Commercial License

Slodive — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:20:02 +0000

Bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or ”the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.”

50 Most Amazing Beautiful Blog Designs

Creative Nerds — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:28:24 +0000

This collection is perfect to fuel your inspiration, because it’s a great collection of beautiful blog designs. This is a great source for inspiration if you’re going to be constructing your own blog design weather it’s a personal project or for a client.

45+ Magnificent Wordpress Portfolio Themes

tripwire — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:48:18 +0000

This article provides a list of more than 45 magnificent portfolio themes for Wordpress and will help you get started

25 Amazing Album Cover Designs

deltadesignz — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:29:47 +0000

Below are 25 amazing album cover designs that are unique, beautiful, eye catching, and some that do a great job of representing the artists style of music.

35 Spectacular Cinema 4D Digital Artworks

Ayaz Malik — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:11:46 +0000

35 Spectacular Cinema 4D Digital Artworks and Illustrations

60+ Awesome Human Faces That Tell A Story

Saoo — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:09:51 +0000

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” And you can say A Face is worth a thousand words. Look at these human faces and see the facial expressions of them, they tell a story.

50+ Magnificent Aurora Borealis Pictures

Dainis — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:00:03 +0000

For those of you who didnt saw Aurora Borealis in really life and even dont know what is that, here are more than 50 most beautiful Aurora Borealis pictures. I also add some digital artworks where are used Aurora Borealis, so you can see how you can use this phenomenon in your works.

55 Spectacular Login Form Designs

Brian — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:34:13 +0000

This is a collection of 55 spectacular login form designs as inspiration for your next website design.

Design Blogs You Should Be Following On Twitter

Joseph Victory — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:54:08 +0000

With the vast majority of design blogs within the blogging community its hard to keep up with who is saying what. Following these design blogs on twitter is your first step.

How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

piervix — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:22:20 +0000

Sure? Yes, it’s possible to create a simple and nice (3D) layout playing with some CSS3 stuff, only using code and without the help of Photoshop.

35 Amazing nokia inspired artwork

Ahsan Altaf — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:38:21 +0000

Nokia needs no introduction being one of the biggest mobile phone maker in the world. This is a collection of some amazing nokia inspired art and adverts.

340+ Watercolour Brushes For Adobe Illustrator And Photoshop

McBonio — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:48:17 +0000

The watercolour effect is becoming increasingly popular within the design community of late, if done properly it can be really effective and you could end up with a great looking design at the end of it.

11 Tips to Maximize Freelance Productivity and Profit

Nikhil — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:11:21 +0000

The aim of the game is to maximize your creativity in order to make the most of your earning potential. There are many tried and tested methods for increasing your productivity as well as simple ways to boost your output and reap the financial rewards of your freelancing opportunities.

10 Great Wallpaper Websites to Freshen up your Desktop

Matthew Heidenreich — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:26:49 +0000

A plain desktop does not get your creativity flowing, and what good is that? That is why I have compiled a list of what i find to be the best places to go when in search for a new wallpaper.

The 8 Best Image Uploading Websites & Applications

Matthew Heidenreich — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +0000

I went on a search for a number of good options for uploading images straight from my desktop, while spending the least amount of time doing it. It can be a hassle when sites require you to create albums when all you want to do is share a quick screenshot of something you have created, or send a link to a picture you may have taken. So here are the best eight image hosting options to choose from.

36 Useful Web Design Blogs You Should Be Following

Michelle Kinney — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:23:13 +0000

I always enjoy getting to do a list like this because it gives me a chance to discover new resources, many of them with excellent content. There’s no shortage of web design blogs on the internet and these are a great place to go if you’re looking for new design ideas or inspiration.

12 Remakable Web Based RSS Readers

joseph Victory — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:17:38 +0000

In this post, Designussion showcases 12 awesome web based RSS readers which allow you to customize, organize, search and catagorize articles.

53 Promotional Websites To Gain Traffic Quick And Easy

Dainis Graveris — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:40:26 +0000

You’ll find here 53 valuable and approved websites listed in ascending order showing how much traffic you could get from those websites! Quality article!

Cool Computer Animated Videos

Tony — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:47:11 +0000

The thing that interests me most in the design world is computer animation. It is so interesting to see how these talented artists create stunning designs and put them into motion so they can tell a story. These videos are used in such mediums as advertising, movies and cartoons just to name a few. If you are one that also has interest in designing your own computer animation videos, this post will definitely inspire you to do so. Enjoy!

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos

Liza — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:28:23 +0000

This tutorial allows you to take the most ordinary photo of any quality and turn it into a dreamy and beautiful composition called ”Welcome to Thailand”. This tutorial is suitable for beginners as well as advanced users.

Easy PHP File Uploads

Nick Brown — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:54:19 +0000

A lightweight PHP script that simplifies file uploads.

75 Best Wordpress Plugins That Make Bloggers Lives Easier

Lorelei — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:15:55 +0000

Most bloggers can’t image their life without theme plugins, while unfortunately quite a lot of wordpress users are not even aware of them. This is a comprehensive list of top used, highest rated plugins available today.

20+ Awesome Non-Blogging Websites Using Wordpress as CMS

tripwire — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:25:34 +0000

This post show you more than 20 websites using Wordpress for Non-Blogging purposes – hope this will inspire you!

WordPress Theme from Scratch – Day 3: HTML to WordPress

Lam Nguyen — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:47:23 +0000

Ultimate tutorial explains how to develop an WordPress theme from scratch HTML file.

35+ Blogging Widgets and Tools for Promote your Valuable Articles

Dzinepress — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:31:29 +0000

In this article we presenting famous useful widgets for bloggers who can promote valuable articles to others and also can socialize design news with these listed widgets, as our experience most of new bloggers find helpful resources and tools for promote design and development news to maximum seekers, so we providing these widgets and tools after an amazing research work according to research result.

25+ stunning examples of High Speed Photography

Richie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:33:55 +0000

In this article, I have shared over 25 beautiful examples of high-speed photography which is definitely going to heighten your interest in high speed photography and is surely an inspiration to learn more about it.

25 beautiful Websites based on Illustrations

chris — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:50:13 +0000

A small but beautiful collection of Websites that are based on Illustrations.

Everything you need to know about Parallax

Gopal Raju — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:38:29 +0000

A post about the use Parallax in webdesign.

80+ Brilliant Photos with Mighty Tiger

Paulius Rasytinis — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:27:37 +0000

It is the beginning of the 2010 and it is year of the Tiger. For this reason, we have collected the best pictures honouring this remarkable creature.