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Whitespace: Less Is More In Web Design

Whitespace or negative space is an essential part of any design. Without it you don’t have a design. Less is more is the idea that simplicity and clarity lead to good design.

32 Handy Gradient Tutorials Using Photoshop And Illustrator: Part 4

Gradient effects are hard to master,all the beautiful vector icons, illustrations are made on basis of good gradient usage and these tutorials are here to help!

Meet Frank, Your New Social Feed Streaming Friend

This time I found Frank and, given the fact that lifestream is so big right now, I brought this guy to say Hello :]

Infrared Photography Technique

Infrared photography is one of those techniques that requires a bit of practice.Its not that hard to produce an infrared photograph but adjusting the image is a business that yeilds different results.

Grunge-Photoshop-Tutorial – Welcome to the jungle

Images are necessary to transport emotion: Watch the Grunge-Photoshop-Tutorial “Welcome to the jungle” and you know what I mean!

Introduction to PSD-to-XHTML Services: Consumer Guide

eBook on PSD-to-XHTML conversion services: what they do and how to deal with them. Neat design.

20+ Gallery wordpress themes

Selection of the best wordpress themes to build a gallery

25 Awesome Online Store Built with Magento

We can see lots of e-commerce sites which are powered by Magento. Now I’m going to show you some well-designed Magento based websites.

Sakke Soini – illustrator

I guess you missed an illustrator which uses lighting effects. We have Sakke Soini today at the buttons. Even if he is a DJ and also a VJ, Sakke is also a pretty damn good graphic designer.

Essential List of Resources for Graphic Designers – Part-1

Part-1 – essential list of resources for graphic designers in the category of website design, wordpress design, logo design. P

50 Beautiful Photographs Of A Cloudy Day

Nature in its vivid colours amazes and inspires everyone in different ways. It could be a sunset, a sun-rise, the flowers or a cloudy day.

Web Design Trend Hunting – The Circle As A Design Fetish & 20 Fresh Examples

You can’t browse a decent CSS gallery without spotting a few websites with this sexy round detail

10 Most Wanted Category Hacks and Plugins for WordPress

List of the most wanted category hacks and plugins for WordPress which you can use in your themes. These snippets of codes are a lifesaver in many situations when it comes to modifying a theme.

An Exploration Into 25 Artistic And Traditional Japanese Websites

Japanese websites might seem pretty rare on the web and for those who doesn’t understand the Japanese language will have a hard time searching for them.

Offloading ALL JS Files To Google

2 Techniques For Using the Google infrastructure To Host Your JavaScript Files

30 Logo Designs Using Gradient 3D Effects – Inspiration:Part 3

In this inspirational part, you\’ll see 30 beautiful logo designs using gradient effects to achieve 3D effects in good way!

15 Freelancer Design And Development Creative Job Boards

This list features 15 best design and development related job boards that can be found to help you find potential clients and potential jobs.

List of Really Useful Plugins and Resources For MooTools

Purpose of this article is to compile a list of useful MooTools resources scattered all over the web. s.

Increase your traffic like crazy

Same old problems that every developer face is lack of traffics. Let me revealed to you what I found on how to increase your traffic so you won’t have to waste your time and money.

Webdesign inspired by jQuery and Twitter

There excist a lot of possibilities to use the Twitter -APi\’s to include the Twitter-Functions into your own Website. This small collection includes 9 different solutions to use those API\’s.

8 Useful Lorem Ipsum And Random Text Generators

Lorem Ipsum or random text generators manage to generate dummy text. It is very useful to both designers and developers.

25 Inspiring Automotive Advertisements | Fazai38’s Inspirational Blog

A creative showcase on automotive advertisements including Volkswagen, Skoda, Renault, Hyundai, Kia, Mitsubishi, Chevrolet, BMW and more…

How to Create a Vector Smiley Icon

Have you ever wanted to make your own set of emoticons? Using the basic techniques brought about on this tutorial, you can easily create your own set of emoticons.

Great Examples of The Use Of Depth Of Field

Depth of field can be used to give a photo an almost 3D effect and when executed well brings the photo to life. Depth of field is controlled by the aperture (F-Stop) being used.