45+ Great Community Links for Designers and Developers

Tue, Oct 20, 2009

Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest user links submitted on tripwire magazine. See more user submitted links here

Advice on Writing Effective Web Content

These days web content is far too dull and unexciting. We all need to focus more attention on our online copy and look to keep our visitors more involved and interested in what we have to say.

Retro-style Rainbow Design Inspiration

Vibrant colors and light streaks have been widely used in modern design – from design for print to design for web – reflecting on the pop culture of the 70’s and 80’s.

50+ High Quality Icon Design Tutorials (Part 1)

Icons play such a key part of any contemporary website, application or user interface design. I find that strategically placed icons can do one of two things.

How to create link with hover image in plain CSS

Learn, with examples, how to create sexy looking links with hovering button or background image.

CSS Multiple Link Styles

How do you make your HTML hyperlinks look different from the default styles? This easy CSS hyperlink tutorial will show you how!

Create a Very Happy Sun Character Using Illustrator

This intermediate tutorial is great for logos, children illustrations, and other projects relating to climate change.

Create an Mac Monitor – Design Your Desk – Part 1

This tutorial covers outlining the basic shape, texturing, shading/shadowing, adding reflections, and much more.

70+ Exceptionally Creative Portfolios belong to Behance

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen and we are presenting showcase which belong to 70+ Exceptionally Creative Portfolios, many professionals belong to behance..

How to Hypnotise Potential Clients

A dismal trading environment and bleak forecasts for the near future have mean freelancers must enhance their pitching skills. Find out how to make your pitch the best.

Listening Habits of Highly Effective Web Designers

We here at Helikopter Design love music. Maybe more than web design.(Blasphemy!) It’s an essential part of the design process…

Mags on a Plane – Fuel your Magazine Inspiration for the Next Months

Writing is telepathy, Stephen King wrote. The author sends a message; we receive it. Preferably, in our favorite reading spot!

Arrows & Arrowheads Icons In Whitewashed Star Pattern

A wide collection of arrows and arrowheads icons in whitewashed star pattern

Special halloween psd files

In this set you will find skulls, halloween pumpkins, witches’ besoms, coffins an many more. All creepy elements are separated from background and with high resolution.

Behind The Avatar #3: Liz Andrade of CMD+Shift Design

Today I want to introduce you to Liz Andrade, the gifted, humorous, creative and design-community advocate behind CMD+Shift Design.

Research of Lingerie Industry Web Design: Trends and 33 Sexy Examples

Most people are visually inclined to beautiful and sexy images. This concept is especially important if you are selling something sexy. What’s better place to start with than the lingerie industry?

20 Quotes To Live Your Life and Design By

Here is some of the best advice artists, designers and other academics have offered up, in poster, wallpaper and artwork form.

Creative & Interactive Webdesign without limits – Try jQuery-Plugins!

Creative & Interactive Webdesign with awesome jQuery-Plugins – Navigations, Twitter, Forms, Style-Switcher, Thermometer-Slider, Movie-Trailer, …

15 Most Important Wordpress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam

As your blog’s traffic grows, spammers will rush to your blog too and spam comments is a serious problem for all bloggers.

20 Professional Mozilla Firefox 3.5+ Ready Themes

If you are tired of standard Firefox theme just go on and scroll through this list. Choose one on these themes and browsing with Firefox will become even more enjoyable!

50 Photoshop Tutorials For Creating Posters Designs

The ultimate compilation of over 50 Photoshop tutorials which will guide you through the process for creating a poster design, and will show you the necessary skills in order design your own poster

Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

Here you find plenty of Freebies for Designers collected by Designers needing them on their daily business… Photoshop Brush (38 in set)

Brushed Ink

We list only the best Freebies Photoshop Brush (18 in set)

Swish Templates, Swish Web Templates, Swish Flash Animation Templates, Swish, Swish Website Templates, Swish Flash Animation, Web Templates, Website Templates, Flash Templates, Logo Templates

Swish Templates – Bestwebtemplates.com offers Swish Templates. Buy Swish Templates Design, Swish Animated Design, Flash Templates for your Web Designs at Bestwebtemplates.

Baby Pink and Blue Photoshop Patterns

Free combo pack of seamless baby pink and baby blue textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.

Step By Step Design: Ocondesign Logo Overview

View a detailed step by step design over view of the ocondesign logo

All You Need to Know about Web Design Project Preparation

All You Need to Know about Web Design Project Preparation, from gathering information to meeting the client, in 400+ lines and 23 quotations!

Increase Your Traffic by 900%: Start a Design Blog

A step by step guide to creating a design themed blog worth reading.

25 Exclusive Halloween Brushes

Halloween is here and you might need some help to do your graphic works and plays for the season so we bring you a brand new set of Exclusive Halloween Photoshop Brushes designed by us.

Behind The Avatar #2: Meet The Husband/Wife Team Behind AdmixWeb.com

This is the second installment of a new feature here on the blog in which I will introduce you to people and blogs and websites that I have found to be of value to my education and life experience.

Compilation of Amazing CG Portraits

Since my last post on CG portraits, I have been collecting other realistic portraits for you to view. These portraits never seize to amaze me.

Creative Print Campaign from Fresh Step Cat Litter

Three creative print ads from Fresh Step Cat Litter. The agency is DDB West in Los Angeles.

Visual Cheat Sheet: CSS Compatibility with Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

This Visual Cheat Sheet will help you to understand CSS (2.1 and 3) behavior in Internet Explorer’s earlier (IE6 and IE7) and recent (IE8) versions.

101+ Unofficial Windows 7 Wallpaper

The Unofficial Windows 7 wallpapers and backgrounds, gathered throughout the beta program and from the final release.

Award winning animator Tomek Baginski and his work

Tomek Baginski is the living proof that talent is simply the result of hard work and ambition. He is most known for Cathedraland Fallen Art.

Making A Cool Login System With PHP, MySQL & jQuery

We are developing a cool and simple login/registration system in a few easy to follow steps. You can download the complete source code and modify it to fit your own needs.

Stupid Twitter Tricks

A hearty collection of awesome Twitter techniques: post tweets, short URLs, custom URLs, follower counts, tweet counts, tweet backups, and much more!

9 Useful Twitter Retweet Button Scripts For Blogs

A list of the best Twitter sharing widgets, retweet counters for your Blogs/Websites.

25 Photoshop Mistakes

I created a list of 25 worst photoshop mistakes ever. Sometimes its unbelievable how some “designers” make this kind of mistakes.

10 Most Useful Google Plugins for WordPress

This post lists the most useful Wordpress plugins related to Google starting from XML Sitemaps and ending with FeedBurner subscribers counter.

What are Flash components?

The article describes what Flash components are. It laso illuminates some facts of their history and presents their simple classification.

15 Creative Logos and How They Were Designed

Here is a list of 15 Awesome Logos linked to their Design Processes, which contain information on how the designer came up with the concept, how he executed the concept and a lot more

The Trick of Charging More

Far too many freelancers undervalue their expertise. Find out if you are one of those freelancers and how you can charge more.

25+ Resources to Help Master Your Typography

Over 25 resources to help you become a master of typography including blogs, tutorials, and font foundries.

Want to Create Wordpress Themes?

All the information you need to start making your own Wordpress themes from scratch.

How to Create a Scary Halloween Card

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple Halloween Card using Photoshop and 3DS Max.

35+ Web Developers Useful Ajax Tutorials

Here is a bundle pack about AJAX Tutorials for Web Developers, Ajax a short form of synchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many contemporary and popular web sites, Ajax..