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20 creative websites in comic style
Web design can also be something unusual. How about comic style?
People have always been fascinated by cartoons. A particular challenge is certainly to present the design of a website as a comic.
Here we have collected over 350 grunge textures for you to use within your designs and projects and really give it that grungy feel.
35+ Beautiful Tooltips Scripts With Ajax, JavaScript, CSS & Tutorials
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.
Valentines Day – Photoshop-Brushes & Tutorials
Since it is (almost) any request or any big event there such strokes, it is not surprising that it even for a day is like Valentine’s Day, gives a suitably wide range of resources.
This blog will tell about subject related with Google Basa Jawa, which is in wikipedia called Javanese Language, and Indonesia Java International Destination
25 Easy To Use Photo Sharing Websites Online
You will find a great list of photo sharing sites all with similar features, however each are unique in their own way. Explore the different options to see what fits your photo sharing needs.
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar February 2010
Create a warm holiday atmosphere on your desktop with this February 2010 Calendar Wallpaper (plus free PSD source) especially designed for you.
Design Instruct – New Quality Tutorials And Tips Website
Design Instruct is a web magazine that aims to teach designers and digital artists useful techniques by way of detailed and step-by-step tutorials.
Here are 8 simple but fruitful notions which if kept in mind, can give you bundles of successful logo design ideas. Following these simple points will introduce you to new world of logo design ideas.
Most Interesting Design Trends Among Blogs: 2010
The web is an dynamic, organic being. It evolves as people do, responding to trends in blogging and design by constantly raising the bar.
IINSIGHT Network is an indie OPEN social collaborative internet magazine that delivers carefully curated content on culture, music, arts, fashion & lifestyle.
40 Creative and Funny Advertisements Using Animals
Animal lovers, you’re in for a treat! Today’s collection of advertisements uses animals or creatures to attract the attention of viewers.
This round-up shows off the best in typography in all forms styles.
15 More Really Fun Online Photo Editing Websites
Throughout this year several new fun websites have been released and become popular. After heavy research this is what I could come up with! Enjoy, take a rest and have a fun time!
30 Standout Digital Photo + Conceptual Photo Manipulation Artworks
Here we showcase thirty pieces of stunning artwork, blending real photos with synthetic elements for a surreal result.
Freefont Family: Public Gothic
It is little industrial, little vintage, little condensed, little bold.
Public Gothic is our new font family and beta release is free to use in all your designs, commercial or non commercial.
Top 4 Effective Link Building Strategies for Designers
Designing a quality website for the clients is the main aim of a web designer as this parameter helps in getting more campaigns & also help the designer to retain the existing clients.
Free Telecom Icon Set from Comfi
ComFi created a niche “ComFi Telecom Icons” telecom icon set in 32 x 32 pixels in Jan 2010 . For personal & commercial use .
How To: Create Or Convert Website Into Mobile Format
Now a days more and more people are using smart phones to access the internet, because of this growing demand web developers and designers must focus on mobile format websites too.
Flash Components Marketplace Analytics
We have explored top 5 sellers of the most popular marketplaces to determine which components are of a great demand at the moment.
The Fictional and Completely Made-Up Origin of Freelancing
What is the origin of freelancing? I have no idea. But in this post I completely make it up as I tell the fictional misadventures of Sir William Post, the world’s first Free Lancer!
37 Inspirational and Detailed WordPress Theme Design Tutorials
Do you think that designing a wordpress theme is really hard?Well i don’t think so anymore.Most of us,at first, think that theme design is something so complicated
Where Has The Art Of Customer Service Gone? A Web Designer’s Nightmare
Call me old fashioned, but I have this crazy idea that businesses should provide at least a minimal amount of human element in the customer service they offer to their paying clientele.
Amazing Artworks of Johnny Cash
These works of artwork in many forms showcase his songs, his image and his life in various form of web and print media.
5 Excellent WordPress Pagination Solutions
WordPress Pagination enables you to paginate lists of entries. For example, at the bottom of my home page you can see a list of linked page numbers to enable visitors
Content-Driven Design – Let’s Throw out Tradition
This article takes a look at how we can push the boundries when designing for content. Content-driven websites need not be boring!
Tunewiki for Android: Why Didn’t Google Think of That?
There are some mobile apps that have become a leading name on one mobile platform, and then there are apps that have become leading names on multiple platforms.
Beautiful Animals Photography by Sooper
Beautiful Animals Photography by Sooper Deviant from Deviant ARt
A simple way to visualize algorithms and generate a graphical output by using a robot.
70+ Super Creative Wallpapers “About Design”
Super creative wallpapers about design..
50+ Beautiful Colorful and Funny Toy Design Collection
Most young mammals have been observed to play with whatever they can find, turning such things as pinecones, rocks, and food into toys.
This is a collection of 37 gorgeous space wallpapers that will inspire your life.
Top commentators gets free Ad slot each month
We have reached above 1000 comments, so for giving something back to my loveable readers, From this month i have decided to giveaway two ad slot (125*125px) for first two commentators.
40 Clean, Fresh and Amazing Free WordPress Themes
40 amazing, free WordPress Themes to help everyone out. This is not the long list with all the available free wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes.
30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos
With these websites, you can get access to unlimited free high quality stock photos and save cost of hiring photographer.
5 Things to Consider Before Designing Your Next Website
In this article we will look at 5 different areas that you can consider to help you determine whether a working prototype or a Photoshop mockup would be best for your project.
phpBB—A Popular Open Source Forum Software
Out of a big crowd of open source forum solutions, phpBB has emerged as the most widely used and facilitates support for varied database management systems like Oracle, MySQL, Firebird etc.
40 Amazingly Clever and Unique Logo Designs
Some logos have their own hidden meaning that the designers have very skillfully presented, therefore, are recognizable and unique.
21+ Javascript WebUI Frameworks
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
25+ Inspirational Tutorials of Valentine’s Day
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..
25 Websites With Awesome Mascots
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.
The gorgeous Guy’s from Noidentity we’re so nice and gave us 4 Free MoneyBook Apps for you to win! The simple and elegant way to track and manage your finances.
A Showcase Of ‘Handmade’ Websites
A showcase of websites that look as if they have been made by hand
Manipulate Water To Create A Splash Artwork in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will be showing you how to take a simple photograph and turn it into a raging sea effect using background removal techniques, brushes and lighting effects.
13 Free Professional WordPress Magazine Style/CMS Themes You Wish You Knew Earlier
Some websites use this great blogging platform as a CMS. With its flexibility and power, WordPress can be customized into a full fledged CMS, and many people are already doing just that.
Create singing Apple Photoshop tutorial
In this tutorial you will learn how to make an apple, already listening to the music, sing.
Paper textures in modern web design: Examples and Resources
Take a look at these stunning examples of websites that uses Paper textures. But even more importantly, check out these beautiful paper textures which you can download for free and edit.
Dominance: Creating Focal Points In Your Design
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 is one of dominance.
Be Creative to Help Haiti: What Will You Do?
This disaster touches me on a personal level, because Haiti shares the island of Hispanola with my home country of Dominican Republic. Growing up less than 250 miles from the capital of Haiti…
13 Big Bold Light on Dark Designs
13 website designs with big bold typography in a light on dark color scheme.
50+ Current Tutorials From Around The Web
Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off.
Matino is a two-column, fixed-width and widget-ready WordPress theme with a stylish design and TweetMeme retweet button packed lots of advertising blocks for monetization.
Pro Web Hosting Free WordPress Theme
Pro Web Hosting is web 2.0-styled, web hosting-related, free WordPress theme, courtesy of Chalcedony Design. This Wordress theme is suitable for web hosting bloggers with purple-ish colour scheme.
Grandonk is a widget ready, right sidebar and with auto thumbnails WordPress theme.
Discover viola’s world, illustrations, thoughts …
Create a glossy high tech 3D speaker icon
Learn how to design an awesome hight tech glossy icon with a 3D look in Photoshop.
Create a glossy high tech 3D speaker icon
Learn how to design an awesome hight tech glossy icon with a 3D look in Photoshop.
The leading source for trustworthy and timely online marketing and advertise
Online Advertising – AdFenix The leading source for trustworthy and timely online marketing and advertise.
10 Hollywood Web Designs That Don’t Suck
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
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!
An Alternative Look At Valentines Day: Heartfelt Designs and Artwork
These artworks attempt to go against the grain and the norm, showing what their interpretation of love is.
Glasses Are Sexy: A Collection Of Sexy Ladies Wearing Glasses
Here in this showcase of photographs all the pictures are of glasses wearers and have been taken by many different photographers. (Each picture links to its original location found online.)
15 Valentine’s Day Photoshop Tutorials
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.
12 Mind-blowing Collections of Free Fonts
Since my post with 11 Stunning collections of free WordPress themes became such a success, I now make a similar post with 12 collections of extremely fantastic and stylistically pure fonts.
We’re Now a Design Magazine! (And another big announcement…)
AEXT.NET – An Extension of the NET – is now a design magazine. Proudly to be a service of HelloLogic.
50+ Beautiful Wallpapers for Make more Romantic this Valentine Day
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..
35 of the Most Creative and Innovative Advertising Campaigns For Your Inspiration
One of the best places to find design inspiration is to look at the expansive world of print. Take a look at these 35 creative and innovative advertising campaigns for some great ideas.
30 examples of creative infography
The following examples take information architecture to another level by making it beautiful.
The Secret of Getting Things Done When Working with Freelancers
This article will reveal you a secret, and a big one at that.
5 Good Application Hosting Providers
It’s imperative to own a website in this dog-eat-dog competition scenario. This modern technological era is marked by global competition in online business.
12 beautyful animal photographs
Here are some great photographs of animals by National Geographic.
Photoshop basic tips and tricks alongwith technique, mostly Photoshop user don’t know these basic techniques. Please visit and let me know have you ever known these Tips and Tricks?
25 Ultimate Useful Form Tutorials Using CSS and Javascript
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..
Free 76 High Quality Icons From Elegantthemes
For the first time, elegantthemes send his members a set of high quality icons which can be redistribute to other people for free!
The Ultimate Collection Of 45 Watercolor Photoshop Brush Sets
The ultimate collection of watercolour and paint brush sets featuring over 45 sets and 1500 high quality Photoshop brushes, an essential resource or all designers to enjoy and use.
How To Make Automatic Tr.im Links In WordPress Posts
Today I’m going to show you how to automatically add a tr.im link for each post on your WordPress install using a little PHP, CSS and the tr.im API.
Free Web Design Resource’s Collection for Web Designers
Free Web Design Resource’s collection for web designers.
Redesigned Logos of Europe – For good or worse?
Today I have specifically picked some redesigned logos of famous European brands and want you to judge which of these logo designs had a positive or negative impact on the brand?
Change Author’s Comments Color and Styling.
Change Author’s Comments Color and Styling.
30 Water and Fire Logos – A hot & cool combination!!
Let us see fire and water effects in inspirational logo designs.
How To Choose Best Web Hosting
With so many options, in fact, that it can all seem overwhelming when trying to narrow the choices.
Here are 31 High Quality Free WordPress Themes.
Hiring A Freelancer – Points to Consider
Hiring a freelancer can be a great solution to overload of work, a particular problem or a way of diversifying and offering services beyond your normal scope.
5 Free Non-Disclosure Agreements
Non disclosure Agreements are something that comes up at some point in time. Especially, say you are outsourcing a part of a project to another freelancer or design agency.
Skin and Cosmetic Brushes 3 in 1
Here you find plenty of Freebies for Designers collected by Designers needing them on their daily business…
3 Brush Sets for creating natural, smooth skin.
How to Create a Romantic Valentine’s Day card
Here is a simple tutorial for beginners in the spirit of Valentine’s Day which will explain how to use Pen Tool, Custom Shape and Layer Style to create a romantic card in Photoshop.
Although it’s not cheap at $249, this Photoshop plug-in is an amazing value. It takes very little time to learn how to create eye-catching effects that surpass Photoshop’s built-in filters.
13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier
WordPress is driven by a MySQL database. This is something active WordPress users would know.
Twitbit for iPhone Might Just Be The One
It seems like I am reviewing a Twitter app every day.
Writing Functions In PHP – Introductions
This beginner PHP tutorials will teach you how to define functions, how to call functions, how to pass some simple arguments into a function and how to develop a function that can be reusable.
75+ Websites To Submit Your Design News
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.
Graffiti Gallery, Resources and Articles. Focusing on only showcasing the best examples of graffiti and weeding out the poor.
We are pleased to launch our first Flash Box, a set of stock Flash interface components
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
Weekly Inspiration: 20 Twitter Profile Backgrounds – N.3
Everyone knows about Twitter but to make yourself a little different and standout from the million’s of users is add a background.
35 Mind Blowing Digital Paintings by Gary
35 Mind Blowing Digital Paintings by Gary tonge from DA
Big collection of water and ice textures
You’ve probably experienced how useful a water texture can be for a photomanipulation project or even for a site’s background.
SublimeVideo – HTML5 Video Player
SublimeVideo is HTML5 powered video player. This video player allow user to play videos without the need of browser plugins or Flash dependencies.
Think Outside the box – Free Wallpaper
A great motivational and inspirational wallpaper
Create An Editable Metal Chrome Type Treatment
Above is the final type treatment we will be working towards. You probably have seen many other metal type tutorials, but in this one you will be able to edit the text after the effect is created!
25 Creative Advertising on Building
Today, Promotion is the key for each company and spending huge capital on the advertising. In this collection, we tried to cover the large building used for advertising.
Four Types of Freelancing: Running a Freelance Business Full-Time (Part 3 of 4)
This is part 3 of a 4 part series that looks at different approaches to freelancing and which one may be best for your situation.
Maximum and Minimum Width Solution for All Browsers
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.
50+ Free Valentines day wallpapers for your desktop
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.
Win 5 Pro Licenses from Oops!Backup
There will be 5 Winners and each will receive 1 Professional version of the software.
How Do Creative People Express Their Valentine
These creative people showed how that energy motivate them in creating amazing work, especially for their loved ones. I’ve put together some of these works that expresses love.
Why Time Drives and Refines Creativity
Limiting time sparks my creativity. Increasing time for reflection refines it. Too often projects are rushed, and this time for reflection is squeezed out — often the first victim of a time crunch.
Free Wallpaper – I Love Typography
I have finally fire up photoshop and create something for the pure pleasure. It’s a typography experiment with a simple name “i love typography”. This is what I came up with.
40 Most inspiring vector character illustrations
In this article, I have showcased some of the best and most inspiring character illustrations.
Wood textures in modern web design: Examples and Resources
It is very common nowadays that websites/blogs uses a textured background. This article will only focus on wood textures, how they can be used and where to find them.
New Feature Introduce on metamags.com: metalinks
Anyone can submit a technology or designing news here. Our Reader get helpful information from link posts. Submitted link will approved before appearing.
Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in January 2010
This update covers tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in January 2010.
Weekly Web Design Inspiration #38
A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week
Na’vi Avatar Yourself Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial was made to help step you through the process of making a Na’vi from the AVATAR movie.
Monday Morning Inspiration #31
Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!
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Great information, thanks for linking StockFuel previously for Flash work. We’ve made a heavy update to StockFuel with a new Audio Watermark at http://www.stockfuel.com/stock_audio.html.
Cheers,
Petrol
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