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The Most Important Site For Any Web Designer?
In this post, I want to take the time to look at what I think is the most important site that a designer can work on. Have a read and join in on the conversation!
Interesting Examples Of Crowds And Signs Photography
Photography is very interesting thing, you can capture the moments of your or others life and can enjoy it after wards too.
Seven Things You Should Know About Windows 7 Phones
In what can be considered as one of the most important announcements Microsoft has made this year, the company recently unraveled its newest smartphone OS
Balance: Definition and Gallery
Balance is the arrangement of objects in a given design as it relates to their visual weight within a composition. View our inspiration gallery of designs using the principle balance.
This week’s inspiration is movie posters of 2010. I want to you show you the latest and creative movie posters. As a designer, posters are not the easiest to design.
The Battle for Developers: Flash vs HTML5
Learn more about the battle between Flash and HTML5 and discover what makes HTML5 so special.
10 Useful Web Design and Development Books
No one book is essential when it comes to learning web design. There are dozens if not hundreds of books on all aspects of web-based creativity.
32 AVI Animations for Wedding or Birthday Movies
Here are some AVI files (animations) for you. If you are making your Wedding or Birthday movies or animations, you can use these best animations.
60 Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop
Amazing results of Photo manipulation are possible with Photoshop. In this post well feature 60+ tutorials for creating your own photo manipulation.
Simple Portfolio and Gallery Manager in PHP
Simple portfolio and gallery manager comes with easy web based installer. This is useful for managing your portfolio items or photo gallery. Enable or disable timthumb system and much more features.
50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is just an important part of Web Designing. Without CSS, Websites can look untidy as it used to happen before.
This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
7 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Managing Your Time and Business
The iPhone has been used in business environments since its launch, with a wide selection of free and paid programs available for any aspect of a business, from checking email to managing finances ..
How to Market your Business Using Content Creation
A business can be marketed using a lot of different ways, from ads in newspapers and magazines to paid search ads and banners on websites. But a lot of small business owners forget the basic..
Today’s web treat is a free combo pack of large (740px * 740px) seamless Grungy Natural Beige textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
Apple App Store Now Has Quality and Quantity
The app industry is continuing to dominate the mobile world. With Android’s numbers continuing to grow rapidly both in terms of phones and apps, Apple has to stay ahead of the game somehow.
Create Infinte scroll effect using Jquery – With Demo
On my first visit to Dzone , I was wondering about their infinite scrolling system and how it is created.
Michael Muller is an American photographer known for his celebrity and advertising photos.
Cognitive Dissonance: How Contradictory Ideas Affect Design
The theory of cognitive dissonances suggests that people are motivated to reduce dissonance by changing or rationalizing attitudes and beliefs.
Creating A Cool 3D Product Box Right Inside Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Version
Here is a nice Photoshop tutorial to create a 3D product box. This tutorial requires the Adobe Photoshop CS4 extended edition.
50 Stunning Pieces of 3D Typography for Inspiration
I have compiled a list of what I find to be 50 stunning examples of 3D type design.
60 Interactive, 3D And Astonishing Webdesigns Created In Flash
Below is the 60 collection of the most inspiring Flash websites with ever-increasing innovations.
Using jQuery Plugins To Scroll To Top
“Scroll to top” is something that is becoming commonplace on modern websites, it allows users to quickly reach the top of the page without using a scroll bar or mousewheel…
Client Tactics: Making an Impression on a Client
As designers we have our skills honed; a gorgeous portfolio, well designed business cards, and a vicious social media presence. So what’s missing?
CSS3 Tutorial – sliding or bouncing Navigation without JavaScript
This Navigation-Tutorial is made by the CSS3-Properties “border-radius” and “animation”. This demonstrates how easy it can be to get attention to your navigation without Images and JavaScript!
Codeigniter shopping cart v1.1 Part 13: general pages
In this article I want to cover general pages. You create pages in the back-end ‘Pages’. General pages are just displaying contents.
Create a Les Paul Guitar Vector Image
In depth tutorial, how to create a Gibson / Epiphone Les Paul Electric Guitar vector from scratch. Using Adobe Illustrator
WordPress SEO – The Ultimate Guide
This guide covers in detail how to optimize your WordPress site for the major search engines.
Do You Have What it Takes to be a Freelance Web Designer or Developer?
For the past year, I have been doing freelance web programming and some web design for various clients, and I must say that the job is more difficult then I even could have imagined.
Freebies – 57 High-Res Classic Car Textures
A free pack of 57 High-Resolution Classic Car Textures. Includes interior, exterior, engine, and more.
Designers: You are Not Multiple People
Are you guilty of doing this? An open question asking why and how effective it is.
Freebie: DVD and Business Card PSD File
Two PSD file: Windows 7 DVD Cover and Freelancer’s business card for the readers of www.metamags.com
Nine Possible Ways to Turn an Ordinary Netbook Into a Super-Netbook
Netbooks are universally praised for their light weight and compact size, however no two models are completely the same, and each comes with different trade-offs.
How to create a Wrinkled Paper Texture with Photoshop
How many time have you looked for a paper texture and haven’t been able to find exactly what you need?
This tutorial will cover part of your possible exigences.
2 Free Great EskoArtwork Illustrator Plug-in + video
Structural Design Export allows user to export contours from Illustrator to native ArtiosCAD .ard format and adding cutout windows to a loaded ArtiosCAD file.
Showcase of Big Typography in Modern Web Design
A showcase of websites that use big typography and since this is a blog for web design freebies I have made a section where you can find fonts that are perfect for big typography in modern web design.
Everyone’s using social media to promote their business, but often forgetting to be social in the process. So at what point does interaction in social media become spam?
Create a retro grunge typographic poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a vintage/retro grunge typographic poster with vibrant colors
Educational Blogs powered By WordPress
If you think being a WordPress Designer and Developer is simply absorbing information, getting inspiration from others creativity and create something new,
A showcase of beautifully designed blue websites
Create and Explosive Text effect in Photoshop
Create and Explosive Text effect in Photoshop in easy ten steps
15 Professional Brochure Design Tutorials
A series of tutorials that will help beginners get their footing, and give advanced users challenges of their own.
Six Online Tools to Determine a Web Hosting Service Performance
You may be satisfied with your web hosting provider, but can you get a better a service? What to do? We fortunately have a handful of great tools that will help you monitor a web host performance.
How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions
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.
20+ Best PSD to XHTML/CSS Tutorials
Many web designers find it difficult to convert their Photoshop designs into valid HTML/XHTML markups, either due to work load or in-efficiency in quality conversion.
1,000 Standard Business Cards Giveaway From NextDayFlyers
The team over at Next Day Flyers, one of the best offset printing companies you’ll find these days, is giving a chance for one lucky PelFusion reader to win 1000 Standard Business Cards.
Hot New Design: Stylish Black & Red Flash CMS Template
This Flash CMS template from FlashMoto.com is characterized by the strict color scheme, angularity and accuracy of forms and ultimate usability.
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.
The always surprising Saizen Media and their portfolio
I believe everyone by now has heard of Saizen Media. For those who don’t know, they’re a group of talented artists and programmers from Russia.
Devilishly Deviant: My Favourite DeviantART Photographers and Artists
These are some of my favourite deviants I have found to have not only great artwork/photography, but are also talkative and are willing to converse in the community as well.
Beauty is Truly in the Eyes of the Beholder
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.
This second 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.
22 Dazzling Examples of Fire Photography
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.
Wondering what it takes to make a successful iPhone icon? We’ve covered making an iPhone app pretty extensively (see links at the bottom of this article), but the cherry on top is really the icon.
How to create 3D Love text composition
In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a stunning 3D text effect using different textures to give it a unique look with Xsara3D & Photoshop.
Hot New Design: Stylish Black & Red Flash CMS Template
This Flash CMS template from FlashMoto.com is characterized by the strict color scheme, angularity and accuracy of forms and ultimate usability.
How to Reward the Commenters on Your Blog
Comments and the possibility to discuss content and posts are one of the most valuable and important parts of blogging and is amongst others what made it so popular.
Learning jQuery: Your First jQuery Plugin, “BubbleUP”
A jQuery tutorial which helps you create your own jQuery Plugin. Learning jQuery with a fun and easy way to generate a bubble effect for your menu list and we’re going to call it BubbleUP.
5 Reasons Why I Love Being A Web Designer
This article showcases 5 reasons why being a web designer rocks.
CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions
CSS Graphs and Charts are best way to visualize and present your data. Here we share 11 solutions for that.
Image Optimization Tools for Designers
Optimizing your images is one of the key important factors in allowing your site to run smoothly.
Beautiful Olympic Inspired Designs
With the Olympics in full swing many of us are glued to the TV cheering our country on to win those Gold medals.
40 Artistic Classic Interior Photography
There are 3 categories of them: nice color, bright & nice angle. All of them are very nice. I also include link to original page of every images.
[Code Snippet] jQuery : Checkbox & Table
Today’s code snippet is how to automagically check/uncheck checkbox element by clicking a single row of a table using jQuery.
Typography in web design is an important aspect, having aesthetic fonts can be appealing and increase user experience….
30 free fonts ideal for business logos
We all know, it’s very important to choose the right font when working on a logo design. When speaking about business logos, we usually mean logos which are elegant, clean and not too fancy.
Codeigniter shopping cart v1.1 Part 12: product page
A customer can reach to a product page from the front page, ‘Most sold’ and ‘New product’ on the right column and a category page.
11 Essential Tips Every Designer Should Be Aware Of
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!
Photography By Katarina Stefanovic
Absolutely amazing landscape photography by Katarina Stefanovic, superb talented female photographer.
You can’t control a lot of things in sports, but you can control your sports related blog because of WordPress. When you work hard, good things happen
Jeans textures in modern web design: Examples and Resources
Since my post on the Wood texture in modern web design became popular, I don’t want to disappoint you. Here comes the sequel. Take a look at these stunning examples of websites with Jeans textures.
Download Colorful Social Media Icons – Best Social Media Icons
Colorful Social Media Icons increase your social media traffic that your blog receives,you also need to consider enhancing a few icons to provide good amount of boost towards your daily site visitors.
This podcast from The Web Squeeze features Michael Santarcangelo, security catalyst, speaker and author of the book, “Into the Breach”.
Writing Functions In PHP – Global Variables
Learn what a Global variable is and how to use it by following this beginner php tutorial.
Free retro grunge patterns set
Today we are giving away a pack of free seamless retro grunge textures in .jpg format. The repeated pattern was made in Illustrator and applied on a surface in Photoshop.
A showcase of amazing and beautiful minimalistic web design.
Free Ghoustbusters Font Download
Ghostbusters is a 1984 science fiction comedy film written by co-stars Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The two, along with the hilarious Bill Murray, are three eccentric New York City…
On Inspiration (For Designers and Bloggers)
A story about a man left uninspired, and the surprising thing that worked to bring him back.
Free CG Software That Actually Works
A comprehensive overview of free CG tools that you can actually use and not just look at.
Making a PHP & MySQL File Download Counter
We are making a simple, yet robust, PHP & MySQL file download counter, which will track the number of downloads on certain files on your server.
7 ‘Scroll to Top’ jQuery Solutions
In this post you will find seven jQuery solutions which allow your visitors to smoothly scroll right to the top of a page, making your website more user friendly.
17 Elegant Photography Website Designs
It’s time for a new portion of photography website design inspiration. While searching for some beautiful and unique photo websites we felt a strong lack of fresh photography portfolios.
Water Drop Icon Design Process
This is the process I used to create the water drop icon in Illustrator for one of the five Nede funds, each of which have their own icon.
Inspired Giveaway – Three Huge Prints from Alex Mathers, Noper & Xavier Gallego
We’re giving away three huge posters (63 x 43.5 inches) offered by Uprinting and our illustrator friends Alex Mathers, Noper and Xavier Gallego.
How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop
Lady birds, is there any other insect that symbolize the prosperity and freshness of the nature more? You can find these cute being almost anywhere and they won’t ever cause anything but cheers.
Create Lady Birds Insect Tutorial Using Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial It will show you how to create a cool lady bird using Adobe Illustrator.
We are glad to release a new Free Icons Set for Drupal 7, a set icons in .
Creative Nerds Happy 1 Year Birthday
Let’s pop some champagne as we celebrate Creative Nerds 1st one year birthday. It’s been a great experience and I’ve learnt so much over the past year from running Creative Nerds.
25 Adobe Photoshop actions for a graphic designer toolbox
Photoshop actions can be a tremendous time-saving tool for designers. An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files.
40+ Stunning jQuery Plugins and Tutorials
We all love Javascript. With jQuery, it is now so easy to write really nice JavaScript effects.
30 Creative Shoe Advertisement
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…..
A theme about natural science and learning created by Templatelite.
What I hope to do is when enough have filled it out is make some insights into the design community and get my maths boffin friend to compile some lovely little pie charts and comparative graphs.
Grungy Hearts and Flower Patterns
Today’s web treat is a free combo pack of large (1024px * 1024px) seamless Grungy Hearts and Flowers textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
The most stylish Websites of January 2010
Our editor team has chosen the 4 most beautiful websites in JANUARY.We congratulate the winners – they get our CSSstyle.me GOLD DESIGN AWARD for good and creative design.
Website Design Services , Software application development and SEO services at affordable prices.
How to find inspiration and design the layout of a website?
How to find inspiration and design an amazing layout in Adobe Photoshop
The 25 best-looking calligraphic fonts that you can use to improve your design
showcase of 25 beauty calligraphic/handwritten font
YIW Minimal: a free & clean template for a simple yet professional site
Your Inspiration Minimal is a free template, extremely versatile and simple to personalize.
7 Must-Read SEO Articles For Every WordPress Blogger
7 top and varied SEO tutorials that can help to every WordPress blogger to get higher ranking for his or her niche
45 Awesome Colorful Logo Designs and Tutorials For Your Inspiration
In this article, you’ll find 45 awesome colorful logos and tutorials to inspire you the next time you are going to design for yourself or a client
Don’t be another washed up freelancer – The Freelance Lifecycle
Typical life – cycle seems to be the same for freelancers – especially within the first 6 months and a condition that I am now going to call ‘the-slump‘ strikes again!
Create Simple Jquery Right Click Cross browser Vertical Menu
Creating right click with the help of jquery is real easy and can be implemented very quickly. While trying for my one of the project , I made one and sharing it today.
70 iPhone Inspired Website Designs For Design Inspiration
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.
Clean and Minimalistic Portfolio Layout in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a clean and minimalistic portfolio layout in Photoshop.
Powerful Online Directory TUUUBE.com Released
TUUUBE Ltd announced the release of TUUUBE.com.
Weather symbols vector graphic
Weather Symbols Free Vector Graphic
File Format: Ai, EPS, JPG
Integrate SexyBookmarks into any HTML page with JavaScript
In this post, I’ll show you how to add SexyBookmarks into your personal page, only with HTML, CSS and JavaScript; no server-side requirement. Obviously, you can have some little limits without PHP.
Single page designs and portfolios have been a trend that have become very popular, they are great as page loads are decreased and it can add to the usability of the site.
20 Fresh and Inspiring Annual Report Design Ideas for 2010
Annual report design requires attention to detail and lots of creativity in presenting numbers in an interesting way. Here are 20 fresh examples of well-designed annual reports.
50 Beautiful Beer Bottle and Can Designs
In this post we’re featuring 50 exceptional bear bottle and can designs, whether they’re just conceptual designs or known and widespread brands.
Collection Of 50 Best Carefully Hand Picked Retro Designs
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!
Codeigniter shopping cart v1.1 Part 11: category page
When you click one of categories page, it will take you to a category page. It is pretty much same as the front page except it shows all the products in the category.
10 Best PSD to Drupal Theme Service Providers
CMS(s) provide the ease to operate and manage your website and this is the reason why there are so many content management systems smearing the internet.
A Word of Warning for WordPress Theme Developers
An important tip for releasing your free WordPress theme.
Tutorial on how to create a software layout
If you are a software manufacturer and you need a great design to represent your company and your products then you need to design an eye catching web layout.
Tutorial on how to create a software layout
If you are a software manufacturer and you need a great design to represent your company and your products then you need to design an eye catching web layout.
The Success Of Your Business On The Web
An article about the changes in the marketing area when Web 2.0 arrived. Strengths, weaknesses and concepts that the online medium brought to marketing.
Weekly Web Design Inspiration #41
A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week
Wood Design – Free PSD Template
This is the second free PSD template for WebDesignFan readers. Bright and simple wooden design.
120+ Design Showcase Websites to Submit your Designs
A design showcase is a website dedicated to seeking out the latest and greatest designs from the web, whether it’s a website, flash presentation or a piece of print work.
Free Harry Potter Font Download
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The story centers around Harry’s struggle against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry’s parents..
25 Awesome Websites For High Quality Photoshop Tutorials
Photoshop is an excellent tool for creating attractive designs for various purposes.
7 Indispensable WordPress SEO Plugins
To really get the search engines in awe of your WordPress install you can install a few plugins which can be of great benefit…
30 Glamorous Windows 7 wallpapers for your PC
If you use the Windows 7 operating system, you will find here useful wallpaper for your PC. Overall, I’ve compiled the best 30 Windows 7 wallpapers from deviantART community.
35 Incredible Castle Illustrations You Should See
A showcase of most outstanding and spectacular castle artworks from around the web.
Codeigniter Event Calendar update
This time I added a link to a date. When you click the date where there are events, it will take you to a page showing all the event for that day. So you can use it with javascript disabled.
7 awesome smashing blogs apart from smashing magazine
Apart from big giants in web design and development resources like smashing magazine , we have other seven smashing resources for web design and development.
A beginner’s guide to install Linux Mint.
Linux Mint is considered the simplest Linux distro. It has very simple installation procedure, very simple configuration setup. You will finish installation in just 20 minutes.
vi Editor for noobs, A beginner’s guide.
vi Editor is the spinal cord of Linux terminal, it has been inside it thriving for years.
Now it comes with name of VIM where IM stands for improved.
21 Clean Free Grunge Fonts for Web Designers
Take a look at these 21 great fonts that will give your grunge web design an entirely new look.
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Dan Aykroyd is a classical comedian, i love Coneheads movie;~’
So many choices. So much information. So much time involved to find what you need. It is almost a full time job in and of itself. Nancy
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