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Links to Valentine’s Day Resources
For those who have not noticed, Valentine’s day is fast approaching, and while many people will want the traditional chocolate, jewelry, or flowers, I know what my fellow designers and developers…
Create a Grunge Snowboard Poster for the Winter Olympics – Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial we’re going to put together a cool grungy poster design for the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Valentine’s Day or Anti Valentine’s Day Artworks
Valentine’s Day or Anti Valentine’s Day Artworks by Thomas
We have collected 10 great tutorials which will enable you to get to grips with Adobe Air and build a couple of apps yourself.
Pros And Cons Of 3 Popular CSS Meta Frameworks
We’re going to look at the big three metaframeworks that exist right now: xCSS, SASS, and Less.
Special Collection For Valentine Day
Wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use one wallpaper for a long time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration from it.
How To Create Simple Css Image Rollover Effect
A few days ago I was implementing Image Rollover Effect in a website I’m working on. Most of the portfolio websites are using image rollover effect.
Mouth Watering Realistic 3D Food Artworks
Mouth Watering Realistic 3D Food Artworks gathered from Deviant Art
25 amazing Hand based Logo Designs
Hands…what hands can show us, what the meaning of a hands? Waiting, language, taking care, touch, direction, handmade, synergy, dove, charity, donorship, hard work, safety, power…
Freelance Review’s favorite tweets of the week.
The ABC’s of a good design proposal
In this post I’ll walk you through our template for design proposals.
Getting Closer to Google Closure
I was interested to see the 1000th tweet from some friends timeline. And when I didn’t find an existing method, I thought I could write few jQuery lines to solve this..
Using jQuery to Get the Nth Twitter Status
I was interested to see the 1000th tweet from some friends timeline. And when I didn’t find an existing method, I thought I could write few jQuery lines to solve this..
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to turn your images into a puzzle. Really cool puzzle effects are made on photos.
After finishing Mimar Sinan Faculty of Fine Arts, Tamer Yilmaz began to work his way into commercial photography. He became a leading fashion photographer.
15 Essential Tools for Windows Based Web Developers
They perform a range of functions, from writing and editing code to checking for errors, running local servers to testing speeds etc
40+ Creative And Unusual Business Card Designs
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
http://webtoolfeed.com/blog/2010/02/how-to-mobilize-your-website/
The mobile industry is heavily growing. Many people don’t have a computer while commuting, but what they do have is their smartphone.
Have You Got What It Takes To Be A Freelancer?
Can anyone become a freelancer? Possibly, certain types of people can succeed as a freelancer, but it takes some hard work and discipline…
Sin of entrepreneur: one-person company
People think that having a company is a really easy. That everybody can have a company, because it’s not a problem to manage a one-person company. That’s a bullshit!
Extreme Grunge Seamless Photoshop Patterns 2
Today’s web treat is a free combo pack of large (1024px * 1024px) (740px * 740px) seamless Extreme Grunge textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
30+ Enormously Useful Adobe Air Applications
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..
Create a valentine’s day post card
Learn how to create a romantic valentine’s day post card with this easy to follow tutorial.
It’s no surprise that I am a huge fan of stop motion videos. Just check out my two previous posts: 12 Incredible Stop Motion Videos and 7 Amazing Stop Motion Videos by Tobias Stretch…
25 Essential Tutorials And Resources For Learning CSS3
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.
Puffing Smoke Effect with jQuery – Be interactive with JavaScript
The jQuery plugin “Smoke Effect by Gaya Kessler is a very playful script in which stacks of 2 can alternately be ejected clouds (the graphical elements) are arbitrarily modified.
50+ Collections of Happy Valentine Day Wallpapers
Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly simply Valentine’s Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.
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.
Water Painting History and Artist Collections
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.
History of Animation Media – Innovation and Experimentation
Evidence of artistic interest in depicting figures in motion can be seen as early as the still drawings of Palaeolithic cave paintings,
50+ Exclusive Colorful Collection of New Year 2010 Desktop Wallpaper and Calenders
In this New Year Week We all love to decorate our Desktop with beautiful Wallpapers. And if the wallpaper comes with Calendar then its excellent, isn’t it.
80 Funny Christmas and Santa Claus Style Hollywood Movie Posters
Merry Christmas to all the readers. In this Christmas Season I am going to showcase some funny Christmas and Santa Claus Style Hollywood Movie Posters. They are really funny.
20+ Beautiful Christmas Web Icons Sets
Last week I was going to design a Christmas newsletter. I was searching for some cool christmas related web icons. Then I have found some great icon which I to share with all of you.
40+ Beautiful New Year 2010 Wallpaper Collection
40+ Beautiful New Year 2010 Wallpaper Collection
50+ Examples of Some Amazing Funny Caricatures and History of Caricatures
A caricature can refer to a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness.
90+ Excellent Colorful Very Creative Photography Collection
Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor.
60 Clever and Concise Design Quotes
Sometimes it only takes a few words to sum up an experience. Here is a collection of Freelance Review’s favorite design quotes that are the most fitting and relative to graphic art and design.
35+ Super Cool Logos That Incorporate Bees
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.
Helpful Resources for Graphic & Web Designers
How many times have you visited a Web site and thought that you could do a better job if only you had the knowledge and skills?
Create a valentine’s day post card
Learn how to create a romantic valentine’s day post card with this easy to follow tutorial.
Photo Recovery Software to recover and retrieve pictures from most of the digital photo, image and pictures file format
54 Abstract textures added on Startextures.com
54 new high resolution images were added to the category. They are either edited with Photoshop to achieve the special abstract look or they were taken directly with the camera in special conditions.
5 Best Tutorials of Icon Designing
5 best tutorials of icon designing for web and graphic designers.
Most Creative and Fantastic Error 404 Pages
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
5 Best Linux compatible media players
It is very important to know the media players of Linux. Because there are not many of them pre installed. So here are some I can recommend from my experience.
50 Pictures, Dedicated to Love
50 pictures, telling 50 different love stories for Valentine’s day of 2010
10 Useful WordPress Plugins for Web Designers
This is a list of 10 useful WordPress Plugins for Web Designers.
Website Design: 30+ Beautifully Designed T-Shirt Sites
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.
30 Wonderful Websites With Illustrations
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.
12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz
12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz.
Designer Showcase – Steven Bonner
A showcase of the beautiful work of Steven Bonner
How To Create iPhone-Style Navigation (Part I)
In this tutorial I’d like to talk about how to make an iPhone style navigation using jQuery and CSS.
Saul Bass was one of the greats. The American graphic designer and filmmaker was a multi-talented artist who designed many well-known logos as well as movie posters.
10 Online Resources For Code Snippets
Here 10 of the webs finest code repositories to help you our with your coding needs.
PhotoShoot – The Photoshoot Effect with jQuery and CSS
Photo Shoot – The jQuery plugin Photoshoot produces a very special photo shoot effect, through which you can share the work with a camera.
10 Useful CSS Tools For Developers & Designers
Today we have collected 10 useful CSS tools, which will make your life easier. I think you should be already familiar with some of tools so you have to find out new ones.
21 Embossed Business Cards With Classy Look and Feel
Embossed business cards can be very classy and have the ability to stand out. Here are 21 examples of embossed business cards with different look and feel.
I will gives you a weekly design inspiration of web design consisting of 12 design concept.To get your creative juices going.If you have a general comment about site’s we’d love to hear from you.
Online Invoicing Solution for Link Building Firms
Welcome to our sponsored guest post and we are elated that this time an invoicing firm – ‘Invoicera‘ has agreed to write a post for our link building community.
How To Fight Procrastination As A Designer
In order to maximize your productivity and work time, you need to cut back on procrastination.
40 Absolutely Beautiful Valentine Day Wallpaper for Your Desktop
Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14.here we are sharing you a showcase of 40 absolutely beautiful and well-designed Valentine wallpapers to spice up your desktop
50+ Brilliant examples of HDR photography
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.
The Lion, the Witch and the Macbook
Some freelancers live in a fairy-tale world, where they spend more time on the computer than with their families. Find out how to solve this problem.
Design Your Own Custom T-Shirts,15 Qualified Companies
Last night i’ve looked around to find some qualified companies which let you design your own t-shirts and i wanna share them with you.
Add Google Buzz Button To WordPress Blog
In this simple tutorial I will tell you how to add Google Buzz button to your WordPress blog.
Two Free Corporate Identity Sets (Basic Style & Ultra-Minimal)
Here are two free corporate identity & stationery packs, each of which includes letterhead, envelope and business card templates.
Answers to your questions about awkward spaces, “prime” time, and free fonts.
54 Awesome Tutorials To Satisfy The Appetite Of Any Web Developer
When a roundup of tutorials is done, they usual focus on one specific area of design, development or coding.
Design magazines have always been a great source of inspiration for designers. It brings latest trends and new ideas into the mind of designers.
60+ Amazing Digital Photo Manipulation Art
Photo manipulation is a form of digital art that involves photography, illustration, and graphic design all at the same time.
Valentine’s Day Wallpapers – Symbol of Heart and Love
Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.
45 Original Dark and Black Web Designs
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.
Why I hate Freelance Designing
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
20 Winter Sport Photography Examples: Snowboarding And Skiing Jumps
The most important things, in sports photograph, you should remember are, ability to show tension, speed and dynamic.
Amazing anamorphic illusions – Creative Art
At a first glance, when you hear “pavement drawings” you’d probably think: “So? What’s so special about them?”. But I’m not referring to your average drawings made with chalk! No, no.
Free Valentine’s Day Illustration
This illustration enables you to add romance and love to your website or blog. The most important is that it’s available free of charge.
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.
Showcase of 60 Inspirational Typography Designs
I have compiled a list of 60 outstanding pieces of typography artwork to help stir up some creativity.
Intelecrm Brings New Server-Side Exchange Integration Option
Intelestream announced the availability of a fresh server-side Microsoft Exchange integration choice, Riva Integration Server for Exchange.
How CMS is beneficial for your business?
Most of the CMS available are open source and hence available to you at absolutely no cost. Only few are paid ones and that too are available at fairly low cost.
110+ Free And Stylish Social Media Icons
Here are a few collections of social media icons covering some of the web’s top social sites.
30 Most Beautiful High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography – Part II
In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital imaging techniques.
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In the recession it has become an necessity for every freelancer to know how to haggle professionally.
50 Majestic Examples of Mountain and Canyon Photography
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.
How iPad Affects the Way we Design Websites?
The iPad is here and sooner or later we need to learn to design the web keeping it in our minds. So what are the things we need to consider?
Top 50 Online Freelance Marketplaces That Cost Nothing To Use
The most popular FREE freelance marketplaces on the Web according to Alexa.
Photoshop Tutorial – Wallpaper ( Apple-Style )
This Step-by-Step Tutorial is going to show a photo display Perspective beginners in Adobe Photoshop, as well as the experienced user tips and tricks for designing graphics.
Set Type on a Circle, a Square, an S-Curve, Whatever
Here’s how to use InDesign to make your type follow just about any path you can create. And if you’re feeling really wild, you can apply Effects to those twists and turns!
It’s time to fall in love with your iPhone
We will continue our inspiration theme. Valentines day is just around the corner and geeks like us are mostly clueless about the gifts and about the whole thing generally.
17 New WordPress Themes You Must See
17 new wordpress themes from around web, which are published about end of 2009 until first 2010
22 Best Commercial Clips for January 2010
20 Best Commercial Clips for January 2010
17 Vinyl Sign And Banner Graphic Design Samples
The design and advertising content in your vinyl signs and banners do not need to compete with each other. Together, they can impact to your overall message and reach out to viewers on a deeper level.
The most advanced XML Accordion application. No Flash Knowledge required to insert the Accordion SWF inside the HTML page(s) of your site.
Scandal, public outcry, and tragedy in Canadian design: a brief and recent history of events in design leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
35 Creative and Effective Website Headers and Tutorials For Your Inspiration
Lets take a look at 35 creative and effective website headers and tutorials that will give you inspiration for your next project. These headers go a long way in giving your website the style it needs.
Google Stealing Content and Hijacking Traffic? A deeper look.
Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic? This post will feature a list of other companies that do basically the same thing.
DDesign a Brilliant Product Advertisement
In this tutorial, you’ll learn the steps and techniques involved in creating a brilliant product advertisement.
Spectacular Photography of Sunsets
Spectacular and most beautiful Photography of Sunsets
Web Accessibility: 6 Reasons Why Its Important
Web accessibility is the idea of making websites easily accessed by all types of people including those with certain disabilities, different languages, or lack of access to certain technology.
Installing a Linux distro(Ubuntu Ultimate 3.0)
This post is intended for generally noobs who are new to a phenomenon named Linux or for them who had enough of Windows
48 Amazing Morning Dew Photo Gallery
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.
20 Great Project Management Tools
Project Management Tools can help us organize and manage project especially for team members that located at different locations.
Beautiful Valentine cards for you
Here are some Valentine cards which I’ve made for you, so you can send these to your Love One. These are absolutely Free, so I’ll try to make some more cards before Valentine Day.
100+ Cult Psychedelic art rock posters collection
Visual artwork inspired by psychedelic experiences induced by drugs such as LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin. Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Wes Wilson, ZAP comics…….
The PC.DE typeface is a free-to-use without serifs font from de facto standard font family.
Tips for Web Designers From an Internet Marketers Perspective
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.
10 Stylish jQuery caption plugins
Listed here you will find ten stylish jQuery caption plugins which you can freely use in your future work.
Colorful Stained Glass Artwork
The art form of stained glass has been around for more than 1,000 years. Stained or painted glass as an artistic medium requires not only creativity but also engineering skills to assemble the pieces.
What is the Ultimate Solution for Your Web Store? VirtueMart Templates!
Templates.com has launched VirtueMart Templates – the ultimate e-commerce solution for successful online activity. They provide you with maximum effectiveness of your online shop.
Three sites aimed at getting you credit for your work.
Kick start 2010 in style with the round up of the best articles of the year so far!
In this post you’ll find an amazing ‘ultimate’ toolbox of over 350 of the best CSS3 tutorials, tips and resources out there. Get ready to be amazed!
Green Thumb: A Free Social Media Icon Set
Green Thumb is a free, vector-based social media icon set. The package contains icons for the following sites: Twitter, Design Float, Digg, Facebook and more.
8 essential tools for website redesign efficiency
Here are 8 tools to help make your next redesign process less painful and more efficient.
22 Amazing Planetoid Photographs
Planetoid photography turns panoramic images into beguiling spherical scenes, pictures that at first glance appear to be tiny planets floating in space. Here are 22 breathtaking examples.
35 Really Essential Google Chrome Extensions / Addons
Google Chrome was also part of those browsers war, but now chrome growing rapidly and now users have a powerful choice aside from Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari..
Mega Collection: Best of the Best Free Social Media Icons
Like the title said, this is a mega collection of beautiful Social Media Icons that you cannot resist adding to your collection.
Photorealism by Illustrious Artist Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell’s rosy illustrations of small town American life looked so photographic because his method was to copy photographs that he conceived and meticulously directed
Looking for a method where you can simply type in a few letters or numbers that generates a barcode graphic? Look no further, here is the clever font called barcode…
54 Great Websites that Use WordPress
Everyone in the design industry knows the power of WordPress. It can be use for various applications with different themes and plugins.
16 WordPress Theme Clones Based on Popular Websites
Now let’s follow 16 themes that provide same appearance as few popular sites available on the net.
10 Best Website Valuation Tools
At certain levels, after working so hard writing, publishing, editing, managing and so on you may want to measure how much is the value of your website may worth…
25 of The Best Footer Design for Websites
Website design may affects on visits, hits, page impressions, visitor loyalty, unique hits and so on. Other reason might mostly..
St Valentine’s Photo Manipulation Tutorial
Indulge your beloved by creating a digital piece of art with urban style motifs out of her image.
http://inspirebit.com/2010/02/7-questions-for-jacob-cass/
Jacob Cass is a world-renowned web, graphic and logo designer residing in Brooklyn, New York and is the founder of ‘Just Creative Design‘.
22 Places To Purchase Premium WordPress Themes
WordPress has become very popular with bloggers. Its simple and easy to use. One of the problems bloggers run into is finding the perfect theme.
25 iPad Space Wallpaper Designs
iPadFreakz has collected 25 well designed iPad space wallpapers that you can download for your iPad.
Opera Mini Coming To Multiple Platforms And Handsets, Including iPhone
It’s fair to say since the introduction of the iPhone, mobile Safari has had a tough time with users.
Illustration Pages: A Site Devoted To Helping Artists
The purpose of the Illustration Pages site is to bring more fans to your Facebook pages, more visitors to your websites and more attention to your art.
Submit your work today to Illustration Pages.
5 iPhone Apps Every Web Designer Should Have
iPhone apps are like a garage sale, sometimes you have to wade through all the junk to find that one hidden gem. Here are some great apps that every Web Designer should have.
20 Fantastic Usability And Conversion Analysis Tools
Once you’ve designed a website, it’s absolutely vital that you perform some degree of usability testing to ensure that it’s functioning as it should. Analyzing conversion rates is also a must.
onlyTEXT.net has finally launched! otn is a development website that focuses on tutorials that support back-end design such as css and php while promoting less usage of images in design.
Freebies – High-Quality Vector Musical Instruments
A free vector pack of high-quality Vector Musical Instruments, including Guitars and Bass Guitars, a Drum Set, Microphones, a Keyboard and more.
MTV Unveils New Logo [R.I.P. Music Television]
Yesterday, MTV changed its iconic Frank Onlinsky-designed logo of nearly 30 years to reflect its change in programming.
Arbenting Asks Aloud – How Important is Design Theory?
Arbenting’s first community discussion asks the question ‘How important is design theory?
Defining a Multivariate Test: Getting Started with Multivariate Testing
Multivariate testing is becoming more popular amongst the web design and development community, and rightfully so. Take a look and see how the smallest changes can produce the biggest results.
MyInkBlog Reinvented, About the New Look
MyInkBlog gets a redesign. Check out the new look and learn about the design process.
11 Popular WordPress Plugins for Designers
WordPress Plugins as you know allow you easy modification, customization, and enhancement to a WordPress blog. Instead of changing the theme.
iPhone Lessons and the User Experience
In this article I we are going to are four areas of my first contact my iPhone, and the lessons they taught me about user experience.
Color Theory, The Color Wheel And Color Schemes
Color is one of the first things someone will notice in your design and it will go a long way in determining if your viewers think your design aesthetically pleasing.
OsCommerce – A Profitable Shopping Cart Software
There are varied shopping cart software available in the business.
50+ Fresh Designs Photoshop Brushes released in January
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.
A Showcase Of Illustrative Websites
A showcase of websites that feature an illustrative theme
Creative Web Form Designs: Ideas And Realizations
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.
An article asking: Are there any real advantages to working for free?
How to Design a Photolog Theme for WordPress
This time will be creating a Photolog design theme for WordPress.It’s a clean and simple photo gallery.
For your enjoyment – a free website layout – might save you some time working out ideas and execution. The layout is based on blueprint framework, so it should be pretty easy to develop.
Giveaway:One-Year Membership From Elegant Themes
We all know ElegantThemes is one of the most popular theme provider in this business.The site is managed by Nick Roach a talented and professional web designer/WordPress developer.
30 Old Car Brochures Designs Samples
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.
20 Fonts Ideal For The iPhone And Other Mobile Screens
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.
Ideas to Please Girlfriend on Valentine’s Day 2010
Check the ideas to make your girlfriend happy on Valentine’s Day with flowers, gifts, romantic video from PowerPoint or you diy valentine’s day DVD slideshow, etc.
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Very interesting but who will read all these things you may divide it into different sections/article.
However thank you for your nice sharing.
The good thing about your information is that it is explicit enough for students to grasp. Thanks for your efforts in spreading academic knowledge.
Wow this is a ton! Thanks for sharing.. hmm where do I start. Its looks like all of them are interesting
cheers!
Thanks for listing my posts. Very very thankful. Tripwiremagazine really is a great source for web development and inspiration. Keep up the great job!
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