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Create an Wooden Background Website Layout in Photoshop
In this post we will show you how to create a website using splatter brush and few cool techniques. You can customize it for a company or own web site.
10 Firefox Addons Every Web Designer Should Know
If you are web designer you absolutely use firefox because of Firefox has some cool add-ons which make the job of website designers much easier and fast.
31 Stunning Black And White Photographs
The world of photograhy is a world of passion which touches many hearts. This compilation consists of black and white pictures divided into categories.
50+ Free Fonts Collection for Web Designers and Logo Artists
Fonts should speak itself about the product. So in this article you can find some excellent font collection for logo and web designing.
How to Convert a WordPress Blog into WordPress MU
WordPress is one of the best and very popular blogging platforms which is not only free but also released as a open source project.
10 Tips For Becoming A More Efficient Web Designer
This article provides ten tips and techniques that you can use to become a more efficient and productive web designer.
Free Social Network Icons from IconShock
IconShock has designed Social Network icon-set exclusively for Smashing Share readers. The IconShock – icon sets are awesome and free to use for both your personal and commercial projects.
Learn how to create a clean busines layout
Learn how to create a clean business layout with this step by step tutorial.
50 Inspiring Sites Using Red As Their Main Color
I like the red colour a lot (makes me think of Dracula). And we already know that the web is full of great examples of web designs (using red or not) to get some inspiration from [..]
Design Envy : Make it Work For You!
It’s natural, it happens to the best of us. And it is certainly nothing to be ashamed of.
Whats the Best way to Promote your Latest Article?
There are several ways in which to achieve this, and I hope to discuss two of the easiest and simple in which to setup and carry out.
21 Wonderful Logos for your Daily Dose of Inspiration
The probably most important thing of a Brand is the Logo, It gives the Costumer/viewer a Images to the Brand Name. Even Business owners now how important the logo is for their Brand….
How to Find the Best Keywords and Ideas for Your Articles
Today, in this article we will show you how to find best SEO keywords the easy way. The next 5 tools are in the top of my keywords generators.
How to Create Perfect Radial Shapes in Illustrator
In this tutorial, It will walk you through the creation process on how to effectively recreate some perfect radial shapes.
How To Create A Retro Style Text Effect Using Illustrator
In this tutorial It explains how to easily create a 3d text and merge it into a retro-style scene. We will use Illustrator for the text,
Ten Dirty Secrets of Web Hosting Services
When looking for a web hosting service, you should be careful as there are a lot of things they may try to hide from you.
Proportion: Definition and Gallery
Proportion (or scale) refers to the relative size and scale of the various elements in a design. In essence, this takes design elements and contrasts their sizes greatly for emphasis.
Eight Greatest Things About Open Source
Linux Environment: This is a given, granted, but no one can exclude the brainchild of Linus Torvalds when talking about open source. What was begun as a learning experience…
What You Should NEVER do With Your Web Hosting Account
t should go without saying that one of the biggest data protection “faux-pas” is keeping your critical data backups on-site after they’ve been copied. In the event of theft, flooding..
50+ Creative Business Card Designs
Do you need the creative Business for your Business? We assembled Fresh collection stimulate your creative juices for your own beautiful business.
50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs
This 50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs are especially compiled for logo designers who are momentarily out of ideas.
The Guide To Landing A Graphic Design Job
The first question in this new series tackles the dilemma of finding a job as a Graphic Designer without much actual design experience.
35 Ultimate Useful Android Applications
Andriod (Google mobile operating system) market is growing day by day as this OS giving lot of user friendly applications, some of those listing today as our visitors and readers demand. Android on..
Golden Fish – Free Illustration
If your website is about pets or fishes, feel free to download this illustration. Not only it’s well done but also free to use.
Codeigniter shopping cart v1.1 Part 15: contact page and sending email message
Contact page allows visitors to send a message through a form. It has a reCaptcha in order to avoid spam. I will cover the contact page and sending email message to an administrator in this article.
Quote Portal for iPhone is The Epitome of Simplicity and Brilliance
Quote Portal has one of the nicest interfaces I have ever seen on an iPhone app. The concept is completely basic, yet the UI is so good, it transforms this app into a keeper. So what does the app do?
Coffee Shop Posters: 17 Creative Design Examples
Coffee shop posters can set the mood, provoke discussion, wake creativity, and express the shop’s unique identity and style.
Warwick Saint was born in South Africa in 1972. With a Creative dad and a Model mom, it was not surprising Warwick Saint was to become a photographer.
Here are over 500 Beautiful Frames for you. These frames can be used for making different Wish cards. All Frames are Zipped in a file, some of these are inserted directly so you can view these.
3 Best Solutions to make your own custom Linux
Linux is fun so much fun. It gives you awesome multidimensional opportunities to experiment. Its not just bunch of distros with colorful desktop environments.
This is the seventh post of our awesome fonts series. Last time we posted a collection of free grunge fonts now in this post you will find 15 Gothic Fonts for Designers.
Over 800 Beautiful Backgrounds
I’ve collected a large number of Beautiful Backgrounds. You can use these backgrounds as your Website Bg. All backgrounds are present in a ZIP file, preview also available.
22 Fresh Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop for 2010
I have compiled a list of 22 of the latest web design tutorials released in 2010.
Top 3 Internal link building Tactics
Internal link building plays a crucial role in ensuring that all the relevant pages of your website gets crawled by the search engines.
Showcase Of Web Design In Ukraine
Here is a showcase of web design agencies and the latest trends in web design of Ukraine.
45+ Latest Free WordPress Themes (January – February 2010)
WordPress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility.
50 Newest Free WordPress Themes for 2010
In this collection, you’ll find 50 excellent, high-quality, frash, free WordPress themes for 2010 year!
100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design
In this post, I will share my collection of 100+ Great Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushsets to Decorate Your Design. Hopefully they will be of use to you and expand your own vintage collection.
9+1 Worthy Adobe Air Applications for Web Designers
Adobe Air apps can also help you. They are small, lightweight, and mostly free! In this post we have featured 9 downloadable apps + 1 online app that are really worthy.
15 Best Websites that can make you a Web Designer
HTML, Css, JavaScript are basic building blocks of a Web Page. A Web Designer needs to combine all these technologies to make a presentable website.
PSD to XHTML Service Providers: Who to choose?
Constant increase in the number of PSD to XHTML service providers has pushed the total number of conversion service providers well beyond 100.
Missile Defense Agency Logo – A new twist to the tale!!
Here comes a new twist to the Missile Defense Agency logo design. A striking resemblance has also been observed between the new “MDA logo design” and the “Iranian Space Agency logo design”.
A collection of the most useful tools for creating top notch icons.
A showcase of innovative product designs, ranging from the clever to the ridiculous
Creating a Tilt-Shift Effect Using PhotoShop
Create a tilt-shift effect to blur out aspects of a photo while bringing emphasis to other elements in an image.
Easy to follow tutorial.
Free Fonts Download Website Collection
In this collection I will showcase some beautiful collection of websites where you can download fantastic free fonts.
PositionApp for iPhone: An App for Users, Developers, and Bloggers
With the 200,000 apps in the App Store, it is becoming increasingly difficult if not impossible for users and developers to keep track of new apps.
33 Kickass Iron Man Artworks for Inspiration
As a tribute to this astounding character, we have compiled 33 Kickass Iron Man Artworks for all Marvel fan out there.
What’s Coming in WordPress 3.0 (Features)
Comprehensive list of features that people should be looking forward to in WordPress 3.0
18+ Ads That Make Your Dirty Mind Run Wild
Are you seeing what I see here. Do you see a advertisement OR? Whatever you think you see here you really don’t. Yes it is officially correct you have a dirty mind!
7 Very Useful Websites to Get Practical Fireworks Tutorials
Fireworks is the best software around for editing vector and bitmap and vector graphic. It helps you to rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces.
Emphasis: Definition and Gallery
Emphasis, also known as dominance, guides the eye into, through and out of a design with the use of a sequence of various levels of focal points, with one element being the most prominent.
33 Free Blue Patterns to Download
Today, Blue Blots has decided to offer our readers 30+ Free Blue Patterns to help you create the perfect blue background for your website.
Hey! Have you heard? HTML5 video is going to revolutionize the way we use video on the web. No more dealing with Flash or Quicktime embeds. Video will now be as simple as adding an image.
20 cool & creative business cards for your inspiration
Handing out your business card is a more crucial moment than it appears, it’s the perfect time for you to make a good first impression on your prospects.
Create Animated Navigation Menu From Stratch
Authenticjobs has a nice navigation menu. How could it be nice? The navigation will automatically shifted to the menu that we choose.
80 Extreme Advertisements That Will Challenge Your Mind
Here are 80 controversial advertisements that challenge the boundaries of what is socially and morally acceptable with the use of dark humour and shock tactics.
Codeigniter shopping cart v1.1 Part 14: Adding webshop preferences
I am going to update Shop_controller today. Rather than manually updating Shop_controller.php, it is much better to add preferences or settings in the BackendPro.
Create Tilt-shift Miniature Effect in Photoshop
Here is quick tutorial how to create miniature tilt-shift like effect for your photos.
25 Fresh Photoshop Graffiti Tutorial
This reflects the most striking colors and refine of graphics. You can learn graffiti techniques from this Photoshop tutorial. Hope you will give your feedback about this collection.
How to Effectively write a design article
what do you need to do to make sure your article is effectively written and unique when compared to the others. I have shared a few of my tips on what I believe is the best way to write an article.
Brown Dirt Mountains Brushes for Photoshop
Today we have a free set of Photoshop brushes from Brandon Schultz. The set includes 5 high res mountains brushes. If you’re creating a nature-based design, these just may be the brushes for you.
Footer Design Collection of Beautiful Websites
As we all know Footer is the last part of any website. Before nobody takes the footer as a designing part. They just have it for writing Copyright only.
BrowserSeal allows web developers to capture an image of their web site under multiple browsers with a single click of a mouse and instantly inspect the differences.
Guaranteed landing page improvements or money back. Landing page design and optimization services aimed at increasing your conversion rate.
Free texture pack – 112 high resolution images
Today we added 112 new free high resolution textures on our free texture website Startextures.com. Most of them are taken in winter surroundings and have a grayish tone to them.
Lets take a look at this collection of more than 250 of the best free seamless patterns, resources and tutorials, ranging from grunge to floral patterns that can be used to enhance your designs.
14 Free Vector Musical Graphics
Looking for incredible graphics to use for a band flyer or musical ad? Well look no further! Here is an outstanding collection of 14 musical graphics…
10 shocking animations using CSS and I mean only CSS
Well I never knew that CSS can really produce such amazing effects that even games and puzzles can be created by it.
One Good Thing About Crowdsourcing
This article looks at one instance where a designer can benefit from the crowdsourcing model that is so negatively received.
Servlnt-Managed Web Hosting Provider Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Servlnt, the pioneer of high reliability web hosting for worldwide business celebrates its 15th anniversary this month.
Photography by Lukasz Murgrabia
Based in Warsaw, Poland, Lukasz Murgrabia has photographed for clients such as Young & Rubicam, Euro RSCG or Ogilvy, to name a few. 1978 born in Szczecin
Maparaan is packed with a better framework and an admin options panel, this special WordPress theme has a customizable front page which will showcase the “About Us” and “What We Do” features.
30 Coolest Minimalist Print Ads
Minimalist ads are some of the coolest print designs around. By adopting a deliberate simple approach, the designer distills the ad’s message and must find the least-complex signs and words.
Inspiration: 27 Great Logo Design Galleries
There are many sources of inspiration that designers utilize when trying to get their creative juices flowing.
40 Really Professional Looking Logo Design Tutorials
Companies success always based on corporate identity, Logo always playing most important role in any brand or company success, specially when we talk about a famous brand the first thing..
40 Free Black WordPress Themes
Check out this awesome 40 free black wordpress theme, comments will be appreciated. Thank You
30 Examples Of CSS Text Shadows Out In The Wild
Here is a showcase of beautiful websites using CSS to recreate effects and 3D visuals you were usually creating in image editing programs before!
Win A $200.00 Logo Design For Your Business NOW!
To enter in this contest to win a $200.00 logo design simply leave a comment on this post why your company deserves a new logo design and you are entered to win
Google Buzz WordPress Integration
We have dug up 5 great WordPress plugins which will allow you and your users to share your posts and articles on Google Buzz
20 Best PSD to WordPress Service Providers
A quick website setup is what everybody loves these days. The level of competition has been raised so much that no webmaster can afford to let their prospects wait for his website to stand and run.
60 Best Icon Sets for Developers and Designers
A set of icons are a great way to enhance you site, as they can give a good impression of your blog and spice up your posts.
15 Classy Brown Business Card Designs
15 choice examples of creatively designed brown business cards that create the impression of wholesomeness and simplicity.
Custom Movie Posters: 15 Design Examples & 7 Other Resources
A collection of 15 interestingly unique custom movie poster designs remixed by Behance and Coroflot designers for your viewing pleasure.
1000+ Free Photoshop Custom Shapes In 40 Sets
One of the essential and important part of the photoshop is the custom shapes.Most of the time we use brushes but also custom shapes are really useful which they save so much time.
An Interview with Blogger & Designer Jad Limcaco
Today I would like to introduce my first interview with Jad Limcaco, the man behind popular design blog – Design Informer.
Design seamless cute character patterns using illustrator
Repetitive character prints are everywhere. Lo-Fi Creative’s Anna Wray shows you the fast route to creating your own.
How to Create a Stylish Phone in Illustrator
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a stylish mobile phone. I will show you working with gradient tool and pathfinder to reach our last result.
58 Divine angels drawings and illustrations
Divine as they may seem in your imagination, the angels’ image has been modified seriously by some artists as you will see in the next pictures.
Photos out of bounds Photoshop tutorial
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a picture “jump” out of the frame. It’s a way to make your images more fun and once you’ve learn how to make them you’ll see that this is an easy
How To Get Digg, Delicious and Tweet Counts Using jQuery
This tutorial shows you how to use jQuery to programmatically get Digg, Delicious and Tweet counts for a specific URL. You will be able to style this data however you like using CSS.
From bold to thin, from extraordinary to minimal, exeptionally beautiful free fonts you should definately have.
Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations
Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations by amazing digital artists
50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials
With these cartoon character design tutorials, you can easily get started and arm yourself with intermediate skills for character designs.
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Thank you for the post! All of the links are very helpful, I enjoyed the logo design inspiration gallery.
very helpful post. keep up the good work!
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i found this one useful. will take some time to go through all the links though! i also do printing work at http://www.psprint.com/stickers-labels
Thanks for the links. I have a lot infos from your blog, I’ll bookmark it and visit your blog regularly to know the latest news from you.
Good way of sharing post!
great collection
Great list! I checked out a few of these and got some great tips.
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