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Fresh and Exceptional Twitter Bird Design Icons
Fresh And Exceptional Twitter Bird Design Icons.
10 Fresh and Unique High Quality Social Network Icon Sets
Fresh And High Quality Social Network Icons.
10 Best Opencart Themes
35 Stunningly Elegant Web Designs
What separate good design, from great design is the amount of attention to detail. The sites featured in this roundup have executed this task very nicely.
Tips For Calling Visitors To Action
A blog is a blog. But without a call to action, you risk losing readers. Find most effective methods & associated tips for calling your visitors to action.
Highly customizable yet simple form validation jquery plugin
Form validation is one of the most important aspect on any web application. More the form is secure more secure will be the application.
Introducing the very impressive portfolio of Chris Peel, a british designer. check out and find a nice iPhone 4 leather case
60+ Creative Websites Designs Showcase for Your Inspiration
We are dedicated to bringing you the Creative Website Designs Showcase for Your Inspiration from around the world. So we add Creative websites in this post and only the best sites will be on display.
8 tileable grunge textures pattern set
Today’s web treat is a free release of our 8 tileable Grunge texture patterns previously available only on Graphic River.
50+ Free Fonts Download Websites Roundup
A unique font can help your document stand out and attract attention. A perfectly suited font can help to make a design attractive and successful.
Go Green – Showcase of 50 beautiful websites in green color theme
Green is considered as the most restful color for the human eyes. Studies show that a green environment can reduce fatigue…
42 Perfect Web Design Layouts From DeviantArt
DeviantART, a widely popular online graphic design community, is an unlikely (but surprisingly terrific) place to find inspiration for web design.
Mac TOD Converter is a powerful Mac converter TOD files supported tool, that can convert TOD video on Mac OS to popular video formats like AVI, WMV, MPEG, MOV, MP4, etc.
Mac TOD Converter is a powerful Mac converter TOD files supported tool, that can convert TOD video on Mac OS to popular video formats like AVI, WMV, MPEG, MOV, MP4, etc.
Artist of the week – Hugo Montero
Hugo Montero is the last of the first generation of Can Gogh (Aerosolgrafia or Sadotgrafia) and a follower of the ideas of Ruben “Sadot” Fernandez…
Nivo – A new jQuery image slider
This is a new launched image slider what use jQuery. Is cross browser and have 9 unique transition effects, navigation controls, is simple, clean, valid markup and free.
13 Must Have Firefox Addons to Boost the Productivity of Bloggers
In this article we have compiled 13 best Firefox addons necessary for Bloggers. These addons provide a lot of flexibility by reducing the necessity of separate tools for different tasks of blogging.
Emblic Videos. Dark Portfolio Page. 2010. http://www.emblic.com
API (Application Programming Interface) enables programmers to write web applications and widgets that interact with the service at that site.
Four Steps For Effective Cross-Cultural Website Design
It’s not every city eats and thinks and shops in the same way, and the same with website design. The expert will show you four steps for effective cross-cultural website design.
60 Apple Inspired Websites – Why Apple Design Works?
Apple has always been showing what beautiful design means in all their designs, products, icons, websites. But what really makes Apple design stand out from the crowd?
Top 6 Benifits of Image Linking
We often come up with questions like- is image linking worth doing as much as regular text link does?
If you have a plan for selling products and services I’ll recommend you are using a WordPress landing page theme or some WordPress ecommerce themes.
Top 87 Fonts A Designer Should Download
You gotta have a serious collection of logos, unless your a pretty exquisite designer and you’re making a custom font for every project you are working on
Collection of inspirational works – graphic design, illustration, photo manipulation
How To Improve Usability With Fitts’ and Hick’s Laws
Hick’s law offers advice for getting people to make a decision. Fitts’ law offers advice for getting people to implement the decisions they make. Both can help make your designs more usable.
40 Online Design Blogs To Turn You Into a Photoshop Guru
This article we have decided to collect good and also popular design blogs which offer high quality Photoshop tutorials
How To Create A Geometric Vector Pattern Using Illustrator
A great short but sweet illustrator tutorial aimed at beginners the perfect tutorial, which will show you how to use illustrator to create simple but well designed geometric vector pattern.
Checkbox is one of the most frequently used element on the forms, plain checkbox will be nice if in the forms we made there are many checkbox or others forms element that are used.
Today we posted cool collection of 60 car modeling tutorials, top-notch 3ds max, maya, cinema4d, softimage tutorials for you to check out. Hope you will find this post useful.
CSS In Depth Part 3: All About Text
CSS2.1 provides for a lot of ways to use fonts creatively, and with CSS3 (which we’ll talk about next week), we’ll come even closer to full design control over our typography!
Graffiti has existed since ancient times,with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Basically Graffiti is the name given to the art of drawing images painted in any form
Make a Realistic LCD HDTV from Scratch with Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to create a photorealistic widescreen LCD HDTV from scratch.
21 Best Windows 7 Skins You Can Use for Free
Windows 7 has become a popular operating system. If you want to change the look of your Windows 7, then here are 21 custom Windows 7 skins that you can use.
30 Amazing Typographic Movie Poster Designs
You must have seen many articles on typographic posters but during my search i wasn’t able to find any post on typographic movie posters.
25 Modern white and minimalist business cards
Keeping your card simple but modern is sometimes the best way to market your business. Here are 25 examples of how you can make a white business card standout.
10 Trends of the World Most Unsuccessful Designers
In today’s article I want to discuss with you some of the most common traits of web designers who simply fail at design and freelancing in general.
34 amazing single scrolling page sites
If you do not have much content, then the single-scrolling page site is just for you. This technique is mostly used in portfolio sites and they are perfect examples…
13 Company layout Design Using Photoshop
There are some very easy to follow tutorials on just how to design Company layout using photoshop .Company layout should be pleasing to the eye.
Removing The “Generator” Tag in Joomla
It’s pretty easy to remove the generator tag from the source code and this video explains in detail how to do it.
Importing Google Gadgets Into Joomla
It is easy to add Google gadgets by simply using the custom HTML module that comes with the default installation of Joomla.
Linking to Published Articles In Joomla
It’s easy to make sure that your visitors can move through your websites contents easily and simply, as long as you understand how menus affect content access.
How to Allow Visitors To Register In Joomla
You have a lot of options in setting up your Joomla login form and it’s good to get them correctly configured to match your needs at the start.
Creating Search Engine Friendly URLs in Joomla
The developers of Joomla understood that search engine optimization is important, so they created a built-in search engine friendly (SEF) URls function.
20 Free Powerful Content Management Systems(CMS) Part 1
A Web Content Management System (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content.
Win 500 Trifold Brochures From uPrinting
Enter for a chance to win free printing on 500 trifold brochures from UPrinting.
Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheets
Download keyboard shortcuts pdf’s for every version of Illustrator and Photoshop here.
Our Magazine WordPress Theme Free
Our Magazine is a powerful Premium WordPress theme special for online magazine, community, network or any site with rich content. It is modern, clean, and sexy.
Corporate Branding on Twitter: 50 Excellent Examples
You’ve seen plenty of creative Twitter backgrounds created by designers and artists, but how are corporations representing themselves on Twitter?
20 Stunning Websites With Spring-like Design
Check the compilation of 20 most beautiful spring-inspired website designs to draw some inspiration for your own live and fresh creations.
I Have Just Moved From Psd Tutorial! Read & Get Some Useful Informations!
On this first post, I will share some of guest articles that I have made for some other popular blogger & feature some of my best post from my former blog Psd Tutorial.
Mixtape Cover Design : Examples and Best Practices
The focus of this article is to briefly explore the many techniques used to create the unique and very edgy art form of Mixtape cover design.
10 WordPress Plugins To Manage Your Ads Banners
How Monetize your blog? How to put various networking codes in right place into your blog? There are numbers of networks that available for maximize the revenue.
“1st E-Commerce Week” at 1stWebDesigner
Sensing the ever-increasing grandeur of E-Commerce, we will celebrate 1st E-Commerce Week on 1stwebdesigner, this week.
14 TOP and BEST Icon Search Engines to consider
Here are our favorite and TOP Icon search engines where you can find some amazing icons.
60 Best Websites For Awesome Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
This time I thought to work something and tried to find the best websites from the ever growing crowd of Photoshop Tutorials websites in the internet.
27 Awesome Plug-Ins for Adobe Illustrator
This is great collection of 27 cracked Adobe illustrator plugins. Use the included keygens or serials to register. Each Plug-in installs different, so read the inluded info.
Excellent Abstract Wallpapers Collection
Abstract in itself means absolute, seperate, something which is in our minds and not as a specific object. In the same manner, abstract wallpapers are the ones which are not created based on objects
Online tool to generate your xml feed in rss 2.0 format.
25 Design Blogs Which Should be on Every Designer’s Radar
Premium and consistently high-quality articles are hard to find across the web, some blogs can offer up amazing content but can often be brought down by unrelated and poorer quality articles.
50 Colorful Illustration Wallpapers for your Desktop
In this modern trend most of the creative peoples like see sleek illustration wallpapers as we listed below “50 Colorful Illustration Wallpapers for your Desktop”, as per our visitors and readers.
Showcase of Indie Art and Photo Blogs for Your Visual Delight
Today we’ showcasing a new kind of websites here on Inspired Mag – non-mainstream photography & art blogs.
Free Burnstown Dam Font Download
Now that spring has finally arrived we really need an outdoors font. Here is a woodsy, spring-like font called Burnstown Dam…
Create The Face Of A Greedy Monkey In Illustrator
This tutorial will help you create a simple illustration of a monkey face. It uses the Ellipse Tool, the Pen Tool, the Rectangle Tool, the Crystallize Tool or the Gradient Tool.
35 new and stunning black wallpapers for your desktop
I present here, 35 stunning desktop wallpapers that are inspired by the color
Facebook “Fan Us” fixed position side tab button
How to create a fixed position Facebook Fan Us (Become a fan) tab on your website that is always in the browser’s view using CSS and HTML.
Interview with Cerven Cotter of pixeldeath
Cerven Cotter hails from the UK, and at first glance he may seem like your run of the mill tattoo wearing, skateboard riding, red bull drinking…
Navigation is always important to a website project, it helps the user get around your site.
Four Worst IT Screw Ups in 2009
Last year had been a mixed one for users and also the IT industry. Falling sales, particularly on servers and PCs, have hit vendors hard as companies have scaled back costs.
Creating Seamless Textures from Photos in Photoshop
n this quick, but very useful tutorial I will teach you how to create a seamless texture from any stock photo or image.
Online reading and writing articles for free. The unique content to share and read on the web.
80+ 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.
30+ Best Apple Inspired Photoshop Tutorials
Some are inspired in creating or practicing apple related designs. In this matter, we have decided to come up with a list of tutorial that you may find useful.
Weekly Web Design Inspiration #45
A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week
83 Beautiful DIV/CSS Based Web Designs
Previously all websites skeleton was made with Tables. Table is good but not flexible for SEO and layered designs. I mean Today Web Design has changed a lot.
18 Excellent Speed Painting Collections
Raw speed painting is akin to the “Alla Prima” method of traditional fine artists, in which there is no sketch or underpainting (which are found in Di Mattia’s paintings).
I always liked the sketch fonts because of their unique designs and decorative effect.Here`s most sketchy and beautiful fonts which certainly will help you in your designs.
Another point of view: Manual shaded threshold
Every now and again I stumble onto a technique which is so simple and effective that it has to be shared. I like to call this one the “Manual shaded threshold” technique.
27 Political Caricatures by Jason Seiler
Recently I did a post on celebrity caricatures by the talented Jason Seiler. This time I am sharing with you a collection of Jason’s political caricatures…
5 Articles to Help with Goals in Google Analytics
Thanks to a smashing article on six revisions about setting up goals in Google Analytics – further into the subject and found these great 5 articles to help you get to grips with just the same.
Inspiration – 40+ Really Cool Fitted Hat Designs
An graphic design inspirational post featuring very cool and creative fitted hat designs. Beautiful typography, textures, color schemes, and more.
Design a Hot and Sparkling, Firery Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Hot and Sparkling, Firery Text Effect in Photoshop. Have a try!
Psdeluxe first anniversary mega giveaway
Our friends have prepared a large amount of the gift for you loyal readers. In our gift bag you can find gifts that are necessary for you, like WordPress themes, business cards, stock photos and more.
Collection of Stunning Tutorials Using Photoshop
Photoshop is a powerful tool for web and digital media designing and you can make different kind of effects using this. Here is a stunning collection of photoshop tutorials..
We are adding 40 new high resolution grunge textures to Startextures.com library. These were all photographed on Slovenian seaside ports, fishing harbors and a salt farm.
Here is a collection of top rated blog templates
Create the face of a greedy monkey in Illustrator
Hi there. This tutorial will help you create a simple illustration of a monkey face. It uses the Ellipse Tool, the Pen Tool, the Rectangle Tool, the Crystallize Tool or the Gradient Tool.
How to create a retro-inspired typography poster
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a retro-inspired typography poster design in Photoshop playing with stock photos, blend modes and filters.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe was one of the great cartoons in the late 80’s that I got the privilege to grow up with.
8 Free Web Based Image Editors
By now, you probably have heard of Photoshop. Photoshop is a professional image editing software. If you’re always on the go, and don’t have access to Photoshop then this roundup is for you.
Tweety: Free Twitter Bird Icon Pack
Twitter Birthday Special: “Tweety” Free Twitter Bird Icon Pack.
Premium Quality Free Social Network Icon Pack
Premium Quality Free Social Media Icons.
5 Designers Share their Logo Design Process
Five in-depth logo design processes. Exposing the research, thought and creative processes of five designers.
A competition to win over 15,000 design templates
Thirteen Things To Do Before Migrating to a New Web Host
Without doubt, it’s a pain to migrate a huge and busy web site, but when your requirements grow and your current web host can’t keep up, it would be better to ditch it as soon as possible.
Inspiration: Beautifully Rendered 3d Vehicles
There are many sources of inspiration that an artist or designer can draw from. In this post you will see some amazing renderings of 3d vehicles.
I have created a collection of 15 Inspiring Wind Adverts, including flyers, posters and non-real adverts. About drinks, mobile phones, nature problems and even batteries.
25 Mix Adobe Photoshop Tutorial of March 2010
25 Mix Photoshop Tutorial of March 2010
17 attractive web apps and tools you simply cannot miss
while searching on google , yahoo and bing for some web applcations I came across very attractive web applications, thought to share with my readers. Go through the list you will surely love it.
86 beautiful book cover designs. Because admit it – as designers, we almost definitely will judge books by their covers.
20 High Quality & Amazing Fonts for Designers
This article is a big collection of 20 high quality and amazing free fonts for doing creatives posters, t-shirts, web designs or logo designs.
Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration – #11
A series of web design inspiration collection published every week. We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration
22 Best Funky Fonts Free to download
After uploading Curvy Fonts, I thought I should upload some Funky Fonts for you. So here I’ve collected few Funky Fonts for you, you must be enjoying using these fonts.
Giveaway 2000 Business Cards By Bizcard.com
Today is the day for great contest on Themeflash.com. This one especially goes out to all people that want to win some business cards. Three lucky readers will be able to win.
89 Reasons Designers Should Start Mind-Mapping
For designers, mind mapping can help them in a vast array of ways that most haven’t even thought of. Below we’ve taken the time to outline how you (the designer) can benefit from mind-mapping.
100+ Stunning Apple Wallpapers
Design your Desktop with these stunning Apple Wallpapers.
10 Super-Specialized Wordperss Themes
Finally a new WordPress theme roundup, this time with uber specialized templates for all your specific needs.
Icon Library >> Illustrating a business briefcase in Windows 7 style
How to make a beautiful briefcase to make your applications even more appealing
WebNet Hosting offers Valuable Freebies to Clients
Anyone planning to sign up for a Miva Hosting account now has better reasons to be delighted
Seven Easy Ways to Have a Safe Online Transaction
A couple of years ago, Microsoft introduced the SSL EV (SSL Extended Validation). Unlike older SSL certificate, which any webmaster can easily get, it’s very difficult to earn an SSL EV certificate
Amazing wallpapers for developers desktop….Really amazing
Glowing Purple Neon Icons People Things
This glowing purple neon icons people things set includes a wide assortment of hand signs, pointers, and silhouettes (stop hand, hands, feet, eyes, face, man, woman, child … Etc)
We’ve designed some multicolored Twitter icons that are free to download and use for both personal and commercial use.
Now what stunned me the most in that moment was the fact that some logos of popular toy manufacturers look completely the same as 25 and more years ago!
7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers (with quick tutorials for each)
The community has made some amazing Chrome extensions. Here is the list of 7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers which are very easy to use for every day work.
Top 5 things that web designers should use in photoshop
Learn the top 5 things that every designer should know about Photoshop
15+ Amazing Project Management and Collaboration Tools
Are there any tools available for project management and collaboration. How these tools can be useful and what are the features. These are the things we are going to analyze in this article.
27 Best Websites For Free jQuery Tutorials
For keeping up with jQuery, we present 27 Best Websites For Free jQuery Tutorials
Learn how to design a dark business layout
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a sleek black business layout.
Learn how to design a dark business layout
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a sleek black business layout.
In this collection, we have collected 40 amazing graffitis from around the world. Please take a moment to share your favorites after you are done looking at them.
20 WP Themes with Cufón Font Replacement
Cufón tool allows you to embed any font in any web page. We selected 20 wordpress themes, which are rich in functionality and supports text replacement.
10 Reasons why you Choose PixelCrayons Markup Services
Though there are so many markup service providers in the market but PixelCrayons has emerged as a market leader due to its commitment and dedication towards quality and customer support.
jQuery for Complete Beginners: Part 1
This is the first part of a new series walking you through the process of learning the hugely popular JavaScript library jQuery from scratch.
Kill Procrastination – Tomorrow…
But first you need to commit to a life audit to forever change the way you do business. Will you share with me a few minutes of your precious time? I guarantee you’ll be glad you did.
7 Cool PHP Tutorials along with Free Downloadable Sources
Along with custom web designing; web programming plays an important role in the development of a fully functional business website.
New Flash CMS Template from FlashMoto for Any Type of Business
This Flash CMS design from FlashMoto is created in minimalist style and is characterized by the calm color scheme, the absence of cluttered forms, complex navigation, extreme simplicity and lightness.
Interview with German artist Erik Schumacher
Erik Schumacher is a 22-year-old student currently majoring in Physics at a German university. Since 2005 he has specialised in the fields of photomanipulation and….
Practical Uses for the Post-Thumbnail Function in WordPress 2.9
Before the ability to register post thumbnails in themes was introduced in WordPress 2.9, developers were forced to use the post metadata in order to display an image associated with a post.
A collection of Freelance Review’s favorite and most useful Twitter finds. Enjoy!
Collection of Excellent Fonts from DeviantART
For a good Web or Graphic Designer, font is one of the most imortant things. If you want to create a nice typography or any other you should always have a nice collection of font.
Amazing Paintings.. Umm Wait What?
The images below are the work of Alexa Meade who currently lives in D.C. Notice I said images, not paintings!
Ultimate Collection of Free Buttons in PSD Format
This Ultimate Collection of Free Buttons in PSD Format is a compilation of high quality buttons that you may find useful and unique.
CSS Box-Reflect – Reflection without JavaScript and Photoshop
With CSS and the support of webkit based browsers, there is the possibility to generate reflections of web page elements without images or javascript-plugins.
Top 10 Website for Textures Download
Here another top ten list, about texture resources this time. Have fun!
50 Photoshop Disasters that will make you say OMG!
I have showcased some of the worst Photoshop disasters and have also pointed out the exact flaw, just in case. So, Have fun, and learn something from these mistakes
Go Green – Showcase of 50 beautiful websites in green color theme
Green is considered as the most restful color for the human eyes. Studies show that a green environment can reduce fatigue…
50 Advanced CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
CSS3 is the future of html/css. It is a very powerful css framework. Today almost all modern browsers are CSS3 supported. In this article we will share some advanced css3 techniques and tutorials.
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Great job..I need to try so much from this list.
nice articles. Thanks for such a nice post
Thanks for the Free fonts. Loving your stuff!
Get resource. I’ll be bookmarking this post for furture research.
great work. i love these fresh ideas and for designers
If your client is clear in what they want and decides to ask you to do the work, i think per project sounds good here.
love the green designs perfect for todays political climate!
A great resource for designers – Thank you for sharing. I’ve found some great inspiration here for my projects. Bookmarked for sure!
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