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71 Star Wars Drawings and Illustrations
It appears that among the Star Wars fans there are some designers who recreated or made new characters. These talented artists have made these beautiful illustrations.
Creating an Animated CSS3 Horizontal Menu
Inspired by CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time from A List Apart and Using jQuery for Background Image Animations….
20 + tags Introduced in HTML5 you really should know
HTML 5 reduces development costs by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements, and how to recover from errors
Today we have gathered some business cards for inspiration.
40+ Free Blogger XML Templates for Your Next Blog
Free Blogger XML Templates for your Next Blog. Blogger Templates are free and you can download and as well as you see live Demo of all templates.
Four Most Unique Ubuntu Derivatives
There’s no doubt that Ubuntu has transformed the Linux landscape since its introduction six years ago.
Ten Biggest Web Design Mistakes
Having too many ads and images on a page will make your site distracting and unattractive.
You shouldn’t fill every empty space, having a white space or two will make a better overall impression
How to create Avatar character in Photoshop
With this tutorial you can easily transform yourself into a Navi. I used Photoshop CS3 to transform my boyfriend to Jake. I hope you will like this Avatar movie tutorial.
A showcase of the very best awful web designs
WordPress Posting Tools vs. Third-party Posting Tools
There are two option for making your blog post, the one is “New Post” in WordPress administration’s area,
How to Make a Beautiful Spring Butterfly Scenery
In this tutorial I will show you the steps I have used for making the Butterfly in the spring image.
Learn Photoshop: All of the Basics for Beginners
While there are plenty of great learning resources available online, it’s often difficult for beginners to know where to get started because everything seems to be scattered.
12 Easy Steps To Create a Cool Type Treatment
What makes the difference between an average design and a kick ass design? Concept, contrast…
Filmspiration – All The Oscar 2010 Nominated Animated Shorts + Bonus
In this Filmspiration installment we’re curating all the animated shorts nominated for the latest edition of the Oscar Movie Awards.
60 Best Websites To Download Free Fonts
I have put together a list of the 60 best websites which I believe offers the best free fonts download.
Neurosky-Open source API-Read and process data from your brain in ActionScript 3.0
Read and process data from your brain in ActionScript 3.0 with this open source API.
Html5 & CSS3 layout tutorials and templates
Experiment with the new powerful features of HTML5 & CSS3 and improve your coding skills by trying out these great tutorials and free layouts.
The most stylish Websites of February 2010
Our editor team has chosen the 4 most beautiful websites in FEBRUARY. We congratulate the winners – they get our CSSstyle.me GOLD DESIGN AWARD for good and creative design.
8 Common CSS Mistakes and How to Fix Them
CSS has the distinction of being one of a handful of web technologies that newcomers tend to learn by doing.
How Do I Implement @font-face?
What I’m going to show you is the most solid (not bulletproof!) method of @font-face implementation I personally find best and use within my projects.
The importance of backgrounds in portraiture
Almost every single compelling portrait owes its success to its background, for no real good portrait photo is successful without the right hint of a completing, well contrasting background.
50+ Best Logo Designs, Logo Design For Inspiration
You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration. 50+ Best Logo Designs, Logo Design For Inspiration to fuel your logo design inspiration.
101 Tips and Resources for Designers, Entrepreneurs and Marketers
A roundup of tips and resources for designers, entrepreneurs and marketers that 99designs.com recently shared via twitter @99designs.
How To Create A Custom Background For Twitter
First impressions are very important, even when it comes to twitter.Your background on twitter represents you and who you are.
Term “Dingbats” describes fonts that have symbols, shapes or illustrations in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.
Minimalist Approach to Creating Flash Websites
Sometimes wisely used extreme simplicity speaks even more, that is less is more or maybe even less but better. Yeah, what is at issue is the minimalist approach in Flash website creation.
Avactis released 1.9.1 version and SaaS solution, more info is here: http://phpmagazine.net/
Mind Boggling Photo Realistic Paintings by Glennray tutor
Glennray Tutor was gracious enough to give me an interview and a rare insight into how he creates his truly mind-boggling photo-realistic paintings!
Why Bloggers Need Analytics and Usability Testing
Many of you would probably wonder, “why usability testing”? We don’t have any affect on the design. Or do we? How can we use usability testing as bloggers to effectively write for blogs?
Resources #1: +270 Free Vintage Textures
Great collection of free vintage textures for your designs
Photography: Fantastic Cosplay Photos
Costume play or “Cosplay” is a type of performance art wherein the participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character which is often drawn from popular fiction in Japan.
11 useful free sandbox WordPress themes
The following blank WordPress themes will help you to create WordPress themes faster, so take a good look at it.
25+ Incredible 3ds Max Tutorials
In this article I have showcased some great 3ds Max Tutorial which are useful from beginner to expert level.
Icon tutorial: Speaker icon with Illustrator (win7 Style)
In this tutorial we will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create a speaker/music icon inspired in Windows 7 style.
Are you Mad as a Hatter? or Are you Alice? Amazing Alice in Wonderland Portrait Photography
I have put together a showcase of some of the best portrait photography taken by photographers of their own version of Alice, (and a few mad hatters tea parties.)
40+ Smart and Creative Print Advertisements for Inspiration
Print advertising is one of the best methods to publicize a company’s products and services.
40 rhino inspired logo designs
List of some nice rhinoceros designs used in branding. Companies from flooring to marketing, sound to design, transport to foundation, all have in common one of most greatest animal shape.
50 Excellent Tutorials for Web Development Using CSS3
In this modern web world we offering CSS3 techniques in these really useful tutorials with many exciting features and latest practice, after an detail research session about CSS3..
Must Read Inspirational Blogs & Websites for Creatives #5
Here we are again, showcasing some 10 cool new blogs & websites we come across lately aka Inspired Websites.
30 Logo Designs with Creative Use of Negative Space
This post brings together 30 examples of logos that creatively make use of negative space.
18 Outdoor Banner Display Samples for Inspiration
Today, we’ll help you conceptualize a banner design for your next event with 18 outdoor banner display samples that will definitely inspire creativity.
How Your Network Components Can Help Hackers to Break Into Your Network?
After hackers gain entry to your building, they’ll search the computer rooms and other areas for an easy access to your network
[Code Snippet] CSS : Hover and Press Button
You must be familiar with css button with hovered and pressed-style, we always meet them around the internet world with ease. Fortunately, we can make them with a very simple css technique.
Tumblr: An Introduction Guide For Microblogging
Tumblr is set to become the blogging tool of 2010 with its massive growth, yet still many people don’t fully understand what Tumblr does, or how it works.
Create Surreal Photo Manipulation With A Man Without Face
In this tutorial we will learn how to create selection, adjusting color, and adding depth to image getting beautiful outcome in easy to follow steps.
97 Best Practices of Pricing Page Designs
Here are some of the best pricing page designs out there that use these principles.
Large and small offices, which inspire creativity and imagination.
22 Effective Print Advertising Poster Design Inspirations
22 effective print advertising examples to provide ideas on what sort of advertising passes the bar in execution and appeal.
22 Effective Print Advertising Poster Design Inspirations
22 effective print advertising examples to provide ideas on what sort of advertising passes the bar in execution and appeal.
15 Vintage Car Posters: Automobile Advertisement Inspiration
15 vintage car and automobile posters from different decades and design eras for design inspiration.
Free Portfolio Template for Download
Photoshop is an awesome tool for the designers. No matter you are beginner of expert of Photoshop, so i thought it would be a great idea to share some freebies.
SunGard, a pioneer in software solutions acquires Hosting 365. Hosting 365 is an Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company.
How to Create a Space Girl Photo Manipulation
In today’s tutorial I will show you how to create a space photo manipulation by mixing stars and different Photoshop techniques. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!
Free inevitable utilities for Bloggers
We all know that blogging need a lot of tricks and tactics. Visitors and customers are our main objectives. Professional bloggers must use premium utilities for various applications.
Papierkrieg (paper war) by Makaio
The two-minute short film ‘Papierkrieg’ tells a story about two kids, arguing about whose paper plane is the best. Everything in the children’s imagination seems to become real and …
At first sight I couldn’t believe that Nissan could do something like this! After the elegantly done Qashqai how come Nissan could venture into something so controversial looking.
Truly stunning landscape photography by Katarina Stefanovi?
The intensely saturated colors with extraordinary compositions, breathtaking sceneries, terrains with all sorts of turns and twists,and magical lighting sending viewers into a fantasyland.
35 Inspirational Photo Manipulation Tutorials
Time for some more learning!!! Photo manipulation is a technique of editing the images so as to produce a kind of illusion or deception.
FocalBlade for Adobe Photoshop 1.07 – Photoshop Plugin download – free
FocalBlade lets you sharpen your photos for screen display and print as well as produce great looking blur, soft focus and glow effects. Windows&MacOS X.
We like to share some funny pictures for iPad. A lot of people disappointed after iPad introduced and created some funny pictures and illustrations about it.
25 JQuery Menus Ready For Download
JQuery is one of the most interesting things that you can find on a site. Starting from examples like the ones below you can create impressive menus, that people will admire when looking at your site
Most Fantastic Free WordPress Themes for Gallery
I have collected fonts, which I think is very beautiful and fits perfect for professional web design.
Web Promotion Tips from Brand Identity Designer David Airey
In today’s YTD post we discuss the importance of web promotion for graphic designers with David Airey, the famous brand identity designer, blogger and internet marketer extraordinaire.
Captchas: The Anti-User Experience? Gripes and Alternatives
An article about a captchas place on today’s websites and some more user-friendly alternatives to using one.
How To Organize Information And Improve Your Design
One of the most important decisions you make as a web designer is how to organize information. How information is organized greatly affects how people respond to your design and interact with it.
30 Incredible Epic Movie Posters & Related Trends
In this post, we will look at a collection of 30 excellent epic movie posters and examine some of he trends that exist between them.
We blame clients too often. We blame them for lack of understanding, for not meeting deadlines, and for being upset with additional charges. The reality is the client is our responsibility.
Keeping a keen eye out – Design in the real world
Look for inspiration in sources from the real world by really looking at the world with new eyes.
5 Online Tricks to Publicizing an Event
Publicizing an event or promotion can be an overwhelming experience. On top of the logistical planning and organizational details, there is the most intimidating task of “getting word out.”
10 Things To Consider When Choosing A Premium WordPress Theme
This article highlights ten things you need to take into consideration when purchasing a premium WordPress theme.
Jquery CSS Tutorial for Zooming Images
Jquery CSS Tutorial for Zooming Images with demos and source
Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off.
How To Create A Very Attractive Vector Butterfly
In this tutorial IT will show you how to make a vector butterfly using the blending mode from transparency box and the gradient mesh.
50 Terrifying 3D Monsters To Make You Shiver
Mindblowing collection of 50 3D models impersonated in monsters, trolls, warriors and demons.
Freebies-Stock Textures Part 2
Whether creating a grungy website or designing an event flyer, using the right textures and photos are key.
An Underwater Content Box Design Using Photoshop
In this tutorial It will teach you how to create an underwater content box. You will make it appear as if the content box fell into the water using stock photos and different techniques.
Showcase of Well Designed Websites
In this showcase you’ll find 30 examples of beautiful web designs. Hope you’ll find this collection inspirational and useful.
Austin Powers is an action-comedy film series that was written, produced and starred actor Mike Myers. The movies are based on a British spy’s heroic quest to bring the villain Doctor Evil to justice.
Create Reusable Button Classes with CSS and Background Images
A great tutorial on reusing CSS classes for speed, efficiency and some cool effects.
HOW TO: Set Up a Q&A Website in Minutes – the Best Options Reviewed & Compared
A recent trend in blogging that’s going to be mainstream very soon is to have your very own Q&A website related to the same topic your blog is about.
300+ Essential WordPress Hacks, Tools and Frameworks that Will Change the Way You Develop Themes
A special collection of the most vital, helpful and game-changing hacks, tools and frameworks for helping you achieve quality and professionalism in your themes.
The web is filled with a lot of resources for freelancers to start and manage their own business. There are tools to keep track of time, billing, invoices, and where to look for jobs.
Gossimer Plans For Changes In Its AGP Policy
Gossimer, a full-featured, fast growing web hosting firm has announced a change in its Add Grace Period (AGP) policy to come in effect from March 11, 2010.
Check all uncheck all and invert checkboxes using jquery
To check all and uncheck all checkboxes using jquery is real fun. I tried making for my current project and shared with you
Creative Photography by Cody Hamilton
Creative photography by Cody Hamilton, husband and father whose passion is for photography.
45 Creative Examples in Footer Design
Here are 45 examples of creative footers in web design.
Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers
The beauty of using vectors for header design and showcase of 38 websites with awesome vectorized or Illustrated headers.
How to avoid your Creativity Burnout
I have shared my insights on what I think is the best way to avoid your creativity burnout. When I say burnout, I actually mean the dry spell of ideas that haunts every designer.
Web design – Website design Sydney Australia
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Sneaking into Future: 25 Ultra Modern Websites Using HTML5
Take a look and explore the code for an insight into the future of the internet. Be warned, however, few display properly in Internet Explorer. Here comes the 25 websites built using HTML5
How To Make Cool Icons For Your Social Media Buttons With Adobe Photoshop
Take your time to read on my Adobe Photoshop tutorial on making cool icons for your social media buttons and you can also download the free icon pack at the end.
40 Fresh New High Quality Icon Sets Created In 2010
It’s easy to find good icons sets, but to find fresh new high quality sets can be a tough challenge therefore within this post we have collected 40 high quality fresh icon sets
Free High Quality Premium Apple IPAD Icons
This is Icon stet of is Apples brand new latest product the Apple Ipad. The Icon set feature four high premium icons for you to enjoy for person use and commercial use.
50 Freely Available Professional Fonts For Your Designs
Being designers we usually need more than just the usual font collection. Many typefaces are made available online for free it can be very helpful for designers to build up their type arsenal.
50 Classy iPhone Application Websites
iPhone application websites have beautiful and inspiring design. These sites are professional.
In this post you will find 50 beautiful designed websites to showcase iPhone applications.
How to Create Steel Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to create create steel text effect. This is very simple and quite effective tutorial.
Buytemplates.net – Buy Web Templates of The Best Quality
One place where you can get everything for setting up your web site is Buytemplates.net. You can select your best template from a collection of pre designed templates
Artist of the week – Kirsi Salonen
Kirsi Salonen is originary from Finland, an illustrator and a concept artist addicted to fantasy art, digital painting, and character design. Inspired by poetry, mythology and…
35 Graphic Design Wallpapers Featuring Creative Typography
As tribute to typography and designers, here are 35 typographic graphic design wallpapers. You do not have to be a graphic designer to appreciate them.
Eco-friendly Printing With Pencil Stubs | LOOKS GOOD Design Magazine
This is a printer that runs completely on pencil stubs to print its documents – absolutely revolutionary with no use of ink cartridges at all.
Paperless Invoicing – The Need of the Hour
Already there is an increasing concern about protecting our planet from the human carnage that triggered the ecological disorder and consequently resulting in the problem of ‘Global Warming’.
21 Mini Square Business Cards Examples
Square business cards instantly stand out because of their shape and size. Here are 21 examples of well-designed square business cards for inspiration.
5 New Free Photoshop Brushes: Best of March Week 2
Here are 5 sets of free Photoshop brushes under various categories. There are spring-themed brushes, smoke and fire brushes, watercolor brushes, etc.
Amazing Cosplay Photography Collection
Cosplay put simply is short for ‘costume play’ and stems form the Japanese love for Manga and Anime cartoons.
Faded Mauve Vintage Photoshop Patterns
Today’s web treat is a free combo pack of large (1024px * 1024px) (740px * 740px) seamless Faded Mauve Vintage textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop .
Music Which Gets My Design Juices Flowing
When we are all working most of us will either prefer a quiet working environment free from distractions and loud noises.
Create a dream land in Photoshop and learn some useful photo manipulation skills along the way.
110 Excellent and Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design or Project
In this post we present a 110 Excellent and Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design or Project that are available for free download and (sometimes only for personal) use.
The 5 Cs of Hiring a Freelance Designer
Have you all heard of the 5Cs? The 5C’s of Credit are a reference to the major elements of a lender’s analysis when considering a request for a loan. Well, how about the 5Cs in a designer context
46 Astonishing Examples Of Digital Paintings
To digitally paint your sketches or illustrations lots of different tools are used. Photoshop and tablets are most important tools to make digital paintings.
Steps to Becoming a Myspace & Twitter Designer
These are tips and techniques to market yourself as a freelance designer for these social networks
Flashmint : 5 Winners to Win a Premium WordPress Templates
Hello everyone. It’s time for some cool giveaway. Today, we will be giving away 5 High Quality Premium WordPress Templates courtesy of Flashmint.
It’s 2010 and the old trends of web design are pretty much rolling out. With a whole new crop of designers springing up this year, new design is sure to follow.
It’s not about succeeding, it’s about trying something new
Using CSS3 and HTML5 – it’s not about always getting it right
16 Top Useful iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers
16 useful apps for graphic designers that will help you learn, organize, brainstorm, or research different aspects of your design work.
180+ Free Deviantart Vintage Style Photoshop Brushes
Here is a compilation of some of the best vintage Photoshop brushes on Deviantart and they are free for you to enjoy.
5 Fresh Navigation Menu Design Tutorials
Provide simple and straightforward navigation menus so that every visitor will know how to get round your site and visit your site next time.
Useful Tooltips Tutorials and jQuery Plugins
The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it
Letterpress Text Effect Using Photoshop and CSS
So here today we will learn how to achieve Letterpress effect with photoshop and also with Css
Create a cute and simple hippo face in Illustrator
Hi there. In the following tutorial you’ll learn to create a simple hippo face. It’s made with simple tool like the Ellipse Tool, the Rectangle Tool and the Rounded Rectangle Tool.
Brand refresh for Chiquita Banana
Chiquita Banana’s rebrand is so cool that when I first saw it I thought it was some student project.
14 Beautiful Illustrations by Dani Kaulakis
Armed with photoshop and a ton of natural ability, Dani Kaulakis makes illustrating look like a walk in the park.
40 Amazing Minimalist Website Designs For Your Inspiration
The best part about minimalism in web design is that it comes in many styles, colors and sizes, but they always have the same goal in mind – saying the most while saying the least.
Weekly Web Design Inspiration #44
A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week
Wallpaper of the Week #3 – Amoeba
This weeks wallpaper, Amoeba, is fairly simple yet inspiring. It uses an excellent colour scheme to create a relaxing ambiance; perfect for graphic and web designers.
11 Must See Fire Effect Tutorials In Photoshop
One of the most popular and attractive effects that you can add to your photograph using Photoshop is the fire effect In this article,
25 Ultimate Useful PSD to HTML Tutorials
At the start of a web project many designers find it extremely useful, and timesaving, to create page mockups in Photoshop or Illustrator. This is an opportunity to play around with ideas, try..
Saturday Showcase: I Love Typography #3
Here I showcase a select number of works which I have found to be inspiring and have great typographical flair.
Best Inspiration Posts in Jan and Feb 2010
Know we are going to present Best Inspiration Post in Jan and Feb 2010 only for those who are really inspiring with our post.
When it comes to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Link Building is the easiest thing to do badly and the hardest thing to do properly.
25 Popular Brands Using WordPress
WordPress is a worldwide used blogging platform and is becoming more popular everyday, so popular… [...]
Ultimate list of Drupal grid theme resources
Interested in theming Drupal with CSS grids? Here’s a huge list of modules, resources, free themes, and tutorials to get started.
Incredible Examples of Superman Illustrations
I am sure many designers will agree with me when I say that comic illustrations are amazing, and I never get tired of looking at them. The core of a good comic….
11 Contextual Ad Alternatives To Google AdSense
Kicked out of AdSense for all the wrong reasons? Denied from joining the Ad emperor for bleak reasons? Clearly the corporate Ad Empire for content sensitive web advertising is ruled by Google AdSense.
How to Create Super Fast Retweet, Delicious and Facebook Share Widgets
How to create custom retweet, delicious save and facebook share widgets (with share / save count in plain text) using PHP, so your pages load with lightening fast speed.
Fashion Photography by Txema Yeste
Txema Yeste, is one of the Spanish photographers with the stronger capacity to tell stories.
60 Ultimate Round-Up of Free WordPress Themes
WordPress is the most popular Opensource Blogging tool in the web. It is very easy to install. It comes with lots of themes also.
Bokeh Effect in Web Design: Showcase, Tutorials and Resources
In this article you will find inspirational showcase of beautiful websites with bokeh effect. Also you’ll be able to learn bokeh effect techniques by checking detailed tutorials.
Can Back flip and Devour Survive?
Even though iphone is ruling the world of smart phones, for some customers just entering the game Smartphone means some basic functionalities and pretty design.
24 Beautiful Web Designs Across the Color Spectrum
Here are 24 beautiful examples of web designs that feature a specific color across the color spectrum.
Freebies-Stock Textures Part 1
Whether creating a grungy website or designing an event flyer, using the right textures and photos are key.
Best Premium PhotoGallery WordPress Themes
If you are a photographer or graphic artist and you want to share your art works then personal blog would be an ideal solution.
15 Creative examples of Transparent Screens + Tutorial
One of the visions of the future is to build a completely transparent screen for laptops. This has been around the news for quite some time.
Animal photo manipulation Photoshop tutorial
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a new species of birds. The idea came to me after watching my cat trying to catch little birds and failing every time. This will be an easy tutorial
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First to comment! Great post! Definitely Getting Bookmarked
Great post!
These articles are really great for designers as well as developers.
These are somewhat help full for Facebook designers but I am expecting some article especially for Facebook applications/games designers.
Regards
Amazing list. Thanks for share.
Nicely Done. Long and useful collection.. thanks for sharing..
@Beth, thanks Beth you’re welcome!
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