This is yet another large round-up of all the great articles readers and other blog owners have been submitting on tripwire magazine over the last couple of days. You will find great inspiration for your designs, tools, giveaways, awesome photos etc. Hope you will find useful resources below and help submitting good articles if you find some.
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Free Smoke Effect Photoshop Brushes Sets Download
Download Free Smoke Effect Photoshop Brushes Sets
Drupal is the one of the very few content management system which earned good reputation in short span of time. It has got a wide user base now. Drupal is a kind of complete software solution that all…
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Giveaway from My Postcard Printing
Today we are giving our readers a chance to get 100 4×6 Flat Postcards, which are great for advertising and promoting your business, thanks to the amazing people over at My Postcard Printing.
Free Smoke Effect Photoshop Brushes Sets Download
Free Smoke Effect Photoshop Brushes Sets Download
Authenticity. Best Design Book Ever
It gets to the point with a memorable and gripping case study. If you have a child, it is likely on the bookshelf. You just may not have realized it was for you as well.
2.5 Ways To Show Category Images As Post Thumbnails
Learn a couple few ways or so, for how to show thumbnails for each category as your post thumbnail images. This is a comprehensive explanation on 2.5 ways you can do this easily, less-easily, and much
How To Use Space In Your Designs
Space is perhaps the most important tool for any visual designer. It plays a role in grids and typography and is a component of so many different design principles. When we learn to see space and lear
Pricing Page And Plan Comparison Tables: Tips, Tricks, Advices and Showcases
Pricing Pages and Product comparison tables are being used in modern sites. Here, we share tips and examples of them.
10 Useful Time Saving Google Chrome Extensions
Google Chrome is growing very popular nowadays due to its speed. There are a lot of extensions as well to make it more better. In this post, we will focus more on the extensions that will help web use
20+ Sites To Help You Find Your Next Job
Are you looking for a new position or a new contract? Here is a list of some great sites for you to check out to find your next quality assurance job/contract.
I have now compiled a collection of short videos that capture the humorous side of typography.
This texture set includes 9 HQ Free Wood Textures. You can use them for free for personal and commercial use, but you cant sell them and cleam them as yours. Have fun using them.
3 Simple Ways for Bloggers to Make Money
Making money as a blog ger can be as be elu sive and costly. Here are 3 sim ple ways to do it for free.
Pink elegant abstract seamless backgrounds
This time the name of the game is pink! We prepared 14 seamless patterns made of beautiful abstract elegant lines in blue and green color.
Top Design Blogs – The Road to Popularity
A panel of top design blog creators discuss their paths to popularity.
Freebie: Very Rare antique patterns
This is a set of very rare antique patterns. These kinds of patterns were used in various civilizations all over Asia particularly in temple architecture and in building palaces. These kind of pattern
Fresh Freebies, Vector Packs & Tshirt designs from Designious.com
We’ve been really busy in the last month, creating fresh vectors for you to use in your work! The Gargoyles, Dark Gothic, Birds, Retro Girls, Skulls, T-shirt designs and free Photoshop brushes await
Mega Collection Of Cheatsheets for Designers And Developers
This post contains more than 100 cheatsheets and reference cards for topics such as CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Color/Fonts/SEO, CMS, Softwares, Browsers and OS.
Astonishing Drawings & Paintings By Leonardo da Vinci
He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
Be Inspired! (By Everything) 01
Be inspired is all about finding the best design inspiration out there and bringing it all together and giving it a context, these posts are a slight evolution on the ones I originally started on my B
When, Why & How: One Page Website Designs
One-pagers won’t work for all sites, obviously, but they can work for more than you imagine. The benefits to a well-designed one page website include potentially lower cost to the client, high usabi
10 Best Practices to speed up your website
One of the main issues on the Internet is, still, website loading speed.
We can measure the importance of this factor from the fact that Google has recently decided to add website
loading speed as
Adobe Photoshop: 40+ Examples of .PSD Files and Tutorials
It is always a pleasure experimenting out different things, same is the case with Adobe Photoshop. This takes you to the new avenues, exploring out something and incorporating that new thing into your
85+ Fresh and Beautiful Minimal Website Design Inspiration
Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of superfluous elements in one’s own work. It’s applied in art, architecture, print work, and in web design. There is someth
Tutorial: WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types
With the recent release of WordPress 3.0, I thought it would be good to show off one on its best features, custom post types.
8 Best iPad Apps (Free and Paid)
It has been three months since Apple released its game-changing tablet device and it is almost universally accepted now that it was a successful launch. The last numbers we read were after two months
Artist of the Week – Chatchanok Wongvachara
This weeks artist is Chatchanok Wongvachara from Bangkok, Thailand. She is a freelance painter, graphic designer, illustrator and photographer.
45 Sets of High-Quality Adobe Illustrator Brushes
One of the main thing that I like about Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator is their brushes. Brushes makes the work of a designer really easy. We all know that their are a lot of brushes available
100 Stunning Infrared Photography
In this collection, we’ll look at 100 stunning infrared photograph. Infrared photographs have contrasting color effects as you will see. An example of Infrared photograph would be to show trees with w
The Simple Photoshop CS5 Cheat Sheet
Here’s a Photoshop cheat sheet that focuses on important, useful functions, stuff that advanced users need to get their work done.
30 Awesome 3D Robots Illustrations
If you are looking for inspirational 3d Robot designs , here is the list of 30 are wesome examples of 3D robots illustrations
Enjoy!
Top 10 Online Form Building Tools
You may want to have a contact form, a survey or an order form for your website. However if your not a programmer with experience you will have some trouble to build your form! This is a collection of
How to Create a Tumblr Theme (Code Structure)
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Marketing with the Power of Humor
How small businesses can harness the power of humor and brand personality to create marketing buzz for their business.
How to Create a Stylish Sports Car Dashboard in Illustrator
Create a Stylish Sports Car Dashboard in Illustrator
The Evolution Of The World Cup Logo From 1930 To 2010
Its pretty much football fever all around the world so over on Creative Nerds we decided to take a look back from 1930 to 2010 of some historic world cup football logos to see how over the world cup c
This simple red square icons signs set includes a wide assortment of health and hazard signs (radiation, biohazard, no smoking, recycle, hospital, Rx … Etc) as well as road and railroad signs (stop,
How to Create a Stylish Sports Car Dashboard in Illustrator
Stylish Sports Car Dashboard in Illustrator
12 Ways You’re Scaring Away Your Readership
There is a bunch of reasons why you lost your readers. This is a list of some reasons why your readers never come back. Blogging tips to gain more readers.
Shopping for a new lens: Lens Minimum Focusing Distance
Hey guys. This is the third post in Shopping for a new lens article series. Last time we talked about Lens Aperture, which you can check out right here if you haven’t already done so. Today we will
30+ Substantial Firefox Addons for Web Developer
Here is a very useful list of Firefox Addons for Web developer. Today we give you ultimate list of most important Firefox Addons for Web developer. Totally is this list we include more than 30 extreme
Do you a need new SEO plan for HTML5?
A well-researched article about the impact of HTML5 on search engine optimization.
Get Inspired: 35+ Warm VS Cool Color Website Designs
I’m not going to get in too deep with illustrations or typeface, in this post but color. Some people classify websites from dark to bright website designs.
Become Social Networking Guru With 45 Handy Twitter Tools
Master Twitter – find more targeted followers, track visitors – who is following, not following, deadbeat users, clean your account and even more, check it now!
Make Nice Captions Using Image Alternative Tag
There are many jQuery plugins that give designers an array of options to use in order to make very nice captions. We can’t argue with that, and what I am going to do here is not much different, but
Learn various codes of html, css, javascript. linus quickly.
This site is all about various codes of html, css, javascript, linux, ubuntu etc. Here every codes are described with detail examples. This is an excellent site for beginners to learn various codes qu
50+ Tutorials, Inspiration and Informing Articles on Design This Week
Here we have a bumper edition of all the great articles submitted to our community news, with over fifty articles being showcased.
20+ Uniquely Cool jQuery Plugins and Tutorials
Here are 22 plugins that don’t simply do the same thing, but do things differently, and are exciting rather than boring. Enjoy!
Download 1100 Photoshop Gradients
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3ds Max is a strong, flexible and professional 3D animation rendering and modeling software. It is mostly used by video game developers, design visualization specialists and architectural visualizatio
Weekly Web Design Inspiration #58
A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week
Funky Chips Free WordPress Theme
Funky Chips Free WordPress theme is an awesome theme for WordPress, widget ready and xhtml compliant.
Slidax Free WordPress theme is a multi column theme that supports inbuilt logo upload facility and ajax manu collapse and expand.
44 Ultimately Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
The guaranteed helpful Adobe Illustrator tutorials for beginners and advanced users of Adobe Illustrator.
Great Backup Plugins & services & Online Storages For WordPress
Today WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools on the Internet. If you have a blog powered by WordPress you need to take regular backup of your WordPress database and your essential files (
WordPress 3.0 Released: The Top 7 New Features
WordPress 3.0 incorporates quite a few new features, including custom post types, a URL shortener, and a new theme. Though there isn’t as many new features as previous WordPress releases, it is help
15 Stunning WordPress Themes which Prices are Underestimated
In this post we want to show you 15 stunning wordpress themes from the Theme Forest marketplace. We think that all these templates should cost much more because…
A Compilation of Free Apple Wallpapers
Here is a compilation of 36 Free Apple Wallpapers. Feel free to download the wallpaper of your choice…
Five Retro Web Design Elements We’re Glad To See Gone
While the occasional dark turn has happened, the design changes the internet has made have largely been positive. These five page elements may not be common on the internet today, but they were once u
Photoshop Tutorial: Make a Realistic Football from Scratch
This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic football in Photoshop.
Inspiration kick: 60 mundane subjects photographed beautifully
We all struggle for inspiration and creativity, and we –as human beings- tend to take so many things around us for granted. We might see, but not observe. We might glimpse, but not appreciate. And
Today is number fourteen in our Web Interface showcase!
As it seemed quite popular, I will be leaving my thoughts and suggestions to all layouts and logotypes featured each week with adding a few c
Prototype does what a “framwork” is supposed to do. It is a layer between the HTML dom objects the developer and functionality is done through a set of classes.
Gradient Rounded Corner Generator
Online tool to generate rounded corner using only one image. Support gradient, border and antialiased.
RAGING FIRE: Fire Textures, Tutorials, Art, Brushes, Patterns, Fonts, and Icons
Here are all the fire textures, tutorials, brushes, fonts, icons, and art you could ever want and will ever need…
Quick Tutorial on How to Create a Website with WordPress
The website that you’re looking at is installed on WordPress ussing the cPanel. In this quick tutorial I’m going to guide you step-by-step on how to create a similar web page using the WordPress b
Quick Tutorial on How to Create a Website with WordPress
The website that you’re looking at is installed on WordPress ussing the cPanel. In this quick tutorial I’m going to guide you step-by-step on how to create a similar web page using the WordPress b
60 Great Website for Design Inspiration
I love art and design. So I go to many sites to get inspiration before I start a big project, especially if I’m having a bit of designers block. I get a lot of questions about where I draw my influe
25+ Refreshing Flash Website Designs in Green colour
Flash enabled designers and developers to deliver rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and an impressive visual experience. Good Flash-sites do not require too much bandwidth
Communication Arts Magazine Giveaway & Typography Competition
For the new Freebie Friday edition we’ve teamed up with our friends from Communication Arts Magazine in order to offer you a one-year subscription to their Premium Online Content, which includes gal
How Much Does A Small Business Website Cost?
How much a professional small business website SHOULD typically cost. Good guidelines/ advice for both web professionals and people seeking to have a professional website developed.
Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration No. 23
Here goes another series of web design inspiration collection we publish every week. Stay tuned with the latest trends in website design …
60+ Creative Music Logos For Your Inspiration
The stunning use of typography, color scheme, and the rocking idea behind these logos are very inspirational and reflect the true sense of music and rhythm.
13 Great And Free WordPress Themes You Might Not Know!
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40+ Cool Typographic Logo Designs
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What a Client Must Include in a Design Agreement
A write up on what a design client must include in their agreement.
Fresh illustrations for your art: 170 Seasonal, 21 Business
We’ve been really busy in the last month, creating new vectors for you to download and enjoy. 170 Seasonal and 21 Business illustrations categories have been added to our large collection, all top
15 Stunning Motion Graphics and Flash Design Showreels
In this post you can find a collection of original, sophisticated and extremely beautiful showreels belonging to the well-known media agencies, interactive studios, motion graphic and Flash animation
Single Layer Worn Matte Silver Text Effect, Layer Style & Icons
Today’s web treat is a worn matte silver combo pack complete
Ordinary Tips For Better Summer: Brighten Your Life
Just a few simple tips for better summer – remember real values of your life and enjoy them fully! Let’s fulfill these tasks!
‘Thelonious’: WordPress 3.0 Released
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35+ Origami inspired fashion designs
Origami is the art of folding any type of materials to create sculptural designs. The origami folding techniques are also used in the fashion industry.
In this article I reconstruct my understanding of color by looking into its origins. I endeavored to think about color as a concept unto itself, and not be burdened by its ties to a specific field or
The Essential Guide to WordPress 3.0 Custom Taxonomies
WordPress makes it possible for theme developers to create their own taxonomies. This is what we are going to cover today. We will learn how to work with Custom WordPress taxonomies.
Vector Silhouettes of Girls. 30+ HQ detailed shapes of standing women. Free for personal & commercial purposes.
20 Best Photoshop Video Tutorials
A world of video has descended on the web in recent years. Here we’ll highlight 20 of the best video tutorials covering Photoshop tools, tricks, and technique.
Roundup of the Best Papervision 3D Tutorials
Papervision 3D is an awesome technology! With its help we can create impressive things. But it’s rather complicated. Fortunately, there are many professionals, who are not only great at Papervision
115 Eye Catching Business Cards for Design Inspirations
We have brought a beautiful collection of business cards which will provide a great design inspiration to many artistic graphic designers, by giving a different modern touch they can present a magica
The huge checklist: 341 tests to make your site perfect!
It’s sometimes difficult to know if a site is good or not. You paid a web designer to create a website but you have no idea if he did a good job or not? You are a web designer yourself, and you want t
Create a Bubble Text Effect in Illustrator
Hi there. Here you can learn to create a vector bubble and a bubble text effect. First, you need the Ellipse, Rectangle, Rectangular Grid and Twirl tools plus some basic effects. Later, for the text e
Camouflage Photography in the Animal World: 50 Astonishing Photos
This post will exemplify the camouflage technique, even in the underwater world. Prepare to train your eyes for spotting the animals and their amazing disguises!
Another 20 Unique Logo Designs
We present to you with 20 new and interesting logos for your design inspiration.
Dairy.com is an online diary application which satisfies all your diary needs. It’s a place where you can place all your pictures, editorials, videos, contacts. You can also share your views and dis
Hi Everyone, Today I have a great news to share with all with you, which is that “Wordpress 3.0? is released.
15 snail inspired logo designs
This article contain an inspirational showcase of some logos what use the snail like principal element or icon. Despite of its reputation of slowness, the snail shape / element is used in corporate id
A Roundup of Gadget Design Tutorials for Photoshop
Several tutorials for creating shiny gadget designs for the avid fans of the products of modern technology.
14 Creative Café Menu Design Examples
Creative menu design examples to complement a café’s peacefully stimulating atmosphere.
CodeRunStudio – An IDE for Web Applications
CodeRunStudio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that was designed for the cloud which enables you to develop, debug and deploy web applications using browser and can be used along with (o
Color your Black and White Photos Easily
Learn how to color Black and White photos in a few quick and easy steps.
How to Make Money Off of Your Graphic Design
Not only can you make some money off your rejected work, but you also might earn some new business!
10 Free Network Security Tools
Network security tools provide physical and information security to all paths, links, and databases of your network. These tools thus help you protect and safeguard your network security from spams, v
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This is one amazing list. Thank you so much for sharing.
Whoa, that is one long list of tutorials and resources! I really like the ones that talk about the theory behind the designs – like the one on using whitespace.
This is an incredible list of resources, thanks!
Really good resources. Thanks for taking the time to put together all of these links.
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