This is a breathtaking collection of highly relevant fresh articles for web designers and developers. All the articles have been submitted by our readers and other blog owners over the last couple of days. You will find great inspiration for your designs, tools, giveaways, awesome photos, coding tips etc. Hope you will find useful resources below and help submitting good articles if you find some.
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The 50 Most Brilliant Celebrity Caricatures
A collection of 50 outstanding caricatures of celebrities from present and past times, that will make you laugh or stare in astonishment.
How to Create Glass Effect Text in Photoshop
In this tutorial we will create a glass effect on editable text using only blending modes. We will also work with gray tones, so the text will grab its colors from the background and adjustment layers
35 Hottest VirtueMart Templates
Check out VirtueMart Templates from different template providers. Get inspired or even find a web design for your online store.
Graphic and Web designer for women
They are web designer, graphic designer, illustrator, inclusive …
Each has its own style and specialties, however they all have one thing in common: a passion for their profession.
I’ll let you
What’s New? Its Joomla 1.6 Beta 6!
Joomla! is a content management system which is gaining popularity and massive user base at a very fast pace. The reason being its ease-of-use and extensibility of the features. On the top of it, it i
10+ Fabulous iPad Applications For Web Designers
I have great news for all web designers who have iPad. There are fabulous iPad applications out there that you can use for web designing. So if you are fed up of working on your desk then try out thes
I recently discovered a few apps that make simple iPhone pictures look beautiful through various effects, lens types, and even zoom options. No fancy camera? Just snapping pictures with your iPhone?
Presenting an HTML5 Interactive Infographic
A recently launched experimental interactive infographic featuring the popular design community Dribbble. The site makes use of HTML5 markup and some advanced CSS3 effects.
Burger King vs KFC vs McDonald’s Print Advertising
We will concentrate our attention on the print advertising that they’ve done over the last years and I’m not referring here to the usual ads for a product “buy the new burger for 3$” or someth
Art of portrait photography | Tamás Somoskeöy
Today we’re appreciating the art of portrait photography with young artist and photographer Tamás Somoskeöy from Pécs, Hungary.
Tamás started getting into the art of photography late in 2006.
Awesome & Brilliant Illustrations By Mark Fredrickson
We are going to present the brilliant and funny illustrations by Mark Fredrickson. Mark Fredrickson is one of the finest and talented Artists from Tucson, Arizona.
Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Photoshop Brushes
These 135 cloud brushes can handle just about any sky. All are free and usable in Adobe Photoshop.
51 Free Must Have Apps For Your Android Phone
Android is an operating system for mobile devices such as cellular phones, tablet computers and netbooks. Android was developed by Google and based upon the Linux kernel and GNU software. It was initi
High Quality Chinese Cloud Photoshop Brushes v.2
13 brushes, size 2500 px each (except two are only about 1500 px), so you can use them for large scale pictures.
Is CSS a viable option for a web designer that only does small sites, or using tables just fits the bill? I remember back in circa 2003 I’ve did my first site using Dreamweaver. Being a marketing gu
What Can Web Designers Learn from Business People?
The best way to learn how to run a business is to read the stories of successful businesses. So recently, I’ve been reading some books by Harvard Business Press
5 Firefox Add-Ons For Your Web Analytics Needs
Firefox is one of the most popular browsers in the world. The secret behind this popularity is thousands of small apps available with firefox which is also free.
A Web Designers Guide to Information Architecture
Web Design and information architecture go together like peas and carrots. Whether you have an information architect to work with or you are flying solo, a basic understanding of the interaction betwe
Top 35+ Amazing Sand Sculptures Of The World
Sand Sculptures are beautiful sources for creativity and inspiration. Today we present the 35+ amazing and unbelievable sand sculptures of the world. So check it out.
Reasons Why You should not Use Automated Tool for PSD to HTML/XHTML Conversion
There are many who think about using an automated tool/plug-in, for converting their PSD to HTML/XHTML format, as an economical medium.
Web Localisation is Important… but Why and How?
Today, Internet is the fastest and the most reliable source to reach out to the international market. Participating in the international trade, and that too just one click away, avails you to incur ma
Magento CE Version 1.4.1.1 Stable Released
Magento is a leading eCommerce platform. It is gaining popularity and recognition amongst people at a very fast pace
How do Google and other Search Engines rank your site? Want to get yours higher in SEs? Let’s learn SEO techniques from SEO articles with Seofreetools.org, or let our search engine optimization servic
Getting Real Feedback For Your New Design, Usability Testing
Here we’ve have collected various feedback, collaboration tools/websites as well as several sites offering you to create polls really easy – ask in Twitter, Facebook and get responses immediately!
A Crash Course in Creating Campaigns with Google Adwords
In this article, I have listed down the important & most frequently use terms in Google Adwords, which you need to get familiar while using Google Adwords.
We have collected here 70 really cool and high quality grunge fonts for our readers to be able to estimate the esthetic and practical value of such fonts for multiple graphic design projects.
10+ Email Anti Spam Gateway Websites
Virus/Spam is the very common problem in the internet world. Whenever opening a new mail from a new address we all feel scared if it has spam or not. I hope we all have encountered email spam attack.
35+ Funny T-Shirt Designs Only For Web Designers and Developers
Ever year thousands of new t-shirt designs are released and i know it is really hard to select one from them.You can find unbelievable t-shirt designs and also you can design your own custom t-shirt d
PHP4 and MySQL4 – Put to an End by WordPress!!!
The WordPress project team has always wanted to run WordPress on common server configurations so that the users can have flexibility of choosing their host
Promotional products and promotional items
Whatever your promotional product needs, you will find it at promotionalproducts.co.uk. We have a huge range and plenty of experience to help your promotional campaign. Our friendly can help you to se
How To Find A Qualified Designer for your next Project
Read on to find out how to get top class designers begging you for work, how to qualify them all, how to weed out the bad, how to finally choose one and how to handle payments properly and safely.
40 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art
Fractal art is created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, music, or other media. Fractal art is usually created indirectly with the as
35 Best Illustrations for Website Design
An illustration is a copy of your imagination and the depth of creativity hidden in it. When most of the designer are in a rat race of designing highly professional website designs, there are some des
A Comprehensive review of psd to html service provider : xhtmljunction.com
PSD to HTML Industry has become competitive, the industry is flooded with small to big service providers to freelancers offering the service at various price.
35 Best Illustrations for Website Design
An illustration is a copy of your imagination and the depth of creativity hidden in it. When most of the designer are in a rat race of designing highly professional website designs, there are some des
45+ jQuery Based WordPress Plugins and Tutorials
jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions while being simple to understand and easy to use. WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can be customized to power
With Simple Hand-Drawn We Can Creat Vivid Themed Illustration
Drawn elements are certainly something that can enhance an illustration. Even if you’re not very good at drawing,
Using Patterns and Textures In Your Design
Patterns and textures differentiate one object from another and differentiate elements from their surrounding space. They add interest and depth and can be used to add a sense a realism to an element
Free Photoshop tutorials, Graphic and Web design, digital art & photo manipulations.
45 Great Examples of V-card Designs
Electronic business cards, know as V-cards were started by Tim Van Damme( first website in the roundup). The main goal of the V-card, is to display your information, portfolio, and social networks.
How Much Money Do Designers Make?
Graphic designers make different amounts of money depending on what company they work for, how successful they are and who their clients are.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Stormy Harry Potter Environment Effect
This Photoshop tutorial will show us how to create a similar effect we see in the Introduction clip of Harry Potter Series: a Stormy Environment Effect.
45 Awesome And Useful Water Texture Packs For Designers
Textures are playing the role of surface in the designs. There are various types of textures available to give the different type of look to the design. Today we collected some of the best and useful
30 Creative Hi-Res Poster Designs for Design Inspiration
Creative Posters are your ambassadors. Poster design is the striking medium to convey your messages. It should convey the messages very creatively. Fix your audience. Choose your message. Less informa
70+ Articles: Let the Community News Inspire Your Thinking
Community news feeds are great ways to get your articles out there, and this article aims to showcase articles of all topics to give us all the inspiration we need.
Customise Your Sneakers with Artwork at Sneakart
Sneakart offers the perfect solution to the fashion conscious, artistically or budget challenged sneaker enthusiast, lasting for months or years.
Create an Epic Battle Field in Photoshop
In this photomanipulation tutorial I will show you how to combine some stock photos to create an epic battle field in Photoshop.
Download Digital Clock graphic and it’s icon in different sizes
Download fantastic “Digital Clock” in PSD format and its icon in different sizes. The .PSD file has all the layers organized in folders for easy identification. Also, I have made this digital cloc
50 Captivating Bold Fonts For Killer Headlines
http://www.addictivefonts.com/basic/bold/bold-fonts-big-headlines/
Create a Detailed Vector Emblem Badge in Illustrator
Use a range of vector shapes in Adobe Illustrator to create a detailed black and white emblem badge. We’ll use a mix of basic tools to align the various shapes together, then add some cool detail us
The Anatomy Of A Great List Post
There is no doubt that list posts are articles, and like any good article, the foundation for success is always a good subject. The first step is to come up with something that people want to read.
50 Best Free iPhone Apps – Free Download From App Store
The iPhone is a fantastic gadget for web designers and developers alike. You’ll be pleased to know that a huge range of software is available to make the iPhone (or iPod touch) a perfect companion.
22 Websites to Watch Online Anime for Free
Watch your favorite Anime series online for free on some of the most reliable websites available 24/7.
Photoshop Tutorial: How to create a planet from scratch
Create a planet from scratch in Photoshop. We have described in very easy steps to understand for beginners and others. Now creating a planet from the scratch is easy.
Female art photography | Justyna Zdunczyk
Today we’re gonna explore the beautiful Female art photography of Justyna Zdunczyk from Wroclaw, Poland.
Justyna is an accomplished photographer with publications in photography magazines. She ha
Pandora Internet Radio Hits 60 Million Users
Today, at the New Music Seminar in New York, Pandora announced that they have surpassed the 60 million users milestone. They had announced 40 million in December, and 50 million in April. Not bad for
10+ Creative Kinetic Typography Videos
Typography isn’t something you can just be inspired by in two dimensions, through posters, advertisements and artworks. You can also be inspired in three dimensions through these truly amazing kinet
An out the hook icon set inspired on the classic movie Tron, ready to be incorporated inside your different projects thanks to the top quality of every icon.
Fresh Freebies: Vintage vector illustrations from Designious.com
We want to help the design community as much as we can. So we’ve just released some fresh vectors – for FREE! Check them out!
Dynamic Flash Websites : Dare to enjoy?
The innovative technological age we live in has fashioned Web-building software and services catering to aspiring designers who dare to create websites surrounding their unique and bold inspirations.
The Benefits of Working Remotely
Making the jump to freelancing or running a small business is a scary thing, but the best part about it is that, by and large, we get to make our own decisions and take advantage of the benefits of th
60 Creative Mind Blowing Examples Of Photo Manipulations
A creative truly mind blowing collection of high quality photo manipulation showcase of inspiration.
Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes (or Just Take Ours)
To create effects that look realistic and mimic traditional media, paint your own shapes, then scan them into Photoshop. But in case you don’t have paint and brushes handy, download our scanned scribb
25+ Fashion Websites in Flash Designs
Fashion, a general term for the style and custom prevalent at a given time, in its most common usage refers to costume or clothing style. Flash is the future of user interface design because it is so
Using the Puppet Warp tool in Photoshop CS5
In this tutorial we’re going to look at the Puppet Warp tool in photoshop CS5, which is both fun and extremely practical.
Working with Other Freelancers: The Power of Outsourcing
One person can only do so much, and therefore a business consisting of one person can only grow so much. Yet, many of us in this industry love to work alone; we love to call all of the shots and give
Quicklycode – Find and share cheat sheets and programming stuff
Made by programmers for programmers, on quicklycode you can find or
share cheat sheets, reference cards, infographics, posters, wallpapers
and other useful resources for developers, web designers, g
Featured Designer :Jared Nickerson’s Amazing Folio
Today we feature the amazing folio of Jared Nickerson,who walks us through some of his favorite pieces .
Based in Seattle he focuses on character design and illustration and of course digital art ,
Typography in Art or Art in Typography?
Typography as a specific technique of arranging type, typefaces and glyphs design has a very long history of the development and evolution.
15 Famous And Successful Logo Redesigns – What Has Been Improved?
Below is a list, in no particular order of what I think to be famous and successful logo redesign from their old logo to the latest with explanations of what has been improved.
14 Great Design, Marketing and Freelancing Blogs
Hi all, I thought I would post up my 25 blogs that have sat in my subscribe list on Google reader since the dawn of the time. Why do i think these blogs are so special? They actually provoke thought.
2010 Vimeo Festival: Interview with Blake Whitman, Vimeo Founder
The year is 2010, and Vimeo.com has planted the first annual seed of the Vimeo Festival and Awards, which provides filmmakers with the opportunity to win $25,000, and more importantly, an opening to
HTML development tools facilitate developers and beginner alike-to easily create better HTML pages in lesser time. While Validators help you insure that your HTML pages display properly on all brows
8 Ultimate Drupal Theme Collection
Drupal is one of the Content management Systems that is praised for its great design and architecture. It is used by corporate websites, bloggers, e-commerce websites, community web portals and others
10 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils
Many a times we, web designers spend endless hours mocking up web pages, resulting in wastage of our precious time. Thus, it is advisable to make use of good set of re-usable and uniform Web UI elemen
100 Seriously Awesome Retro Wallpapers
Take your desktop to the past with this wonderful list of 100 retro wallpapers.
10 Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers
In today’s post, we will offer freelance web designers 15 useful Mac Apps that would enable them to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took them before. Also, these
External Design Inspiration – Stunning Pictures by Uribaani
Let me introduce the great artist Miika Ahvenjärvi aka Uribaani from Finland. He is a graphic and webdesigner with a big spectrum of different works, which are characterized of very harmonical and in
35+ Amazing Websites Powered by WordPress
WordPress is considered to be the best blogging platform. But after the arrival of WordPress 3.0,
Learn the Basics: 25+ Sites And Resources To Learn Typography
Below are the 25+ sites and resources we have selected to help you understanding typography basics in print or web designs, choosing the right fonts for your project, and guide you to create a good ty
Building Backlinks: Techniques You Should Use Daily
Build backlinks in really effective way – that’s how we do it, that’s how you should do it to in order to be really successful!
Free Website template Design
20 Best Graphic Design Inspiration Blogs
Check out some of the best graphic design inspiration blogs
Making a Custom YouTube Video Player With YouTube’s APIs
Today we are going to make a jQuery plugin which uses YouTube’s chromeless player, and creates our own set of minimalistic controls, which allows for perfect integration with your designs.
WordPress vs Thesis Battle Over: Thesis Theme is Now Split GPL Licensed
WordPress is considered to be the best blogging platform. After the arrival of WordPress 3.0, it has acquired a huge user base. Under the surface of the giant however,
Best Designed iPhone Application Websites for Inspiration
We have gathered up some of the iPhone app websites here. All of them are with creative designs, neat interfaces and soft colors. I think they’ll be good for you to learn more about all kinds of app
65 high quality free fonts for designers
So for this post we’ve rounded up 65 high quality free font for designers. These fonts might be pushing the limits of traditional type design, but the results are stunning.
How Small Artisan Businesses can Demand a Premium
How small artisan businesses can demand a premium in the market in return for their craft, talent and dedication.
50+ The Ultimate Collection of Free PSD Files and Resources
PSD files can be very useful and save you lots of time with your design projects. This article showcases the 50+ most beautiful and free Photoshop PSD files and resources which helps you to enhance yo
Maintaining Business Standards As A Freelancer
Freelancing is very different to the majority of other businesses due to its innately personal involvelemt and attachment to every aspect of the business.
Top 10 Photoshop Tutorials Of July 2010
Photoshop is the best software available for photo editing. If you are new to photo editing then you don’t have to go to any institute, you can learn it right from your home. You just need to surf t
40 Gorgeous Portfolio Web Interface Designs You Must See
40 Gorgeous Portfolio Web Interface Designs You Must See.
40 Examples of Emotional Female Photomanipulation Art
40 Examples of Emotional Female Photomanipulation Art.
The Ultimate Collection Of 500+ Useful Free Photoshop Actions
The Ultimate Collection Of 500+ Useful Free Photoshop Actions
Conceptual Photography: Pictures Speak a Thousand Words
Conceptual Photography: Pictures Speak a Thousand Words.
33 Creative and Awe-Inspiring Logo Designs
In this next post, we’ve collected 33 Creative Logo Designs that may inspire logo designers and artistic enthusiasts.
The Evolution of Adobe Flash: From 1996 to 2010
Flash wasn’t always the rich and advanced platform it is today, however. It started as a vector animation package named FutureSplash Animator in 1996 and 14 years later, it’s going strong, with a desk
30+ Business Card Designs that Will Inspire You
This list of 30+ Business Card Designs is another collection of the newest and coolest business card circulated in the web today.
Facebook Like URL data Extract Using jQuery PHP and Ajax
You have seen in Facebook, that how we give a url and it extract data such as images, title and description. Here now you can get this amazing script at 99Points. You have seen amazing and popular fac
Photoshop resize image | Video tutorial
This video, from Don, is a quick tutorial on resizing images in Photoshop with respect to pixel depth, dots per inch, and printable size.
A lot of people might get fuzzy, low-quality, or unpredicta
33 Essential Tools and Advice for Freelancers
With so many awesome applications on the Internet, it can be hard to figure out exactly what you need as a freelancer. Here are 33 ‘Essential Tools and Advice for Freelancers’, enjoy.
When we look to purchase any new apparel the first criteria is the level of comfort you feel when you wear it. This is definitely true even if we were to go shopping for our clothes online. It would
Creative photography ideas | Mariana Garcia-Katz
Today I’m gonna let you in on the creative photography of Mariana Garcia-Katz from Melbourne, Australia.
Mariana is a graphic artist/designer and in recent years photography has become a passion
The ultimate bike to ride is the Harley Davidson. If you cannot ride one the next best thing to do is to wear this fabulous range of harley davidson motorcycle jackets and go out for a spin with the
9 beautiful web forms for free download
Today’s Photoshop freebie is “web form designs”. There are 9 different web forms in this download: 3 contact forms, 3 login / sign in forms, 1 comment form and 1 newsletter subscription form. A
Clean wood textures for designers
This is more than 20 texture image, the textures is a useful to use in your designs or inspirations as the main image showing in this post I’ve use one of the textures are in this post.
free online image and photo editing tools, Don’t Miss!
They provide image resizing tools which will help all webmasters to re-size images easily online. After editing images you can also upload images to the photo sharing websites or you can save in your
Romantic Heart Made Of Semantic Code
You might have heard about Semantic Code. It’s a coding best practice whereby, for example, one wraps block content in a block element (div, p, etc.),
The first thing would be the fashion I.Q. of the apparel. Second the fabric the style and the design aspects. Thirdly look for the same brand of clothing that your favorite star is wearing. If you ar
June’s Best Resources for CSS3
Here are the best CSS3 coding techniques and tutorials of June 2010, 43 fresh resources to help keeping up with new technologies and evolve with them.
How to Win a Client Every Time
Find it hard to get more higher paying clients? Here are some guaranteed ways to win new clients.
30 Free High Quality 3D Fonts Collection
Today, 3D fonts are now making its way to various designs. With the help of these fonts, you can make text designs that may be different from the usual. When used with appealing design and creativity,
3000 of Graphic Elements from TrendyPacks – Comment to Win
We are happy to announce that TrendyPacks is sponsoring us a round of great contest this week! There will be 1 winner selected and he/she shall receive a set of Infinity Design Pack and another 10 win
NEW! Web Design Studio at Espreson Media
Espreson Media a brand new design studio dove into web development cum design world. The design studio is based in India. Catering services worldwide through its experienced development wings. Basical
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