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Inventing the wheel every time you need a ride wouldn’t be smart right. If you’re Web Designer the same basic principle rules – don’t start from scratch every time! Reuse, be inspired and use tools that make your life easier. Many great tools are available for free or at a low cost and if you find the right ones for you it may really help you out. This post focus on on-line generators for fx. creating buttons, tabs, background images and more. Take a look and see if some of these can make a difference for you…

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Tutorials on how to create Web designs in tools like Photoshop have increased rapidly in numbers recently and as always there are some that are better than other. I have previously created quantitative lists trying to list any tutorials available that is worth following fx. 185+ Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop, CSS, HTML etc. In this article I have put a significant effort into picking only a few but some of the best available. This should make your life easier and its not too overwhelming to plan going through them to sharpen your skills and be inspired. I have based my assessment on the quality of the design itself, appearance of interesting and useful tip/techniques  and on the detail and quality of the individual tutorial steps. Stay tuned as I will scan through more tutorials and provide more Web Design Tutorials you can’t resist trying out!

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This post is as always a collection of community latest news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  You can find more community news here.

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In this article tripwire magazine presents a collection of 10 excellent free fonts you should consider using for your designs.

The number of free fonts available is almost devastating… and not all free Fonts are worth using. Finding the goodies in the masses is hard but the Fonts listed in this article have all been picked out because they stand out from the rest and because they are “affordable”.

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This post is as always a collection of community latest news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  You can find more community news here.

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Most websites and blogs follow same overall structure in their design. At the top there’s a header section with a logo and in some case a few ads and some kind af navigation. At the bottom there’s some kind of footer. Between the header and footer there are one or more column with content. Traditionally most space and focus have been put on the header and the content sections while the footer have been one or two lines with maybe some contact information and a few important links. Many websites still follow this pattern but there’s certainly a trend right now turning this completely around. Modern websites and in particular blogs offer footers that are significant design elements, that become essential for the usability and overall look and feel. Of cause footer contents varies quite a lot from design to design (some having article lists, contact forms, votes, bio, navigation, image feed etc.) but it’s interesting to see how designers prioritize their footer today. Looking at footers created by other designers for great websites and blogs is inspiring and it may help us get ideas on what fits will in our own footer sections. This article showcase more than 40 great looking footers and should be enough to keep you inspired. But I hope you will leave comment if you know about  a great footer we should all know about.

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2010 has just begun but the design and development community does not seam to be hit by New Year hangovers. Many new and interesting posts have been published already in the new year offering photography inspiration, Photoshop Brushes, Textures, etc. This post is as always a collection of community news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  You can find more community news here.

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2009 was the year I started tripwire magazine. It has been fun, hard work and I have learned a lot. During the year tripwire magazine have had more than 2 million page views and received great feedback and support from readers and sponsors (please check them out in the right sidebar). Thanks to everyone for visiting, commenting and contributing and for making tripwire magaszine a great place for web designers and developers.

In this last post in 2009 you will find a collection of excellent jQuery plugins that will help you out in in you web projects far into 2010.

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Most bloggers will probably agree that Wordpress is an excellent choice for blogging. When it comes to showcasing creative work by designers, photographers etc. it turns out that Wordpress has great potential as well. Today a lot of creative professionals have realised this an use Wordpress as the engine for building an on-line reputation. The ease of use of Wordpress, the high number of portfolio style themes and plugins available for building a professional portfolio web site makes the decision easy. This article provides a list of more than 45 magnificent portfolio themes for Wordpress and will help you get started. Not all the themes for Wordpress is free but you can find great themes that wont cost anything. Still the premium themes sometimes comes with features that makes your life a bit easier and allow you to focus on your business and creative work.

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This post is a collection of community news submitted on tripwire magazine over the last few days.  Everyone seams to be busy writing posts even though it has just been Christmas and New Year is only a few day away. Taking a look at the titles makes me wonder if the most popular trend at the moment is to write “…of 2009″ articles.  You can find more community news here.

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