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12 Easy Steps To Create a Cool Type Treatment

http://www.designioustimes.com/tutorials/12-eas...
What makes the difference between an average design and a kick ass design? Concept, contrast, colors...

Artist of the week - Kirsi Salonen, digital painter artwork

Web tools - help when writing some code page

All web tools that will help you when designing web pages in one place. Here are the current available tools : ASCII Name * ASCII List * ASCII Table * ColorPicker Wheel * ColorPicker Web Name * ColorPicker Web Safe * ColorPicker Web Safe BW * CSS BODY Style Generator * Country Information. Simply select the needed tool in the navigator at top of component. Then the tool will be displayed. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php?option=co...

Grab your free license for manageME7 Plutus6 package. Tweet and Comment the post to enter the contest.

Grab your free license for manageME7 Plutus6 package. Tweet and Comment the post to enter the contest.

I have a freelance blog for all types! Here it is: http://www.freelanceshack.com

We cover all sorts of topics such as client management, design, and much more. Check us out!

This roundup includes 34 Photoshop tutorials which deal with creating web layouts, plus 10 fully editable psd templates, all published in February 2010.

We are provide a all kinds of services like P.V.C, EVA Moulds, Vertical Limfa, Air Max and DIP Canvas Shoes, Double colour Moulds, PU Die Mould , Fiti Stured Etc.

15 Inspirational Ecommerce Designs

http://blog.mivamerchant.com/612/15-gorgeous-e-...

Here are 15 inspirational sites to get your creative juices pumping for your next ecommerce project.

A collection of user submitted billboards, street signs, storefront signs, and anything related to the world of signs and display advertising.

Amazing anamorphic illusions – Creative Art

http://www.designioustimes.com/design/pavement-...

At a first glance, when you hear “pavement drawings” you’d probably think: “So? What’s so special about them?”. But I’m not referring to your average drawings made with chalk! No, no.

The Webmaster and SEO resource center is a hub for webmasters to download free web site templates, find jobs, search resource books, and learn the best ways to promote their web site.

http://www.omnistaretools.com/webmaster-resources/

Steampunk – An inspiration from clockworks

http://www.designioustimes.com/design/steampunk...

For those of you who are unfamiliar yet with the Steampunk concept, this is a sub-genre of science-fiction that relates to old technologies...

This link posting is very familiar to guestbook submission but i have searched that this submission gives good results in sharing your article with others

jQuery Plugin: CuteTime, C'est Magnifique!
http://tpgblog.com/2010/02/01/jquery-cutetime-1-1/

I am very pleased to announce the latest major update to the CuteTime jQuery plugin. CuteTime provides the ability to easily: convert timestamps to 'cuter' language-styled forms (e.g. yesterday, 2 hours ago, last year, in the future!), customize the time scales and output formatting, and update automatically and/or manually the displayed CuteTime(s).


In addition to the inclusion of French CuteTime in this latest release, version 1.1 features: ISO8601 date timestamp compliance, insertions using the %CT% pattern of computed numbers within the CuteTime cuteness, support for all foreign language characters and HTML, Spanish CuteTime translations, courtesy of Alex Hernandez, richer demos and test, improved settings flexibility of the CuteTime function, documentation updates (corrections and clarifications).

http://www.livingdesign.info
LivingDesign is a creative and inspiration resource dedicated to design and life, and everything in between

Invoicera is a Delhi based startup that offers invoice generation system as a SaaS tool. The UI is very neat and seems to have been given some serious effort. The service comes with some very needful features like Multiple Currency Support (with real time currency conversion), Automatic Invoice Scheduling, Time & Expense tracking, Late Fees Option, Invoice Customization, 14 Payment Gateways and Sending Invoices as PDF in Mail Attachment.

Invoicera is a Delhi based startup that offers invoice generation system as a SaaS tool. The UI is very neat and seems to have been given some serious effort. The service comes with some very needful features like Multiple Currency Support (with real time currency conversion), Automatic Invoice Scheduling, Time & Expense tracking, Late Fees Option, Invoice Customization, 14 Payment Gateways and Sending Invoices as PDF in Mail Attachment.

Twine Tied Up in Load Time
http://tpgblog.com/2010/01/25/quickux-usability...

In answering the question of Usability, "Can I use it?" the sub-category of Page Load plays an instrumental part. Twine is one such excellent example of a web product with Poor Page Load Time.

New Release: Mayumi Free WordPress Theme

Padd Solutions brings you an elegantly designed WordPress theme – Mayumi. Packed with tons of features, Mayumi WordPress theme comes with 5 color schemes to choose from.

11 Myths About Flash That Won't Die

New clothing line People Like Me! includes t-shirts geared towards creatives and designers. Graphic design by David Ayllon.

http://www.peoplelikemeshop.com

gravura laser la http://www.laser-tech.org si siteme de sigilare la http://www.sigilii.org sau la pagina de net www.gravura-laser.com

A personalized coming soon page typically has the option for the visitor to sign up for email updates, subscribe to RSS, connect with you on social media networks. Here are listed three html templates and nine themes and plugins for wordpress, to personalize your landing pages.

it’s been great year of 2009 for Wordpress and it’s users, in 2009 we have witnessed some of the great Wordpress themes and blogs based on these themes. While there are many paid themes were released in 2009, yet there are 100’s of free themes made their indelible mark on blogosphere.

As we are welcoming 2010, i have decided to collect 150 Free, very beautiful and premium quality Wordpress Themes for my readers.

Tutorial: Superimposing Text Onto an Image

http://www.dailydesignmag.com/tutorial-superimp...

This tutorial will show you how to properly superimpose text onto an image so that the fill of the text is effectively the image seen in the background.

Photoshop, Text, Image, Design, Graphic Design

Know Your Type: Part 2 – Type Categories

In this second part of typography articles we are going to learn the categories in which a type can be classified. Knowing the terms and characteristics of these groups can help you in the process of selecting the appropriate type for your project.

http://jpedroribeiro.com/2009/12/know-your-type...

Craft a Vintage Postage Stamp in Photoshop

http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2...

In this easy, step-by-step Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to craft a Realistic Vintage Postage Stamp. This is a pretty simple tutorial making use of basic to intermediate Photoshop techniques and features.

Merry Christmas From AdmixWeb: Free Smashing Magazine Book and Free Web Design Book

http://www.admixweb.com/2009/12/25/merry-christ...

10 Crappy Corporate Logos

http://www.dailydesignmag.com/10-crappy-corpora...

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. That’s the game when it comes to devising a logo.

Design, Logos, Corporate Logos

Need New Ideas? Try Coworking

http://www.dailydesignmag.com/need-new-ideas-tr...

For those of us who are freelancers, the benefits of this type of work is immense – the ability to take on projects that are intellectually stimulating or suit our interests, control over our schedules as well as the ability to work anywhere.

An impressive collection of Papervision 3D tutorials which can be helpful for web designers, developers and Flash professionals.

Why list articles is Good for the community..

Making and Breaking the Grid, by Timothy Samara, is an analysis of the construction and deconstruction of grid-based designs. Featuring a comprehensive showcase of works in different media and across several decades.

http://jpedroribeiro.com/2009/12/book-review-ma...

In this tutorial we will show you how easy is to create any web charts your sales department would need to track the overall sales statistics. The Animated web charts are generated on the fly based on the database values, so your sales department will always have the most up to date reports.

Best Photoshop Brushes to Download-November 2009
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=9502
The best Photoshop brushes released in November 2009 that you can download and use for free.There are light effects, grunge, floral and other brushes.

I have collected a top 10 list of must have plugins for your wordpress site / blog.

http://www.kneoteric.com/blog/google-adwords/wa...

According to a recent survey done by MarketingSherpa and Ad:tech, Pay per click advertising is the most preferred online marketing tactic for increased ROI.

I have created some Free Leather Texture for you. They are all unique and can only be downloaded here on tutorialfreakz.com. You can use them for free for personal and commercial use.

I think in 99% of the cases, if you are a Dreamweaver user and deal with design implementations work starts by getting the layout from the designer and you are supposed to make the site code that replicates exactly the layout. And designers can be picky! Nowadays you are supposed to create table-free code using DIVs and CSS, which can be a headache sometimes, especially if the designer threw in some rounded corner boxes and containers. So basically you have to cut the design elements probably using Photoshop and handcode the DIVs, but is there a better way to do this?

What if you could do all this using just Dreamweaver and a Dreamweaver extension called FlexiPanels CSS? What if with the extension would lay out the CSS compliant code for the boxes and also help you cut the design?

http://www.dailydesignmag.com/rip-how-the-death...

RIP: How the Death of the Magazine Affects Designers

As soon as hardware manufacturers start cranking out powerful media tablets, and as soon as people begin to adopt them, we will begin to see a different world in how we view media because it will then be integrated all into one – music, movies and information all from one portal:

Creative vexel artworks and tutorials for web designers!

23 Useful Christmas Card Photoshop Tutorials
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=9466

Here are 23 useful Photoshop tutorials for creating images such as trees, snowflakes, candles, wreaths, balls that you can use for designing Christmas cards.

Light painting or Light Graffiti is a way of photographic design. I have created a collection of 30 beautiful inspiring light designs i have found on deviantart and flickr.

Grunge brushes: 18 Splatter Brushes for Photoshop CS+ http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=9457
18 high-resolution grunge brushes that you can use for non-commercial projects. Ideal to use for creating abstract and grungy backgrounds for web and print.

“Whosoever desires constant success must change constantly” and it is becoming more and more evident that Google subscribes to this school of thought.

I created Free Clouds Textures that you can download for free. They are all unique and can only be downloaded here on tutorialfreakz.com. You can use them for free for personal and commercial use.

The Evolution of Design Part 2: How 10 Popular Sites Looked 10 Years Ago

Ten more websites that show how even though the dot com bubble had some boom, the design during the time was more bust than anything else.

Adverts is a way of art, so I have created a collection of 40 Beautiful Designed Inspirational Adverts. Created by designers on deviantart.

In this tutorial we are going to create a flash analog clock that is going to cling at mouse over. You can use this clock to add a nice effect on your websites. To do this work, the tutorial reader must have basic knowledge about Photoshop and Flash as this is a medium level tutorial.

Photoshop Brushes for Creating Broken Glass Effect
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=7804
Broken Glass Effect in Adobe Photoshop can be achieved in several ways. Here is a set of Photoshop brushes composed of images of broken glass windows.

Almost every webdesigner has followed some web layout tutorials, to get some more knowledge or inspiration for his or her next template. So i decided to create a list of 25 tutorials to help you train and create some beautifull web templates.

10 Colorful Leather Textures Free to Use
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=8849
Leather textures are useful for making 2D and 3D renditions. For example you can use a leather in creating a realistic model or design for a bag or jacket.

It is Texture Sunday again. This time i created 10 Free Electronical Textures that you can download for free. They are all unique and can only be downloaded here on tutorialfreakz.com. You can use them for free for personal and commercial use.

Today iPhoneFreakz has collected 25 iPhone / iPod Touch Wallpapers. This time we have collected 25 apple logo designs you can download for your iPhone.

How Web Freelancers Can Survive the Recession
http://bit.ly/DOsjG

http://www.kneoteric.com/blog/search-engine-opt...

Search engines are not very forthcoming when it comes to their ranking algorithms, especially when it concerns search engine optimization (SEO).

My gallery is dedicated to amazing artists everywhere! FIND THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE! Follow me on TWITTER for quick updates: ccolours

Create Light Effects Using these 1000+ Fractal Art
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=7730
Light effects can be easily achieved through fractal brushes and textures. Here is a list of more than 1000 resources for creating realistic light effects.

1 Year of AREA 1

Happy Birthday AREA 1! Today we celebrate our 1st year, so I've decided to make a roundup of the best articles on this blog. 18 articles & tutorials are waiting to be read.

http://www.area1.info/news/one-year-of-area1/

Typography design is something you see more and more these days, sometimes to tell a story and sometimes because it just looks nice. So i have collected 25 examples to help you inspire to create your own typographic art.

42+ Multi Blogging Website Powered By Wordpress MU
http://wparena.com/inspiration/42-multing-blogg...

25 Best iPhone Apps At Work

65 PSD Christmas-Themed Free Templates
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=7810
PSD templates are useful and can save you a lot of time if you are trying to design something from scratch. Here are 65 PSD templates you can use for free.

EXCLUSIVE: The Product Guy "Up in the Air"
http://tpgblog.com/2009/11/18/exclusive-upinthe...

Recently, as a VIP guest, The Product Guy was invited to an exclusive cross-country private screening of Paramount Pictures’ film "Up in the Air," starring George Clooney, on American Airlines. And, out of this bicoastal adventure, I found many lessons that can benefit all in the social marketing and promotion of their own products.

The typography is used as a way of understanding between you and users. For effective communication typography requires proper typefaces as there are many fonts which have inspired everyone.

Here is 20 Best Free Fonts for Graphic Designing

http://www.techbabu.com/2009/11/20-best-free-fo...

Over 500 Free Vector Art for Creating Christmas Designs 2009
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=8207
Here is a huge compilation of free vector art that you can use in your Christmas designs. Includes Christmas card templates, gift tags, gift boxes, etc.

http://www.ourtuts.com/30-best-web-design-layou...

This roundup includes 30 of the best web design layout tutorials created in Photoshop:portfolio layouts,layouts designed for blogs,business layouts and more…

http://www.kneoteric.com/knowledge-base/newslet...

It is estimated that 30 to 40 percent of searches are local in nature. On top of this, search engines are increasingly showing local results for search queries with implicit local intent.

Every designer wants to make something different and uses many methods and tools to achieve.You know that fonts are one of the most important part of web projects and we really do need them.As you see,this is my first font post and every week i want to collect amazing fonts and gonna share them with you by selecting from hundreds of fonts.
http://designbeep.com/2009/11/15/stunning-free-...

Design your t shirts with these 25 funky shirts as inspiration
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=8090
Here are 25 of the most funky t-shirt designs to inspire in case you are planning to design your t-shirts.

Because of the success of the previous 25 photoshop mistakes post and the amount of photoshop disasters out there on the web i decided to create a second list of 25 photoshop mistakes. So here it is Another list of 25 Photoshop Mistakes.

[How To] Create Customized Coming Soon Wordpress Pages
http://tech18.com/how-to-create-customized-comi...
Coming Soon Pages are the teasers which are required by all the webdesigners and bloggers whenever they are launching a new product or a website and also when your blog is under construction for some reasons.

Brace for Google Caffeine http://www.kneoteric.com/blog/search-engines/go...

500+ Background Patterns in Vector Format for Web and Print Designs
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=7820
Background patterns that are seamless and scalable are very useful and a great time-saver for designers in creating backgrounds for website, fashion and textile design, graphic design, package design, web design, and many other design projects.

500+ Background Patterns in Vector Format for Web and Print Designs
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=7820
Background patterns that are seamless and scalable are very useful and a great time-saver for designers in creating backgrounds for website, fashion and textile design, graphic design, package design, web design, and many other design projects.

Hey everyone, I am back. This post is going to be about WordPress SEO. It’s a checklist of the steps you should take to ensure that your WordPress blog is fully optimized. I hope you like the post and find it helpful.

http://www.kneoteric.com/knowledge-base/newslet...

According to Vertical Search Report, 93% of people prefer to use search engine that focus on their specific business. If this be the case, one question that comes to our mind is - can vertical pay per click search engines help online businesses achieve a worthwhile return on investment?

Icreon design studio a attractive studio offers flash web site design and game development and more services at icreon design studio.

25 Inspiring CD Cover Design Ideas Using Typography and Text Effects
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=7947
CD Cover Design could be a great source of design inspiration. Here are 25 CD cover designs and concepts with inspiring use of typography and text effects.

Gmail - Sweating the Small Stuff
http://tpgblog.com/2009/11/09/gmail-android-goo...

Gmail - Sweating the Small Stuff: Part 6 in a series exploring the eventual adoption of Gmail in one's daily life, by one once thoroughly dependent on the primarily client-based solution of Microsoft's Outlook from why to how to expand its adoption.

This time i created 10 Free Wood Textures that you can download for free. They are all unique and can only be downloaded on tutorialfreakz.com. You can use them for free for personal and commercial use.

I have collected a list of 50 beautiful twitter backgrounds that will help you inspire to create your own twitter background. When you use an cool eye-catching twitter background you are more likely to get more folowers.

You can use the brushes for personal and business use and you dont have to link back to us.
This package contains 8 Eye brushes.

Space Light Brushes for Photoshop
http://www.photoshopfreebrushes.com/space-light...
A set of Photoshop brushes composed of high-resolution space light images. Ideal to use as background or adding realistic light streams in your designs.

It is inevitable and if it hasn’t happened to yourself yet, it is not far round the corner especially in the economic times were in. Quite often, a potential client will challenge you on your pricing. i.e your rate per hour, total price etc

The Search Engine Marketing (SEM) industry is evolving so rapidly that dedicating a resource to understand and share these changes only seems just. Our SEM e-newsletter is designed to discuss the essential elements and contemporary developments in the Search Engine Marketing arena.

To choose best jQuery slideshow or gallery plugins can be difficult. We have worked out top 13 plugins to make your life easier. Below are the most aesthetic, innovative and creative jQuery plugins.

In this tutorial i will show you how to create a cool 3d text effect in photoshop.

I created 10 Free Paper Textures that you can download for free. They are all unique and can only be downloaded on tutorialfreakz.com. You can use them for free for personal and commercial use.

An overview of 6 designs that are actually pretty much the same but that are also quite different ... It's nice to see how these people had the same inspiration and then interpreted it in there own way.

In this tutorial i will show you how to turn a photo in a collage of polaroids.

I created this tutorial on request, as a continuation of the Change Eye Color tutorial.
In this tutorial i will show you how to change the hair color and create glossie lips.

With the halloween period coming up in november, it is time to create some disgusting horrifying artwork. This article will help you inspire and create that kind of artwork.

Another Wiki in Google’s Kitty http://www.kneoteric.com/blog/search-engines/go...

Autumn Leaves Photoshop Brushes
http://www.photoshopfreebrushes.com/autumn-leav...
Here is another set of high-resolution brushes composed of autumn leaves that you can use for free just in case you need some fall/autumn elements in your design projects.

I created a list of 30 unfortunately placed ads so other designers and advertisers will not make the same mistake.

25 Creative Ideas To Make Your Workplace Look Really Cool

Some of the most creative office tools and gadgets that designers could come up with.

Why Should I Care About IE6?

Why should you design for IE6? Is there a demand for it? More and more websites are losing the support for this browser and the usage is dropping every month. So, why should I care about IE6?

http://jpedroribeiro.com/2009/10/why-should-i-c...

12+ Graphic and useful Apps for the iPhone & iPod Touch

http://rainiazahmad.com/entertainment/12-graphi...

Google Webmaster Tools has announced the addition of “Labs” section which includes two new features for webmasters.
http://www.kneoteric.com/blog/google-webmaster-...

Water Effects Photoshop Brushes
http://www.photoshopfreebrushes.com/water-effec...
This set is composed of different water effects such as water splashes and waves that you can use for free.

In this tutorial i will show you how to Create A Dramatic Rain Scene in photoshop.

*AdWords Crack*

For some online marketers, the reliance on Google AdWords has reached epidemic proportions. Are you hooked on the junk?

http://www.afruit.com/pulp/2009/10/adwords-crack/

Top 10 Clean and Stylish Website for Inspirations
http://blog.fazai38.com/index.php/2009/10/16/cl...

It's New and fresh collected this month.

Teddy Bear Clip Art Brushes for Photoshop CS+
http://www.photoshopfreebrushes.com/teddy-bear-...
Teddy bears are so much a part of life these days that it is hard to imagine a time before they were invented. In fact they were only invented around 1900. Huggable teddy bears are an ideal gift for almost any occasion and they are now catching up with flowers in terms of popularity. Whether it is to say "Congratulations", "I love you" or "Sorry" there is a teddy bear who is up to the task. Thus, this set of Photoshop brushes which is composed of cute teddy bear clip art images are ideal for creating greeting cards or gift tags for almost any occasion.

I created Free Clothing Textures that you can download here. They are all unique and you can use them for free for personal and commercial use.

Awesome, Must See Artwork of Justin Mezzell (w/ Interview)

You must see his work! Justin Mezzell is an incredible graphic designer working for Relevant Magazine. His portfolio is awesome and has a variety of styles.

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create a real-looking, worn-out movie ticket. It’s a pretty simple Photoshop tutorial involving some basic procedures which I’m sure will be very helpful especially for anyone with beginner skills.

The Most Notable Automobile Flash Web Designs. All Buckle Up!

The collection of impressive and creative automobiles Flash web designs! Get inspired!

http://flashscope.com/the-most-notable-automobi...

Templateo Giveaway - Comment and Win 5 memberships

http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/templateo-g...

Templateo and CrazyLeaf Design Blog offer you the opportunity to win one of 5 Templateo memberships. Each membership gives you unlimited access to download any template (web template, Wordpress theme, Joomla, Blogger or izzyWebsite template) from their website.

In this tutorial i will show you how you can create your own Business Card using photoshop.

Another Gmail Problem
http://tpgblog.com/2009/10/19/gmail-android-goo...

Gmail's Inescapable Information Overload: Part 4 in a series exploring the eventual adoption of Gmail in one's daily life, by one once thoroughly dependent on the primarily client-based solution of Microsoft's Outlook from why to how to expand its adoption.

Increase Your Traffic by 900%: Start a Design Blog
http://freelancereview.net/BlogRetrieve.aspx?Bl...

I created a list of 25 worst photoshop mistakes ever. Sometimes its unbelievable how some “designers” make this kind of mistakes.

What are Flash components?

http://www.flashscope.com/what-are-flash-compon...

The article describes what Flash components are. It laso illuminates some facts of their history and presents their simple classification.

While browsing i came across interview of an amazing digital artist Kerem Beyit on PSDTuts. Interview was really informative and creative work of Kerem Beyit was stunning.

http://pelfusion.com/inspiration/stunning-art-o...

This case-study shows the steps involved in constructing ‘Back to Black’, a sleek, colorful work of art.

Here is a list of 15 Awesome Logos linked to their Design Processes, which contain information on how the designer came up with the concept, how he executed the concept and a lot more.

The Gmail Problem
http://tpgblog.com/2009/10/13/gmail-android-goo...

Part 3 in a series exploring the eventual adoption of Gmail in one's daily life, by one once thoroughly addicted to, dependent on, the primarily client-based solution of Microsoft's Outlook, what brought about this conversion, why it took so long, and what should be done to encourage greater Gmail adoption.

Texture Thursday: Green

Best practices for web project folder structures, naming conventions and project organization. Tips for optimizing your workflow and keeping your files organized.

Venit Vidi -- On the Path to Gmail, I met an Android (2)
http://tpgblog.com/2009/10/05/gmail-android-goo...

Part 2 in a series exploring the eventual adoption of Gmail in one's daily life, by one once thoroughly addicted to, dependent on, the primarily client-based solution of Microsoft's Outlook, what brought about this conversion, why it took so long, and what should be done to encourage greater Gmail adoption.

You can’t imagine life without colors. Different colors give you different energy but when they come all together in form of spectrum they give you freshness and happiness. So for your happiness and to give your desktop a full-of-life look.

These were created by soaking A4 pieces of paper in a tray filled with food colouring and then left to dry in the sun.

Three lucky readers will be able to win a license for Invoicera. Read the rules below to find out how you can join this contest: it's pretty simple! If you're one of the three winners, you'll receive one licence for Invoicera. Make sure you join this contest quick, since it ends on October 9th and you'll automatically receive information if you have won a prize. Good luck to everyone!

Hey, I thought I’d compile a list of some of the best articles on how to use twitter for business. Here is the list, currently comprising of 25+ articles. If you feel that an article not on this list should be included, simply leave a comment with a link to the article, and I will add it to this list.

Is the emergence of PSD to XHTML companies only an upcoming trend in the world of Internet Marketing or is it a real marketing need? Let’s find the truth behind it

Premium Tutorial: Realistic Vector Rose
http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/realisti...
Learn every detail on how to create a photorealistic rose using gradient mesh!

In this post I’ll show you 3 useful techniques to speed up the display and download of images on your website: Css Sprites, Image Maps and Inline Images. By using these techniques you will reduce the number of http requests needed to view all resources of your html.

As a wallpaper resource This blog is dedicated to make Collection Of Daily Updated Desktop Backgrounds (Wallpapers)

Join the battle of the most stylish websites.
Click here to let the battle begin...

15 Attention Grabbing Environmental Ad Campaigns

http://designerscouch.org/show_article/129/15-a...

There are some great ads out there that hit the green message home, whether it's from a social or corporate standpoint.

19 stunning creative logo designs you should have a look at

Don't miss our new marvelous logo collection. Funky & fresh designs you'll surely love.

15 beautiful bottles designs you won't forget

Here are some gorgeous bottles you shouldn't miss if you like stylish packages. Enjoy the designers great work!

Another 15 of the most stylish packages you've ever seen


This is the second part of our collection of beautiful packaging designs. You will love them, too.

Interactive designer Michael Austin one page portfolio

Creative logos that you can draw inspiration from that displays elements of the current trends in modern logo design – negative spacing, creative typography, illustrated characters, and many more.

Clean and Air Cooler
http://tpgblog.com/2009/09/14/quickux-desirabil...

In answering the question of Desirability, "Do I want it?" the sub-category of Color Scheme plays an important role. Air Cooler PLUS is a great example of a Good Color Scheme demonstrating alignment of colors and messaging. Learn from it.

HTML, the grandfather of website design languages was good enough, in the early days of computing and the Internet, for sharing documents among a generation of not-so-smart computers. Things have moved along very, very rapidly since those days and HTML struggles to match the requirements of today’s websites. So what was the next step? Who was going to be new guy on the block?

Another 15 of the most stylish packages youve ever seen

This is the second part of our collection of beautiful packaging designs. You will love them, too.

This is a list with best 26+ Adsense optimized themes for wp. This themes are top Adsense income generators. The themes are optimized by top Adsense earners.

Free Flash Components for Your Stunning Projects
http://www.flashscope.com/free-flash-components...

old picture frames with transparent backgrounds to use in you designs

David Gheorghita is a graphics designer from Romania who kicked off his career in 2005 designing CD and DVD covers and promoting material for bands. He then moved on to work as an art director at an advertising agency. Currently he works as a freelance web/graphics designer providing many design services.

Interview with Jason Putorti: Creative Lead at Mint

Jason Putorti is the founder of Novaurora.com, which he transformed from a freelance business into one of Pittsburgh Magazine’s “Six Hot Agencies” by 2006 in five short years. Two years ago he accepted an offer to be lead designer at Mint.com, which is renowned for its clean interface and intuitive design.

http://designerscouch.org/show_article/117/inte...

Over 500 Layout Design Tutorials

In this article I have gathered over 500 Layout Design Tutorials in Adobe Photoshop, all of them being easy to follow step by step.

http://www.area1.info/tutorials/over-500-layout...

A list with more than 17 great hacks to help you customize your Blogger blog and build a community in the way you like to. This hacks will improve design

The best 5 Social bookmarking plugins available for Wordpress. Let people share their favorite articles from your blog using this 5 amazing plugins for free.

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Mass SMS - Email to SMS - a variety of sms gateway, sms solutions, sms api, sms online for a broad range of industries and applications

SMS Australia, Business SMS Messaging, Mobile Marketing Services - messagemedia............We are Australia’s largest provider of sms business solutions for desktop messaging, sms gateways, email sms, web sms, premium sms and mobile marketing campaigns.

A wholesale SMS Service Provider - Buyer's Guide - Ten questions to ask a wholesale SMS Service Provider

Bathroom Renovations Newcastle -We are committed to ensuring that your bathroom renovations are a success. Bathroom remodeling newcastle understand that any bathroom remodelling is a big decision and we strive to make sure you are comfortable from planning through to finishing

I've selected various Photoshop tutorials that I'm liking at the moment for light effects

62 Wallpapers from Space

We all love desktop wallpapers because we can always find one which will represent us or what we like.I've gathered 62 wallpapers related to Space just for you.

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We presenting Adobe Air Video Tutorials for beginners who can learn from scratch, even there is installation tips on different operating systems, this is from gotmyidea, we can get inspiration about our tool, Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash®, and Flex technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. Adobe AIR allows developers to use familiar tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4, Flex® Builder™ 3, Flash CS4 Professional, or any text editor to build their applications and easily deliver a single application installer that works across operating systems.

Video Of The Week #09 Kudan by Taku Kimura

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Kudan is a beautiful animation about a father and his son and the way they interact, with out notice the importance they have for each other.

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/08/19/what-i...

What is RSS and The Subscribe to My RSS Experiment

With this experiment you will learn what is a RSS feed and how to subscribe to your favorite blogs, including this one of course and find some oncoming news of this blog as well.

This tutorial will explan how to draw a refreshing cocktail drink in illustrator. Hope you will find this useful and inspiring to make other kinds of drinks or cocktails.

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How to earn passive income by creating your own site to sell your digital goods

The World In Pink: Photostream

http://www.readyphotosite.com/blog/inspirationa...

Life in pink. A beautiful collection of photos with an active use of pink which reveals the versatile energy of the color and the ways it can show up in various life spheres.

A new brand identity service has been launched - and has been received on both ends of the spectrum - from the very excited clamoring for invites, to the dismissive who believe a logo and a brand are not the same thing.

designerscouch.org/show_article/108/buildabrand-pushes-debate-on-what-constitutes-a-brand.html

The most creative and skilful corporate web designs of all times
http://www.site2you.com/blog/22/The-most-creati...

Top Free web dev Apps For Apple Web Designers
http://www.a-scene.com/mac/10-top-free-web-dev-...

Here's an article covering the essential principles of web design for beginners and professionals alike.

60 Websites to promote your articles on

Here's a list of 60 websites to promote your articles on. Submiting your article to these websites brings you new visitors and backlinks, which is good for SEO.

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Compare the best slicing services or promote yourself for free!

Summer social icons

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INDEZINER comes with a nice icon package for all web people that are using social icons to promote their sites. We think a summer party spirit is always welcome so this is why we created this collection for you. This pack comes with: lotion bottle, beach, glass, dolphin and suitcase icons marked with social logos in different form so there are plenty to choose from. Also you will find complete sources for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and also PNG format.

50+ HD Desktop Wallpapers For Your Insipiration - Abstract and 3D

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A beautiful collection of 50+ HD Desktop Wallpapers For Your Inspiration - Abstract and 3D, colors and inspiration everywhere in this list. take a look to these beautiful images.

12 Methods to Obtain Backlinks

In "12 Methods to Obtain Backlinks" I will show you what you need to do to obtain backlinks. It's all here, from joining web directories to RSS feeds & more.

http://www.area1.info/articles/12-methods-to-ob...

The Most Creative Flash Preloaders of All Times
http://www.flashscope.com/the-most-creative-fla...

8 Useful Widgets You Should Use While Creating a Website

50+ Awesome Photos You Have Never Seen From Bogota - Colombia

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/08/07/50-awe...

Colombian capital's city Bogotá has become known as "The Athens of South America", and here you can see more than 50 inspirational photos from this beautiful city.

Paper cards free icon pack
http://indeziner.com/free-icons/paper-cards-fre...
INDEZINER presents you a fresh new free icon pack named Paper Cards. Inspiration for this are playing cards and pack is offered fully loaded with AI, PNG and PSD sources so anyone can modify it. Please take a look inside this icon set and tell us your opinion or suggestions for more free icon packs.

How To Create A Realistic Pendrive in Adobe Illustrator.
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In this easy to follow tutorial I´ll show you how to create a realistic pendrive only using shapes and gradients in Adobe Illustrator.

350+ Fresh Twitter Icons
http://www.bloggodown.com/2009/08/350-fresh-twi...
This collection has really great illustrations by some really good designers and more than 350 fresh twitter icons.

http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/08/07/the-anal...

The link are here.

Photography has not only evolved from a normal pastime to a favorite hobby but also an indispensable living trade for most photographers.

Top 10 Wordpress Codes Every Designer Should Know

http://www.cssreflex.com/2009/08/top-10-wordpre...

Here I collected a very great collection of 10 Wordpress codes that I consider the most commonly used by any Wordpress developer.

Upload Your Free Vectors And Win Great Prizes!

http://freevectorgraphics.net/contest/

Giving away cash prizes for the best vector uploaded every month! Submission starts NOW!

Illustrator Tutorial: Photorealistic Vector Car

http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/photorea...

Advanced illustrator tutorial to draw an awesome Mustang vector car! Definitely Must See!

45 Mind-Blowing Signage, Street And Urban Typography Photos

http://spyrestudios.com/showcase-mind-blowing-s...

Looking for design inspiration on CSS and logo galleries and similar sites is great, but sometimes you need to take a good look outside the window and see what’s out there and get your creative juices flowing.

Michael Jackson knew that he was a brand on his own. He created in the mind of everyone the perception that there is no other “product” on the market quite like himself.

http://indeziner.com/free-css-menus/free-css-me... Menus are used everywhere in a wide variety of styles. Every website contains a menu in a way. There are so many design presentations for them and ways to show people your main page links that sometimes you don’t have inspiration when thinking what is the best way for your menu to look. We tried to make this choice simple for you so we released some simple fashionable menu styles totally free to use.

They come in colors: grey, green, orange, blue, red and are presented in two styles: horizontal and vertical.

Feel free to use in your designs and please send us your feedback.

A resource for the web design/development community.

Live Dev Feeds http://www.ldfeeds.com a resource for the web design/development community, covering up to the minute content on different subjects relating to the web development industry.

How to illustrate New York shopping with vip treatment?
- This animation shows how flash can illustrate greatly envy, luxury and serves the product.

50+ Incredible Examples of Contemporary Street Photography
http://www.readyphotosite.com/blog/inspirationa...

Hurrying up to do something or being late to somewhere we often do not notice what's around. We're smashed with our thoughts and troubles in our own small worlds. Let's stop by for a minute and look around. 50+ Incredible Examples of Contemporary Street Photography. Life is beautiful!

50 Stunning & Inspirational Stop Motion Videos
http://spyrestudios.com/stunning-inspirational-...

Sometimes we get wrapped up in our specific profession and lose the ability to find creative sparks in other areas of our lives. So, in the hunt for inspiration elsewhere than web design, I found awesome stop motion vids that'll spark creativity.

26 Brilliant Social Ad Campaigns
http://designerscouch.org/show_article/100/26_b...

Often provocative and controversial, these out of the box campaigns are nothing short of brilliant.

We think that our work spaces, real or virtual, have a great impact on our work. In this article we selected 20 of the most impressive desktop screen shots from the past month on deviantart.com. Take a look and then go tune up your desktop!

Vitor Lourenco is a 21 year old user experience designer with over 7 years experience. At such a young age Vitor's designs have reached millions through his work on Twitter, the free social messaging utility that is changing the way people communicate. Twitter aside, Vitor has worked with other major companies such as Yahoo! and TV Globo. Today we're proud to present our interview with Vitor Lourenco.

6 Easy Ways To Cure A Nasty Case Of Redesign-itis
http://spyrestudios.com/how-to-cure-redesignitis/

Why aren't we designers never happy with our designs? I’m done now, I’m sick of redesigning. I know many designers, like me, suffer (or used to suffer) from redesign-itis! So, what can we do to cure this?

Quick-UX Credibility from Likexo to Etsy
http://tpgblog.com/2009/08/03/quickux-credibili...

Quick-UX Credibility is a measure of the starting point, the foundation of a product’s Credibility. A look the popular (and not so popular) examples of web product Credibility online.

Learning Web Usability

16 Excellent Wordpress Security Plugins To Secure Your Blog :)

Bring out your inner rockstar. In this Photoshop Tutorial, you'll learn how to create your own guitar hero and stylize him with a unique guitar.

Google does some of most interesting things online and changing their logo from time to time to reflect current events is one of them. Outlined here are over 300 of some of the most creatively designed logos.

Need Design Inspiration ?
Have a look at the most stylish websites, or
get some of our fantastic freebies !
A mix of icons, fonts, vectors, brushes, badges, and much more...

Here is a list of random 70 Recommended Sites to Promote Your Design Related Articles.

CreativityDen relaunches with 1000% more awesome :)

TUTfactory gathers all the best tutorials in one place so you can easily find them, view them and rate them!

52 Really High Quality Modern Free Fonts

In this list you will find very professional and high quality fonts hand picked and carefully selected to offer you only the best resources available!

ReadyPhotoSite Free 7 Days Photo Websites Trial!

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Submit an application form and become the owner of your personal photo website in 48 hours! Get to test the functionality of ReadyPhotoSite flash photo websites in full without any additional fees.

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20 Breathtaking Macro Photography Shots

One of the most fascinating forms of photography is the art of capturing the littlest of things and revealing such minute details that are not visible by the naked eye.

43 Amazing Abstract Photoshop Brushes

with so many of them available, I have gathered in this post the best of abstract brushes that would come in handy when designers/developers like us needed to spice up our designs.

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The Essence Of About Us Page With 12 Captivating Showcases

Creative Celebrity Photography by Chris Fortuna
http://2fotoz.blogspot.com/2009/07/creative-cel...
Chris Fortuna was born in Boston, Massachusetts and began photographing in his early teens with a Yashica Mat camera.

30 best vector figure illustrations for your inspiration. Enjoy the post!

30 Excellent Logo Design Galleries For Your Inspiration

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/29/30-exc...

Every designer need to know where to find inspiration, and here you have an excellent list of 30 of these such sites that showcases great logo design. If you need inspiration you should visit them.

A collection of really creative designers

http://static-romance.org/wordpress/inspiration...

A showcase of 15 fresh and inspiring illustrations.

Upfront: Etsy
http://tpgblog.com/2009/07/27/quickux-strong-cr...

There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that champion it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the Strong Credibility of Etsy via Quick-UX.

http://spyrestudios.com/how-to-cure-redesignitis/
Why can't we designers ever be happy? I’m done now, I’m sick of redesigning. I know many designers, like me, suffer (or used to suffer) from redesign-itis! So what can we do to cure this, or at least treat it? Here are 6 tips to help you out!

75 Beautiful Free Social Bookmarking Icon Sets
http://www.bloggodown.com/2009/07/75-beautiful-...
A collection of the best social bookmarking icon sets

Paging Listbox; Another jQuery Plugin
http://www.moretechtips.net/2009/07/paging-list...

Few months ago I posted a Javascript class on how to Implement a paging listbox using jQuery. which has drawn a lot of traffic and few questions lately so I thought it would be more convenient to rewrite the code as jQuery plugin and make few enhancements plus providing a complete sample code in VB.Net and C#.

http://labs.chemist2dio.com/43-amazing-abstract...

Abstract elements can be easily fitted anywhere from websites, prints and multimedia presentations, We all know that there are tons of photoshop brushes here and there but abstract are the coolest, with so many of them available, I have gathered in this post the best of abstract brushes that would come in handy when designers/developers like us needed to spice up our designs.

21 Amazing Smoke Brushes
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/...

Fantastic collection of 21 coloured smoke pictures by Graham Jeffery’s now in a photoshop brush pack

20 Awesome Reflection Photos For Your Inspiration
http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/23/20-awe...
An excellent collection of 20 awesome handpicked reflection pictures for your inspiration.

25+ Fabulous Examples of Photo Manipulation

http://www.readyphotosite.com/blog/inspirationa...

Today photo manipulation is widely accepted as an art form. Take a look at the 25+ incredible pieces of photo manipulation to get your dose of inspiration for today!

22 Really Useful Website Analysis Tools
http://codefusionlab.blogspot.com/2009/07/22-re...

A review of 22 tools which allow you to analyze every aspect of your website’s popularity.

30 Awesome Handpicked Design T-shirts From The 10k Design By Humans Contest

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/21/30-awe...
Design by Humans is one of the best places for designer T-shirts so from their 2nd year contest I have hand picked 30 awesome designer t-shirts for your pleasure.

A feed aggregator, which is also known as feed reader, is a client software or web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing.

ThumbTack Color

http://tpgblog.com/2009/07/20/quickux-average-c...

There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the Average Credibility of ThumbTack via Quick-UX.

Working on your wireframes before starting on the details of design is a crucial step in web design.

Continuing our search for inspirational resources we came across some of the most beautiful dark websites around. Take a look and enjoy!

25 abstract and beautiful IPhone wallpapers to liven up your screens.

23 Extremely Helpful Wordpress Help Sheets And Resources

This list features not only wordpress help sheets, but also SEO optimization articles, online theme generator and coding tips showing where you can look further if you've got problems with coding.

Links play an important role in determining search engine ranking results. These 18 strategies for internal, inbound, and outbound links will help your website perform at its best.

Website builder from Site2You is a right solution for everyone who would like to create a professional website in short terms. Website builder corresponds to the main web standards and concentrates on the customers' core requirements.Using an intuitive admin panel every customer - whether he is a prof or a newbie - will be able to customize any design element.

http://www.site2you.com

WordPress clearly need no introduction for web devotees like us. Starting out from just a humble blogging platform in 2003, it had grow exponentially into a popular platform

15 objects with typography

30 awesome Twitter inspired logo designs plus a host of useful Twitter resources!

IzzyTodo - easy to use, free todo list builder, which allows to build
unlimited todo lists with unlimited todo items. It's easy to use and
intuitive, helps to organize live targets or projects

Tilt Shift Effect - How To Make Your Own Effect With Tiltshiftmaker

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/15/tilt-s...

Here you can learn how to transform you normal pictures in tilt shift photos or miniature images, with an Internet tool for free, plus some examples.

If you think your website has original and attractive design and it is Joomla-based design - then, you are welcome to our showcase - Best Joomla Design!

How to create an accessible Flash nav that functions like an HTML nav with right-click to open links in new window support.

http://bluedotsdesign.com/blog/2009/07/10-plugi...

8 plug-ins to use Wordpress as a CMS

i’ve decided to make a short list that contains some plug-ins i have found very useful in my work with wordpress.

MakingOf Credibility
http://tpgblog.com/2009/07/13/quickux-average-c...

There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the Average Credibility of MakingOf via Quick-UX.

Beautiful Gradient Effects On Web design – Research: Part 2

Beautiful time to get inspired with very good web design examples and research how gradients and colors are used effectively in web site creation.

Paper Wall is the first wordpress theme released by INDEZINER and was created especially for Smashing Magazine. We created this theme as a challenge for us to see if it will be accepted for these great guys and in this way to receive a moral rating.

Video Of The Week #05 - Minimalism
http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/13/video-...
A great commercial spot made in stop motion called Minimalism by Mini, for the last campaign in the 50th anniversary.

Hello Super Summer – New tutorial on AREA 1

Newest tutorial on AREA 1: Hello Super Summer. A tutorial on how to make a nice landscape related to summer.

36 Color Gradient Sets For Photoshop and Resource Sites: Part 1

On this article you'll find hand-picked color gradient sets and many gradient resource sites and even few gradient generators. Must have in every designer toolbox.

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to fill an empty bottle with water in Photoshop and then create a nice wallpaper.

If you want to create some unusual space scene with exploding planet, then we have an interesting tutorial for you.

Pro Juice is a weekly presenter driven online portal and TV series about music, video and multimedia for ‘guerrilla producers’ that want to make, distribute and market their media. We're talking tutorials, rants, interviews, inspirational stuff and much, much more.

Pro Juice is fast paced, shoot from the hip, music video style programming. Professionally produced, but alternatively ‘pro-juiced’, original stories cut hard to provide informative and entertaining viewing. With a high use of bold design and new music, Pro Juice visually and sonically represents the medium it is dissecting.

Imagine that you could conduct quality photos edition or image manipulation without the need of having pricey software or even engage a professional to do it.

Grungy inspiration - Tattoo magazine in wordpress fresh out the oven from cold sweden (well, right now it is damn hot..)

Well according to me Wordpress is the best for blogging but Blogger is also one of the most popular hosted blogging platforms. So today for my freebies section i have collected 19 best resources to get free blogger templates.

StumbleUpon FAQ, Guides, Tools, Addons And Scripts

Comprehensive list with many tips, tools, addons and scripts to help you drive better traffic to your website and use StumbleUpon social network more efficiently!

16 Impressive Image Optimization Tools

http://codefusionlab.blogspot.com/2009/07/16-im...

A Comprehensive Review Of 16 Image Optimization Tools, All Free For Use!

Social networks grow at an amazing rate. There are many such communities with an increasing amount of features. Twitter is one the most used social network at the moment. It has over 3 million users and growing at a very fast rate. In this article we have selected 50 of the most awesome twitter profiles for your inspiration. Enjoy and stay tuned for part 2 of 50 awesome twitter profiles.

33 Promising Web Development And Social Network Firefox 3.5 Plugins

List article with new, yet not so well known Firefox extensions, you should use daily, because of their great features and power! Scroll through to get the best out of it!

50 Best Examples Of Select Your Language Pages

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/07/50-bes...

Have you seen a web site where you have to select your language before actually seeing the site, here is a collection of 50 Best Examples Of Select Your Language Pages you could find on Internet that could inspired you in your next project.

www.ConceptFeedback.com, designed specifically for designers and freelancers, provides a free and simple tool for exchanging third-party feedback and ideas on design projects. Concepts may be posted publicly or privately and can include websites, logos, advertisements, videos, and more.

Best 60 must have wordpress plugins

UPDATE: Refreshed Likexo
http://tpgblog.com/2009/07/06/quickux-credibili...

There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Re-evaluating the refreshed Credibility of Likexo via Quick-UX.

250+ RSS Feeds For Web Designers To Subscibe At

The biggest design RSS feed list ever!

Topics of these blogs cover graphic-design, SEO tricks, coding, programming, twittering, social marketing, podcasts, few self-improvement related blogs and more.

45+ Excellent Website Analytics/Monitoring/Counter Services

Everybody needs to track their website visitors. Not everybody has the right tools. Here's a compilation of 45+ web analytics tools, each of which, has a unique feature sure to satisfy your needs. Check them out and monitor your visitors!

http://codefusionlab.blogspot.com/2009/06/45-ex...

13 Beautiful Wordpress Showcase Sites

This article shows you beautiful showcase websites, which collects WordPress based blogs and delivers long run inspiration.

20 Outstanding Letterpress Business Cards
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=5384
These 20 letterpress business cards featured in this post are a great example of how effective letterpress business cards can reflect you or your company.

How to Create Out of Bounds Effect Plus Amazing Examples
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=5342
Out of Bounds or simply OOB is a technique used to add a 3D feel to a flat photo image. Its a lot of fun and pretty easy to do.

From Liberating Your Password to Modular Innovation Trends
http://tpgblog.com/2009/07/03/pricing-passwords...

10 Awesome Photoshop Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts You Probably Don't Know!

http://www.derekkimball.com/10-awesome-photosho...

What tools make you a better graphic designer? Here's my list of things I can't live without as a designer: http://www.derekkimball.com/tools-to-make-you-a...

For a change, this post is for readers from all niche, segment, interest, community and category. Even if you have no relation with the world of web designing you shall find reading it worthy.

http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/mark-prints-for-se...

7 Things You Don't Learn In Design School

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/02/7-thin...

When finishing design school you will learn so many thing your teachers never told you. Here you have some of those things.

10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical

If content is the heart of every website publication, navigation is its brain and a fundamental pillar of information architecture design.

50 Free Social Twitter Resources and Icon Sets: Huge List

Official Twitter badges are boring, let's put something fresh in your design! This list showcases all the best Twitter related icons available on Internet!

22 Free Seamless Vector Pattern Resources Perfect For Web Design

This list just features 22 resource sites and several very well written articles with premade pattern collections, so you have everything in one place! Enjoy!

Two months ago i created a showcase of flash e-commerce sites, which was very much liked by my blog readers. Now i have collected 25 beautiful and creative photography sites.

Here are 55 incredible product advertisements from deviantART that you haven’t seen, but are extraordinary examples of how creative advertising should be done.

In this photoshop tutorial we will create an easy but cool wallpaper inspired by nature. The inspiration for this work derives from the incredible wallpaper that you can download for free at desktopography.net

Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=5271
A trifold brochure is a great way to promote your business and is a must for your marketing campaign. Here is a quick guideline and some examples of trifold brochures.

Michael Jackson Wallpapers: A creative homage to the King of Pop
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=5311
Michael Jackson is my childhood musical hero. As a tribute, I am posting here 21 wallpapers about Michael Jackson from artists around the world.

Learn how to create a realistic vector kiwi using effects like Texturizer, Pointillize, Grain and Film grain.

Create this super cool 3D peeled skin effect from scratch.

Create marine tiles effect for background. Learn how to create it effortlessly with the transform tool.

Great list of the best free vector patterns on the web. Find a great variety of floral, textile, geometric and seamless patterns for your project!

Learn the tips and tricks of live trace to create perfect silhouette figures in Illustrator.

20 New, Useful And Promising Wordpress Plugins

This list features new, not yet so popular but promising plugins. Check out this list to improve your blog and maybe even make daily life easier.

12 Awesome French Short Animations

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/06/29/12-awe...

Here you have a great collection of French short animations made by professionals and also students from the best schools animation in France, different techniques and styles but all have in common an excellent quality.

Check out this Photoshop tutorial showing how to easily created stunning portrait artwork from your favorite photographs. Also free downloads (quality, high resolution images) on the "freebies" page of the site below.

http://www.derekkimball.com/turn-your-photos-in...

UPDATE: Pogby Renewed
There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Re-evaluating the Credibility of Pogby via Quick-UX.

http://tpgblog.com/2009/06/29/quickux-credibili...

The increasing importance of PSD to XHTML conversion cannot be negated. It is an intrinsic part of Website Designing and holds a heavy weightage.

http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/psd-to-xhtml-impor...

53 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection

jQuery definitely is one of the biggest trends coming in up-to-date designs with "write less, do more" approach. Here you'll find all the best resources available related to jQuery.

40 High Resolution And Elegant Apple Wallpapers

Let's think different - beautiful collection of Apple wallpapers for your daily inspiration.

40 High Resolution And Elegant Apple Wallpapers

Let's think different - beautiful collection of Apple wallpapers for your daily inspiration.

Last month i published a post on creative twitter backgrounds of designers which was very much liked by my blog readers. So i thought why not collect free twitter background templates with psd source files for my readers too.

Need Design Inspiration ?
Have a look at the most stylish websites, or
get some of our fantastic freebies !
A mix of icons, fonts, vectors, brushes, badges, and much more...

31 Useful Twitter Plugins For Wordpress To Choose From

Twitter has own tools for displaying Twitter status, but they are not too varied, that's why I took research with Twitter related Wordpress plugins to help unite Twitter with your blog.

I saw this old sort of vintage tag on a bed and thought damn that’s awesome, Download it for free

Today, we have 43 absolutely spectacular examples of fractal art collected from across the internet. These images will be sure to take your breath away.

http://www.presidiacreative.com/43-spectacular-...

To manage your followers or friends on twitter is not an easy task. To be successful on twitter you have to analyze different things.

A big mistake that most PSD to XHTML services are making is promising cross-browser support for their clients. Cross-browser means the website you coded will render perfectly in all browsers since its release.

http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/dont-promise-me-cr...

RFPs and RFQs for design projects are issued by a huge number of organizations, and cover a broad range of projects. Here's an introduction to some of the tools and techniques that can help you find the opportunities that are right for your business.

Convincing GigaOM: There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the Average Credibility of GigaOM via Quick-UX.

http://tpgblog.com/2009/06/22/quickux-average-c...

This tutorial teaches you how to take an ordinary photo and turn it into a stylish fashion advert.

Examples of space and lighting effects that are commonly used in web design

Visual Fate Design Dictionary – A guide to Design terms and related subjects online.

A - Z Twitter Creative Elite to Follow
http://mogdesign.eu/blog/a-z-twitter-creative-e...
Huge list of most creative designers and bloggers on Twitter

30 Creative Javascript Navigation Menu Examples

Here is a list with 30 innovative, beautiful, creative and eye-catching navigation menus for your inspiration in web development process.

Beginner Photoshop Tutorial - Create a Call To Action Button

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/06/18/beginn...

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial explains the basics, when creating a Call to Action Button and learn you how to design one, perfect for the Photoshop beginner.

Lightbox is an ajax solution for preview image, slideshow and form in a modal dialog. It significantly improve user experience as it only loads a portion of content than refreshing the whole page.
http://www.dottony.com/30-useful-ajax-lightbox-...

There have been posts about top PSD to HTML providers. One of this kind of post you could find in our blog too, lol. So, today we thought of providing something more useful, more exact and more valuable to our readers.

Video Of The Week #03
http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/06/16/video-...
MUTO IS OUT is an animation made by BLU, this is a surrealistic motion piece painted over the walls of Baden in Buenos Aires, having as a result an animation incredibly astonish, with black and white as principal colors.

Today, we have 52 of the most impressive Apple wallpapers available on the internet. These wallpapers were hand selected for being beautiful, unique and creative.

http://www.presidiacreative.com/52-most-impress...

Do you have a very strong love and passion for design and writing design related tutorials? Then, this is the time and the place to let the creative monster inside you to go and spread the word for thousands and thousands of Graphic Mania visitors by joining Graphic Mania Contribution Program.

Simple tutorial for creating an illusion effect of an image flip using jQuery of course. This thing can be used as a cool gallery kind of a thing. So, hopefully you guys will like it.

Learn how to craft a beautiful and eye-grabbing grunge-themed web layout using Photoshop.

Check out our recently launched new design agency website, we specialise in design, photography and animation, the website design was based around injections of colour with big bold titles and simple key messages, let us know what you think!
you can find us at http://www.tcda.co.uk

Credibly Mashable: There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the Average Credibility of Mashable via Quick-UX.

http://tpgblog.com/2009/06/15/quickux-average-c...

A collection of common used symbols in signage & wayfinding design, free available for download.

This is a collection of my favourite Photoshop text effects

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/06/08/video-...
Video Of The Week #02

This time I have a great music video called We Got Time from Moray McLaren who features a really well made animation, based on praxinoscopes if you don't know what it is you will see it in complete action on this video.

66 High Resolution Nature Desktop Backgrounds

Beauty speaks in all languages - with this post shows these words speak truth. Find beautiful and fresh wallpaper just for You right now!

Wordpress 2.8 And 10 Things That You Should Know Before/After You Upgrade

http://www.webdesignbooth.com/wordpress-28-and-...

There are a lot of exciting new features in Wordpress 2.8. Here, we list down 10 things that you should know before and after you upgrade, and also some tips for the theme/plugin developer.

Most Useful CSS Galleries Sorted by Google PR

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/most-useful-css-galler...

Minimalist websites look really awesome, often even better than "heavy" web designs. To be blunt, they kick ass. This is due to quite a few things, which I have collected in this "mini" guide about minimalist web designs, so that you don't need to go through the "heavy" guides and tutorials.

http://colorfreak.com/blog/minimalist-guide-mak...

Niche Showcase Galleries - Webdesign Gallery Week

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/niche-showcase-galleries/

Look at the niche showcase galleries: Site Layout, Web 2.0, Design elements, Online stores, Minimal, Typographical, Geographical, Blogs and much more.

In this web development tutorial, you will learn, step-by-step, how to create a beautiful dark and sleek web layout using standards-based HTML and CSS. Along the way, you will witness how to use CSS Sprites and CSS Text Image Replacement.

You have in the following list as you have had in the past weeks a lot of graphic design tutorials and of course icon design tutorials or even layout design tuts. Misc tutorials are crawling their way into the list to spice it a little bit.

Where to buy photos and illustrations

Big comparison of the best microstock agencies - tips where you can buy the best and cheapest photos, vector illustrations and footage. Comparison of portfolio sizes, subscriptions, prices.

A super-customizable, Flash AS3 contact form that is built using PHP. All ActionScript source code is included as well as an XML-powered version.

CMS Showcase Galleries to submit your site

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/cms-showcase-galleries...

CMS showcase galleries to submit your site: drupal, wordpress, joomla, typo3, django, modx and more, in today’s article from the “Webdesign Gallery Week” series

Best of the Paper Textures Handpicked from Deviantart
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4676
Here is a collection of 15 free paper texture packs handpicked from Deviantart.com that you may want to check out.

21 Unique Wedding Invitations and Save the Date Cards
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4639
June has always been the most popular month for weddings. Here are some unique ideas that could help you design wedding invitations or save the date cards.

Trusting TechCrunch

http://tpgblog.com/2009/06/08/quickux-average-c...

There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the Average Credibility of TechCrunch via Quick-UX.

Webdesign Gallery Week - day 1 - CSS Gallery Resources

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/webdesign-gallery-week...

Today, I am starting a “Webdesign Gallery Week” on Mogdesign - a week full of posts with the best online sources of design inspiration galleries. Each day, I will focus on different types of CSS and design galleries: CMS related, Niche related, Most useful CSS Galleries sorted by Google PR, and on the end the huge Best of collection will come.

Why Cross Promotion is More Important than Ever
We all know that we are in the midst of a recession. To put it mildly, times are tough. Virtually every business is having a harder time making sales and increasing profits.

50 Captivating & well-formed Logo Design

Logo is a Brand or Identity or image?
Beautiful Logo is created day by day. Today I’m here showing you the 50 Captivating & well-formed Logo Design.

http://blog.fazai38.com/index.php/2009/06/07/50...

40 Stunning Alcoholic Advertisements | Fazai38's Inspirational Blog
http://blog.fazai38.com/index.php/2009/05/25/40...

14 Javascript Resources And Plugins For Creating A Stylish Chart
http://www.webdesignbooth.com/14-javascript-res...


Graph and Chart are very effective ways of visualizing data. Today, i am going to share different ways of generating charts through Javascript and its plugins.

20 Sleek and Clean Fonts From Dafont
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4605

This post lists 20 clean and sleek fonts that would go nicely with a clean or minimalist design that you can download for free from Dafont.com.

30 Examples of Beautiful Typography Illustrations
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4558

Designers are making type sexy again. Painting with type is a growing trend nowadays especially with computers giving designers the tools to do amazing things with type.

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/06/05/15-sit...
A great collection of some sites where you can find a really cool Twitter backgrounds ready to install on your profile.

110+ CSS Gallery To Submit Your Design, Part 2
http://www.webdesignbooth.com/110-css-gallery-t...

Last week i shared about 55 CSS Galleries to submit your web design, and now i would like to complete the series by sharing another 55+ CSS Galleries.

20 Widescreen Wallpapers for the Minimalists
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4521
Here are 20 minimalist-themed wallpapers with sizes ranging from 1920 x 1200 to 2560x1600 pixels that you can use for your desktops.

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/06/01/video-...

A great video about a story everybody knows, the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, great graphic style and also great music background.

Today’s post comes courtesy of Blasting Art. We’ve rounded up 30 just awesome anime style illustrations from Blasting Art that will be sure to inspire you.

http://www.presidiacreative.com/30-awesome-anim...

http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/06/01/25-bes...

A Great collection of 25 of the best coming soon pages you can find on internet. A source of inspiration for your ideas when creating expectation on a new website or for the redesign of a site.

24 Top Sources for Photoshop Website Layout Tutorials
http://mogdesign.eu/blog/24-top-sources-for-pho...
Whether you are learning Photoshop looking for resources or you are a Photoshop guru looking for an inspiration, tutorials are one of the best ways to get it. Find 24 high quality sources that bring website layout Photoshop tutorials

100 Websites and Blogs Where You Can Download Free Vector Graphics
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4458
Are you trying to beef up your collection of vector graphics? Here's a massive list of 100 websites and blogs that offer vector freebies.

Free Photoshop Brushes: Leaves
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4440
This set consists 15 free Photoshop brushes in medium- to high-resolution sizes featuring different kinds of leaves. There are leaves with branches, clover, maple and even a marijuana leaf.

How many web designers can say that there are too many places to draw inspiration from? Exactly. None. Inspiration is welcomed from high and low, far and wide. Sure, there are css galleries you can check out, or even other designers portfolios you may be friends with on twitter or other social media websites, but what about Deviant Art?

Dollar ReDe$ign Project
http://www.dollarredesign.com
The Dollar ReDe$ign Project believes the only way to revive our economy is to rebrand America, starting with redesigning the Dollar bill.

37 Places To Get Free Stock Images
Why pay for something you can get for free? We have compiled a list of websites where you can get free stock images you can use for your blogs, company websites, custom brochures, poster, postcards or for whatever creative purpose.

Free Photoshop Brushes: Postage Stamps

http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4426

This set consists 12 medium-resolution free Photoshop brushes featuring postage stamps from different countries.

Free Photoshop Brushes: Graffiti Art

http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4409

This set consists ultra high-resolution Photoshop brushes featuring graffiti art lettering. These brushes were created using vector images with resolution of 2500 pixels.

CSS Grid Layout Generators are undoubtedly useful for a web designers. These generators saves designers time by generating different size grid layout that can immediately being used by designers.

Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools

This is an ultimate list of font and typographic related online tools available on Internet. Create your own fonts, find unknown tools and lots more.

As twitter is growing rapidly so the twitter applications too. Lots of twitter applications are available on internet but here i am not going to discuss about the twitter applications, i will showcase the best designed and web 2.0 twitter applications.

A desktop without a good wallpaper looks like you are working on an old age computer. I download creative wallpapers weekly for my desktop. So today i have collected really amazing wallpapers for you and i worked on this list for whole one day to collect the best ones.

There are lots of web design tools available on internet, which will help you accomplish your tasks easily and quickly, and still more are coming. Every designer now has his/her own toolbox.

It is almost two months that i have been working on pelfusion and writing design related articles. While blogging i met really creative persons some of them became my friend too.

Ha! I see you guys have integrated facebook connect into the site!

Anyways I wrote an article on the importance of taking quality pictures to help sell shirts>
http://tinyurl.com/mon294
or
http://iamthetrend.com/featured/the-importance-...

Great roundup of Stunningly Colorful Wallpapers that will blow up the look of your screens.

Inspirational Design from Flickr!
http://creativityden.com/inspirational-design-f...

Awesome Website Mascots!
http://creativityden.com/awesome-website-mascots

For designers working on different tools is not only important, they have to get daily dose of inspiration too. So for your inspiration i have arranged really amazing and creative web sites. This list includes creative css, flash, design studio and portfolio sites. I hope you will like the sites as these are really inspirational.

http://tpgblog.com/2009/05/18/quickux-low-credi...

IndyBudget's Deficit

Tutorial about preparing your vector illustrations for microstock sales (fixing issues, generating EPS in right format, JPG preview).

50 Refreshing Business Card Designs
Finally a new wave of those business card designs we can’t get enough of! We’re pretty sure you’ve been seeing the same designs over and over again so if you’re looking for more creative inspiration, we hope this fresh batch will do the trick.

The 12 Best Sites for Designing a Brochure OnlineDesigning and printing brochures from home, whether you’ve had plenty of experience or none at all, has been made very possible by helpful websites

50 Best Tutorials To Design Wallpapers

To be good designer you have to do everything which is related to designing, even if its designing a wallpaper or complicated themes you have to do it. Mostly designers design cool looking wallpapers with their signature on them and distribute for free to get popularity in design community. So why not you? Don’t you like fame :).

Bannersnack Giveaway Contest And 9th Month Feedback

Little feedback article explaining future plans with 1stwebdesigner and Bannersnack giveaway contest with 3 premium licenses for 1 year! Don't miss this one!

13 Sites To Find A Free Twitter Background
This is a collection of some sites where you can find great twitter backgrounds for free, ready to install in your twitter profile.

The Social Media Directory for Designers gets a redesign and the beginning of a new series of video blog posts.

10 Useful Photoshop tips and tricks
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4112
Here are the 10 most useful Photoshop tips and tricks that helped me use this program with ease. The tips range from keyboard shortcuts for accessing tools to image retouching.

20 Magazine Layout Designs for Inspiration
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4076
This post showcases 30 creative and beautifully designed inside pages layout or spread of magazines.

The Best Way to Convert Colored Photos to Black and White
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4032
This Photoshop tutorial shows how to make better black and white photos using the Color Mixer option in Photoshop. A better alternative to the grayscale and desaturate options in converting colored to black and white.

Unforward ToRSS:
There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the barely Low Credibility of ToRSS via Quick-UX.

15 videogames websites Design:

Until now I have seen many list of web sites, (dark websites, sports websites, minimalist websites. etc.) but none of videogame sites, a few months ago Smashing Magazine published a list of movie sites, so I thought it could be a good idea to make one of videogames

We are always look for great resources from the internet. The post will show 15 really cool and sexy RSS feed icon for WDB's readers.

Best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures of April 2009

A business card made with a lot of creativity, will increase your professionalism and the customer does not forget you! A collection of more than 35 Business Cards that do not pass unnoticed.

27 Twitter Tools To Help You Find And Manage Followers

Great Twitter tools, which will help You find more followers, manage them, find who doesn't follow You back, who stops following, statistics and much, much more.

48 Excellent Examples Of Blog Post Footer Designs

What happens when your visitors are done reading your blog post? Of course the last we want as bloggers and site owners if for people to scan/read an article and then leave right after. What can we do to prevent that? Well, let’s find out!

This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to create a simple and clean "Web 2.0 style" button sprite with a rollover state. You’ll also learn how to set up the sprite using some basic CSS techniques.

Now I am going to teach you simple technique of photoshop to create glassy button with simple parameters. I now that there are lots of way to create glassy button but this is simplest way to create it and impress your boss.

Learn Vector Watercolour Free course

110+ Massive Wordpress Video Tutorial Collection

On this list You'll find all available WordPress video tutorials on Internet with a lot of links for every level of knowledge. I am sure You'll learn something!

Illustrated characters add some character and a sense of friendliness to your website. Here's a showcase of inspirational illustrated characters along with some further links for inspiration.

A set of 15 high resolution blurred textures available for personal and commercial use

Lets once again learn something which really helpful in graphic design and web design. Here I am with some good stuff to teach you how to make vista like button whith the help of photoshop. It is very simple and you can make vista like button with 10 simple steps, here I guess that you have basic knowledge of ph0toshop and it’s tools. So lets start.

Today we talk about how to realize the restyling of a corporate website, step by step.

Photoshop Tutorial: The Best Way to Sharpen Photos
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=3743
This article discusses how professional photographers sharpen their pictures without the help of any third-party plugin in Photoshop via the so-called Lab Color.

Create Glassy Menu Bar:

yes you can create web 2.0 style glassy menu bar for your website and when you are designing website for you clients. As this is mostly use in website design so I think every web designer should know this glassy effect. It’s so simple to create glassy top menu bar for website.

6 WordPress plugins that help your blog’s maintenance
If your website is based on WordPress, here are a few plugins to help you keep a neat blog.
http://www.designer-daily.com/6-wordpress-plugi...

Skeptical Convert: There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the barely Low Credibility of Convert Files via Quick-UX.

http://tpgblog.com/2009/05/04/quickux-low-credi...

Another month had pass away, and its time to choose the best of css design for the month of April in no particular order

10 Easy Ways to Generate Traffic to Your Webdesign Blog

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/10-easy-ways-to-genera...

Traffic is something that everyone is after. It represents one of the best way to measure success of your blog. If you have traffic, you know that people find your posts and resources valuable, you can sell more ads, ads will bring more money, that will help you to cover your costs and generate profit…

Widescreen Wallpapers of Landscapes, Beaches, Lakes and Sunsets
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=3696
Here are 24 of the most beautiful landscape widescreen wallpapers I found online with resolution ranging from 1920x1080 to 1920x1200. These are suitable for 21 to 28-inch widescreen monitors.

A Collection Of Resources For Motion Graphics Addicts

I have always loved motion graphics and animation and I’m sure many of you web and graphic designers do too (if not, don’t worry, it’ll grow on you!) So, I thought I’d make a list of resources, sites and blogs on the topic since it’s something I really enjoy, I hope you find it useful! :)

65 Very Creative and Funny Photoshopped Images

Photo manipulation is one of the most interesting skills and most creative art dressed in future/present digital age. Get inspired with top picks from Worth1000!

Free Photoshop Brushes: Swirls and Flowers
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=3530
This is my second set of free Photoshop brushes composed of swirls and flower brushes. Created in Photoshop CS2, these brushes hasve resolution of 2500px and should work with Photoshop CS+.

A collection of code snippets that have been graciously contributed to the community from those students of style, those seeders of CSS.

What Makes a Great Logo Design?
http://www.logocritiques.com/resources/what_mak...

A logo, trademark, emblem, brand, logotype, symbol, identity, mark, insignia represents a company to consumers. It gets its meaning from the company it represents, not the other way around. It’s effectiveness can help to sell a product or service to the public. It’s the identifier that consumers sometimes attach themselves to and become loyal to. It’s a visual expression of a company, product or service. The role of the logo is to point or designate in the simplest form possible.

35 Stock Pictures of Water Splashes Sure to Inspire and Cool You Down
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=3148
Here is a collection of high speed photographs of liquid or water. Most of them are water bullets, exploding or splashing water when something like fruits are thrown into it.

50 Refreshing Business Card Designs
Finally a new wave of those business card designs we can’t get enough of! We’re pretty sure you’ve been seeing the same designs over and over again so if you’re looking for more creative inspiration, we hope this fresh batch will do the trick.

The 12 Best Sites for Designing a Brochure Online
Designing and printing brochures from home, whether you’ve had plenty of experience or none at all, has been made very possible by helpful websites. The only problem can be knowing what tips you need and also what are the best sources for those tips.

A mega collection containing more than 60 addresses of websites and blogs for designers and developers. You can find resources of all kinds, from Ruby on rails to Ajax, from CSS to Illustrator and much more!

A List of 14 cool and influential designers using twitter. This is a great opportunity to hear what they are talking about. Just follow them an you'll hear that design talk ;)

In this Adobe Photoshop graphic design tutorial, we are going to create a magical glow effect coming from a box.

Unbelievable Likexo
http://tpgblog.com/2009/04/28/quickux-low-credi...
There is a great deal that goes into the Credibility of a product, from the people that hype it, to its visual presentation. Evaluating the Zero Credibility of Likexo via Quick-UX.

Review of Pete Barry's excellent The Advertising Concept Book on The Designer's Review of Books. Good, straight up advice about how to develop award-winning creative ideas. http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com/2009/04/t...

110 Free Grungy Concrete Textures
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=3026
The first set of grunge textures. There are a total of 110 super high-resolution textures that you can download and use for free in any way you want. Checkout also the other two volumes, wood and metal grungy textures.

Free Photoshop Brushes: Grunge Picture Frames and Borders
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=2995
Here are 25 Photoshop brushes you can use as picture frames or borders. Created in Photoshop CS2, these brushes have resolution of 2500 pixels each.

20 Wordpress Theme Frameworks And Starting Resources

Listed the best Wordpress theme frameworks available as well as several child themes and related articles to help get Your foot with Wordpress theme developing.

Arbenting's best of the design web for the week and inspiration featuring Rob Gonsalves

Tips & tricks for beginners to draw a realistic flower with gradient mesh tool.

5 Mistakes Business Owners Make, when Considering a New Website

With years of building websites for small-to-medium size business behind me, I’ve made some observations regarding critical thought process gone awry, severely hampering the project and the resulting satisfaction of the client.

The Arbenting Freelancing series rolls on with The True Benefits of Freelancing Part Deux.

The source code for a Flash AS3 scrollbar that automatically resizes according to the amount of content. Easily skinnable.

In this Photoshop web design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a full web page layout that combines the sleek and textured look-and-feel using a combination of beginning to intermediate Adobe Photoshop techniques.

Title:
28 Creative Mac Wallpapers

Link:
http://digg.com/d1pLEY

Description:
For MAC lover who love to collect different wallpapers for their desktop. The author went through different sources and collected 28 High Quality Mac Wallpapers.

Quick-UX & Credibility: Do you believe?

i have managed to try and select a few of what I think can allow you to get great effects that look like they belong and don’t look completely Photoshopped.

e happy design logo critique.

http://www.logocritiques.com/critiques/e_happy_...

Here is a selection of 60 Great Wordpress Themes which you can get for free.

Lots of sites which impress with their usability and clean look but I couldn’t leave out some creative CSS and Flash sites like 7splat, loungelizard, cartonblanc or agathagroup.

33 Outstanding Apophysis Tutorials: Part 2

Second part in Apophysis series - now offering 33 useful apophysis tutorials to help get Your foot on Apophysis or dig deeper with intermediate tutorials.

Crowdsourcing the new logo for TweetPhoto
http://www.chewdesign.co.uk/index.php/crowdsour...

Crowdsourcing. Designers post their samples for free in the hope of winning a competition and bagging $300. A fast new design craze sweeping freelance web pages at the moment. is it worth it?

Logos that are Twitterific!
http://www.chewdesign.co.uk/index.php/logos-tha...

A look at the diverse nature of Twitter logos around the web. How far can a logo diversify before becoming unrecognizable?

Great Fonts in One Book
http://www.chewdesign.co.uk/index.php/the-encyc...

The Encyclopedia of Fonts is a great resource for any designer. Don't ever loose that illusive font again!

London Logos. Branding a City.
http://www.chewdesign.co.uk/index.php/london-lo...

Can logos ultimately contribute toward a City's look and feel? A glance toward logos in London might just answer this!

When Logo Design Goes Wrong
http://www.chewdesign.co.uk/index.php/when-logo...

Can logo design ever go wrong? How and why does it happen and what can a designer do about it?

Logo Design Trends for 2009
http://www.chewdesign.co.uk/index.php/logo-desi...

A look at emerging trends in logo design. All a designer needs to know for designing a logo in 2009.

Milk Photography - Andrey Razoomovsky. Creative and original milk photography.

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/31-color-resources-eve...

Color is definitely one of the most important components of a website design. It can determine the success of every project you will ever work on. If your color combination is chosen badly, you can easily bury your website, no matter how good content it may have. On the other hand - website with poor content, but with great color scheme will easily attract more visitors then you would expect.

In this post I will look at most useful, mostly online tools, that can help you to avoid the mistake that many people do and to chose colors for your projects wisely and with confidence.

16 Purple Websites That Rock
Can your creativity handle the demand for purple? Designing websites for clients can sometimes prove to be quite a challenge especially when clients are set on having purple as a dominant shade on their website. We have scoured the internet to make a list of really yummy purple websites

Techniques for a Business Card Makeover
Maybe you are one of the special few people who actually use all 1000 of those business cards you ordered and it's time for a new design. Maybe your contact information changed recently and it's time for an update.

A set of 10 high resolution abstract textures from Arbenting free for commercial and non-commercial use.

Here are a couple great articles on logos

1. 10 Mistakes Logo Designers Can Make When Designing Logos
http://www.logocritiques.com/resources/10_mista...

2. 10 Great Logo Design, Branding and Identity Books
http://www.logocritiques.com/resources/10_great...

3. The Creative Brief: Questions to Ask Before Designing a Logo
http://www.logocritiques.com/resources/the_crea...

Freebies: High-Res Splatter Photoshop Brush
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=2880

Here's a unique set of Photoshop brushes that include ink and blood splatters. These brushes have high resolution of 2500px.

Design Inspiration: The Best of Graffiti Wallpapers
Here’s a list of beautiful graffiti arts to boost your design and Photoshop inspiration. These are the best graffiti artwork that I have seen so far!

The SoftKiller Poster by the art director Jonathan Betancur. Aka: zafra / JonyBeta.

60 Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis:Part 1

First part of post series, this one is about 3D fractals created with Apophysis, inspirational article so You could see what's possible with Apophysis.

33 Viciously Cool Graphic Designer Portfolios
What better place to get vicious eye-candy bursting with creativity than a graphic designer’s portfolio? In this first installment of our Coolest Graphic Designer Portfolio feature, we list artists and designers boasting of talent in illustrations, fine art, graphic design for flyers, posters and brochures for print, advertising, web design and photography.

The Complete Brochure Online Design Toolkit
Designing your own brochures online, while still a major task, is now very possible with what’s accessible through the WWW. Everything from stock photos, backgrounds, templates to fonts are available online, most are for free and some for just a minimal cost.

The Personal Web Design Degree is an experiment in using the crowd to develop an online curriculum for web design education.

A collection of type-based logos for your own design inspiration.

15 Awesome-Looking Yet Free Magazine Style Wordpress Themes
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=2736
Today, Wordpress has become one of the most powerful publishing platform that is increasingly being used to power online magazines and other news-driven Web sites–and these are sites that fall outside the domain of ‘blogs’. In this roundup, I am going to list 15 tastefully designed magazine-style Wordpress themes that you can download and use for free.

20 Spring-Inspired Color Palettes Plus 40 Seamless Matching Patterns
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=2644
Here are 20 spring-inspired color palettes from Colourlovers.com that you can download and use in Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP and other programs. For every color palette, two seamless patterns using the featured color schemes are likewise provided. You may use these patterns as background for website, as pattern in Photoshop or Illustrator and in many other design requirements that you may have.

25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration

I present to You 25 great showcase sites, portfolios and blogs dedicated to help You become an expert in logo creation.

Elegant Wordpress Themes 1-Year Memberships Giveaway

http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/elegant-wor...

Elegant Wordpress Themes 1-Year Memberships Giveaway. Comment and win.

Adobe Flash CS4 Tutorial Articles Collection
http://www.graphicmania.net/adobe-flash-cs4-tut...
When I started to write for the communitymx.com, I got controlled with my big love of Flash. Thus, I started to write about the most sparkling new features in Flash CS4. A tutorial article for each feature. Below are a collection of these tutorials:

FotoMaps : your photos on a map : flash & XML gallery
http://www.fotomaps.net
FotoMaps is a photo gallery built with flash and XML that lets you put your photos on a map. Choose any map you like, then place each photo at the exact location where it was taken. Zoom in and out, drag the map around, and explore your photos.

Freebies: Super High-Resolution Certificate Frames (Photoshop Brushes)

Here are high-resolution Photoshop brushes that you can use to frame certificates, photos, artworks and other documents. Created in Photoshop CS3, the resolution of each brush is set at around 2500 pixels. Since I created this in CS3, I think this should work with all CS versions of Photoshop.

Design Inspiration: Simple Yet Elegant Business Card Designs
We use business cards to get us noticed and make a lasting impression to our clients so that they remember us when they are looking for services. But, I would like to stress though that our cards don’t need to be very elaborate and fancy. As I said, we want us to get noticed and not our cards. Simplicity doesn’t equal plain. A simple yet elegant business card design can go a long way. Yes, elegant and simple. Just the way you describe yourself.

Become a Master of the Pen Tool in Under 30 Minutes

100+ Massive CSS Toolbox

In this article tripwire magazine provides a Massive CSS Toolbox giving you access to a really large collection of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc.

Huge List Of Highly Extensible Photoshop Plugins

Plugins are small extensions to make Photoshop even more extensive while retouching photos, adding simple filter effects and more. This could be just what You need!

This article features a mixture of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials, 30 Cool Creative Cartoon Characters.

PSDFAN interviews Jacob Cass of popular design sites such as Just Creative Design and Logo of the Day. Learn about Jacob’s projects, and his advice for aspiring designers.

PSDFAN interviews Grant Friedman of ColorBurned.com. Grant is a talented graphic designer and blogger, and shares his design history and inspirations.

Swatch and Learn: How to Make Swatches from Photographs
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=2572
Color is an important aspect of design. In fact, we always strive to come up with the combination of hues that would look best for our projects. One of the options that we have in Photoshop is to use the Swatch palette. However, we are limited to the default swatches that we have in this program. So, here, I will show you how to generate swatches using colors from a photograph. Using this technique gives us an assurance that we are using harmonious colors, without worrying about whether our monitors are calibrated or not simply because you will still be using hues that are actually found in the photo.

How to Use Photoshop Custom Shapes Plus Hundreds of CSH to Download
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I am a big fan of vector art. That’s why I so love Photoshop’s custom shape option because it allows you to use vectors in your design. The ability to enlarge vectors without losing crispness or sharpness makes them incredibly useful to every designer.But what are Photoshop Custom Shapes? Adobe introduced custom shapes along with Photoshop version 6. With custom shapes, you can do much more with vector graphics than you could before.

Best of CSS Design March 2009
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CSSBuilt picks the best of css design as of March 2009 in no particular order.

Freebies: High-Resolution Floral Swirl Photoshop Brushes
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Here are 24 super-sized floral, ornamental and swirly Photoshop brushes that you can download for free. Created in Photoshop CS3, most of these brushes are corner brushes, which you can use as borders to frame your artworks. The resolution of each brush is set at around 2500 pixels.

Design Inspiration: 20 Unique Ad Designs You Might Not Have Seen Yet http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=2358

Although advertisements, in short ads, come in all shapes and sizes, they all have a common goal — to sell a service, product or build a brand. Especially for print ads, text, visuals, or a combination of these two elements are the main factors that needs to be considered carefully when conceptualizing a print ad campaign.

How to Use Photoshop Gradients Plus 600+ Gradients to Download

In Photoshop, the gradient tool is one of the most useful especially when creating background, icons, buttons for the web and many other things. Today, let’s have a simple step by step tutorial on how to maximize the use of this Photoshop tool. At the end of this post, you well find plenty of resources that you can download and use for free in your designs.

Amazing Retouching And Photo Enhancing Tutorials In Photoshop

As graphic designer retouching photographies is essential skill You need to master. Here are listed several image enchanting tutorials You should know and learn!

Most creative footer posts from multiple blogs which will inspire you.

400+ Beautifully Footers In Web Design

iPhone UI Vector Elements
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iPhone user interface elements meticulously redrawn in Adobe Illustrator.

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A grunge photoshop brush set from Assault

Carlo Cruz: Capturing the Art of Breakdancing
Once in awhile an artist finds their calling quite by accident. Carlo Cruz has such a story. As a photographer, Carlo works by day in the fields of architecture

22 Professional WordPress Themes And Resources:Less Is More

In this article I listed only very well designed,feature rich and truly impressive themes, You could use right away on Your own blog!

Here’s a set of high-resolution Photoshop brushes of cityscape and skylines of major cities worldwide such as Manhattan, Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas, Seattle, Toronto, Sydney, Beijing, Dubai, Russia, Hong Kong, and a lot more. The individual brushes are properly labeled (except for two skyline brushes which I also failed to identify. I would greatly appreciate it though if you could identify them for me.) so you’ll know which brush refers to a particular skyline or cityscape. This is useful if you’re looking for a particular skyline for your project.

150 Photoshp WebDesign Layout Tutorials, Techniques

Here we’ve compiled 150 high quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials that guides you gradually.

80 beautiful examples of reflective photography

Here is the list of 80 beautiful examples of reflective photography.

The Best And Fastest Way To Create Blog Post

I try to give advice how to create new blog post more effectively in few simple steps, using weblog client and find/replace feature.

101 More Quality CSS, XHTML Free Templates: Part 2

The second part follows with even more very well designed and high quality XHTML and CSS free templates. Put them in good use! Enjoy!

5 Modern Marketing Ad Campaigns You Missed
Every now and then a clever marketing ad flies under our radar. Sometimes this happens because budgets only allow for limited marketing, they were local ads, or for some unknown reason the ads never went viral.

Learn how to draw a piano keyboard in illustrator using Transform Effect.

Free Photoshop brush pack made from the frayed edges of fabric

101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1

There are a lot of really professional and high quality XHTML, CSS templates available for free - check out the best layouts I found all around the web.

you're not crazy enough about tshirt if you never visit this 15 website/blog which is a must for tshirt lover.

In this post I gathered 60 layout design tutorials, from which you can learn how to make your own website design.

Today we have 50 tutorials that will teach you to be a Cinema 4D master, covering all aspects of the program from modeling to animation to shaders.

Designers seem to like using modal windows more and more, as they provide a quick way to show data without reloading the entire page.

Timing your Discounts Correctly to get the Client

David and Marc discuss how to time your discounts correctly, in order to land potential clients.

This tutorial will show you how to realize an amazing text effect in 10 easy steps, using blending options and the pen tool. You can download the PSD file at the end of the article.

40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching

Consider this article as inspirational article now and if You choose to watch those artists, then inspiration blasts in long term.

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Pack of 52 48x48 icons designed for use on the web and blogs in particular.

They are some of the coolest portfolios on the web. They have good usability, clean interface and minimality. Get inspired!

The complex works + a brief interview with Alex Beltechi, a talented graphic designer from Romania

Download the 23 best light effect and abstract brushes totally free. Time to get Photoshopping!

A funny viewpoint on graphic design.

For creative folks who just can’t get enough of Photoshop Brushes, here’s a little something for you. It took me some effort to step on the brakes and put an end to this list so I do hope you enjoy downloading and using these fantastic brushes made by talented people online. If you know of a photoshop brush you think should be a part of the list, feel free to contribute!

David and Marc give you a run down of what they think are the most important aspects of growing your twitter following.

Stefan Chinof is Bulgarian and he likes typography, illustration, advertising and jazz. All four of them in a well ballanced combination. I believe he likes illustration and advertising more, cause by looking at his creations you can’t say something else. He uses very powerful colors, maybe extravagant sometimes but they’re well put in the design so it looks just perfect.

Some commercials that are both creative and sexy.

Browse through our collection of inspiring and unique brochure ideas from all over the internet.

Being a Wordpress theme designer myself, I've noticed many of the trends that have come and gone in the theme-world. In this post, I tally up the 7 most popular trends and how to achieve the same effect yourself.

With the slumped economy, graphic designers, like all other working individuals, are trying to exhaust all possibilities to get that extra income flowing. Here are some websites we’ve compiled to help freelance project hunting an easier feat.

A blog/website is driven by the number of people you can reach. In this article you ’ll learn more about some Wordpress plugins that can help increase the number of visitors to your site.

One of the trends in creating site designs right now are in Hand Drawn Concept. And talking about Hand Drawn Design, using a Hand Drawn Fonts is mostly a must to match the design. On this matter I list down 45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts. This are the most popular hand drawn fonts that used on the web and free to download. Most of these are available under a Creative Commons License. Make sure to check details before using for commercial use.

By getting clever with your splicing and div layouts you can achieve a pretty nifty way to creating a rounded corner box.

You’re a Photoshop fiend. You want everything from brushes to tutorials, shapes to actions, patterns to PSD. All things Photoshop. All in one place.

Learn how to create a sleek, professional real estate theme in just 15 easy steps.

Subscribe and leave a comment today for a chance to win in our largest contest ever!

The awesome folks at UPrinting are sponsoring this chance for you to win 1,000 free printed business cards or one 18×24 canvas print!

David breaks down his thoughts on advertising on other blogs and sites.

Here is a set of three hand drawn birds using a wacom tablet. Free for all to use.

Here are 31 original textures. They colorful,bright and nice.There are wood, abstract, mat, plastic and more textures to use. As usual, they are free for personal use.

I’m starting this gallery with CSSJockey which is a wonderful CSS site and I’m guiding you though the rest of the list where you’ll find as usual design with different themes, like typography based, minimalistic, flashy - check the flash game that comes with the preloader. Really nice. I know - maybe e-commerce sites or even blogs that have had a special touch from their designers. A well ballanced CSS and Flash gallery to please every person’s tastes.

I'm glad to say that after about 1-2 weeks of on-and-off work, my free Wordpress theme Rock Solid is now available for download to the public. I have to say I am really proud with how this theme turned out.

Dmitry Samal is a successful freelance designer from Belarus. Specialized in industrial design, he has been exhibiting his work around the world and awarded for it.

February is only 28 days in calendar and we are also posting 28 best wordpress websites in the web.

This article provides you with more than 40 high quality Photoshop tutorials that you just have to investigate.

In this article we present more than 50 Essential Techniques and Tools for Visualizing your data on a website.

amazing book covers that will explode your sales!

The use of watercolor effect remains to be a hot trend in web design. Designers use either watercolor textures or watercolor Photoshop brushes to create depth and a more artistic look and feel to their site. I also personally like this effect because it is not too distracting and loud and a bit easy to pull off.

Aside from people silhouettes, animal silhouettes are also popular in both web and print design. Here, I have listed a number of resources that you can use for free just in case you need some animal silhouette elements in your designs, both personal and commercial.

A lot of submitted websites for the month of February, and here are the best of CSS design that we've love most in no particular order.

Check out this logo showcase article trying to select the most appropriate logo designs according to 2009 Design Trend predictions.

Awesome Vikiworks Infinity Theme is now available for Blogger users for free.

This theme has 4 columns and a unique style to display posts in columns.

There is no mistaking the grandeur and prestige when it comes to the timeless art pieces of Da Vinci, Van Gogh and Monet. But timeless as they may be, they are still marks of a certain defined art

Platon Ivantsov, from Dnepropetrovsk , Ukraine, is a god damn good illustrator. He may be specialised in black and white design but his work is absolutely astonishing in lively colors.

A roundup of the best articles, tutorial, freebies, interviews and more from the design community this month.

It's a splendid collection of female photo portraits that impress not only creativity but excellent technical execution.

We present a selected collection of high quality free vectors available for download.

Here is a list of 25+ Excellent Maya Tutorials you need to learn. It is a tutorials for beginners and advanced. Some of this Maya Tutorials are also applied with other applications like photoshop & zbrushes for texturing and effects.

In this episode Marc shows you how he created the jQuery slideshow used on the front page of the Obox Design website.

Pretty huge overview with many Adsense related tips, wordpress plugins, tools, best techniques and success stories.

Internet Explorer 6 is web designer’s nightmare. Sometime a web site that you design nicely looks really bad in IE6. You can take a look at some of best designed website in IE6 and you will understand what I am talking about

In this week’s compilation we’re having a tutorial from Smashing Magazine. Yes, they’ve written it and it’s a great one. Besides it there are 19 more from which one is a incredible text effect written by Wojciech Pijecki, a great designer and tutorial writer. After you get along with these two, you’ll be following two icon tutorials, two web design ones and the rest are going to go graphic design on your ass.

57 Wallpapers you must see to believe.

We have shown you how to create a grunge look and now we show you how to implement it into css and html.

Tutorial about making a calendar wallpaper using Photoshop CS2.

If you need to look for songs for film, TV and for your recording projects, visit musicforlicense.net to shop for songs.

A collection of discussion lists for CSS Designers.

This tutorial shows you how to mock up a fresh looking blog theme in Photoshop that is designed to be used within the 960 framework.

Collection of funny Photoshop mistakes and disasters.

Photoshop brushes are indispensable to graphic and web designers. It's the most handy solution in creating effects in designs.So if you need to add people silhouettes in your designs, checkout out this list of high-res photoshop brushes of people silhouettes that you can download for free.

Minimalism or simplicity is actually hard to pull off as an artist. For one, minimalism is not equal to plainness. It is actually the contrary. So how do you distinguish simple from plain? Here, let’s look at some of the free CSS templates that use minimalistic approach.

Stuck in a rut trying to design that brochure that will stand out from the boring norm? Try playing with unique folds, die-cut shapes and eye-opening colors.

Your work environment directly influences your mood and ability to generate inspiration and creativity. Featured here are 12 creative workplaces that would succeed at inspiring any designer.

Marc and David talk about over spec'ing your sites and make a huge announcement about the Obox Signature Series.

The CSS Parallax Effect is something that is rarely used in web design but is really cool when used properly.

Brochure design from the 1950s is so dramatic – the fonts, the typefaces, the images. They make you think you are really going somewhere special – something

The week is almost over and if you've been held up by the neck with work as much as I do, then you'll enjoy a refreshing break. We've looked around to look for

CSS code + tutorial on how to make Myspace look professional

Following is a list of wine that a designer could have picked based on their design at the store.

The first three designs of this week are a little like a colourful bouquet but, don’t worry, they’re likeable. In the rest of the article I’ll hit you with some grungy sites, some typography based ones and, most importantly, sites with a lot of style.

Learn how to design a retro-futuristic space scene, using a variety of lighting effects and photo manipulation.

Check out the latets hand drawn skulls.

Learn how to use CSS, how to create layouts in the right way, forget about table-layouts and enjoy CSS real power and put these 43 PSD to XHTML and CSS tutorials in good use!

David shows you how he picks his colors for web and logo designs.

There are a lot of Linux lovers out there who stick with Windows as they need Photoshop. Lets find out if there are enough buyers for Photoshop for Adobe to start selling a Linux version.

Craig Sprecher is a graphic designer from United States who likes to put in his illustrations a lot of lighting effects.

Hitting you up with a sweet tripple whammy of useful keyboard shortcuts this time! This quicktip shows you how to quickly resize text, adjust kerning and leading with ease!

12,000 Free Icons and Online Icon Editor: Tweak, Combine, Draw Icons, Flip, Rotate, Change Colors; .png, .gif, .ico Formats

I've compiled a list of what I feel are the 10 best freelancing job boards online.

A pack of 20 logos which impress with their simplicity, originality and artistic touch. You’ll start by walking through the pleasent valley, searching for brands on the GPS from your phone without manual and suddenly you receive a newsflash that the Weekly inspirational logos article has appeared. You start being curious and then you zoom in the page.

HilariousFunny.com has just done a total site redesign. The site now features, a threaded comments system, ability to vote comments up or down and rate funny pictures.

Are you doing enough to renew your skills as a designer? If your answer is no, the following tips should be of interest for you.

As a follow up to yesterday's post we talk about finding the time to blog and also mention how we balance work and life.

Interview with Jacob Gube of Six Revisions. Learn about his design philosophies and experiences as a designer/blogger.

Great advertising photography gallery.

Learn how to create a futuristic athlete graphic using a combination of layer masks, brushes, the pen tool and various blending options.

Learn how to make your Wordpress themes SEO friendly in this simple post.

20 comprehensive tutorials from the best tutorials sites gathered in one article as usual once per week to help you enhance your web designer or graphic designer abilities.

Create a Stunning Abstract Photo Manip

Without a doubt, taking the initiative to start a blog and then blog everyday has resulted in increased and consistent turnover.

Showcase of 10 Beautiful WordPress websites for Inspiration in no particular order. You can see the Latest Trends of these websites.

jQuery provides developers with an invaluable tool to enhance user experience and usability. It truly is the bees knees. Check out this comprehensive collection of tutorials.

Intentionally structured, or otherwise, these groups that constitute the page Layout play an important role in the web product's Desirability. MSSAA is a great example of a web product with Poor Grouping.

In this screencast, David outlines the design and marketing decisions which went into new New Obox Design website.

There are a lot of iPhone/iPod Touch Wallpaper download websites online but none with the INSPIKS touch! We know how hard it can be to find the quality wallpapers especially wth christian content and graphics, that is why we decided to make this gallery.

A ‘Zoom Burst’ is where you take a photo at a relatively low shutter speed and whilst the shutter is open you zoom in on the subject.

Wordpress is an awesome CMS ( Content Mangement System). I find it easier and better than any other CMS. If you are not using it, you should consider it. The great things about the worpdress is the plugins

Seamless patterns are very useful as design elements, especially as background for websites. Adding a bright and interesting seamless pattern as background is a great way to lift the look of a website without much effort.Here are more than 500 seamless tilable patterns that you can use for your web projects or even as background for making scrapbooks, invitation cards, and many more.

A list of 850+ Super Cool Tech Brushes for Photoshop for FREE

The mystery and beauty in Anastasia’s illustrations can only fill you with their sublime charm. Beside the girls’ classic dark and surreal portraits there are supernatural beings but also fearless warriors.

A collection of 21 Beautiful Blog Designs.

This week we have some really cool videos to share with you, These videos cover a wide variety of topics and showcases the talents of some very creative designers.

In times of recession, or when business is quiet, you can sit around and wait or you can work on improving yourself in all your weak areas.

Have a look at these great webdesigns al made in Balgium

I have been a linux user for quite some time and I loved my stay, although I needed photoshop and had to shift back to Windows. Since I dont really like Xp and Vista after using Ubuntu, I decided to give Windows 7 a try.

This post covers 6 questions to ask your printer from a design perspective when printing 4-color t-shirts.

This week’s article starts with Allan Anova’s colourful website full of beautiful illustrations. Great entry in a gallery of artistic but well ballanced designs which do well even if we’re talking about usability.

Being a freelance web designer sounds like one of the better career decisions that have crossed my head.

These are the coolest and most innovative new business cards that I could find out there.

There are a lot of open source and low cost content management systems out there and we have outlined them here.

When it comes to maps, there are only a limited number of free resources that we can find online.Just in case you also need a map for your project, here are the links to the best of the ever useful maps. I hoe you’ll find them useful as well.

I think we will be seeing more of people silhouettes in web and print designs in the future. So, whether we like it or not, it is likely that this trend is here to stay for a while, if not for good. There are a lot of websites, print materials and advertisements that make use of silhouettes. However, finding detailed and well-crafted silhouettes that you can download for free is not easy. So take advantage of these 16 sets of people silhouettes (that’s equivalent to almost 300 silhouettes!) in vector format that you can download and use for free.

Check out this Sketch to Vector tuorial.

A full review of the great iPhone app WhatTheFont

Learn how to design a stunning sneaker advert, using a variety of lighting effects.

A forum for anyone interested in Django or Python development. Find help for your Django related questions or share your knowledge with developers that are just getting started.

A showcase of 200+ Ultimate Free High Quality Wood Textures

A stunning collection of photographs that convey this deep feeling, passion and affection. The most impassioned kisses!

Learn how to create a professional portfolio design using basic steps and a little creativity.

In today's video tutorial David shows you how to create the 'Gina Effect'.

Week seventeen comes with 20 fresh logos in this small gallery. Sometimes you’re probably asking how they did many of the simplistic but suggestive logos. Well, it surely isn’t magic, it’s hard work and solid inspiration.

iColorPicker is free, small (6kB), jQuery Color Picker. It converts each input field which class name is "iColorPicker" to beautiful color picker.

Have you ever wanted to select a color with your eyedropper tool that is not within your photoshop document?

Four useful tools for testing and debugging code in everyone's favorite browser, Internet Explorer.

Daily updated brush gallery on BestPhotoshopTutorials.net

Learn how to warp text inside a heart shape for this Valentine's day. Discover how to use Envelope Distort feature in Illustrator to achieve this cool effect.

Orton imagery, also called an Orton slide sandwich or the Orton effect, is a photography technique which blends two completely different photos of the same scene

Marcela Bolivar is an excellent photomanipulator and dark artist from Columbia. In the gallery you’ll find a lot of surreal creations filled with symbolism and mistery.

A compilation of 200+ High Quality Paper Textures to Grab for FREE

Street art uses material that’s frequently off limits in commercial design - or is it?

Design, Free Desktops, Music, & a Mountain of Awesome from the staff @ Flywheel Design

Valentines day is just around the corner and geeks like us are mostly clueless about the gifts and about the whole thing generally.

This post covers 5 things that every designer should do in order to increase their productivity and clients.

In this article, we list several great applications for project and time management as well as collaboration between you and your clients. There are free and commercial options available.

Dice.com is a good example of a web product with Inconsistent Grouping.

In this installment of the Weekly Web of Inspiration, Arbenting showcases Amazing 3D Illustrations.

Good morning designers! Looking for a little bit of color in your life? This round of color inspiration is especially for all the A.M. folks out there.

Wordpress is a very popular CMS. Learn how to give your themes the ability to harness this power and become the best of the best.

From management, to marketing, to finances — business skills of all varieties are critical to have in this economy and are beneficial no matter what your situation. In this article we’ve collected 15 websites that will help sharpen your business skills in a number of ways.

Last night I discovered how easy it is to add snippets of blog posts to other non wordpress pages (check out my homepage) with Simplepie

In modern web designs large scaled background is being used and makes website look pretty and nice.

David and Marc have always attempted to streamline their quoting system as best as possible. There have always been many options but never a solid solution.

Arguably this trend was made popular after the release of Apple Leopard OSX and it’s groovy auroral/starry branding. Check out this list of 20 websites using these effects plus a few helpful tutorials.

PlanetEarthDailyPhoto is a great place for photography inspriration and also has a community all it’s own of the people who send Rich their photos from all corners of the world.

One of the best way to improve one’s Photoshop skills is by examining the source files or the Photoshop files made by experts in Photoshop. Just by looking at the layers of a raw Photoshop file, we are able to know the steps taken by the author to come up with a particular effect.In this roundup, I am going to list some amazing and very useful Photoshop templates that you can download for free. Be very creative and try to come up with your own version of these templates.

This tutorial teaches you how to design a sleek looking Valentine’s day card. You will utilize layer masking, blending, and various overlay effects.

Wild mountain Eco-architecture in Switzerland, of course.

Chris offers his insight on bananas, web design and buying domain names on a whim.

These are the best Car Intro's I found on the web. Cool flash video effects and animations! Fasten your seatbelt!

5 days left until the day that the whole world turns romantically red! Are you ready for that? Create a warm holiday atmosphere on your desktop. In this post we present 40 Beautiful Valentine’s Day Wallpapers. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Using retro or “old” style also makes a design very unique and appealing. That’s why we see more and more designers use this element in designing websites both corporate and for personal blogs or portfolio and even for print materials.So why not start using the vintage or retro look in your designs as well? To help you get started, here, I am posting some free but very useful and high-resolution sets of retro-styled Photoshop brushes.

The advantages that RAW capture offers will be useless if you don’t have a program that allows you to quickly preview, organize, edit and convert your photographs so you could share them through email or upload it to your online album or blog quickly. Using this kind of program will also save you plenty of precious time that you could use shooting instead.So if you are pressed for time but still want to enjoy the benefits of shooting RAW images, then you should consider using Photoshop Lightroom.

Theme Options pages are growing in popularity. Learn how to create one for your theme!

From urban shots to serene waterscapes Giampaolo has captured his photos beautifully on each occasion.

I love minimalist style and simplicity. In design, web design or photography too. You can watch some of photos that i collected because they are simple and great

Theme Options pages are getting more and more popular, learn to create one yourself!

Today, we're going to look at the 10 best logo tutorials on the internet.

As I said in the previous collection of resources I’m bringing you know more resources like textures, brushes, shapes, fonts and more. In the last article there were 2-3 items per category, now there are four. More the better. There is something for each designer or blogger.

Design an ugly website and win an ipod shuffle and more!

DeviantArt is the best place where to get inspired. Keep following these article series to get inspiration come to You!

Italy and all the beautiful sites within, Rome, Venice, Florence one of the most. visually stunning countries in the world!

This tutorial will layout the steps to design pressed lettering on a sleek abstract space background.

Here I made a list of Most Wanted Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorial,Brushes,EPS,Tutorials and Icons for Valentines Day. This will help you make things more easier.

A collection of creative / clever print advertisements...most from magazines.

Online photography tools and resources are everywhere. But unlike other blogs, this article does not give a long list of these resources. Instead, it features the most useful and the most fun free online resources to use. A short review about each of the item is also provided.

In this week you are invited to read the Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials alongside the blue eyed apple chick created by Ronald. Enjoy the tutorials.

Fuel Your Creativity with an inspiring and useful read!

This post features hundreds of high-resolution fabric textures that you may use. If you are a digital animator, you mat use these textures to make your objects and spaces more real. On the other hand, if you are a Web designer, you may use these textures for backgrounds or wallpapers of your web page. Fabric textures, especially, give your designs a soft and comfortable feel to it.

Dingbats offer a partially formed template that users can experiment with. Most of us use dingbats for creating logos, texture backgrounds, or for illustrations that require very large elements.In this post, you will find a list of 20 very useful and very well-crafted dingbats chosen based on their usefulness and beauty.

A list of Valentine's Day Designer Resources where you'll find Valentine's Day brushes, fonts, icons, illustrations and vector graphics, tutorials, wallpapers, and contests! Happy Valentine's Day!

Krama i.news: blog for videomakers

A list of 300+ Active Web Designers to Follow on Twitter

Vote for your favourite!

Digitaloop is a great example of a web product with visually Clean Grouping.

HTML emails have become a great way to solidify your brand. This primer should get you started.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of blending various photos into one, realistic magical piece. You’ll work with blending modes, lighting and color adjustments and compositional planning.

See what i used gomedias new hand drawn wings vector set for and grab your own.

Steven Stahlberg is a 47 year old Australian and a freelancing illustrator. He’s doing some amazing 2d works as well as 3d ones. From the list below, I dare you to guess which ones are 3d. Their quality is impressive and one of the babes was actually candidate for “The sexiest video game babe” contest launched by Playboy.

Picasa is not only a great ImageEditor but it is also FREE. I have listed some great resources from around the web.

This tutorial will teach you how to design a rock t-shirt design. You will learn how to manipulate patterns and layer styles, as well as the images in your composition.

Lots of Flash in this week’s article, some actually awarded by FWA. The rest of the sites are filled with that CSS that we all know.

The first PSDFAN contest in a while. Today we’re giving away the great Wordpress Retro Theme, just leave a comment to enter.

List of 12 Inspiring Web Design Interface from Deviantart. All listed web interface are very gorgeous came from very talented website and graphic designers.

CSSBuilt.com choose Best of CSS Design as of January 2009 in no particular order. Enjoy!