50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates
In this post, we’ll showcase 50 Free high-quality & New (X)HTML/CSS template (some of them include the PSD-source files). You will also find among these elegant templates a very well written step-by-step tutorials showing you how to create your own. Hopefully some of these will meet your expectations and come in handy in your projects.
You will have to check the license first for any restrictions or guidelines before using any template.
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The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources
Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. The great thing about Joomla is the extensions (components, modules and plugins), that can be added to your Joomla website. This allows the average user to add more functionality and dynamic content to their website without being a developer or programmer.
In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Joomla-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Joomla.
This post covers essential resources related to Joomla— Themes, Extensions, Tutorials, Forums, Cheat Sheets and Useful Documents.
Joomla’s current version is 1.5, however, some people are still using 1.0. Some of the extensions are only compatible with 1.0, we tried to mix between both version while prioritizing 1.5.
Posted in: Joomla
A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax
Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that promotes rapid development. Clients’ demands are ever increasing yet they still expect the same quality of output.
Frameworks, like Rails, help to achieve this; why?… here are some of the reasons:
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Posted in: Ajax
7 Rich & Creative User Interfaces and How to Create Your Own
There are plenty of perfectly acceptable and functional websites out there that don’t use dynamic content. But what if you want to give your site that little something extra that makes your visitors say “Wow”? What then?
Maybe you’ll find your answer below. There are tons of great, creative user interface options featured below, from modal windows to live search to hover effects. But they aren’t just for looks; each one also adds valuable functionality and improves the user experience of your site. And to help you try out each of these techniques, we’ve also included tutorials and plugins to get you on your way to creating your own dynamic user interface.
Posted in: Design
How To Create Your Own Stats Program (JavaScript, AJAX, PHP)
When creating a website, one main goal is to attract visitors. Traffic generation is a necessity for monetary purposes, showing off your work, or just expressing your thoughts. There are many ways to create traffic for your website. Search engines, social bookmarking, and word of mouth are just a few examples. But how do you know whether this traffic is genuine? How do you know if your visitors are coming back for a second time?
Posted in: php
How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX
AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way.
Posted in: Ajax
15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
There are thousands of sites out there offering tips and tricks for using CSS. But how do you know where that information is coming from? Who says the people writing these “tips” know what they’re talking about? For all you know, it could be someone who has not clue what CSS even stands for, let alone how to use it effectively.
But that’s not the case with the experts below. They’re all well-known for their mastery of CSS and all that goes along with it. Read on for their tips and tricks with regards to everything from avoiding hacks to understanding the box model.
Posted in: CSS
The TOP 6 Premium WordPress Themes For FREE
Today is the opportunity for Noupe readers to get WordPress Premium themes for Free! Six Leaders in the Premium Theme Industry are offering to give away free copies of their recently-released themes just for you guys.
We want to be absolutely clear we are not talking about one theme for one lucky winner. We are talking about your chance to grab one of the top 6 Premium WordPress themes out there for free.
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Please notice that
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- On Tuesday (June 30) winners will be announced.
18 Absolutely Stylish Designs Using Photoshop Brushes and How to’s
I think many people out there underestimate the power of well used Photoshop brushes. A good designer can use Photoshop brushes in a variety of ways to accomplish a plethora of results. If you thought the Photoshop brushes were just for those new to Photoshop or just to add a touch of grunge to a design, you are sadly mistaken.
For some good examples on how Photoshop brushes can be used, check out these tutorials:
- Funky Web Design Layout
- Fire Brushes: Photoshop Tutorial
- Design a Grungy Web Layout
- Advanced Brush Techniques in Photoshop
To really show off just how well Photoshop brushes could be used in web design, I have selected 18 amazingly designed websites that feature a good use of Photoshop brushes or elements that also come in the form of Photoshop brushes. In addition to showcases such designs, I have also linked to Photoshop brushes similar to the ones used in the designs or that are similar to the elements in the design.
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Posted in: photoshop
Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS
Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential. In this tutorial I would like to go over how to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.
Posted in: Tutorial
The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox: 150+ Themes, Modules & Resources
Drupal is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. You can customize almost every aspect of it through the use of themes, plugins, and a little custom coding. Below are more than 150 resources to help you do just that, from themes to plugins to examples of sites running on Drupal.
Posted in: Drupal
40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins
WordPress is a great blogging platform with a potential of being an easy to use content management system. This is the third article of our four-part series, "The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress". We are taking a look at 40+ quality and useful WordPress Plug-ins that will turn a simple WordPress site into a blazing fast dynamic one, with easily managed content, that you and your clients will love to use.
Posted in: Wordpress
10 Intelligent Ways of using [FORM] Elements
When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty smart results using the <form> tag. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.
The post below is made up of 10 smart and intelligent ways of using <form> elements to produce some neat effects, components and plugins, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.
Posted in: CSS, Javascript
3rd Jul | John Lloyd
Here’s a quick little tip on how to build a map with hoverable regions with a few little CSS tricks.
3rd Jul | Thomson
Sequential logos is a new trend among logo designers. A sequential logos is a concept of demonstrating movement and mark harmonious progress of a company.
3rd Jul | Michael Wilson
A round up of the best web design content from the day
3rd Jul | Dainis Graveris
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!
3rd Jul | Sam Thomas
Google.com and its competitors are great tools for keyword based searches and they also provide great advanced search tools. These advanced search tools are what led me to look into several unique search engines that aren’t Google.
3rd Jul | webaddicty
There are uncountable photos available on internet which either are photoshopped or the result of photo manipulation. They may have splendid effect on your sight but to me, nothing is more splendid and breathtaking than the original one.
3rd Jul | Elio
A list of new gorgeous typefaces released for free featuring an interesting structure and carefully crafted shapes. Foundries include FontFabric, RipeType and Darden Studio.
2nd Jul | Dainis Graveris
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!
2nd Jul | Adi
Now if you want to start a new business these days you sure have a few good examples on how your website should look like. Here is a roundup with our favorite small biz web designs. Have fun!
2nd Jul | PSD Vault
Welcome to the tenth volume of “Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of PSD Vault Flickr Group”, which is a showcase I run fortnightly here on psdvault.com featuring some fantanstic, highly-creative design works in the PSD Vault Flickr Group.
2nd Jul | Brent Wills
Not everyone has the luxury of owning and using Photoshop, but that doesn’t mean your photos have to suffer as well.
2nd Jul | Max Stanworth
Here’s a free repeating pattern that is ideal to be used as a twitter background, created from Victorian images from some books I’ve arranged them in a way that they will tile perfectly
2nd Jul | Lee Munroe
Following you’ll find five career blogs that are essential reading for web designers. They’ll provide insight on how to keep your career fresh, as well as give you important tips on finding your next job and marketing your skills appropriately.
2nd Jul | PelFusion
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.
2nd Jul | Taiyab Raja
Sometimes, it can be quite time consuming to work out exactly what you need to be doing with regards to marketing as a freelancer. Here are some ideas to really take off your marketing campaign.
2nd Jul | WebAir
We want to show you how to get a better scan of our site by Googlebot to be indexed in better way simply by using the CSS Lists.
2nd Jul | Timothy Blake
Twitter is just simply a great tool in order to network with other design blogs within the design community. This article contains a run down of 40 must follow design blogs which are on twitter with a brief description about each blog.
2nd Jul | Bariski
If you are big fan of Google Talk, you might have got multiple accounts and if you want to login to all of them at same time, then you might look at this simple tutorial.
2nd Jul | piervix
To continue meetings with hard-workers and helpful persons in Web Design, I’m pleased to share this quick interview with Nick Pagano.
Nick is the founder of Think Design Blog, a graphic design site where you can find freebies…
2nd Jul | Rakesh
I’m going to share the better way of box model hack if you want to use style definitions specifically for specific MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) versions. A way that may make the IE Factor smaller.
2nd Jul | WebAir
Typography may also contribute to better accommodate the user and CSS can helps you to do it. Today we selected 328 Typography Resources.
2nd Jul | Technolik
35 new and cool summer templates for Wordpress
2nd Jul | QNT
To complete the red color line QNT is searching for red colored websites. Feel free to suggest your red site on QNT gallery!
2nd Jul | W3Avenue Team
This is a list of jQuery plugins that jQuery Developers can utilize in development of their own jQuery components, tools and applications.
2nd Jul | Graham Smith
When you are needing a good shot of inspiration in the veins, don’t get caught up with the seemingly endless variety of logo and design inspiration galleries. Move away from your computer, grab a good book and read up on some case studies.
2nd Jul | Wallace
A quick selection of quality social networking or media small icons set.
2nd Jul | Ray Gulick
One of the biggest problems faced by search engines is duplicate content on the internet. Usually the content belongs to the same website but is placed on the different web pages.
2nd Jul | Zach Dunn
A round of dusty color schemes inspired by the wild west lifestyle.
2nd Jul | Divya
Google chrome is slowly and gradually making its place in the browser market and is also coming up with lots of Plugins, Extensions and Themes. Lets look at some of these useful chrome add ons.
2nd Jul | Flashtoons
The one who are in the field of website designing and web developing has requires some quality icons. As icons are very necessary for saying about something in terms of small image.
2nd Jul | tripwire
In this article tripwire magazine presents 30 essential Tools that hopefully will be useful for most Designers.
2nd Jul | Webdesigner Depot
There are options for every budget and every platform. Some even let you blog without blogging software.
2nd Jul | George
This jQuery script lets you add a mega menu to any anchor link on your page, with each menu revealed using a sleek expanding animation. Customize the animation duration plus delay before menu disappears when the mouse rolls out of the anchor.
1st Jul | Janko
A small set of free, high-resolution RSS icons that come in four different sizes.
1st Jul | Andrew Houle
Finding Photoshop brushes isn’t hard, there are tons available. Finding ones that are quality is rather more difficult. Fear not! We’ve done the hard work for you.
1st Jul | Rakesh
Design plays a key role in any web design project. There are some essential elements of design like space, line, shape, form, texture, and color that every designer must know.
1st Jul | Webdesigner Depot
A set of 50 free and exclusive Twitter icons that you can use for your websites. Free for personal and commercial use.
1st Jul | Tutozed
Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
1st Jul | Mike P.
When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.
1st Jul | Chris Spooner
This collection of 15 articles pulls together some of the best must read blog posts for anyone looking to get started with CSS styling.


