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 ...
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 ...
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:
Convention over Configuration (CoC): This is used to reduce the amount of up-front configuartion. The idea is; if you abide by certain coding conventions, you will have ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
What Is AJAX? How Does It Work?
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is used for allowing the client side of an application to communitcate with the server side of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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.
75 Great Drupal Themes
More Drupal themes can be found in ...
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 ...
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 ...
With version three of CSS, many exciting features will be implemented. CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Many time-saving rules are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image ,multi-column layout, etc…
Although only the most modern browsers currently support these effects, it's still fun to see what's around the corner!
In this post we will take ...
Making the choice to go freelance (or independent as I prefer to call it) is a tough choice, I wish I had more knowledge about the pros vs cons when I made the decision to work independently.
Many of us are big fans of top web designers and their work. Throughout the years these guys published many tutorials, websites, and scripts to help designers and developers improve their skills. Today, we ...
40 (NEW) High-quality and Free Icon Sets
Icons are everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 40 most beautiful icon sets that were freshly created.
Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!
Kung Fu Panda
4 icons of funny creatures.
Hello ...
Last week we hosted another exciting giveaway sponsored by Stock Graphic Designs. Stock Graphic Designs is a place for High quality premium vector packs was generous enough to donate 1 vector pack to 25 lucky readers of Noupe. Today, we are happy to announce the winners.
Over 280 wonderful readers participated in this giveaway. And 25 winners were randomly selected and are now announced in this post.
The winners are…
1. vlajko85 | ...
The web is a perfect playground for lots of creative designers and developers. Static HTML is just boring and these days the user wants to see some more eye candy from/on the web. By using and/or combining awesome web techniques like JavaScript (and of course, jQuery), CSS(3) and Flash (or Adobe Flex) this kind of interaction can be achieved.
Since "the sky is the limit" with these techniques, the programmers can ...
25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS
WordPress is often thought of as little more than a blogging platform. But it's capable of so much more. Through a little customization and the use of plugins, WordPress can easily be transformed into a full-featured content management system. Here are more than 25 sites who have done just that (and done it well).
This is the second article in the four-part series, "The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS ...
Today, we've got another great giveaway for our readers. Stock Graphic Designs, are giving away a total of 25 Single Vector Packs to our readership.
Here’s how it’s going to work
To win is very simple, just leave a comment telling us which pack you would like to win.
Please notice that
You should leave a valid email address where you can be reached so I can get in touch with you if you ...
This is the first article in the four-part series, "The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress". Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
There are some technical stuff we have to get out of the way first. Let’s take a look at useful, yet rather unknown techniques for a ...
There is always a starting point for every major web site. No one reached where they are right now in one night. In this post, we will analyze what makes a good web design site and the role of the design community in this process.
If you are a web designer or web developer, who recently discovered the passion for blogging and want to share the techniques and wisdom ...
Using Flash properly, allows you to create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors amazing user interaction. Flash’s strength lies in its ability to showcase unusual visual solutions, including graphic motion, videos and sound. Make use of them if you really want to achieve a stunning visual design
This article provides 30 Impressive Flash and Actionscript 3.0 tutorials which can enrich your design skills and may serve as an inspiration for ...
WordPress is incredibly versatile, in that although it is primarily known as a blogging platform, it can be used to run a more traditional non-blog sites as well.
As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing 'Wordpress' as an area of expertise.
Today we are introducing “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress”, a three-part series, an attempt to ...
Facebook is a leading social networking site with over 120 million members. There are now many Facebook applications that allow it be used productively in education and business. The success of many of these facebook applications is a testimony to the effectiveness of Facebook as a great platform to distribute networking services and connect with friends and colleagues. There are thousands of Facebook apps out there, however there are ones ...
Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.
In this post you will see how web designers carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.
We have hand-picked different background image trends and ...
Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring and elegant. If you are looking to add some creativity and inspiration to your life, you probably need a desktop wallpaper that inspires you to create something creative and original. Today we present 40 stunning wallpapers created by some hard-working and dedicated designers. In this post we present creative desktop wallpapers related to art, photoshop, wallpapers-illustrations, abstract design and other great types of ...
Today, we've got another great giveaway for our awesome readers. Printprintprint.biz, is giving away a total of 1000 Free 2 sided full color business cards.
Here’s how it’s going to work
To win is very simple, just leave a comment with your opinion if you think its a good idea to have a WordPress theme club here at Noupe or not.
Please notice that
You should leave a valid email address where you can ...
Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. 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 ...
Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. So, step-by-step tutorials can provide a lot of help, thats why we spent a lot of time searching for Fresh and New high quality tutorials out there and the result was 30 ...
10 Creative & Rich UI & How to Create Them
Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style, which is easy to use and nice to see.
The User experience has dramatically improved over the past few years, resulting in rich and responsive user interface. AJAX, javascript and CSS are widely used ...
Review of Markup Service
The web design process extremely important to any web project. Knowing how to code is a must for anybody who wants to become a successful web designer. This process is very time consuming as you need to make sure everything looks great in major browsers, sometimes you need to finish several projects with a very tight deadline- which brings me to today’s review: Markup Service.
We don’t like to suggest a ...
Performance is a key factor for any successful website. And since WordPress is becoming more popular than ever, it will only be at its best when raised in the proper conditions. Here are a few things to try if you find that your WordPress site is not performing as well as it could be due to high traffic or hidden issues you don't know about.
Some Basic & Simple Steps
1. Upgrade ...
Adobe Fireworks is getting popular than ever, many web designers find a lot of fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Fireworks to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these Adobe Fireworks tutorials are for you.
So in today’s post, you’ll ...
MySQL is one of the most popular open source database management system for the development of interactive Websites.
If your site stores its sensitive data in a MySQL database, you will most definitely want to backup that information so that it can be restored in case of any disaster (we all have been there).
There are several ways to backup MySQL data. In this article we'll look at how to backup your ...
If you haven't checked out LogoFaves already then I would definitely suggest that you take a look. LogoFaves is a logo showcase gallery created by Yugo from dzineblog with one goal in mind, introducing some of the best talents in the world of logo design by bringing them together and turning the spotlight on their work.
Our working methodology is open to all, ie., we filter through lots of the designer ...
Employees need to access their email from wherever they happen to be – on the road, at customer sites, remote offices, and at home. WebMail clients allows receiving and sending email messages using POP3 and SMTP protocols through both local and remote mail servers. Providing secure filtering of unsafe content while viewing HTML-formatted email messages. WebMail clients can operate under different popular web platforms (PHP, ASP.NET, ruby on rails, java).
Today ...
Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms.
Thanks to AJAX, we can provide real-time feedback to our users using server-side validation scripts and eliminate the need for redundant validation functions and processing data.
Today we wanted to ...
Creating 3D visualization rendering autodesk 3ds Max software, brings not only the look and feel for the image, but also helps to visualize the design in reality. This full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effects solution is used to produce stunning interior & exterior 3D visualization rendering, top-selling games and award-winning film and video content.
In this post, we want to showcase 25 great 3DS Max tutorials around for all levels ...
Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. 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 list below ...
Over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Today we wanted to present innovative designs and concepts that give us an idea of what we should expect from designer’s creative mind over the years to come.
Today i wanted to showcase something different and unrelated to web design, the main idea of this ...
New Site Launch: Card Observer
Henry Jones of Web Design Ledger, has recently launched Card Observer- a new site to the best and most beautiful business card designs.
The site is updated every day with fresh business cards and is a great place for designers to find a unique
source of inspiration or to show off their own work. The site possesses a clean and sleek design that allows the business cards to be the main focus.
So ...
For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe After Effects tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.
Whether you want to learn how to create vibrant motion graphics, breathtaking special effects or cinematic footage, today we got it all.
In this post, we want to showcase some of the best After Effects tutorials around to ...
Nothing can be more useful than handy tools you can use “on the fly” in your design process. Whether you’d like diagramming application, create vector images, format or optimize CSS code, generate patterns- you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier. Today we wanted to share with you a comprehensive list of more than 40 online tools that will really make your life easier and on the ...
Over 235 wonderful readers participated in the "5,000 Business Card" giveaway. And 5 winners were randomly selected and are now announced in this post.
The winners are...
#35084 | Brandon Cox
#35209 | Dustin Hubbart
#35243 | Karansinh
#35269 | Rainer Bendig
#35165 | Gis
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After a couple of months of beta-testing Smashing Magazine had officially launched their new Smashing Forum.
So SM Forum will definitely be the best 2009 forum any web designer/developer will need to find, discuss or chat about their daily design issues.
The main idea behind the forum is to provide our community with a place to discuss problems, developments, ideas and Smashing Magazine articles or just chat about nothing at all.
One ...
Webdesigner Depot is one of the leading web design blog and resource site with quality articles, tutorials and freebies for web designers & developers. Founded with one aim:
We love design and are passionate about it in all its shapes and forms. Our vision is to make WDD a great showcase for this passion and feed a worldwide audience of savvy designers eager to learn more and share their knowledge ...
Website Backgrounds: 70+ Impressive Trends, How To’s & Best Practices
Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.
In this post you will see how web designers carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.
We have hand-picked different background image trends and ...
Last week i wrote a post called "15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers", i asked our readers to tell us what is their favorite Mac App and why do they love it.
In today’s post, we will showcase your suggestions: 30 incredibly useful Mac Apps for freelance web designers & developers to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took ...
Today, we've got something really awesome for you guys. AllBusinessCards.com, is giving away a total of 5000 Free 2 sided full color business cards to 5 Noupe readers (1,000 cards / each winner).
Here’s how it’s going to work
To win is very simple, just leave a comment with some suggestions for new posts or other features you would like to see on Noupe.
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You should leave a valid email address ...
CSS frameworks have grown in popularity recently, enabling developers to rapidly prototype designs. The idea of CSS Frameworks is to do all the heavy lifting of the repetitive tasks you do over and over again on each site, allowing you to get faster results and get to the fun stuff designers love.
Main features of good CSS Framework is to 1) rapidly speed up our development time, 2) should have a ...
In today's post you will find 15 incredibly useful Mac Apps for freelance web designers to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before and help them manage their project efficiently to get their job done.
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1. Espresso
Extremely powerful web development tool, created by ...
jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions while being simple to understand and easy to use. WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! But what happens when you combine the power of jQuery with WordPress, the possibilities are infinite.
This article will share some best practices, examples & Plugins for using the most popular Javascript ...
Freebies Day Winners
Over 675 wonderful readers participated in our first "Freebies Day" event giveaway. And more than 50 winners were randomly selected and are now announced in this post.
The winners are...
1. ActiveCollab
#409 | Arvee
#526 | Slee
#10 | Pat Nolan
2. Flash Loaded
#576 | Harvey Photography
#37 | Agahmemnon
#242 | Michael Smith
#14 | Carlos C
#162 | maddesigns
3. Press75
#403 | Mark Simpson
4. PremiumThemes
#75 | Polo
#59 | Tomas
#107 | David Towers ...
Significant features and redesigns were added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging more valuable than ever.
Many users found their themes no longer work the way they were used to, others just wanted to enjoy the new features the new version is providing. That's why today we wanted to present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress 2.7 Themes that are really impressive and was released recently to use all the new ...
Elegant Themes Review
If you haven't checked out Elegant Themes already then I would definitely suggest that you take a look. Elegant Themes is a WordPress theme club owned by Nick Roach with one goal in mind, provide elegant designs crafted WordPress themes with simplicity and professionalism.
The most amazing thing about Elegant Themes is the fact that they only charge $19.99/year for full access to all there themes. Seeing this level of ...
80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources
For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Adobe Illustrator tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.
Due to this phenomenally vast amount of vector packs, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artwork and to give it any look you want.
So in today's ...
Nothing comes without a price. In this case, it's a comment. Noupe's first "contest" of 2009 has over 50 premium licenses for various pieces of software. The entry fee... just a comment. Nothing else. No trap. Just winners.
19 Sponsors are offering to give away 50 premium web design-related products, services & licenses- Premium WordPress Themes, Flash Components, Glossy Business Cards, SSL Certificates, SEO site analysis, 500 word articles, Page slicing ...
Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content.
Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to present 10 11 smart javascript techniques you should always have handy when creating your next ...
This week I'd like to share with you 20 iPhone apps you might find interesting if you are a designer, blogger & freelancer.
Some apps seems odd at first, but works surprisingly well once you get going. So below you will find some useful organizational tools, others we thought might help inspire or motivate creativity, while the rest we have included simply because they will keep you connected with your ...
60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, .PSDs and Resources
For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Photoshop tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.
Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any ...
Uncoverr Site Launch
Lachy Groom has just launched Uncoverr, a great resource which enables the user to quickly and easily find books, reviews and interviews with authors.
These books though are only on web related topics, like CSS, HTML, Design, Usability, Marketing, Blogging, the list goes on!
If you are looking for a book you want to buy, you will easily find direct links to popular retailers such as Amazon, barnesandnobles & Powells.
Uncoverr are ...
Announcing The Freebies Day
Happy New Year Eve all Designers out there!
I would like to start this year with a new event i am planning to hold every month "The Freebies Day". This is going to be a huge contest with lots of prizes, it will be held in the middle of every month, where our great sponsors will giveaway some of their Top-Notch products or services for FREE to our lucky readers.
Want to ...
Only talented designers have the ability to create incredibly detailed works of art to represent the heart and soul of their creativity. Today i wanted to showcase something different and unrelated to web design, may be that's because i am in a good mood for the holidays. So today i wanted to showcase some of the best Custom Vinyl toys to highlight designer's creativity in using both design and color. ...
2008 was a busy year, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping around everyday. Today we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity. Hopefully you will find some creative ideas that you can develop further in your future projects.
In the showcase ...
Lot of news flying around about the release of WordPress 2.7, featuring new Administration Panel interface to make WordPress more usable and accessible. Significant features and redesigns was added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging on the new Dashboard Panel more valuable than ever.
You may find your Themes no longer work the way you are used to. It could be that they might be broken, because something in WordPress that ...
Templatica Site Launch
Alen Grakalic from CSS Globe has launched Templatica. Templatica is a membership based template club where you get full access to all templates in the css template gallery for a single and very affordable annual fee of $24!
Why is the fee so low?
“I wanted to make premium templates available to as many of you as possible. Templates are not only meant for commercial but for educational purpose as well. I ...
50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008
Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user's eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008.
Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!
So let’s get started and ...
Sometimes we just want to get our WordPress Admin area to look neat and professional just to add a bit more functionality and enhance the way we use it. In this case, WordPress Admin themes and plugins come to the rescue. Here are 20 WordPress Admin themes and plug-ins that expand the functionality of the admin area specially if design isn't your primary skill set.
Of course WordPress 2.7 comes with ...
Logo Of The Day Site Launch
Logo Of The Day is a high-profile logo design award scheme that rewards the best professional logos and trademarks designed throughout the world. You can read more on the about page.
Features Include:
Logo Of The Day promotes excellence in logo design around the world.
All logos suggested (or chosen) are screened by two professional, practicing logo designers and are judged on the design, creativity, scalability, usability and memorability of the ...
Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring and elegant. If you are an Apple addict, you probably need a desktop wallpaper that inspires you to enhance your Mac or iPhone experience. Today we would like to share with you 50 stunning Apple wallpapers (Apple, MacOS and iPhone Wallpapers) created by some hard-working and dedicated designers that are definitely worth a look.
Important: Licenses of every wallpaper varies, so be sure to check ...
One important goal of flex components, is to help the community see how you can merge the best of what flex gives you (productivity, development process, consistent component model) with the best of what people have been doing in flash for years (rich, highly interactive, fluid, etc).
Adobe Flex is the tool of choice for many web developers when it comes to building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Developers are picking up ...
Adobe Photoshop is probably one of the most popular graphic editing program used extensively. There is one simple reason for that. Photoshop is easy to learn and offer a variety of advanced tools to optimize and emphasize some impressive results.
That's why many designers use it to compliment other programs like Flash, Illustrator, Cinema 4D and After Effects. But wait it doesn't stop here, there is more! If you ...
We cannot escape typography; it's everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only present information but also be read by the users. Designers use type to create breath-taking designs to communicate their ideas through their works.
Today we’re going to take a look at 30 brilliant typographic artworks, that shows great talent of such creative designers.
So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to ...
This is the second article in our new three-part WordPress series. I want to share with you some hacks that i found to be very useful when i was working on the redesign of Noupe and during the design of my other site Devsnippets. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress ...
Twitter has their own method for displaying your Twitter status on your website but they rely on Twitter-hosted scripts and generally hold up the page load. That's why i would like to showcase some of the best tutorials and WordPress plugins that will display your twitter status on your blog or website. Also you will find high quality twitter icons to spice up your status area.
Below, we present 20 ...
The web is rich with creative and amazing fonts, and the choice is enormous. So today we would like to present 50 incredible FONT which you can use for web or print design. This collection will sure help you improve your typography skills! Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful fonts we’ve found on the web. Some amazing fonts are missing? Let us know!
You might be ...
Cinema 4D is a high-end 3D graphics application capable of procedural and polygonal modeling, animating, lighting, texturing, and rendering. Its easy to use interface has gained popularity among film and motion graphic artists.
There are many things you can do using its endless features. You need to discover them and decide how to use them in new and innovative ways to create the creative, beautiful and realistic 3D Graphics. In this ...
Premium WordPress Themes Giveaway: Winners
Last week we announced that Seven Leaders in the Premium WordPress Theme Industry are offering to give away free copies of their recently-released themes just for you guys. They are giving away 17 single licenses to their most popular Premium WordPress themes.
Over 600 wonderful readers participated in the giveaway. And the winners were randomly selected and are now announced in this post.
And the winners are...
1. Mimbo Pro
#28608 | Glenn Fischer ...
Design Jobs On The Wall
Design Jobs on the Wall is a very simple job board where you can post or find design jobs managed by Web Designer Wall. You can post a full-time job for only $75 or a freelance job for $50. Opening special: enter coupon code “promo” to get a 50% discount on your first job listing.
When you post a job opening, it will be instantly featured on Web Designer Wall ...
Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring and elegant. If you are a designer, you probably need a desktop wallpaper that inspires you to create something creative and original. Today we present 30 stunning wallpapers created by some hard-working and dedicated designers. In this post we present creative desktop wallpapers related to art, photoshop, wallpapers-illustrations and abstract design. They are definitely worth a look.
Important: Licenses of every wallpaper varies, so be ...
Today is the opportunity for Noupe readers to get WordPress Premium themes for Free! Seven 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 7 Premium WordPress themes out there ...
Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. 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 list below ...
It's funny how nature acts, sometimes presents the perfect opportunity to get most out of photographer's skills. In particular, bad weather can provide the perfect opportunity to capture such wonderful shots. Shooting wind, lightning strikes, rain, tornados, waves, volcanos and stormy weather produces dramatic atmosphere and soft scenes as well.
Today we would like to share with you a round-up of some 30 truly brilliant photos and stunning pictures which are ...
Last week we published our first GIMP post "30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources" and saw a great appreciation from our readers. So this week, i would like to share with you 1000+ high-Resolution GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Also you will find some useful tutorial to teach you how to create your first GIMP brush-set and how ...
Hundreds of thousands of incredible Textures are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
So I’ve been surfing and made a list of sites that offer free textures to download. Here are tons of convenient stock ...
30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources
GIMP is a freely distributed GNU Image Manipulation Program. Available for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It’s always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of GIMP to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces.
So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these GIMP ...
Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
Without further ado, we present 1000+ high-Resolution Adobe Photoshop brush sets that will be perfect for ...
As you know we here at Noupe are also responsible for managing all submissions at Devsnippets (the newest member in our small family). We try to keep an eye on all the code snippets and tutorial destinations around. That’s why starting this month we’re introducing a weekly “Snippets Roundup” post showcasing the best Code snippets, tutorials and demos from all over the web!
Today I wrote a list of ...
We advocate using CSS whenever possible, and we often successed. Modern browsers have very good support for CSS -- it's certainly good enough for you to use CSS to control layout and presentation. Sometimes however, certain page elements will appear differently in different browsers.
Don't worry too much if you don't know the reason why, play around with the CSS rules and check out this post: Using CSS to Fix Anything: ...
Noupe on Twitter…500 Followers or else…
You can follow Noupe on Twitter now. Feel free to share, discuss and spread the word.
Psst! Each time one friend out of 500 will get a direct link on Noupe's home page for one month.
WooContest - Submit your design and win!
As you all know, WooThemes loves collaborating with industry-leading, creative designers and launching stylish and unique Wordpress themes every month.
So they thought it would be a good idea to launch a competition where readers and users can get involved, and gain some exposure, designing a theme concept for Woothemes. Not to forget, you stand the chance to win some big money ($2000 and a 6 month develop license)!
Check ...
Twitter is an amazing service that we all love, everyday we notice a new twitter tool or service that makes using it more easy and fun. Today we wanted to highlight more than 25 of our favorite Twitter add-ons, tools and services that won't resist. This list is not intended to be all-inclusive, let us know your favorite twitter tool and why you like it. I just got my ...
In this post we're going to outline 5 WordPress trends for web developers who know their stuff.
There are plenty of WordPress techniques and hacks out there for beginners. Everyone knows about the routine tricks like:
Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
These features are all fine and very important, but today we're going to look at WordPress trends that are a bit more ...
Everyday we see many beautiful WordPress themes, many are good and only a little are just one of a kind. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. Today we present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive and you might be willing to use for your next project, which have been released over the last few months.
1. Agregado Lifestream
A free professional Wordpress-theme ...
DevSnippets Contest Results
5 weeks ago we announced the soft launchDevSnippets, and we have encouraged our readers to participate in our launch contest by submitting the highest number of top quality snippets. It was necessary, since submitting a large number of code snippets in a short time was some how impossible. The result is an impressive collection of 450 code examples, tutorials and demos that designers can use. Thanks to all participants ...
48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs
Over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Today we wanted to present innovative designs and concepts that give us an idea of what we should expect from designer's creative mind over the years to come.
In this issue we provide you with over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a ...
Greasemonkey Firefox extension adds a bit of Javascript to certain web pages and runs it every time you visit, to change the functionality and appearance of those pages.
There are thousands of scripts that you can install to customize just about anything you can think of. However, there are a few scripts that are quite useful and popular that you should consider using if you’re not already doing so!
So Today, we’ve ...
One of the advantages of using WP Archives page is the amount of information that it can provide to help the visitors easily browse your blog and find what they’re looking for. It can also act a your blog's sitemap which is perfect for search engines.
Most WordPress themes already have archives.php template file in your theme’s folder. In this episode of WordPress series we are presenting some basic and advanced ...
One of the most popular post on Noupe is 40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART. So today we would like to present another 40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful icon sets we’ve found on deviantART. Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!
1.Colorful Chart Icon
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The main advantage of elegant CSS typography lies in its ability to be both attractive and improves the user experience. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective to support the overall design. There are many outstanding examples of how we can do this, and below you will find some of the best ideas and tips when it comes to using Fonts and typography in your CSS ...
There are lots of free extensions and add-ons available on the internet for Firefox, but which are the best add-ons that can Really help you as a web developer or designer in terms of time and effort?
Many of our readers suggested some great add-ons in our previous post, Designer´s Toolbox : 15+ Time Saving Tools- What´s your Secret? . Today i would like to highlight your suggestions and other ...
30+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials : Mastering Your Tools and Options
Illustrator is capable of creating stunning effects, all waiting at your finger tips in the Tools palette. Illustrator Tools can transform a single path into a work of art.
In this post we present a collection of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials that shows you exactly what needs to be done in order to create professional artworks using which tool and option. These tools and effects may or may not be ...
Every Designer has his favorite tools and add-ons that definitely comes in handy when needed. What is more useful than simple, time-saving and handy tools you can use in the development process? Here is a roundup of 15 tools, services and add-ons that is worth your time. Let us know your experience with the tools listed here or and others that you use to keep you going.
I would like to ...
August was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity. I found some nice examples posted at devsnippets that is worth mentioning, so i am going to list ...
This is the first article in our new three-part WordPress series. I want to share with you some hacks that i found to be very useful when i was working on the redesign of Noupe and during the design of my other site Devsnippets. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress ...
After one year using that brownish layout the time for a change has come.
With over 10,000 subscribers, it's been a great year. We're celebrating with a new look, and some changes to make the new design better.
If you're reading this in your RSS reader, please click through onto the site to see the new look. Let me know what you think of it!
I needed to improve the usability of ...
Patterns are there, in front of you and me, on the blog you’ve come from, on books and album covers, wallpapers, t-shirts, chocolate boxes, almost everywhere. Every now and again we find a new pattern design which somehow manage to become the main element in catching our eyes, we just don't know it until we search for it.
In this post we present a showcase of different examples using ...
Designing effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience.
Recently there have been a number of noteworthy techniques such as styling different form fields, live validation, Context highlighting, trading options from field to another, slider controls and more - using CSS and different Javascript libraries. Below we present findings of search to more than 40 ...
This week brings two big announcements for the site. First, we're super excited to launch our new site at Devsnippets.com. As the name suggests Devsnippets.com serves as a public gallery about everything has to do with design and development stages, from HTML/CSS to javascript and ajax to things like WordPress hacks.
And secondly, I'm also pleased to tell you that we are announcing Our First Launch Contest here at NOUPE.
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It’s always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Photoshop to spice up boring text or pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces. Today we’ve got you a marvelous set of more than 50 high quality Photoshop .PSD files to offer an assortment of techniques for making your next photoshop effect.
You might be interested to check other Photoshop related ...
July was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity.
Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in ...
The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about. Finding the perfect Layout that have Total Flexibility, Equal Height Columns and just works fine. So we’ve decided to take a deep look at articles about ...
Let your creative ideas flow because Templates.com is holding a contest this month. All you have to do is think up the slogan for their site, leave a message in comments to this blog post on Blog.Templates.com, and you’ll stand to win $100 in cash or credits from Templates.com! The contest started on July 15th 2008, and the results will be announced at the beginning of August.
Templates.com is a ...
The web is rich with creative and amazing fonts, and one of the most unusual source of Beautiful Fonts are those you can find on deviantART fonts gallery. Today we would like to present 40 incredible FONT which you can use for web or print design. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful fonts we’ve found on deviantART. Some amazing fonts are missing? Let us ...
Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. So, step-by-step tutorials can provide a lot of help, thats why we spent a lot of time searching for the best tutorials out there and the result was 60 remarkable illustrator tutorials, ...
CSS-Styled Lists: Demo
After seeing the amazing response to our previous post CSS-Styled Lists: 20+ Demos, Tutorials and Best Practices, we wanted to share with you a simple demo we created that showcase some of the most used design blocks created that are differently styled and enhanced give us a nice and clean design blocks using CSS-Styled Lists.
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WooThemes Launches
Adii, Elliot Jay Stocks, Magnus Jepson, and Mark Forrester have been working on a brand new premium WordPress themes website for quite a while now, and it’s finally ready. Introducing WooThemes!
WooThemes.com is the new face for Premium WordPress themes that we would only release news-style themes. WooThemes however released a bunch of different types of themes for different niche markets & needs.
WooThemes, is offering a new subscription-based club membership ...
When we think about CSS-Styled lists, different ideas come to mind but that rusty old image of bulleted items is not one of them anymore. There are lots of different methods to format nice HTML lists that is used in most web designs not only for navigation menu (vertical or horizontal) but for formatting many design blocks in a stylish and elegant manner. In this article, we’ll have a look ...
June was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity.
Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in ...
Like many of you I suspect, I’m a bit of a junkie when it comes to design & tech news. It’s really amazing how much good stuff you can find daily on one single website. One of the best web resources out there is Web Resources Depot.
Web Resources Depot is loaded with amazing free web design resources which can simplify your web design and development process. The resources are ...
Having a unique design is a must to get your visitor's attention. Vector characters can establish a memorable image of your site in the reader's mind. So if you are looking for inspiration for your web design, here is an amazing collection of over 30 Vector illustrated websites.
You might be interested to check other related posts for more useful tools:
63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and Tutorials
70+ Visually Impressing ...
Javascript applications are still one of the most complex issues when it comes to web-development. Many tools and applications could make your developing life pretty fast and simple. Today we wanted to share with you a wide range of tools and applications that could really help you build, test and debug Javascript and Ajax applications. Let us know your experience with the tools listed here or others that are ...
We cannot escape typography; it's everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only present information but also be read by the users. Today we’re going to take a look at 40 stunning typographic posters, along with step-by-step Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works.
You might be interested to check other related posts for some inspiration:
40+ ...
Handy Designer’s Tools “On The Fly”
Nothing can be more useful than handy tools you can use “on the fly” in your design process. Whether you’d like to generate css layouts, create vector images, format or optimize CSS code, generate patterns- you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier. Today we wanted to share with you a comprehensive list of more than 15 online tools that will really make your life easier and ...
Without a doubt, a logical and structured layout is the best way to go. Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout.
This is the first part in this series as there are ...
The web is rich with creative and amazing artworks, and one of the most unusual source of artworks are those you can find on deviantART. Let’s take a close look at 30 of the most breathtaking deviations we’ve found on deviantART. Some amazing artworks are missing? Let us know for our next roundup!
You might be interested to check our other related post for some inspiration:
53 Killer Photoshop Illustrator Effects and ...
Sometimes, (if not most of the time) you want to know exactly what your competitors are doing and how do they excel in doing it right. Today we wanted to share with you a comprehensive list of more than 13 online tools that can help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better than you.
You can use these services to benchmark your site performance versus your ...
My favorite Posts WordPress Plugin
Few weeks ago i started working on our new site (yes, another one), i wanted to use WordPress as CMS and found lots of challenges to achieve some of the features that isn't there. One of those features was to allow the logged in users to add posts they like to a favorite post list, and since i couldn't find a plug-in doing that, i thought i would contact Christian ...
May was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity.
Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in ...
The web is rich with creative and amazing icon sets, and one of the most unusual source of amazing Icons Sets are those you can find on deviantART icons gallery. Today we would like to present 40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful icon sets we’ve found on deviantART. Some ...
Getting to know masters of graphic design is the first step every serious graphic designer should do . Today we brought you 25 talented graphic designers interviewed, and got you the answers to all the questions you might have. So lets get started and let us know who is your favorite designer and why.
1) Interview with Giulia Balladore- An Italy Based Illustrator
Designer’s Website: http://www.juniatwork.com/
2) Interview: Cristiano Siqueira- is a digital ...
Win a WordPress Developer’s Licenses!
Premium News Theme is known for their outstanding news and magazine themes resembling the front page of a newspaper complete with highlights, images, and featured articles.
Today we are launching our first contest which is great because not only you get 2 for 1 theme but your Single License themes might get upgraded to Developer's Licenses. This is an exclusive offer to Noupe Readers.
About the Contest
Premium News is currently offering you ...
I’ve been enjoying art works more and more lately. We featured a lot of stunning artworks and tutorials which quickly became one of the most popular posts on this blog.
Today i got an email from a very talented designer Paul Cowley, who created an outstanding Wallpaper dedicated to Noupe, check it out and let him know what do you think.
We also wanted to use it as a background ...
Today i wanted to highlight some of the latest WordPress Plugins that you might find very interesting. Some of these Plugins are for managing posts, some are comment related and some are just to enhance the way admin can manage his blog. In any case, you will hopefully find some useful for your WordPress blog.
You can also take a look at other 4 articles in our WordPress series :
Powerfull ...
It’s time for another dose of related Photoshop material. Today we've got you marvelous set of more than 45 high quality Photoshop brushes along with some great tutorials to offer an assortment of techniques for making your next brush set, how to use brush tool and a list of top resources where you an get your favorite brush set.
You might be interested to check our first post in the Photoshop ...
Welcome Our New Advertisers
We would like to say thank you to all our great sponsors for supporting NOUPE. Please take a moment to check out our 3 new sponsors … and hey, be sure to say, hi!.
A special thank you to:
DesignFloat
If you are a web designer looking for niche social sites, then you’ve already came across Design Float. Design Float is a social media site dedicated to the design industry, categorizing the ...
In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. The best thing about this list is how fresh it is, you might have seen some of it but we guarantee not all.
jQuery, Mootools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste has its demos served.
You might ...
Every once in a while we like to focus on different design elements and how to use javascript and ajax to make them more interactive and more flexible to the user. In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Sliders, Scrollers and scrollbar techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. jQuery, Mootools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these ...
It's always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Photoshop to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces. So, if you're interested in learning some new skills, whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials are for you.
Below you will find an incredible amount of amazing colorful artwork to inspire any ...
We enjoy observing fresh ideas and creative design solutions, thats why we wanted to start this month with some inspiration. Today we got you some incredibly awesome website designs that is freshly created with unique ideas, graphics and layouts.
You might be interested to check some of the designs that was mentioned in the posts below:
70+ Visually Impressing Header Graphics
60+ Unusual WP Blog Designs
Stunning Designs Using that Piece of Wood
1) ...
Flashloaded.com have just released an outstanding fully customizable 3D Wall component for CS3 to showcase your photos and or designs in a brilliant way.
This easy to use component will allow you to create custom galleries with more than 60 adjustable parameters, a built-in preloader for seamless transitions between thumbs and large images, viewers can scroll, tilt and zoom in, ensuring unlimited number of looks and an ...
April was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity.
Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics and articles we’ve found in April ...
Incredibly Useful Tool for Collaborating online with your Team
Springloops.com is a nice Subversion hosting with code deployment and server management features connected with Bascecamp. Allows you to code in parallel and share your code safely along with other great features that become indispensable for everyone in your web development team. This tool effectively coordinates joint workflows, allowing rapid coding by simultaneous users, while eliminating problems such as overwritten and lost files. Team members can easily commit changes, ...
There's stuff all over the Web about jQuery, but finding the best tutorials to get you started can be tough. Here are Examples and tutorials from jQuery masters to keep you on the right track.
We will start with jQuery masters and feature some of their best tutorials, then we will move on to more categorized tutorials, cheat sheets and hacks.
You can also take a look at other 3 articles in ...
CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing. This is just the third article in this series , the forth part will be coming soon, stay tuned ...
Navigation menus are the most important element one should pay attention when designing a website. Web-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS. Javascript makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible navigation to any website.
This article presents over 25 (horizontal and vertical) multilevel drop down menu built using Javascript and CSS which you can use in your future projects. Also you will ...
Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.
In this post you will see how web designers had carefully created background images to influence how the websites is visually distinct but considerate of their goals in engaging and facilitating the design ...
It’s really amazing to see what one can create using jQuery. Developers just don't stop making incredibly interactive web applications every now and then. This post just demonstrates excellent examples of some of the best jQuery plugins out there.
You can also take a look at the other jQuery Plugins in this series :
45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins
50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1
So let's get started and don't forget ...
This is the last article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at 60 Creatively unusual WordPress blog designs that are a little bit more distinctive from the regular WordPress Blog designs.
You can also take a look at other 3 articles in this series :
Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
45+ Must See WordPress themes
Powerfull List of WordPress Lifesavers Plugins
Wordpress ...
Welcome New Advertisers
I’d like to welcome on board five new Advertisers this month!
ithemes
If you are looking for some cool Premium Themes, ithemes offers some of the best-quality, premium WordPress themes for small businesses and bloggers. ithemes also provides helpful services like install/optimization service, provides three hours of basic modifications to personalize your theme. To add to all that, they also have several free WordPress video tutorials which you would find ...
This is the third article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at 77+ quality and useful WordPress Plug-ins, which have been very handy and saves us lots of time and effort to run our blog the way we wanted.
You can also take a look at other 4 articles in this series :
Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
45+ Must See ...
45+ Must See WordPress themes
This is the second article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at some quality outstanding Free and premium WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months. We’ve selected minimalistic solutions, Elegant Themes, Artistic Themes, Photo Blog Themes, 2 and 3Column themes, Unique Theme Ideas, Mobile Theme and much more - all of them make use quality, elegance ...
This is the first article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
We’ll keep this post updated during this month. As we’ll check your suggestions and feedback,
select the best, add them to this list and provide a direct link to the ...
Today we are introducing “The Powerful Guide to Master Your WordPress Blog”, a four-part series of tips, tutorials, hacks, themes, plugins and best practices from the World’s Leading WordPress web-developers to be published in the coming weeks, with the first article coming this week.
So here’s what to expect:
Part One: Mastering Your Theme Hacks and Techniques
In this article, We are going to focus ...
Two month ago we've presented the 50 favorite jQuery plugins many developers use and we promised that the second version will be coming soon. Today, we are going to introduce 45+ more jquery plugins that were recently created, so you don’t have to do the search as we did it and will continue to do it to build a useful library of jquery plugins and solutions.
Image SlideShows and Galleries
1) Galleria ...
It's not hard to design a website, but it gets harder when you try to achieve that unique design using Wood pieces and integrate it with the design elements to make the whole design part of that piece of wood.
In an overview below you’ll find some stunning designs that is totally engaged with that piece of wood.
You might want to check "70+ Visually Impressing Header Graphics" which is a small ...
February was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your creativity.
CSS Tips
1)Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding- 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding
2)Creating a Body-Border- Creating a ...
Over the last few years web-developers have developed many AJAX and CSS Tab-based interfaces which became one of the most interesting techniques giving us an easy way to get information without the need to open and close multiple windows at the same time.
We’ve spent hours searching for the best Tab-based interfaces using CSS only, CSS/Ajax and tutorials which would help you create your own Ajax or CSS Tab-based interfaces.
You might ...
We all agree that having a secure wordpress weblog should be our first priorities when keeping a successful blog. In this post we’d like you to share your knowledge and help us create the Wordpress Security guide to keep the bad guys out.
Below are 10 security tips that you can easily implement on your WordPress blog. Please share one or more life-savers you use permanently to help protect yourself from ...
We were inspired by Smashing Magazine's Header Graphics Contest to create a small showcase of more than 70 outstanding header graphics with excellent use of visual elements and interface design.
Feel free to comment upon these selected header graphics as nothing is more important to us than your opinion.
1) Sam Tech
2) Gotocss3
3) Split Dadiz
4) DaleHarris
5) alisa
6) Alegodesign
7) Bnweiss
8 ) Philippe Plaideux
9) Squawk Design
10) Radiant Plumbing
11) Biola Undergrad
12) J R Velasco
13) ...
In this article we’d like to present our first series for an extensive developer’s suite that should give you a useful and powerful toolbox you can use every day while developing AJAX-based web-applications. Scrolling techniques, Gradient Effects, instant field editing, interactive elements, visual effects, animation, slideshows, accordions,star rating and other useful javascripts examples that you can find handy while developing your next ajax web application. Part 2 is coming ...
Download 8,000+ high quality free fonts
More free tools for your designer’s toolbox, this time our focus is high quality free typefaces. Usually it is a little bit more of a difficult task to find the perfect font out there, that's why we should not miss Urban Fonts.
Urbanfonts is a web 2.0 Ajax style font directory, containing an amazing collection of over 8,000 free fonts and dingbats in PC and Mac format along with a ...
Vector people illustrations - by Stylizedweb, A list of free vector people illustrations that are suitable for all type of sites from personal blogs, to designer showcases, and even professional and corporate sites..
Shadowbox Media Viewer- Cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript.
Liquid styled input element with CSS- This tutorial explains how to implement a simple liquid styled input element using css.
Mootools animated sidebar menu- How to implement ...
Part 2 of our 101 CSS Techniques series takes a look at more handy css techniques that you can incorporate into your web designs. If you haven’t read Part I yet, you should read it here.
Block Hover Effect Links
How to Create a Block Hover Effect for a List of Links- Learn how to create hover effect when you mouse over the list items to ...
101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1
CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.
Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! This is just the first series , the second part will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!
CSS ...
Weekly Links - January 7th
Building a Successful Niche Social Media Website: An Interview With Andrew Egenes of Design Float - by Vandelay Design, this is an interview that will give you several ideas in case you plan to run your own social media site.
How To Make Walking Links - by Chris Coyier, a “walking link” is a link with a dotted underline created by a background image. Upon rollover or active state, the dots ...
New techniques are being developed and updated all the time for creating unique menu techniques. We keep an eye on the recent developments and collect new ideas and methods for our readers and after all the great appreciation this post got 13 Awesome Javascript CSS Menus, i thought it would be nice to get you a fresh round-up of 7 Advanced CSS Menus techniques, that might be useful for you ...
Our Target is find a Layout that have Total Layout Flexibility, Equal Height Columns and just works fine. Lets digg deep and see below a list of resources which offer gorgeous and valid 3 Column CSS-based Layouts- usually with full layout structure, such as headers, navigation bars, content containers, sidebars and footers.
Two Fixed and one Fluid
1) 3 Columns, The Holy Grail- Nice simple 3-column CSS layout to adapt.
...
Tag clouds When, used properly, they can provide visitors with an instant illustration of the main topics of the site’s content. And although we don’t have that much choice in designing them, we can still find our way to come up with new design approaches and solutions.
Here is a new approach: Using jQuery to reduce the size of the tag cloud that you have on your sites, so our demo ...
50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1
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Many of us have been using a good deal of jQuery plugins lately. Below I have provided a list of the 50 favorite plugins many developers use. Some of these you may have already seen, others might be new to you. This is just the first series , the second version will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!
Sliding Panels
1) Sliding Panels For ...
Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms.
Thanks to AJAX, we can provide real-time feedback to our users using server-side validation scripts and eliminate the need for redundant validation functions and processing data.
Let’s take a look, ...
Css most updated galleries with quality designs is what makes a difference to us, thats why we are taking this chance to showcase the best CSS Galleries around the globe and vote for The Best Ones.
Your Vote will be based on 2 scales:
Update Frequency, Quality of showcased designs.
NOTE:Please note that the galleries listed below are not ordered in any criteria.
The Best Designs
CSS Vault
Web Creme
BestWebGallery
CSS Beauty
Light On Dark
CSS Artillery
CSS20
CSS Elite
CSS ...
Today we have part 1 of our series on the most useful tutorials released in 2007, taking a close look at most useful code snippets and examples that you can find handy to incorporate into your websites - here we bring together the very best tutorials and demos gathered from the net on our first series
Let’s take a look at some of the best tutorials we’ve found in the ...
In order to stay focused on web standards and best practices, we have to know which trends are coming up and which technologies will become big in the future. Today we are highlighting the Top 39 established design , copywriting, SEO, Ajax and tech-related Communities that delivers the latest trends and techniques in various fields that interest many of us.
Quality of ideas is what makes them stand out as they ...
Not many web designers have fun when it comes to styling tabular data. We have taken a close look at today's best functioning and styled tables to showcase over 15 modern css and Ajax tables teaching you some useful techniques for displaying information in a tabular mode using sorting or filtering functions.
You might be interested to take a look at the links below:
47+ Excellent Ajax CSS Forms
37+ Great Ajax, CSS ...
Noupe Gets Smashed
Smashing Magazine is an extremely popular design and development blog which features rich content for web design Community.
I was enthused this morning to see that an article I wrote was featured in the latest addition to Smashing Magazine’s Best Of October/2007!
My article “Best Of October 2007” was included in the Smashing Mag featureThanks for the linkage Smashing Magazine. I welcome everyone that is visiting Noupe for the first time today! ...
If you are trying to do pixel-perfect cross-browser CSS layout, then you have probably ran into problems with IE . I am going to highlight the top 7 CSS hacks that we often use to have pixel perfect design.
1)Box Model Hack
The box model hack is used to fix a rendering problem in pre-IE 6 browsers, where the border and padding are included in the width of an element, as opposed ...
No need to get any more complicated structure than you need to. Writing a CSS Stylesheet That is Easy to Maintain is really easy, just by following these 9 rules.
How deeply you organize your CSS can greatly hinder any necessary tweaks that arise in the future. So, I proposed the question to my team to take a close look at some of the most interesting CSS coding structure and ...
Every web designer tries to be creative when it comes to designing the main navigation of the website. Now we present you with 13 awesome Javascript CSS menus that will be very handy and easy to modify to suit your needs.
You might be interested to take a look at the menus found in the link below:
7 Advanced CSS Menu, A Great Roundup!!
Lets take a look at recent examples of these ...
Secret to Enormous Client Leads
Web designers face unique set of challenges to generate client leads. Since most of us are freelancers, this means that we need to have trust base with our clients. This is not easy, as we need to find The Client, Build Trust and Keep this client.
We have put together some ideas to help you find the right client and keep. There’s something for everyone to try and I guarantee there ...
Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image, etc…
CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Not all current browsers support CSS3, but it is however possible to create equivalent effects and serve it with the power of jQuery.
This article presents 5 CSS3 techniques which can dramatically get you a stunning user ...
