Jun 2

Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

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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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Apr 27

30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials

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30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials

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 your Flash-projects.

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Mar 4

25+ 3D Studio Max Best of Tutorials & Resources

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25+ 3D Studio Max Best of Tutorials & Resources

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 covering modeling, materials, lighting and animation in 3DSMax. You will find full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effects solution that should appeal to all users from beginners all the way to the most seasoned and advanced users of 3DS Max.

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Nov 19

20 Twitter Status Design Tutorials, Icons & WP Plugins

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20 Twitter Status Design Tutorials, Icons & WP Plugins

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 Brilliant Twitter Status Design Tutorials, beautiful twitter icons & WP Plugins to display your twitter status easily.

You might be interested to check this amazing collection of 25 Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins

I’ve been enjoying the Twitter thing more and more lately. Here is my Twitter page nourayehia if anyone wants to follow.

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Sep 15

CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

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CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

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 based sites.


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Aug 17

Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

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Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

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 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript.


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Jul 28

CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices

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CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices

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 CSS-based layouts and the result was a list of 40 tutorials, resources and best practices offering gorgeous and valid CSS-based Layouts.


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Jul 14

Vector Illustration: 60+ Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices

Vector Illustration: 60+ Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices

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, tips, best practices from some of the best illustrators and artists; besides you’ll also find references to brilliant illustrator portfolios out there. Let’s take a look at some of the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials we’ve found in the Web so far.


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Jun 22

40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials

40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials

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.


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Jun 15

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

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 SO MANY good tricks out there and if you see an easier or better methods, then post a comment below or email me. I will do my best to include it in our next post in this series.


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30+ Coolest Business Cards to Inspire You
4th Jul | Akhtar Sheikha

The list of collection Thirty One coolest business cards to inspire you.

List of Handsome Packaging Design Inspiration
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Coolest list of inspirational packaging designs.

50 Minimalist Websites Design: Best Since 2007
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A free set of 10 hi-res photoshop brushes of weathered maps.
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A free set of 10 hi-res photoshop brushes of weathered maps.

Inspirational work from San Francisco wedding photographers
4th Jul | Mike

This blog shows creative and inspiration photos from original weddings in the San Francisco Bay Area.

55 Really Creative And Unique Blog Design Showcase: Inspiration
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There are millions of blogs around the world, so it\’s really a challenge to stand out with unique design. Get inspired, to help you create really unusual design!

Friday Vidcast 7-3-09
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In this weeks vidcast we talk about mediocrity in our approach to product launches, as well as using wisdom in our timing when pursing our passions.

Web Design Trend Hunting - Fluid Grid Layout: 10+ Outstanding Examples & 1 Tutorial
4th Jul | Adi

In our daily web hunting raids we have spotted another interesting & good-looking trend - the fluid grid-based layout, mostly used by galleries and visual inspiration blogs.

The Web Designer Declaration of Independence
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that creativity exists in all designers, and they are endowed by Common Sense and the W3C certain rights, that among those are Web Standards, Sanity, and Creative Commons.

4 Useful Random Topics For Bloggers
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A roundup post for June 2009 for TutZone :)

How To Add A Contact-Form In A Blog
4th Jul | Bariski

A contact form provides an easy way for your visitors and your readers to get in touch with you from your blog itself. :)

Design a wordpress theme with Photoshop
4th Jul | Grafpedia

If you want to create your own custom blog design follow this easy tutorial to learn how to design a wordpress theme in Photoshop

Design a wordpress theme with Photoshop
4th Jul | Grafpedia

If you want to create your own custom blog design follow this easy tutorial to learn how to design a wordpress theme in Photoshop

20+ High-Quality Free Fonts for Retro and Vintage Design
4th Jul | piervix

In this selection I am glad to present you some of the best fonts to realize nice retro design. The fonts (20+) of this list are absolutely free and you can freely use these resources for your designs, click on the images below to download them.

Create Stunning Portrait Painting Using Photoshop
4th Jul | DerekKimball

Walkthrough showing you how to easily paint a stunning portrait using Photoshop.

Free High Quality Image Downloads
4th Jul | DerekKimball

Free high quality image downloads to use for personal or commercial projects. Updated weekly.

15 Best Places to get Inspirational Web Designs
4th Jul | webaddicty

Want to do some creativity with your web design? Want to do something innovative and inspiring? Looking for something that helps you to boost your creativity with an amazing idea?

30 Unique And Inspirational Typography Artwork
4th Jul | shravan

These are some digital artworks created using Typography in the art. The designs have been collected from Flickr and I can bet they these are some designs which any designer would like to include in his work once.

20 Questions To Ask Clients Prior To Designing a Logo
3rd Jul | Brian Hoff

20 questions to ask your clients prior to beginning their new logo design.

Make a Vintage Magazine Ad in Photoshop
3rd Jul | DannyOutlaw

While I was researching vintage ads for this Photoshop tutorial, I came across a few Coppertne Sunscreen ads that were the perfect combination of pinup and vintage ad.

35 Beautiful and Creative Fountains Around the World
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It\’s no secret that we can see fountains in every city we travel to, and the bigger, more colorful it is, the bigger the hype. In this presentation, you will see some of the most famous, beautiful and creative fountains around the world.

22 VISUALLY INSPIRING GUITARS
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Guitars are an awesome source of inspiration to me, both musically and visually. So with this post I set out to share some of the most inspiring guitars I know of with you guys, the great community (yeah, both of you) of sickdesigner.com

20 Examples of Infrared Photography
3rd Jul | Karthik Viswanathan

Infrared photography is a type of photo-capturing where the camera recognizes infrared light. It puts a whole new meaning to what we know as regular pictures. Though infrared photos may not seem appealing, they can easily present a new perspective.

50 Beautifully Delicious Coffee Designs
3rd Jul | Webdesigner Depot

Coffee or Latte art consists of the pouring of steamed milk into a shot of espresso generating a pattern or design on the surface.

Best 35+ GIMP Tutorials
3rd Jul | QBrushes

Here is a top 30 list of Gimp tutorials hand selected by Gimper and SGlider12 that will help you to add many new Gimp design techniques to your arsenal.

44 Creative and Smart Advertisements
3rd Jul | WebAir

Today we show you 44 Creative and Smart Advertisements that we have found in recent times.

Inspirations-36 Excellent Resources,Examples,Tutorials-July
3rd Jul | Divya

Inspirations, resources, examples, articles, tips, tricks, tutorial and more only for our readers. All this inspirations will help you designers and developers in you daily activities.

32 latest Business Card ideas for Corporate Companies – Simply the best!!
3rd Jul | nanodon

I have always seen that a collection of Business Cards on internet sells like hot cakes. Countless people regularly browse net in search of fresh, catchy, professional, vibrant Business Cards.

Awesome Designer Showcase – Emil Kozak
3rd Jul | Michael Wilson

A showcase of work from the hugely talented designer, Emil Kozak

13 High Resolution Grass and Leaf Textures
3rd Jul | gizelle

Another set of texture freebies that you can use for free in your designs, both personal and commercial. This set contains pictures of grass and leaves in high resolution format.

10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical
3rd Jul | Charlotte-OXP

If content is the heart of every website publication, navigation is its brain and a fundamental pillar of information architecture design. When dealing with large quantities of content, the critical importance of navigation cannot be overestimated.

Top 50 best digital art design works
3rd Jul | Dainis

We collect top 50 best art works. In this set are great design elements, that you can use in you photoshop works. I hope these works will inspire you. Here you will find many fantasy scenes.

June 2009, 30+ Bookmarks to Collect the Best of Web
3rd Jul | piervix

The Best of Web selected by PV.M Garage. Every month I take a look around and select some of the most interesting readings and resources published on great and useful websites.
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25 Places In The World You Should Photograph
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If you only get to go to one of these locations it’s an experience that you will never forget and all are photography destination that we all crave for!

Use CSS to build a map with hoverable regions.
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Here’s a quick little tip on how to build a map with hoverable regions with a few little CSS tricks.

25 Beautiful Logos with Sequential Concept
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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.

The Best Web Design Links Of The Day 02/07/09
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A round up of the best web design content from the day

50 Free Social Twitter Resources and Icon Sets: Huge List
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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!

50 unique search engines – that are not Google
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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.

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