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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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.
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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4th Jul | Sophia Lucero
Let’s throw the design rules out of the window and enjoy a little bit of chaos!
4th Jul | Akhtar Sheikha
The list of collection Thirty One coolest business cards to inspire you.
4th Jul | Akhtar Sheikha
Coolest list of inspirational packaging designs.
4th Jul | Thomas
Minimal Websites are interesting because it\’s a way to let visitors focus on the content. We just mixed the best of Minimalist design featured on CssLeak since 2007. There is 50 websites order by popularity.
4th Jul | Andrew Houle
A free set of 10 hi-res photoshop brushes of weathered maps.
4th Jul | Mike
This blog shows creative and inspiration photos from original weddings in the San Francisco Bay Area.
4th Jul | Dainis Graveris
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!
4th Jul | Aaron Irizarry
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.
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.
4th Jul | Zach Dunn
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.
4th Jul | Bariski
A roundup post for June 2009 for TutZone
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.
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
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
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.
4th Jul | DerekKimball
Walkthrough showing you how to easily paint a stunning portrait using Photoshop.
4th Jul | DerekKimball
Free high quality image downloads to use for personal or commercial projects. Updated weekly.
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?
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.
3rd Jul | Brian Hoff
20 questions to ask your clients prior to beginning their new logo design.
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.
3rd Jul | Mike P.
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.
3rd Jul | sickdesigner
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
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.
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.
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.
3rd Jul | WebAir
Today we show you 44 Creative and Smart Advertisements that we have found in recent times.
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.
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.
3rd Jul | Michael Wilson
A showcase of work from the hugely talented designer, Emil Kozak
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hope you’ll find useful these bookmarks. June was a…
3rd Jul | Losi
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!
3rd Jul | John Lloyd
Here’s a quick little tip on how to build a map with hoverable regions with a few little CSS tricks.
3rd Jul | Thomson
Sequential logos is a new trend among logo designers. A sequential logos is a concept of demonstrating movement and mark harmonious progress of a company.
3rd Jul | Michael Wilson
A round up of the best web design content from the day
3rd Jul | Dainis Graveris
Official Twitter badges are boring, let\’s put something fresh in your design! This list showcases all the best Twitter related icons available on Internet!
3rd Jul | Sam Thomas
Google.com and its competitors are great tools for keyword based searches and they also provide great advanced search tools. These advanced search tools are what led me to look into several unique search engines that aren’t Google.


