May 21

CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

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CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

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 a look at some interesting properties of CSS3 that you can put into practice in your website designs today.

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Posted in: CSS3

May 19

Going Freelance: The Pros & Cons With “Top Web Designers”

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Going Freelance: The Pros & Cons With “Top Web Designers”

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 will sit down with them and get to know their experience about going freelance.

Let’s take a look at a large group interview with top web designers about the pros & cons of going freelance.

For this interview each participant was asked the same set of questions. Below you will see the questions listed with the corresponding responses from each person.

Thank you to all of the contributors who were so gracious in taking their time to answer my questions. If you have any additional questions, leave a comment and - just maybe - they might respond. No promises :)

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Posted in: Design

May 17

40 (NEW) High-quality and Free Icon Sets

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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!

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Posted in: Icons

May 14

25 Winners Announced for Stock Graphic Designs Giveaway!

25 Winners Announced for Stock Graphic Designs Giveaway!

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.

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Posted in: Contest, spotlight

May 12

20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS

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20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS

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 get really creative and innovative. Some really like to take it to the next level and want to show off their use of the technique, even if it doesn’t have any practical use. These Proof of Concepts are just created because they CAN. Most of them are just really for fun or just beautiful to watch.

These PoC’s (or experiments) show off some serious power and potential, but don’t have any real practical use (yet). They’re insanely cool to watch, but really seek some better use.

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Posted in: CSS

May 10

25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS

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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 using WordPress“.

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Posted in: Wordpress

May 7

25 Winners to get a Free Vector Pack from Stock Graphic Designs

25 Winners to get a Free Vector Pack from Stock Graphic Designs

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.

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May 5

101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress

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101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress

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 powerful CMS using WordPress. Each section of the article presents a suggestion and provides you with an explanation of the solution for each suggestion.

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Posted in: Wordpress

May 3

The Ugly Truth Behind Starting a Web Design Blog

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The Ugly Truth Behind Starting a Web Design Blog

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 through your blog , this is your ultimate guideline.

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Posted in: Design

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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Posted in: Adobe, Tutorial

Apr 26

The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress

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The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress

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 show off a number of WordPress features, tips, tutorials, hacks, 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.

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Apr 23

35 Incredibly Useful Facebook Applications for Better Connectivity

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35 Incredibly Useful Facebook Applications for Better Connectivity

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 you can use to launch your Facebook profile.

Here are more than 35 of the best facebook applications that could be useful and make your profile efficient and appealing as possible. Please Don’t forget to share with us your favorite facebook application and tell us your thoughts about the ones listed below.

I just started to pay some attention to my Facebook Profile, feel free to add me so i can actually know what do you guys have in mind.

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Posted in: Tools

Apr 19

Outstanding Website Background Guide: 60+ Impressive Resources

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Outstanding Website Background Guide: 60+ Impressive Resources

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 tutorials you can use to create an amazing background images for your upcoming website design. You will also find an amazing set of patterns and texture packs that will magically add a big impact to a web design without a lot of effort.

As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to read the owner’s instructions and license info.

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