20 Useful PHP Components & Tutorials for Everyday Project
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 is made up of the best 20 FREE PHP Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.
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Paper + Color + Concept = 40+ Creative & Inspirational Piece of Art
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 post is to provide you with some creative, expressive and appealing print, packaging, book cover, paper arts, pop-up books, paper toys, posters, etc… In other words, anything made of “paper”.
This article presents more than 40 spectacular paper design (using amazing colors & concepts) that need to look good and be informative in order to focus users’ attention and effectively convey the message.
Posted in: Design, inspiration
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.
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40+ Adobe After Effects Best of Tutorials & Resources
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 make your message stand out. You will find After Effects tricks and techniques that should appeal to all users from beginners all the way to the most seasoned and advanced users of After Effects.
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40+ Useful & Handy Web Designer’s Web Services & Tools
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 fly.
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Posted in: Tools
Winners of the 5,000 Business Card Giveaway
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.
SmashingMagazine New Forum and Giveaway Books
After a couple of months of beta-testing Smashing Magazine had officially launched their new Smashing Forum.
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Webdesigner Depot: Great Resource for Web Designers
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 with the design community.
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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 tutorials you can use to create an amazing background images for your upcoming website design.
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Posted in: Trends
Readers Pick: 30+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps for Web Design
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 before and help them manage their project efficiently to get their job done.
Posted in: Tools
5,000 Full Color Business Card Giveaway
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).
5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started
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 very small size, 3) have good documentation and tutorials and 4) have clean grid structure. You will need a basic understanding of the CSS framework you are going to use to understand why and how things get solved.
In today’s post we present an overview of the 5 most popular CSS Frameworks; showcasing handpicked tutorials for using each of them among other useful tools and resources you will definitely find useful and time-saving.
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15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers
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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4th Jul | Andrew Jhonson
For a change, this post is for readers from all niche, segment, interest, community and category. Even if you have no relation with the world of web designing you shall find reading it worthy.
4th Jul | Jeremy Horn
Have a great 4th of July! And, during this extended weekend enjoy some interesting extended weekend reading: on the importance of charging early, the debate over password masking, and early trends in Modular Innovation.
4th Jul | gizelle
Out of Bounds or simply OOB is a technique used to add a 3D feel to a flat photo image. Its a lot of fun and pretty easy to do.
4th Jul | gizelle
These 20 letterpress business cards featured in this post are a great example of how effective letterpress business cards can reflect you or your company.
4th Jul | Brian
Nice looking Wordpress theme with Grunge design. Free download and released under GPL.
4th Jul | Rakesh
Today I would like to share some interesting PHP codes to handle HTML dynamically. These codes are free to use under GNU General Public License.
4th Jul | Luis Lopez
When finishing design school you will learn so many thing your teachers never told you. Here you have some of those things.
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.


