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CSS3 Card Trick: A Fun CSS3 Experiment

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:56 +0000

CSS3 Card Trick: A Fun CSS3 Experiment

Ultimate Roundup of WordPress Screencasts and Tutorials

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:00:15 +0000

It’s certainly no secret that I think the WordPress platform is the way to go in developing a web presence for any design professional who wants to do it on their own and control the result. What sets WordPress apart from other blogging software are the many free templates, tutorials… read more

Designing Typography for the Modern Web

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:33:31 +0000

As web designers it is our job to grow with the trends of the Internet. As new technology emerges it’s our position to jump on board and see where it can take us. This includes trends all over the web, typography being a major player.

Many designers don’t consider type as… read more

Modern UI and Layout Tutorials for Photoshop

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:20:54 +0000

It would be very hard to find a situation where Photoshop does not have the perfect solution for any web (or print) design problem. With Photoshop you can pretty much design a web page just as you envisaged mentally, with virtually no creative restrictions and with a pixel-perfect result.

Web design… read more

10 Great Watches for Gadget Lovers [PICS]

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:44:03 +0000

Everybody loves a good watch, and the best thing about watches is that they actually serve a practical purpose. These handy, portable gadgets are more than just decoration, which means you can usually justify spending money on a decent one.

However, being geeks, we want more from our timepiece than the… read more

Should You Search Social Media Sites for Job Candidate Information?

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:45:13 +0000

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Social media is becoming a great way for recruiters to announce job openings and find qualified candidates. The conversational nature of social media allows you to interact… read more

Create Animated Landscape using Pure CSS3

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:00:12 +0000

Create Animated Landscape using Pure CSS3

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 29-Sep 4, 2010

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:30:56 +0000

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:52:16 +0000

“404 Not Found.” These three little words can make any Internet explorer an unhappy camper. After all, who hopes to click on a broken link or stumble upon a moved or deleted page while cruising around the web?

Luckily, some web designers have chosen to end the misery of encountering a… read more

How Long Should We Ban IPs?

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:00:35 +0000

How Long Should We Ban IPs?

Best of the Week #135

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:58:31 +0000

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Sites of the Week #118 – Ronin Giveaway Winners

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:11:16 +0000

For this Sites of the Week, we’re announcing the winners for the Ronin giveaway, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as Quipsologies and Relogik. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

In-Depth Review of Tumblr’s Custom Theming Ability

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:29:11 +0000

Tumblr. If you’re a savvy tech maven, you may have heard of, or had the chance to use, this powerful microblogging platform.

No wonder; millions of people have chosen Tumblr as their blogging service, and the average Tumblr user creates 14 original posts every month. Half of … read more

Fun CSS3 Animation Experiment

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:33:00 +0000

A Fun CSS3 Animation and Twitter Feed Experiment read more

50 Fresh and Beautiful Ecommerce Websites II

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:56:39 +0000

Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant… read more

25 Online CSS Compressors to Optimize Your CSS Code

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:49:00 +0000

One of the most important thing when developing websites is page loading speed, to load as quickly as possible, especially in the case of large websites. read more

Maintainable CSS3 Using PHP

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:58:00 +0000

Using PHP-generated CSS, you can abstract your multi-line CSS3 stuff into just one line of maintainable code. read more

Writing Clean CSS3 Code

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:00:53 +0000

Writing Clean CSS3 Code

On the Concept of Process

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:35:40 +0000

I’m going to start this discussion of by revealing a secret about my own design work: I don’t have a process. At least, I don’t have a rock solid, time tested step by step formula that I follow for all my projects. That’s not to say that I shoot from… read more

Working For A Web Design Agency

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:30:55 +0000

The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done that before… then how do you know what to expect? Is it even the right path for you?

Setting foot in an agency for the first time can be daunting. It’s… read more

20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:50:44 +0000

Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my… read more

HOW TO: Get Started with HTML5 Boilerplate

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:08:14 +0000

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

This is not your father’s world wide web. Thanks to soaring smartphone sales, new tablet devices like the iPad, and the burgeoning trend of connected devices, individuals are accessing and experiencing the… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:45:50 +0000

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

Performance Optimization: How to Load your javascript faster!

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:10:00 +0000

In this article I’ll point out some important rules, how to use your javascript, which tools to use and what benefits you’ll gain from it. read more

The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:08:43 +0000

In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the… read more

Zebra-striping rows and columns

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Zebra-striping rows and columns with the nth-of-type selector. read more

The Totally Amazing New Campaign Monitor Office

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:46:21 +0000

I’m already a big fan and user of Campaign Monitor, the guys managed to build a beautiful and easy to use tool that focuses on using things properly. But beyond that, last week when I saw their new office I was amazed, really, is one of the best places for… read more

10 Jaw Dropping HTML5 and Javascript Effects

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:13:00 +0000

Alright, HTML5 has been released for quite a while now, and its capabilities never cease to amaze me. Here, I have got 10 more HTML and Javascript demonstrations that show you what they can do. read more

Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:46:07 +0000

For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop.

It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put… read more

40 Title Tag Optimization Ranking Factors, Techniques + Resources

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:41:00 +0000

Title tags often get overlooked by web developers. That’s a shame as they are crucial for both search rankings and users seeing search results. Here is the ultimate title tag optimization list to fix them. read more

Top 10 Tips for Writing Better CSS

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:00:07 +0000

Top 10 Tips for Writing Better CSS

Easy Design Feedback with Notebox

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:52:54 +0000

Collecting feedback and incorporating them in the design revisions is as important to a designer as his/her creativity. The easiest and the most common way a designer collects feedback is by emailing a PDF file or an image and the client will revert back in an email with the changes… read more

Appbistro: Supermarket for Facebook Apps

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:28:26 +0000

Just like Android apps, Facebook apps are growing exponentially in number. But just like the Android platform, Facebook app platform is also bogged down by the lack of a great centralized repository from where people can find, read about & install apps and comment on the usefulness apps as well.

Enter… read more

Creating a Upload/Download System Using PHP Classes

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:04:00 +0000

Making a PHP upload script can be a very challenging task when you are just starting out, heck; it’s still hard to some extent when you are an experienced developer. So today, I’m going to show you how to make one using PHP5 Classes and a simple form. read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.53)

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:26:55 +0000

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

2000 Free Photoshop Patterns

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:34:10 +0000

Today I have put together the largest collection of free Photoshop patterns DesignM.ag has ever offered. Enjoy!

Flowers Patters for Photoshop (6)

Photoshop Patterns

Photoshop Patterns (12)

Victorian – PS Patterns (45)

Vintage Patterns (12)

Arabic Patterns for Photoshop

(4)

Grandmas Flowers (4)

Paisley

Seamless Paper Patterns (6)

Grungy Abstract Squares Photoshop Patterns (4)

Tileable Midnight Blue Grunge Patterns (5)

Flat Grungy… read more

Writing and Web Design: Editorial Calendars and Style Guides

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:38:04 +0000

A few years ago, you might not have pointed out during a meeting with a potential client that you maintained a blog. Over time, though, blogs have evolved from the being a personal hobby to a serious work tool. In fact, today, web designers are supposed to know much more… read more

Coding a Stylish Blog Design Layout in HTML & CSS

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:00:47 +0000

Coding a Stylish Blog Design Layout in HTML & CSS

50 Refreshing CSS Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:58:21 +0000

In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped… read more

CSS3 Tutorial: Sleek Card Pockets using CSS Only

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:12 +0000

CSS3 Tutorial: Sleek Card Pockets using CSS Only

Academica: Free WordPress 3.0+ Theme For Educational Websites

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:04:01 +0000

In this post we release a yet another freebie: Academica WordPress Theme, a free WordPress theme designed specifically for educational websites such as universities, schools etc. It’s a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university, academy or non-profit organization. The theme is… read more

PSD/HTML Conversion: Elegant and Simple CSS3 Web Layout

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:00:02 +0000

PSD/HTML Conversion: Elegant and Simple CSS3 Web Layout

Best of the Week #134

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:18:06 +0000

Multi-Website Publishing with Halogy

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:12:25 +0000

Remember that website you always wanted to create but never managed to find the time or lacked the technical expertise to get it running? Or maybe you’re a designer that loves being creative but you’ve always struggled to grasp the process of converting your designs into a theme that can… read more

Create a Fun Animated Navigation Menu With Pure CSS

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:00:21 +0000

Create a Fun Animated Navigation Menu With Pure CSS

40+ Elegent Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates from 2010

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:59:56 +0000

Today we present some useful free CSS/(X)HTML templates which are available for free download and use. You may want to consider using them for your next projects or build upon them, creating more advanced themes from these basic templates.

Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates

Blue Jeans (Demo | Download)
Stand out from… read more

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:07:54 +0000

To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give… read more

Sites of the Week #117 – Ronin App Giveaway

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:58:25 +0000

For this Sites of the Week, we have a special edition with a giveaway from Ronin App, I’m sure you’ll love it! Also we have selected some great sites such as Organizze and Spring. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions and don’t forget… read more

715 Awesomely Simple and Free CSS Layouts

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:00:53 +0000

715 Awesomely Simple and Free CSS Layouts

Getting to Work with CSS3 Power Tools

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:00:08 +0000

Getting to Work with CSS3 Power Tools

10 Good and 10 Bad Things About Adobe’s Dreamweaver

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:25:10 +0000

Dreamweaver is a tool for making web sites. Learning Dreamweaver can be a bit of an uphill struggle if you are new to either web design, html or the program itself. When you first open it, even the welcome screen can look daunting, there seems to be 1000 tools you… read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:04:42 +0000

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In?

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:42:54 +0000

jQuery plug-ins provide an excellent way to save time and streamline development, allowing programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. But plug-ins are also a wild card that introduce an element of uncertainty into any code base. A good plug-in saves countless development hours; a bad plug-in… read more

A Complete Guide to Progressive Enhancement

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:30:11 +0000

For years, web designers have been using graceful degradation principles to make sure visitors in older browsers can at least see the content on their websites, even if they don’t see it exactly how the designer intended.

Graceful degradation let designers design for the newest and best browsers without completely alienating… read more

6 New Mac Apps for Designers and Developers

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:21:41 +0000

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Mac OS X is a popular platform for developers and designers of all stripes. Apple has always had strength in the graphic design market, but even before Apple’s shift to Intel processors… read more

Poplar Creek Public Library

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:01:38 +0000

A former library located in Streamwood, IL, has undergone a beautiful transformation in 2009 by the hands of Frye Gillan Molinaro Architects. Much of the original structure of the building was maintained and the new project brought even more life to the library.

The combination of external exposed concrete and glass… read more

10 Useful Frameworks To Develop HTML-Based Webapps for Touch Devices

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:59:18 +0000

Make HTML-based touch applications. Easy.

In the last two years the rapid growth and diffusion of touch devices such as iOS or Android based platforms has forced developers and web designers to rethink the model of their own webapps for the new “touch experience” introduced by the iPhone in 2007.

During this… read more

40+ Superb CodeCanyon Items You Must Check Out

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:48:09 +0000

If you’ve been hanging around Nettuts+ for long, you probably know that it’s only one small piece of the huge Envato ecosystem. If you’re interested in becoming a more efficient developer, you’ll want to check out these incredible WordPress, CSS, JavaScript, .NET, and PHP components, all ready for you to… read more

5 Lightweight CMS Alternatives for Small Businesses

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:41:36 +0000

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Even in 2010, managing and maintaining a website can be a daunting and complicated process. Blogging platforms like Tumblr and Posterous are great, but they aren’t always… read more

7 Useful jQuery Form Plugins

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:25:00 +0000

Recently, I have just finished another website. During the development, I have to write fair a bit of javascript to implement the form, and I discovered these plugins and I pretty sure it will come in handy to all of you. read more

CSS Counters: counter-increment and Friends

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:17:35 +0000

A comprehensive discussion of how to use CSS counters, including an infographic and details on browser support, benefits and potential drawbacks.

20 Web Dev Events, 20 Beautifully Crafted Web Designs

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:58:11 +0000

The initial idea for this article was to highlight all web design related events and conferences up until the end of 2010. As the article evolved, the primary focus and direction changed – no longer were we only highlighting some important and essential conferences, we soon realized we were privy… read more

Getting to Work to With CSS3 Power Tools

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:43:12 +0000

CSS3 is one of the coolest new web technologies available to web developers right now. Using some of its many features, it is possible to reproduce the effects that you might have previously done in Photoshop, with CSS code that is more maintainable, faster to load, and hip with the… read more

Polaroid: A Free Magento Theme For Your eCommerce Website

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:18:42 +0000

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: Polaroid Magento Theme, a professional design skin for the shops powered by the popular open-source ecommerce web application Magento. The theme was designed by eCommerce-Themes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free… read more

Six New Features in Dreamweaver CS5

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:34:55 +0000

Every upgrade brings something new, but Dreamweaver CS5 brings more goodies than most previous upgrades, and you can put these new features to use right away. Here’s how to use some of the coolest new features, from troubleshooting CSS with the new inspect option, to adding advanced Ajax and jQuery… read more

27 Amazingly Realistic CSS Icons and Logos

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:48:34 +0000

In this article, we have handpicked some awesome css3 experiments so far which will make you say wow.

A Showcase of Single Page Websites

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:30:48 +0000

When designing a website with a minimal number of pages and not a ton of content, a single-page design can be an innovative way to set the site apart.

Single-page websites often utilize JavaScript and Flash, along with HTML and CSS to fit more content on a page without substantially… read more

Creating a Mobile Version of Your Site

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:32:24 +0000

Despite the obvious explosion of the mobile market some website owners feel like very few, if any users will decide to browse their site using a mobile device. Well it is time to wake up and realize that there never has been a better time to ensure your site is… read more

CSS3 Sidebar Full Height Background Color

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:39:00 +0000

The sidebar in layout cannot extend automatically full height along with the content. We usually do it by repeating the background image the way down of the container. You actually can get the Faux Columns trick without using image with CSS3 gradient. read more

Create a Dynamic Flickr Image Search with the Dojo Toolkit

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:49:00 +0000

This post aims to create a tabbed interface for grabbing Flickr images using Dijit’s TabContainer, DojoX’s Flickr data store, and basic Dojo code for event handling and node manipulation. read more

7 Questions with Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0000

7 Questions with Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks

How Limitations Improve Design

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:30:59 +0000

We often complain about the multitude of limitations which we’re faced with every day as designers.

From browsers, to screen resolutions, to user interactions, we seem to constantly be struggling to find some way of thinking outside the tiny little box of “best practice” which we’re constrained by.

Limitations are abundant but… read more

A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:55:33 +0000

There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish. “It’s what’s inside that counts” and “Beauty is only skin deep” are a few simple examples. Because the Web design industry is now flooded with a lot of raw talent,… read more

27 Amazingly Realistic CSS Icons and Logos

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:07:00 +0000

In this article, we have handpicked some awesome css3 experiments so far which will make you say wow. read more

50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:55:33 +0000

The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement.

Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find… read more

Further Thoughts on CSS, Experiments and Icons

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:00:37 +0000

Further Thoughts on CSS, Experiments and Icons

Browser Jumping

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:00:02 +0000

Browser Jumping

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:09:17 +0000

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 15-Aug 21, 2010

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:30:54 +0000

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a… read more

Best of the Week #133

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:55:38 +0000

Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:19:30 +0000

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a beautiful Modernist WordPress theme, designed by Rodrigo Galindez and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme is based on the design ideas of Jan Tschichold, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Dieter Rams, and other modernists. Beautifully built yet transparent, it… read more

Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Cat Edition

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:23:56 +0000

It’s Friday. Anyone else feel like their brain is leaking out of their eye sockets, pooling on the floor like pink — wait, ew. Anyway, everyone’s probably feeling a little fuzzy at present, which is why this week’s YouTube roundup is of the soft and furry variety: Cats.

Ever since Keyboard… read more

Global News: A Free Wordpress News Theme – Updated!

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:56:49 +0000

Many of you may know that last week we released a multi-functional free wordpress news theme named “Global News” and due to some technical reasons we had to remove it from our servers. And now, after scanning all files as we promised, we are again making it available to our… read more

Sites of the Week #116

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:49:26 +0000

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Unlocking and HDLive10. Also we’re featuring the amazing new Virb and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy… read more

10 Underused Html Elements, and how you should be using them!

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:49:00 +0000

There are several really useful elements available to use, that make our code more semantic, our website more usable, and in general, everything easier for both us, the coder, and the end-user of our site. read more

Google Docs Templates for Web Designers and Developers

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:42:38 +0000

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If I am honest, I don’t really know how popular Google Docs is within the freelance community, but I have found that I have been using it a lot more recently. To the extent that I seem to have more documents stored online that I do on my hard drive… read more

100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:14:30 +0000

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick… read more

25 Amazing CSS3 Experimentations and Demos

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:15:00 +0000

CSS3 is opening up a lot of possibilities for designers and developers. Things that used to require images, JavaScript or Flash can now be done with the power of CSS. read more

10 MooTools Image and Content Sliders

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:11:31 +0000

With CSS3 stealing all of the design headlines recently, and with jQuery as popular as it is, it is very easy to forget about any other image and content slider/gallery options you may have. And as such, in this post, we take a look at the best of what MooTools… read more

Google Updates Gmail for iPad With Stacked Cards

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:11:00 +0000

Shortly after Yahoo launched its HTML5-based version of Yahoo Mail for iPad, Google has refreshed its version of Gmail for Apple’s popular tablet.

The update boils down to one feature, albeit an interesting one: the app now has a new “stacked card” interface for selecting and managing multiple conversations. Before this… read more

Envato’s 2010 Birthday Bundle – $20 For $400 Worth of Value

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:39:36 +0000

Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of value for only $20.

The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six code packages… read more

Head Up in the Clouds: Web Design that Uses Sky Elements

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:21:52 +0000

It is always amazing to designer incorporating different element of nature in their designs. This time the inspiration is cloud, sky and blue palette colors. In this post we are featuring some really beautiful website that used sky, cloud images and illustrations in their design.
Some of this website used… read more

HOW TO: Make Your Mobile Websites Act More Like Native Apps

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:03:40 +0000

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

As smartphone sales continue to soar, more and more developers are focusing their efforts on building applications for mobile devices. Whether it is a native application or a mobile-optimized website, mobile innovation… read more

10 Essential Free E-Books for Web Designers

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:27:10 +0000

While many may still prefer print for long-form reading, e-books are gaining popularity as a worthy digital alternative. Aside from all the usual benefits of digitizing a book (faster searches, less page-flipping, linked pages, additional resources, etc.), e-books are a huge help to digital and online professionals.

There are now e-books… read more

Most Interesting Chrome Extensions

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:48:00 +0000

Today we present the collection of most useful extensions for Chrome browser. read more

The Web Design Community Offers Advice To Beginners

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:27:44 +0000

At one time or another, we are all newbies. That’s right: you can deny it all you want, but not one of us got into this game with a full deck stacked in our favor. We entered as newbies, born fresh after the start screen loaded. However, unlike in a… read more

Power Up Your Clipboard with ClipMenu

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:00:42 +0000

ClipMenu is an incredibly neat little app that we’ve mentioned in several recent articles here on AppStorm. However, we’ve never given it a proper review and wanted to take the time to show you just how cool it is.

If you’ve downloaded ClipMenu before and only given it a brief try,… read more

Superior Apartments at Venice, California

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:37:23 +0000

This apartment building located on Venice Boulevard is a project by Kanner Architects. The Venice Superior Apartments have simple shapes, vibrant colors and a modern look. Venice was just the perfect place for it!

The building is small with only three floors, and the architects were able to distribute it in… read more

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to User Scripts

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:56:00 +0000

A user script is code written in a programming language that allows you to control a piece of software. read more

10 Great Tips for Writing Better And More Comprehensive CSS

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:59:42 +0000

10 Great Tips for Writing Better And More Comprehensive CSS

How to connect your site with twitter using @Anywhere

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:31:00 +0000

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use @Anywhere in your site. read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.50)

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:52:04 +0000

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Web Standardistas Book Giveaway

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:05:01 +0000

HTML & CSS Web Standards Solutions – A Web Standardistas’ Approach is quite possibly one of the most authoritative books that you can learn XHTML & CSS through. This book makes learning easy opposed to monotonous reading and technical jargon. Even if you are an absolute beginner in web design, this book… read more

Six Quick Questions with Chris Coyier

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:00:00 +0000

I recently had a chance to ask Chris Coyier, one of the most well know authors within the web design industry and curator of CSS-Tricks, some quick questions and catch up with what he has been up to lately. read more

14 Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers & Developers

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:47:00 +0000

Let these Google Chrome extensions increase your productivity, arm you with seo data, test css and javascript and so much more. read more

Use Adobe Fonts in Your Own Web Designs

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:02:19 +0000

Typekit, a company doing its part to help bring better typography to the web, has just announced an new partnership with Adobe.

The partnership means that Typekit users can now integrate famous fonts like Myriad, Cooper Black and Adobe Garamond into their own sites and designs.

Adobe took the time… read more

Semantics and sensibility

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:05:00 +0000

The differences between semantics and sensibility in markup. read more

Best of the Week #132

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:52:15 +0000

How to create a forum in PHP from scratch

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:59:00 +0000

In this tutorial we’ll see how to make a forum using PHP and MySQL. We have to cover a lot of different things, so let’s start! read more

The Best of the Business Blogs, July 2010

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:30:55 +0000

At the start of every month, we’ll be rounding up the best posts from the business network of blogs and directing you to them. Here’s the best of business in July, including articles from WorkAwesome, the Netsetter and FreelanceSwitch.

The Netsetter

50 Netsetters You Should Know About

There are thousands of… read more

Can Flash Move Forward?

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:38:55 +0000

There has been a long debate about Adobe Vs. Apple, or even Flash Vs. HTML5. Whatever side of the fence you are on—you probably won’t be changing your mind anytime soon. Flash brings a lot of features and creativity for web designers, but then again the promise of HTML5, CSS3… read more

Animated Sprites with CSS3 Transitions

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:10 +0000

Animated Sprites with CSS3 Transitions

Sites of the Week #115

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:37:33 +0000

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as The Combine 2010 and Participatory Politics. Also we’re featuring the portfolio of Tuispace and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

Fresh And Useful Firefox Extensions For Developers

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:55:00 +0000

Today we presents a collection of most useful Firefox extensions for developers. read more

Animated Sprites with CSS3 Transitions

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:16:45 +0000

Using two familiar CSS techniques you can create animated CSS-only rollovers that degrade gracefully in nonsupporting browsers.

Subtle CSS3 Typography that you’d Swear was Made in Photoshop

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:19:05 +0000

Thanks to text shadows, outlines, transitions, and even text gradients, we can now create cool typography that you’d swear had to be made with a program like Photoshop. Nope, all CSS3 baby! Let’s take a look in this video quick tip. Premium Members: Download this Video ( Must be logged… read more

Double Click in CSS

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:00:19 +0000

Double Click in CSS

5 Free to Use Freelance Design Contract Templates

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:47:37 +0000

The most important and essential document a freelance designer should have is a rock solid and reliable contract. The worst thing is though, freelance web designers or graphic designers, especially when they are just starting out, can ill afford the expense of paying a lawyer to draw up a decent… read more

Morning Brief: “Wizard of Oz” Google Doodle, Dell Thunder, Galaxy S Epic 4G

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:55:58 +0000

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

90+ Brilliant Fresh WordPress Site Designs for Design Inspiration

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:18:09 +0000

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a new web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is free!

Now… read more

7 Reasons Why I Choose Fireworks Over Photoshop

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:27:42 +0000

My name is Russell McGovern and I use Fireworks to design websites. There, I said it. I could be wrong, but it feels like I’m in a small minority; among web designers, the application of choice seems to be Photoshop.

Agencies send me PSD files at work and… read more

25 Fresh jQuery Plugin That Will Rock Your World

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:16:00 +0000

jQuery Plugin repository keeps growing everyday with new plugins which has useful functions. These plugins makes our job as web designer so easy. In this post we are sharing with you 25 recently released jQuery plugins that will amaze you. read more

A PlayStation Phone is Coming, and It’s Powered By Android [RUMOR]

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:21:44 +0000

If rumors are true, the mobile and gaming markets are about to get a big surprise from Sony Ericsson: a PlayStation-branded gaming phone, powered by Android 3.0.

According to Engadget, Sony Ericsson is working on a hybrid mobile phone and gaming device that is a “cross between the Samsung Captivate and… read more

5 Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools You Should Try

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:48:06 +0000

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

As mobile OSes — especially iPhone and Android — wax and wane, the pressing question remains: How do you choose which mobile devices to develop for and which devices to omit from… read more

Galilée, an Amazing Office Building in France

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:15:46 +0000

The office building located near Toulouse in France, is a project by Studio Bellencour Architects. A work with an amazing composition, use of shapes and materials!

Bellencour Architects managed to join the straight and hard lines of two office buildings with a layer of concrete so light that looks more like… read more

Dive Into Dijit Forms

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Learn how to enhance your basic web form using Dojo Dijit widgets! read more

20+ New Apps and Websites for Designers

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:30:54 +0000

New apps and websites seem to appear on an almost-daily basis.

Trying to find the best ones each week or month can be tough, especially considering how many come out that aren’t that great.

Here we’ve compiled some of the best apps and websites that have come out in the past few… read more

The Future of the Internet

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:25:31 +0000

“In only a few short years, electronic computing systems have been invented and improved at a tremendous rate. But computers did not ‘just grow.’ They have evolved… They were born and they are being improved as a consequence of man’s ingenuity, his imagination… and his mathematics.” — 1958 IBM brochure

The… read more

29 Useful Things You Can Do With CSS3

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:00:58 +0000

29 Useful Things You Can Do With CSS3

7 Useful Resources to Help You Learn HTML5

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:15:31 +0000

Even though HTML5 is relatively new and it’s not supported yet by all major browsers, it is being used now by a lot of web designers and developers. Without a doubt, HTML5 is going to play a big part in the way we develop on the web, for many years… read more

jQuery Image Scroller Plugin

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:01:00 +0000

Create an interface to view a certain portion of a large image by dragging over a smaller image. read more

CSS3 Playground

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:38:54 +0000

Explore CSS3 radius, box-shadow, text-shadow, and transforms in a WYSIWYG environment. (via Cameron Moll)

8 CSS preprocessors to speed up development time

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:01 +0000

8 CSS preprocessors to speed up development time

It’s About the Design Not the Tools

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:21:27 +0000

I’m guessing that most of you have seen the recent article over on Smashing Magazine, entitled “In Defense of Photoshop,” in which Tom Giannattasio makes a case for the continued use of Photoshop as the primary application for web design. The article makes some interesting points about the creative process,… read more

Showcase Of Delicious Coffee Websites

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:58:24 +0000

For designers approaching a deadline, coffee is a delicious necessity. Lucky for us, having a coffee break is not really difficult. But it’s more than just a 3am fix. With every late-night run to the local coffee house, we contribute to a populous network of coffee trading, sales and experience.

And… read more

Global News: A Free WordPress News Theme

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:09:19 +0000

To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release one more free WordPress theme – “Global News”. It’s our latest high-quality freebies addition in Christmas week.

“Global News”, as the name implies, is a Newspaper Style WordPress Theme that has all the features… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.49)

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:22:15 +0000

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Optimizing search functionality with large javascript arrays

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:31:00 +0000

A small introduction to the binary algorithm and how it can help you search in your arrays faster read more

SAG Content Scroller

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:11:00 +0000

SAG is a jQuery scroller that takes a regular UL list and scrolls it upwards, one LI at a time and pausing in between. It can be set to either auto scroll, or on user demand via the navigation panel as part of its interface. read more

25 Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets for Developers

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:21 +0000

25 Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets for Developers

AT&T and Sony Rolling Out New Android Smartphone

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:18:50 +0000

Sony Ericsson and AT&T are working together on a new Android “superphone,” one that promises to be all things to all people — including heavy communicators, social media junkies and audio/video consumers.

Dubbed the Xperia X10, this new device will feature a 4-inch screen, a 1GHz processor, an 8.1 megapixel camera… read more

Who Needs University? The Best Nettuts+ Screencast Training Courses

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:52:20 +0000

Education is expensive…very expensive! But, luckily, 95% of the tutorials and courses on Nettuts+ are free! And, should you require more training, a Tuts+ premium subscription is extremely cheap, at only $9 per month. Whether you’re hoping to learn jQuery, WordPress, CSS, Tumblr, PHP, CodeIgniter, or JavaScript, we’ve got you… read more

jQuery Show Password Plugin

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:53:00 +0000

Adds a link to toggle the visibility of a password. read more

Best Practices To Design a Perfect HTML Navigation Bar

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:16:52 +0000

The navigation bar is an inevitable element in every website. In this post I want to share with you some simple practices and suggestions aimed at designing a perfect HTML navigation bar.

Let’s start illustrating the typical HTML structure. Here is a schematization of a typical navigation bar that contains some… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of July 2010

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0000

We’re a week late due to some server trouble last week. Now that we’re back to smooth sailing, we’re bringing you a new edition of Creative Bookmarks. Enjoy!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsCreate Beautiful Abstract Female Art in Photoshop

In this tutorial, from PSDTuts+, you’ll learn how to… read more

The Ultimate Roundup of 55+ CSS3 Tutorials

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:31:00 +0000

In this collection, you’ll find 57 High Quality CSS3 Tutorials that help to stand out from the crowd, and make better designs using only CSS. read more

Building a Stylish Blog Design Layout in WordPress

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:13:00 +0000

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been through the process of creating a stylish blog design in Photoshop, coding it up into a static HTML and CSS concept, and now we’ll put the whole thing together as a fully working WordPress theme. read more

Designing Websites that Cross Cultures

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:26:18 +0000

Building a successful website is no small task, especially if you’re going into business – it takes time, effort and dedication, from working out your business plan and unique selling point (USP) through to designing and managing your website and optimizing it for search engine rankings.

So with all the effort… read more

30 Fresh and Free Icon Sets for Designers and Developers

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:13:30 +0000

As we like to do every few months, in this article you will find a comprehensive round-up of the best and freshest icon sets for web designers and developer. As well as the popular icon categories – general purpose developer sets, mini-pixel sets, pictograms and social media and service icon… read more

960 Grid System and Full Width Backgrounds

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:08:48 +0000

Best practices for implementing full width header/footer backgrounds using the 960 Grid System.

7 Perfect Posterous Themes for Multimedia Blogs

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:13:05 +0000

Posterous has been around since 2006, but the super-simple blogging platform is still relatively unknown when compared to blog giants like WordPress and Tumblr. If that sentence didn’t mean anything to you then, ironically, Posterous was designed for you.

The platform takes all the functionality and impressive visuals from (sometimes complicated)… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 1-Aug 7, 2010

admin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:30:58 +0000

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Best of the Week #131

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:56:52 +0000

25 Beautiful Image Styling Tutorials With CSS & jQuery

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:00:30 +0000

25 Beautiful Image Styling Tutorials With CSS & jQuery

Designing with Paper Prototyping

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:44:00 +0000

Prototyping is key to any successful design. Paper prototyping is usually the first step, but does it fit into a world where mobile devices are king? read more

Mouth-watering designer bundle. Oh my…

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:07:57 +0000

Bundle Hunt announced a treasure that is sure to get any designers mouth salivating. For those who don’t know, Bundle Hunt is a premium resource pack aimed at empowering the creative community, offering more than $1,400 worth of apps, templates, icons, eBooks, hosting plans and premium memberships all for less… read more

Sites of the Week #114

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:53:47 +0000

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Fflick and Moodyguy. Also we’re featuring the portfolio of Pline Studios and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than… read more

18 Handy Alternatives to Lipsum.Com for Dummy Content

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:35:00 +0000

Now, don’t get me wrong, Lipsum is a great resource for getting chunks of the text and learning more, but there are other websites out there that can do an even better job as well. So, here they are — alternatives to Lipsum.Com. read more

30+ Brand New jQuery Plugins To Change the Look and Feel of Your Website

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:04:00 +0000

The list of some fresh and useful jQuery plugins which are never referred yet. Together with CSS3, jQuery can refresh your web site design by changing the look and feel with no more boring. read more

Capturing Customer Data on the Web

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:22:00 +0000

In the real world data is an immediate entity that drives much of what goes on in our everyday lives. In fact, this whole thing that we call the internet has been constructed on data of some type. read more

The Future of Web Apps: A look at the File API

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:54:00 +0000

Learn about File API, a powerful API that allows developers to handle files from a users file system and manipulate those files to be used within a web application. read more

7 MooTools Plugins You Should Use on Every Website II

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:36:00 +0000

Since the MooTools JavaScript framework’s community is known for creating unique, quality plugins, I’ve compiled a list of plugins you MUST use on every website to take the user experience to the next level. read more

Six Useful CSS3 Tools

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:49:00 +0000

CSS3 continues to gain popularity as we’re seeing it used in more and more websites. However, there are still those out there that are holding out on learning it and using it. This is probably due to the fact that it’s not fully supported yet in all browsers. Nevertheless, if… read more

The Ultimate Search Engine SEO Checklist

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:18:00 +0000

A comprehensive list of things from a search engine marketing perspective to check prior to setting your website live. Everything but the kitchen sink included. read more

27 Utilities for Saving and Sharing Code Snippets

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:00:17 +0000

27 Utilities for Saving and Sharing Code Snippets

Ultimate List of Tools and Resources for IPAD Developers

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:20:00 +0000

It seems like everything Apple creates turns to gold, and the release of the new IPAD is no expection. read more

Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:04:15 +0000

The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery onto the front-end development scene has opened up the power of JavaScript to a far wider audience than ever before. It was born of the need — expressed by a crescendo of screaming by front-end developers who were fast running… read more

Easily Store & Reuse Code With Snippets

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:00:17 +0000

If you’re a developer, you’ve probably come across a few snippet managers before. If you haven’t prepare to have your life become a whole lot easier.

For those that are familiar with the idea of saving small sections of code, you’ll definitely want to check out Snippets, an amazing snippet manager… read more

Glasshouse Conference Centre in Australia

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:12:57 +0000

The Glasshouse is the new center for art and culture of Port Macquire in Australia. The project, beyond the center of Conferences, includes an art gallery, a theater and a community workshop place. The project was executed by the group Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects.

The design of the building was… read more

30 Content Marketing Resources and Insights

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:49:00 +0000

Everybody is talking about web design, usability and SEO and takes content for granted. Without content the rest doesn’t make sense though. This is a list of 30 resources and insights about content SEO, marketing, creation, strategy etc. read more

A Useful Selection of Android Developer Tools and Resources

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:01:14 +0000

With its intuitive and open-source platform and support from the huge mobile phone manufacturers HTC, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, Androids year-on-year smart-phone marketshare has shown a massive growth of 886%! Just to put this into perspective, the iPhone has shown only 61% growth. These figures may give you an insight… read more

Things You Might Not Know About Conditional Comments

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:51:00 +0000

Conditional comments are a commonplace method for dealing with IE. Here are some things you might not have known about using them. read more

10 Fantastic Apps Used by the 6rounds Team

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:26:11 +0000

6rounds is a social entertainment platform that mixes webcam chats, interactive features & social games in a fun and playful video chat environment. If you are bored after keeping in touch with your friends in just 140 characters or with no real one on one conversation, it’s time for you… read more

Win a Premium Website Package from Wix!

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:00:35 +0000

Wix the leading free flash website builder has offered to give 2 lucky DesignM.ag readers premium memberships for one year. Wix is known for giving users the ability to build sites that are drag & drop, require no programming, and are search engine friendly. Many people start off… read more

Showcase of Fresh Texture-Based Web Designs

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:50:53 +0000

Over the past few months, the use of extreme textured images in web design is starting to die down. It was used so excessively that is was almost everywhere we looked when browsing the web. Other developments, such as the use of minimalism in web design and various other styles… read more

11 Photo Galleries Made by the Awesome CSS3

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:27:00 +0000

The introduction of CSS3 brings revolutionary change to the web development. Check out these photo galleries made by the awesomeness of CSS3! read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.48)

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:21:06 +0000

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

52 Framework: The First Ever HTML5 and CSS3 Framework

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:00:03 +0000

52 Framework: The First Ever HTML5 and CSS3 Framework

Implement the Google AJAX Search API

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:04:00 +0000

Google provides an awesome method by which we can use their search for our own site: the Google AJAX Search API. Let me show you how to implement this awesome API within your own website! read more

Great Apps to Customize Your Facebook Fan Page

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:27:43 +0000

With 500 million registered users, there’s never been an online platform with as much marketing potential as Facebook. Nowadays all the buzz around promoting your business or brand is focused towards Twitter, but Twitter is relatively small when it comes to audience size and isn’t a platform that offers much… read more

Roundup of Useful jQuery Tutorials – July 2010

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:22:00 +0000

In this article you will find the best jQuery tutorials for July 2010. read more

50 Essential Mac Apps for OS X Beginners

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:00:31 +0000

So you just unboxed that shiny new Mac, fired it up and heard the glorious chime. Now what? It can be a little bit overwhelming to start from scratch and build a library of useful applications but we’re to help!

Today we’ll take a look at 50 awesome apps that are… read more

25 Beautiful Image Styling Tutorials With CSS,jQuery

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:16:00 +0000

You don’t have to always use Photoshop to style your images. Some cool effects can be achieved trough CSS, jQuery etc too and read this article to know how! read more

40 High Quality CSS and XHTML Web Layout Templates

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:58:05 +0000

Whether you download and dissect pre-built CSS templates to learn new layout techniques or if you download them to be used as easy-to-edit ready made and standalone web sites, you shouldn’t be limited to using one of the many cloned, dated and often dull templates that are freely available. Popular… read more

20 amazing things you can do with CSS3

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:29:00 +0000

iPhone – Css3

iiOS Icons Made in Pure CSS

iPhone keyboard with CSS

iThe Opera logo, rendered only with CSS

iOur Solar System in CSS3

iCSS3-Man

Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale

CSS3 Monsters Blob

Wicked CSS3 3d bar chart

3d animation using pure CSS3

Pure CSS Icons

Safari 4, built entirely with valid HTML5 and CSS3

CSS3 Charts

The Man From Hollywood

CSS3 Super… read more

Best of the Week #130

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:02:05 +0000

Sites of the Week #113 – Winners Giveaway

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:59:32 +0000

For this Sites of the Week, we’re announcing the winners for the WeGraphics giveaway, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as iFontMaker and Score Factory. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

Tutorial9 Fan Showcase #2

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:00:49 +0000

This is Tutorial9 Community Showcase #2, a collection of user submitted recent creations. Take a look below, and be sure to join in next time if we missed you!

Carson Kahn: A web-app collaboration tool by designers, for designers, called Draftboard. http://www.draftboardapp.com — we’re launching the private beta soon!

Thierry: This… read more

HoneyThemes: A Free XHTML-CSS-Layout for Online Theme Shop

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:28:40 +0000

Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. We’ve again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the instantShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now. We never… read more

Spotlight on ZURB – One Super Awesome Interaction Design Company

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:16:01 +0000

You may have bookmarked one of their CSS or Javascript tutorials, or you could have read one of their concise and refreshing articles on Smashing Magazine, you may even use one of their web apps, or it could be that you downloaded one of the many useful development tools they… read more

Showing Off bit.ly Clicks of Your Posts With jQuery

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:32:00 +0000

Using bit.ly API to show number of clicks – that is relatively higher- can be a very interesting measure of how popular your post is. read more

WPEngine Offers an Easier, More Robust Way to Use Wordpress

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:12:26 +0000

Have you ever searched for a way to make a WordPress.com blog more robust? How about a way to make a WordPress hosted blog or site more secure and simpler to set up and maintain?

A few WordPress superstars have teamed up to create WPEngine, a new and very exciting platform… read more

Our 15 Favorite Safari 5.0.1 Extensions

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:11:10 +0000

Firefox is the king of add-ons and it’s proven to be popular and successful, helping users customize and enhance their browser and browsing experience. Chrome followed in Firefox’s steps, offering a growing selection of fantastic extensions. Safari may be late to the show, but better late than never!

Though Safari has… read more

30+ Places to Submit Your Website Designs

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:30:09 +0000

Sometimes you finish a web design project and you’re really proud of the results. Maybe it’s a personal project, or the client gave you complete creative control.

Whatever the case, you know it’s some of the best work you’ve ever done, and you want the world to see it.

Besides… read more

35 Security Plugins to Make Your Wordpress Bulletproof

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:04:00 +0000

This post assembles 35 best plugins to make your blog bulletproof. They’re each devised for different purposes, so you will get the best protection from each field. read more

In Defense Of Photoshop

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:16:46 +0000

Waves of change are currently rippling through every aspect of the Web. The iPad and other mobile devices are changing the way we access the Internet, while HTML5 and CSS3 promise to change the way we develop it. However, another storm is brewing that threatens Photoshop’s throne as the application… read more

Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:15:31 +0000

Google has once again given an excellent new tool to designers and developers (and even CSS-savvy “common folk”) who long for better, more diverse typefaces on the web: a cool Font Previewer that makes adding a new font to your site as simple as copy/pasting a few lines of code.

Back… read more

41 Remarkable and useful jQuery Plugins

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:06:00 +0000

jQuery is one of the most popular Javascript framwork out there. It is very easy to use and full of cool features. It can be hard for us to know how to use the code and create amazing stuff using jQuery. read more

Safari Updated, Gets Official Extensions Gallery

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:22:47 +0000

When Apple released Safari 5 earlier this summer, one of the new features included the ability to (finally!) install third-party extensions; today the company has released Safari 5.0.1 and, with it, an official extension gallery.

The Safari extensions gallery includes extensions built by Twitter, MLB.com, Bing, eBay, Amazon and more. Developers… read more

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