Spectacular Website Design Ideas Using Circles

Spectacular Website Design Ideas Using Circles

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Best of the Week #208

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

Comics of the week #115

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.124

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Is Responsive Web Design Working? Showcase of 30 Sites That Prove it Does!

Is Responsive Web Design Working? Showcase of 30 Sites That Prove it Does!

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Weekly Fresh Web Design Freebies – Vol. 4 (1-25-2011)

Weekly Fresh Web Design Freebies – Vol. 4 (1-25-2011)

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Best HTML5 Sites of the Week January 31st 2012

Best HTML5 Sites of the Week January 31st 2012

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15 Beautiful Flash Web Design Examples

15 Beautiful Flash Web Design Examples

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8 Fresh & Extremely Useful jQuery Plugins

8 Fresh & Extremely Useful jQuery Plugins

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How to use checkboxes and radio buttons in Flash

When you are developing rich and interactive applications in flash, you need to provide the best communication between the user and the application. Flash has some very easy to implement UI components that you can use with your applications. These components will save you from the hassle of designing and… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #138

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#138 and make sure to comeback… read more

Free download: Infographic Vector Kit

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50 Irresistable Burlesque photographs of Dancers

50 Irresistable Burlesque photographs of Dancers

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Free Bundle for Designers

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Today is Friday, and what better way to celebrate than by presenting you with something new. ZeroBundle.com is a website that offers an awesome free bundle of goodies for designers. It is brought to you by WebDesignerDepot and MightyDeals.com. The bundle will be available for a… read more

Free CSS3 Pricing Table.

Free CSS3 Pricing Table.

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We’ve Run Out Of Ideas!

We’ve Run Out Of Ideas!

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Design a Food/Cafe Website Template in Photoshop (+Free PSD)

Design a Food/Cafe Website Template in Photoshop (+Free PSD)

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23 Free Textures for your Delight

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Here at WDL, we take great pride in being able to find useful freebies and share them with our readers. It saves you time, and allows you to focus on creating, instead of hunting. Here you will find 23 free textures to add to your resource… read more

How to make your type more appealing on the web

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Making the Perfect Project Pitch

Freelancing offers you maximum flexibility to choose the projects that best compliment your skills, passions and interests. Without doubt, this is one of the most obvious advantages in becoming a freelancer. However, in this economic climate the ability to only choose the projects that most attract you must… read more

Easily Create a Website with Moonfruit

Many tools and packages exist online to help people create websites with minimal effort and involvement. Of course, each one has their own strengths and weaknesses. Some are more aimed at creating blogs, while others are better for single-page info sites.

Moonfruit is another competitor in this market. It looks stylish,… read more

What Does Google’s Page Layout Algorithm Mean For Web Designers?

What Does Google’s Page Layout Algorithm Mean For Web Designers?

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WDL Premium: Vintage Inspired Infographics

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This week, for our WDL Premium members, we have a PSD file from WeGraphics that contains a collection of shape layers that can be edited and reused as various charts and information graphics. With this file you will be able to create stylish vintage looking infographics,… read more

Typography Mania #117

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Win 250 die cut business cards from UPrinting

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16 High Quality Twitter Icons That You Can Download For Free

Let us take you to the free collection of some high quality Twitter icons that you can download for free. This round up showcases 16 beautifully designed and eye catching Twitter icons that will for sure grab the attention of your target audience. Twitter buttons such as Follow Me and… read more

25 Examples of Super Wide Website Designs

25 Examples of Super Wide Website Designs

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The 10 Most Blatant Design Ripoffs in Social Media

Pinspire vs. Pinterest

It doesn’t get more blatant than this. Pinspire is pretty much a pixel-for-pixel Pinterest clone, created… read more

30 Creative Website Designs Showcase For Your Inspiration

30 Creative Website Designs Showcase For Your Inspiration

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Keeping Yourself Motivated Throughout the Workday

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Centering your attention throughout the workday can be a difficult process. You need to truly love your work and cherish the time you spend. Unfortunately not all of us can feel this way 100% of the time.

Freelancers are often given tasks related to concepts they care… read more

50+ Creative Examples of Websites Designed With HTML5

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. HTML4 has been around for nearly a decade and now its time to move forward. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next… read more

Web designers, what to look for in a CMS

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.118)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Top 15 Premium Navigation Bars

Top 15 Premium Navigation Bars

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35 Highly Advanced Yet Simple To Use jQuery Plugins

jQuery is a speedy, succinct library that make traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding AJAX simpler. jQuery imparts web developers the opportunity to make websites better with incredible elements without the necessity to write down dozens of lines of code.

In this compilation, you will find top 35… read more

How You Should Use Google+ for Your Business

Chris Brogan is the author of the new book, Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything.

As a Google+ skeptic (heck, I’m skeptical of all new social media) I was interested to learn more, so I sat down and watched this video where Michael Stelzner of Socialmediaexaminer.com interviewed… read more

20 things from 2011

20 things that happened on the internet in 2011 is an amazing image illustrating 20 facts that happened last year on the internet and you have to guess what they are. You can also check the step by steps of how it was done, and see detailed shots of this… read more

The Psychology Of Color In Design

Have you ever wondered why you seem to be getting hungrier while waiting to place your order at a fast food place or why you eat faster than any human should ingest that poison? Have you ever heard of a “power tie” in business?

There are things that excite the human… read more

New developer tools in Firefox 10 and 11

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21 Inspiring Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

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We all know that color is a key aspect of web design, and here at WDL we like to show you how designers are using colors in their projects. We’ve already showcased lists showing colorful websites and sites using white, so today, to keep you inspired… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 23-Jan 29, 2012

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Colour Combination Makes a Better Impact in Logo Designing

It’s undeniable. Branding is the life blood of any business. Even for small businesses, you’ve gotta build brand identity, or be ready for your company to go belly up.
A big part of many company’s brand identity is the logo. It’s like the face of your company…. read more

Cool Tattoo Fonts for Tattoo Writing Styles

Cool Tattoo Fonts for Tattoo Writing Styles

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Best of the Week #207

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

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.123

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Comics of the week #114

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Web Design Inspiration – Texture Must-haves

Web Design Inspiration – Texture Must-haves

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Inspire before you Expire, Stunning Pink color Inspired Business cards

Inspire before you Expire, Stunning Pink color Inspired Business cards

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Creative Logo Design Samples For Logo Designers

Creative Logo Design Samples For Logo Designers

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25 Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design

25 Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design

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Web Design Tips For Visually Impaired – Making Your Site Accessible!

Web Design Tips For Visually Impaired – Making Your Site Accessible!

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Surprisingly Beautiful Escalator Photography

A photographer can actually get to take some beautiful pictures out from the most common things, like escalators. I find this particularly fresh and quite nice, considering the amount of beauty found in these photographs.

If you got your own escalator pictures, we’d really love to see it. Drop us a… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #137

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#137 and make sure to comeback… read more

15 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials

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Icons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design… read more

Interview with Freelance Marketer Danny Iny

Want to boost your profile? Add additional income streams to your freelancing business? Release your own self published book? It’s time to have a chat with author and freelance marketer Danny Iny.

He quit school at the age of fifteen to start his first freelance web design business. The only… read more

15 useful plugins for multi-author blogs

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Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

CSS is a beautiful language but it can also be frustrating at times. Certain CSS solutions don’t work on certain browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) and much of your time can be spent debugging code.

Thankfully there are lots of great CSS snippets available online that fix common problems and design… read more

10 Sources for Stock Photos

More often than not I find myself meeting with a prospective client and telling them one of the biggest keys to designing a stunning website are the images that you use. You can have the most elaborate interface, with parallax scrolling, fluid and responsive resizing capabilities, and the best color… read more

Logo Design: Games

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with butterflies, and today it’s all about game logos!

Every week we search through… read more

9 Steps to Starting Your Freelance Web Design Business

So, you want to be a freelance web designer? Ah, the glamor of it all.

Your own boss, answering only to the call of your creative muse… get up, feel inspired, do some work, go for a walk, laugh knowingly with other freelancers who have also discovered The Secret… read more

7 mistakes developers make

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Creative Uses of Illustration in Web Design

Using illustration in web design has become quite trendy these days. People love to see beautifully designed illustration based websites because they stand out from the rest. Not only because of the beautiful illustrative art work and carefully crafted web designs but also because of the perfect balance struck between… read more

30 Amusing and Funny Photo Manipulations

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Photo manipulations are quite popular among all generations of designers and digital artists. It is also a genre often used in the advertising industry because of the effect these manipulations have on people. This sort of artwork are usually shocking and unrealistic and they are demanding… read more

10 Blogs with Excellent Responsive Web Designs

10 Blogs with Excellent Responsive Web Designs

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WDL Premium: Retro UI Set

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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of retro UI elements from Vandelay Premier. The set includes a considerable number of unique elements that are sure to be useful for those who like the always trendy retro style.

Be sure to check… read more

Free New Designers And Developers Icon Set!

Free New Designers And Developers Icon Set!

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60+ Latest Logo Designs for Logo Design Inspiration

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more

High quality WordPress templates from TemplateMonster.com

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15 Examples of Minimalist Web Designs

15 Examples of Minimalist Web Designs

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A Showcase of Typography in Webdesign

Functional web typography is, of course, key to the usabilty of any website. But functional does not mean boring.
Big, loud and attention grabbing typography does have the presence and magnificence to truly grab the attention of your visitors.
It does not quite shout at your… read more

25 New Fonts for Graphic & Web Designers – Download Now

25 New Fonts for Graphic & Web Designers – Download Now

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60+ Fresh Examples Single-Page-Website Designs

60+ Fresh Examples Single-Page-Website Designs

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20 Examples of Minimalistic Responsive Web Designs

20 Examples of Minimalistic Responsive Web Designs

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One Page Website: 40 Fantastic Examples

One of the latest trends in website design is one page websites. I really love these kinds of sites. I find that the designers use these websites  like an artist or painter would use their canvas. They apply all of their artistic works on this one page to tell a… read more

Creative Coffee and Tea Logo Designs

Creative Coffee and Tea Logo Designs

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Freebie: Colorful 3D UI Kit

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We have a fantastic freebie for all of you web designers out there, you’ll love this:)
Designed by Land-of-Web, the Colorful 3D UI Kit comes in .psd format and is full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design,… read more

Tuesday Total Textures 107

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design

Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, it seems vulnerable and weak, but in time it grows up and becomes self-sufficient. Redesigning a website for its… read more

Outsourcing Sites for Freelancers

I’m often asked by others questions like, “Where do you get job leads?” “How do you find clients?” And, “What’s a good source for finding work online?” Those are all pretty tough questions to answer, as there are several different ways to do so. But there are certainly some resources… read more

10 New Free Fonts for Your Designs

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Finding the perfect font for a project is a real challenge, and that is why we like to provide our readers with as much fonts as we can. We know that having a lot of options to choose from is very helpful, so today we gathered… read more

How to make your own icon webfont

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The New Redesign Rules of the Web

With the ever-changing landscape that is the internet, web designers and developers are constantly tasked with redesigning some part of the web. Whether it be for our own sites or for those of a client, redesigning is a big part of working in the field right now. For whatever reasons,… read more

50 Beautiful Yet Free HTML5 And CSS3 Templates

HTML5 templates are getting very popular these days because all professional HTML5 templates are compatible to all browsers with its functionality and features, and with the release of HTML5 / CSS3 it has become even more popular among designers because of the additional and great features.

At the moment, HTML5 and… read more

The Perfect Office #123

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

60+ Fresh Examples of Modern Single-Page-Website Designs

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

Augmented Reality: the future of digital media

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SpriteRight: Create CSS Image Sprites the Easy Way

If you’re a web developer, then you know that manually creating image sprites is a pain. Even worse is the process of trying to position those sprites just right within your CSS. It’s a necessary evil, but don’t you wish you could skip it?

Today we’re going to take a… read more

21 Examples of Inspiring Typography in Web Design

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From print to packages to web design and pretty much all other media that you can think of, typography always plays a big role. Not only can good use of typography add to your design from a visual standpoint, it can also play an important role… read more

10+ Typography Web Design For Inspiration

10+ Typography Web Design For Inspiration

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30 Three-Dimensional and Depth Perception Web Designs

30 Three-Dimensional and Depth Perception Web Designs

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Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 16-Jan 22, 2012

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How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

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Social networks have grown into the norm in today’s sophisticated Internet. Modern web pages have become very personalized over the past decade including a number of user interface features. One such example is the user profile picture often accompanied by each username.

Web designers don’t often… read more

36 Amazing Natural Light Photography

36 Amazing Natural Light Photography

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Common Logo Design Mistakes you should Avoid

Common Logo Design Mistakes you should Avoid

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Open Call For International Communities

At Smashing Magazine, we are big proponents of diversity and sharing. We encourage designers and developers worldwide to step up and use Smashing Magazine as a platform to share their opinions, ideas or techniques. Our editorial process is quite evolved, yet we are very open to users’ suggestions. In fact,… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, January

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more