Responsive design in the corporate world

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Why a Web designer Should not Ignore the Importance of HTML5 in Designing

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The answer to the question; why a web designer should not ignore the importance of HTML5 in designing is actually very simple. HTML5 is the language of the future when it comes to web designing. Move over Flash, HTML5 is here. But why is this language being… read more

20 Inspiring Minimalist Web Designs

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Minimal websites can be a pretty polemic issue, especially when we stop to think how minimal should a minimal site be? Some people think that a good minimal website is that which has few design elements as possible. While others believe that the number of elements… read more

Free Valentine’s Day Vector Images | Heart Pictures

Free Valentine’s Day Vector Images | Heart Pictures

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50 Unique and Inspiring Website Designs 2012

50 Unique and Inspiring Website Designs 2012

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Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 2-Jan 8, 2012

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.120

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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… read more

5 Best WordPress Themes for E-Commerce Websites

5 Best WordPress Themes for E-Commerce Websites

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Top 10 Flash Slideshow Image Viewers

Featuring professionally edited photos on your website is a surefire way of making your site stand out above others. Slideshows are a great way to capture the attention of a visitor and hold them on your page. It will cause them to pause and watch the pictures rotate through while… read more

Comics of the week #111

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Best Free Photoshop Winter Brushes

Best Free Photoshop Winter Brushes

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Best of the Week #204

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

40+ Simply Mindblowing Fractal Artworks

40+ Simply Mindblowing Fractal Artworks

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Amazing Sand Sculptures

These are crazy awesome. I know one thing: it takes a lot of talent to shape sand into a freaking awesome typography piece. To make that, the guy must be a true artist and probably half ninja. These are some amazing examples of sand sculpture done right.

If it was me,… read more

10 OMG Cool Athlete Websites

I have always appreciated an athlete who has their own website. Especially now days when they could call it good with a Facebook fan page, or really go above and beyond with a Twitter account. Some athlete’s are active members of charity organizations, or have their own product line, and… read more

Focal Points In Design Layout

Why are magazines and books always laid out the same? Even with alternative design, there is a harmony in layout or the reader’s head will explode… or they will just stop reading and skip to the next page. Successful design in publishing, advertising, web design, illustration and anything else that… read more

Launching soon: The Webdesigner Depot Newsletter

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40 Effectively Designed Non-Profit and Charity Web Sites

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A charity or cause may not need the sleek sales pages of a business on the web, but a poorly designed one could still mean the difference between helping people or failing to do so. Therefore, a non profit website design should be appealing enough… read more

Inspiring Logos

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Here at WDL we really like to provide our readers with lots of inspiration. Since we believe that logos are a great source of inspiration we decided to gather a list showcasing logos from one amazing source of inspiration: dribbble. From popular logos to fresh ones,… read more

60+ High Quality Free GIMP Brush Packs

GIMP is a photo editor that can be employed professionally because it is an extremely capable graphics design or digital photo editing software. Once you learned how to use it, you can harness its accurate potential without difficulty. When you start using it, you will see that it is more… read more

Create a Full Page Background Image with CSS3

The other day we looked at 10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images.  At the beginning of the article I had mentioned that there were a few ways of approaching this effect, some developers prefer to do it with jQuery, some with CSS, and others with Flash.  In this… read more

Interview with Maria Dimova, aka Dimary

Today our guest is a graphic designer Maria Dimova (aka Dimary) from Moldova. She is a professional designer/illustrator that always makes time to work for pleasure. Exactly such artworks illustrated in this interview. Maria works in a style of fantasy and Hed Kandi. Meet the person for who vector is… read more

Zurb’s newest offering for developers: Foundation

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40+ Fresh And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Tutorials are one of the best ways to learn and practice new tricks using Illustrator’s various tools. Learning through a step-by-step AI tutorial not only assists you in twisting the tools, but will also let you learn how to combine them in order to generate innovative and compound vector artwork,… read more

10 Fresh Free Fonts

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There are tons of remarkable free fonts out there, and helping you find them is something we really like to do. Since we know that having great fonts to count on is very important we decided to start the year presenting you a few fresh free… read more

Freebies: Mighty Minimal Website Template (HTML5)

Freebies: Mighty Minimal Website Template (HTML5)

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50 Eye Catching Wonders Of Macro Photography

50 Eye Catching Wonders Of Macro Photography

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Weekly Web Design Inspiration #121

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #121

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The Best Design Tutorials in 2011 for any Web Designer

The Best Design Tutorials in 2011 for any Web Designer

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10 Awesome Single Page Websites

These days it seems like the term “webpage” and “website” are thrown around loosely, often being used interchangeably. I can’t recall how many times I’ve been in a meeting with a client and had them tell me they’d like a webpage, which I interpret as a basic, single-page website that… read more

Best of AppStorm in December

We’ve collected the top four reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in February. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, Web, or Android apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month. Now would be a good time to explore a… read more

Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows

For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and information architecture, when we should focus on the user flows that need to be supported by… read more

Coolest Apps From 2011 You Would Never Want To Miss In 2012

The year 2011 has ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2012. I hope designers,… read more

WDL Premium: Fire Light UI Kit

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For our WDL Premium members, here’s a UI kit containing dark elements with hot orange highlighted accents from WeGraphics. The file is a fully layered PSD for easy editing.

Be sure to check out WeGraphics for more high-quality design resources, like vectors, brushes, textures, icons, and… read more

Win 5 copies of Keynotopia UI Templates

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Top 50 Graphic Design Photoshop Tutorials from 2011

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What a great year 2011 has been for the Photoshop community. With so many new tutorials being published daily it has never been easier to learn a new creative techniques that will help reduce your learning curve substantially.
In this yearly round-up we have… read more

Ten Alternatives to WordPress as a Blogging CMS

We all know that WordPress is an awesome Content Management System cum Blogging Platform. In fact, it is also the most popular blogging tool all over the internet. Name any other CMS – WordPress eats them all out for lunch!

However, as a web designer/developer/enthusiast, being knowledgeable about an extra CMS… read more

30 Mind Blowing Parallax Scrolling Effect Websites

30 Mind Blowing Parallax Scrolling Effect Websites

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15 Web Design Trends To Watch Out For In 2012

15 Web Design Trends To Watch Out For In 2012

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Infographics: The Art Of Design And Information

When most web designers are confronted with the infographic, the first thought that comes to mind is simply, “isn’t that just photo graphic creation?” While that thought does hold some truth to it, an infographic is much more than just an image. Originally created to jazz up boring information, such… read more

Famous Super Heroes Made of Paint Splashes

Famous Super Heroes Made of Paint Splashes

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26 Free High-Quality PSDs to Download from 2011

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Every web designer should love freebies. There are so many artists offering their work for free download on the web, and with hundreds of thousands of blogs these links are reaching a new audience like never before. The year 2011 has seen substantial numbers of free… read more

GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop

This article is the fourth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for… read more

10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images

10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images

When it comes to web design my tastes walk on a very thin line. I like simplicity and visual stimulation, which is a very difficult balance to pull off. However, one of the easiest ways to do so is by featuring a full… read more

Is the traditional business card dead?

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Juggling Between Freelance Designer and Business Owner

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The world of digital design is full of both young and experienced talent. Freelancing has slowly become a more affordable career path for many web designers and developers. But it’s not enough to just create pretty websites in HTML/CSS. You also need to have some sense… read more

Price Ratio: How Much Should a Web Design Cost?

Price Ratio: How Much Should a Web Design Cost?

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Taking Super Mario Brothers to Flash

All of the talk in the video game world either revolves around Skyrim, Call of Duty; Modern Warfare 3, or motion activated technology like the XBOX Kinect. We have become too immersed in massive worlds, online multi-player gaming, and advanced technology to realize that the games we play aren’t as… read more

The Perfect Office #120

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

Rockstar Icon Designer eBook + Introduction to DSLR Photography Course

We’re excited to announce that Tuts+ Premium members now have access to a new Rockable eBook and in-depth video course on DSLR Photography as part of their membership. The eBook is Rockstar Icon Designer (usually $24 USD), and the course is Introduction to DSLR Photography with professional photographer Kim Bultsma…. read more

Best of the Vector Web – December 2011

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating cubist style logos, speeding up your work in Illustrator and InDesign, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to… read more

21 Examples of Subtle Textures and Patterns in Web Design

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First of all, we would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! To kick things off for 2012, we’ve gathered some amazing examples of subtle textures and patterns in web design. The web sites in this collection demonstrate that you don’t always have to over… read more

20 Beautiful Examples of Church Website Design

20 Beautiful Examples of Church Website Design

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32+ Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Web Designers

32+ Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Web Designers

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OnePager, a Startup Making Websites Easy for Small Business

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

OnePager is a New York City-based startup that provides a simple drag-and-drop program to create a website that looks professionally developed.

The company’s co-founder and designer Matthew… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Dec 26, 2011-Jan 1, 2012

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Profiting With Private Label Rights

Profiting With Private Label Rights

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This Volkswagen Bus is Dedicated to Social Media

This Volkswagen Bus is Dedicated to Social Media

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2012 Free Vector Calendar

2012 Free Vector Calendar

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Comics of the week #110

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Best of the Week #203

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

Creative Ads: Best And Creative Advertising Brochures Design

Creative Ads: Best And Creative Advertising Brochures Design

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35+ Brilliant and Funny Examples of Photography

35+ Brilliant and Funny Examples of Photography

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Handcraft: Text Driven Web Development, on the Web

Here at Web.Appstorm, we’ve written about a number of brilliant web apps. Some of them I use everyday, and many have become a part of my work flow and are of great use to me. The Internet is much like this, full of great apps that can help you with… read more

Excellent Showcase of Trendy Single Page Website Designs

Excellent Showcase of Trendy Single Page Website Designs

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4 Ways Small Business Websites Can Drive More Sales

Aaron Sperling is CEO and co-founder of vFlyer, which provides online marketing solutions for small businesses and independent service providers. You can follow Aaron and his team on their Facebook page, Twitter and on the company blog.



A scenario: You envision a phenomenal idea, put all of the necessary pieces into… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #133

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#133 and make sure to comeback… read more

WDL Premium: Tattered Scrolls Vector Pack

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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. The Tattered Scrolls Vector Pack is a must have for fans of the original scrolls pack. These scrolls range from the lightly used to the downright demolished. The pack has all sort of vectors to spice… read more

Our Top 20 Posts from 2011

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2011 has been Speckyboy’s best year yet in terms of growth. More great readers and followers, more great authors, more great sponsors. However, at the core is (hopefully) great content here on Speckyboy. And just to recap some of our best content, here are our… read more

WDD wishes you a very Happy New Year!

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20+ Free Android Apps for a More Productive 2012

As the new year beckons, resolution time is upon the masses once more. For those who are wishing that they can keep themselves more productive in 2012, we have put together a list of apps for all those Android users (who some readers have suggested we have been neglecting) to… read more

30+ Must See Mobile Website Design Tutorials & Tips

30+ Must See Mobile Website Design Tutorials & Tips

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30+ Attractive Pink Website Designs for Inspiration

30+ Attractive Pink Website Designs for Inspiration

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Basic Blunders in Web Design and How to Erase Them

Basic Blunders in Web Design and How to Erase Them

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35 Most Sexy pin-up photography ever taken

35 Most Sexy pin-up photography ever taken

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10 Things I No Longer Need for Freelance Success

I have been a freelancer for more than a decade and over that period of time, I have seen a lot of changes–everything from a giant increase in credibility if you actually are a “freelancer”, to technology changes in such a short period of time as to rival any… read more

Logo Design: Cats

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 numbers, and today it’s all about logos with cats!

Every week we search… read more

Spontaneous Portrait Photography

I love those photos that were taken unexpected, the true feeling of the moment come out in true colors. In this post I handpicked a selection of spontaneous portraits that are amazing. Don’t you have an spontaneous portrait that was taken when you weren’t noticing? Enjoy.

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How to Properly Design a Print CSS Stylesheet

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Targeting unique CSS styles is a simple process based around media queries. Web designers have been using these techniques for years to much success. Yet in just a short couple of years recently stylesheets have grown in tremendous popularity. Now more than ever it’s important to… read more

How To Make Your Flash Design Work With ANY Resolution

One of the biggest problems that web designers face is to select a screen resolution for their style. Those days are gone when there were only two resolutions 800×600 and 1024×768. Today there are millions of devices with different screen resolutions which are used to browse the internet.  In this… read more

Our 50 Favorite Web Designs from 2011

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Some of the best and brightest trends we’ve seen this year (2011) in web design include responsive web design, single page scrolling websites, the proliferation of slide shows and sliders, the spread of font replacement and parallax scrolling. Some of these new trends may be… read more

10 Awesome Free Web Fonts

10 Awesome Free Web Fonts

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50+ Craft of Magnificient Window Photography

50+ Craft of Magnificient Window Photography

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Super Nice Vintage Movie Posters

I really love movie posters, and I get all pumped when get to see some awesome vintage posters like these! These are indeed some super nice examples of how awesome movie posters were back then, and how much movie poster designers should learn from these.

Of course that there are designers… read more

Best Of 2011: Outstanding Collection Of Fresh And Free To Use Icon Sets

Yet another excellent showcase of some of the fresh and free to use icon sets that have been released in 2011 is presented in this post. In the earlier period, we had posted some very good collections of icon sets which were extremely appraised by our visitors and on their… read more

Harmony: Simple but Powerful Website Building

There are plenty of ways to manage a website, from home-baked content management systems to established juggernauts like WordPress and ExpressionEngine, from free solutions like Tumblr to paid services like Squarespace. You could roll your own HTML and CSS based static site, or cook up a fully responsive site based… read more

Are you being innovative?

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35 Quality Business Card Design Templates for Free!

If you’ve got a design ready for printing, try the business cards card stock quality offered by UPrinting.com! We mention this because we heard they have a 20% discount on business card printing until January 31, 2012, and we thought that might help you save some.

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The Top 10 Marketing Tips of All Time

The Top 10 Marketing Tips of All Time

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5 factors that contribute to the evolution of web design

5 factors that contribute to the evolution of web design

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Creative iPhone Inspired Poster Designs

Creative iPhone Inspired Poster Designs

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Wibiya Bar Giveaway – 2 PRO Accounts for 1 FULL YEAR! $239 value!

Today, I am proud to present to you an awesome giveaway from Wibiya. What is Wibiya? It’s a company that has created a super innovate web bar. It’s the same bar you see at the very bottom of this page. It’s the same bar used by entities like NBA, Playboy,… read more

Web Design Trends in 2011

Web Design Trends in 2011

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Who Are You Trying To Impress?

As a young creative, I had dreams of being famous. I wanted to be admired, loved and I suppose part of that was also for revenge on my more obnoxious classmates. Is that shocking? Ask yourself if you were any different? Ask yourself if you still feel that way. You… read more

Part-time jobs for creatives that help your business sense

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Designing for your target audience

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20 Inspiring Examples of Colorful Web Designs

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Last week we showed you examples of white usage in web design and today, for our last web design inspiration post of the year, we decided to show you some examples of colorful websites. We will show you how colors can give your design a nice… read more

Best HTML5 Sites of the Week December 25th 2011

Best HTML5 Sites of the Week December 25th 2011

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10 Fresh Free Patterns for Your Design

10 Fresh Free Patterns for Your Design

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27 Stunning Wallpaper Collections to Welcome 2012 New Year

27 Stunning Wallpaper Collections to Welcome 2012 New Year

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