Clean & Minimal Websites – Web Design Inspiration #5

Clean & Minimal Websites – Web Design Inspiration #5

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.102)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources 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,… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Aug 29-Sep 4, 2011

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

21 High Quality Free Icon Set Collections

21 High Quality Free Icon Set Collections

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Best of the Week #187

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 #93

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.104

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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.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

How to Create a Custom Photoshop Brush Set Tutorial

How to Create a Custom Photoshop Brush Set Tutorial

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29 of The Most COLORFUL and Eye-Catching Website Designs

29 of The Most COLORFUL and Eye-Catching Website Designs

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10 Best HTML5 And CSS3 Frameworks

10 Best HTML5 And CSS3 Frameworks

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #116

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#116 and make sure to comeback… read more

7 Factors to Consider When Redesigning Your Website

The Web Design Usability Series is supported by join.me, an easy way to instantly share your screen with anyone. join.me lets you collaborate on-the-fly, put your heads together super-fast and even just show off.

There are very few, if any, websites on the Internet that don’t undergo at least a minor… read more

Elderly Superhero Portraits by Andreas Englund

Creativity keeps going forward as we encounter some sweet, super creative paintings around the web. This time, we’re talking about a superhero that doesn’t want to retire to soon and keeps fighting crime whenever his not watching Jeopardy.

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This is the product of Andreas Englund’s mind. I find awesome when people… read more

FreelancerPro Interview: Trevan Hetzel, Creative Youth

At FreelanceSwitch, we get plenty of mail from teen Web designers that want to be featured on the site. It’s hard to weed out who has something valuable to say, because we like to interview people with experience and wisdom to share — at that usually comes from having… read more

Surviving Design Blog Saturation : Is The Future in the Niche?

One of the topics that the design blogging community touches on from time to time, concerns the saturation levels of the blogosphere with regards to design blogs. There are so many design centric blogs filling the landscape that the chances of capturing enough of the available audience out there so… read more

10+ WordPress comment management plugins

We’ve covered advanced commenting systems for WordPress before, but what about those bloggers who want to use the stock WordPress commenting system?

Not everyone wants to manage a third-party comment system. And those are the users who will find the comment plugins below really useful.

Below are eleven plugins that can handle… read more

100 Stunning HTML5 Websites For Design Inspiration

100 Stunning HTML5 Websites For Design Inspiration

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Extensive Collection Of Useful jQuery Plugins For Working With Tables

jQuery plugins are quite in these days in the field of web designing and are extensively used because of their aesthetically appealing results. Through jQuery tables plugins, you can attain the maximum results in terms of functionality and flexibility. The level of flexibility and functionality that jQuery provide cannot be… read more

5 Stunning Web Design Photoshop Layout Tutorials

5 Stunning Web Design Photoshop Layout Tutorials

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Logo Design: Umbrellas

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with castles… today it’s all about logos with umbrellas!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves,… read more

Motion and Perspective in Web Design: 36 Interactive and Interesting Samples

Depth and movement can be synthesized by using several design elements. Many websites use parallax scrolling; Others use flash and animation in order to create movement as well. What ever the technique, faking depth (and adding moving elements) helps make websites more interactive and more entertaining. (It doesn’t necessarily… read more

Wild Life Ink Illustrations

This series of animal illustrations were created by the british illustrator Iain Macarthur for an exhibition at the Phonebooth in LA. Most of his work is created by pencil, pigment pens and watercolors using techniques such as geometrical patterns and nature elements to recreate these animals.

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For more from Iain Macarthur… read more

9 Small Changes to Your Design Business That’ll Boost Profits Immediately

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WDL Premium: Wumblr WordPress Theme

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Today, for our WDL Premium Members, we present Wumblr, a Tumblr-esc WordPress theme from the guys over Themify. The theme will make your WordPress installation look and feel like a Tumblr blog. It has 9 different post formats including 15 different color presets that help customize… read more

Making Communication Valuable

Design without functionality is useless. With the resources needed to design websites, videos and graphics at the fingertips of those who crave them, the value of communication today is evident. Many factors will shape the future of the creative design industry, so the more we share ideas the better. We… read more

The ultimate responsive web design roundup

Responsive design is the new darling of the web design world. It seems that not a week goes by that there aren’t new resources for doing it, opinions about how to do it or even whether to do it at all, and new sites that make beautiful use of it.

It… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar : September 2011

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar : September 2011

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7 Essential Adobe Fireworks Tips for Web Designers

7 Essential Adobe Fireworks Tips for Web Designers

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Coding an Instant Login Form with jQuery and PHP/Ajax

Login forms have been around for decades. In web design these are very common with so many social media interactions occurring on a daily basis. However the static web has gone by the wayside to make room for much more dynamic content. With popularity growing for the jQuery library it… read more

Typography Mania #95

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.

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Freelance Help, 100+ Tips on Creating an Effective Online Portfolio

Online portfolios are one of a freelancer’s greatest marketing tools. You can reference it in your business cards, promotional campaigns, email signatures, and clients can find you on their own through search engines – generating you new business.

Your portfolio is the face of your business and needs to communicate… read more

UI Design: Carl Cox Mixer

Following my newly found love for UI design, I kept looking for some cool designs to share with you guys and happily I’ve found a super nice music app.

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The app is the Carl Cox Mixer, featuring and beautiful DJ mixing setup. This one was designed by the talented Jonas Eriksson,… read more

New Design Bundle Giveaway from Designious

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Our friends from Designious just launched a new mind blowing design bundle and they have been kind enough to provide us with 5 bundles to give away to our readers. Design Cocktail 6 includes an awesome collection of design goodies that will put a big smile… read more

25+ Must-have Chrome extensions for web designers and developers

For many web designers and developers, Firefox is unsurpassable. For others, Firefox eats Chrome’s dust.

For the past two years, since Google Chrome’s release, there’s been a raging debate on which browser is superior. Mozilla’s open source product has stood the test of time and Firefox has quickly become the second… read more

Fireworks vs. Photoshop – Why Is Fireworks Better Than Photoshop For Web Design

Fireworks vs. Photoshop – Why Is Fireworks Better Than Photoshop For Web Design

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70 Examples Of Modern Responsive Web Design

70 Examples Of Modern Responsive Web Design

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Graphic and Web-Design Blog 2nd birthday and Giveaway

Graphic and Web-Design Blog 2nd birthday and Giveaway

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40 Best Web Design And Development Tutorials From August 2011

40 Best Web Design And Development Tutorials From August 2011

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Tuesday Total Textures 86

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

Super Rad Light Painting by Dennis Calvert

It’s been quite a while since I’ve last seen cool light paintings. After a while, it became too much of the same, and the lack of creativity made this technique fade for some time. That until now.

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Dennis Calvert have just revived it. Well, at least for me. This guy really… read more

8 Productivity Tools To Save More Time

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With Google’s recent launch of another promising Social Network, the things that could potentially distract us aren’t really decreasing. As the overall buzz increases online, I found that our workflows become more complex too.

Organizing our lives in a smooth and hassle free way is therefore key… read more

The most popular fonts used by designers

There are usually two camps among designers when it comes to typeface choices.

One group has a handful of favorite typefaces they adapt to every design they create, believing that these handful of typefaces can be suitable for every situation.

The other camp believes in using a huge variety… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.101)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources 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,… read more

Flesh and Acrylic Project by Ben Heine

Flesh and Acrylic is an amazing project create by Ben Heine, the idea is to create a canvas blending the model with the background and the execution was amazing, very colorful and strong results. In this post you will take a look inside the project and find out how it… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 5, August

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

35 High Quality PSD UI Web Design Elements

In the world of internet, you can always find what you need as someone has already created something that fulfill your requirements. On top, if your required element is available for free then who would want to waste time designing something that ultimately churns out to be almost identical to… read more

The Perfect Office #102

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?

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

The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette

Endless layers in Photoshop. Overstuffed image folders. That jQuery plug-in that has 12 files associated with it. Hundreds or thousands of individual pieces go into making a website. No wonder we go off the deep end when we can’t find a closing div — er, section tag. We work with a ridiculously… read more

Characteristics of a modern portfolio site

Of all of the types of websites, the portfolio site has to overcome what might be some of the most difficult hurdles. Talk to almost any designer and they will agree, launching your own portfolio site is a painful process. Most frequently, this process includes numerous versions… read more

35 Effective Examples of Minimalism in Web Design

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All designers have different interpretations of what minimal web design truly is. As far as my opinion goes, the sole purpose of an effective minimally designed web page is to lay-out the content in such a way that no single element distracts attention from the visual… read more

20 Inspiring Food Related Websites for Your Delight

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Food related websites are getting better and better. There are a lot of new apps and services being launched to help those that love food. From organizing recipes to suggesting new restaurants, there’s always something new popping up. So today we decided to gather some good… read more

100 Clean And Minimal Web Designs For Inspiration

100 Clean And Minimal Web Designs For Inspiration

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20 Free Social Login and Bookmark Buttons Source Files

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A popular trend knowadays is for websites and services to use integrated social networking logins to rapidly reduce the time it would take a typical user to signup (no more filling in forms and remembering another password). Not only do social logins aid the user, they… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Aug 22-Aug 28, 2011

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

25 Free Web Design Templates

25 Free Web Design Templates

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70 Inspirational & Professional Logo Designs

70 Inspirational & Professional Logo Designs

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Awesome Showcase of Beautiful E-Commerce Website Designs

Awesome Showcase of Beautiful E-Commerce Website Designs

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Comics of the week #92

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

Responsive Web Design – Outstanding and Well Executed Web Sites

Responsive Web Design – Outstanding and Well Executed Web Sites

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.103

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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.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

11 Reasons why responsive web design isn’t that cool!

11 Reasons why responsive web design isn’t that cool!

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30 Must Have Free Mac Apps for Web Designers and Developers

30 Must Have Free Mac Apps for Web Designers and Developers

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Best of the Week #186

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

Vintage Web design Showcase and Texture Resources

Vintage Web design Showcase and Texture Resources

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25 Awesome CSS Web Design Inspiration

25 Awesome CSS Web Design Inspiration

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Beautiful Underground Photography

Some people are afraid of being underground, but thankfully some photographers don’t fit those shoes, and because of that, we are delivered with some great underground photography. Also, I tend to suspect that hipsters love it.

These are some amazing examples of underground photography, man-made or not. Mostly tunnels, but also… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #115

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#115 and make sure to comeback… read more

Bootstrap From Twitter Is A New Web Designer’s Dream

I’ve just finished designing a website, and I used a ton of CSS: everything from laying out my content, to styling elements like the headings. Then, Twitter released Bootstrap, and I’m pretty disappointed I didn’t delay starting to design it.

Say you’re a web designer new to the scene and don’t… read more

Sites of the Week #168

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as The Lounge and Rice Bowls. Also we’re featuring a food related websites, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

45+ Free Online Tools To Create Charts, Diagrams And Flowcharts

Charts and graphs are the best ways to represent information and relationship between two interlinked entities. Not only do charts and graphs inform visitors about the trend or relationship you want to show them but also add a visual connection with the visitors.

Several online tools are available that help you… read more

Use your blog to get design jobs

Are you a freelance designer? Are you interested in boosting your credibility, building your client base and increasing your number of paying projects? The answer is obvious, but knowing where and how to get started can be daunting, especially during the periods of low client work (you know what… read more

WDL Premium: Wood Grain Vectors Pack

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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. This Wood Grain vectors pack is from Go Media. Inside it you will find detailed wood grain vectors. Half of this pack has a grainy look, and the other is clean, illustrated, absurdly detailed. They’re… read more

35 Outstanding Website Design Tutorials

35 Outstanding Website Design Tutorials

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5 Questions For Your New Corporate Web Design Company

5 Questions For Your New Corporate Web Design Company

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Daily Inspiration #910

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How To Become A Web Design Expert

Have you ever wanted to take a client by the collar, shake them around vigorously and demand that they take you seriously because you are the expert? If so, you are not alone. Whether you consider yourself an expert and want recognition or are looking to one day become one,… read more

BaseKit Giveaway – 3 ANNUAL BUSINESS ACCOUNTS (£144 value each – FREE)

Today I have a very exciting giveaway to reward all of my loyal readers. BaseKit has sponsored this giveaway and agreed to give each of the 3 lucky winners an annual BaseKit business account, each worth £96 when paid yearly, or £144 when paid monthly.

A little bit about BaseKit:

Usually, in… read more

Logo Design: Castles

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with mics… today it’s all about logos with castles!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves,… read more

Inside the work of Lightshock

Joao Ferraz aka Lightshock is a Brazilian designer, illustrator, and art director specialized in 3D and publicity campaigns. In this post he will talk a bit about each of his works and give you some insights on how things got done. His work is absolutely amazing and precise so take… read more

Showcase of Creative and Entertaining 404 Error Pages

When designing a website, many of us just neglect the error pages considering them insignificant. But the fact is many visitors come across these 404 error pages either because of typing a wrong URL or due to any other number of technical reasons.

Visiting an error page is not a pleasurable… read more

App design versus web design: what designers can teach each other

We often look at application design and website design as two different, if related, fields.

The lines blur a bit with web apps (which are technically both apps and websites), but we still tend to try to compartmentalize them. Even designers who work on both kinds of designs often view them… read more

50 Social Media Bookmarking Icon Sets – 2011 Edition

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Our social bookmarking services icon set articles has now become a yearly tradition for us. This is our third edition (you can also view 2010 and 2009) and our best by far.

All of social icon sets below are of the highest quality and have all been… read more

SEO Essentials for Freelance Web Designers

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The life of a freelance web designer brings you freedom in your work and allows you to escape the confines of a boring 9-5 office life and develop your creativity within the comfort of your own home. However, as a freelancer, you’ll have none of the… read more

250 High Resolution Free Wood Textures For Web Designers

250 High Resolution Free Wood Textures For Web Designers

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Vector Web Design Elements

Vector Web Design Elements

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A Showcase of Bright Color Web Designs for Inspiration

A Showcase of Bright Color Web Designs for Inspiration

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35 Free Icon Sets

In this roundup we have collected some high quality and useful icon sets. Enjoy!! If you like these icons you might want to check out our previous posts below.

43 Free Social Media Icon Sets

25 of the Best Blogging and Social Media Icon Sets

Glossy: Free Icon Set

48px web iconset_226 icons<br… read more

Typography Mania #94

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.

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The Monster Collection of Moleskine Tips, Tricks and Hacks

A few times a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of FreelanceSwitch. This article by Skellie was first published July 9th, 2008, yet is just as relevant and full of interesting information today.

Freelancers are more likely than most people to love Moleskine… read more

Freebie: Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin Flexslider

When it comes to responsive design, it’s not just about fluid images or adaptive layouts. It’s also about the responsive methodology behind the entire design process. In responsive design, we are creating responsive experiences, meaning that all design components need to be able to adapt to the environment in which… read more

UI Design: Photoforge 2

Among tons of photography apps, one of the most remarkable is the Photoforge 2, a complete dark room, with many options for you to customize your pictures.

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The UI design here is pretty intuitive, which makes the user the ability to the user to make some awesome pictures, with various filters… read more

Live Together or Die Alone : Spec Work vs the Community

For years the web design and development communities have had an enemy amongst the ranks. A wolf in sheep’s clothing, parading through the communities as a friend of the game, when really it is more of a foe. Perhaps a well intentioned foe, as some might argue, but a foe… read more

Win $300 in vouchers from Custom Bags HQ (and special bonus!)

We’ve lined up another fresh giveaway today from the cool folks at Custom Bags HQ.

They’re bringing a great idea and marketing tool that you can actually use for your business or your clients’.

Custom Bags HQ wants to be every designer’s go-to for custom bag printing.  They make incredible custom bags… read more

Reveal: A Responsive Portfolio Theme for WordPress

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At Theme Trust, we just released our latest and greatest WordPress theme. This one is called Reveal. It’s responsive and designed to showcase your portfolio. The “responsive” part means that it’s built to look great across multiple devices and screen sizes, which includes the desktop and… read more

45 Simple and Attractive Website Designs

45 Simple and Attractive Website Designs

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Tuesday Total Textures 85

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

Stellar Illustrations by Edward Kwong

I’m not posting that much illustrations recently in order to break the habits a little bit, but I didn’t stop looking for some nice inspiration for you guys. Happily, I ran into the amazing work of Canadian illustrator, Edward Kwong.

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It’s been some time since I last saw such impressive lines… read more

The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow

CSS grid frameworks can make your life easier, but they’re not without their faults. Fortunately for us, modern techniques offer a new approach to constructing page layouts. But before getting to the solution, we must first understand the three seemingly insurmountable flaws currently affecting CSS grids.

Problems
Problem #1: They’re Not Semantic

The… read more

Beautifully Designed WordPress Theme By Ant Eksiler

Today I will be featuring the latest WordPress Theme By Ant Eksiler. He is a very talented web designer and coder  from Istanbul Turkey. Sometimes designing and coding your own blog or website from scratch can be a very timely and daunting task. I find that Ant builds easy to… read more

100 Great CSS Menu Tutorials

Navigation is such an important part of your website. It’s how your visitors navigate to the main areas of your site and makes it easy for them to find your good content.

CSS is of course the perfect language for designing beautiful navigation menus. It can be applied to any type… read more