This is yet another large round-up of best community news resources for web designers and developers posted by other blog owners in the month of Nov 2010 have been submitting on Tech Blog over the last couple of days. You will find great inspiration for your designs, tools, giveaways, awesome photos etc. Hope you will find useful resources below and help submitting good articles if you find some.
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Here is a compilation of 100+ Community Resources for Web Designers and Developers, Nov 2010. Enjoy!
Digital art inspiration can stretch into films, television programmes, video games and many other subjects. Here I have chosen to showcase artwork of the Gundam robot series.
Carousel style XML driven menu with blur effect. Easily to adjust parameters and to specify unlimited images and URLs in the XML configuration file.
As a design community we often receive help and support from family and others, here designers answer the question; As designers what am I thankful for in 2010?
As the Thanksgiving season is oncoming, I have released a wonderful PSD freebie, Thanksgiving greeting card in Photoshop PSD format. Happy Thanksgiving!
Designing Posters is very interesting to do with Photoshop or Illustrator. If your fun of creating Posters, here are some cool list of tutorials that could improve your skill more and better. This article is a Create Cool Posters With Photoshop Tutorial Collection. Some of this tutorials are a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop.
Bought a new iPhone and couldn’t find any cool iPhone wallpaper from anywhere? Here is where your search ends. Here are 30 really cool abstract wallpapers for your iPhone.
Electronic books known as e-books became a very important part of our lifes.As the technology goes very fast,the e-books deal out from this fast growth and people begin to prefer reading e-books which is easy to find and share with each other
After quite a few months of gathering quite a large collection of different fonts from all over the place I decided it was time to show off some of the best fonts I’ve found.
Today, a website is not just information but also usability, design and ergonomics. The problem is that with these requirements, a simple web programmer is not enough, now we need true digital artists, people who know how to combine colors, images and fonts to create pieces of electronic art. Below you have 70 examples of sites that fit perfectly into today’s requirements.
Vintage business card Photoshop PSD download in two PSD files that are fully editable. They are CMYK print ready in 3.75×2.25 inches with 300dpi resolution.
These are 40 Creative free download high quality XHTML/CSS website templates. Which are collected from different web resources for users. These templates includes business templates, game zone templates, hosting templates, electronics templates, design studio templates, online stores, etc.
Learn how to create a textured layout made out of pixel patterns
As you are aware photo manupulation can come in various forms but today we will be only focusing on dark and gothic manipulations created by some very talented designers and artists.
Photoshop is an excellent tool for creating attractive websites, so today we make very wide collection of Photoshop tutorials for creating cool web design layouts. There are all different types of websites and styles of design represented, so you should certainly be able to find some useful tutorials on Tech Blog layout, Modern Blog layout, Professional Web 2.0 layout and Business Website layout etc. from this group.
Today I showcase a great selection of the subject wearing glasses to highlight just how beautiful glasses wearers can be, they encompass all styles of photography.
If you are working as a freelancer in the web designing industry then there are many things which you should take care of. You have to show your professional end to take your client under confidence and make them believe that you can deliver them exactly what they want for their site.
This tutorial will provide several techniques on how to transform an ordinary portrait into a digital painting style one, like softening the hair, basic make up and lightning/darkening of the face.
You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30 really cool Photoshop photo tutorials to our blog, you have over hundreds of ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.
Please enjoy this fantastic selection of Vexel artwork, I am truly inspired and I hope you will be to.
Here we have collected 50 Creative Websites with Beautiful Typography. Typography has really set a great trend this 2010. Experimenting with the right choice of font, splashing with bold or plain colors, and designing it in different perspective are elements that works on typography. It uses on logo, poster, and websites.
Fonts Typographic posters is now more popular and we can notice a surge for Fonts Type work on portfolio sites, Here we have collected 30 Fonts Typography Designs , I found these design realy inspiring, hope you will be inspired.
Fonts Typographic posters is now more popular and we can notice a surge for Fonts Type work on portfolio sites, Here we have collected 50 Creative Websites with Beautiful Typography , I found these design really inspiring, hope you will be inspired
Fonts Typographic posters is now more popular and we can notice a surge for Fonts Type work on portfolio sites, Here we have collected 35 Beautiful Fonts Typography Designs For Inspiration , I found these design really inspiring, hope you will be inspired.
Graphic designing is huge field and for those students, who are interested in it, need to understand all of the categories related to graphic designing and then study the one they think is perfect for them. It is very important to determine what you really want to do. Just because you are fascinated with Photoshop and you know how to run it, does not mean you can be a web designer as well as logo designer, business card specialist and yes, not to forget, an excellent brochure, flyer and poster designer too.
HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language has seen a phenomenal growth from its birth. The current version is HTML 4 which is used for multimedia and interactiveness takes the support of plugins like Flash, Silver light and JAVA for an audio or video playback. HTML5 which is in its beta version allows you to write your code in HTML as well as in XML languages.
Joni Niemela is a young talented photographer from Finland. He started very young in this field, from a hobby which now turned into even more than that, an actual business and passion.
If you are looking for graphic design resources and web design, and for free, if you want high quality photographs of high quality and find enough high-quality website
In the tutorial you’ll learn how to transform a normal photo of a woman walking in the park into a fantasy image of a sorceress facing a tree monster.
Fruit illustration of fresh lemon graphic in Photoshop PSD format. The lemon graphic comes in an editable PSD format with each part of the graphic organized in named folders in all layers.
As we always say â€typograpy is everywhereâ€,one of the most common use of typography is in the poster designs.Typography has long been a vital part of promotional material and advertising. Designers often use typography to set a theme and mood in an advertisement;
In this video tutorial we will learn about panoramas and the very basics in levels adjustments to make our images pop in ways they maybe never have!
Using poster in advertising is the most preferable way to convey your message; poster design is challenge design to show you creativity so you need to make design unique, clear, attractive and convey client message. Some may need us to spend time thinking on its purpose and some may have impressive photo manipulation works. Here are showcase of 30 advertising posters that I decided to share. Please enjoy! Place Your Feedback In Command Section
Today we are happy to announce that we will be starting a long series of tutorials to show you how to build your own WordPress gallery without the need to purchase a plugin or script.
Set of realistic wooden speakers in Photoshop PSD format with each speaker layers organized in named folders. The wooden speakers also come as icons.
Set of 3 paint brushes in Photoshop PSD format. The brush graphics come in 3 dripping colors in red, blue and green in fully layered PSD format with each brush layers organized in named folders.
We have many special days in our life and wedding day is one the most exciting days of course.Every couple wants to do something extraordinary to make that day memorable.One part of this event and maybe the most attractive part is the wedding invitation
This showcase presents some of the most important moments in one’s life, captured by professional photographers and meant to awaken emotions to the fullest!
vCard is a minimalist portfolio website design, typically only one page and javascript animation features like sliding, fading and tab navigation. The site usually have minimal content, just basic information about the site owner, contact details and a list of their social network accounts.
T-Shirt Template with wrinkles (PSD for designers). Just paste your design in the appropriate layer, select shirt color (most American Apparel colors are there), merge, and you’re good to go. Great for submitting designs to sites like Threadless or Goodjoe. I also use it for mock-ups of promotional shirts for clients. Enjoy!
Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening. As the exposed surface cools by radiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate greater than that at which it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets.
Today we will create an abstract composition by combining stock vectors, photos and brushes. Difficulty: Beginner; Completion time: 40 min; Tools: Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3 (Optional)
Web design and development are key components of a modern organisation’s existence. The corporate website is, at once, a microcosm of the company’s sales literature, public relations profile, employee newsletter and advertising, all easily accessible in one very visible and public place.
the technology advances apace, and one of those new products is called IPAD is a tablet designed and developed by Apple
50 brilliant portraits of men created by the technique of traditional drawing, without any digital manipulation.
This tutorial shows my process of drawing and painting Iron Man, angry looking with bright light coming out of the arc-reactor, on a small card (of size almost similar to that of a playing card), using graphite and watercolours as the media.
Today we bring another amazing interview, we are privileged to introduce you to an amazing industrial designer and online writer Martin Gibson of Embody3d
The most advanced Free Dock Image Gallery application for Flash. Clean OOP source code – No Flash Knowledge required to insert the Banner SWF inside the HTML page(s) of your site.
On this countdown, you’re about to take a breathe of inspiration and see 200 of the most astounding characters and illustrations found on the internet during these days, maybe your website was featured if you have a great vein for creativity.
The artists from Vectorious.net never cease to amaze by creating every month new and beautiful vector illustrations for you to use in your design projects. This time they created an impressive collection of 152 illustrations, which you can find under the following categories on Vectorious.net: abstract, backgrounds, seasonal, vintage and free vectors.
CodeMyConcept is the fastest growing and best PSD to HTML service on the planet. They take your PSD design and turn it into beautiful hand-coded and W3C standard compliant website. Currently there are a ton of PSD to HTML companies out there. Choosing one can seem like a difficult process with the whole list out there.
Texture is always a must for designers especially for graphic designers.You can find thousands of free textures over the net but today we’ve collected free metal textures.The below textures a re a little bit different and i think all of them must be in your collection.
Today I will be walking you through the process of creating a Creative WordPress Blog Layout in Photoshop.
This tutorial will show you how to create a vector twitter bird using basic shapes.We will be using some primary shapes like circle, triangle and rectangle.
Web forms are crucial for converting visitors into regular users, particularly for web communities, e-commerce and web applications. Designing a registration or sign up form is a bit different from a sign in or login form, as a registration form is the last link between turning a visitor into a user, so the final ‘sale’ must be completed.
At home and on the way to work, I always have a pair of headphones on. With music being a huge influence on many designers and photographers this beautifully influenced photography showcase is dedicated people wearing headphones.
Web hosting, web designs, logo designs, bulk sms. Lowest web services plans ever in pune. Now design your world at your own budget.
Here we are sharing some beautiful resources of getting free online historical books for the researchers and readers who are fond of reading historical books.
When you are creating a new website you may be inspired by seeing other sites that are beautifully designed, as a designer it’s a must to know the current trend, particularly in web designs there’s always new trends emerging quite often. Color is an important aspect of web design.
The 50 highest scoring entries from the Pxleyes photoshop contests that were active during the month October 2010… This list is ranked by the final scores of the entries.
Search Engine Optimization has always been an important part of the online world. Webmasters use it to get their sites ranking high on the results pages, and marketers use it to make money from products and services that they try to get into the SERPs (Search Engines Results Pages), as well.
To make cost effective changes, you should have a method of updating content that doesn’t require advanced coding or paying your Web developer every time you want to make a small change. Frequently updated site is critical to the customers’ perceptions of your company, and also improve your search engine ranking. Consider how you will update your web site before you start working on it.
There are so many websites out there that pay no attention to their aspect, they are too simple or too poor in colors. I personally find it invigorating to see a site filled with color. I enjoyed making this beautiful collection of truly creative and colorful WordPress Themes. You can find in this showcase both free and premium themes. Just check them out!
Today we will show you some examples of these “moments in time”… high speed images captured in their special beauty, something that your eye can not see every day in such a detail.
Deftbeat is a vexel/vector artist from the Philippines who has an absolutely stunning portfolio, showcasing how much of an impact vexel inspired work can have. Looking so simple, yet so very effective.
Everyone loves funny things, if you are looking for some fun as well so you have no need to go anywhere; here we are sharing really impressive stuff about worlds’ most funny animated GIFs, these animated funny graphics can make you laughter, get inspired and share the fun with others…
Unique and different architecture always get extra attention, world is surprised with the work done by the artistic peoples. There are many unusual and interesting buildings around the world which makes you look over and over, some of the most inspirational unusual architecture are listed below, hope you’ll enjoy this weird, odd, bizarre and incredible looking architecture photographs,
With the impending launch of our very own inspiration gallery – Inspired, I would like to show you where I go for my design inspiration with a stunning collection of 43 inspirational galleries!
This is the best and the fullest list of web design related websites with “Community News” section to promote you article.
Learn how to create a sleek software layout where you can sell your software in a proper way
Getting paid is the most exciting thing for working so hard for your employer or client. Though most of the designers do not enjoy invoicing their client but it should not be forgotten invoice handling is an imperative part of being a freelancer or running a design agency.
Today you talk about having a website and the term CMS would start having rounds in your mind. There was a time when people used get the designing and the coding of a site from different people, but CMS’s have made life easier for the website developers. One of the most used and widely anticipated of the many CMS’s is Joomla. Whenever there is a need to develop a big, robust website Joomla would be one of the most preferred solutions
Modern product website design in Photoshop PSD format with a professional creative edge. The PSD template can also be used for any business or corporate website.
These are 50 Creative free download high quality XHTML/CSS corporate website templates. Which are collected from different web resources for users. These templates includes business templates, game zone templates, hosting templates, electronics templates, design studio templates, online stores, etc.
You know the first step of a website template is the designing process and that is all depending on your creativity.However,the second step is much more harder,you have to understand coding very well in order to make the template design suitable for
The Designblog Weblovers presents a little Showcase of 12 awsome red Webdesigns for your daily inspiration
In this Showcase, which is presented by the Designblog Weblovers, you can get a lot of inspiration from 28 great dark Webdesigns.
One way to attractively design a card is by using patterns; to get you inspired, we have collected 20 business cards that make use of patterns in their cards.
A previously unreleased GUI set for Mac’s OSX Leopard operative system for all web developers that want to integrate great designs into their applications, web designers that are currently working with interfaces and quality GUI sets and well, of course that is also meant to be for all the Apple lovers that want to beautify their desktops with quality designs and components.
Focusing on all things mythical from faeries to seductive mermaids we hope you enjoy this stunning collection of fantasy influenced mixed media!
The revenue models that these services use in monetizing your RSS feeds are different: ranging from the CPC to CPM, in addition, publishers can choose between text-based ads, banner ads and interstitial ads, which are often fully customizable.
Magician’s hat and wand in fully layered PSD file with each part organized in named folder. The “magician’s hat and wand†graphic also comes in .PNG format as icons.
We have all be inspired by the text art we see in advertisements; here we showcase posters, artworks and general wild creativity with text art and typography.
Today we will create a vector film strip from scratch, using only our keen sense of perspective, imagination and taste for colors.
3d tool is one of the best ways to create truly unbelievable and realistic artworks. Today in this post I have gathered 30 really amazing and fantastic 3D arts.
We are privileged today to bring you another great designer, who is apart of the great design group ‘Motley Design Crue,’ Sarah Camp.
This collection of 26 stunning apparel stores showcases a vast amount of inspiration for any designer or illustrator wanting to hit the clothing business.
Flyers and Brouchers are typically used by individuals or businesses to promote their products or services. They are a form of mass marketing or small scale, community communication. As customer touch points become increasingly important, businesses require a greater variety of marketing tools to effectively reach their customers.
Top 12 blogs that offer advice and practical tips to small business owners and entrepreneurs. If you have a startup and want to make it big, these blogs are a must read.
Types can be really creative especially when the imagination of the artists has no limit. Some designers have created amazing typography with elements you can’t even think of. This kind of creative and unique typography can make your design, poster, CD cover or book cover stand out.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights, as blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image. For your inspiration, we’ve rounded up 57 Stunning collection of Bokeh Photography and Pictures.
Looking for unique wood business cards? Few materials are so certain to create a lasting impression (and keep your business card out of the trash). For your inspiration, here are 24 impressive wooden business cards from around the world. Here are our picks for “the best of the best†wooden business cards.
Buttons are always an important part of any website. The button’s main goal is to attract the user into performing an action you want them to. Meaning to sign up, purchase now, log in, vote up, and etc. Not only do they attract users, but they also add a mood to the overall website design.
Today I am pleased to offer an icon set that I designed specifically for Design Juices absolutely free, these icons include the most used Social Network sites.
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education
In this tutorial i will show you how to create a sleek looking software layout
digital illustration has expanded worldwide and is widely used by graphic designers using graphic design programs like Illustrator and Photoshop
There are million websites out there all sporting different web design interfaces. If you’re a web designer trying to make your own website. Web 2.0 is all about the user so I whipped up a list of 30 amazing web design interface from DeviantArt in november 2010.
In this post featuring several very talented web designers from DeviantArt. All of these inspiring website examples are fresh and new, for previous September month so you can see current web design interface ( layouts ) trends.
In this tutorial we will create a grungy abstract wallpaper using vectors, powerful lighting and stock brushes. You can use these techniques to enhance your own photos, all you need is some patience and preferably a graphic tablet.
Today’s showcase features bokeh inspired portrait photography that will show you how one of my favourite effects can be incorporated into modern photography.
Today we are about to take a lesson like the ones you took when you were at design school, you’re going to learn how to create the basic character design for an illustration.
OSDesigner.net is a free theme provider for WordPress, phpLD and 4Images platform. It’s a very known name in WordPress users for free CSS Gallery theme.
In the last few years cartoon characters and mascots became very popular and you can see them everywhere.Creating these kind of characters is not hard but of course it not easy.As being a beginner in illustration i learnt a lot from the below tutorials.
Today I’d like to introduce you to 50 Free premium high quality wordpress themes released in 2010 or to be accurate in late 2010, all are wordpress 3.0 Compatible.
You may be looking forward to the 2011 calendar year, and considering some actions that might be scheduled to take place, possibly there are special birthdays, anniversaries, high school or college graduations, or other particular situations that you are eager to enjoy, calendars will make your life easier. If you are searching impressive and artistic designs of coming New Year 2011 calendars so here are some beautiful calendar examples available, have a look!
Icons have been formerly known as the religious work of art. It is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy. In modern culture, icons are used as a sense of symbol — a name, face, picture, edifice. Today, icons are used by the web designers for showcasing their creativity.
A website with an effective design along with concrete content is essentially required. Successful web sites are “user friendly,†allowing valuable information to be obtained easily by the user.