250 Design Inspiration : Colorful Websites
55 Colorful Web Designs to Inspire You
We’ve already presented here a showcase of clean white web designs, and we’ve also shown you a collection of inspiring dark web designs. Now it’s time to get inspired by color, and by “color”, I mean a website “full of color” – a site with many colorful elements or even just using one or two bold and eye catching colors.
60 Useful Mysql Tips & Tools
Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices
Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It’s not only the DBA’s (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Here are some MySQL optimization techniques for programmers.
200 Best iPhone Applications
40 Essential iPhone Applications For Web Designers
iPhone : 200 Best iPhone Applications - Web designers can be struck with inspiration at any time, but if you’re away from your computer there isn’t much you can do. Well, with an iPhone or an iPod Touch that has all changed. Now you can make notes, pick color schemes, ping servers and even FTP a file to your device, edit it and then upload it back. Why bother being tied down to a desk anymore when you can work just as easily from a beach if inspiration hits you?
150+ Best Tips For Freelancer
46 Must-Read Productivity Tips for Freelancers
Freelancers face a unique set of productivity challenges, often very different from the challenges faced by regular employees.
20+ Powerful Jquery Tutorials & Snippets
How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu
A couple weeks ago, I created a screencast that demonstrated how to build a three-level navigation menu. In a response email, one of our readers requested a tutorial on how to build a lava-lamp style menu. Luckily, it’s quite a simple task, especially when using a JavaScript library. We’ll build one from scratch today.
50 Unbelievable Google Earth Photos
22 Most Unusual Google Earth Photos
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on the Earth to view satellite images, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others. This amazing software allows you to search the whole planet right from your comfortable rooms. Fans of Google Earth have been on a virtual searching chase looking for anything interesting and amazing. Here we have collected some of the mind blowing and spectacular sights to mesmerize you. Enjoy and feel free to share it with others.
300+ Amazing Collection Of CG Artworks
45 breathtakingly realistic CG Portraits of women + Tutorials
3D computer graphics (CG) art is capable of generating the most realistic and incredible effects which was once claimed utterly impossible. The extent to which 3-D CG can replicate human characteristics is simply breathtaking. With the power of CG art, one could easily mistake images for real life portraits.
How To RSS : Tips Tools & Resources
10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress
RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in both personal and corporate settings; for example, in blogs. And because a large percentage of these blogs run on WordPress, we’ll cover in this post some (hopefully) relatively unknown but useful RSS-related tricks and hacks that will help you use RSS in a more effective way — and without unnecessary and chunky WordPress plug-ins.
Useful CSS Selector Tutorials & Browser Compatibility
Cleaner Code with CSS3 Selectors
The parts of CSS3 that seem to grab the most column inches on blogs and in articles are the shiny bits. Rounded corners, text shadow and new ways to achieve CSS layouts are all exciting and bring with them all kinds of possibilities for web design. However what really gets me, as a developer, excited is a bit more mundane.
SEO Tool : 200 Collection Of Best SEO Tools
The Top 15 Free SEO Tools
Best SEO Tools - We have used, reviewed, and analyzed many of the free seo tools online and have put together a short list of the top 15 free seo tools online. If you are looking for a very solid set of SEO tools for tracking and managing SEO projects, please be sure to check out Raven's excellent Internet marketing tools for SEO. We use them on a daily basis and we can personally vouch for the quality of their tools and the enormous amount of time Raven's SEO tools has saved over the past year with client reports, link building tracking, and social media/keyword monitoring.
Typography : 400+ Typography For Design Inspiration & Resources
Typography Inspiration Showcase
Typography For Design Inspiration & Resources - Typography can be one of the most fascinating elements of design. Whether it’s web design, album art, posters, or any other type of graphic design, typographical inspiration can be a great resource for designers. With that in mind I’ve compiled this collection of beautiful typographical works.
IE 9 : Features News & Previews
Bad news for window xp users.IE 9 refuses to work with window xp but who cares ?
An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
We’re just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9.
100+ Twitter Tips & Tricks You May Not Know
Twitter Tips and Tricks To Drive Traffic To Your Sites
Every month I receive around 100,000 visitors to my websites just from Twitter alone and so can every single one of you! I know a lot of you enjoyed the tips I shared in my FREE eCourse about making money online blogging and driving traffic to your blog from Twitter so today I decided to do an updated twitter guide so you can benefit more from Twitter like myself. The great thing with Twitter is the people using it are so diverse, whatever your business is about, you can find people related to your business.
250+ Web Design Inspirations : iPhone
38 Mobile (iPhone) Sites
As you may probably know mobile design is getting more and more popular, particularly the iPhone design. Almost every popular website or web app offers a mobile version now. In this post, I’ve collected a list of 38 nicely designed sites (ranging from personal, blog, portoflio, editoral, web app, etc.) that are optimized for iPhone. I hope this list will come in handy when you need to design a mobile site for yourself or clients. Now have you iPhone ready and enjoy the list.
100+ Collection Of New Jquery Plugins And Tutorials
10 New jQuery Plugins You Have to Know
I haven't done a roundup for jQuery plugins for quite a while, but I have noticed that there are quite a few of new jQuery plugins out there and they really caught my attention because of its design and application. So, this is the 10 jQuery plugins that I have collected for last few weeks.
Inspiration : Creative 404 Error Pages Design
Creative 404 Error Pages Around for Inspiration
Creative 404 Error Pages Design - In this article below, we’ll take a look at Various Creative 404 Error Pages Around for your source of inspiration which help you to built your own custom error page.
Wordpress : 100 Useful Wordpress Plugins
30 Powerful Wordpress Plugins For Blog Administrators
To handle a blog these days can be quite difficult if you are not well-organized and you don’t spend enough time managing it. That’s why there are plugins for WordPress. They literally make your job lot easier and if you work well with them you can put them to work for you.
200+ Web Design Inspiration : E-Commerce
20 Gorgeous Examples of E-Commerce Done Right
Today we’ll be examining a ton of online stores that break this trend by being both functional and attractive. Each of the examples below has a unique lesson to teach us about good e-commerce design. Let’s get started!
Jquery-Ajax Tutorials And Examples
5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery
There are at least five ways to make AJAX calls with the jQuery library. For beginners, however, the differences between each can be a bit confusing. In this tutorial, we’ll line them up and make a comparison. Additionally. we’ll review how to inspect these AJAX calls with Firebug as well.
1000+ Nice Floral Photoshop Brush Sets
Massive Collection of Over 1,000 Floral Photoshop Brushes
Floral Photoshop Brush Sets - Floral and Ornate patterns are very popular in the design world, their vintage yet elegant and modern feel makes them perfect to use for so many different projects.
1000 Top Photoshop Tutorials 2010
15 Impressive Photoshop Tutorials
This is a roundup of 15 Photoshop Tutorials which i found very useful and liked allot. Some are on graphics some on effects, but each one is great in its own way. Simply master pieces of amazing Designers and artists. Hope u like it.
These tutorials are gathered from different sites and are properly linked back.
Freebie : 190 Amazing 3D Wallpapers
40 Most Impressive Abstract 3D Wallpapers
Amazing 3D Wallpaper - We all know how cool 3D images can be when they are created by professionals, even a small and unimportant thing can create tons of good feedback from 3d fans. If you are into 3d modeling, then you would love to have some inspirational stuff around you.I’ve collected for you some of the best 3D wallpapers around, and I’m pretty sure that you will like them too.
Font : 150 Beautiful Fonts For Logo Design
104 Free Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists
The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Professional and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts. All the screenshots again made in usual way so there is no confusion in checking the actual preview and corresponding font types.
100+ Useful Wordpress Tricks Tips And Hacks
40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks
Have you ever came across a Wordpress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 Wordpress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.
Logo Designs : 300 Logo Web Design For Your Inspiration
50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration
I looked at over 2000 logos on various inspiration sites to grab the 50+ best logos (in my opinion) to fuel your logo design inspiration. Some more resources below the post.
Tips : 7 Best Web Design Tips You Should Read
What Every Designer Should Do Right Now
While trying to balance the different areas of our life, there are things that we often forget and neglect to do. With today’s fast-paced society and the busyness of our every day, we tend to overlook some important things. I would like to remind every designer today about some of these tasks that we often put-off but are so important and necessary to get done.
PSD : 200 Collection Of PSD Resources
70 Free High Quality PSD File Design Resources
A collection of 70 high quality PSD files including a range of templates, icons, mobiles, packaging cases, and a ton of other useful design resources. An essential resource for any Photoshop user or designer worth bookmarking for future reference.
20 Stunning Examples of Photo Manipulation From deviantART
Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means.Its uses, cultural impact, and ethical concerns have made it a subject of interest beyond the technical process and skills involved.
Here are 20 amazing photo manipulation examples taken from deviantART.
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Bokeh Effect : Tutorials Examples + CSS3
Inspirational Examples of the Bokeh Effect
“In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— “good” or “bad” bokeh, respectively.
150 Most Inspiring Design Quotes of All Time
50 Inspirational Quotes on the Art & Science of Design
Simple quotes can hold timeless and moving lessons. As designers, we’re lucky to have an exceptional pool of people who have spearheaded the industry over the years, crafting clever insights based on years of experience. Other contributors to this list aren’t designers at all, but have given an outsider’s fascinating insight into the world of design.
77 Best Jquery Tips I Have Ever Read
10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers
There are plenty of jQuery tricks and techniques out there, and the vast and powerful jQuery library can meet almost anyone’s JavaScript’ing needs. Since jQuery makes JavaScript accessible to designers who want to add simple interaction and visual techniques into their design without knowing extensive programming knowledge, it’s worth a few moments to explore this excellent library.
101 Web Typography:Tutorials Tips Examples Tools
6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography
Typography on the web is anything but simple, and for many, it is a troubling mystery. Today, we’re going to review six ways that web designers and developers can improve the typography of the sites they create.
100+ Great Examples Of Beautiful Footer Design
Trends and Examples in Recent Web Design: Big, Informative and Creative Footers
The bottom of the page, the ending for your web design job, the final section. This is footer. The part of the site that, in a classic interpretation, is only for copyright and some links.
Icons : 300 New Collection Of Free Social Bookmarks Icon Sets
Freebie! 30+ New Social Media Icons
In honor of launching MediaLoot yesterday (you have taken the tour, haven’t you?) we’re releasing another free icon set. This time we wanted to cover one of the most common needs that every web designer has: social media icons.
6 Useful Jquery Tutorials For Playing With Twitter API
Create a Fun Tweet Counter With jQuery
n this tutorial, we will look at using jQuery to call Twitter’s API and then use the results to create a widget for a blog or personal website that shows what hours during the day we tweet at the most.
5000 Insane Collection Of Photoshop Brushes Textures And Patterns
1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets
Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
60 Fun Facts About Google You Might Never Know
Here I have collected some really interesting facts about google.I hope you like this article :-)
Google’s First Production Server
...with the hair pulled back, revealing a rack of cheap networked PCs, circa 1999.
Fonts : Collection Of 300 Beautiful Free Handwritten Fonts
50 Free Handwritten Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists
Handwritten Style Typography has been quite a popular for a while now, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere away anytime soon. So Below, we compile a list of 50 Free Downloadable Handwritten Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists by which you can save your money as well as time and focus on making great applications.
CSS3 : 250 High Quality CSS3 Tutorials And Resources
33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles
Since previous article about CSS text effects got really big attention I decided to research and find more interesting articles and websites just focused on CSS3, teaching you how to use it, showing pros and cons and much more. To be honest it’s hard for me to keep up with technologies myself, but we really cannot not to use those new great selectors to make our designs even more beautiful, user-friendly and lightweighted. However since HTML5 is sort of tied with CSS3, I will soon continue with HTML5 article as well, so don’t miss it and keep coming back! Enjoy!
400 Amazing Nature Wallpapers For Computer Desktop
Here I have collected 400 amazing nature wallpapers for desktop background.
33 Marvelous And Inspiring Nature Wallpapers
In this post you will see rocks, clouds, trees, water, mountains … in the form of what nature made them, we can only be left to admiration and pleasure… If you want to download these wallpapers, click on the title or the image itself, select the resolution you want, and start download…
A how to guide – Live Email Validation
In this tutorial I will describe how you can validate the format of an email address “live” using jQuery and regular expressions without the need for a plugin (See Demo). The code is pretty lightweight, uses a simple jQuery event to fire the code, and gives the user great visual feedback on whether what they’ve entered is good, or bad… so here we go
35 Mind-Blowing Gran Turismo 5 Wallpapers
Gran Turismo 5 is to be the fifth edition of the highly acclaimed Gran Turismo racing video game series, scheduled for release in 2010. It is currently under development by Polyphony Digital and is to be published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.It expands on the Prologue version and will be the first of the main numbered series to feature on the PlayStation 3.
I bet you have ever played GT in your life.These are amazing screenshot from GT 5 :-)
Jquery Plugin : 4 Jquery Zoom Image Plugins (Click + Hover Zoom)
Zoomimage - jQuery plugin
Present you images in stylish way. The links are unobtrusively highjacked to open the images in an inpage popup with drop shadow and border.
50 CSS Tools:Frameworks Generators Ads-Ons
19 Popular CSS Tools For Web Developers and Designers
Today we have collected 19 popular CSS tools, which will make your life easier. Don’t forget we are here to help our design community, if i missed any good tool don’t hesitate to tell us.
300 Unbelievable Manipulated Photos
40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation
Photo manipulation is an ever evolving collaboration between photography and graphic design.
Combining certain elements to create a unique image, that can convince even the most experienced set of eyes, requires a very creative set of skills.
Tool : 100 Useful Tools For Web Designer
9 Handy FireFox Add-ons For Every Day Use
Useful Tools For Web Designer - Having worked as a project manager at several companies and having to monitor my own projects there’s a certain list of things I do to check on often (and I still do). Some of the things are SEO related, some are tech tasks, some help to achieve the marketing goals. Some of the things are just general but still it’s very convenient to have the nice set tools to perform the actions that you do on a regular basis.
200 Creative Funny Advertisements
30 Hilarious Print Advertisements
In today’s world of interactive web-based marketing, viral campaigns and high production television commercials, the print ad remains one very powerful and effective means for advertisers to reach their audience.
Jquery Plugin : 6 Cool Jquery Color Pickers
Jquery Color Pickers - If you are looking for jquery color pickers,these might help you out.
Color Picker - jQuery plugin
A simple component to select color in the same way you select color in Adobe Photoshop
Design Inspiration : Amazing Portfolio Designs
50 Fresh Portfolio Websites for Your Inspiration
Creating personal portfolio website is probably the most challenging task for designers as it should reveal the talent and some special unique style of its author. Beautiful portfolio is like a good setting – it makes design works sparkle and grabs visitors’ attention immediately.