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Daniel Collins
Web Design Tutorials : The Ultimate Guide to Web Design
I.The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
The principles of Web design are the same as the principles for design in general. With these principles you can create Web pages that are put together in an effective and aesthetic way. If you learn the principles of design, you'll have Web pages that look better and work towards their goals in a clear and efficient way. These articles and links will help you learn the principles of Web design.10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
Logo Evolution: 50 Awesome Examples Of Logo Redesign
Logo Evolution - This blog post features 50 successful logo redesigns, as shown on the brand new website, and highlights specific rationale I agree with.
Google
30 Beautiful Digital Nature Photography
Most great designers take their inspiration from the world around them. The natural world can often provide better inspiration for us than all of the graphic blogs put together.
Today, lets take a look at 30 amazingly powerful and beautiful natural photography to find inspiration for our next project.
Hanh Huynh
Awesome 3D Concept Car Designs
Falcon Concept Car
Awesome 3D Concept Car Designs - Falcon is an innovative concept both "unprecedented'' and dynamic suggesting an elegant synthesis between two worlds - that a car by its front aspect and double rotatable jet propelled engines by its rear aspect. These engines are giving a lot of extra power when you do race, and they push up the rear of vehicle to reach the vertical position for the city mode then they turn off and the vehicle works like a big SEGWAY for using less space on ground to enlarge the parking place for people.
Surreal Art : 27 Extraordinary Surreal Illustrations of Women
Art is a thing that attracts almost every individual.Today we would like to share with you 27 extraordinary surreal illustrations.
Lya
20 Shocking CSS3 Techniques
CSS3 starbursts
I was recently experimenting with the new CSS3 rotation property and it occurred to me that I could use this to create image-free starbursts. All I needed was a series of nested block-level elements each rotated by a slightly different amount. The rotation would distribute the box corners around the circumference of the star.
200+ Cool Creative & Unbelievable Lego Arts
35 Lego Mega Constructions You (Probably) Haven’t Seen Before
It’s pretty amazing how piles of colorful plastic bricks can build wonders when they are attached together. Lego was first introduced by Lego Group in 1949 and have been everyone’s favorite ever since. 
20 Free Big & Bold Fonts For Professional Design
20 Free Big & Bold Fonts For Professional Design - Typography is one of the most important key aspects of any web design project. It’s very essential for designers to have a good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave.
Code Free Font
Typography Guide : The Complete Manual of Typography
A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design
Typography is an integral part of design. Think of all the different uses of typography on the web, from large headlines and bold blocks of text to smaller-sized text in body copy, and you’ll soon realize that not only is it a crucial part of a web design, but that it’s a pure combination of art and science.
23 Dark & Mysterious Fantasy Wallpapers
Fantasy Wallpaper - Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Many works within the genre take place on fictional planes or planets where magic is common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (which are subgenres of speculative fiction).
The Bridge
300+ Funny And Creative Food Photos
Creative and Humorous Food Photography
Funny Creative Food Photos - This is a collection of creative and very funny photography with Food and drinks. These photographers have used their amazing talent in giving these food items shapes and situations to make it humorous. Some of them are specially great like marshmallows and oranges ones. Click on images to go to original Sources.Hope you enjoy them :)
92 Useful Texture Packs
Freebie: 25+ Rare Cloth Texture pack
Useful Texture Packs - This freebie consists of 25+ very rare and random cloth textures. This texture pack consists of checked, linen, wool, cotton, suit, bed spread, towel, bed sheet and lots other different kinds of cloth texture packs which will be very useful in graphic and more importantly in web designing. You can use these textures freely for personal use and not for commercial purposes.
Creative Numerical & Punctuation Logo Designs : One Hundred+ Examples
34 Excellent Punctuation Inspired Logo Designs
Numerical & Punctuation Logo Designs - We use punctuation everyday when writing articles, blog posts and emails. We’re all aware that using the wrong punctuation can completely change the meaning of a sentence or even a whole document. So, where else do people use punctuation? In logo design of course!
12 Ridiculous Marvel Disney Mashups Art
Marvel Disney Mashups Art - Disney bought Marvel Industries for $4 billion, merging the comic empire with the cartoon powerhouse. In response, the blogosphere came together and produced dozens of mashups of Disney and Marvel characters, ranging from the Spider-Mouse, The Incredible Donald Dulk to a Mickey Mouse-Venom symbiote.
Marvel Disney
Design News #13 : Photo Manipulation
Amazing Photo Manipulation Art To Blow Your Mind Away
Photo Manipulation - Designers are always found new ways to show their creativity in new techniques and trends. Photo manipulation is an art that requires a lot of efforts and professionalism. Those designer converted its ideas and remarks on their photo manipulation art.
180 Creative Website Designs Inspired by Nature
30 Beautiful Web Designs Inspired by Nature
Incorporating nature-inspired elements in web layouts is a popular design trend. By making use of organic parts of nature such as trees, leaves, the sun, the sky, and fauna, you can give your designs a more realistic and down-to-earth look and feel.In this collection, you’ll find some of the best web designs that take inspiration from nature.
Inspiration : Sports Websites
Showcase Of Beautiful Sports Websites
Sports Websites - We recently showcased beautiful websites from the fashion industry, and in response to reader requests, we’ll do the same thing here for sports websites. This article showcases the most beautiful website designs from the North American sports industry, including ones for news, teams and leagues, sports apparel and more.
400 Useful Icon Sets (2010) for Bloggers Designers & Developers
40 Fresh New High Quality Icon Sets Created In 2010
Useful Icon Sets (2010) For Web Designers - It’s easy to find good icons sets, but to find fresh new high quality sets can be a tough challenge therefore within this post we have collected 40 high quality fresh icon sets which where all created within this year 2010 for everyone to enjoy.
230 Excellent Uses of Motion Blur in Digital Photography
15 Stunning Images Using Blur to Portray Movement
Motion Blur in Digital Photography - The following shots are all of moving subjects where the photographer has made the choice to set their camera to capture the movement as blur rather than freezing it. This is in all cases by choosing (or letting the camera choose) a ’slow’ shutter speed (although by slow you’ll see that the speeds (noted under each image) vary from anything from 1/30 second to up to 40 minutes).
70+ Hidden Secrets Of Logo Designs
25 Digital Logos with hidden numbers – Fun with figures!!
Hidden Secrets Of Logo Designs - Do you really need to be good with numbers in order to become a creative logo designer? Strange question…uh?? You must be thinking “What in the world has math got to do with logo designing?” Well… turns out it does! Aside from the fact that designers need to calculate their expenses, the use of digits is eminent in carving out a logo design embedded with a hidden message.Although, math has never been my area of interest since schooldays but after having witnessed several hidden logos created using digits, I now realize the importance of numbers. One cannot imagine the creative ways in which digits can be twisted and turned into a clever logo design. Sometimes, in the first look we cannot locate a numerical used within a logo design and on a second look you are amazed with this imaginative approach.
101 Free Beautiful Graffiti Fonts
23 Wild Style Free Graffiti Fonts for your Designs
Graffiti fonts and one of the most sought after free fonts online. Graffiti fonts are well crafted with unique handwriting style transformed into digital fonts. Graffiti font alphabet defines urban lifestyle in a typographic settings. If you like any of these free graffiti fonts useful to your design please visit the font sites to download the fonts.
iPhone App Website Design : Showcase & Resources
iPhone App Website Design : Showcase & Resources - Today with the Appstore more and more application presentation websites have an Apple style and this style is now a real trend. Among the aspects that are found most often - a Fresh and Clean design, the light gray color with a metal aspect, the rounded corner buttons, the letterpress effect and large image to present the products.
Tapplox
Behind the Scenes Of 47 Logo Design Processes
The Logo Design Process for Ultimate Potential
Logo Design Processes - When one creates a logo, they should follow a logo design process to ensure that the final design suits the needs of the clients (not their wants)… I have written about the logo design process of professional logo designers in full on my site however here is the usual logo design process in short
103+ Trendy T-Shirt Website Designs
The Big Showcase Of Online T-Shirt Stores
T-Shirt Website Design - T-shirts, as you’ll surely agree, play a big part in the design world. Sometimes, we designers don’t get the kinds of projects we want, and so we are left to apply our creativity in some other way, many of us opting to submit graphics in t-shirt competitions or printing them ourselves and selling them through shopping cart systems such as BigCartel. In this post, we bring you a showcase of online t-shirt store Web designs, all of which serves as a great source of inspiration for Web designers, graphic designers and even illustrators.
Design News #12 : World Cup 2010 Fever
2010 World Cup – The Ultimate Graphic and Data Resources Guide
The World Cup is coming!! One of the world’s biggest sports events, matched only by the Olympics, promises to deliver a whole month of fun for all soccer fans.Being so important, it’s pretty natural you’ll find a lot of articles, comments, blog posts and, of course, data-visualization goodies on this matter. Infographics, editorial illustrations, interactive charts and maps, all of them deliver fun and interesting way of understanding and following this great event, so, today I leave you here with a (too long?) round-up of those awesome resources – and may the best team win!
CSS3 3D Tutorials & Demos
Animated wicked CSS3 3d bar chart
Do you remember the Wicked CSS3 3d bar chart that I placed online a couple of weeks ago? Paul Irish left a comment, requesting for an example with transitions. My reply was that I was already working on that, and today I'm proud to release the animated wicked CSS3 3d bar chart.The principle is the same as the previous version: Create a beautiful 3d bar chart. But this time, we don't create a "stacked" one (since animation would be hard), but several bars placed under each other. When hovering, the animation shows and the bar will grow to the appropriate size.
138 Beautiful Fashion Web Designs
35 Inspirational Fashion Website Designs
Beautiful Fashion Web Design - Appearance is crucial for obvious reasons in the fashion industry. With that in mind, many fashion e-commerce sites can be an excellent source of design inspiration.Attractive design and photography can make the products more appealing to visitors and increase sales.There are a lot of different design styles and approaches that are used by online fashion shops, but generally photography and product/model images play a large role.Sometimes the design and layout is minimal, allowing for more empasis on the products. Others feature huge photos as the primary focal point of the page.
109+ Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials Roundup
30 Innovative & Creative Text Effect Tutorials
Text effects are used in almost everything we see: whether it a simple inner or drop shadow, a subtle gradient, or a full-blown illustrated header. Below we have a selection of thirty great tutorials from across the design community, ready for you to follow and pick up tons of new techniques. You’ll be a text-effect master before we can say the word “go!“.
CSS Tutorials For Dealing With Background
How To: Resizeable Background Image
CSS Tutorials For Dealing With Background - Is there a way to make a background image resizeable? As in, fill the background of a web page edge-to-edge with an image, no matter the size of the browser window. Also, have it resize larger or smaller as the browser window changes. Also, make sure it retains its ratio (doesn’t stretch weird). Also, doesn’t cause scrollbars, just cuts off vertically if it needs to. Also, comes in on the page as an inline img tag.
190+ Gorgeous Photographer Portfolio Website Designs
37 Creative Photography Portfolios
Photographer Portfolio Website Design - Photography is an excellent source of inspiration. But presentation matters. That's why in no less creative way choose photography artists to showcase their works then take them. And their online photography portfolios become just as inspiring as their images.Below is the collection of 37 creative online photography portfolios of various artists from around the world. For further inspirations, feel free to explore the websites following the links given.
Design News #11 : iPhone 4
iPhone 4: The Definitive Guide
We already showed you the new iPhone from every angle, inside and out. Today, Steve Jobs re-revealed it, telling us about the remaining details. Here's the exhaustive guide to all the features of the new iPhone 4.
Animal Photography : Giant Humpback Whale
Famous for their acrobatic leaps and haunting songs, these whales are slowly revealing the mysteries of their underwater behavior.
Humpback Whale, Chatham Strait
250+ Surprising Photoshop Disasters
The Worst Photoshop Disasters of the Decade
I can tell that Photoshop was the almighty software of the decade... but along with all the guys that have mastered the tool, there are also the ones that didn't... and just got to amuse us. Thank God for them!
272 Yellow & Orange Website Designs
50 Yellow Web Designs to Inspire You
Yellow & Orange Website Design - Color is an important aspect of web design. Good web designers choose color carefully to serve a purpose. Sometimes that purpose is to be bold and get people’s attention, and yellow happens to be an excellent “attention getting” color. Yellow is a high energy color that can evoke mental activity and bring on cheerful thoughts.
A Showcase Of Real Estate Websites
30 Beautiful Real Estate Websites
Real estate is a valuable and often expensive purchase. Copious research is done by home buyers before venturing out to acquire real estate. In this day and age, gathering information about a property is typically done online, and an effective and captivating website design can make or break a home sale.In this showcase, we’ll explore some great designs of real estate websites. We’ll also discuss some commonalities between them to tease out current trends in real estate websites.
42 Jquery Form Tutorials & Plugins
Submit A Form Without Page Refresh using jQuery
Previously on NETTUTS, Philo showed how you can use jQuery to add form validation to wordpress comments that works without any page reload. Another great way of utlizing jQuery to enhance user experience is to not just validate, but to submit your form entirely without a page refresh. In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to do just that — submit a contact form that sends an email, without page refresh using jQuery! (The actual email is sent with a php script that processes in the background). Let’s get started.
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