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Create an Wooden Background Website Layout in Photoshop

In this post we will show you how to create a website using splatter brush and few cool techniques. You can customize it for a company or own web site.

10 Firefox Addons Every Web Designer Should Know

If you are web designer you absolutely use firefox because of Firefox has some cool add-ons which make the job of website designers much easier and fast.

31 Stunning Black And White Photographs

The world of photograhy is a world of passion which touches many hearts. This compilation consists of black and white pictures divided into categories.

50+ Free Fonts Collection for Web Designers and Logo Artists

Fonts should speak itself about the product. So in this article you can find some excellent font collection for logo and web designing.

How to Convert a WordPress Blog into WordPress MU

WordPress is one of the best and very popular blogging platforms which is not only free but also released as a open source project.

10 Tips For Becoming A More Efficient Web Designer

This article provides ten tips and techniques that you can use to become a more efficient and productive web designer.

Free Social Network Icons from IconShock

IconShock has designed Social Network icon-set exclusively for Smashing Share readers. The IconShock – icon sets are awesome and free to use for both your personal and commercial projects.

Learn how to create a clean busines layout

Learn how to create a clean business layout with this step by step tutorial.

50 Inspiring Sites Using Red As Their Main Color

I like the red colour a lot (makes me think of Dracula). And we already know that the web is full of great examples of web designs (using red or not) to get some inspiration from [..]

Design Envy : Make it Work For You!

It’s natural, it happens to the best of us. And it is certainly nothing to be ashamed of.

Whats the Best way to Promote your Latest Article?

There are several ways in which to achieve this, and I hope to discuss two of the easiest and simple in which to setup and carry out.

21 Wonderful Logos for your Daily Dose of Inspiration

The probably most important thing of a Brand is the Logo, It gives the Costumer/viewer a Images to the Brand Name. Even Business owners now how important the logo is for their Brand….

How to Find the Best Keywords and Ideas for Your Articles

Today, in this article we will show you how to find best SEO keywords the easy way. The next 5 tools are in the top of my keywords generators.

How to Create Perfect Radial Shapes in Illustrator

In this tutorial, It will walk you through the creation process on how to effectively recreate some perfect radial shapes.

How To Create A Retro Style Text Effect Using Illustrator

In this tutorial It explains how to easily create a 3d text and merge it into a retro-style scene. We will use Illustrator for the text,

Ten Dirty Secrets of Web Hosting Services

When looking for a web hosting service, you should be careful as there are a lot of things they may try to hide from you.

Proportion: Definition and Gallery

Proportion (or scale) refers to the relative size and scale of the various elements in a design. In essence, this takes design elements and contrasts their sizes greatly for emphasis.

Eight Greatest Things About Open Source

Linux Environment: This is a given, granted, but no one can exclude the brainchild of Linus Torvalds when talking about open source. What was begun as a learning experience…

What You Should NEVER do With Your Web Hosting Account

t should go without saying that one of the biggest data protection “faux-pas” is keeping your critical data backups on-site after they’ve been copied. In the event of theft, flooding..

50+ Creative Business Card Designs

Do you need the creative Business for your Business? We assembled Fresh collection stimulate your creative juices for your own beautiful business.

50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs

This 50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs are especially compiled for logo designers who are momentarily out of ideas.

The Guide To Landing A Graphic Design Job

The first question in this new series tackles the dilemma of finding a job as a Graphic Designer without much actual design experience.

35 Ultimate Useful Android Applications

Andriod (Google mobile operating system) market is growing day by day as this OS giving lot of user friendly applications, some of those listing today as our visitors and readers demand. Android on..

Golden Fish – Free Illustration

If your website is about pets or fishes, feel free to download this illustration. Not only it’s well done but also free to use.

Codeigniter shopping cart v1.1 Part 15: contact page and sending email message

Contact page allows visitors to send a message through a form. It has a reCaptcha in order to avoid spam. I will cover the contact page and sending email message to an administrator in this article.

Quote Portal for iPhone is The Epitome of Simplicity and Brilliance

Quote Portal has one of the nicest interfaces I have ever seen on an iPhone app. The concept is completely basic, yet the UI is so good, it transforms this app into a keeper. So what does the app do?

Coffee Shop Posters: 17 Creative Design Examples

Coffee shop posters can set the mood, provoke discussion, wake creativity, and express the shop’s unique identity and style.

Photography By Warwick Saint

Warwick Saint was born in South Africa in 1972. With a Creative dad and a Model mom, it was not surprising Warwick Saint was to become a photographer.

Over 500 Beautiful Frames

Here are over 500 Beautiful Frames for you. These frames can be used for making different Wish cards. All Frames are Zipped in a file, some of these are inserted directly so you can view these.

3 Best Solutions to make your own custom Linux

Linux is fun so much fun. It gives you awesome multidimensional opportunities to experiment. Its not just bunch of distros with colorful desktop environments.

15 Gothic Fonts for Designers

This is the seventh post of our awesome fonts series. Last time we posted a collection of free grunge fonts now in this post you will find 15 Gothic Fonts for Designers.

Over 800 Beautiful Backgrounds

I’ve collected a large number of Beautiful Backgrounds. You can use these backgrounds as your Website Bg. All backgrounds are present in a ZIP file, preview also available.

22 Fresh Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop for 2010

I have compiled a list of 22 of the latest web design tutorials released in 2010.

Top 3 Internal link building Tactics

Internal link building plays a crucial role in ensuring that all the relevant pages of your website gets crawled by the search engines.

Showcase Of Web Design In Ukraine

Here is a showcase of web design agencies and the latest trends in web design of Ukraine.

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