Month: April 2013

45 Informative And Extremely Creative Infographics

In this collection, we are presenting 45 extremely creative Infographics for you so that you can see how brilliantly you can also present your own Infographic designs. Infographics is the most preferred way to effectively and successfully communicate statistics and information with the readers in a more meaningful and readable way. The way Infographics have… Continue reading 45 Informative And Extremely Creative Infographics

Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning

Web Design Workshop is our regular community project where we ask readers to submit their work for your friendly, constructive criticism. It’s the perfect way to learn, offer opinions and have your own work critiqued! This week, something you may have already seen if you follow Dan Eden..   Rules of Engagement Play nice! We… Continue reading Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning

Best Free WordPress Tutorials for Beginners

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS and blogging platform around, mainly because it is free and it is 100% customizable. WordPress is a dynamic content management system based on MySQL and PHP. With over 25 million websites and blogs powered by this award-winning web software and a continuously expanding community of developers,… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Tutorials for Beginners

A Showcase of Beautifully Designed Websites for Magazines

With sales of print magazines consistently falling year-on-year, many publications have turned to the internet, creating online offerings of their existing titles. This growing trend for online publications has also seen many new titles launch via the internet. However, bringing a magazine to life online is not always an easy job for web designers. Replicating… Continue reading A Showcase of Beautifully Designed Websites for Magazines

Create a Responsive Website Using HTML5 and CSS3 – Video Tutorial

A few weeks ago we released two different introductory articles about HTML5 and CSS3, and I promised you we’d do some cool stuff together in the upcoming months. Well, I have been working hard on this video tutorial and I really hope you enjoy it. In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a… Continue reading Create a Responsive Website Using HTML5 and CSS3 – Video Tutorial

How to Create a Rainbow Colored Portrait From a Stock Image in Illustrator

In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how I created a simple, rainbow colored portrait using a stock image base in Adobe Illustrator. I’ll be adding subtle decoration to the portrait with the help of a Scatter Brush and will be playing with a splash of color to create the rainbow effect. So let’s… Continue reading How to Create a Rainbow Colored Portrait From a Stock Image in Illustrator

Freebie: 8 B&W Film Emulation Photoshop Actions

B&W Film Emulations There are many ways to convert your photos to B&W and these actions simplify the process for you. The action is split into four parts: film emulation, contrast effects, color filter, and film grain. To use these actions, you would run the film emulations first to simulate the B&W films, pick the… Continue reading Freebie: 8 B&W Film Emulation Photoshop Actions

30 New Open Source Plugins and Scripts for Dynamic Websites

Open source code provides a means where developers can quickly build new projects without structuring every feature from the beginning. I specifically follow a lot of jQuery plugins which are built off the ever-popular jQuery library. Since the library is open source, many of the plugins are also released for free using a similar license.… Continue reading 30 New Open Source Plugins and Scripts for Dynamic Websites

25 Free Pixel-Perfect Fonts for 8-Bit Designs

We all know that retro and vintage designs are hot right now. Not to mention the fact that geeks, gamers, nerds, and dorks are taking over the world. From the kids who grew up playing Super Mario Bros. feeling nostalgic for their old school video games, to the currently popular video game Minecraft, to the… Continue reading 25 Free Pixel-Perfect Fonts for 8-Bit Designs

A Useful Collection Of CSS3 Generators

I used to ignore CSS generators because I thought that there isn’t any use for them. This happened before CSS3 when I didn’t need a generator to create something, however with the gaining popularity that CSS3 had, I had to move towards it and start learning it to adapt to the new standards as most… Continue reading A Useful Collection Of CSS3 Generators

15 Useful JQuery Calendar and Date Picker Plugins

With JQuery Calendar and Date Pickers it is quite simple to add cool calendar features to nearly any website. You can directly incorporate these plugins into your website as they only require minor modifications and styling. JQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. Today we are featuring 15… Continue reading 15 Useful JQuery Calendar and Date Picker Plugins

10 top HTML5 resources

The web is a wonderful thing, brimming with resources and tutorials for people wanting to learn HTML5. But, sometimes, too much choice can be confusing, so we’ve picked 10 top online resources that will really help you get to grips with it. 01. HTML5 Rocks HTML5 Rocks. Seriously HTML5 Rocks is an awesome resource for… Continue reading 10 top HTML5 resources

App Showcase with Grid Overlay

Today we will be creating a little app showcase with a neat effect. The idea is to show a mobile device with a screenshot of an app and when clicking on the device, a grid appears, showing some more screenshots. The effect is very subtle: the device moves back and the grid fades in and… Continue reading App Showcase with Grid Overlay

20 Finest Free WordPress eCommerce Themes

WordPress is a very powerful and flexible CMS, you can easily go for it and use for your online store. Online stores got really popular lately thanks to their ease of use. It’s a lot more comfortable to buy things from home, while relaxing on your own sofa. The quality and availability of WordPress eCommerce… Continue reading 20 Finest Free WordPress eCommerce Themes

45 Creative Buttons And Badges Tutorials

For today’s round up, we have gathered 45 tutorials that will let you learn how to create appealing and fine looking buttons and badges for your website. All these tutorials are different from one another but they all make use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. With beautiful and appealing web buttons and badges, the overall… Continue reading 45 Creative Buttons And Badges Tutorials

How to Make the Design of Your Website Attractive to Audiences

Web design is all about making your website look beautiful, attractive, and professional. As it is, web design is vital because it is a representation of a brand, product, or service. The right web design is capable of capturing visitors and converting them to customers. Since web design is what any visitor first notices in… Continue reading How to Make the Design of Your Website Attractive to Audiences

Grunge Minimalist Posters Illustrating Famous Movie Quotes

Making posters related to famous movies is somehow popular these days among designers. There are a lot of them doing it and they are each creating the posters in a certain style. For example, Jay Quann created this series of posters which illustrate famous movie quotes and a significant minimalist image which is relevant for… Continue reading Grunge Minimalist Posters Illustrating Famous Movie Quotes

50 Amazing jQuery Plugins That You Should Start Using Right Now

jQuery has a wonderful community of programmers that create incredible things. However, it may become difficult to sift through everything that is released and find the gems that are absolute must-haves. This is why, in this post, you will find a collection of 50 new jQuery plugins and JavaScript libraries that, when applied with good… Continue reading 50 Amazing jQuery Plugins That You Should Start Using Right Now

Looking for Cool Photoshop Brushes?

If you`re a graphic designer or a web designer and you need to use Adobe Photoshop brushes every day, then you`re probably tired of using the same old standard options. You know better than anyone how competition is nowadays and how hard it is to look for ways to make your projects stand out. Plus,… Continue reading Looking for Cool Photoshop Brushes?

Freebie: 5 Skin Retouching Photoshop Actions

Skin Retouching Actions Preview To retouch skin, simply play an action then paint over the areas that you want to retouch. They’re extremely easy to use and a rough paint will work – you don’t need to be too precise. The skin airbrushing action makes skin look smoother without losing skin details. Here’s a video… Continue reading Freebie: 5 Skin Retouching Photoshop Actions

An Awesome Selection Of The Latest Premium Fonts

A lot of people are paying a lot of attention at colors and design techniques when working on a project for print or web, when the most important aspect of a design is typography. Selecting a font is really important because it portrays messages beyond the words that it writes. The typeface is a subliminal… Continue reading An Awesome Selection Of The Latest Premium Fonts

Magically Turn Your Photoshop Layers Into CSS3 With CSS Hat

Today I’m going to show you a Photoshop plugin which aims to greatly improve your workflow. It’s called CSS Hat and it turns your Photoshop layers directly into valid CSS3. Further Information Download: You can grab CSS Hat from its homepage. Compatibility: CSS Hat is compatible with Photoshop CS4 and upwards, on Mac OS X… Continue reading Magically Turn Your Photoshop Layers Into CSS3 With CSS Hat

How to Create an Amazing Space Battle Scene in Photoshop

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Starry sky – nighthawk101stock Planet – dadrian Spaceship – inadesign-stock Asteroid – mototsume Space brushes – redheadstock Nebula – sxc.hu Galaxy – Photoxpress Step 1 Create a new document and fill it with white. I make the width is a bit larger than the height. Make a new layer… Continue reading How to Create an Amazing Space Battle Scene in Photoshop