Month: July 2013

Free 12 Flat SEO icons

Free 12 Flat SEO icons, this set of 12 flat SEO icons is perfect for adding a light-hearted and playful tone to sites. The flat aesthetic is set off beautifully by the modern color palette and the addition of the long shadow technique is a sophisticated touch. Playful and approachable, the icons are useful for… Continue reading Free 12 Flat SEO icons

15+ Creative WordPress Themes For Photographers Released June 2013

In this article, we are going to show you more than 15 new WordPress themes for photographers that were released in June 2013. I have written about fresh WordPress themes earlier and in this post I decided to focus on theme designs for photography websites. If you are a photographer, artist or a creative person… Continue reading 15+ Creative WordPress Themes For Photographers Released June 2013

How to Turn an Ordinary Landscape into a Dramatic Moonscape

Step 1 – Preparing Sky Download all the images listed as Tutorial Resources. Create a new document in Photoshop and drag a photo of “sky 1″ into it. Place it in the top left corner and name in LEFT SKY. Note: I really recommend to name all the layers in your photo manipulations. It makes… Continue reading How to Turn an Ordinary Landscape into a Dramatic Moonscape

10+ Mobile Friendly Responsive jQuery Slider Plugins

One of the hottest trends in the web design space, started by the popularity of mobile devices, is design of websites with responsive layouts. Indeed, if you are planning to build a website, it is an advantage, if not a must, that you go for a template design for your web page that can conveniently be viewed by mobile internet users whose number is increasing by leaps and bounds.

The Web Designer’s Cheat Sheet

When working on a new site, most web designers are no stranger to all-nighters, copious amounts of coffee and even repetitive strain injury (ouch!). No surprise then that the best coders are lazy coders that are always looking for anything that makes coding quicker, less tedious and more fun. To make your life easier, we… Continue reading The Web Designer’s Cheat Sheet

12 Free iPhone Apps Entrepreneurs Should Use

With this collection, we want to share some amazing and extremely handy apps for entrepreneurs that they can use from their iPhones. Everybody believes that an entrepreneur organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it and he must have to create an impact with a budget as low as possible. Using different applications… Continue reading 12 Free iPhone Apps Entrepreneurs Should Use

Create a Set of “Almost Flat” Modern Icons in Adobe Illustrator

With this tutorial I would like to show you a few tricks on creating clean lines and edges when working with the flat design trend, in Adobe Illustrator. Simple layered styles and reusing Graphic Styles to help your workflow are most efficient, so you should be able to create a set of matching icons in… Continue reading Create a Set of “Almost Flat” Modern Icons in Adobe Illustrator

30+ Latest Free Flat Icon Sets For Your Use

In this post I’ve gathered a collection of 30+ free flat icon sets for your use. All are free to use.   Ultimate Social Icon Set 24 Flat Icons (PSD) Flat File Icons (PSD) 200 Handcrafted Micro Icons (PSD) 80 Mini Icons (PSD + Icon Font) Brightmix Mini icon set Black ToolBar Icons Helveticons Social… Continue reading 30+ Latest Free Flat Icon Sets For Your Use

10 Rules for Choosing the Perfect Typeface

The typeface you choose for your next layout or logo design could either make it or break it. No pressure! With so many choices, where does one begin?! There is no right or wrong answer to the question, “Which typeface should I use?” However, there are a few guidelines that will help you make an… Continue reading 10 Rules for Choosing the Perfect Typeface

Long Shadow in Flat Design: 50 Beautiful Examples

Long shadow a new trend after the flat design. The trend is impacting UI elements and icons the strongest, and designers also start using into other parts of website design and mobile user interface. Long shadow design has been mostly used in icons and logos. Shadows live within the element canvas and often extend outside an… Continue reading Long Shadow in Flat Design: 50 Beautiful Examples

Learn Something You Didn’t Know Today

I’ve been working with print media for a long time. Understand that I’m not a designer, but as an editor who’s worked closely with designers in the past, I have a decent working knowledge of using InDesign — enough to get me in trouble, but not enough to layout a magazine. The other day, I… Continue reading Learn Something You Didn’t Know Today

Excellent Collection Of Free And Useful Photoshop CS6 Tutorials

Here, we have gathered some excellent tutorials on how to excel the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS6. Since the release of Photoshop CS6, it has been a hot topic of debate among designers as it boasts loads of interactive and appealing features that empower Photoshop to a great extent.Photoshop CS6 comes with impressive features… Continue reading Excellent Collection Of Free And Useful Photoshop CS6 Tutorials

Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

Typography has become a hot topic, often used referring illustrative typography or custom lettering. At its core, however, typography is simply the skill of setting type. Several centuries ago, this meant composing every paragraph by hand, character by character, before locking it into a form and printing it on a letterpress machine. For much of… Continue reading Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

Creative and Engaging 404 Error Pages

If you find yourself taking a wrong turn on a website, it is very pleasant to be confronted with a creative 404 error page rather than just boring text that can frustrate you and cause you to move away from the site altogether. A creative error page is more likely to engage you and keep… Continue reading Creative and Engaging 404 Error Pages

How to Make a Resume

In today’s fast paced corporate life, every individual is striving to climb higher and higher on the success ladder. New opportunities arise and are short in duration; so every contestant should be on their toes to capitalize on them. Having said that, it is of utmost importance for every professional to have a perfectly constructed… Continue reading How to Make a Resume

The best Design related articles of the month

A lot of professionals have created in the latest years a strong bond with the web to the point of almost total dependence; designers, programmers, writers, marketers, photographers, illustrators and much more fit in this. We, together, have created a sort of ecosystem by making contributions everyday. Call it design tips, plugins, PSD freebies, tutorials,… Continue reading The best Design related articles of the month

40 Stunning Green-Colored Web Design Layouts

The color green often imparts a sense of nature. The beauty of trees, shrubs, flowers, and other natural plants we can find on this Earth. But money can also symbolize other things to people such as money, health, and communication. The use of green is so widespread over so many various hues that it could… Continue reading 40 Stunning Green-Colored Web Design Layouts

Adobe Muse: Let’s Build a Website Without Writing Code

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Introduction to Adobe Muse Muse is one of Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications aimed at building for the web. It specifically caters for designers with a print background, or those who simply don’t have experience in coding. Muse’s visual interface and tools allow users to design… Continue reading Adobe Muse: Let’s Build a Website Without Writing Code

iOS7 GUI: Fantastic set with more than a thousand elements

The elements that are part of this fantastic GUI are inspired in the new style of iOS7 in its beta version, but with a slight general improvement to app icons and the interface in general. There are more than 1000 of them, fully editable retina ready PSD covering almost everything (if not everything) you could… Continue reading iOS7 GUI: Fantastic set with more than a thousand elements

New Features of Edge Reflow CC

Edge Reflow application is used by web designers to create a native web surface with CSS design and layout features in a familiar and intuitive way. Edge Reflow helps designers to create resizable layouts that simulate the look and feel of both desktop and mobile devices; control media query breakpoints in design for custom device sizes, add typography to their projects using the integrated Edge Web Fonts, and preview their work on desktops as well as mobile devices using the integrated Edge Inspect plug-in. You can extract CSS code and hand off to developers with confidence that your design vision will remain uncompromised throughout development.

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