13 Very Useful jQuery Modal Plugins

In today’s collection, we are presenting for you 13 jQuery Modal plugins. Many websites are using jQuery currently and it is important that one should know what jQuery plugins are available there in order to stay up to date with the latest web design trends. With the help of jQuery plugins, one can keep his… Continue reading 13 Very Useful jQuery Modal Plugins

Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: Practical Tips for Securing Your Site

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress In this series, we’re taking a look at how to secure our WordPress projects from XSS – or cross-site scripting. In the first article in the series, we defined what cross-site scripting actually is, understanding how it works, and why it’s… Continue reading Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: Practical Tips for Securing Your Site

How to Create This Mystical Scene and Add Makeup to a Girl in Photoshop

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Model – Mariaamanda Stones – Compot-stock Mountains – Resurgere Mountains2 – Kuoma-stock Forest – Riktorsashen Sky – Frozenstarro Butterfly – Madetounique Hair – Trisste-brushes Step 1 – Open a New File Go to File – New (Ctrl+N). Then change the resolution of the new file to Width 2500 pixels… Continue reading How to Create This Mystical Scene and Add Makeup to a Girl in Photoshop

E-commerce Website Navigation: 14 Essential Tips

Navigation on site plays a significant function as it assists and shows path to Web surfer to continue surfing for desired products or services on a website rather than leaving the site. It is very frustrating, if users fail to locate what they are searching for, then they are likely to bounce off the website.… Continue reading E-commerce Website Navigation: 14 Essential Tips

35 Beautiful Examples of Text-Based type Logos

Typography is an art of playing with alphabets in a beautiful way. There are several typographers out there who create interesting typographic pieces of art for you in the form of posters and logos. Doing typography in logos or making typographic logos isnot an easy task, which infact require special designing skills and lots of… Continue reading 35 Beautiful Examples of Text-Based type Logos

Studying User Experience Trends in Website Layouts

As a web designer you always want to stay on top of the latest ideologies. User experience design is the process of building around what the user needs to do. You have to consider specific reasons for why users are coming to your website in the first place. And the goal is to build a… Continue reading Studying User Experience Trends in Website Layouts

Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration

Designing a map does not seem like something very original, but why should maps have to be boring? Whether it’s a town map, a real or imaginary country map, whether it is functional, or simply decorative, there is plenty of room for fun and creativity in this field. Fortunately some great designers out there have… Continue reading Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration

Designer Spotlight: John Thai

Every week we are discovering new, awesome, design stars and showcasing them right here. The spotlight may hit on a logo designer, UI designer, videographers, web or graphic designer—we’re bringing you a new talent. These bad ass designers bring their “A” game time and time again and we hope that you will find this as… Continue reading Designer Spotlight: John Thai

Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: What Is XSS?

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress One of the most exciting aspects of modern web development is the potential that comes with building applications specifically for web browsers (or to run “in the cloud.”) Originally, Java was meant to be the “write-once, run-anywhere” solution, but it appears… Continue reading Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: What Is XSS?

34 Flat Website Layouts for Design Inspiration

The flat metro-style design trend has only been active within the community for a couple of years. The original designs started with Microsoft and have grown in complexity ever since. Specifically I have noticed a lot of designers working with flat CSS3 buttons, links, icons, and other UI features. I want to dedicate this showcase… Continue reading 34 Flat Website Layouts for Design Inspiration

How to Create an Andy Warhol Inspired Pop Art Portrait in Illustrator

Andy Warhol‘s screen print series of Marilyn Monroe portraits were probably the main reason I was interested in creating vector art. He’s one of my all time favorite artists so creating a set of portraits inspired by his mass produced art was bound to happen at some point! In today’s tutorial I’m going to show… Continue reading How to Create an Andy Warhol Inspired Pop Art Portrait in Illustrator

The Future of Minimalist Web Design

Minimalism is the hype not just on posters and billboards but in the web as well. More and more people are finally coming to realize that “less is more”. In retrospect, the popularity of minimalist design had something to do with the onset popularity of internet capable devices. When Apple mashed a music player, phone,… Continue reading The Future of Minimalist Web Design

36 Clever Illustration Graphics for Design Inspiration

Illustrators and digital artists are not often caught in website design. But there are so many creative logos featuring a cute vector animal or cartoon figure. These designs can breathe life into a company and generate a very unique branding effect. That is why I have put together a series of brand new illustrations for… Continue reading 36 Clever Illustration Graphics for Design Inspiration

20 Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs

There are several non-profit websites out there over the web. These websites provide the information and the service at no cost. They are run on the basis of social service or the social awareness. So, for your information, here we’ve collected some examples of eye-catching web designs. Hope you will find these non-profit websites inspiration… Continue reading 20 Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs

Freebie Release: 10 Business Card Templates (PSD)

Until the business card finds a better, faster, more convenient replacement, it serves as the most secure connection one can make with another in the offline world of business. By putting all your contact and business information into one handy 3.5 by 2 inch piece of paper, this is the best reminder you can leave… Continue reading Freebie Release: 10 Business Card Templates (PSD)

12 Handy Tools For Invoicing and Time Tracking

Every service-related business – or freelancer – needs an invoicing tool to send invoices to their client. It should be simple to use yet produce professional enough invoices that will give a positive impression to your clients and hopefully make getting paid simpler. If you search the internet, you will come across many invoicing tools… Continue reading 12 Handy Tools For Invoicing and Time Tracking

Turn Day into Night in Photoshop

Turn day into night! Use the power of Adjustment Layers and Blending Options to turn a bright daytime image, into a semi-realistic nighttime image. While these settings may not give you 100% perfect results, you can use the same techniques on your images with a bit of tweaking. Source Files The images that I’m using… Continue reading Turn Day into Night in Photoshop

Freebie: 10 Instagram Photoshop Actions

Instant Hipster Actions Preview These are the first Photoshop actions by SparkleStock and they make your photos look like it was shot with Instagram. This free download gives you access to 10 Photoshop actions. If you’re a SparkleStock member, you get access to all 19 of them! This Photoshop action set creates snapshots so that… Continue reading Freebie: 10 Instagram Photoshop Actions

Windows Apps for Web Developers

When the editor of Nettuts+ requested an article to show Windows developers love by listing popular web development apps, I was all over it. OSX devs get a lot of attention, so it’s good to mix things up a bit. What I want to do is list the development tools that I frequently use as… Continue reading Windows Apps for Web Developers

Weekly Dose Of Inspirations: Typography Art

Hi guys, This is another episode of our weekly inspiration series. In this series we’ll try to bring out the most popular, very unique and highly inspirational works of highly talented artists of our art and design community. The aim behind initiating these roundups is bringing out and showcasing the amazing art created today and… Continue reading Weekly Dose Of Inspirations: Typography Art

25 Web Development Tutorials for Useful Code Snippets

Over the past few years we have published a large set of tutorial focused on web development techniques. Both frontend and backend code samples are always helpful when you are building new projects. And that is reason enough to go back and check out past tutorials for golden nuggets of codes. Check out the gallery… Continue reading 25 Web Development Tutorials for Useful Code Snippets

20 Beautiful Websites in White Background Merging with Attractive Colors

A website stands powerful when its design, colors, fonts are well decorated. To go with white, it’s a better idea if designers can implement some beautiful colors in it. This post is a beautiful collection of 20 Beautiful Websites in White Background Merging with Attractive Colors.   PDD Bluelounge Big Life Gavick Ocean Basket LiquidFolio… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Websites in White Background Merging with Attractive Colors

20 Free Ecommerce WordPress Themes

Free eCommerce WordPress themes have been developed and designed for integration with one or several of the eCommerce plugins developed for WordPress. Some designs have eCommerce functionality integrated into the theme. The main eCommerce plugins developed for WordPress include Jigoshop, Cart66, WP eCommerce and WooCommerce. Although a wide variety of options for an eCommerce platform… Continue reading 20 Free Ecommerce WordPress Themes