6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design

With the periodic changes to Google’s search algorithm, the methods of ranking that might have worked in the past are often abrogated – but that just means you have to find the ones that still provide returns and build on them. Additionally, in the ever-changing expanse of cyberspace, you must take the time to familiarize… Continue reading 6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design

The Siren: One-page blog/magazine design concept

The Siren is a clean and modern one-page template ideal for getting started with a blog/magazine design concept. It consists of 8 main sections (a carousel, latest news blocks, a subscribe form, Instagram feed, etc.) and a bunch of components that you can easily edit and arrange at your own pleasure. Designed and released in… Continue reading The Siren: One-page blog/magazine design concept

12 Freebies & Goodies For Web Designers

  ADVERTISEMENT Another amazing and useful collection is waiting for the web designers. In this round-up we are presenting 16 freebies and goodies which release recently. These wonderful freebies are fully packed with mock-ups, retro poster designs, print and web templates for many reasons or ideas, wonderful and amazing icons and fonts, tons of web UI… Continue reading 12 Freebies & Goodies For Web Designers

Celebrating 100,000 Pinterest followers

This past weekend on May 27, 2017 we achieved a milestone 100,000 followers on Pinterest!! Perhaps! It was the day of my life, when it all began to progress, and I for the very first time came to know about Pinterest and its increasing popularity day by day. Before that it was all, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram,… Continue reading Celebrating 100,000 Pinterest followers

Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou

Every creative needs a good portfolio. Whether you’re focussed on typography or photography, layout or user experience, your portfolio is what defines you professionally. As with most things, the quality of your portfolio is determined by the appropriateness of the tools you use. All too often we see great work, presented poorly, because the designer… Continue reading Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou

Build Scalable Newsfeeds & Activity Steams with Stream

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Stream is the API for scalable feeds for you to build scalable newsfeeds & activity streams. Whether you want to build a feed like Twitter, Instagram, Spotify or Facebook’s we have you covered. Stream handles the storage technology for the feed and you keep full control over the user… Continue reading Build Scalable Newsfeeds & Activity Steams with Stream

How to Create a Gradient Icon Inspired by Instagram in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating Rebrand your logo in style with this quick tutorial on creating a gradient icon in Adobe Illustrator CC. We’ll build our icon design from scratch with quick and simple shapes and pair gradients and effects from the Appearance panel to complete our on-trend design.  Alternatively, you may wish to use a… Continue reading How to Create a Gradient Icon Inspired by Instagram in Adobe Illustrator

13 Free And Fresh Icons In PSD For Web Designers

  ADVERTISEMENT It is a big task to find out high quality PSD files that you can use in your work, but when you succeeded in finding out your desired PSD files, it is nothing short of a blessing. Keeping this in mind, we thought to compile a useful collection of high quality PSD files, and… Continue reading 13 Free And Fresh Icons In PSD For Web Designers

How to Achieve 5 Common Looks in Photoshop

How do I achieve this look? That’s the question that gets asked all the time. In this post, you’ll learn 5 common effects and how to create them in easy steps. Believe me – they’re incredibly easy and do not require a bunch of layers. PrevNext 1. Matte/Faded/Raised Blacks This simple effect with many names is used… Continue reading How to Achieve 5 Common Looks in Photoshop

Create Amazing Videos in Your Browser with Showbox

Posted · Category: License Free, Video Showbox enables anybody to create studio-quality video content. Showbox is a cloud-based solution that transforms video creation into a simple, scalable process that gives you beautiful results you couldn’t achieve beforehand. We tried to cover everything needed to create a video, in a way that allows you to go… Continue reading Create Amazing Videos in Your Browser with Showbox

11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic

If you want to create some outstanding and attractive marketing magic then you should try this collection. In this post, we are presenting top 11 free tools which help you to make marketing magic. In this post all these tools are free and very useful. When you use these tools in your projects it makes… Continue reading 11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic

Integrate Images from Your Instagram Feed to Your WordPress Site

Instagram apps and web platforms for photo and video sharing. If you have a WordPress site, you might be wondering how you can embed Instagram photo galleries and integrate images to your blog. To help users integrate their photos to their blogs and websites, Instagram has released a public Application Programming Interface (API). It is… Continue reading Integrate Images from Your Instagram Feed to Your WordPress Site

Designing a Simple Instagram Based Portfolio in Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll guide you through the process of creating a simple and clean Instagram-based portfolio. We’ll use some striking imagery, a clean color palette and smooth typefaces. We’ll start off by creating a web version and then I’ll show you how to quickly adapt it for mobile view. Tutorial… Continue reading Designing a Simple Instagram Based Portfolio in Photoshop

Design Inspiration: A Look Into iOS7 Icon Designs

Love it or hate it, the initial iOS7 release is out and causing quite the stir. Regardless of opinions relating to the design, functionality and direction of iOS7 there is some rather eye catching iOS7 icon design work going on behind the scenes. In this little inspiration roundup I wanted to showcase some of the… Continue reading Design Inspiration: A Look Into iOS7 Icon Designs

25+ must-have Photoshop actions for your toolkit

No matter your area of expertise, chances are you’ve worked with photographs. Web and print designers alike are no strangers to the magnificence that can be captured in photos. It’s what we build our designs on top of and with, whether they’re the focus or just a background piece. And as the time passes and… Continue reading 25+ must-have Photoshop actions for your toolkit

Infographic: Take Amazing Photos From Your Phone

Even professional photographers need to take a course in camera phone photography, because it varies somewhat from traditional cameras. In order to get the most out of your mobile device, you have to trick it into performing like a supped-out $ 3,500 Nikon. This infographic includes professional tips, expert advice, and interesting examples of what… Continue reading Infographic: Take Amazing Photos From Your Phone

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

Make a Web App with Instagram-like Filters

In this tutorial, we are going to make a simple web app that allows you to drag a photo from your computer into the browser window, and apply instagram-like filters on it. For this purpose we are going to use a number of JavaScript libraries and plugins: Caman.js – this is a powerful canvas manipulation… Continue reading Make a Web App with Instagram-like Filters

jQuery Slider Shock: The Most Complete Slider

Hi everyone. We are proud to present our latest product : jQuery Slider Shock. A fully responsive slider and the most complete over the web right now. Available for you to download it as a jQuery code to use it wherever you need, or as a plugin for the most used CMS: WordPress. We wanted to make… Continue reading jQuery Slider Shock: The Most Complete Slider

Spectragram – An Easy jQuery Plugin for Instagram API

Spectragram is an easy jQuery plugin for Instagram API to fetch and display user, popular or tags photo feeds inside your web application or site. You can get get the most recent media published by a user, the most popular media at the moment, or recently tagged media from Instagram API. You can display the… Continue reading Spectragram – An Easy jQuery Plugin for Instagram API