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500 Cool websites - Best designed websites

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:44:12 +0000

Each three months we will search for you one of the best designed websites. I would like to share the best design sites with you. Here is a list of over 500 websites hand-picked from Deviantart.

If you consider your site or your portfolio is great you can share with us. Here is your chance to stand out from your competitors and win the recognition you deserve while receiving valuable independent feedback on your development efforts

130 Awesome Truck Advertisements - Great inspiration

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:20:05 +0000

This post showcases 130 awesome truck advertisements. We have tried to include creative, visually appealing and interesting design solutions for your business. Sometimes advertisements is all you need to communicate your ideas effectively. We have searched for you one of the best ideas for truck advertisements.

Best 10 Firefox add-ons for Web Development

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:59:01 +0000

Today i have looked on my google analytics to see which browser is most used. I was sure firefox will be on top, but i don’t believe firefox has over 50%.
Question : Why is better Firefox ?
Answer : Firefox has cool add-ons which make the job of website designers and developers much easier. Here is our list of excellent Firefox add-ons that every web developer and designer should know about.

1. Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

Author | Download

2. Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page

Author | Download

3. IE Tab
Embed Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox

Author | Download

4. NoScript
The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from sites you trust. ( with this add-on you can block Adsense if you don;t want to click on your own ads.

Author | Download

5. Flashblock
Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won’t get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on

Author | Download

6. FlagFox
Displays a country flag in the status bar depicting the location of the current website’s server, and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information

Download

7. Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way web pages look and function.

Author | Download

8. iMacros
Automate Firefox. Record and replay repetitious work. If you love the Firefox web browser, but are tired of repetitive tasks like visiting the same sites every days, filling out forms, and remembering passwords, then iMacros for Firefox is the solution you’ve been dreaming of!

Author | Download

9. FoxyProxy
FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities.

Author | Download

10. FireFTP
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers

Author | Download

Soon we will create tutorials to show you how to be more productive with Firefox add-ons.

Best Photoshop Tutorials for Layouts - June 2008

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:37:41 +0000

Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting photoshop tutorials for layouts. Below you will find the most interesting Photoshop tutorials we have found.

1. Game layout - A very detailed Game layout

2. Portfolio Layout

3. Aqua layout

4. Design Layout Tutorial

5. Warcraft 3 game template

6. Portfolio Layout

7. Photographer Layout

8. Grunge Design Tutorial

9. Vector layout

Top 10 sites with Free Photoshop brushes

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:25:46 +0000

Brushes offer some of Photoshop’s most flexible features. Brushes are used to apply coloured
pixels to an image. They take their colour from the current Foreground Colour swatch. The Colour palette can be used to choose colours in a number of different ways – by using the small gradient strip at the base, the sliders or the Swatch tab

1. Photo-Shop-Brush.com

6. photoshopdecor.com - collection of Photoshop Brushes and Patterns to download

7. freephotoshop.com

8. brushes.500ml.org - original and free Photoshop brushes

9. bashcorpo.dk

10. getbrushes.com

And the list can continue. if you know a good resource for Photoshop brushes please leave a comment, and your link will be included in this post

Great Free RSS Icon Sets and Free social bookmarking icons

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:43:15 +0000

Great list of FREE quality icons. Visual elements on your page can be extremely beneficial for your site. Icons are one of the best way to point user’s attention for a specific sections of your website

They are indispensable, if you want to draw readers’ attention towards something, or want to motivate them to some particular actions, whatsoever.

Please read the disclaimers carefully before using the following icons:

1. Design Freak

2. habrahabr.ru

3. social-bookmark-iconset

4. rss-feeds-icon

5. Feed icons

6. Web 2.0 social bookmark icons

7. Circle Feeds Icons

1000 Free Gradients - Web 2.0 Gradients

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:08:58 +0000

A gradient is very simply two colours spread over a distance and smoothly blended from the one to the other.They can be monotone, or colourful. You can also blend a monotone colour, like black or white into a
colour such as red, and the brightness and saturation of the colour will smoothly blend across the distance that you specify.

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Download Free Textures - Free Texture Websites

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:29:44 +0000

Texturing mapping is a great method for adding surface texture, detail, or color to a 3D model , We have searched for you one of the best Free Texture Websites. If you know another free texture website, or places where you can download free textures please leave a comment:

1 Stock Textures

2. Texturez

3. 2textured

4. CG Textures

5. Lughertexture - Hires textures for 3D graphics

6. Imageafter - More then 50 categories of free images and free textures.

7. Grungetextures - Free Grunge Textures

8. Textureking -Free high resolution, high quality textures for personal and commercial use

9. Amazingtextures -free hi res images to download and use in 3d modelling and animations.

10. Free3dstextures - Free 3Ds Textures - Download free textures: grass textures, dirt textures etc…

11. Urbandirty - Free texture stock photographs for your art and designs.

12. Freeseamlesstextures - Seamless textures making them ideal for Photoshop Fills and 3D Rendering.

13. Got3d

14. Absolutecross textures - quality seamless background textures for use in Photoshop, websites, 3D modeling, and video game design.

15. Grsites - 5740 seamlessly tiling, attractive background textures.

16. Boogaholler - photographic textures

17. Brodatz Textures - A nice collection with black-white textures

18. Shebob - Texture Factory

19. Textura - Handmade textures, grungy, real looking, scratches, splatters

20. Textures forrest - Great texture library

This list will be modified as soon as we find another great texture website.