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Top 10 mistakes in Web Design

2010-09-29T20:48:00.000+01:00

The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.

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2000 Absolutely Free Textures

2010-09-29T20:33:00.000+01:00

Texture is a great way to add some authenticity to a design. View this collection of textures, all of which are free to download.

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Mono Gradient Icons Set: 60 Free Icons for Your Web Designs

2010-09-29T20:16:00.002+01:00

Icons are very essential in almost any web project. Effective use of icons can easily help bridge connection between the user and the website. Websites, specially corporate and business, normally use simple and clean icons to represent their idea behind a service, product or intent.

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30 Inspiring Web Design Interfaces

2010-09-29T20:06:00.002+01:00

Web Design has now become more creative and fun especially with the help of modern and powerful image editing softwares. For quite some time, Web 2.0 has been, somehow, the standard in web design. But I guess Web Design has even gone farther than that. I have collected 30 Inspiring Web Design Interfaces on the web which, I think, will help every web designer as well as graphic designer to become more creative in their works.

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Freebie Friday | 11 FREE Wordpress Themes

2010-09-24T01:28:00.001+01:00

Hey guys, as you know it's that time of the week we all look forward to. Friday! The start of the weekend. We thought we'd help you get your weekend off to a good start by rounding up a collection of FREE Wordpress themes to download. Check them out below.

Papyrus

Led Leisten

Beach Holiday

Children and Toys

Woodtastic

WP Monochrome

Lovely Tulips

Outdoorsy

Water Lily

My Diary

Rustic Portrait

10 of the Best Custom Facebook Fanpage Designs

2010-09-22T22:31:00.000+01:00

It's not all about Twitter you know. We've read many a blog post recently showcasing creative Twitter backgrounds, so we decided to put together a collection of well designed Facebook fanpages . Check them out below and have a go at designing your own.

McDonalds

Jones Soda

Add Your Own Adventure

Bud Light Lime

Ralph Lauren

Wonka Candy

Dogpatch Labs

Social Mavens

Soul City Church

Bud Light Wheat

13 FREE Food & Drink Social Networking Icon Sets

2010-09-20T22:02:00.001+01:00

Social networking icons can be seen on many a website to enable users to share and connect with others. We have put together a variety of food & drink social networking icon sets that can help add more originality to your website design.

Egg Pan Social Icon Set

Bottle Social Icon Set

Cafe Social Icon Set

Beer Cap Social Icon Set

Beer Fest RSS Icon Set

DelliCream Social Icon Set

Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set

Cocktail Party RSS Icon Set

Cheese RSS Icon Set

DelliCake Social Icon Set

'Cheers' Social Icon Set

Gummy Social Icon Set

Beer Cap Social Icon Set

Canned Social Icon Set

20 Orange Themed Websites to Inspire You

2010-09-17T04:33:00.000+01:00

Colour is an important aspect of any design. Earlier this week we posted some colour palettes to inspire you in your design projects. As a follow up to that post we decided to focus on one particular colour.

The colour orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. Orange represents enthusiasm, creativity, happiness, success and stimulation. For your inspiration, we’ve selected 50 web designs that use orange effectively. As you will notice orange has very high visibility so you can use to catch attention and highlight the most important elements of your design.

Capsule CEO

Collision Labs

Get Concentrating

Doctor Lyle

Hebatec

Net Leonardo

Actionhead

Stontire

Saturized

Mark Boulton Design

Patty Ho

Bazar Solidale

Cooper Kids

Vecteezy

Simon Young

Mark Dempsey

Sonnenhof-Steinfurth

Safarista

Hambo Development

Jrojr

10 of the Best Designed Creative Blogs

2010-09-16T01:35:00.001+01:00

The world of blogging is truly a global one. As we know it's a great way for individuals or business to share thoughts with others. With millions of blogs out there we decided to compile a list of our favourite and most inspiring web design blogs. Do you agree with out faves? Know of a great blog that didn't make the list? Post a comment below.

Web Designer Wall

Creative Curio

Abuzeedo

Spoon Graphics

Web Designer Depot

Tutorial9

Think Design

Stylized Web

The Design Superhero

Inspiredology

Collection of Inspiring Retro Logo Designs

2010-09-15T02:57:00.000+01:00

Modern logos can be seen everywhere these days, so we thought we'd put together a collection of cool retro logo designs. Do the colours or design elements remind you of a past era? What do you perceive as retro? Be sure to check them out below and post a comment to let us know what you think.

Cool Colour Palettes For Your Next Design

2010-09-14T09:00:00.000+01:00

Colour is important in any design, to set the mood and tone the piece. Finding a colour scheme for your design projects can be an indecisive process. Check out some great colour schemes below from Colourlovers.com that might come in handy for your next project.

5 Must Have Handwritten Fonts

2010-09-14T01:26:00.004+01:00

Handwritten fonts can look great in your art work as headers or as body text to create an authentic and personal feel. Check out our favourite collection below. Use them in your design projects, and for your client's websites. They are easy to read, but still very interesting for the eye. These fonts are free, so go get them all.