The little icons are a great help for creating web sites. They give life to the site in a few minutes, help to determine sections, and help the visitors to recognize it faster visually. Making the site easier to browse, something that we all look for.

In PsdTuts+ published a pack with little icons for web design that could help you with many projects. There are 512 icons of 16×16 px in PNG and they are all related with design.

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Textures are useful just because they bring us the possibility to fill with life a bored design or to cover a big space with some style. We can use it as a background for a grunge styled site, or use it with transparency to come alive an image without saturating it, and also, add it to an attractive text.

The grunge style is the kind of design that’s trending now, seen in a lot of sites. And one of its principal elements is the wood. So is a good idea to download the textures that offers us Designm.ag

There are 75 wood textures of an excellent quality that we can download clicking on the image.

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Luckily (Hoping this isn’t to late) people are taking care about the environment, using different methods which try to be little contributions to the planet we live in.

In SmashingApps published a great compilation with 23 advertisings about the care of the environment, in which you can find awareness, inspiration or just enjoy it. This kind of promotions are stronger this days and has better results. We hope, like I says before, isn’t to late and more people take care about it (Including us, of course)

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Even when we like our design, if we have a blog is probably that once in a while we wish to change the image. First for don’t bored our readers, and second to don’t bored us. So it’s good to be aware of new themes which are coming from the huge Wordpress community.

In 10Steps published a list with 15 free Wordpress templates really cool and new ones mostly. There’s designs for all tastes and needs, so you should just see it and pick your favorite.

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Fireworks is an excellent program that brings us infinite possibilities even when we use to use Photoshop and Illustrator. Is good to know it, its tools and have it present to use it all together.

If you wanna learn to use Fireworks, you can start with the tutorial published in Flisterz, where explain step by step how to create a RSS icon grunge style. Excellent for practice and to have if we need them for a grunge design.

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We talked many time about the importance of textures. If you have in mind a calm design, grunge (or not), with soft colors, attractive and relaxing for readers, the paint style will help you for sure.

In Circlebox published a list of 8 paint textures with soft tones and very attractive, all of great quality for use in so many designs that requires calm styles. The textures are free for commercial and personal use without any restriction.

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As Wikipedia says, Maya is a program specialized on 3D graphics, special effects and animation. It’s the evolution of Power Animator, turned up from the union of Alias and Wavefront.

The program has as its principal feature its power and the possibility of expansion. It has tools for modeling, animation, rendering, simulation of clothes and hair, dynamics and other elements.

If you don’t know how to use it yet, is a good idea to take the compilation that published InstantShift with more than 45 tutorial of Maya to practice and get great results.

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The tutorial we’re going to see is based in the Apple menu, but, in my opinion, is an excellent opportunity to learn the process to make a menu in Photoshop. It’s easy, but we need to know some secrets to make it look professional. For that I think you must learn this techniques even if you wont make this menu, just for know it in the future.

In ThreeStyles explain us step by step this, in a great and easy way to understand it using images. The promise to publish the code soon if you wanna go beyond.

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In VectorTuts+ invites us to learn hoy to create a low energy lamp using Illustrator, in an easy way, great for habituate us to create objects with design programs, from nothing. This is important to confront many projects, in which the clients could request something and we need this techniques.

The tutorial is oriented to middle and advanced users of Adobe Illustrator, was made with the CS3 version and the estimated time is about three or five hours, so give it the time when you know you have it.

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Flash is complicated at the moment of design our web site. The results can be annoying, slow and heavy if we use it wrong, and the users will close the page and look for their needs in another site.

However, in professional hands, the results can be great and very creative. A good example of that is the lists published by Deisgner-Daily about sites made with Flash. If you’re thinking in create a site using it, I advice you to visit it to find some inspiration and see examples of effective browsing and accessibility.

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