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Maximum Quality: 44 Free Fonts for Creative Designers

2013-05-23T09:00:00.000+01:00

We did it again. We curated more than 40 high-grade fonts for your designing pleasure. Each one is equipped with additional info as to whether the font is private and commercially usable and in which format it will be delivered. Most fonts contain special characters from several languages, but as our audience is international, we did not check that for each and every charset possibly demanded. You will need to do that by yourself. As you are on it, you should as well double-check whether the license has probably been changed and what kind of usage it allows. Have fun with these high-quality fontsets from all over the world.

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Understanding Color Theory and the Color Wheel

2013-05-23T08:00:00.000+01:00

Sometimes the toughest step in building a new website or redesign can be the conceptual ones. Selecting a color palette is one of them that can be tough if you don’t have the right tools. So where do you start?

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Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie

2013-05-22T23:30:00.000+01:00

This article is an updated excerpt of the chapter “Restyle, Recode, Reimagine With CSS3″ from our Smashing Book #3, written by Lea Verou and David Storey. — Ed.

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Do’s and don’ts of typography

2013-05-22T23:00:00.000+01:00

As so much of the content available on the web is text it’s essential for web designers to understand the basic principles of good typography. Having such knowledge allows designers to communicate more effectively, enabling them to create better designs and websites that are easier to use.

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jQuery How-to: Creating and Inserting New Element (Part 2)

2013-05-22T22:23:00.002+01:00

In our previous post, we started a discussion on how to create and insert new elements with the jQuery (and JavaScript) Append method. We’ve learned how to create and insert new elements to the body document.

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Create An Animated CSS Box Menu

2013-05-22T18:00:00.000+01:00

In this tutorial were going to play with CSS transitions to create a new style navigation menu. The effect we are aiming for is having a number of navigation boxes, and when the mouse hovers over a box this will grow and shrink the other boxes. We can even add an icon to animate into the box to represent the page on the navigation.

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Tools for Formatting, Organizing and Tidying CSS Code

2013-05-22T17:00:00.000+01:00

If you are an uber-experienced web designer, you probably won’t have this problem. Your CSS files will be structured coherently and concisely, every selector will have been attentively placed, every property will be perfectly formatted… basically, your CSS will look like carefully crafted art. If this describes you, then move along please, this post is not for you.

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The WPLift Guide to WordPress Multisite: Everything You Need to Know

2013-05-22T16:00:00.000+01:00

Did you know you can run multiple WordPress websites from just one WordPress installation? If this sounds like something you might be interested in doing then WordPress Multisite is a feature of WordPress you should take a closer look at.

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11 Useful And Free CSS UI Kits

2013-05-22T15:00:00.000+01:00

We have previously presented many user interface (UI) kits for our designers fellows but rarely have compiled UI kits that have been exclusively built with CSS. This is something that many designers are looking for. So, look no further as here we are presenting 11 free CSS UI Kits for you. All of these 11 UI kits have been coded with CSS and contain a wide range of common web UI elements. These UI kits and more precisely the common web UI elements are the resources that you will need to build your own wireframe. We hope that you will find this collection useful for you.

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The Right Way to Retinafy Your Websites

2013-05-22T14:00:00.000+01:00

Making your website ready for Retina display doesn’t have to be a hassle. Whether you are building a new website or upgrading an existing one, this guide is designed to help you get the job done smoothly.

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Learning from Historic Web Archives

2013-05-22T13:23:00.002+01:00

There are a plethora of resources available to aid in your success on the web. From countless analytics and SEO applications, to thousands of articles and reports from our peers. For anyone who runs their own website we can use these resources to improve and fine tune the online experience we give our visitors. One oft-overlooked resource is the Internet Archive, which contains years of fine-tuned updates and improvements from the world’s biggest and most successful websites – and we can learn from them.

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25 Sets of Free Wood Brushes for your Designs

2013-05-21T23:00:00.000+01:00

We have already presented a number of high quality Photoshop brushes in the past. Today, we are providing our beloved readers once again with a new compilation of Photoshop brushes that will definitely please even the most picky web and graphic designers out there. These brushes include woods from various surfaces – the wood brushes. Wood brushes are an excellent option when making backgrounds with a touch of worn or natural feel. These wood brushes have some interesting grain patterns thus they are great for adding texture to the background of your websites and other graphic design projects.

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30 Fresh & Free Photoshop Brush Packs

2013-05-21T22:00:00.000+01:00

There will never be a point when a designer says ‘yep, that is it for me, I have all of the brushes I will never need’! It just won’t happen. The designers toolbox is always evolving, with new resources being added as and when they are needed. And just to help you add even more tools to your metaphorical toolbox, we have a fantastic bunch of Photoshop brush sets for you.

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A Preprocessor & Live Browser Refresher For Windows – Prepros

2013-05-21T21:00:00.000+01:00

When building websites with scripting languages that require compiling (Sass, Less, Stylus..), compiling them manually (or via refreshing the page) is usually an extra step.

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.185)

2013-05-21T19:53:00.000+01:00

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)

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6 Apps to Help You Learn HTML5

2013-05-21T17:00:00.000+01:00

It’s often hard to keep up with all the updates for online languages but if you want to stay ahead of the game and forge a career in design and web development grasping new updates quickly is a must. Released in December 2012, HTML5 is still a relative new kid on the block in the web development world. Featuring a host of improved features, including video, audio and canvas elements, HTML5 is set to sync all the previous elements of past HTML developments.

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Easy Responsive Tabs jQuery Plugin for Web & Mobile

2013-05-21T16:00:00.000+01:00

Easy responsive tabs is a lightweight jQuery plugin which optimizes normal horizontal or vertical tabs to accordion on multi devices like: web, tablets, Mobile (IPad & IPhone). This plugin adapts the screen size and changes its form accordingly.

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Interview with Designer: Dann Petty

2013-05-21T15:00:00.000+01:00

I’ve admired Dann’s work since I’ve started in this industry; I found his work to be simply amazing and I’ve always wanted to achieve such sexy designs myself. I’m sure I am not the only one as Dann is a vivid designer within our industry that so many people follow and admire as well.

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Top 10 Responsive Websites

2013-05-21T13:51:00.000+01:00

Thanks to mobile devices, responsive website design is becoming standard practice at web design agencies. For efficiency purposes, the goal is to design once and make it look great on all platforms, browsers, screen sizes and mobile device resolutions. Some designs really hit the mark with cool, innovative and stylish responsive sites. Among them are these 10 responsive websites that prove that creativity doesn’t have to be compromised for functionality in a responsive design.

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27 Free Bubble Wrap Texture for your Designs

2013-05-21T10:00:00.000+01:00

A compilation of high quality Photoshop textures is a very helpful resource for every graphic and web designer. But in terms of finding the proper texture which are freely downloadable, you really need to dedicate a lot of time in browsing for it. For the ease of everyone who are always using textures in their designs, we have collected several sets of bubble wrap texture which work great as a background for website templates. Bubble wrap is a flexible transparent plastic-type material often utilized for wrapping and protecting sensitive items when shipped. This material consists of regularly spaced, protruding air-filled bubbles which provide shock and vibration absorption for delicate products.

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Facebook Like System with Jquery, MySQL and PHP.

2013-05-21T09:00:00.000+01:00

Facebook like system is one of the best implementation in social network systems, may be in future based on like data Facebook going to launch semantic search engine. In this post I have explained how to implement like/unlike system database design and web implementation with PHP and jquery.

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One-on-One with Templatic Community Manager Vedran Fak: Part 2

2013-05-21T08:00:00.000+01:00

Each company in the WordPress theme space differentiates itself in some way, shape, or form. Some produce themes en masse, while others choose to focus on a particular niche. Some specialize in service, while others compete on price. For Templatic, business themes take center stage and are the focus of the company’s development. WPHub sat down with Templatic Community Manager Vedran Fak for Part 2 of our four-part interview to talk about the company’s founding and its current focus.

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jQuery How-to: Creating and Inserting New Elements (Part 1)

2013-05-20T23:00:00.000+01:00

jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript library on the planet, which offers a lot capabilities. Using jQuery, we can easily manipulate – replace, insert, remove – elements within an HTML document and even create animation.

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User Interface Icons for Web Applications

2013-05-20T22:00:00.000+01:00

There are so many newly released icon sets which are free to download and use in your own projects. Building a website application will take a lot of time and patience. If you are using a CMS or backend programming framework then it might shave off some time. But overall you will be dedicated to finishing your projects in a decent timeframe. It is worth taking any help which can hasten the completion date.

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The 5 Most Common UX Mistakes

2013-05-20T21:00:00.000+01:00

Many companies are heads-down in their product development process. It makes sense — building a great product takes not only hard work, but collaboration across teams, especially in larger organizations.

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