In this post, we want to showcase some of the best After Effects tutorials around to make your message stand out. You will find After Effects tricks and techniques that should appeal to all users from beginners all the way to the most seasoned and advanced users of After Effects.

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Science fiction and fantasy have given us a lot to look forward to. With N.A.S.A. making yet another promise, this time to go to Mars, I thought I would take this time to go over some of the other promises science has made in the past and failed to deliver!

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Building electronics is one of the coolest hobbies because you can get most of your parts for FREE. Yes, FREE. Including free shippng. You just need to know where to go and how to ask for them. Many companies have “sample parts” available and the ones that don’t can usually be talked into it if you know how to approach them.

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It’s hard to attract visitors attention, but this article should help to stand out and create semantically correct, good looking and accessible web forms, checkboxes, radio buttons, buttons, fieldsets – everything you can think of when you are creating contact or login page!

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For those who prefer digital tools over paper ones, check out the services listed below to automate your reminders. Never forget those routine, recurring or one time tasks.

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Websites with great use of photos and images have a higher chance to attract the attention of the visitors since humans think and make most of their decisions by seeing. Below you will find 40 websites using photography as their primary source of design to get your creative juices flowing.

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What are bookmarklets? Wikipedia defines them so:

A bookmarklet is an applet, a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page.

Basically, they look just like the other bookmarks in your browser, but, when clicked, they perform a specific bit of functionality. And many are designed to work with a specific web application, making the tasks users perform easier and more efficient to complete.

Here are 20 of the best from the past few years.

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There was a time when many thought the browser wars were over. Thankfully, that was not the case. Thanks to the resurgence of Mozilla and Firefox earlier in the decade, computer users today have an extensive list of browsers to choose from.

We’ve rounded up them into a nice list, categorized by operating system

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In our last roundup, we covered a selection of amazing HDR images. This time we move onto something completly different, with stunning high speed photography. These images freeze time, and allow us to observe scenes that the naked eye would struggle to capture. It’s definitely worth a look for some great inspiration!

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Pixelmator is a popular image editor for Mac OS X. While Photoshop is the industry standard, Pixelmator has a lot to offer for Mac users. In this post we’ll feature 45 tutorials for using Pixelmator, including a number of video tutorials. Some of the tutorials are rather basic and will help you to get familiar with the interface and tools, and others teach specific techniques. You may notice that some of these tutorials are re-makes of popular Photoshop tutorials, except this time showing how to create the same end result in Pixelmator.

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In this article we will have a look at a number of smart and user-centric domain tools which help you to find, register and manage domain names, other than the usual domain registrars or webhosting companies.

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To help you improve your skills, in this article we present 50 useful new jQuery techniques and tutorials that have been created recently and that could make the development of your next website an easier and more interesting experience than the last.

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In this post we present some amazing examples of Code Generated, Algorithmic Abstract Artworks and CG Artworks. There are some really interesting platforms and libraries; by using them, artists can create unusual artworks.

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When you search the web, you might find a really awesome website. Many people might judge that website depending on the number of visits that it receives on a daily/weekly/monthly basis but how do you find out information like that?

Well here are some web site traffic tracking websites that can tell you what you need to know.

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CSS is a language that is used by nearly every developer at some point. While it’s a language that we sometimes take for granted, it is powerful and has many nuances that can help or hurt our designs. Here are thirty of the best CSS practices that will keep you writing solid CSS and avoiding some costly mistakes.

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Hooks are very useful in WordPress. They allow you to “hook” a custom function to an existing function, which allows you to modify WordPress’ functionality without editing core files. In this article, we have compiled 10 extremely useful ready-to-use WordPress hooks, along with examples and coding explanations.

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With this in mind we’ve put together a list of over 50 free resources that will be useful to anyone involved in photography. We’ve compiled a list of the best and most comprehensive websites that will help you get the most out of your photography equipment. You’ll find a gold mine of articles on equipment and technique, plus advice from some of the most active and well-known professional photographers practising today.

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This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you.

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In this post we present a round-up of fresh high-quality icons that are available for free download and (sometimes only for personal) use. Please make sure to read license agreements before using icons in your designs – they can change from time to time.

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I wanted to showcase very good tutorial sites here also, since there are several great websites delivering beautiful and high quality tutorials constantly! If you love and search for more Photoshop tutorials, you really should visit sites below!

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Herein are few sites which allow you to preview themes easily by using the theme switcher or by clicking on the preview link(s).

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It happened so, that I’ve got 2 Wordpress related articles in the row. Again I worked very hard on this one post this time offering 60 really premium like Wordpress magazine news themes. Such themes are very handy if you have to display a lot of information on your site. For example this site should implement much more magazine type features, which still are on process – as featured slideshow, better sidebar usage showing even more posts from archives. Magazine type themes help to display and catch visitors attention making him stay on the page longer – which rewards in page-views and visit length time.

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have searched all over the net looking for the best eyecatching Bus Graphics Wraps and I was able to collect 40+ Amazing Bus Graphics Wraps with the help of my wife of course. Now take a look at these colorful images and I’m sure you’ll be amazed by the artistry in each Bus Graphic Wraps.

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While this is an old debate and it is clear that we won’t get very far with it, I want to make some statements regarding the things a web designer should consider in order to improve present skills.

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In this article tripwire magazine provides you with the resources you need to get overview of what HTML 5 is, to get started and to understand how you can benefit from it at this early point in time.

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Illustrator is like heaven for graphic designer and creative web designer. Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based computer drawing tool that invites you to explore more innovative ways to design. There are lots of blogs teaching illustrator techniques and give tips for designing on illustrator. We have collected some of the illustrator tutorials for our readers.. Please go through the list and after reading all the tutorials we are sure, your knowldege of illustrator will rise.

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Did you find an inspirational piece of webdesign, a cool illustration, or a neat webapp? Don’t keep it for yourself, share it with your friends! Luckily, we have the coolest tools for doing it.

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Hi, today i will show a monster collection of jQuery resources you’ll ever need to create that amazing site for one of your clients or for one of your personal projects.

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The life of a CSS developer isn’t all about attending glamorous champagne parties, jet-setting around the world and hanging out with supermodels. In fact, when your CSS doesn’t behave the way it should, the job can be downright tedious. I’ve spent untold hours of my life debugging my code — and I’m guessing I’m not alone here.

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here’s a list of the top wordpress mobile plugins.

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After reviewing websites for a few months, I’ve begun to see general patterns emerge that make a site more or less usable. In this post, I’d like to highlight some of the more common problems designers should address on their own sites in a Usability checklist of sorts.

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As a designer its always handy to have a collection of pre-made vector objects to use in your designs, but finding a best/perfect piece of vector is not an easy task, even though there are quite a few resources around the web, some of the websites are best and others are not worth checking, here I’ve collected best 25 websites of them where you can download free vector files, all these sits are worth bookmarking, hope you like this list..

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Based on a German website, these are the top 100 best fonts of all time.

To say the least, ranking fonts is an obviously hard task… how does one measure aesthetic quality, the benefit of an item, its value to humanity and so fourth?

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On this list You’ll find all available WordPress video tutorials on Internet with a lot of links for every level of knowledge. Video screencasts in my opinion teach You skills a lot faster than the best book You can find. In future You should check for updates on those sites, because WordPress is rapidly growing, but sites offering such great video screencasts stay and update.

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I collected all the best free photo editing services, which will keep You busy for quite a while and You will receive amazing results – maybe funny, maybe silly – but You’ll get original photos and few more reasons to smile.

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Which is more important, driving traffic to your website or encouraging as many people as possible to see your content? Believe it or not, they are not one and the same.Too often, we as website owners live and die by web analytics applications. We fret about bounce rates, unique visitors and dwell time. However, when we focus so heavily on the performance of our website, we miss a fundamental point: we should aim to expose users to our content, not our website. The website is a tool to showcase our content, but it is not the only tool that does this.

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Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

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Today is the last time, that I summarize some informational and valuable tips by Darren Rowse, how you can improve your blog significantly.

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Sometimes, it can be difficult to track down all of the amazing web services that are available around the web. In this list, we’ll show you 25 essential services that all designers should consider using.

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Working with XHTML forms can be somewhat daunting; they not only use some niche HTML elements, but also blur the line between static content and user interaction. Let’s review some things to remember when creating your next form.

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We’ve all had to achieve some effect that required an extra handful of divs or PNGs. We shouldn’t be limited to these old techniques when there’s a new age coming. This new age includes the use of CSS3. In today’s tutorial, I’ll show you eleven different time-consuming effects that can be achieved quite easily with CSS3.

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There are plenty of options when it comes to picking a content management system for a development project. Depending on how advanced you need the CMS to be, what language it’s built in, and who is going to be using it, it can be a nightmare trying to find the “perfect” CMS for a project.

However, some CMSs have a slight edge over the rest of the competition because of the usability of the software. Some are just easier to install, use and extend, thanks to some thoughtful planning by the lead developers. Here are 10 of the most usable CMSs on the web to use in your next project.

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In an increasingly digital age, data backup, storage and sharing is more important than ever. However, today’s data backup and storage solutions have evolved into much more feature filled services that let you share and access your data easier and from pretty much anywhere while still affordable.

In this roundup we’ll take a look at 10 online data backup, storage and sharing solutions to meet everyone’s needs.

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Basically this wallpaper roundup will enjoy everybody, who likes smart, mostly minimalistic and clean typography. As always I tried to find really high quality wallpapers so almost everybody can use these.

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In this post you’ll find out about very flexible and stylish Wordpress plugins, which are based on Jquery UI. For a long time now jQuery has been very popular and modern approach displaying text, images, search, comment boxes etc. in modern way without any use of flash!

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Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well.

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This article showcases modern and interesting contact/web form solutions found around the Internet. I also collected interesting ways how people decide to call their contact forms – get in touch, contact info, say hello, talk to me, say hey, connect, say “hi”, mail us and of course – contact us.

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In this article, you’ll have all the best resources available, which will teach you how to use CSS really effectively. I started myself with W3Schools and HtmlDog – pick your own favorite and stick with it! Also I wanted to mention especially Css-Tricks website and Delicious CSS tag usage – there you will find never-ending sources of CSS resources, you could ever need! Enjoy and good learning!

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As you may notice, I am always trying to vary tutorial, resource and informational posts with inspirational ones. And you guessed it – here you have inspirational post featuring several very talented web designers from DeviantArt. All of these inspiring website examples are fresh and new, from this month so you can see current trends.

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The right combination of JavaScript plugins can turn a simple website into a fantastic one – all while requiring minimal work on your behalf. Today, we’ll review forty of the most popular plugins available. If we missed some, let us know in the comments!

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This time I wanted to show you the next step – beautiful showcase websites, which collects WordPress based blogs and delivers long run inspiration, so you can subscribe and check what’s new happening all the time!

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This article aims to show you how to attract users and make them hungry for more. Who is this post for? Anyone with a web site. Not all of the items listed below will apply to you and your business, but they are, at the very least, a source for inspiration.

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Writing link posts is definitely not about sending people away, but rather about guiding your users to even more wonderful content and letting other bloggers know you appreciate their work, just as you would like yours to be appreciated.

But just like with almost any other type of blog posts, there are some things you could do to make it GREAT instead on a simple or even a good link post.

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Twitter has their own tools for displaying Twitter status on website, but they are pretty slow and not too varied or maybe you just need don’t know about such plugins, that’s why I chose to take research and create comprehensive list with Twitter related Wordpress plugins and tools that will help you unite Twitter with your blog.

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I feel like now everybody knows and uses all those popular plugins, which everybody mention on their blogs and repeat many times without big sense. That’s one of the reasons why I wanted to feature not so well known, totally new or just useful plugins you’ve probably never seen before. All plugins are very carefully picked, this is absolutely not some random list.

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This list just features 22 resource sites and several very well written articles with premade pattern collections, it was very interesting for me to write this article, I am hoping it will be interesting reading and useful resource for bookmarking.

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Just scroll through the list and pick Your favorite ones! Which is Your favorite desktop background?

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In this inspirational showcase, we’ve collected some beautiful macro pictures, as well as some useful macro photography tutorials – for people at all levels of experience.

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Below are 45 checklists to make your design process easier and more organized. Consider using these checklists as a jumping off point for creating your own customized list, based on your own needs.

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Post Secret – updated every Sunday, members of the public anoymously mail their secrets on a postcard. Some of the secrets are touching, others weird, others a bit too close to my own life to be comfortable.

Ironic Sans – With the tagline ‘It Seemed Like A Good Idea On Paper’, David Friedman writes one of the few generally interesting ‘blogs’ out there.

Meish – run by the Guardian’s head of social media development Meg Pickard, Meish is a mix of a lot of things. Lots of it social media related, lots of it arty. What drew me to the site in the first place was the collection of anti-Valentine’s Day cards.

Dyers – a blog run by Jon Dyer who, among other things, has a (slightly worrying) passion for beards. Of particular interest is his photo-quest to try to grow every type of beard he\’s head of.

Celebrities and Cheese – a website that brings updates from thew world of cheese and interviews celebrities… but only about cheese!

A Beautiful Revolution – a website run by Andre Jordan where he speaks with the honesty and beauty of a child. Okay, some of his ‘love’ stories get a bit tiring after a while but the postcards he may send all have a brilliant quality about them that makes you wish you could do that sort of thing a bit better.

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The time when WordPress was used strictly as a blog platform is long gone. WordPress has evolved into a mature CMS that gives designers and developers the right tools to create amazing non-blog websites for their clients. As proof for that stand these 10 beautiful websites powered by WordPress.

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Apophysis is a freeware Windows program for designing and rendering fractal flames. It was created by Mark Townsend and has since been improved and updated by Peter Sdobnov, Piotr Borys and Ronald Hordijk. Fractal Flames were originally developed in 1992 by Scott Draves.

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In the following article, I will go over the best practices and techniques for hover effects. I will be using over 30 examples to show good use of hover effects.

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A lot of functionality is shared among applications – like sending emails or preventing spam. In the spirit of reusing the wheel instead of reinventing it, here are nine free web libraries that you can use in your next program which will dramatically increase your efficiency.

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I selected separate plugins and featured them, however there were also many huge collections of plugins, so it didn’t make sense to copy&paste massive loads of text and images – I just put screenshot and link to them in that case.

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This post features more than 20 tutorials that will teach you essential techniques in Photoshop. In addition to tools, we’ll also showcase some tutorials that cover the Photoshop basics of layers and actions.

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 From that experience I have consolidated these good ideas into a checklist that you can follow when reviewing or coding a new WordPress plugin. Here are my picks of the top characteristics that make a great WordPress plugin.

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With a “less is more” mentality, we’ve selected 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.

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Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs.

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Here are 50 of our favorite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They’ve been built with everything from CakePHP to jQuery to Ruby on Rails. A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community!

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If you design and develop themes for you own use, custom themes for clients, premium themes for sale, or free themes to distribute, I think some of these plugins will be very useful to you.

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As graphic designer retouching photographies is essential skill You need to master. You could talk about principles, but at least I started with simple photo editing on Photoshop, trying to take off red eyes, lumps and change backgrounds of pictures I was using. In this You’ll find everything You need – facial and portrait, teeth, lips, eye retouching, background remove as well as simple color adjustments in video and image-based tutorials.

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Today we wanted to share with you some great steps to get the perfect form: we will go through designing and usability you need to keep in mind, styling your form, spicing it up with some nice javascript effects, validating user’s input and finally getting it to work using PHP and Ajax.

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In this post I gathered 60 layout design tutorials, from which you can learn how to make your own website design

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Below you will find 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design.

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This list contains a variety of feeds including general web design, HTML/CSS guides, advice, tutorials and news, Photoshop tips and freebies as well as plenty of useful advice for freelancers.

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Today we present collection of 15 useful WordPress plugins.

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A logo is often a great starting point when finding direction for full page designs.

This post is a roundup of sites highlighted some of the best and brightest identities and logos in the world.

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Take a few minutes from your busy day to relax, have some fun and see how many of these situations relate to you…

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Performance is something you don’t often think about. You assume that if it loads quickly enough for you then everyone’s happy. Someone commented a while back saying that it takes quite long for my pages to load so I optimised it a tad and thought I’d share a few quick tips with you.

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For this post we’ve made a selection of about 50 blogs that are quite visible and important in the blogging area.

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Recently icons are used widely in web and interface designs, icons convey the message in simple and effective manner,As a designer its always good to know how to design a icon on your own, there are plenty of icon tutorials out there, here i have filtered and listed 50 of the best icon design tutorials, hope you like this list of tutorials.

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From airlines, to car companies to the largest software company, Helvetica’s use in logos throughout the world remains as strong as ever. In this article we’ll take a look at 40 excellent logos created using Helvetica.

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We’ve compiled an alphabetized glossary here for you so that you can just scan down the list and find the term that you are looking for, as well as a list of popular Twitter applications and instructions for incorporating Twitter into your website and blogs.

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Maybe you need to fill in an email for a one-time registration that, you are sure, will only lead to spam. That is where temporary email services come into play. Today we will talk about 5 of those that I highly recommend.

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Here are six of the best resources, with some of the handiest tips out there, starting from the simplest and moving on to trickier stuff.

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Anyway, today’s post will revolve around some tips that I use myself that will speed up the production of your theme projects. Try to implement these next time you work on a theme and notice the increase in motivation (because everything is easier and already set up for you, in some cases) and how much time you’ll save.

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If you’re a web designer, chances are you’re already well aware of the many great design blogs out there. But know that there’s great information to be found even outside the confines of the web design blog bubble. Take a look at these 100 non-design blogs that have a lot to offer web designers.

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These tips mostly apply to self-hosted WordPress site because if you’re site is hosted on WordPress.com, you’re already being taken care of.

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Performance is a key factor for any successful website. And since WordPress is becoming more popular than ever, it will only be at its best when raised in the proper conditions. Here are a few things to try if you find that your WordPress site is not performing as well as it could be due to high traffic or hidden issues you don’t know about.

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In this article I’ll discuss some things from my own personal experience, feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments.

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 We scoured the Internet to come up with 101 innovative, entirely free downloads and services. Here’s the whole collection.

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It’s interesting to study the paintings of the great masters … but sometimes it’s even more fun to study the work of the great fakers. Like these folks:

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In November 2008 we published the article 10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming. Apparently, according to negative comments to the post, it contained some errors and some statements that are just wrong.

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So in this article I listed only very well designed,feature rich and truly impressive themes. With so much themes available for free, it’s really a hard task to find really good and not so overused theme, which could be right choice for Your own blog.

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