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Every once in a while I like to scan the plugins directory on WordPress.org and see what beautiful & useful pieces of code the community comes up with. Here’s a selection of 6 of the latest WordPress plugin releases that caught my attention during the last “scan”.

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Photoshop actions can be extremely useful timesavers when you find yourself performing the same steps over and over on an image. They’re also an excellent way for photographers to quickly and easily pass on their favorite techniques to others. Today we’ll be looking at how you can make your own, and showcasing 100 fantastic free Photoshop actions to use straight away!

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This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

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WordPress Themes are used to make Blogs and websites lively and presentable. Today, many free WordPress Themes are made and are ready to use for new upcoming websites. These themes could be helpful for those who have no knowledge in css coding, designing, etc. but wants to customize their website or blog.

In this article I am going to showcase 20 Most Attractive and Appealing Free WordPress Themes which are READY TO USE and FREE.

Check them and choose your best pick.

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Web layouts are crucial for every web design. Whether it is a simple design or an advanced one, Photoshop can often come handy in creating such layouts. We have collected some really creative and helpful recent tutorials that display the process behind creating web layouts in Photoshop.

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Below you’ll find 50 useful tools and time-savers for web designers and developers. Among other things, you will find recently released tools, useful reference sheets, articles and further resources. Such posts are prepared over months, each containing resources found, reviewed or bookmarked by the Smashing Editorial Team. We hope that at least some of them will help you improve your workflow!

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This article contains 50 best Photoshop and Illustrator character designing tutorials. Most of these tutorials require a hand drawn sketch, so don’t forget about your pencil and paper.

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In this roundup we’ve collected over 300 free grunge textures. Enjoy the show!

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Traffic is the currency of the web. The more traffic your website has, the easier it will be to achieve your objective, be it to make money, to spread your ideas, to connect with other people or anything else.

That is why we decided to create a compilation with 100 ways you can use to increase your website traffic. Apply some (or most) of them and we are sure your numbers will go up!

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Last month we published a post that showcased 35 free vector packs. If you’re in need of quality vectors but those particular packs are not what you’re looking for, we thought it would be helpful to point out some of the best places to find vectors. This post includes 16 of the best sources of free vectors and 17 sources of high-quality, premium vectors.

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Study code, design, style – how templates work in different browsers, what makes them look good – great case study! Evaluate it and bookmark for later use, when you’ll need to complete quick project or check some nifty effect with some cool code.

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Today, I prepared a good selection of the best resources to learn this wonderful blog and CMS covering every thing from books, tutorials, tricks and tips … Hope you will enjoy this collection !

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Nature always is very good source of inspiration. If you are creating poster, web design layout or photo manipulation related to nature you will find this collection of floral brushes quite useful. Your work will look more lively and elegant by using these brushes.

In this collection you will find 30 Beautiful Floral Brushes Sets for Photoshop. Before using them in commercial projects please check the licences.

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Icons are an important part of web design. While there are a lot of quality free icon sets out there, finding the right ones for your portfolio site can be a challenge. In this post we’ll feature the best sets that include icons suitable for portfolio sites. As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to check the license details before using.

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Over the past two years we have published three collections of the best church web designs for your own design inspiration, and today we are continuing with the fourth post in this series. This includes another 25 well-designed church websites.

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The use of repeating patterns in Photoshop can help to produce attractive website backgrounds with very little effort, and of course patterns have other uses as well. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free patterns that are available. You’ll find some individual patterns as well as many packs of multiple patterns.

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Explore how the action is built, choose which adjustments you want to apply and finally just enjoy great results. In this article you’re going to find 45 sets of actions that help you enhance the colors and change the main look of Your photo.

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Photoshop patterns offer a quick way to enhance your project with a cohesive look. Here are a collection of absolutely beautiful photoshop patterns. Whether you use patterns to fill the entire background of your site or just a specific area of your design, you will definitely find these useful.

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Browse trough these 40 sets over 400 unique shapes to find something useful for you to use in your next web or graphic design project! Feel free to experiment!

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It happens to everyone or just me? I found it hard to find a plugins that works and compatible with the latest wordpress. I have spent fair a bit of times on my client website and found some wordpress plugins that do incredible jobs and I want to share it with you all.

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Making art or various designs will often require different textures. It can be that you need it for that extra grungy look or maybe you are trying to recreate a piece of denim for a logo. It can be very useful to be able to make your own textures in Photoshop. This way you get the exact effect you want, its customizable, no need to pay anyone for the use of it etc.

I’ve collected some of the best texture tutorials I know of and hope these will inspire! Enjoy!

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There are so many WordPress SEO tutorials out there we don’t need another one. Some of them are very good, I don’t doubt that. They cover most of the blog & WordPress SEO basics like proper URLs e.g. We have also numerous best WordPress SEO plugins lists out there.

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It seems like almost every week I come across a new seller of premium WordPress themes. There’s obviously a strong demand for quality themes, and this can be a good option for getting the design and functionality that you want without paying for a custom design. In this post we’ll feature 33 websites that sell premium themes. Some sell themes individually, some offer memberships or clubs with unlimited access, and some serve as a marketplace where designers/developers can sell their own themes.

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We frequently publish collections of quality Photoshop brushes of various types, and today we’re featuring fractal brushes. Here you’ll find links to 19 brush sets that total over 200 brushes. Fractal brushes are great for adding abstract elements to your designs.

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In the world of print advertising, whether it is for magazines, newspapers or billboards, sets specific challenges for ad designers. Being restricted to a still image means the message must be very strong and catchy. Humorous ads remain one of the few effective ways to engage an audience in a very saturated advertising market. This is an area where the audience is far more receptive and still willing to pay attention. In this article, I’ve posted 40+ really creative and funny advertisements for your enjoyment.

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To handle a blog these days can be quite difficult if you are not well-organized and you don’t spend enough time managing it. That’s why there are plugins for WordPress. They literally make your job lot easier and if you work well with them you can put them to work for you.

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WordPress 3.0, scheduled to launch May 1st, 2010, will be a real revolution for the blogging system. With new functionalities such as custom post types, developers will be able to create more complex and more powerful sites based on WordPress. In this article, I have compiled the most useful resources to get you started with WordPress 3.0.

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In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web.

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I’m sure you have seen lots of articles named something like “best 30 plugins for WordPress” or “The coolest 60 plugins for WordPress” etc. In my post today I’m not going to make another collection of links but rather list just a few plugins that I’m using in my own blog. Of course, I haven’t added all of them from the very beginning. Depending on the task set before me I had to make some studies followed by experiments and make tests, tests and tests. I will explain why I find these plugins extremely useful as well as speak about some widgets that are worth using.

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Hey everyone! It seems that we have recently lost touch with the magic of Photoshop Layer Styles, until recently that is. So, in lieu of this, we have complied the ultimate roundup of 750+ style sets for you! Layer Styles are a great resource, and can really save heaps of time when designing something. They provide a great base of styles that are easily editable later on. It doesn’t stop there, don’t forget that they can easily create web buttons, icons, and Web 2.0 Text Styles.

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Megapixels, ISO, and Image stabilising are some of the words just flying around on advertisements for cameras. But what do they all mean? This article answers questions I most commonly hear from beginners went they are first starting out with a Digital SLR, or those interested in upgrading in the near future.

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In this article, you’ll find 13 excellent and free web analytics tool to help you gather and analyze data about your web content.

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Learn how to use social media sites more effectively, think about SEO and how to monetize your site a lot better! Maybe you will find courage and right advice how to start new project and earn online? Keep reading those blogs, put their techniques in action and I am sure your new or existing project will become a lot more successful!!

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Web and graphic designers have a lot of free resources at their disposal. Thanks to an active design community, finding quality free resources is possible. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free vector packs that are available for download. As always when you are working with freebies, be sure to check the license and guidelines established by the designer.

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In this post I’ve provided 25 cool sign-up and login form designs for your inspiration. Each of these pages presents important characteristics in the success of a complete registration in your site.

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Designers and photographers have a number of options when it comes to photo editing. Of course, Photoshop is the most popular software, but there are a number of websites that allow you to edit photos online. Depending on your needs, the full version of Photoshop may not be necessary. In this post we’ll look at 31 options for editing photos online.

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Multi-Monitor, also called Multi-Display, Multi-Head, Dual-Display, and Dual-Monitor, is the use of multiple physical display devices, such as monitors, televisions, and projectors, in order to increase the area available for computer programs running on a single computer system. Dual Monitors allow you to separate everything, organize and work efficiently. Dual displays are highly suitable for Web designers, Graphic designers and Web developers. In this post, I present 70+ beautiful dual screen desktop wallpapers. You can download even more beautiful wallpapers from those links.

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As simplistic as they may appear, there is genius behind these 60 highly clever minimal logo designs.

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This is another round-up of high-quality icon sets. In this article I have showcased some beautiful icons specially designed for web design, web development, web applications and blogging. Hope you will like it.

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Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters. In this article you will find some useful and most attractive Typography tutorials.

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Brushes get a lot of attention for Photoshop users. There are large amount of high quality resources that are freely available but for the appropriate situations Custom Shapes are also extremely useful. Custom Shapes can save your time in your design. There are lots of varieties of Custom Shapes available. In the post I highlighted 60+ Attractive Photoshop Custom Shapes in several different categories.

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A logo is a graphic image which is used to represent a business or product. The logo design is of immense importance and must compliment your business strategy as it often helps form the Customer’s first impression of your business and products. Logo designs can consist of symbols, text or a combination of both. Prior to the creation of a logo for your organization or product, conduct research on what sort of logo designs appeal to your key demographic. Also ensure that your logo design reflects the goods or services offered by your organization and that your logo design adds some meaning and value to your business plan. In this article you’ll find some Beautiful and Creative Logo Designs that will inspire your Logo Design ideas.

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Today we are pleased to provide our readers with a yet another round-up of high-quality icon sets. Below, you will find free sets covering a wide range of subjects, including Easter and food sections. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons, and feel free to follow the links: they will certainly come in handy when you’re designing a new website or looking for inspiration.

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Adding texture to a design can create drastic changes and powerful results. Photoshop provides a number of different possibilities for working with textures, which allows designers to use their creativity. In this post we’ll features 25 tutorials that will help you to learn more about working with textures in Photoshop and how to create impressive results.

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Working with photoshop, you can save a lot of time if you can use the correct photoshop patterns, styles and gradients. It also improves your creativity of work with very little efforts.

In this article we are providing some of most essential and daily required patterns which may take lots of time to search on internet. Photoshop Pattern files have .PAT extension.

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Illustrator is a powerful program, but it can be overwhelming or confusing at times, simply because of everything that is possible. If you’re new to Illustrator, taking the time to understand the basics and how to use the specific tools will go a long way towards setting you up for success. In this post we’ve categorized more than 100 resources that will teach you everything you need to learn.

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Designing a website that’s as much successful as it is effective takes time, skills, and a lot of testing. Normally, when we’re talking about web design and we hear the word testing, the first thing that comes to mind is usability, and that’s fine, but when was the last time you sat down to analyze the level of accessibility of your website?

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We try to provide readers with links to resources that will make designing easier, more effective, and more fun. Today we have a collection of free Photoshop brushes that will allow you to easily add spray paint effects to your design. Have fun experimenting and see what you can come up with!

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HTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features.

Maybe those new features aren’t yet supported fully, but it’s a very good thinking to learn new technologies now so you would be able to use them fully when they are supported. Be modern designer!

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Adding things to your newly created blog is pretty cool, right? But be careful, there are things that you’d better leave out. Below you’ll find 10 of them.

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Humorous ads remain one of the few effective ways to engage an audience in a very saturated advertising market. This is an area where the audience is far more receptive and still willing to pay attention.

In this post, we’ve gathered 40 hilarious and really creative ads for your enjoyment…

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For you to see what I mean, here are 17 examples of pink business cards designed by and for both genders, for designers and professionals alike. We’d love to know what you think of the collection in the comments!

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CSS has the distinction of being one of a handful of web technologies that newcomers tend to learn by doing. The reason for this is that CSS is not seen as something as large or as serious as a programming language like C# or Python, but rather as a tool to be used “just in time”, without paying attention to best practices.

The result of this treatment is that quite a few web designers attain an incomplete knowledge of CSS and its problems, leading to broken layouts and hours of fruitless debugging. Here are the eight most common mistakes that web designers of all experience levels commit.

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Business cards are a necessity for designers who want to market themselves and their services to people that they come across. They also provide an opportunity for the designer to make an impression with a stylish, memorable card. Letterpress business cards are a popular choice for designers, and in this post we’ll showcase 33 high-quality letterpress cards. Hopefully these examples will provide some inspiration if you are considering designing some new business cards.

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Minimalism a popular style of design because it keeps things simple and user-friendly. In this post we’ll look at more than 20 websites, blogs and books dedicated to minimalism. Not all of them are related to web design – minimalism can also be applied to other aspects of business and life.

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In this collection we present 50 beautiful business card designs for inspiration, we hope they’ll give you some ideas and inspiration for your next design project!

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Since aerial photography can produce some very inspirational photographs that provide us a beautiful view of our surroundings from a different perspective that we never usually don’t use to see. Therefore, here we are presenting 50 breathtaking aerial photos for your inspiration. Hope you like the collection.

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I have not offered a critique of each book, as I feel that would not be fair on the author. If someone spends so much of there valuable time (in some cases months and months) and writes an entire book on web design, in my eyes they deserve only praise and appreciation.

I hope you find these books useful.

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At last we are going to show the collection of Other icon packs.These icons will be useful in designing your next Desktop,iPhone or MAC application user interface.

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WordPress 3.0 is scheduled to be released within the next 30-60 days. There are some great new features coming, including custom post types, a new default theme, and a menu manager. Read on to find out what to expect in version three!

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There are certain design elements that all blogs should have to keep readers happy and engaged in your content. With the evolution of blogs and social media sites, the expectations for a blog are much higher. Readers expect to be able to read a post and have the ability to quickly comment and share by using the Twitter or Facebook accounts.

The other aspect is having a clean and consistent layout with your blog content. Users have higher expectations now and expect a blog that will be easy to read, find what they are looking for, and navigate.

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To promote your blog or articles in social media world you need a creative and unique icons and i am sure you will find your most favorite and suitable icons here to include them in your blog or website.

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The normal themes for WordPress are dull aren’t they? Customizing them is the only solution in order to make them look really neat but in order to do that you gotta have some knowledge of WordPress hacks. Guess what. You have here in this article a number of 65 interesting WordPress hacks or articles that will teach you in detail how to edit your WP theme like a WordPress rockstar.

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WordPress frameworks often give you one or more starter themes that usually just work as is, plus an infrastructure that allows you to quickly customize the design for yourself or a client. The infrastructure includes the necessary HTML, CSS and WordPress-specific PHP code, and a specific usage license terms.

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In this article we will explain the various techniques, tutorials, examples relating to the modern trends in building web forms to enhance the user experience.

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Here we have compiled a list of some outstanding and beautifully designed FREE and FRESH 50 Sets of Social Media Icons such as digg icons, stumbleupon icons, reddit icons, twitter, RSS feed icon, facebook icons and more, so that you can use them on your blog and website. You can also use them in corporate designs as well, Kindly feel free to share your comments with us.

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Macro photography opens our eyes to a whole new world, and provides a view usually completely hidden to the naked eye. It’s a fascinating technique, and something every photographer should explore from time to time.Today we’re showcasing a huge collection of macro photographs to inspire you to experiment yourselves. Enjoy the stunning images, and feel free to share any of your own in the comments!

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Twitter is growing and growing – if you’ve been living in ice age, then maybe you don’t know about this popular trend. Facebook and Twitter are the most popular social networks and that’s why we will do series here to help you get better there. We are starting with huge post where we selected the most interesting and active bloggers and designers you should enjoy following.

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An advertisement’s aim is to instantly attract the attention of viewers. Some use humour to draw viewers’ attention, but there are other kinds of advertisements that go to extremes to present something different. As a follow up to our previous article 60 Humorous Advertisements That Will Tickle Your Bones, today we look at the opposite extreme to using humour in advertisements. Presenting another side to design, some of the advertisements shared in this article today may be a little visually disturbing or conceptually controversial.

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CSS3 has brought some amazing new features. And the most fun is playing with the CSS animation. Here is a compilation of 50 CSS3 animation that allows you to perform many motion-based functions normally Delegated to JavaScript. In order to view this effect, you are required to have WebKit browsers like Safari and Chrome ( very sorry for the users of Internet Explorer )

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WordPress doesn’t make it easy for you to engage your readers with images. You’re going to have to look beyond core to the hundreds of image/photo based plugins available to make your blog highly visual. Below, you’ll find a score of solutions to all your image/photo problems in the form of the best plugins around.

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In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web.

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Portfolio sites often showcase creativity and the skills of the designer. If you browse around at current portfolio sites you’ll see a lot of illustration being used in the design. In this post we’ll feature 25 portfolios that use illustration.

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The resources featured in this post include some free options and a number of paid options. Most of the paid options include a lot of features, and in many cases the ability to integrate your forms with PayPal or other payment gateways.

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Due to the vastness of the Internet, there are literally hundreds and thousands of graphic design tutorial sites for building design skills. Some better than others but which is the best? Save your time — don’t bother searching.

I’ve selected five sites in which the tutorials are easy to follow and provide both basic and advance skills for novices like myself.

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Today we are glad to release five grunge styles for Adobe Photoshop. These styles were designed by the german Photoshop artist Dirk Metzmacher and released especially for Noupe and its readers, including resources for textures, fonts and brushes.

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jQuery can empower a developer with the tools required to create a rich user experience. The way in which we display images, text, charts and graphs can enhance functionality for the wide range of users. Let’s take a look at 35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques for slideshows, graphs and text effects.

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Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community.

This is where we come in. We are always looking to collect such articles for our posts so that we can deliver the most useful and relevant content to our readers. In this post, we present an overview of useful CSS/jQuery coding tips, tricks and techniques for visual effects, layouts and web form design to help you find solutions to the problems you are dealing with or will have to deal with in future.

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As well as button tutorials and techniques we have also showcased some CSS3 tools and generators, you will find these at the bottom of the post.

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This article focuses on actual wireframing tools and standalone applications, as well as resources that you’ll need to build your own wireframe: wireframing kits, browser windows, form elements, grids, Mac OS X elements, mobile elements, which you’ll use in any typical graphics editor such as Photoshop or Illustrator. …Or you could use pen and paper.

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So you're starting to show interest in web design, but are having trouble figuring out where to start? Want to create awesome websites, learn how to code HTML/CSS, and learn about web standards and the user experience? If so, we have a list of hand-picked Envato tutorials that should get you started on your journey!

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Sometimes it’s necessary to take a break from work and do something a little more enjoyable — like play games! Of course your employer probably won’t allow you to install a desktop game on your computer but fret not, there are plenty of browser-based games to keep you entertained.

We’ve pulled together ten great browser-based games you should definitely check out.

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Sending invoices and quotes to multiple clients is an everyday task in the life of a web designer. You will fall into hundreds of paid invoice applications while searching for the free one, each ranging from 5$/m to 30$/m and so on. Paid apps can be good for large corporations who earn a lot of money but they are simply a monthly expense for an average freelancer. That’s why we have prepared an article having 5 best free invoicing apps for your business.

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So you're starting to show interest in web design, but are having trouble figuring out where to start? Want to create awesome websites, learn how to code HTML/CSS, and learn about web standards and the user experience? If so, we have a list of hand-picked Envato tutorials that should get you started on your journey!

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Web developers of new technologies that enrich the user is forced to vote the post with some examples of the functionality of Ajax, his voice can be recorded without reloading the page. Web designers can use a tool for further development, if we already know about JavaScript, HTML, CSS and XML, you have to spend a few coins to start learning AJAX.

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There are very few circumstances in which you have to work on other computer that doesn’t have Photoshop installed. What to do in such a moment? The easiest way is to visit one of these 10 websites, which are quite closely related to Photoshop. Not all features are always available, but the simplest will remain.

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