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Professional Css Template

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:37:19 +0000

Today we come up with a new Css Template. The name of the Theme is “Professional CSS Template”. As the name indicates, this theme gives Professional look to your web pages. This Template is professionally designed to meet WEB 2.0 requirements.

Features of Professional Template :

* W3C standards compliant.
* Light weighted.
* Professional Image Design.
* DIV tags.
* High Clarity Images.
* Easily Editable.
* Free download and can be modified.

Sample ScreenShot :

and the Top navigation bar looks like this ,

and the sidebar look like this ,

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OS inside a Browser – A Silverlight Site

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:50:49 +0000

Have you ever seen a Operating System inside a browser ? Have you ever seen a Internet Explorer inside a Firefox Browser ? Here we found a new silver light site [ www.windows4all.com ] , that implements the Online Virtual Vista operating system . It is made completely on Silverlight technology , integrating each component of an operating system.

This site is still in Alpha Stage , so we can expect some more enhancements. Here comes the screenshots of the site.

Can play chess, as that you play it in your desktop.

Here comes the funny part. In the below image you can see Internet Explorer [Like IE] inside a Firefox Browser !

Bing Background Wallpapers

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:15:02 +0000

The Latest buzz in the world of search engine is BING . Bing Search Engine homepage contains beautiful backgrounds , that has been updated every day. Here you can find some of the wallpapers that has been used as Bings background image. click on the images to enlarge.

High Quality Wallpapers Free Download

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:02:13 +0000

Today we came with 15 amazing wallpapers. Download these wallpapers to decorate your desktop. You can download these wallpapers for free. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Microsoft Bing Pictures Show

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:56:10 +0000

The Latest buzz , Microsoft’s new search engine BING created a lot of hype. Unlike other search engine , which comes with a normal text box and a button , Bing comes with some nice image backgrounds. Here are some of backgrounds used in Bing homepage.

Paper Burn Effect – Photoshop Tricks

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:45:12 +0000

This Tutorial will teach about how to make a paper burn effect in photoshop. This is a simple tutorial which use a simple trick in photoshop by modifying the Inner glow option in Blending Options.

Step 1] Create a new Layer with a Black Background, since Black color will give you the burn effect.

Step 2] Open any Paper image. If not available simply use white color background.

Step 3] Select the Paper Image Layer and Erase some part of it using Eraser tool. So that the Result will look some thing similar to that of the below image.

Step 4] Now Apply Inner Glow Effect to the Paper Image Layer. The inner glow effect options will be some thing like .,

Step 5] Thats it ! Paper burn effect is done and the final image will look like ,

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We reached 1000 Subscribers

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:19:16 +0000

Rockstartemplate.com reached another milestone of having 1000 readers. The main reason why people subscribing our site is because of some quality posts. In a poll created last month , we found that people subscribe mainly to know about latest template designs available in the web , so we will make sure that we will come up with some nice template designs in near future.

Thanks for all Readers who subscribed to our news Feed. Also Thanks for those who are going to subscribe from now..:)

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Bluestar Car Template – CSS Template

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:06:25 +0000

BlueStar Template is a free CSS Template from Rockstartemplate.com. This CSS Theme has been released for FREE under the Creative Commons license. You can use this template for any type of personal or commercial use , but with a link back to our website in any ways. This Css template can be modified very easily and can be used to promote your site. I hope you like this theme.

Features of Bluestar Template :

W3C standards compliant.
Easily Editable.
Light weighted.
Professional Image Design.
We used only DIV [ Yeppiee ....!! ] [ NO Tables or frames ...:) ]
High Clarity Images.
Ofcourse it is Free .

Screenshot :

Preview of this Template : CLICK HERE

Download This Template : CLICK HERE

For more CSS Templates visit : http://rockstartemplate.com/css-templates.

Zoom Effect For Text – Photoshop

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:07:46 +0000

This Tutorial will help you to create a motion Zoom effect for Text using Adobe Photoshop. The end result will look like the zoom effect taken from camera.Follow the below steps to get a Zoom effect in photo shop.

1. SELECT ANY TEXT :

In our example we have taken the text as “PHOTOSHOP”.

2. APPLY FILTER-> DISTORT -> POLOR COORDINATES -> POLOR TO RECTANGLE :

Apply the Polar Filter to the selected Text. Before Applying Filter , photoshop will ask whether to rasterize the layer or not. Say yes to rasterize and apply the filter.

3. IMAGE -> ROTATE CANVAS CCW :

Rotate the image to CCW 90 degree , so that the zoom effect will match perfectly.

4.APPLY FILTER -> STYLIZE -> WIND :

Apply this filter from RIGHT TO LEFT 2 times . Also apply from LEFT TO RIGHT for about 2 times.

5. AGAIN FILTER -> DISTORT-> POLAR COORDINATES -> RECTANGLE TO POLAR :

You have to redo the same thing done in step 2.

6. Finally create a new layer and apply any gradient and also change the mode to LINEAR BURN .

Thats it your Text will now look like a Zoomed one. Thanks to Photoshop to make this possible. To read more Photoshop tutorial visit Photoshop Tutorial.

Photoshop Tutorial – Creating a 3D ball

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:09:09 +0000

This is the Photoshop tutorial to create a 3D ball . Follow the given steps to create a 3D ball.

1. At first open a new Document with size 5* 5 pixel. Create a Circle in that layer and fill any color [white is preferred] .

2. Goto EDIT and click Define Pattern. Give a new name to the pattern and save it .

3. Now create a new Layer of size 800*600 pixel.

4. Create a new layer and fill a pattern that you saved before. For this use Shift+F5 and select your saved pattern.

5. Turn off the background layer for more visibility.

6.Select Inner Shadow and set the MODE as MULTIPLY and select a Black color.

7.Create another copy and Change the options in Inner shadow as
ANGLE = -36
SPREAD = 50
DISTANCE – 30
CHOKE – 40

8. Hey 3D Ball is ready now !!

To read more Photoshop tutorials , visit http://rockstartemplate.com/photoshop

Face Pencil Art / Sketch

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:18:30 +0000

Hello people , looking for Face Art ? you are at the right place. You can use this Face art for your 3-D works or for practicing face arts or you can replace colors and use them in your web pages.

Click on the images to Enlarge

Natural Photography

admin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:20:18 +0000

We came with another collection of natural photography. This is the collection of some awesome photography taken from different part of the world , capturing the real world beauties.

20 Beautiful Header Banner Design

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:25:04 +0000

Would you like to add a image to your blog Header ? We provide here 20 beautiful header background images. You can choose your own banner and use it in your blog. In new Blogger Layout , you can easily add the Header to your blog template. If you are not satisfied with your existing header image , find your favorite one here.

[ Click on the Images to enlarge ]

1] Creative Banner Designs :

2] Green Background Banner Designs :

3] Fantasy Header Designs :

4] Blue Background Header Designs :

5] Black Banner Designs :

10 Character Designs at its best

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:34:31 +0000

Here is the list of Character designs for you. Character designs is a art of creating Characters for Games , Cartoons , Movies and more. ” A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity who exists in a work of art ” says wiki. Character design animation take the animation to the next level. you can read about 20 tips to keep in mind while creating a Character design here.

50 Amazing IceLand Photographs

admin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:36:23 +0000

Today we came with a Natural and landscape images from Iceland, a geologically young land in North Atlantic ocean. Go for a virtual tour in Iceland. Here you can find some cool photography taken in Iceland. The variations in the climate makes Iceland a dream country.

30 Beautiful Logo Designs free Download

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:03:19 +0000

Here we come with 30 customizable free logo designs. You can use the Below logos for your website logo or as favicons. Choose a Logo that fits your company and business requirements and use them right away. Start finding a right Logo for your website. Just right click and download the images.

Design your dream Wordpress Theme and win $3500

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:51:15 +0000

Hello Wordpress Theme Designers , there is a good news for you. ColorLabs Project is hosting a new contest for Wordpress template designers. All you have to do is to create a awesome high quality Wordpress theme and get home 3500 dollars.This is going to be a Grand Contest for all fellow designers . Everyone should show something special in designing and the best one would be rewarded.

How to enter ?

First design a overview of the template in jpg or png format before Feb 14 and submit . From this 12 themes will be selected by color labs theme. Selected designers have to submit the complete code with PSD file to compete in final round to win the grand prize.

You can create your dream wordpress theme from three categories , General Blog/Lifestream and Photo/ Video blog or Business Blog/Portfolio or Newspaper/Magazine. Best Designers from each category will receive 1000 dollars each. Also the best of 3 categories will get additional 500 dollars. That sounds great !!

Design your entry to fit 1024 X 768 user’s screen resolution and it should be in photoshop format. Apart from this if you win this contest , you will be interviewed and featured in ColorLabs Project.

Your theme will be selected based on three main factors . Your theme background story of the concept , Site content Presentation to viewers and how well you take wordpress function like a complete web site .

Good luck designers , Create your dream template and win your dream money.

For Official rules and regulations visit : ColorLabs Project Design Contest

Google’s New Favicon

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:41:31 +0000

Its another favicon change by web giant Google. Last update of google Favicon was done last May, 2008. This time the favicon is colorful unlike last time it is gradient. The new favicon with the letter ‘g’ surrounded by colors red, yellow, green, and blue.

Google’s New Favicon :

This is the new icon you will find whenever you visit Google homepage or whenever you see google bookmarks.

This Google Favicon designed by creating a contest by Google. André Resende, a computer science UG student at the University of Campinas designed it as :

His favicon was modified slightly to form a new google favicon. Every time you visit google from now , this new favicon will greet you to their homepage.

10 Must have Web design Softwares for Web designer

admin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:15:31 +0000

To be a better designer , every one should know the right tools to design the web page . Designing the web pages is not a tough task , unless you use the right tools to design them . Here we reviewed some of the useful web design tools .

1] Adobe Photoshop CS :

Photoshop is a essential image-editing tool for graphics professionals. Photoshop CS is a part of Adobe Creative Suite family which is the leader in bitmap editing market tool. Photoshop is an industry standard for graphics professionals.

The new Photoshop CS4 has some additional features like Wrap 2D images around 3D shapes , painting directly on 3D models , higher Printing quality , ray-tracing rendering and much more.

There are 4 different products of Photoshop , Photoshop Elements , Photoshop Express beta , Photoshop LightRoom and Photoshop CS4 .

Try Photoshop [ 30 day trial ]

2] Adobe DreamWeaver :

DreamWeaver is a Web developing application from Macromedia , now owned by Adobe . It supports web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, server-side scripting languages & frameworks including ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, JSP, PHP. DreamWeaver creates valid HTML/XHTML code for you.

With DreamWeaver you can design your web pages under real-world browser conditions. DreamWeaver is a leading web authoring tools for building world class websites and web applications . If designers use this tool to design web pages , then it will be very easy for the End-users to edit those pages manually by themselves .

Try Dreamweaver CS4 [ 30-day Trial ]

3] Sonic Sound Forge :

Sound Forge is a audio editing Software have every thing for converting raw audio to an Final finished master audio. This suite help you to create and edit stereo audio files with desired speed and precision. Features includes Tools for Sound Design and Mastering , Stereo and Multichannel Recording , Precise Audio Editing , Pristine Sound Quality , Powerful Effects Processing , Dolby Digital AC-3 export and many more .

Webmasters can use this tool for creating a Webcasts , webinars , video tutorial and many more. Adobe SoundBooth is a good competitor for Sony sound forge.

Try SoundForge [ 30-day Trial ]

4] Adobe FLASH :

Flash is a vector animation software developed and distributed by adobe . Flash is used to create Rich Internet applications such as animations , advertisements and other web components. Flash caches it’s videos so they don’t have to be reloaded. Microsoft Silverlight is a good competitor to flash. Today almost every Pc will have Flash installed. Flash is a very handy in creating Web components like calendars , movie players , user controls etc..,

The latest version of Flash , Adobe Flash CS4 includes more features for Action Script Programmers .

Try Flash CS4 Professional [ 30-day Trial ]

5] Microsoft Expression Web :

Expression Web is a part of Expression Studios from Microsoft. Create your website graphics with ease with expression web. You can use Expression Web’s professionally designed , standards compliant web site templates.Expression web supports CSS , that’s behind today’s modern sites.

With Expression Web no coding is required and it support ASP.Net 3.5 hence you can use all the controls to develop a dynamic web site. You also have PHP editing tool.

Try Expression web [ Free trial ]

6] Adobe Fireworks :

Adobe Fireworks is a specialized tool for web designers mainly used for optimizing web pages . Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor tool . Creating and optimizing images for the web becomes more quick with Adobe fireworks.

Features of recent Fireworks CS4 includes : Adobe Creative Suite Integration , with this you can work with other adobe application extensions like Psd , AI , EPS etc . this enables Cross platform integration . In cs4 you can find improvements in user interface , performance and workspace models , enhanced Optimization and scaling tools , RIA authoring support and other rich user Interfaces.

Try Fireworks [ 30 day trial ]

7] Microsoft Expression Blend :

Another awesome software from Microsoft. Blend is a Professional interactive design tool which has scalable, design oriented interface built using the Windows Presentation Foundation. XAML [Extensible Application Markup Language] is the language used in Blend .

Blend provides high-performance user experiences with Silverlight . To use Blend enabled websites your Browser should have been installed with silverlight. Composite your vector and bitmap artwork, video, audio, rich text, controls, and containers, and create custom vector elements.

Try Blend [ Free Trial ]

8] Adobe Illustrator :

Another product from Adobe enables you to create graphics environment with new transparency in gradients and multiple art boards. Whats new in illustrator ? In-panel appearance editing ,Refined graphic styles and more .

With Illustrator you can Create files containing up to 100 art boards of varying sizes and you can use it in any manner. You can Save, export, and print art boards separately using Illustrator.

Try Illustrator [ Trial free ]

9] Adobe Kuler :

Explore, create and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. The most lovable tool for all web designers. You can generate color themes , Work with color variations and export them in other software’s.

Kuler can be accessible from other Adobe products like Photoshop, dream weaver etc. The most important thing with Kuler is that it is completely free and available online at kuler.adobe.com .

try kuler for free kuler.adobe.com

10] All Web Menu Professional :

With Web menu pro you can create professional DHTML menus in minutes. you can create dynamic menus on server-side environments, such as PHP, JSP , Cold Fusion, ASP, ASP.NET.

You can create Multiple Column menus / Multiple Row menus in allwebmenus. You can give your menus a floating effect within specific sections of the page.

Try AllWebMenus

These are my 10 must have software for web designers . If i left something why not you tell us ?

Happy New Year 2009

Mohan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:00:43 +0000

Hearty greetings from rockstartemplate.com this new year to all . We are Celebrating this new year with a new Google Toolbar Page rank updation . However this is only a toolbar update . The page rank of each blog will be updated daily by Google .

This new year we are looking forward to blog more valuable content and generate some decent earnings from this blog . I wish our readers wishes comes true in this year .

New Logos of Google :

Yahoo :

Orkut :

New Year’s Day is every man’s new birthday. Happy New Year !!!

ART in Buildings

Mohan — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:14:09 +0000

This is the photographs of building exteriors filled with excellent Art skills . The visual display of these buildings are excellent and made by expert Architects . A Good architect can bring life in building exteriors . These type of Art designs are very much eye catchy in this modern era .

Collection of Creative Photographs

Mohan — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:41:05 +0000

Yet another collection of creative Photographs . Creativity is the process of discovering something you did not start out with .The below photographs pretends to look like a real photographs . Enjoy the Creativity .

Night Photography

Mohan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:30:26 +0000

Night Photography is a real treat to watch . Light is the key factor in Night Photography . The Picture will be nice only if we use proper Lighting’s . Digital camera should have adjustments and special techniques to avoid blurry, underexposed photographs . Here you can find phonographs taken in night . Click on the Images to enlarge .

Scary Pictures

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:09:11 +0000

Found some interesting pictures around the net about Scary pictures . Its a creative creation of devils Pictures . See the below pictures if you are courage enough ,lol , just kidding . Click on the image to enlarge .

Creative Photographs

Mohan — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:48:54 +0000

Another Collection of Creative Photographs found around the Web . Creative Photographs are treat to watch and we all wonder how the designers work on this kind of images . The courage to take risks and persistence are the key characteristics of the creative person . Here are some of creative Photographs.

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For More Creative Photographs , Creative FoodArt and Creativity at Hands .

Contest Winner

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:33:01 +0000

we conducted a Email contest last month and now we came up with the results . The List of email subscribers are selected from october 20 till november 30th . There are more than 450 entries . The Winner is Mr. Rajesh [rajesh.mech] . Congo rajesh , check your mail .

Screenshot taken during selecting random winner :

We will return with another cool contest , so stay tuned . To keep track of contests in this site , Subscribe me .

Social Bookmark Site Icon Full collection Pictures Images

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:37:10 +0000

Ultimate and Full Collection of Social Bookmark sites all in one place . Social bookmarking sites help webmasters in increasing their sites Traffic and Back links . It is very important to place social bookmarking sites below every post , so that the readers of that post will share that post with their friends . Here you can find huge collection of Social Bookmarking Sites Icon .

webfruits.it :

Vikiworks.com :

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Fasticon.com :

Designreviver.com :

SmashingMagazine.com :

snap2objects.com :

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How to Add a Search Bar in wordpress blog

Mohan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:11:49 +0000

How to Add a Search Bar in wordpress blog ? The answer is here . This code will be helpful for theme developers and for those who like to add search to their wordpress blog . Follow the below steps and your Blog search will be ready in 5 minutes .

1] Create a New PHP file named ” searchform.php “

2] Add the following code :

/”>

3] Save the above code in searchform.php , and upload it to your Theme Folder .

4] Now include , , where ever you like in your theme .

Preview :

High Quality Nature Art Photography

Mohan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:28:26 +0000

Extremely high quality Art Photography about the Nature . Art is intended to convey an idea or a concept to the perceiver . Nature Art Photography can be only be designed by finest artists of Photography . A work of an Art is considered more important than the Finished product . Here you can see some of the finest Nature Art photography designed by Web Photographers .

We Reached 500 Feed count !

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:56:39 +0000

Rockstartemplate.com reached a milestone of 500 Rss and Email Subscribers . We already celebrated our 150th subscription milestone recently . I provided few tips to increase feed count , see it . Check our periodic increase in Feed count .

October – November : 500 – 150 = 350 Subscribers … !!