Download it exclusively from Sharebrain:  a fully layered, well documented, blank Photoshop PSD template, with all design elements, typography tags, comments, ads, poll and many more, to speed up your design process and make your developers happier. It’s well documented layers make it super easy to adjust it to your needs, apply layer styles and add colors or effects as needed. Using the 960px grid system with guidelines makes layout rearranging a matter of seconds.

Features:

- 960px grid system with photoshop guidelines
- Header with Logo, Company name and company slogan
- Two level menu
- Two column layout with right sidebar
- Headline tags H1 - H4
- Typography formatting, including hyperlinks
- Category and Tags
- Video player with FlowPlayer layout
- Inline Image
- Quote box
- Social Bookmark icons
- Comments with avatars and comment form
- Search box
- Poll with voting results, Events with calendar icons, Ads and
Comments blocks in sidebar
- Footer with main menu links

Now please do 3 things:
a. Download it & use it :-)
b. If you like it, tell everyone about it so we can bring you more freebies.
c. Share your designs with us in comments to this article.

Download this website style guide *.psd template here:
Blank Website Style Guide PSD Template

fontex.org is a font directory that presents you hand-picked best free fonts for download. The font compilation is beautifully arranged and once you land to the first page of this website, it will be easy to find any font that you want. This is because the fonts are categorized in specified styles.

The Font Styles list in fontex.org categories are:

* Blackletter fonts
* Calligraphic fonts
* Comic fonts
* Dingbat fonts
* Display fonts
* Grunge fonts
* Handwritten fonts
* Monospaced fonts
* Pixel fonts
* Sans Serif fonts
* Script fonts
* Serif fonts
* Slab Serif fonts
* Stencil fonts
* Typewriter fonts

There are some other options to browse the fonts on fontex.org.You can browse the name of fonts by alphabet, or just surfing down the random fonts to get start. Submit a font name in search box, or even browse by the Newest, Most Popular, or Best Rated collections.

What’s make this site so special is that every font is hand-selected. So what you get from fontex.org is always the best quality of fonts, regardless that they’re actually free to download. Another thing is, if you’re a newbie to font designs and you want to learn more about each style of font, this site provides short infos about it.

URL: http://www.fontex.org/

Here comes something that is absolutely useful if you are apparently a web designer. Mocking up a web design layout cost you lots of time, as you always working with so much details to put together some of web design elements for the best accessibility and usability.
Most of the time you start it all from your Photoshop working canvas before the coding process take place. It is also common things to use the same web elements on different web project but of course you should put up any custom styling based on the design theme.
BestBlogBox.com released a PSD file format which contains plenty of web design elements that will absolutely help you out.

These web design elements are made in dark color scheme by default. But if you’re an advanced Photoshop user, it will be easy for you to edit the fonts, colors, strokes or gradients styling for each layer to fit your design need.
All of these web elements are designed in Web 2.0 style, with smooth rounded corner boxes.

There are two folders in the zipped file. You can begin to work with “all in one PSD file” folder which everything is there and the file is also bigger in size, or you can just pick several of web design element items that you need the most,inside the “single item PSD file” folder.

What modules and web elements that you will get:

* Advanced search module
* Contact form module
* Form module
* Buttons (6 different design, 4 different colors)
* Footer
* Slider module
* Member login module
* Newsletter sign-up module
* Pagination
* Dark Sand Pattern (.JPG)
* Product display module
* Registration module
* Scrollbars (4 different colors)
* Search bars (4 different colors)
* Sliding menu module
* Tabbed featured item module
* Tabbed message box (tip box)
* Tabbed box sidebar
* Horizontal top navigation menus

It is a very useful resources for you and save you a lot of time, so just jump in to download the pack from the source page. Don’t forget to share this review post or please do comment if you like, thank you! :)

URL: http://bestblogbox.com/freebies/all-in-one-web-elements-kit/

AllSilhouettes.com is a good spot to find various kind of free vector silhouettes and you can download them for free. Most of the collection of vectors at AllSilhouettes.com are created by a generous designer: Stanislav. Vector graphic is always a powerful format because you can modify it to fit your design needs. You can browse the vector silhouettes in these categories to get start:
Creative arsenal, Creatures, Grunge, Nature, Objects, Ornaments, People and Symbols.

The silhouettes available to download are nearly reaching 3,000 vectors in 45 vector packs. They will absolutely make your design astonished and brilliant! And all for free.

URL: http://all-silhouettes.com/

With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link for free. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, myspace, personal site and many other portals. And, you can invite people through simple mail notification and twitterings.

So if you want to create a quick webcam chatroom, this one is a really easy tool to do so. Just check it out:

URL: http://tinychat.com/

Masonry is a layout plugin for the ever-popular Javascript library jQuery. Think of Masonry as the flip side of CSS floats. Where as floats arrange elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges them vertically then horizontally. The result leaves no vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.

Invoking Masonry only requires one line of code. So it is really easy ;-)

There are no setting or options within in the plugin. Instead, all spacing properties can be set with CSS. The only property required for Masonry to work is for the width of the child elements. Child elements should have equal width in order to avoid any overlapping.

URL: http://desandro.com/resources/jquery-masonry

SerialScroll jQuery plugin makes possible series of elements to be animated in sequence scrolling. A compact and tiny plugin, but highly customizable as it has access to a lot of options. It can use jQuery.ScrollTo’s settings and it will make 27 different options. jQuery.SerialScroll is adaptable because it won’t alter the HTML or styles at all.

You can make good use of jQuery.SerialScroll to create:

* screen slider
* text scroller
* slideshows
* news ticker

Find out more about more options setting details, to control the scrolling or events at the source page.

URL: http://flesler.blogspot.com/2008/02/jqueryserialscroll.html
Demo: http://demos.flesler.com/jquery/serialScroll/

Pictaculous is a color tool that allows you to get a color palette right after you upload an image.
The color palette will be consist of 5 colors which are taken from your uploaded graphics, complete with its hexa code for each color. It handles PNG, GIF, JPG image file format and your file cannot be larger than 500kb.

This color palette generator is so simple, but quite helpful. There are also two other well known color community websites that will suggest you some alternatives of color schemes. They are Adobe Kuler and COLOURlovers. Once you’re done, you can download the Adobe Swatch File, share it on some social bookmark sites or share by email.

Just a pretty cool color tool web, to add on your bookmark list.

URL: http://pictaculous.com/

2. Describe a typical day at work?
trying to leave on time to have dinner at home :) well, i’m at the office at 9am and start by checking the mails, usually we plan hours for projects on going one week in advance and that helps my days to be more on focus. Brief, plan, design, plan, design, deliver. Going for ice cream/ coffee in the middle of the day, when it’s possible, to breathe fresh air.

Some projects developed at Bleed:

3. What do you enjoy most about your work?
The challenge of coming up with a solution to a problem; working with people i admire both clients and colleagues;

4. What do you like least about your job?
When a client has a preconceived idea of what he wants, not what he needs, and without understanding is asking to execute his vision.

Some freelancer projects:

5. What is your worst enemy of creativity?
A condition where the speed is too low to allow effective operation of the controls. I believe creativity doesn’t come by accident and requires hard work, patience, a critical mindset and a high degree of experimentation. I need to get my hands dirty before achieve results, it’s a skill not a gift.

6. What do you do when you start a new project and you have NO ideas?
hum… i fight back with the problem and i try to put all information i have in prespective, usually gives me a direction to follow and if i’m not happy half way i restart the process.

7. What inspires you the most?
It’s hard to say, i’m very reactive and there are a lots of things that triggers me coming from all angles. From a status line on ichat from someone in my contact list to a structure of a song/movie that i might listen see works well for me, of course any piece of good design, despite the medium, always get me thinking if i would do that project what would and would not do.

Project developed at JimmyRoyal (www.jimmyroyal.no)

8. Do you listen to music while working? And if “yes” what music do you listen to?
yesss. here’s my last.fm profile for music i scrobble when i’m working : http://www.last.fm/user/dvplus ( at home i mostly use my stero)

9. How do you deal with criticism?
I think quite well. I am quite pragmatic and always receptive to criticism, in fact i’m always asking for criticism whilst when it comes to a matter of taste discussions i fight to prevail mine

10. What does your workspace look like?

11. Do you remember the very first web-project in which you were involved?
yes, it’s still live at www.kryptonproduction.com I had just started a practice with a colleague from university and despite we were both working in a design studio already, the comertial pressure of the studio lead us to seek more challenging projects outside the studio ( i guess this feeling is like a shadow to except in one ocasion while i was working at Bleed Design Studio (www.bleed.no)) anyway, we got a tip from a friend that a video production company wanted to make a website and so we booked a meeting with the managing director and said that we were designers and were interested im making their web site. ( ehehe so naif looking back now ) And so it happened he gave us his trust and we presented a proposal sketch that he really liked and we made it in the following nights after work. Another funny note I remember, was that since we had no business set up and were 21 the client asked for a guarantee in case that we would “disappear” for someone to keep doing the site updates and newsletters, so we asked to the studio we were working for if they could guarantee which they did :)

12. Is there any advice you would give our readers?
might sound like a cliché but i’d say “just do it” don’t hide behind excuses and be critical to yourself as you are for others.

Project developed at Scandinavian Design Group:

13. What has been the most fun project to work on so far?
It´s hard to name 1 project. I guess the way i work i always try to have a great deal of fun doing it, sometimes with the work, sometimes with the process, sometimes by the surreal amount of ambition invested in a low budget project, … i could go on and on naming moments that really drives me.

14. Imagine yourself in 15 years… what do you see yourself doing?
I hope i can focus more on less projects and have had so much fun doing great projects :)

15. Please tell us 3 people who we should do this Interview with (Why them?).
I will name 6 to break the rule and challenge them, Anders Hoofgard from NODE BERLIN; Artur & Lizá from R2 Design Studio; Eirik Seu Stokkmo a.k.a Teipu; Jürg Lehni from lineto; Andreas Philström a.k.a Suprb and long adimrer of his community ventures Folkert Gorter

links:
http://www.nodeberlin.com/
http://www.r2design.pt/r2design/
http://www.teipu.net/
http://www.scratchdisk.com/
http://cargocollective.com/suprb
http://cargo.superfamous.com/

Diogo…thank you very much for answering our questions :-)

So if you want to visit Diogo you should do that now: Visit http://blog.thedronespeech.org/ or leave him a comment here! :)

highresolutiontextures.com gives your 6 free wood textures in high resolution. If you work on design project that requires you to create nature theme or simply need large background for design element, this texture set collection is absolutely the perfect choice. This pack includes 6 high resolution images of various & colorful sorts of wood or bark. Each of the texture size is up to 3800 x 2500 pixels (7Mb) in average.
Grab these 6 wood textures for free or bookmark for future refference, thank you!

URL: http://www.highresolutiontextures.com/6-hi-res-wood-textures

Anonymous Pro is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
Anonymous Pro also features an international, Unicode-based character set, with support for most Western and European Latin-based languages, Greek, and Cyrillic. It also includes special “box drawing” characters if you need them.
While Anonymous Pro looks great on Macs and Windows PCs with antialiasing enabled, it also includes embedded bitmaps for specific pixel sizes (“ppems” in font nerd speak) for both the regular and bold weight.

It is available in one universal TrueType format that will work on both Macs and Windows PCs.
Anonymous Pro is distributed as copyrighted freeware fonts. You are free to use and distribute them in any way as long you keep them together and include the “Read Me” document that is included with the fonts.

URL: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

This could be the best high resolution brushes to add into your brush set collection. YoutheDesigner.com just released a quality set of Photoshop cloud brush for free. This Hi Res Cloud Brushes is the second free set which are perfect for your design. You can use it for large background design of web or graphic, it is pretty useful for all your nature related design needs. You don’t have to create these Cloud effects with filter anymore if you already install this amazing Cloud Brush set on your Photoshop. There are 25 brushes in a set, with the size ranged in 994px - 1552px (12.6 mb .ABR).

URL: http://www.youthedesigner.com/2009/03/23/25-cloud-brushes-volume-2/