Archive for January, 2010
70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of December which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials
Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop
How To Create a Sleek Audio Player Interface in Photoshop
65 Mold-Breaking 3ds Max Tutorials
Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop
40+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Portfolio Sites
How to Create a Curious Owl in Illustrator CS4
30+ Useful Logo Design Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator
22 Tutorials To Create Shiny Effect Using Photoshop
The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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Visa Campaign does Amazing Arts on the Go
16 Popular Website Redesigns Of 2009
32 Superb Examples of Photo Manipulation
Stunning Mosaic Illustrations from Charis Tsevis
Data Tables In Modern Web Design
50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings
25 Ultra-Creative Packaging Designs From DeviantArt
Changing Design Trends for Site Maps
Logo Design Inspiration: 70 Creative Fresh Designs
35 CSS-based Layouts that Look Awesome
25 Beautiful and Creative Artworks Featuring Year 2010
The Best of 2009 in Flash Web Design
Talented Landscapes and Scenery Artist Ksenia
50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design
Business Cards: Collection of Inspirational Designs
30+ Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography And How To
Headers and Footers that Grab You Coming and Going
Go Bananas with 50+ Vector Illustrations that Monkey Around
30 Examples of Beautiful Portfolio Designs
28 Breathtaking Nature and Wildlife Photos
24 Typographic, Clean and Minimalist Motifs to Inspire
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography: Tutorials, Tips and Stunning Examples
Javascript and Ajax
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15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials
Solutions to 5 Common Ajax Problems
18 Latest jQuery Plugins for Your Next Project
20 Professional jQuery Image Gallery Plugins
7 jQuery Cheatsheets For Every Designer & Developer to Have
xHTML and CSS
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33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles
Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3
Fundamental CSS3 Resources for Designers
CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites
Resources
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40 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
25 Beautiful Free PSD Files to Download
50 Free Resources Of Hand Drawing Style Icons, Brushes, Textures and Fonts
Beautiful Fresh Free Fonts for Designers
30+ Free Online Multimedia (Photo, Audio, Video) Editors
50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design
25 High Quality Abstract Photoshop Brush Sets to Touch Up Your Design
The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009
10 Free Apps for Managing Your Fonts
Ultimate Resource List for Vector Graphics
30+ Free Adobe Illustrator Pattern Sets
30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designs
Miscellaneous Articles
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30 Powerhouse and Prospective Design Blogs
The 6 Most Common Posts on Design Blogs
7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website
30+ Portable Window apps for your USB drive
35 Adobe AIR Tutorials for Web Developers
How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery
22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks
How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert
20 Excellent Facebook Scripts and Resources
The Role of College for Web Designers Comments Feed
Useful Suggestions To Secure And Speed Up Your WordPress Blog
25 Graph and Chart Solutions for Web Developers
How Many Ideas Do You Show Your Clients?
45+ High Quality Space Wallpapers And Digital Artworks
Space has always mesmerized human beings. The idea of substantially gigantic and complex galaxies that we see in movies and science fiction has always stirred up the human imagination. That’s why we decided to post something about space wallpapers, digital arts, photography and space images. For this post, we have collected 45+ high quality space artworks, photographs and wallpapers that will for sure take your breathe away. If you liked this post, please share it with others.
You are welcome if you want to share more space wallpapers and digital art images that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
Space Digital Artworks
Grand Universe by ANTIFAN-Real
Ngc1977 – Running man nebula by pfile
Push the Button by TheUnlikedOne
Shield World Construction by Phoenix-06
Destiny – Good vs Evil by keepwalking07
The Gathering by =thiagochackal
Lost In Space by thiagochackal
Galactic Segregation Updated by Nuukeer
Escape from Paradise by JoeJesus
Millions of Years B.C by Tr1umph
Astronomers ‘Flip’ Over Cartwheel Galaxy
Space Wallpapers
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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of December
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of December, 2009 as well.
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RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.
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PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
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We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
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You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
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