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30 Inspiring And Creative Examples of Colorful Pattern Designs

As we all know that textures, backgrounds and patterns are the most wanted freebies on the internet. Specially designers who love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive. This collection would be really useful for inspiration and ideas. SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are inspiring and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 30 Inspiring And Creative Examples of Colorful Pattern Designs. We hope you all will like this collection.

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43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
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A smile for timbuctu

A smile for timbuctu

Tina

Tina

Geometric Updates

Geometric Updates

Bears are so bad

Bears are so bad

Wrapping Paper Collection

Wrapping-Paper-Collection

Patterns

Patterns

Exe Logo Pattern

Exe Logo Pattern

Colorful Patterns 1

colorful patterns 1

Colorful Patterns 2

Colorful Patterns 2

Birds pattern

Birds pattern

Pattern 102

Pattern 102

Trouble

Trouble

Dirty Vintage

Dirty Vintage

Wrapping Paper Collection 2

Wrapping Paper Collection 2

Fancy Creatures

Fancy Creatures

Pattern 32

Pattern 32

Just Another Angry Pattern

Just Another Angry Pattern

Blue Lotus

Blue Lotus

Typographic Pattern

Typographic Pattern

Pattern 68

Pattern 68

O3

O3

O3

O3

700 miles

700 miles

Breezy Marine

Breezy Marine

Pattern 1

Beautiful Pattern

Pattern 2

Beautiful Pattern-2

Pattern 3

Pattern 3

Pattern 18

Pattern 18

Contra

Contra

60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In June

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 60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

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Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials

53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials

40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials

10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography

Design a premium wordpress blog with Photoshop

Design a premium wordpress blog with Photoshop

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials

77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects

Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials

Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials

It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop

It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop

Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop

Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Breathtaking CG Images

50 Breathtaking CG Images

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design

50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design

100 inspiring character designs

100 inspiring character designs

18 Fresh Font Designs

18 Fresh Font Designs

40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations

40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations

Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

45 Fabulous Logo Designs

45 Fabulous Logo Designs

60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases

60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases

74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs

74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs

50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design 

50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design

100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration

100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration

25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design

25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design

13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration

13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration

43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art

43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art

12 Water Inspired Web Designs

12 Water Inspired Web Designs

20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers

20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers

Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples

Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples

25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art

25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations

21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations

23 Flourish Designs

23 Flourish Designs

Javascript and Ajax

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55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks

55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks

Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color Animation 

Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color Animation

25 Useful MooTools Tutorials

25 Useful MooTools Tutorials

15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX

15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX

10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance

10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance

xHTML and CSS
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24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials

24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

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Watercolor Icon Pack

Watercolor Icon Pack

50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes

50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes

30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set

30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set

15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies

15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies

Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools

Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools

25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready

25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready

Hibiscus flowers - vector freebies

hibiscus flowers - vector freebies

100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns

100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template 

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template

20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials

30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials

Miscellaneous Articles
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12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)

20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)

Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards

10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards

20 Really Useful And Free Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Plotting your data can serve as a replacement to tabular data, and is also a great way to add practical graphics to your web page or application. There are many ways you can plot data, but here I have included 20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Sites/Blog Pages which serves as a easy Charting solution. Hope you like it.

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JS Charts

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required. Just include our scripts, prepare your chart data in XML or JavaScript Array and your chart is ready.

Flot

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking. The plugin is known to work with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+.

Style Chart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Style Chart is an innovative technology that allows you to easily embed sophisticated and dynamic charts in your Web site.

FC_RTGraph

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

FC_RTGraph is a tool that allows you to collect and graph information from SNMP devices. FC_RTGraph takes an XML formatted config file as input. FC_RTGraph is an excellent tool for real-time monitoring. Collected SNMP data can be graphed in highly customizable 3D graphs (Bar, Area, Line, 3D).

Raphaël

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library. Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Open Flash Chart 2

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages
Edge cases such as tooltips encourage user interactivity and data exploration and you can re-size the charts. It can manage the missing data. This solution saves the chart as an image form. You can highlight or emphasize one (or many) points.

Google Visualization API

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. Google Visualization API enables you to expose your own data, stored on any data-store that is connected to the web, as a Visualization compliant datasource. Thus you can create reports and dashboards as well as analyze and display your data through the wealth of available visualization applications.

Yahoo UI Charts Control
20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The YUI Charts Control visualizes tabular data on a web page in several possible formats including vertical columns, horizontal bars, lines, and pies. Notable features include support for the DataSource Utility, customizable series and axes, a customizable mouse-over datatip, combination charts, and skinning.

ProtoChart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

ProtoChart is an opensource library using Prototype and Canvas to create good looking charts. This library is highly motivated by Flot, Flotr and PlotKit libraries. It supports line, bar, pie, curve, mix, and area charts, multiple data series on same graph, customizable legend, grid, grid border and background. It supports: IE6/7, FF2/3 and Safari and even works on an iPhone.

PlotKit

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support. PlotKit is a complete rewrite of CanvasGraph. It is better structured and supported.

EJSChart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

EJSChart supports mouse tracking, mouse events, key tracking and events, zooming. Scrolling, and crosshairs raise interactivity and user experience in web charting to a new level. You can choose multiple chart types: line, area, scatter, pie, bar and function series. Every aspect of the charting display can be configured and customized through well-documented properties and methods.

Only Pure Css Data Chart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages
Data visualization is mostly achieved with flash applications or with help of some programming languages. Are those solutions the only way to present, let’s say simple data chart? How about giving it a try with nothing but good ol’ css? CSSGlobe provides this useful tutorial which explains how to draw simple data Charts using only CSS, without using JavaScript or any backend application.

fgCharting

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

fgCharting is a nice jQuery plug-in which allows you to plot easly charts. It supports several types of charts (line, filledLine, additiveLine, additiveFilledLine, pie, bar, additiveBar) you can customize how you prefer.

JavaScript Diagram Builder

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The JavaScript Diagram Builder supports several types of chart and graph types including bars, dots, lines, and pie charts. The developer has provided a Browser Support tool to help you check if particular objects/methods of the library are supported by your current browser.

Canvas 3D Graph
20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

If you need to graph 3-dimensional data, Canvas 3D Graph is worth checking out. Canvas 3D Graph is written with excanvas.js to support Internet Explorer.

Dynamic Drive Pie Graph script

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

DynamicDrive offers a DHTML/CSS based solution for graphing pie charts. The implementation is straightforward, just include two scripts provided (wz_jsgraphics.js and pie.js), define the values of each segment of your pie chart either inline or in an external JS file, and you’re set!

Flotr Javascript Plotting Library

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Flotr, written by Bas Wenneker of Solutoire.com, is a plotting solution inspired by Flot that uses the Prototype JS library and excanvas.js. It supports most modern browsers including Internet Explorer 6, and has many features of Flot including mouse tracking, selection, mouse-tracking features.

Emprise JavaScript Charts

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Emprise JavaScript Charts offers a free Personal License for their feature-packed charting/graphing script. Check out their feature comparison table of the different types of licenses to see which license is right for you.

Dynamic Drive Line Graph Script

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The Line Graph script is another DHTML solution from DynamicDrive that allows you display line graph data. The procedure for implementation is similar to the Pie Graph script.

JGraph

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

JGraph - JGraph is the leading Open Source Java Graph Visualization Library. It follows Swing design patterns to provide an API familiar to Swing programmers and functionality that provides a range of features. Graph visualization is a central requirement for applications such as workflow editors, computer and telecommunication networks display, flowcharts, VLSI and CAD, business process modeling, organizational charts, entity-relationship and cause and effect diagrams, and much more.

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6 Free Web Based Apps For PDF Files Available For Use 24/7

Today, we are publishing another list of 6 Free Web Based Apps For PDF Files Available For Use 24/7. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we hope this collection of free tools for PDF will be helpful for all of you. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really useful and interesting in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.

You are welcome if you want to share more free web apps for PDF files that are useful and 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 as well.

PDF to Excel

PDF-to-Excel Converter

You can use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly, editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, you can do it entirely free.

Zinepal 

Zinepal

You can use Zinepal to create your own magazines and eBooks. You can select content from blogs, Atom/RSS feeds and other websites. zinepal.com reformats the content into a printable PDF and an eBook for use with the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Now you can take your content wherever you go. Read your zine during your commute, in the park or your favorite coffee shop. You can also e-mail it to your friends or just let them subscribe to your zine feed on zinepal.com.

PDFvia

PDFvia

PDFvia is a free service that empowers users to share PDF files with anyone, anywhere, across the world without clogging inboxes. Once you upload your PDF, you will be given a link that you can send to your colleagues or clients, without the worry of clogging anyone’s inbox. You can also specify a password once you upload your PDF. This will also allows you to host multiple files.

LOOP PDF

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LOOP PDF is a free web-based service that allows you to convert and combine files to PDF. You do not need to install software or be working from your desktop computer. LOOP PDF allows you to convert, organize, and combine files to PDF. Your customer will appreciate an email with one organized, professional, and visually consistent secure PDF rather than a series of attached files that are confusing, out of order, and time consuming for the recipient to review.

PDFescape

PDFescape

PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files and escape from the typical software requirements for using the de facto document file format. PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files and escape from the typical software requirements for using the de facto document file format.

PDFVue

PDFVue

PDFVue is the first online PDF editing tool designed to annotate and markup PDF’s for free. This is the essential utility to open your PDF’s, add comments and shapes, make and fill forms, and share the changes. With PDFVue you can upload any document from any computer without having to have expensive client software. Once you’ve made your changes you can simply download the updated PDF or share the secure PDFVue link.

23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action

Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. Today, We are listing down 23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!

If you want to share more beautiful websites with the texture backgrounds which should be listed here, please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed.

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31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
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43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements

17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not

FeedStitch

FeedStitch

Matt Dempsey

Matt Dempsey

pampaneo

pampaneo

Jason Julien

Jason Julien

Dawghouse Design Studio

Dawghouse Design Studio

SimpleFlame

SimpleFlame

Rockatee

Rockatee

Agami Creative

Agami Creative

Ali Felski

Ali Felski

The Literary Bohemian

The Literary Bohemian

Bright Creative

Bright Creative

Sprocket House

Sprocket House

The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre

The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre

Lucy Blackmore

Lucy Blackmore

Team Green 

Team Green

Rocket-wala

Rocket-wala

David Hellmann

David Hellmann

Huxley Prairie Festival

Huxley Prairie Festival

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

Inner Metro Green

Inner Metro Green

BlackWave Creative

BlackWave Creative

TeraFlex Trail Run

TeraFlex Trail Run

Ecoki

Ecoki

Lendl Allen V. Trazo

Lendl Allen V. Trazo

11 Popular Websites I Love To Visit Everyday, How About You?

Maybe it’s not surprising that I am one of those guys who spend at least 18 hours of my day on internet. I have many things to do online but there are few must have stuffs for me for everyday. I believe most of you should also have to do some same routine stuffs on internet. What if we all share our daily footprints on the internet? Today, I am showing you 11 Popular Websites I Love To Visit Everyday and would love to ask “How About You?”

You are welcome to share where do you would love to visit on internet in your day?  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 as well.

Google.com

Google

When I want to search out anything on internet or even want to get a solution of my problem, I always visit to Google without wasting my time anywhere else.

Digg.com

Digg.com

At Digg.com, Its really a fun to explore all the great contents discovering from all over the web. All the content and stories are very diversified and belongs to almost every parts of the world.

Twitter

twitter

Twitter is the best way to communicate and exchange of information with friends etc in very simplest and fastest way.

Gmail

Gmail

I am proud that I am one of the Gmail lover who can’t live without it. My email address on gmail.com is the primary address that I never afford to uncheck any day.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is the best combination of human opinions and machine learning to immediately deliver relevant content. Information on the Internet changes rapidly. With StumbleUpon, I keep an eye on top of this ever-evolving pool of knowledge.

CNN

CNN

CNN.com is my first stop to get instant update with latest news and happenings going on worldwide.  I also like their technology section that covers almost all the new stuffs.

deviantART

deviantART

As a designer and a lover of creative artwork, I really love to spend my most of the free time  on deviantART to get inspirations, to appreicate others work and to share my work.

Google Reader

Google Reader

I never used any other rss reader other than Google Reader, There are many reasons for me to use it but I can use it online from any computer and this is my routine to use atleast 2 different computers all the day so it will not be a trouble for me if I want to keep an eye on the updates of my subscribed websites from any location.

Facebook

Facebook

Facebook is became very necessary for me to get in touch with the group of my class fellows who are engaged in different professions and that’s why we could not get a chance to meet with each others easily. Facebook always connected us wherever we are.

Alexa

Alexa

If you are wondering that why Alexa is in this list so it’s because I am an internet savvy and addicted surfer as well as webmaster.  I visit many sites and blogs everyday and would love to know more about them for their traffic, visitors, countries where it’s popular etc. Alexa is my ultimate choice.

YouTube

YouTube

Last but not least, YouTube is a real fun partner in my free time at the end of the day. I love to watch animation sequences, trailer of upcoming movies etc. It’s really refresh me when I get tired.

Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

Now a days, unlimited websites are coming live everyday to take part in the internet world. They can be classified in business sites, blogs, social networking sites, directories, forums, e-commerce sites and many more other creative ideas applied to do something that has never been done. Today, We are compiling a list of Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website. These free web applications can be use in diversified ways to get your customize results for your fresh and new websites. You can easily find their showcase of running websites to get inspiration and ideas.

You are welcome to share more free web apps/platforms that will help our readers to start their multi-function websites.  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 as well.

WordPress

Wordpress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Pligg

Pligg

Pligg is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that you can download and use for free. Pligg CMS provides social networking software that encourages visitors to register on your website so that they can submit content and connect with other users. Our software creates websites where stories are created and voted on by members, not website editors. Use Pligg content management system to start your own social networking community in minutes.

phpBB™

phpBB

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

Magento

Magento

Magento is the eCommerce software platform for growth that promises to revolutionize the industry. Its modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform.

Drupal

Drupal
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

PrestaShop™

PrestaShop

The PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers.

jobberBase

Jobber Base

jobberBase is a great open source job board software for anyone. You can get online your job posting website with jobberBase. It’s easy to install and configure to start your job board.

Dolphin

Dolphin

YouTube, MySpace, Odeo, Flickr, Match and Facebook - all in one, customizable and under your full control. You’re limited only by your imagination - not by the software. Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a universal, free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly launch your own very unique and successful website.

The Freeway Project

Freeway

Freeway is the most advanced Open Source eCommerce platform and Freeway offers selling methods only previously available in enterprise class or niche bespoke systems. Without having to purchase a commercial system and then paying a developer to build a custom installation, Freeway does what you need out of the box. Of course Freeway is great for selling products but it also sells events AND services AND subscriptions. From appointments and time based bookings to event ticketing and subscriptions Freeway is the eCommerce platform.

PHPizabi 

PHPizabi

PHPizabi is one of the most powerful social networking platforms on the planet. With literally thousands of websites powered by PHPizabi including everything from simple friends sites to the most complex networking super sites out there. Easy to install, use, and raising the bar on what it is to provide a reliable, fast, social networking package to raise your business to the next level.

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Joomla

Joomla

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. The disadvantage with this form of animation is that it can sometimes appear to ’strobe’, partly due to the lack of blur between the frames. Today, we are listing here 21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations to make you impress with these creative art that need lots of hard work to get it done. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to search out more amazing stop motion animations.

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Stop motion whiteboard video

Her Morning Elegance

The Art of Motion

Stop Motion Post-Its

Super Lego Mario

Warhammer 40k Stop Motion Movie

PSP Commercial Stop Motion Animation

Whiteboard Animation

Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion

Wooden model stop motion animation

Firekites AUTUMN STORY Chalk Animation

xBox Stop Motion Commercial

The Original Human TETRIS Performance by Guillaume Reymond

Stop Motion Art

DEADLINE Post-it Stop Motion

eBay stop motion viral

Stop Motion with a LOT of People

Lego Indiana Jones

Let’s Do It

Stop Motion Animation Origami

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15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies

We are always in search of great free tutorials, resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Everyday we work hard to find new and useful stuffs for designers like you. Today, we have another great post for designers with a great collection of freebies stuff like Icons, Fonts, Vectors, Brushes, Textures, Patterns and PSDs. We obviously cannot cover all of the best available on internet, but we have tried our best to cover as much as possible.

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50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design

50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design

22 Excellent Photoshop Brushes to Spice Up Designs

22 Excellent Photoshop Brushes to Spice Up Designs

15 Free And High Quality Tree Wood Textures

Smashing Release : 15 Free And High Quality Tree Wood Textures40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons…

40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons…

10 High-Quality Free Leaf Textures

10 High-Quality Free Leaf Textures

10+ Free Grunge Style Rust Textures

10+ Free Grunge Style Rust Textures

Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

500+ Watercolor Brushes for Photoshop

500+ Watercolor Brushes for Photoshop

60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds

60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds

22 Free High Quality Doodle Photoshop Brushes Set

22 Free High Quality Doodle Photoshop Brushes Set

40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate Backgrounds

40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate Backgrounds

40 (NEW) High-quality and Free Icon Sets

40 (NEW) High-quality and Free Icon Sets

6 Free PSD/(X)HTML-Templates

6 Free PSD/(X)HTML-Templates

21 Truly Impressive And Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures

21 Truly Impressive And Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures

45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files

45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

A logo is a major element which is used to represent a business or product. Design a perfect Logo for your business or product is very much important. It has been told since last so many years that you should avoid using more than three colors when designing logo and told to avoid gradients. This trend was broken with the launch of Rainbow Apple logo in the mid eighties. From then till now we have discovered a lot about logo designing. Basically a professional logo design shows customers and clients your professional approach to business. A good logo design will help differentiate your product from similar products in the market. We believe that a well thought out logo design will help attract new customer. So feel free when you design logo. Do not limit yourself.

Today, we come up with interesting post for all our logo creativity-lovers, We made a list of 50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects.

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Apple Logo

Gradient Effect Logo

Aramova by grafikonline

Gradient Effect Logo

Webics by lalohead

Gradient Effect Logo

Glocalis by Martin Gallardo

Gradient Effect Logo

FOLD IT by TKhoury

Gradient Effect Logo

Veriation Music by kokonut

Gradient Effect Logo

UPS

Gradient Effect Logo

Marrek by dena

Gradient Effect Logo

LOOP by chek

Gradient Effect Logo

Ephfx by ephfx

Gradient Effect Logo

Sidewinder by Logomotive

Gradient Effect Logo

Dynamics Lab

Gradient Effect Logo

ADiM by Utkin

Gradient Effect Logo

Plastic Whale by brandberry

Gradient Effect Logo

Flutterfly by OcularInk

Gradient Effect Logo

NorthColour by northcolour

Gradient Effect Logo

Origamia by Gabber

Gradient Effect Logo

KSS By Euan MacKenzie

Gradient Effect Logo

Backup Drive by Oronoz

Gradient Effect Logo

South Pacific Imports Distribution by Stephen Petaia

Gradient Effect Logo

Luxable Group by kokonut

Gradient Effect Logo

Down the Mall by Humanot

Gradient Effect Logo

Elara Systems by maximalist

Gradient Effect Logo

TGB 09 Logo by sammy

Gradient Effect Logo

Magicthree by bartodell

Gradient Effect Logo

Yogo by Alan Oronoz Madriles

Gradient Effect Logo

BananasFilms by javo_rc

Gradient Effect Logo

CocoaStuff By Denis Olenik

Gradient Effect Logo

L-Evate Studios by Jean-Olivier Bouchard

Gradient Effect Logo

Sushi by smartinup

Gradient Effect Logo

Eem by Huseyin Cetin

Gradient Effect Logo

Emono Studios by VR

Gradient Effect Logo

Coffee CUP v.2 by janzabransky

Gradient Effect Logo

Premio Vida by leoramires

Gradient Effect Logo

Cia do Suco by Rodrigo Maia

Gradient Effect Logo

Cocoastuff by Denis Olenik

Gradient Effect Logo

Mad Compass by Impulse Design

Gradient Effect Logo

Jar Creative by Felix Espinoza

Gradient Effect Logo

South Pacific Imports Distribution by Stephen Petaia

Gradient Effect Logo

2FX Entertaiment S.A.

Gradient Effect Logo

Multimediums by Bart ODell

Gradient Effect Logo

Nucleus Creations by David Pache

Gradient Effect Logo

Fenix by fenix

Gradient Effect Logo

Anturius by Rodrigo Maia

Gradient Effect Logo

Life Source by Humanot

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Samarras by Joan Pons Moll

Gradient Effect Logo

Science House by Aleksandrs Kirhensteins

Gradient Effect Logo

Fritz Industries by Aleksandrs Kirhensteins

Gradient Effect Logo

Beyond Media Inc. by Van Bui

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moxlo by Diego Pampillo

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Bunzy by Dirk Leys

Gradient Effect Logo

Mad Compass by Impulse Design

Gradient Effect Logo

Guest post by Aquil Akhter, who is doing a job as a web graphic designer and working in this field since 8 years. He also run the blog softalize.com, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration especially for designers and developers. If you want to connect with him, you can follow me on Twitter.