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29 Premium-Like Free But Extremely Tremendous Portfolio Wordpress Themes

AN Jay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:20:51 +0000

As you people already know about wordpress that it is one of most popular blogging service, so we are not going into its detail. It is so popular because of its highly useful plugins and readily available free themes that make blogging absolutely interesting and pleasing experience. For a web designer or a graphic designer, wordpress is the perfect platform to show his/her portfolio that can be very easily maintained. There are an increasing number of themes that are developed specifically for this purpose.

In this article, we are gonna show you a inclusive collection of 29 free but extremely tremendous portfolio wordpress themes that you can use for your portfolio. If you don’t have a portfolio site yet or are looking to create an interesting, easy to update, fast loading and professional looking portfolio than you must use these Portfolio themes of wordpress.

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Folio Elements

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Linquist

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Desk Space

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Gallery

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Snapshot

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Portfolio

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Fotofolio

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F8 Lite Portfolio

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Portfolio Press

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WP Coda

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Infinity

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Modfolio

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Sharpfolio

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Ascari

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The Unstandard

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Monochrome Gallery

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ImPress Theme

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Creative by Nature

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Grace

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Viewport

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Photo-Biyori

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Spotless

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AutoFocus

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Nishita

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Reflection

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Fullscreen

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Zack 990

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Monotone

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The Ultimate (Fresh) Collection Of High-Quality Free Social Media Icon Sets

AN Jay — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:19:48 +0000

A beautifully designed icon is the perfect way to represent your product or service, and they always come in handy whether you want to place them on your blog or want to represent yourself in an outstanding manner. A comprehensively designed icon can provide your user with the memorable metaphors and illustrations, even sometimes users only remember the icon they saw on the website.

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.

You are welcome if you want to share more free social icon sets 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.

Hand Drawn Social Media Icons

Vector Social Media Icons

The icons are designed in 32px and 16px vector format. With the vector format, you can scale the icon to any size to fit with your design or use it in high quality print materials.

Social Icons Vector Set

Here is a new free social icons vector set, which consists of 16 popular icons, available in both vector and PNG (64×64 pixels) format. Free for any use

Free and Exclusive Icons: Brown Social Icon Pack

In the pack, you will find 12 glossy polished icons in different size variations: 32×32px, 64×64px and 128×128px for maximum flexibility. All files are .PNG format and are mainly brown-colored especially for all you brown fanatic bloggers that like to share posts over the social networks nowadays.

Free Social Network Icons from IconShock

Included icons are for following services. Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter and Delicious.

Fluzzy Twitter Icon Set

Another high quality free Twitter icon set

Social Trucks Icons

There are 10 colorful, spacious and unstoppable social trucks at a whopping 512×512 px resolution for you

inFocus Simple White Social Media Icons

Free Grass Textured Social Bookmarking Icon Set

Circular Social Media Icons Repack

Social Trucks Icons

There are 10 colorful, spacious and unstoppable social trucks at a whopping 512×512 px resolution for you

inFocus Simple White Social Media Icons

Social Network Icon Set

These Iconshock icon set comes in 6 different sizes: 12×12, 16×16, 24×24, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 covering social various social network logos like Blogger, Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, Linked-in, Reddit, RSS feed, Stumble Upon, Technorati and Twitter.

Latte Art Social Icons

Four social icons for Facebook, RSS, StumbleUpon and Twitter available as 128×128, 64×64 and 48×48 PNGs.

Free Furry Cushions Social Icons Set

A Free Sophisticated Premium Peel Over Icon Set

Silver Button Social Media

Glossy Orange Orb Soc. Media

New & Free Social Media Icon Set For Your Blog

Extreme Grunge Social Icons

This high quality, hand made, icon pack is full with 20 Extreme Grunge Social Media Garments. Each icon is in .png format with transparent backgrounds, sized at 256×256px. Icons are free for commercial and personal use.

Free Set of 25 Icons from TurboMilk

This set of 25 web icons in 3 sizes was created by Eugene Artsebasov and the illustrious Turbomilk team!

Beer Cap Social Icons

Featuring the PNG goodness you’ve come to love in 3 sizes: small (48 px), pint (64 px) and pitcher (128px).

Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set

This set contains 20 200px x 200px PNG files that you can easily resize and edit for your website design.

Social Cubes – Exclusive Vectortuts+ Free Pack

If you’re looking for high-quality social icons for your next web project, then check out these icons. This set of 18 high quality freebies is available to download today! Enjoy!

Free Social Media Icon Set: Chrome

This set includes 19 social networks along with a standard RSS icon in PNG format.

108 Glowing Neon Social Media

108 Glowing Neon Social Media Icons, 512px * 512px Free for personal and commercial use

Gummy social icon set

This icon set consists of 12 social icons, in PNG and EPS format as well.

Free Set of Social Media Icons

In this set, you will find 23 different icons that is perfect for content-centered websites such as blogs, news sites, etc. You will find PNG, ICO, and BMP file formats of various sizes (up to 512×512px) for ultimate flexibility and usability.

T-Shirt Social Icons

Available in two durable materials, PNG and EPS, at the comfortable size of 128×128 pixels.

Amazing 3D Social Icons

A brand new set that consists of 20 3D icons in PNG format (64×64 & 128×128pixels).

Social Icons Made of Wood

Here’s another social icon set from webtoolkit4.me. This time the theme is wood. The set consists of 11 icons in PNG format (64 x 64). It’s free for both personal and commercial projects.

New free social icons sticker set

Tabbed Social Media Icon Set

81 Pixel perfect Social Media Icons

108 Black Inlay on Steel Social Media Icons

Nuovo set Social icons

Social and Web Icons

Social Media Comment Bubbles

Extended set of social icons

Location: Free Social Media Icon Set

Set of social icons no.2

Icons Cloud

Aquaticus Social Icons

Social Media Mini Iconpack

Social Network Icon Pack

Page Peel

Social Bird Iconset

Twitter Bird Icon Set

Polaroid icon set

Twitter icon set

Café Icon Set

Free Social Media Icons

Free Set of Social Media Icons – Rivet Social

Folder Style

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Stunning Pieces Of Digital Art That Would Make You Say ‘Wow’

AN Jay — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:11:01 +0000

This is a post in which we are listing down some Stunning Pieces Of Digital Art That Make You Say ‘Wow’. These are some of the beautiful digital artwork and illustration examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

You are welcome to share if you want to share more Digital Art And Illustration For Creative Inspiration 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.

Fire Within Me by =freaky665

Shiba’s Guidance by =Luches

Skullduggery by by Ng Fhze Yang

Colour by Wangli

Fire flower.. by ~shadow-light13

Forest by ~tahra

Muacks by LicoMomo

King of the Ash World by Diane Özdamar

The Monster Nian by Jason Juan

Metamorphosis by Cristiano Siqueira

Let Me Fly To Freedom by *Rockfield

Unique by ~ouwEnz

Jellyfish March by =Kaze-Hime

Cinabre by Diane Özdamar

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5 Great Extensions To Manage Various Tasks On Google Chrome

Umar Anjum — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:25:17 +0000

From opening a new tab to restoring or saving our session, we perform various tasks in our internet browsers. Sometimes these tasks are present in the browser in an already convenient enough manner to make life easier for the user. But at other times, in the form of extensions and add-ons, third-party developers make these browser tasks easier for us.

Since I use Chrome most of the time, I gathered 5 browser extensions which I think most Chrome users will appreciate. These extensions facilitate users in different ways, from saving our browsing sessions and managing our tabs to letting us choose hotkey shortcuts.

Give the list a thorough reading, try out any extension you are interested in, and let me know in the comments how they worked out for you. You are welcome to share if you know more useful google extension 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.

Too Many Tabs

Chrome, like all other modern browsers, supports the usage of multiple browser tabs. While this feature is mostly convenient, it can cause problems if the number of our tabs gets larger. The usual problem faced is finding the right tab when we cannot even view the favicon of the webpage, much less read its title in the tab. Too Many Tabs lets places an icon in our address bar which we can click to view our tabs as cascaded thumbnails; this view makes finding the right tab easier. Custom color schemes and interface designs make Too Many Tabs a great extension to manage tabs in Chrome.

LastPass

LastPass is a free password manager and form filler which comes in the form of an extension not just for Chrome but also for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari (Mac). While the standalone extension works fine in other browsers, in Chrome we need to download LastPass’s complete windows installer (available here). This tiny extension lets us import and export passwords to and from numerous storage vendors. Supported vendors include RoboForm, 1Password, KeePass, Password Safe, MyPasswordSafe, Sxipper, TurboPasswords, Passpack, Firefox, and Internet Explorer’s built-in password managers.

Session Manager

I personally found Session Manager to be more suited to my own needs. I often have a lot of tabs open when I get involved in a topic. I open up multiple web resources and references for that topic and end with a lot of simultaneously open tabs. Saving them all in the bookmarks will cause bookmark-clutter. Session Manager lets me conveniently save the entire session with a description to accompany it. I can save multiple sessions and restore them any time I want.

FreshStart

If you are looking for a session manager that will work across multiple computers, then FreshStart for Chrome is what will serve your needs best. With this extension, when we save our sessions, we can choose to exclude certain tabs. Our sessions are saved locally in the FreshStart bookmarks folder and synced to the cloud via Google Chrome’s bookmark sync feature. This way we can access our saved sessions on any computer which has Chrome with FreshStart installed.

Shortcut Manager

Shortcut Manager will benefit anybody wanting to set custom hotkeys to various Chrome tasks. We can change the browser default shortcut keys, and assign any bookmarklets or JavaScript actions to our hotkeys. Apart from built-in Chrome actions and the JavaScript actions which can assign, we can also capture the screen and insert our signature on a page.

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The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Floral Typography

AN Jay — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:02:15 +0000

Floral Typography is a form of art that coalesce typography, calligraphy, and lettering to create dynamic, flourishing designs. Since flowers are universal images that never go out-of-date, many designers opt to create floral typography for their designs. With floral typography, you can create appealing and noteworthy designs that capture the attention of your visitors. You can convey your message in very artistic way and with the floral ornament you can make your design inspiring, revitalizing and make it stand out of the world. So, here we have listed some really impressive Floral Typography to inspire those designers who are working on enhancing their creative skills.

You are welcome to share if you know more beautiful floral typography 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.

Dont Panic

Eco-environment

Floral Love

Gig Poster

STAY GREEN. GO RED.

Love

Keep Reno Green

Idea

Summer Exhibition

Designers don’t commit crimes

Logan

I Love Art

Hide and Seek

Play

Title

Typography-A

Type

BlackOut

White

Beautiful

Ecosystem BW

Spring

Deja VU

My Fake Cover

Tipo 04

Type

The Mask of Sorrow

A New Leaf

Crude

Nokia

Inspire

D+G Vector and Drawing

Using mixed media

Flickr the world

Word

Funkrush

Hello

Trust

Island

Got Milk

Silk

I love you

Chanel 4 25th Anniversary Book

What we do in life, echoes in eternity

Love

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80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

AN Jay — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:20 +0000

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 80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources 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 February 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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33 New High Quality Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Realistically Light and Render Interior Scenes using 3ds Max and Vray

88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

How to Create a Dark and Mysterious TV-Head Scene

100+ Maya 3D Tutorials For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Users

How to Create a Stylish Media Player in Photoshop

A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques

70 Ultimate Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques

How To Create A Vintage Camera in Photoshop

Create a Cartoon Car Similar to Cars Movie

30 Best Written And Explained Logo Design Tutorials

Design an Underwater Omega Code Poster

How To Draw A Funny Cop Illustration From A Sketch

Make a Freezing Cold Snow-themed Abstract Piece

50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

Create a Realistic Space Landscape Photo Manipulation

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

50 Breathtakingly Beautiful CG Landscapes

The Creative Examples Of Colorful Splash Pages

25 Examples of Incredible Ideas and Designs

25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

Creative Auto Ads

40 Trendy and Extremely Colorful Websites

Logo Design Inspiration: 65+ Brilliant Fresh Designs

40 Epic Digital Paintings

Email Newsletter Design: Guidelines And Examples

30 Visually Appealing Web Portfolio Designs

Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces

70+ Business Card Designs

Showcase of City Tourism Website Designs

60+ Amazing Digital Photo Manipulation Art

55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design

30 Free and Fresh iPad Wallpapers

Design Trend Showcase: 30 Horizontal Websites

25+ Breathtaking examples of Natural sky Photography

60 Creative Flash Websites You Should Not Miss

82 CG Superheros, Villains, and Iconic Movie and Video Game Characters

25 Beautiful Website Layouts

Javascript and Ajax

13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery

You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery

How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

10 Best jQuery Gallery(Slideshow) Techniques

xHTML and CSS

20 CSS3 Tutorials and Techiques for Creating Buttons

The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

The Future Of CSS Typography

Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3

54 Awesome Tutorials To Satisfy The Appetite Of Any Web Developer

50 Awesome Animations made with CSS3

CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions

Resources

NEW Sets of Free High Quality Icons for Bloggers and Designers

45 Best Places You May Visit To Get Or Create Free 3D Models

100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

Mega Collection of The Best Free Social Media Icons for Bloggers and Designers

20 Must-Have Image Optimization Tools for Designers

40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files

30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos

50 Free High Quality Professional Fonts for your new Web Design and Project

33 Free Blue Patterns to Download

60 Beautiful Premium Icons (Free)

35 Latest High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

158 Paper Textures For Kickstarting Your Backgrounds & Designs

Top 20 Free Fonts for Distinctive Headlines and Titles

20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

Miscellaneous Articles

Ways to Make your Banners More Click-able

The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

The Classic Look VS The Wow Effect

Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

4 Tips to Help Promote Your Website Using Facebook Fan Pages

10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site

The Three Golden Rules of Site Redesigns

How To Find Great Keyword Ideas For Your Articles

Design Envy : Make it Work For You!

Design Multilingual Website: A Beginner’s Guide

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50 Frightening (But Inspiring) Digital Illustrations Of Dragons

AN Jay — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:44:30 +0000

This would be one of the most stunning ferocious post on our website that demonstrates the charm of imaginative and furious creature i.e. Dragon which are basically the imaginary creatures of fairy tale and fantasy books. Although they are the fabled creatures, but still have created the unexplained magic of their own and this is the reason why designers from around the globe have created their own interpretation of such an amazing creature. So here we are presenting 50 amazing Dragon Illustration Artworks to let you boost your imagination and creativity. I am very much sure that you’ll like it and learn how to perceive your own image of these feared monsters. Just have a look at them.

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Dragon Mage by Kerembeyit

Golden Dragon by Amisgaudi

Legendary Boon by Kerembeyit

Dragon prince cover by Nebezial

Dragon head by Eic

Golden Dragon by Venator-Somniorum

The Dragon Master by Grafik

Dragon by Sandara

Dragon Mountains by Higherdepths

Rainbow by Ertacaltinoz

The Dragons of Ordinary Farm by kerembeyit

Make me proud by OmeN2501

Victorious dragon by Ironshod

Guardian by Ironshod

Undead Dragon by nJoo

Far in the direction by EastMonkey

Ryujin by GENZOMAN

Dragon of Ice-Fire by Bobbie-the-Jean

A Dragon Awakens by chrisscalf

Dragon Reign Wall Paper by JonHodgson

Dragon by Gotgituey

Dark dragon lord by VampirePrincess007

Zombie Dragon by ANARKYMAN

DRAGON: To Soar the Skies by TheGuardianDragon

samurai and Dragon by Garun

Temeraire by Sandara

dragon version 2 by el-grimlock

Dragon by Chase-SC2

Golden Chinese Dragon by Eic

Steampunk Dragon by Kerembeyit

Eternal Dragon by JasonEngle

Dragon Mountains by Higherdepths

Dragon by Akeiron

Shen Hua by Luches

Blue Dragon. by Amisgaudi

Smok by GENZOMAN

Chinese dragon by J-C

Dragon Hunters by TheDjib

Waiting for snow to fall by ShadowUmbre

The End by Ertacaltinoz

samurai and Dragon by Garun

Dragon by Tahra

Dragon Fury by Ironshod

Night Dragon by Dark-Sheyn

Golden Dragon by GENZOMAN

War of Dragons by kerembeyit

Ultraclypse by kerembeyit

DRACONIS INFERNVS by deligaris

Dragon by El-grimlock

The Final Challenge by Adonihs

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Breathtaking Masterpieces Of Creative Photography

AN Jay — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:07:50 +0000

Today, we are showing you another great collection of Breathtaking Masterpieces Of Creative Photography. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

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Blue Drop.. by Alfuraih

Evrenye Fighte r by Hodolomax

A Love For The Arts by Delacorr

Flying.. by jojobatanesi

Smoking Gun by Michael Jacobs

Sisters Communion by Keith

Stairways to Heaven by Anton Chekalin

Ballet Bird by Eline Spek

Bright side of life by Lidija Zizic

Love Hate Relationship by Delacorr

Window to the Soul by Stephen Poff

Thirst by Wheeler

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Why You Should Have A vCard And Examples Of Personal vCards To Inspire You

AN Jay — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:46:02 +0000

Some of you may actually be wondering what a ‘vCard’ is. It is an increasingly popular ‘mini’ one-page website that basically acts as an online business card; an online hub focusing completely on you. I say a vCard is one-page, but in actual fact that’s not entirely true. A lot of these modern virtual business cards use jQuery effects, allowing you to automatically scroll to the rest of the cards content which is usually hidden from the human eye. So, a hub, eh? There are actually several good reasons why you should have a vCard website.

You are welcome if you want to share more vCard website or templates 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.

Why You Should Have A vCard

1. Use it to fill your personal domain.
A lot of individuals and freelancers have personal domains such as ‘firstnamesurname.com’ as a main domain name for there hosting package. These domains are quite often unused and are generally left using a blank index HTML page. Why not fill the empty space with a vCard?

2. Never run out of business cards again!
Ever met somebody who you’d like to give your business card to but then realize you don’t have any with you when you open up your wallet? A vCard is the perfect solution! It can be accessed from any internet-connected computer or even a mobile phone with an Edge or 3G connection – and lets face it, a lot of people have this luxury now.

3. A great way to talk about yourself.
They’re a great way for people to find out more about a person – what they do for a living, their hobbies, or even their pets’ name. A vCard can be as personal as you want it to be and are quite often used to replace huge “about me” sections on blogs and portfolios.

4. Use it as a hub for your networks.
It’s somewhere people can go to find you on various social networking websites and profiles across the world wide web. Searching Twitter, Facebook and Flickr for a user can sometimes be a painful task – so long as you know their name you’ll easily be able to find their vCard!

5. They’re quick, simple and affordable!
Last but not least, vCards are modern, stylish and reasonably quick to make. If you don’t have the time or skillset to make your own, there is an expanding selection of premium vCards available to purchase from less than $10.

vCard Examples

Now you know what a vCard is and just a few of the many reasons why you can benefit from having one, here are a few great examples of personal vCards.

Rogie King

vCards give you the opportunity to experiment with textures and patterns you wouldn’t normally get to use as backgrounds on full sites.

Salya Howald

Use your vCard to illustrate who you are and let others find out about your personality. Use your favorite colors, patterns and include a photo of yourself.

Samrat Mazumdar

Samrat Mazumdar clearly loves Post-It notes and uses them in his vCard design. There’s no end of designs you can come up with.

Guy Lewin

Guy Lewin is a Mac OS X user, and likes the interface so much he decided to replicate it in his own vCard design.

The Rat House

Rendian Therianto uses elegant minimalism with a noisy background to create the perfect contrast between simplicity and grunge.

Ali Bahsisoglu

The iPhone has turned up all over the web since its first release. However, this is one of the best uses I have seen for it on the net.

Eugen Busoiu

Eugen Busoiu possibly has the most simple vCard in this short showcase, using subtle gradients and shadows to make it come to life.

Lee Norris

Lee Norris uses a sleek jQuery sliding Asian-style vCard, putting across his personality very well.

Nico Kaiser

Another simple, elegant vCard, purely grayscale other than the typography based logo.

Maykel Loomans

You can use your vCard to show off some of your favorite work, such as using a piece of photography in the background.

Craig Wilson

…Or even one of your favorite sketches/illustrations such as Craig Wilson does in his vCard.

Benjamin Reid

Benjamin Reid shares some his out-of-work life with the public, revealing that he is a musician as well as a web designer and developer.

Free vCard Templates

As vCards are just finding their way in to the deep depths of the world wide web, the amount of free vCard templates available are limited. However, there are a few great ones!

Free vCard Template – View Demo

Features: Social Media links, Email link, Twitter Feed. Download!

The Digital Business Card Wordpress Theme – View Demo

Features: Wordpress Theme, jQuery Sliding, Social Media links, URL and Email Links. Download!

MiniCard Theme for Wordpress – View Demo

Features: Wordpress Theme, Ajax Loading of Navigation Links, Built in h/vCard Support, About Me section, Social Media Links and Portfolio. Download!

CSS/Ajax vCard Template – View Demo

Features: CSS and Ajax Features, About section, Portfolio section, Services/Page section, Contact Form. Download!

Premium vCard Templates

There is a growing amount of premium vCard templates you can purchase and download, all at a very reasonable and affordable price. Here is a great a selection…

Plasma Card – $11 – View Demo

Features: Ajax Contact Form, jQuery Lightbox and Fade Effects, Social Media Links. Download!

The Virtual Business Card – $10 – View Demo

Features: Ajax Contact Form (with validation), Gallery, Social Media Links, jQuery Animations, Google Map Integration. Download!

Introducto – $10 – View Demo

Features: 5 Colors, jQuery Lightbox, Scroller and Slider. jQuery Social Media link animations, Contact Form. Download!

vCard Site Template – $14 – View Demo

Features: jQuery Animations, Contact Form, Mini Portfolio, Social Media links. Download!

Strokes! Personal Website Template – $10 – View Demo

Features: Single Page (does not require page refresh), Social Media links, jQuery Animations. Download!

Pixel Portfolio – $10 – View Demo

Features: jQuery Powered, Social Media links, Mini Portfolio, Contact Form. Download!

DotMe – $12 – View Demo

Features: 3 Themes, Mini Portfolio, Social Media links, Contact Form. Download!

Professional vCard – $12 – View Demo

Features: 2 Styles, Navigation Left or Right, jQuery Sliders, Tooltips, Lightbox and Animations, Contact Form (with validation), Google Map Integration. Download!

Card Portfolio Template – $10 – View Demo

Features: jQuery Lightbox and Animation, Social Media links, Contact Form. Download!

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45 Best Places You May Visit To Get Or Create Free 3D Models

AN Jay — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:39:08 +0000

3D models are being in used in a wide variety of industries with great popularity and fame. 3D Models are basically the representation of 3 Dimensional objects by using a compilation of points in 3D space and associated by different geometric entities. Free 3D models have been in use primarily because they can save your budget and deadline. So, keeping this in mind, we decided to prepare a post about some astonishing 3D models and open source 3D modeling applications for that we crawled into internet for several hours and compiled this for you. Just drop us a line here and tell us which one you like most. You can download these Free 3D models but keep in mind that some of them have limited rights. So it is always better to first check out the rights before using them for commercial purposes.

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Free 3D Model Websites

Turbo Squid

3 Delicious

3D Total

Free 3D Models

Archive 3d

Sketch up

3D Model Free

3D Xtras

DLegend

Artist-3d

Nasa 3d Resources

3D M3

Dewantoro Network

CG India

DD Freebies

Exchange 3D

Corporate Media News

Wire Case

Mr Cad

ShareCG

Archibase

Top 3D Models

CG-Files

Top3D

Oyonale

DMI Car 3D Models

Infinitee-Designs

Telias

Sci-Fi 3D

3DAllusions

3DVia

3d Nucleus

3d Export

Free 3D Modeling Applications

Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite.

K 3D

K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and powerful package.

Art of illusion

Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Highlights include subdivision surface based modelling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials.

TopMod3d

TopMod3d is a free, open source, portable, platform independent topological mesh modeling system that allows users to create high genus 2-manifold (watertight) meshes.

Sketch up

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like.

Seamless 3d

Seamless3d is open source 3D modeling software free and available for all under the MIT license.

3D Plus

3DPlus is the amazing 3D design software that enables you to create stunning 3D graphics for your home, school or business – no experience required!

Blink 3D Overview

Blink 3D is an authoring tool for creating 3D environments. The 3D environments are immersive, just like today’s modern games and can be viewed using the a Blink 3D Viewer on the Web or locally.

Free Cad

FreeCAD is a basic 3D CAD with advanced Motion Simulation capabilities. It is suitable for anyone interested in learning 3D CAD and Motion Simulation for free before using more sophisticated packages.

DW lite

The complete freeware DesignWorkshop Lite software package provides all you need to build your own 3D models for home design and visualization of architecture, landscapes, exhibits, or any kind of spatial design. With DesignWorkshop Lite you can view and walk-through ready-made models of any size, like the free 3D building models in the Great Buildings Online, in DXF, DesignWorkshop, or 3DMF format, with amazing live 3D speed.

True Space

trueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual Earth.

3dvia

3DVIA allows you to find, upload & create your 3D models and content online. Join the 3D community and share your creations today!

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