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Winner Of The Logo Redesign Contest For Smashing Apps

AN Jay — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:28:27 +0000

As most of you guys already know that couple of week ago we had a logo redesign contest for Smashing Apps where we invited our community to take part and work around to design an upcoming logo. We have got a great response and criticism as well but still thanks to our community who understand the vision for this event. This was absolutely for bringing new talent in the front of millions of people and give chance to those who could never show their work to the world. Anyways, now let us tell you how the overall contest went for us. Collectively we have got 300+ proposed logo designs at Cullogo. Few of them are truly professional and made it hard for us to make selection because there were some very outstanding submissions. We also received some down the quality logo designs that are not worth sharing here but we will be proud to share shortlisted logos including winner of the contest.

Well, now back to the shortlisted nominations. There are around 15 logo design ideas that can be considered on different priorities but few of these are rocking and really gave us hard time to calculate multiple factors to pick out the one as the winner and no luck for others. This doesn’t mean that those who could not win the contest didn’t design a professional logo but unfortunately we have to choose one as the winner otherwise we could have 5 or more winners who designed fine logo concepts for Smashing Apps. As our commitment, we are listing below the personal information of those designers as well who were shortlisted best nominations. You can find their name, country, twitter/facebook profile and website address where available. This is the best what we can give them in return to these guys who worked specially for us and anyone from our readers may want to get in touch with them to offer them any project. Yes, we hope it will work.

Many thanks to all the participants who submitted their concepts and congratulations to those who are featured here as shortlisted nominations.

Ok, so who is the winner? Hakan Balkan

Yes! we really like his concept showing below as our upcoming logo. Our selection may not satisfy all our readers but believe us we put our thoughts in multiple directions and considered color schemes, simplicity, uniqueness, and experimented with our new design that is under development to empower our brand identity. We tried our best and we hope we are successful to satisfy our valued readers.

Hakan Balkan

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=326

Country: Turkey

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=697347727

Personal website/blog (if any): Not ready yet… I don’t have time for finishing…

Other Shortlisted Ideas

Rana Majumder

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=288

Country: India

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/ranamajumder

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/ranamajumder

Personal website: http://eyedealab.com/

Bram Slootmans

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=284

Country: Belgium

Twitter profile: http://www.twitter.com/bramdesign

Facebook profile: N/A

Personal website: Currently working for nascom (www.nascom.be)

Andrej Skokan

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=135

Country: Slovakia ,Bratislava

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: http://www.andrejskokan.com

Simon Baskar Rao

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=276

Country: India

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/Simbarau

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=574456072

Personal website: N/A

Santy

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=259

Country: France

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: working on new release

Maria Cristina Berrio

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=320

Country: Colombia

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/SoMAGICweb

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bogota-Colombia/SoMAGIC-Corporate-E-Marketing- Web-Technology/57758667489

Personal website: http://www.somagiweb.com

Jakub Walczyk

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=307

Country: Poland

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: N/A

Oto Rudovics

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=248

Country: Latvia

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/Dendrobats

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000003462264

Personal website: N/A

Jonathan

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=302

Country: N/A

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: http://www.vividbase.com

Jilan Samiuddin

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=70

Country: N/A

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/people/Jilan-Sami-Uddin/100000221618755

Personal website: None yet

iamumar

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/people/Ilham-Oemar/1847373375?ref=search

Miguel Puig

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=263

Country: Spain

Twitter profile: N/A

Facebook profile: N/A

Personal website: http://miguelpuig.com

Joaquim Adráz

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=252

Country: Portugal

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/mrbessa

Personal website: http://joaquimadraz.com/

Oliver D. Santos

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=245

Country: Philippines

Twitter profile: http://www.twitter.com/madshock

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/madshock

Personal website: http://www.madshock.com

After this logo redesign contest, we are going to redesign Smashing Apps and will use the new logo with our new design. So, stay tune with us! we are coming with more great content and new stunning features.

Once again thanks to everyone to make this contest successful.

www.andrejskokan.com

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30+ Artistic Examples Of Colorful Wallpapers

AN Jay — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:09:03 +0000

Here we are showing you the huge collection of beautiful and inspiring wallpapers. I appreciate to all those talented designers who created these excellent wallpapers with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to use these artistic wonders on our desktop and refresh ourselves. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing these in detail it will surely refresh you and motivate you to download any or all for your desktop right now.

You are welcome if you want to share more beautiful wallpapers 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. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken.

Flowerings 76 Rosegarden

PearlFlowers Pond

TRANSMISSION III

Juhjuh

Inner Life

TRANSMISSION II

Shamans Journey 41

Shamans Journey 69

Flowerings 16

Sprouts

Merry Christmas

Shamans Journey 86

Flowerings 93

Flowerings 92

Rhymes With Orange

Green earth

Flowerings III

Shamans Journey 79

Shamans Journey 48

AstralCastles IV

Rise of the Phoenix

Flowerings 80

StationModule

Flowerings 78

Shamans Journey 73

Spiral Flower 9

GraceLight Flowerings

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25+ Beautiful And Creative Business Card Ideas

AN Jay — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:01:07 +0000

With all the business cards we’ve being flooded these days, it is always nice to find a business card that stands out from the rest and adds a little attractiveness to your card. Here’s a clever and useful little business card design that perfectly expresses the mission of the company it represents.

It doesn’t matter in which business you are, a professionally designed business card is as important as your identity. Let’s take a look at these outstanding business cards which show that there are truly no limits to the design of a business card.

You are welcome if you want to share more creative business card designs 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.

SheetSeat Business Card

Jobless Writer

Caddy Shack Business Card

Die Cut Business Card Design

Business card plane

Petit Coeur @ Etsy Business Card

kenspecklegifts business card

1scale1-business-card

Peanut Business Cards

Die Cut Business Cards

In Watermelon Sugar

Cardapult

Tongue Depressor Business Cards

Green Business Card

Sergii Bogulavkyi Business Card

Self-Promotional-Pop-Up-Card

Business Card Outside

Bottle opener business card

Creative business card mixtape

Nathan Jones business cards

Sarah Powers Media

Bow Tie Business Card

Fifth Floor Gallery

Michael Strauss

FOUR SEASONS

Space150

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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.

You are welcome to share if you know more premium-like free portfolio wordpress themes 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.

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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Photo Blog Wordpress Theme

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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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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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Now Embed Free Online Photo Editor In Your Website With Picmeleo

AN Jay — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:19:22 +0000

Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can easily add Picmeleo to their web service and launch the light-weight yet powerful photo editor whenever their users need to to upload or to edit an image. By adding Picmeleo to your web service, you can now engage your users with even richer content. This is the smartest way to let your users upload and edit images for your service.

Unlike other photo editors, Picmeleo opens within your site and your users never leave your service.. Integration and ease of use. Everything about Picmeleo is designed for easy integration to your website. The lightweight editor does not clutter your service and you can also fully customize Picmeleo’s tool box.

Open Editor

The editor can be launched anywhere in your layout by calling the picmeleoApi.open method. Your open link could look like this:

Open Picmeleo editor

Pass the url of the image if you want the editor to open with a default image. Omitting the url will open an empty editor

Simple Integration

Integrating Picmeleo to your website couldn’t be easier. Just copy a few lines of embed code and Picmeleo is working on your site!

Custom Tools
Unlike other photo editors, you can customize the tools of Picmeleo any time you want in the online admin interface. Sometimes photo editors can be overwhelming. Picmeleo allows you to pick the tools your users really need. Choose from a growing list of tools including Crop, Scale, Rotate, Auto-fix, Filters and many more.
Multilanguage Support
Picmeleo has built-in multilanguage support and you can easily set the language in the online admin interface. We are still working on different language options at the moment, stay tuned for more.

Picmeleo can be utilized in numerous places. Think of these examples:

social network

let your users crop their profile images

eCommerce

let your users enhance their product images during upload

photo gallery

let your users easily edit your images online without leaving the site

The possibilities are endless…

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Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

AN Jay — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:07:38 +0000

The Internet is filled with useful resources for business owners and especially for web designers and developers. From free icon sets to CSS templates, and from web design inspiration to stock images, websites like these have everything one may need. There are a number of tools, useful pieces of advice, and free stock resources available for anyone to grow their business or grow as a web designer.

In this post we’re going to look over one website in particular that is dedicated to providing a variety of free resources to its users, completely free of charge.

We’ll also look into how MyTemplateBox, and other websites like it, can help get you become recognized in the design world and find more work.

What is MyTemplateBox?

First of all, what exactly is MyTemplateBox? MyTemplateBox is a website holding thousands of free templates for anyone to use, free of charge, and mostly free of licensing restrictions. They carry everything from basic CSS templates, to Blogger and Wordpress themes. Furthermore, the templates cover a variety of categories: Art & Photography, Beauty & Fashion, Business, Cafe/Restaurant, Cars, Celebrity, Charity, Family, Wedding, etc.

Premium Resources

In MyTemplateBox’s premium section, they also carry templates for other popular platforms such as Drupal, OS Commerce, Mambo, and more. Logo templates and icon sets are among the view other categories as well. What’s great about the premium section of MyTemplateBox is that all of these designs are made of exceptional quality, and reviewed for premium use. They come with two types of licenses: basic and unique. The basic price is an incredibly reasonable price for the quality of stock being bought, and the unique price, while more costly, gives one unique licensing to restrict others from using it throughout the web.

Web Design Books

The books section of MyTemplateBox features many of the top web design and development books in the industry today. Handpicked by the owner of MyTemplateBox herself, the books featured are of the best rated and most useful for those within the web design niche. The books topics cover web design, website development, logo and branding design, graphic design, usability issues, and more.

The Forum

Besides just giving out free resources for all of MyTemplateBox’s visitors, they also feature a forum section covering the subjects web design and development, SEO, marketing, business, articles, tutorials, design reviews, and showcases. This is a great area to collaborate with other designers and developers, and to grow as an individual within the field. There is also a lot of practical advice concerning the business side of design and development, whether it is working as a freelancer or for a firm.

The Blog

The MyTemplateBox blog may be just another web design blog out there, but it is synced with the rest of the features on MyTemplateBox, and is a portal of useful articles and inspiration
for any web designer. Updated multiple times a week, the blog is a great place to learn something new and give your own feedback on the day’s post topic. The topics include anything and everything design and development related, and includes a few topics on freelance and business-related matters.

The writers of the blog are designers and developers themselves, just anxious to share their own thoughts and experiences within the niche. Always feel free to chime in with a comment or two, as we love to hear back from the community.

What’s in it for Web Designers?

Now that we’ve gone over what MyTemplateBox is all about, let’s get into how it can actually help a web designer grow. What’s in it for the average web designer? Among many things, websites like MyTemplateBox can help a web designer get noticed within the community, grow their skills set, and share what they already know to other developing designers. Let’s look a bit closer in each area below:

Learn, Expand, and Grow Your Skill Set

Websites like this are not only here to give out freebies and speed up your production time. Through the forum, the blog, the books, and even through the free templates, any web designer can learn more to develop themselves professionally. Because many of the templates are free with an available commercial license, downloading templates from other designers is an effective way to study new methods and possibilities in web design. After all, each web designer knows what they know best by building upon the support and teachings of other designers. By reviewing templates from other designers, one can develop their own skills more efficiently.

Speed Up Your Work

With a heavy load of clients under my belt, it can be comforting to know that there are many resources out there to speed up my productivity. Free themes, templates, and other resources can do this. Instead of building an icon set from scratch, many web designers are finding that using either free or premium icons found on MyTemplateBox is just as good of a choice. As another example, instead of coding a new design from scratch, many of the free or premium templates found on MyTemplateBox can be used as a basis for customizing your own web design for a client.

The fact of the matter is, MyTemplateBox is a resource site first and foremost, and we love when we can help other designers out by speeding up their workflow and doing half of the job for them!

Get Into the Community

Any experienced web designer knows that getting involved with the design community is essential for success. Through others we can learn, find work, and get noticed within our niche. MyTemplateBox is just one more place to do that. The active forum may be enough for some to get feedback on their work, find work from clients, or just get to know others doing the same thing. However, discussions in the blog and throughout the rest of the site are going on as well for anyone to share their own knowledge, or to meet others in the field.

What’s in it for Business Owners?

If you are not a web designer, but in fact a business owner looking to build
upon your web presence, MyTemplateBox also has a lot of benefits for you as
well. Many start-up businesses are in need of a website, but have a limited
budget. MyTemplateBox’s free templates are perfect for these types of startups, and even the premium sections can give a new website a more polished look for a budget-friendly price.

The Wordpress or Bloggers themes provide great templates to use for any websites that need a more dynamic approach to content management, and the free icons and other useful resources can be used to spice up the content of any website for better conversions. Even when a small business needs a more custom approach though, when hiring a web designer, MyTemplateBox can be a wonderful source of inspiration.

Wrapping Up

To get a live experience of what all the hype is about, and to see what it can do for you, head on over to MyTemplateBox. Signing up is free, getting involved in the community is free, and taking advantage of all the benefits are free. We hope to be seeing you soon within the MyTemplateBox community!

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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

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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