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Website Design Showcase Of 21 Popular Brands

AN Jay — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:36:47 +0000

Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project? Today, we are listing down 21 Website Designs Of Popular Brands. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you.

You are welcome if you want to share more web design of popular brands 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 as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.

Logitech

PUMA

Virgin

Opera Software

Burger King Corporation

orange

NIVEA

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Unilever

Vaseline

Dunkin’ Donuts
Coffee

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Philips

Reckitt Benckiser
Group plc

70+ Ultimate Collection Of Inspirations And Tutorial Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In August

AN Jay — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:04:57 +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, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 70+ Ultimate Collection Of Inspirations And Tutorial Resources For Designers 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 August which our readers/viewers may like.Â 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.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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53 Amazing Blender Tutorials

11 Mindblowing Digital Painting Tutorials

25+ 3D Text Tutorials to Enhance your Photoshop Skills

30 Creative Illustrator Logo Design Tecniques and Tutorials

40 Incredibly Inspirational Retro & Vintage Photoshop TutorialsÂ

33 Newly Fresh Web Design Layout Tutorials

27 Useful Logo Design Tutorials and Tips

25 Magazine-Style Layouts for Your Design Inspiration

Creating Colorful Disco Lines EffectÂ

Design a creative cosmetics layout with Photoshop

17 Noteworthy Typographic Tutorials

How to Design the Web in a High-Def World

40 (NEW) High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation

How to Draw Anime Complete Guide

3d Retro Strip Design

Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop

Abstract Vector Art

25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects

Mastering Photoshop With Paths

Design a 3D Box Icon in Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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50 Gorgeous Flash Websites You Definitely Should See

45 Inspirational Corporate Website Designs

27 Colorful And Futuristic Innovations In Product Design

20 Beautiful Digital Portraits of Women

25 Beautiful Examples Of Typography Portraits

50 Incredible Examples of Battle Art

30 Creative Examples of Javascript Slider & Scrollers

10 Outstanding 3D Character Designs and Illustrations

40 + simple and elegant business card designs

30 Stunning, Absolutely Magical Photo Manipulations Focusing on Human Eye

A Showcase of Beautiful Packaging Designs

20 Stunning & Surreal Illustrations of Male Characters

25 Amazing Flash Portfolio Sites

100 Artworks From the Top Digital Artists in the USA & Canada

Beautiful Single Page Website Designs: 65 New Examples

45 Amazing Examples of Code Generated and 3D CG Artworks

Amazing Retro Futurism Design Showcase & Tutorials

20 Amazing HDR Photos

50 Beautiful And Creative Logos With Heart

30 Impressive Photo Manipulation Images

35 Hugely Expressive Works of Digital Art

26 Really Amazing Realistic 3D Computer Graphics

Javascript and Ajax

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30 Tutorials Combining Both Wordpress and jQuery

22 Beautiful jQuery Plugins for Web Designers

14 Easy to Implement Drop Down Menu Solutions

50 Really High Quality Photoshop Navigation Menu Tutorials

5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery

50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials

xHTML and CSS
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25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started

50+ Stunning CSS3 Articles, Cheat Sheets and Tutorials Collections

Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools

35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively

250+ Resources to Help You Become a CSS Expert

Resources
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75 Free Useful Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

70+ Awesome Free Textures and Texture Sets

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

60 Useful Photoshop Actions to Enhance your Photos for Free

Free High Resolution Textures for Designers and 3D Artists

35 (NEW) Modern and High Quality Icon Sets

25 Excellent Handwritten Fonts

30 PSDs of Outstanding Digital PaintingsÂ

200+ Excellent Free High Quality Tree Bark Textures

35 Original and Creative Free Twitter Icon Sets

Miscellaneous Articles
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30+New Useful WordPress Tricks & HacksÂ

15 (More) Free Web Tools To Simplify Your Work Life

20 Free Keyword Research Tools â€“ Comprehensive Insight

21 Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently

10 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names

6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography

10 WordPress â€˜HOW-TOâ€™ to Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves

Get Your Free FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation

AN Jay — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:25:29 +0000

FlashEff is an advanced Flash effects component (works both on Flash CS3 and Flash CS4, AS3.0) developed by JumpeyeComponents for easing the animation/transition process. It is also a collection of over 140 effect patterns (and growing) that enable cool transition effects and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be fully used/customized from both, the visual interface and from code.

SmashingAppsÂ andÂ FlashEffÂ are teaming up exclusively to do our part and providing you the opportunity to use the most robust and beautiful Flash Effects Component for free. All of you will get access to FlashEff2 BETA. This is only a phase in releasing the actual commercial FlashEff2 product which will be delivered in different packages (Free, Premium and Premium Plus). When there will be a commercial release of the product, the beta one will stop working and all users will only have access to the free version. In the beta phase you will get the FlashEff2 features equivalent to the Premium Plus commercial license (to be launched). So you would be the first and only one who can get the chance to use FlashEff2 (for a limited time).

All you have to do to get your free beta invitation is to share what do you think for this beta invitation giveaway.Â When sharing your thoughts please post a link to this post.Â You can spread your words in any of the following waysâ€¦

To make you confirm for Free FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation you will need to post it on Twitter,Â or post it on your blog. You can spread your words in anyway you like as long as we can verify it and you can post the link in the comments below to share with us that how you spread the words. Also, donâ€™t forget to follow us on twitter.

You must need to use a valid email address to get free access to FlashEff 2 Beta invitation for free (Premium Plus package) and May 18, 2009 will be the last day to comment in order to participate. You will be received an email message before May 22nd with a specific link to access the FlashEff 2 Beta product. All the commenter will get the beta invitation either they are 10, 100 or whatever. So, why are you waiting for now?

Here are some samples you can post on twitter

* Rush Now And Get Your Free FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation – http://tinyurl.com/d5c37n
* I would love to get Free FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation.Â Do you want to get it as well? – http://tinyurl.com/d5c37n

How did I spread the word?

http://twitter.com/naveedjavaid/status/1730689133

Rush Now And Get Your Free FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation – http://tinyurl.com/d5c37n

9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot

AN Jay — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:32:11 +0000

We are always in the search for useful stuffs on the internet that are freely available for everyone and specially for designers who spend their whole day in to design or create something creative. We aimed to help you and keep you updated with all the new online tools that you probably would love to use. In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use any or all of them. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. This post contains a diversified collection of free web apps and we tried to make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.

You are welcome if you know and want to share more free web apps that are really simple but useful specially for designers 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.

Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

WhatTheFont

For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
Wix

With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

DimDim

DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.

FresBooks

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

Zapproved

Zapproved is a lightweight Web tool that makes group decision-making faster, easier and more accountable. It is a unique solution that introduces peer-to-peer and organizational techniques to improve the process of building consensus.

File Dropper

FileDropper’s beauty is in its simplicity. It has one click file hosting where you simply click on the upload button and select your file. After the file is uploaded you are taken to the page where the file is hosted. If the file is an image, it shows the image directly on the page for easier sharing. Upload size is an impressive 5 GB.

W3Counter

W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.

formatpixel

Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogs, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.

6 Free Softwares For Designers That Are Absolutely Useful

AN Jay — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:47:23 +0000

We have lots of commercial software available to use on different platform to complete our different work.Â As they are not free and sometime we do not able to purchase or for some reason we urgently need some software to complete any task but without having a licensed copy of commercial software we can not perform that job. Donâ€™t worry about it, today we are listing here 6 Free And Simple But Useful Free Apps For Designers in which most of them are cross-platform. There are many alternative available for single software, but I just tried to list down some very non-familiar and useful free software. You probably will not be able to enjoy all the features as original software but it will really help you to perform your task in a better way when your pocket does not allow you to purchase commercial software.

You are welcome if you want to share more free software for designers that we have missed here and you think 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.

Synfig

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.Synfig eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually. This allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing art of a higher quality.

Scribus

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.Â HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks. HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.

Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. ItÂ features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help,Â tutorials, and plugins.

Artweaver

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.

Photoscape

Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. You can do resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming etc

11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers

AN Jay — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:33:20 +0000

In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 11 Premium But Free Web Apps For Designers that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.

You are welcome if you know and want to share more free web apps that are really simple but 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.

Create A Free Flash Website,Â Free MySpace Layouts & Flash MySpace Layouts

With Wix you can create a free website orÂ make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

Online Invoicing, Time Tracking And Expense Service

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

An Ultimate Stop For Free Online Surveys

Free survey software for online surveys, web surveys, email surveys. Free Online survey software for customer satisfaction surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, market research surveys.

Makes Decisions Faster And Easier For Businesses

Free File Hosting For MP3, Videos, DocumentsÂ

Project Management Meets CRM For Serious Business

JobBlogs is a collaborative workspace application tailored to work out universal team challenges – contacts, projects, plans, activities, tasks, schedules, organize them in no time and track them during the work flow.

Easy, Open, Affordable Web Conferences

DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.

Website Analytics, Realtime Web Stats And Web Counter

W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.

Code Collaboration For Web Developers

Springloops is a unique source code management tool focused on web development teams. It allows you to code in parallel and share your code safely concentrated on results, not on lost changes or overwritten files.

Sending Large Files Has Never Been Easier!

Filemail is a great free solution to send large size files to anyone. You can send upto 2gb size files with filemail. You will just need upload one or multiple files you want to send to the filemail. Files are encrypted on the servers using a 128bit AES algorithm to ensure security and privacy.

Free Time Management Software

RescueTime is time management software that helps individuals and businesses understand how they spend their time, and provides tools to help them spend it more productively.

21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands

AN Jay — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:22:16 +0000

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. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself, we are today listing down 21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands. 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 top brands corporate web designs for others to get inspirations from that 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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23 Awesome Photos That Look Like Theyâ€™re Photoshopped But Are Not

General Electric Company

AT&T

Shell

Visa

Panasonic

NestlÃ©

Hitachi

Canon

Allianz

SAMSUNG

Porsche Cars

vodafone

Pfizer

Nissan

HSBC

Oracle

Cisco

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

Dell

Chevron

BlackBerry

27 Eye-Opening and Inspiring Websites Of Top Brands

AN Jay — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:02:40 +0000

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. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself, we are today listing down 27 Eye-Opening and Inspiring Websites Of Top Brands. 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 top brands website for others to get inspirations from which should be listed here, please comment about them below. We will also come up with 2nd part of this post with more eye-opening websites of top brands. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed.

World of Sony

Gucci

Microsoft

Heinz

Nike

PIXAR

Toyota Motor

Adidas

Knorr

Apple

CocaCola

Louis Vuitton

Nintendo

Ford Motor Company

L’Oreal

NescafÃƒÂ©

Tiffany & Co.

Harley-Davidson

GAP

Honda

Wrigley

Marks & Spencer

Kleenex

Johnson & Johnson

Motorola

BP Global

Rolex

Free And Easy To Integrate Flash Image Gallery

AN Jay — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:52:17 +0000

Flash Gallery is a FREE, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file. You can also check out the demo of this flash gallery.

Flash Gallery Features

Flash Gallery is 100% FREE!

Easy to implement in your site

Intuitive navigation

Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux

Supports Latin, Cyrilic, Chinese and any other language you can think of

Lightweight, only 11KB

Image preloader and effects

Open-Source 3D API For Flash Build On Action Script 2 And 3

AN Jay — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:22:50 +0000

Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library developed in Actionscript 2.0 and now Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash.

Sandy is an Actionscript library available for any AS compliant tools.
The are three main version of Sandy: 1.x, 2.x and 3.x. To make the choice between the different versions, we recommend you to look at the versions listing page.

This 3D engine main features are :

Viewing volume clipping for perfect rendering
Advanced shading effects such as (Phong, Gouraud, CelShading, flat shading).
Material system to easily change your objects appearance. Several material are available allowing to create transparent faces, bitmap texture and video texture as webcam video stream.
Advanced and easy object management allowing some fantastic possibilities during your creations (scaling, rotation, translation, tween, etc.)
Advanced camera management ( rotation, motion on linear or bezier-curve path, movements, etc.)
Complex object loading thanks to the .ASE and .WRL files parser , but also Collada and 3DS files for AS3, (files generated by several 3D object modeling packages such as 3D Studio Max or Blender)
Flash player 7 to 9 compatibility.
Both MTASC and Macromedia compilers compliant for AS2 and Flash CS3 and FlexBuilder for AS3 versions.
Several 3D primitives, allowing fast and parameterized object creation without any 3D modelisation knowledge.