Inspiration

30+ Artistic Examples Of Colorful Wallpapers

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.

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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

Visual

FractalBlossom 4

Flowing

Uprising 2

25+ Beautiful And Creative Business Card Ideas

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.

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SheetSeat Business Card

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Jobless Writer

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Caddy Shack Business Card

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Die Cut Business Card Design

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Business card plane

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Petit Coeur @ Etsy Business Card

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kenspecklegifts business card

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1scale1-business-card

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Peanut Business Cards

typography

Die Cut Business Cards

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In Watermelon Sugar

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Cardapult

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Tongue Depressor Business Cards

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Green Business Card

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Sergii Bogulavkyi Business Card

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Self-Promotional-Pop-Up-Card

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Business Card Outside

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Bottle opener business card

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Creative business card mixtape

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Nathan Jones business cards

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Sarah Powers Media

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Bow Tie Business Card

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Fifth Floor Gallery

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Michael Strauss

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FOUR SEASONS

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Space150

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29 Premium-Like Free But Extremely Tremendous Portfolio Wordpress Themes

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

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Linquist

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Desk Space

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Gallery

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Snapshot

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Portfolio

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Fotofolio

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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F8 Lite Portfolio

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Portfolio Press

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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WP Coda

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Infinity

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Modfolio

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Sharpfolio

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Ascari

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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The Unstandard

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Monochrome Gallery

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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ImPress Theme

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Creative by Nature

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Grace

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Viewport

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Photo-Biyori

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Spotless

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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AutoFocus

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Nishita

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Reflection

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Fullscreen

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Photo Blog Wordpress Theme

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Zack 990

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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Monotone

Wordpress Portfolio Theme

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

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

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 Media Icons

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

Social Media Icons

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.

Social Media Icons

Free Social Network Icons from IconShock

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

Social Media Icons

Fluzzy Twitter Icon Set

Another high quality free Twitter icon set

Social Media Icons

Social Trucks Icons

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

Social Media Icons


inFocus Simple White Social Media Icons

Social Media Icons

Free Grass Textured Social Bookmarking Icon Set

Social Media Icons

Circular Social Media Icons Repack

Social Media Icons

Social Trucks Icons

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

Social Media Icons


inFocus Simple White Social Media Icons

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.

Social Media Icons

Latte Art Social Icons

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

Social Media Icons

Free Furry Cushions Social Icons Set

Social Media Icons

A Free Sophisticated Premium Peel Over Icon Set

Social Media Icons

Silver Button Social Media

Social Media Icons

Glossy Orange Orb Soc. Media

Social Media Icons

New & Free Social Media Icon Set For Your Blog

Social Media Icons

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.

Social Media Icons

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!

Social Media Icons

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).

Social Media Icons

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 Media Icons

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!

Social Media Icons

Free Social Media Icon Set: Chrome

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

Social Media Icons

108 Glowing Neon Social Media

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

Social Media Icons

Gummy social icon set

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

Social Media Icons

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.

Social Media Icons

T-Shirt Social Icons

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

Social Media Icons

Amazing 3D Social Icons

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

Social Media Icons

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.

Social Media Icons

New free social icons sticker set

Social Media Icons

Tabbed Social Media Icon Set

Social Media Icons

81 Pixel perfect Social Media Icons

Social Media Icons

108 Black Inlay on Steel Social Media Icons

Social Media Icons

Nuovo set Social icons

Social Media Icons

Social and Web Icons

Social Media Icons

Social Media Comment Bubbles

Social Media Icons

Extended set of social icons

Social Media Icons

Location: Free Social Media Icon Set

Social Media Icons

Set of social icons no.2

Social Media Icons

Icons Cloud

Social Media Icons

Aquaticus Social Icons

Social Media Icons

Social Media Mini Iconpack

Social Media Icons

Social Network Icon Pack

Social Media Icons

Page Peel

Social Media Icons

Social Bird Iconset

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Twitter Bird Icon Set

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Polaroid icon set

Social Media Icons

Twitter icon set

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Café Icon Set

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Free Social Media Icons

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Free Set of Social Media Icons – Rivet Social

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Folder Style

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

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

How to Make a Killer Viral Photo Gallery

This post is by the online imagery experts at Shutterstock, a subscription stock photo agency.

You see photo galleries all over the web: The top 10 such-and-such photos, or 25 amazing this-or-that pictures. If you’re like us, you click on almost every one of them. Themed photo galleries on blogs work for a simple reason: Almost everyone appreciates great pictures and enjoys sharing them with friends. If you can dream up a good theme, write a good headline, and deliver a payoff of stunning visuals, you’ve got a viral hit on your hands.

The difficulty is getting the pictures legally and fairly. You could look for photos on Flickr or Google Images, but you face some time-consuming work: making sure you have permission to republish the pictures. Usually this means contacting every photographer or their agents individually. Some photographers will be delighted that you’re sharing their work, but others will be offended if you fail to give them a say in how the work is presented (or, of course, pay them for it). With rare exceptions (such as NASA images and very old photos), every photograph is copyrighted unless the rights holder says otherwise. You’ve probably read stories about web sites that have had to pull content offline after complaints or legal action from photographers. You don’t want to be in that position.

This tutorial will teach you how to use a stock image library to find images you can legally and safely use on a blog. Obviously, we’d love it if you get your images from Shutterstock (Spoiler alert: There’s a coupon at the end of the article) but we hope you find this information useful even if you don’t. This tutorial offers some basic guidelines for image searching and selection, and assumes you’re already familiar with the fundamentals of blogging and have access to Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started on building a viral photo gallery for your blog.

1. Come up with an idea and a title.

Pictures of lightning? Underwater scenes? Ugly pets? Things with spots? Get creative, but keep in mind some ideas naturally lend themselves to great photographs. For this tutorial, we’re going to put together a gallery of pictures of impressive bridges. Your title should be short, catchy and as bold as possible without overpromising. Remember, this will be what people see in RSS feeds and social networking sites, so it should make it obvious that it’s a photo gallery. Audiences also respond well to titles that specify a number of images, so they know they’re not about to be overwhelmed with somebody’s collection of 1,000 vacation snapshots. For this exercise, let’s go with the title “Photo Gallery: The World’s 5 Most Beautiful Bridges.” (We might go with 10 or 20 pictures on a blog, but here we want to keep it short.)

2. Visit a stock library and start searching.

When you first start to search, you might be overwhelmed with your choices. If you type “bridge” into Shutterstock, you’ll get more than 65,000 results, including both illustrations and images. You can refine your search by limiting it to just photos and sorting the results by the most popular images. As you get a feel for what kinds of images are in the library, you might want to add more keywords, like “river” or “night” or “suspension.” If you see a picture you really like, you can display images similar to it by clicking on the similar images icon that appears below each thumbnail (on Shutterstock, it looks like two overlapping squares). You can also click on a photographer’s name to display more images by the same photographer, since there’s a chance they might have other images that fit your theme.

3. Build a lightbox and choose your favorite photos.

A lightbox is a folder you create on a stock site to keep track of images you might want to download. On Shutterstock, when you see an image you like, click on the icon that looks like a light bulb. Select “new lightbox” from the menu, give it a name, and start adding pictures to it. Go crazy – add everything you like.

Now, the editing process begins. Photo editing is a skill that improves with practice and some sort of an art background, but even if you’re new to it, you probably know more than you think. Do you see an image that makes you laugh, that reminds you of something you like, or that you would want to immediately share with a friend? Keep that one. Are there a couple of images that look really similar? Pick one and forget the rest. Edit tight. Don’t be afraid of passing up the wrong image, and go with your instincts. Remember, you want to give your visitors a surprise-and-delight moment, not bore them.

4. Download and resize your images.

OK, we’ve settled on the images we want. Now we visit each image page and download the size we need. This is a good time to check the usage terms for the site to make sure the usage we want is allowed. Shutterstock limits online usage to a maximum of 800 x 600 pixels. That restriction is in place to keep people from distributing print-quality images online, and it’s plenty big enough for most blogs. (This particular blog has a width of 540 pixels, so we’re in good shape.) For most of the images we’re about to download, the medium-size images will be the proper size, so we’ll download that size. (When in doubt, download a larger size than you need.)

Next, use Photoshop or another image editing program to make sure all your images are resized to the pixel width of your blog and saved as JPEG format.

5. Order your photos, write captions, and place them in your blog.

Like editing, sequencing is a skill that gets easier with practice. To start, you can’t go wrong if you arrange your photos in a way that tells a story, and write captions to match. Alternately, you can lead with your best photo, then alternate between traditional, conservative shots and unexpected, creative ones. Your captions should be short but contain enough information to answer any obvious questions a visitor will have when looking at the photo. (Such as: What is this, and why is it so great?) You should also credit the photographer and the source of the image. It’s useful to include a link to the source of the image as well.

When you’re happy with your images and captions, enter them into your blogging program, publish, and start spreading the word.

To show you what we came up with following these steps, here’s our mini list of bridges.

Photo Gallery: The World’s 5 Most Beautiful Bridges

© Ilja Mašík / Shutterstock

The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, completed 1883.

© Richard Semik / Shutterstock

Millau Viaduct, France, the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, completed 2004.

© David Peta/ Shutterstock

Tower Bridge, London, completed 1894.

© Filip Fuxa / Shutterstock

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, completed 1354.

© elwynn / Shutterstock

Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong, completed 1997.

There are plenty of other beautiful bridges out there, but you get the idea.

We hope this leaves you feeling inspired to give stock photography a try as a source of content for your blog. Be picky, be creative, be funny, and above all give your audience something they’ll genuinely enjoy. If you want to try Shutterstock, they have monthly subscription packages that let you download up to 25 images a day, plus “On Demand” plans if you need just a few images. They invite you to save 10% with coupon code SMASH10*.

For more tips on how to use Shutterstock images, visit our blog: blog.shutterstock.com.

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The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Floral Typography

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

Flower Typography

Eco-environment

Flower Typography

Floral Love

Flower Typography

Gig Poster

Flower Typography

STAY GREEN. GO RED.

Flower Typography

Love

Flower Typography

Keep Reno Green

Flower Typography

Idea

Flower Typography

Summer Exhibition

Flower Typography

Designers don’t commit crimes

Flower Typography

Logan

Flower Typography

I Love Art

Flower Typography

Hide and Seek

Flower Typography

Play

Flower Typography

Title

Flower Typography

Typography-A

Flower Typography

Type

Flower Typography

BlackOut

Flower Typography

White

Flower Typography

Beautiful

Flower Typography

Ecosystem BW

Flower Typography

Spring

Flower Typography

Deja VU

Flower Typography

My Fake Cover

Flower Typography

Tipo 04

Flower Typography

Type

Flower Typography

The Mask of Sorrow

Flower Typography

A New Leaf

Flower Typography

Crude

Flower Typography

Nokia

Flower Typography

Inspire

Flower Typography

D+G Vector and Drawing

Flower Typography

Using mixed media

Flower Typography

Flickr the world

Flower Typography

Word

Flower Typography

Funkrush

Flower Typography

Hello

Flower Typography

Trust

Flower Typography

Island

Flower Typography

Got Milk

Flower Typography

Silk

Flower Typography

I love you

Flower Typography

Chanel 4 25th Anniversary Book

Flower Typography

What we do in life, echoes in eternity

Flower Typography

Love

Flower Typography

Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

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.

MyTemplateBox

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.

Forum

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.

Popular Templates

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.

Productivity

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!

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

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

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

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88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

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How to Create a Dark and Mysterious TV-Head Scene

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

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How to Create a Stylish Media Player in Photoshop

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A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques

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70 Ultimate Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques

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How To Create A Vintage Camera in Photoshop

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Create a Cartoon Car Similar to Cars Movie

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30 Best Written And Explained Logo Design Tutorials

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Design an Underwater Omega Code Poster

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How To Draw A Funny Cop Illustration From A Sketch

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Make a Freezing Cold Snow-themed Abstract Piece

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50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

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How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

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Create a Realistic Space Landscape Photo Manipulation

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Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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50 Breathtakingly Beautiful CG Landscapes

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The Creative Examples Of Colorful Splash Pages

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25 Examples of Incredible Ideas and Designs

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25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

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Creative Auto Ads

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40 Trendy and Extremely Colorful Websites

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Logo Design Inspiration: 65+ Brilliant Fresh Designs

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40 Epic Digital Paintings

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Email Newsletter Design: Guidelines And Examples

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30 Visually Appealing Web Portfolio Designs

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Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces

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70+ Business Card Designs

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Showcase of City Tourism Website Designs

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60+ Amazing Digital Photo Manipulation Art

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55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design

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30 Free and Fresh iPad Wallpapers

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Design Trend Showcase: 30 Horizontal Websites

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25+ Breathtaking examples of Natural sky Photography

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60 Creative Flash Websites You Should Not Miss

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

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25 Beautiful Website Layouts

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Javascript and Ajax

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13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

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15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts

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35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

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24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

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Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery

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You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

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Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery

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How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

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10 Best jQuery Gallery(Slideshow) Techniques

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xHTML and CSS

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20 CSS3 Tutorials and Techiques for Creating Buttons

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The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

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The Future Of CSS Typography

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Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3

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54 Awesome Tutorials To Satisfy The Appetite Of Any Web Developer

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50 Awesome Animations made with CSS3

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

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Resources

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NEW Sets of Free High Quality Icons for Bloggers and Designers

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

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100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

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60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

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

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

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20 Must-Have Image Optimization Tools for Designers

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40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files

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30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos

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

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33 Free Blue Patterns to Download

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60 Beautiful Premium Icons (Free)

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35 Latest High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

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158 Paper Textures For Kickstarting Your Backgrounds & Designs

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Top 20 Free Fonts for Distinctive Headlines and Titles

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20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

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The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

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Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

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10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site

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How To Find Great Keyword Ideas For Your Articles

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Design Envy : Make it Work For You!

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50 Frightening (But Inspiring) Digital Illustrations Of Dragons

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

Dragon Illustration

Golden Dragon by Amisgaudi

Dragon Illustration

Legendary Boon by Kerembeyit

Dragon Illustration

Dragon prince cover by Nebezial

Dragon Illustration

Dragon head by Eic

Dragon Illustration

Golden Dragon by Venator-Somniorum

Dragon Illustration

The Dragon Master by Grafik

Dragon Illustration

Dragon by Sandara

Dragon Illustration

Dragon Mountains by Higherdepths

Dragon Illustration

Rainbow by Ertacaltinoz

Dragon Illustration

The Dragons of Ordinary Farm by kerembeyit

Dragon Illustration

Make me proud by OmeN2501

Dragon Illustration

Victorious dragon by Ironshod

Dragon Illustration

Guardian by Ironshod

Dragon Illustration

Undead Dragon by nJoo

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Far in the direction by EastMonkey

Dragon Illustration

Ryujin by GENZOMAN

Dragon Illustration

Dragon of Ice-Fire by Bobbie-the-Jean

Dragon Illustration

A Dragon Awakens by chrisscalf

Dragon Illustration

Dragon Reign Wall Paper by JonHodgson

Dragon Illustration

Dragon by Gotgituey

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Dark dragon lord by VampirePrincess007

Dragon Illustration

Zombie Dragon by ANARKYMAN

Dragon Illustration

DRAGON: To Soar the Skies by TheGuardianDragon

Dragon Illustration

samurai and Dragon by Garun

Dragon Illustration

Temeraire by Sandara

Dragon Illustration

dragon version 2 by el-grimlock

Dragon Illustration

Dragon by Chase-SC2

Dragon Illustration

Golden Chinese Dragon by Eic

Dragon Illustration

Steampunk Dragon by Kerembeyit

Dragon Illustration

Eternal Dragon by JasonEngle

Dragon Illustration

Dragon Mountains by Higherdepths

Dragon Illustration

Dragon by Akeiron

Dragon Illustration

Shen Hua by Luches

Dragon Illustration

Blue Dragon. by Amisgaudi

Dragon Illustration

Smok by GENZOMAN

Dragon Illustration

Chinese dragon by J-C

Dragon Illustration

Dragon Hunters by TheDjib

Dragon Illustration

Waiting for snow to fall by ShadowUmbre

Dragon Illustration

The End by Ertacaltinoz

Dragon Illustration

samurai and Dragon by Garun

Dragon Illustration

Dragon by Tahra

Dragon Illustration

Dragon Fury by Ironshod

Dragon Illustration

Night Dragon by Dark-Sheyn

Dragon Illustration

Golden Dragon by GENZOMAN

Dragon Illustration

War of Dragons by kerembeyit

Dragon Illustration

Ultraclypse by kerembeyit

Dragon Illustration

DRACONIS INFERNVS by deligaris

Dragon Illustration

Dragon by El-grimlock

Dragon Illustration

The Final Challenge by Adonihs

Dragon Illustration