Web Design

17 Most Desirable Designers Collection

We are always looking to come up with the post that is attractive and useful for everyone. We most of the time focuses on the designer’s stuff and where anything is going to launch free of cost. There are countless designer’s free stuff available which everyone should review at least once. In this post, I have collected 17 Most Desirable Designers Collection.

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70 beautiful websites with a large background

70 beautiful websites with a large background

Large and amazing collection of websites that have large backgounds than normal.

7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

For a good corporate design, we need to be aware of two main elements, which can be further broken down into a total of seven “ingredients”.

48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs

48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs

In this issue you will find over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements.

Top 7 Most Cliché Stock Images Used in Web Design

Top 7 Most Cliché Stock Images Used in Web Design

This is simply by showcasing the most generic and cliché stock images (still) used in web design today. Please also take note that there is nothing wrong with using any of these images if used appropriately.

6 Exceptional Web-based Image Editors

6 Exceptional Web-based Image Editors

This article shares 6 of the finest, free online image editors that are capable alternatives to desktop applications like Adobe Photoshop and GIMP.

15 Original Menu Designs

15 Original Menu Designs

This list has 15 examples of original yet reliable menu designs created to easily guide you through the website.

10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools

10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools

It is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are some resources and tools to help you choose that perfect color palette

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of: Part 2

In this post you’ll find some basic tutorials on getting started with certain aspects of Illustrator and some of its specific tools. You’ll also find more advanced tutorials that deal with all of the potential that Illustrator brings to graphic design.

25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials

25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials

This is the 25 of the cool 3D typographic Text effect tutorials, well some of them are all done by the combination of some 3D software’s like  Studio Max, Xara and some times illustrator with texture and coloring done in photoshop and others completely designed using photoshop.

30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs

30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs

This collection showcases some of the best, unique, creative designs that utilize shades of blue as a primary color and theme.

111 great and free textures from stock.xchng

111 great and free textures from stock.xchng

This is a little list of some great textures, the only thing you got to do is created a account @ stock.xchng. Dont worry it will cost you nothing.

40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful icon sets listed in this post from deviantART.

45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes

27 Best Photoshop Gadget Design Tutorials to Design Realistic Gadgets

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials A-Z

25 Extremely Useful & Free Web Resources, You should not Miss

27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers

The Simple And Free Colour Picker Utility, Square Rocks

Color tools and color schemes generators are the most demanding web applications for designers. This type of tools can help them to find the best color combination for their design layout. Square Rocks is the one of them great color schemes generators.

Square Rocks

Square Rocks is a very simple to use colour picker utility, which generates random colour grids. Just keep refreshing the browser until you find on you like!

31 Useful Resources Specially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September 2008

We are always in the search of great free resources, tips and tricks, etc for our readers. Every day, we work hard to find new resources and show them here for you. Today, we are starting another great section Discover The Best Of The Web on SmashingApps.com. In this, we will find and make a list for the best of the web for the whole month. Maybe, we cannot cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best 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.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop

Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop

40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

rain tutorial

50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II 

50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II

31 Breathtaking Planet & Space Tutorials For Photoshop

Space Tutorials For Photoshop

Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Balloon Scene

Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Balloon Scene

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box

creative design layout

100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design

Beautiful Blog Design

30 Creative Website Headers

30 Creative Website Headers

25 Beautiful Examples Of Macro Photography

25 Beautiful Examples Of Macro Photography

Javascript and Ajax
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jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices

Javascript in Modern Web Design

xHTML and CSS
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CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

Resources
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40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART- Part 2

Beautiful Icon Sets from deviantART

Monitor Website Up / Downtime: 30+ Free Web Services and Tools

Designer´s Toolbox : 15+ Time Saving Tools- What´s your Secret?

20 Useful Web Applications For Firefox Sidebar 

Miscellaneous Articles
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20 Creative and Inspiring Free Design Magazines

Free Design Magazines

40 Brilliant Mid + Hi-Res Wallpapers for Photoshop Lovers

40 Brilliant Mid + Hi-Res Wallpapers for Photoshop Lovers

3D Cartoon Icons Pack

We always in the search of nice and beautiful icons to feature at SmashingApps for our exclusive readers.

This is 3D Cartoon Icons Pack with attractive and bright colors and it has nicely done 3d effect. You can click here to see more icons set featured at SmashingApps

3D Cartoon Icons Pack

38 Free Water Brushes For Photoshop

Brushes are also well demanded free resources for designers. This is a set of various water brushes. It includes bubbles, drops, tears, ripples, rain, foam, splashes, ocean/sea foam textures, waterfalls, and waves.

You can click here to see more free brushes list at SmashingApps.

Water Photoshop Brushes

Free Quality Photoshop Brushes

 qbrushes

Qbrushes.com is a website from where you can download a good collection of free Quality Photoshop Brushes from around the net. They have categorized the brushes in these different category Abstract, Grunge, Misc, Nature, Objects, Plants, Splatter, Swirls

qbrushes collection

Download Now Cheers, A Free “Social” Icon Set

For the icons lovers, there is a great nice and beautiful icons set has been released by SmashingMagazine. This is Cheers, a free set of 12 “social” glasses, designed by Helen Gkizi. It’s a great free icon set available to designers or anyone who are in the search of simple and attractive icons related to social networking.

Smashing magazine cheers icons set

You can go and take a look at more free icon set here.

Design Jobs On The Wall

Design Jobs on the Wall

Design Jobs on the Wall is a simple job board managed by Web Designer Wall where you can find and post design jobs. The pricing for posting a full-time job is only $75 and $50 for freelance jobs. Don’t miss out the opening special; enter the coupon code ‘promo’ to receive 50% off the first job listing. When you post a job opening, it will be instantly featured on Web Designer Wall as well as other design related websites (Best Web Gallery and N.Design Studio).

P.S. This is a Promotional Post. If you are interested to promote your products/services, Please see advertisement section.

Largest Collections Of Free Photographs For Non-Commercial Use On The Internet

FreeFoto is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet however link back and attribution is required. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site, offers images that are free for on-line use. Also non-commercial users may download our web size images to use off-line in school projects, church services, cards, leaflets, etc.

Free Foto

FreeFoto features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.

ZinePress, A Free 2 Column Widget Ready Wordpress Theme

WellMedicated has just launched a new magazine styled theme called ZinePress. ZinePress is a 2 Column widget ready Wordpress theme. This theme has very nice and beautiful layout with a way that can attract users to involve with your blog.

zinepress

It does have advertising blocks in the sidebar and in the header so you can monetize it well too. It passes W3 Validation. ZinePress is compatible with most of a the browsers, including Chrome!