Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

20 Useful PHP Tutorials For Beginners

AQ Nizam — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:55:38 +0000

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is a scripting language that is especially designed for the web development purpose. With the help of PHP, one can create dynamic web pages with loads of functionality. It is the general-purpose scripting language which is similar to other scripting language such as JavaScript, Ruby, Python etc. For the beginners, it may be somewhat difficult to learn but with the help of step by step tutorials, learning the scripting language also is a fun.

So, in this round up you will find some useful and detailed PHP tutorials that are especially designed from the beginners’ point of view. We hope that you will get good help from these tutorials. Enjoy!

Diving into PHP

Scanning Folders with PHP

Carbon Fiber Signup Form With PHP, jQuery and CSS3

How To Set Up A Local PHP/MySQL Development Sandbox For Windows And OS X

Introduction To PHP

Image Resizing Made Easy with PHP

How to Create a PHP/MySQL Powered Forum from Scratch

PHP Tutorial: Installation and The Basics

Resize and Crop Photos with PHP’s GD Library

PHP & MySQL File Download Counter

Quick Feedback Form With PHP And jQuery

Making A Cool Login System With PHP, MySQL & jQuery

How to Open Zip Files with PHP

Beginning PHP Part 2: Learn PHP Functions and Security

30 Best PHP Practices for Beginners

Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form

PHP string to array

PHP Loops

PHP calculator

The Problem with PHP’s Prepared Statements

16 Useful Free Handwritten Fonts For Your Designs

Akhter — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:19:39 +0000

Handwritten fonts add a natural feel to your design and make them look more appealing and enticing. This is the reason why majority of the designers prefer to use handwritten fonts in their designs. By using handwritten fonts, an ordinary design can also be converted into a truly stunning design – this is the power of typography.

In this round up, you will unearth 16 amazing and attractive handwritten fonts that are available for free download. These fonts can also be used as signature fonts. So, without any further ado, here we are presenting the complete list of 16 free handwritten fonts for you. Enjoy!

Scriptina

Estrya’s Handwriting

Penciledinh font demo

Easy Going the Font

Aerofoil

Grey Magus

Laurent HW

Brook 23 – Font

Loveable Scruff

Scribulous Scrawlin

Scratch Kit

Mskitokilla

Font Details

Rickman Script

Le Grand Saut

The Quiet Scream

50 Essential And Free Web Template PSD Layouts

Akhter — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:23:27 +0000

For a web designer what comes more handy than a high quality PSD web template? This is the reason why every designer spends loads of time in searching out some essential and basic PSD web templates and layouts that he can use in his design work. Though PSD templates simplify the designing task but finding out high quality PSD files that are free to use is a tough job. You would have to browse through dozens of web pages to find out a handful of PSD templates. This is a time consuming process.

As we have already published some posts about Free Web Template PSD Layout and that was greatly appreciated by our readers. Now we are showcasing another much expected compilation of some essential and complete web layout PSD templates that you can download for free, of course. Let’s have a closer look!

Layout Grunge para Portfolio Gratuíto

Car Design Studio

Financial Biz

Free HTML and PSD template – Sifiso

Magnate: Professional Website PSD Template

Perpetual Redux: Free PSD Website Layout

Free PSD Website Template for Catering Company or Restuarant

Must-Have Free Website Template for Business Company

Free “ColorZone” .PSD template

Gongblog

Web layout psd

Simple business site

Web layout psd html FREE :12

Web layout psd html FREE :8

Free Website Template for Web Design Studio:

One Page Portfolio psd template

Free PSD Landing Page Template

Cars layout psd html

Personal Page Template

Free Modern Design Studio PSD Template

Free Photoshop PSD Coming Soon Page

Website PSD Template in 3 colors

VIM: Free PSD Website Template for a Web Design Company

NeverAfter: Free PSD WordPress Template

Free Website Template with jQuery Carousel in the Header

Free Red psd template

Eco Business PSD Template

Red psd template #4

Foliodile PSD

Graph Software

Splash Creative Agency

45 Examples Of Websites Designed With HTML5

Akhter — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:09:57 +0000

With the revised and improved edition of HTML, the authors as well as the web developers have been given some more flexibility and interoperability in order to create more interactive and creative websites. HTML5 has been proposed recently because the community believed that now it is the time to move forward and push the limitation of HTML further more in every direction.

In today’s collection, we are presenting 45 excellent examples of websites that are designed by using HTML5. With this collection, we tend to share with you variety of highly-creative, striking and most prominently inspirational designs that are coded in HTML5. Enjoy!

Hyper

Dilly Deli

Desiign

Veloster

Rally Interactive

Vivas Communication

Slavery Footprint

Hall88

Crypteks

Sony Tablet

Scandalous Dirt

Dataveyes

Jessica Caldwell

Cycle to Work Calculator

Trinity Webtech

We New

La Moulade

English Workshop

Print Discount

Web Expert

The Threepenny Editor

Cappen

Mm Studio

Elevate

PAPERPLANE

PYGMALION

MEETWEB

CENTVINGTCINQ

Touchtech

1minus1

CORPUS

Mind Epic

Nike Better World

Greater Dunnellon Historical Society

Cultural solutions uk

Youzee

An HTML5 Interactive Infographic featuring Dribbble

Green Campus Guide

255 Creative

Zeitgeistbot

South Mountain

G-FORCE

ZERO HOUR & CO

Time2project

Eyestylesllc

25 (More) Free And Useful Photoshop Actions

AQ Nizam — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:57:20 +0000

Here is a collection of 25 truly amazing and wonderful Photoshop actions for you. Different types of Photoshop actions are high in demand because Photoshop actions make automating the common sequences easy for the designers and thereby increasing their efficiency and saving their precious time.

In this compilation, we have put together 25 awesome and absolutely free Photoshop actions for you that you can download for free. With these Photoshop actions, you can easily automate monotonous work and improve your work efficiency greatly. We hope that you will like this assortment. Feel free to share your opinion with us. Enjoy!

Toasted Photoshop Actions

Darker effect

Fairytale actions

Landscape action

Lith Print Action

Photoshop Action 25

005 Photoshop Action 16

Before and After

Photoshop actions soft red

UTW Dreamy Vintage Photoshop Action

Morning light FREE PS action

Photoshop sunny actions free

HDR Tools

Oscar’s Pitch Photoshop Action 1

Before and After (free photoshop action) / Autumn

BitFUUL Design Resources

Unwritten Action

Landscape Effect PS Action 0.2

My first actions set

Action 11

Old Black and White

Action 03

UTW La Chambre Photoshop Action

Photoshop Actions Pack 5

Free Photoshop action

Congratulations To The Winners Of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack

AN Jay — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:01:06 +0000

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack.

Winners of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack

Lucy Martin (Developer License)
Matiss (Personal License)
Regnareb (Personal License)

Impressionist is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack. It contains over 300 elements for web design that represent almost anything one can imagine. The elements are so far distributed on 5 pages. You can find here: Edit Boxes, Tabs, Buttons, Notification Windows, Menus, fast solutions for the Menu tabs, Windows, Backgrounds, Graphics, Sliders, Informational blocks and many others.

All the elements have been done in Photoshop using Shapes. This means that all the elements can be zoomed in or out without losing quality. They can be used for web design, mobile interfaces or illustrations. It all depends on your imagination.

Thanks to DesignModo for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.

If you want to conduct any contest at SmashingApps just contact us and send us all the details.

50 Photoshop And Illustrator Tutorials For Creating Text Effect

Akhter — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:27:41 +0000

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are tools that every designer and artist use, interact and rely on for completing his design work. These tools cannot be overlooked no matter how smaller or bigger your design work is. Thus, learning to use this most important and crucial designing tools inside out is important for every designer. One of the major uses of Photoshop and Illustrator are in creating dramatic and dazzling text effects for banners and logos.

In this round up, we have put together a collection of 50 Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials that will help you learn creating awesome text effects. All these tutorials are very easy to follow. Enjoy!

How to Create an Abstract Wireframe Text Effect

Create Detailed Vintage Typography with Illustrator and Photoshop

How to Create a Colorful Text Design in Photoshop

Create an Extremely Glossy Text Effect

Create an “IronHero” Text Effect in Photoshop

Creating Simple Gold Text Effect

Create a Light Bulb Inspired Text Effect in Photoshop

Cool Dots Text Effect

Create a Cinematic “Sergeant America” Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Delicious Cookie Text Using Photoshop

Create a Metallic Type Treatment Using Photoshop and Cinema 4D

Create a Stunning Text on Wild Fire Effect

Create “Awesome” 3D Style Lettering in Photoshop

Create a Retro Folded Effect using Photoshop

Create a Stitched Text Effect for an iPad Wallpaper

Create a 3D Newspaper, Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

How to Use Typography to Create a 3D Text Effect

How to Create a Vintage Type Postcard

Create a Cartoon-Style Graffiti Text Effect in Photoshop

Create A Fancy Neon Text Effect In Photoshop

Create a Futuristic, Grungy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Typography That’s Going Down the Drain

Create a Royal Gold Text Effect in Photoshop Using Layer Styles

Create a “Transfarmers” Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

How to Create a Chocolaty Valentine’s Day Card for Your Girlfriend

Text In Stitches

Simple Dark But Vivid Text Effect

Create A Dynamic Shattering Text Effect

Delicate Text Effect

How To Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design

Type Illustration Project: Experimental Digital Workflow

Clouds Text Effect in Pixelmator

Create Detailed Letters of Gold and Diamond

Colorful Plexi Text Effect using Photoshop

Awesome Text Effect

Create a Swirly Type Treatment

Floral 3D Text Effect

Colorful Light Burst Text In Photoshop

Design a Skin-Textured Typography Scene

How to Create an Incredible Typographic Illustration – Part 1

Colorful light burst text effect

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Create an Ancient Typography with Dry Soil Texture

How to Create an Ice Text Effect with Photoshop

Stunning 3D Effect

Create a Baseball-Inspired Text Effect in Photoshop

Elegant Leather Style Text Effect

Stars Candy Text Effect

Learn to Create Party Text Effect

Learn to Create Marble Text Effect

How to create Caramel Text Effect on Photoshop

40+ Beautiful And Creative Letterpress Designs

Akhter — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:12:56 +0000

This time we are presenting a beautiful collection of some impressive and stunning letterpress designs for you that you can use to give your designs a fresh feel and finish. Letter press designs are different from other designs since the textures and shading used in these designs are slightly different.

Letterpress printing basically is a technique used to press the design into the paper giving it an embossed or raised finish. By employing this technique to your designs, you can simply make your designs look visually stunning; although so much quirks and intricacies are involved in learning the use of letterpress equipment. We hope that you will like this collection and that these designs will inspire you.

D. James Goodwin

Letterpress Business Card

Rogers Reel Business Card

At Media

Bella Figura

Business Card for: Sarah Powers Media

Blue Bird Design Card

Custom letterpress business card – Boxcar Press

Torello Letterpress Business Card

Letterpress Business Card

Letterpress Business Card F256

Cool Business Card YoMeSubo

Our business cards-They are printed in thick stock

Amamda Lucier Business Cards

My Old Red Hat

Figments

Letterpress Business Card – Silver/Black

Historic Tattoo business card detail

Business cards for Ellen

My_old_card

Javier Garcia Letterpress Business Card

Foil on Boxcard Business Card

Letterpress Fotoalias Business Card

Le Tank Creative

Domestic Construction

Business Card for: Anick Bauer

Business Card for: John Henry Donovan

Running Doves Press

Letterpress Card

Scott Salvator Letterpress Business Cards

Vida

Chocolate Maker’s Studio

Kyle Van Horn

The Mandate Press

Business Card for: iamtiago

Cinematographer Business Card

Colorful Mei Yen Chua Business Card

Zoe Grave Studio Cards

Fresh Impression Card

Pearls lace

Ink Pixel Paper Letterpress

Dingbat Letterpress Card

Distillery

Letterpress Business Cards Printed in 2 different colors

Cotton & Gold Letterpress Wedding Stationery

6 color letterpress business cards – printed by Boxcar Press

15 Useful Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers

AQ Nizam — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:41:59 +0000

Google Chrome is the most favorite web browser not only for the developers and designers but also for the general public because it is simple, fast and provides enjoyable browsing session. Since it is the product of Google, you can expect extraordinary and high quality upgrades and improvements.

Here we have put together 15 useful and exceptionally versatile Chrome extensions that are of great interest for the designers and developers but practically can be used by almost every user. Chrome is the most preferred web browser for the developers and designers because it comes with plenty of built-in developer tools making it unbelievably versatile and fast to use. Check out this collection and get to pick one. Do let us know what you feel about this round up.

Image Cropper

Window Resizer

Speed Tracer

CSSViewer

Jsshell

Builtwith Technology Profiler

MeasureIt

ColorPicker

Colour Tweaker

Web Developer

PopChrom

Diigo Bookmark, Archive, Highlight and Sticky Note

Image Properties Context Menu

Bookmark Bar Switcher

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16 Free Woven And Knitted Fabric Textures

AQ Nizam — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:41:23 +0000

Here, we have come up with an awesome collection of woven and knitted fabric textures for you. All the textures in this collection are free to download and use. Now, you do not have to wait for the hours to find out the ideal texture for your design rather you can pick one from these and make your design look eye catching.

The selected woven and knitted fabric textures are most suitable for giving your designs a feeling of warmth. Furthermore, such types of fabric textures can also add make your designs look more stylish and artistic.

So, let us take a look at this compilation and download as many as you like. Do let us know your opinion about this compilation. Enjoy!

Stripes In Style

Blue Cable Knit Pattern Texture

Magenta Ribbed Knit Fabric Texture

Texture 015

Striped Fabric Texture Green and Purple

Rust Orange Upholstery Fabric Texture

Lavender Knit Yarn Close Up Texture

Woven Fabric Texture

Ivory Silky Woven Texture

Texture 029

Texture 026

Texture 028

Fabric Multiple Woven Colours

Rust Orange Upholstery Fabric Texture

Knit Free Texture

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