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11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends

Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don't want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, 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 with current design trends, we are today listing down 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends. 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 design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!Web Design Trends For 2009

In this post, you will find Web design trends for 2009 like recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches.

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5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X

This is not the first post in which we are listing out few great free tools for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Donâ€™t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 1Freeware Image Viewers For Your Mac OS X You Should Bookmark.Xee

Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface. It is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools. It also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images much more smoothly than other viewers. Its interface is highly streamlined and has easily configurable keyboard shortcuts.

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43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects

Designers love all of those tutorials that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 43 Brilliant Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects. We hope you all will like this collection.Create A Shiny 3D Snooker Ball In Photoshop

Create a Shiny 3D Snooker Ball in Photoshop

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31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts

I believe that strong advertisement is a fastest way to convey the message to the audience and if they are attractive as become inspiration for others so itâ€™s more useful. Sometimes they are just an advertisement but some companies works very hard to make their promotional / advertisement campaign very unique, striking and successful. There must be innovation and creativity involve in any successful creative advertisement campaign. Today, I am sharing another post of Extremely Creative Advertisements I have Ever Seen in which I have collected 31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts. Maybe most of you guys already had a look at some of these but we tried to make this compilation very inspiring, interesting and entertaining for everyone and specially for our exclusive readers. Just take a look at them.Greenpeace

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13 Simplest Free Web Tools That Are Absolutely Useful

Today, we are publishing another list of 13 online free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work. They are too much simple in terms of their usage because many of these do not need to register with them to use the service. 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. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.imgur

imgur.com is the simple image sharer. It's the best way to host your image, and is always completely free. Sharing your images has never been easier.

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23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources

Ajax a short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many modern and popular web sites. This technique allows portions of a Web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page and to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability that is a significant advance in the development of websites and web-based applications. For example, a site might allow you to rate a product or item by clicking on a star image. With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. If you already know about Javascript, HTML, CSS and XML then you will need to spend your 1 hour to start with AJAX. Here is the list of 23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great resources like script, examples etc. We are hoping that you will learn further on Ajax after reading out this post.Google AJAX APIs

Google's AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. You can add a map to your site, a dynamic search box, or download feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. If you want to play around with them, try using the Interactive Code Playground.

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8 Excellent Free Websites To Enjoy Your Weekend Or Just For Fun

What do you do normally on weekends? Find a way to get busy in something to refresh your minds? This post will make you busy on your weekends to spend your time in more interesting way. Here we are listing down few of the unique free websites that are fun to use for everyone of you. This is the post in which you will know about 8 Excellent Free Websites To Enjoy Your Weekend Or Just For Fun.Hollywood Hair Makeover

With Hollywood Hair Makeover, you can try on your favorite star styles and colors before you make a trip to the salon. Just upload your photo or choose a model and let the transformations begin. Print your favorite looks and e-mail them to friends.

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33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs

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 33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs. 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!FrancescoMugnai

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43 Incredibly Useful Collection of Tutorials, Resources, Inspirations etc To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

In this, we made a list of 43 Incredibly Useful Collection of Tutorials, Resources, Inspirations etc.

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13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer

In the search of free resources, We always work really hard to bring all those stuffs that could help others. We mainly focuses that all the resource should be attractive and useful for everyone in anyway. There are countless free stuffs available for designers which everyone should check at least once. In this post, I have collected 13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer.50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets

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15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques

Ajax a short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many modern and popular web sites. This technique allows portions of a Web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page, a significant advance in the development of websites and web-based applications. For example, a site might allow you to rate a product or item by clicking on a star image. With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. In this post, we are listing down 15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques for your inspiration.BBC

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11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers

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.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.

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23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped

As there are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photoshop and photo manipulation. But our today's post is really different than those. In this post we are listing another set of 23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped. This does not mean that they haven't been photoshopped for cropping, coloring etc, but originally all the photographs are real using only in-camera tricks and photographer efforts. You will need to grab their creativity in these photos. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

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45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

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 make a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

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13 Online Free Web Apps That You Would Really Love To Use

Today, we are publishing another list of 13 online free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work (Part 3). 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. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.Cozi

Cozi is a free web service that helps families manage crazy schedules, track shopping and to-do lists, organize household chores, stay in communication and share memoriesâ€”all in one place.

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13 Premium-Like WordPress Themes That Are Free And Stunning

Wordpress, a fastest growing blogging platfrom and getting more and more every day. This is a reason that demands related to wordpress themes and plugins are increasing as well. No doubt, you may easily found thousands of free wordpress themes on internet but how about if we will help you and get the latest list of free and stunning wodpress themes.Today, we are posting another great post that covers 13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes that are premium-like free themes and you may consider any of these themes as per your need.FREEmium wordpress theme

One of the beautiful theme by designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki. When you see the them, I sure you will love it.

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31 Most Colorful Collection Of High Quality Free Texture Packs

High quality texture, backgrounds and patterns are the most demanded freebies on the internet. Designers love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 31 Most Colorful Collection Of High Quality Texture Packs. We hope you all will like this collection.Textures 05 - Stock Pack

This is a set of 4 beautiful texture 2300 x 3000 pixel size of 300 dpi images.

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17 Really Useful WordPress Plugins That Probably Are Essential

As we have already published a post few days ago about wordpress themes and plugins. This is an another post about wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it's totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.In this post, I tried to list down 17 Really Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential for any blog. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy the post.cforms

cforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page.