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A Rough Guide to the excellent Tumblr

January 30, 2008, Topic: Tutorial, Web 2.0 Apps, Comments: 3 Comments.

I had a request from a long term client to design six different Tumblr themes, to be honest the first question I thought of was: ‘Why?’. Being a very good client I thought I had better looked into things, have an educated answer ready for all his questions, and then ask him again: ‘Why, […]

Top 30 Wordpress Plugins that are actually useful!

January 26, 2008, Topic: Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Tips, Comments: 20 Comments.

The amount of Wordpress Plugins available for download are endless, to sift through them and find one or two that you can actually use can be horrendous. Quite often you can find, like a Flickr Plugins, hundreds that do the same function. Others are far too complicated for the designer as well as the user […]

Free Wordpress Theme (The Dark Hut)

January 22, 2008, Topic: Portfolio, Theme Downloads, Wordpress, Comments: 17 Comments.

This theme has been a change for me, I went for a darker look. I kept to my usual style of using a minimal amount of images, in this case images for the logo and RSS buttons only, and relied upon css styling, maintaining my philosophy of keeping it simple. Like all my themes […]

Top 10 Free Resources for Background Patterns and Textures for Web Designers

January 19, 2008, Topic: Link Load, Patterns, Tutorial, Comments: 22 Comments.

Quite often we stumble on to a blog that looks bland, in dire need of some color, a little bit of character, these sites maybe aren’t very familiar with blog design, let alone CSS. The simplest way to freshen up a site is with a new theme or to do a little CSS tweaking with […]

Top 10 Resources To The Perfect Color Scheme for Web Designers

January 13, 2008, Topic: Color, Link Load, Comments: 9 Comments.

In recent weeks I have written about website inspiration styles, showed were to get the best free icons to gloss up your site, the proper fonts to use and were to get the best Wordpress Themes. This week I am going to write about color, and the importance of selecting a perfect color scheme.
There […]

Top 25 CSS Clean Sites of 2007

January 6, 2008, Topic: Best of 2007, CSS Galleries, Design Trends, Comments: 8 Comments.

A year in the life of web design can be compared to architecture from the sixties to the architecture of the nineties. The difference is phenomenal. If you don’t keep up with web trends then it will most definetly reflect on your design, technologies evolve slower, making it easier to keep up to date, but […]

Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers

January 1, 2008, Topic: Free Icons, Link Load, Comments: 115 Comments.

Please Note: This article has been updated, click here:
Top 40 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers (Updated).
Some of the below links have died and I have added 15 new excellent links.
1. Fam Fam Fam (www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/)

2. Brand Spanking New (www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2006/12/hohoho.htm)

3. Greyscale (www.e-lusion.com/design/greyscale/)

4. Drunky Love (http://www.el73.be/drunkey-love/downloads)

5. Strawbee (www.strawbee.com)

6. N Design (www.ndesign-studio.com)

7. Sweetie (www.sweetie.sublink.ca/)

8.Fast Icons (www.fasticon.com/freeware/

9. ASP NET […]