Monthly Archive:
February, 2009

30 Essential Free Portable Web Design and Development Applications
February 27, 2009 - 31 Comments
Application,Web Apps

All of these freeware applications have been in some cases, modified and trimmed down in size to allow them to fit on to a portable device like a USB drive or a portable hard drive. Rather than carrying a bulky laptop, you can carry all your applications and programs, your bookmarks, local servers, emails, passwords with you anywhere in your pocket. What a great idea!

3 Great Ways To Obtaining a Unique WordPress Theme – How do you get yours?
February 27, 2009 - 10 Comments
Wordpress

It is easy to settle for one of the many free themes that are offered online for free. But it is also about time to realize that unique web design might end up costing a few bucks and some of your time…

28 Incredible Photoshop Image Manipulation Techniques and Tutorials
February 25, 2009 - 77 Comments
Photography,Photoshop,Tutorial

All of these tutorials will show you how to take the simplest image and create something eye-popping and professional. Each one uses different tecniques to achieve the result, and I am sure you would agree they are all amazing.

24 Examples of Stylish Sabatier (or Solarised) Effect Photography
February 23, 2009 - 8 Comments
Graphic Design,Photography

Sabatier or Solarised is a tecnique in photography in which the negative of a photograph is completely or slightly changed in tone. In a nutshell, dark is light and light is dark.
This tecnique can be created by over exposing the negative of an image or, as with almost all aspects of photography, can be created within Photoshop.

12 WordPress Plugins to Display and Highlight Code within your Blog
February 19, 2009 - 41 Comments
Wordpress,Wordpress Plugins

If you have ever tried to display code within a post you will know all about the problems this can cause. That is why there are some amazing developers who create plugins to make that solve this niggly issue.

28 of the Coolest Retro Style Photoshop Brush Sets
February 17, 2009 - 18 Comments
Graphic Design,Photoshop

Retro is a style that is very popular with graphic and web designers, styled properly the effect is amazing. Here are some brush sets to help you with your designs.

32 Indispensable Bookmarklets for Web Developers and Designers
February 16, 2009 - 40 Comments
Bookmarklets,Firefox Extensions,Popular

All of these bookmarklets/favelets will be useful to all web designers and developers, they are the quickest method for testing, analyzing and tweaking any web page.

51 Amazing and Inspiring Blog Style Web Designs
February 12, 2009 - 37 Comments
Inspiration,Popular,Showcase

These are probably the blog design benckmarks for 2009, they all have there own individual characteristic that defines them as inspiring. They also have one thing in common: They are Amazing.

33 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Amazing Posters and Ads
February 9, 2009 - 30 Comments
Photoshop,Tutorial

You will probably agree, all of these tuts are amazing, they all combine great typography, amazing image manipulation, color schemes and bring it all together perfectly.

6 Alternative Sources of Design Inspiration, Where do you get yours?
February 6, 2009 - 15 Comments
Inspiration

Great designers know that designing is less thinking and more seeing. Because of this, they have a tendency to find areas other than design showcases or tutorials for new inspiration.
Here are some alternative or different places to find inspiration; inspiration that should help your designs stick out from the crowd.

16 Usable CSS Graph and Bar Chart Tutorials and Techniques
February 4, 2009 - 51 Comments
CSS,Frameworks

Have you ever even tried to create your own CSS graph? If you have, you will know how hard it is. Using Flash is one way to go, but you just can’t beat a beautifully crafted CSS Graph. Have a look at these tutorials and techniques. PHP and CSS- A Simple Graph Link : PHP [...]

50 of the Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets
February 2, 2009 - 169 Comments
Free Icons

If you are looking for that perfect icon for your web site, blog, web app or application, you will find them here.
Below is a compilation of the best ever Web Design and Development Icon Sets.
Please note, this list has no ranking.