Web design trends change with the wind – what is popular this year will undoubtedly not be popular next year. There is only one web design style that you can rely on and be deemed timeless – and that is the Vintage style. And alongside that, and similar in style, there is the permanently cool and always creative – retro(ism). Vintage and retro should not be categorized as a style – they are much more than that. They are a [...]

In a nutshell, DesignCrowd is a graphic design marketplace that gives creative people the opportunities and aids businesses in getting the best design possible: It is a crowdsourcing service for everything from logo design to web design to t-shirt design.

The demand for high quality Photoshop brushes are huge, every designer needs them. The problem may be that there are far too many of them, resulting in it is nearly impossible to find that particular brush that your design needs. There are certainly no shortage of Photoshop Brush Directories, and there are certainly no shortage of blog posts showcasing the best and latest brushes. What there isn’t though, is a good and reliable source of brushes were you can filter [...]

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
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Every web designer and developer should have a good and reliable wireframe (mockup or prototype) tool at there disposal. The importance of such a tool differentiates amongst web designers and developers, some use them, some don’t. Personally, I use them. It is in this initial stage of development that makes web design enjoyable, the coming together of the clients needs and your own creative ideas onto a blank canvas, allowing you to plan effectively the visual arrangement of the sites content.

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all recommendations, and we hope you like these sites as much as we do.
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This is something new for us today – a Photoshop tutorial. It is area in which I have hoped to explore for a very long time. With this, the plan is to have a weekly section dedicated to publishing a fresh and original tutorial, not only for Photoshop, but also for Illustrator and Fireworks.

For this months book giveaway we have jQuery 1.3 with PHP, written by Kae Verens. jQuery 1.3 with PHP is for PHP application developers who want to improve their user interfaces through jQuery’s capabilities and responsiveness. Whether you are familiar with jQuery or have only dabbled a little with JavaScript, this book will provide you with numerous practical examples of how to improve your applications.

Today we have the pleasure of releasing free to our readers Worn Wall, a three column, grungy WordPress theme. The theme has been designed and developed by Brian L. from TemplateLite and exclusively released here on Speckyboy Design Magazine. If you are anxious to see the theme in action, you can click here for a quick demo: Worn Wall Demo. Worn Wall Screenshots Download and Demos Demo the Theme (393kb) Download the Theme Licence The Worn Wall WordPress theme has [...]

If you are needing a quick way of catching up on what has been happening within the design community after the festive holiday period, this is the round-up for you. Oh, and welcome back to work!
We love to share fresh design related news and resources through Twitter, this post is a collection of everything resource we have tweeted about in the past week.

Since its launch, an extension system has been one of the most sought after and requested features for Google Chrome, and last month, Google delivered. They launched, in beta, there Google Chrome Extensions web site, and in just under a month they have already cataloged an impressive 1000+ extensions (no support for the Mac, as yet).
So, the big question now is, how powerful, useful and indispensable can we, as developers and designers, actually make Chrome, while backed up with its new extensions? The next question is, can it or will it replace Firefox?

This is our weekly selection of beautiful web designs, as recommended by our readers and sites that we have discovered in the past week (in this case the past two weeks). Surprisingly, with it being Christmas and New Year, there is a lot of new high quality web designs around this week, I hope you like them.
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