Every week dozens upon dozens of new WordPress themes are released, some of these are well designed, without being too original, and disappointingly, most of the others seem to be replicas of existing popular themes or they use tried and tested layout formulas with no use or thought for originality. And sometimes, just sometimes, you will find a little golden nugget of a theme, that resonates quality, originality and offers something unique to the user. It is those themes that [...]

This is an update on a post we published last year entitled 50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers, an enormous collection of only the best social icon-sets. Today’s update is no different, all of the icons are fresh, of the highest design quality and, as you will see, completely original and creative. And please remember, you can’t simply choose any icon-set for your blogs social bookmarking, you need to choose a set that not only compliments your [...]

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and Facebook in the past week. If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, or, if you prefer, on Facebook. As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to share [...]

There are almost twice as many mobile phones in the world than there are computers. With that phenomenal thought in mind you can understand why developing mobile apps is so lucrative, its a huge market with its users demanding ever more powerful and functional applications bridging the gap between mobiles and computers.

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 your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

One of the most popular support emails that we receive from readers and bloggers is how do we display and were do we get the social bookmarking widgets that you can see within our posts. For most the answer will probably be obvious and simple (think of this page as your one-stop-shop for sharing widgets instead), but of course, if you are just starting out it can be understandably tricky finding and implementing the code. What we have done is [...]

The free beautiful vector background pack (+ source files) that we have on offer today have been designed by Cip (from Vectorious, and can be used within almost any aspect of design – they could be used as a seamless web background, cool apparel design, an elegant flyer … anything!

Last month we published the competition MediaLoot Competition – 5 Free Year Long Licenses up for grabs, the competition has now ended and it is now time to announce the winners.

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and facebook in the past week. Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news and resources. As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to share them [...]

Posting a little bit later than usual (it was Easter after all), 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 your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

The growth and popularity of Wordpress continues to spiral to a seemingly endless end. It continually proves itself time time and again that it has very few limitations, and is rapidly pushing itself to being, if not the best, but certainly the most versatile CMS available. Out of the box it is certainly not perfect, but in the hands of the huge WP community, it might just be.

Having a good and quality collection of gradients at your disposal should be paramount for any designer, they are not only a great time-saver, they can also give your designs the simple illusion of depth, make the rough areas of your design appear to be smooth and can even have even invoke a subtle calm effect for the viewer. Yes, the effect a basic gradient can have on a design (web or graphic) should not be understated. Below you will [...]