Monthly Archive:
May, 2010

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.41

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, 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. Send us your recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here: Submit [...]

30 Fresh Icon Sets for Developers and Designers

We simply love creative icon design, we really really do. As such in this post we have collected a rich list of 30 fresh icon sets specifically for designers and developers.
You will find some mini icons, pictograms, wireframe icons, ecommerce icons, toolbar icons, mobile app icons… the list goes on and on.

50 Fundamental jQuery Controls, Components and Plugins

Every seasoned developer has one and every young and upcoming developer should be thinking of building one – a good and concise collection of UI controls, components and plugins that you can always rely on in times of need. Of course, there are plenty of great UI frameworks, kits and libraries that you could use, but none will offer you every component and none of them will be tailored to your own personal preferences and needs. Up until a few [...]

A Review of the Best and Most Intuitive Flash CMS Solutions

Despite the rumors, Flash websites are still very much popular. Flash does provide a unique and rich user experience with its amazing animations, unique effects, its somewhat genius interactivity. Yes, Flash can be beautiful, but it is also very difficult to learn and is certainly very difficult to easily update (especially for clients) and maintain. For the past few years Flash developers have been struggling to create a powerful and intuitive content management system, which would allow the developer to [...]

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.36)
May 10, 2010 - 3 Comments.
Weekly News

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Android App Developers GUI Kits, Icons, Fonts and Tools

Hot on the heels of our previous GUI article, iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, today we focus on Android development. The idea is the same: To help streamline your app design and development, with a fairly comprehensive collection of Android GUI kits, icons, fonts, .psds and tools, that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch. In comparison to Apples iPhone, the Android interaction design guidelines are far from being extensive nor [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.40

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, 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. Send us your recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here: Submit [...]

25 Advanced Photo Effects and Techniques with Photoshop

All of the tutorials in this article have been labeled advanced, simply because of the dramatic transformation on each photo after each tutorial, having said that you don’t need to be a professional photographer nor do you need to be a Photoshop expert to recreate these amazing effects. All you need is a little bit of patience, a little bit of time and pretty soon you will have fun learning how to transform your own photos into works of art. [...]

40 More Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free WordPress Themes

We love minimalism in web design, we really really do. There is something pure about stripping out all of the unnecessary elements from a design and only being left with nothing but the content and some basic navigation. Without good writing or a strong portfolio, the minimal style will have no real impact and the web design will look cheap. And that is the key to minimal, in the hands of a skilled web designer, they will know that the [...]

10 Free Professional HTML and CSS CV/Resume Templates

There are quite literally hundreds upon hundreds of free CV or resume templates readily available to download out in the deep recesses of the web, available in every conceivable format and covering every possible profession. These templates are OK, they are professional enough, but there are two things that these templates lack – originality and creativity – not one will present you in a way that sets you apart from the rest, something that all potential recruiters will be looking [...]

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.35)
May 4, 2010 - 3 Comments.
Weekly News

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.
If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed.

25+ Free Vector World Maps (.ai, .eps and .svg formats)

If you are in search of a high quality vector World map, then your search is now over.
Most of the vector maps below are of the highest detail and accuracy, some have been designed specifically for designers and others to be used by everyone for whatever the project.

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.39

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, 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. Send us your recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here: Submit [...]