Spotlight on ZURB – One Super Awesome Interaction Design Company

JYou may have bookmarked one of their CSS or Javascript tutorials, or you could have read one of their concise and refreshing articles on Smashing Magazine, you may even use one of their web apps, or it could be that you downloaded one of the many useful development tools they offer… Whether you noticed or not, in one way or another you have crossed paths with ZURB at some point…

Top 10 Free WordPress 3.0 Ready Themes

Just a few ago ago, WordPress introduced there 13th major release, the much anticipated ‘Thelonious’ (WP 3.0). As with every other major release, to accommodate all of the new features there has been some (mostly minor) compatibility issues with a number of themes. As such, the WP community has been working hard to update all of there themes and plugins to make them WP3.0 ready and to make best use…

50 Tileable and Seamless Pattern Sets (500+ Patterns)

There are no individual patterns in this post, only complete sets, with each set containing anything from 3 patterns all the way up to 100, and are available in a variety of popular formats: .eps, .ai, .png, .pat, .psd and .jpg. You will find all kinds of varied patterns, such as fabrics, geometric shapes, flowery, retro, vintage, grunge, swirls, paper, dots, lines… and much more. And if all that is…

[Expired] Competition: 3 Free Web Templates from Admin Template + Discount

This competition has now ended and winners will be notified in the next few days. We will publish all winner details early next week. Thanks to everyone who entered. Today we have the unique opportunity to offer three of our readers the chance to win a free professionally developed web template from a recently launched start-up called Admin Template. All you will have to do enter this competition is leave…

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.47)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you 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.

The Most Powerful and Feature Rich Web-Based Code Editors (IDEs)

With all the talk of Cloud computing at the moment and after reading a short article on Dzones blog a few months back that questioned whether or not It Was the Right Time for Web-Based IDEs? (it was a split poll), we were inspired enough to venture out and find out what web based IDEs (integrated development environment) are available and which actually are the best. The results were a…

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.51

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 this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Paul Bennett Veer.com Creative Arts Initiative relogik.com BHX2 Ah&Oh Studio…

40 Professional and Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates

It has become increasingly difficult to to find and to freely download high quality and creative PSD web templates, with more and more of the best resources opting for the premium membership route. And rightly so, every designer should get paid for there hard design work. Having said that, you just can’t beat a good high quality freebie… And that is exactly what we have done for this post, collected…

30 Grid-Based WordPress Themes

Grid based layout designs can be very useful for building structured, usable and content rich (not limited to) websites. Grid design certainly has some major benefits for developers (its really easy to to plan where things should go), but its real power lies in what it can do for your readers and users. With a structured grid layout, an everyday user visiting your site can quickly understand and locate the…

20 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils

No doubt every web designer has spent many endless hours mocking up web pages, and as such every designer should have a good set of re-usable and uniform Web UI elements that they can rely upon to save them precious time and spare headaches when they are in the initial stages of a web project. In this article we have 20 completely free Web UI kits and stencils that are…

Free Clean and Professional Web Layout PSD: OpenMint

Today, we are exclusively releasing a beautiful and professionally crafted web layout PSD template free to our readers. This template, which has been designed by Viv Singh from VivRocks, has a very clean and professional feel about it and would be perfect for any corporate or business company. The template is free to use in any personal or commercial projects and can be modified until your hearts content. Preview and…

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.46)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you 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.

14 Light and Easy to Use Open-Source Content Management Systems

An all singing and all dancing CMS (who uses all of there features anyway?) is not always the best option for every web design project, sometimes all you need is something with a little less punch, something with a smaller learning curve and something that is really, really light. All of the CMSes below can be regarded as ‘light’, that’s not to say they are lightweights, but what they are…

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