Stipple is a free photo-labeling tool that allows publishers large and small to quickly add info inside images with subtle, translucent dots. The dots lead readers to further information on what’s inside the image, whatever the publisher chooses – from a comment to a product-purchasing page. Features & Outstanding Attributes Stipple… • Is a free service: Add one Stipple dot or thousands for no cost whatsoever. • Is fast and easy: It only takes a couple minutes to install Stipple, [...]

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and 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.

One of the main reasons WordPress enjoys such an unrivaled and ever-growing popularity is the constant stream of feature-rich and diverse themes that are released every day. Of course, it is the premium themes that are currently getting, as you would expect, the better reviews and deserved attention. Having said that, you should not under-estimate the quality of the the free themes that have been recently released, as this post aims to shows you. As well as the always popular [...]

Following-on from our previously popular Web UI and Wireframe Resources articles, in this round-up we felt we should bring you right up to date by taking a look at some of the freshest freely available UI resources. All of the templates, kits, stencils and even the Photoshop Actions we have in this post have all been designed to help make the initial rapid prototyping stages of web and mobile development that little bit easier, quicker and smoother. As you would [...]

Please Note: This competition has know ended, you can view the winner information here: Threadless Vouchers Competition Winner Information. Threadless has just reached their ten year milestone, and to celebrate this they have just released a commemorative book entitled Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community. It has been written by Jack Nickell and gloriously designed in a typical Threadless style by A-Side Studios. The book does not only showcase over 300 inspirational t-shirt designs [...]

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There is no better method for bringing a design to life and emphasizing design elements than using an effective and high quality light effect. Everybody loves a little bit of razzmatazz! And there is no greater time saver for any designer than a having a selection of these light effects always at the ready in the form of of Photoshop brushes. That is exactly what we have for you today: 50 Beautiful Light Effects Photoshop Brush Packs, with a total [...]

We’ve always loved those jQuery slideshow scroller tools and the cool things you could do with them. But let’s face it, they aren’t always the easiest things to get creative with, often limited by how they can be formatted and what content they can handle. We set out to build a webapp that could let anyone make their own web slideshow scroller, with any content they want, in a layout they have total control over, without ever having to type [...]

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and 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.

With the growth of the online world, as designers some of us have boxed ourselves in. We get to a stage where we feel like we need to get inspired, so what do we do? We go to our RSS reader packed with useful design blogs and look at the recent posts. Or we visit our favourite CSS galleries. We all do it, myself included, but then we get the problem of everything looking… ‘samey’. When was the last time [...]

It has almost been a year while since we last published a round-up of our favorite personal blog designs, making this post well overdue. And what a difference a year makes! Different design techniques, new and refreshing ideas and with the further support for CSS3 properties, designers have have been able to push their personal blog designs to even higher levels. Having said that and putting all of the marvelous blog designs we have in this article aside and based [...]

Today we have yet another awesome freebie for you – a useful Web Accessibility Checklist desktop wallpaper with a grungy feel that features some super simple yet often forgotten reminders for your websites accessibility. It has been designed by Giovanni Scala from QuicklyCode.com.

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from last 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.