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Pandora UI Free for iOS – User Interface Pack
You can now download the free version of Pandora UI containing a handful of elements that will definitely be helpful. Pandora UI Free is oriented towards iPhone (+iPhone 4s) and iPad (+the new iPad).
Create a Dark Vintage Style Motorcycle Poster Design
My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial to combine photography and typography and create a dark vintage style motorcycle poster design.
25 Hand Picked Sans-Serif Google Fonts
When creating new website designs I always reach the point where I need an extensive font collection to enable me to experiment with different headline and body combinations. When coding the design into the browser I often use Google Fonts, this gives me a vast array of fonts to choose from, all of which are also free to use and download! Take a look and download some of my recently used sans-serif fonts which are compatible with Google Fonts and let me know some of your favorites.
Stop WordPress Compressing JPEG Images
All you have to add the following to your functions.php file, this will run when compressing your images and return the value of the quality you want.
[Infographic] – Typography: Bold and Justified
Typography is one of the oldest tricks in the book of design and an essential tool that basically any designer should have up his/her sleeve. This is where this infographic comes in and lends a helping hand by offering essential information about font history, design statistics and current trends.
Design an iPhone Icon for Notes Application in Photoshop
A detailed tutorial that takes you step-by-step through the process of designing a sample icon for a notes app in Photoshop.
Vendor Prefixes: A Force For Good or Evil?
If you’re a web developer working with CSS3 in modern browsers, it’s more than likely that you’ve come across these things called vendor prefixes.
Learn to make a CSS3 Image slider with stylized thumbnails
Learn to make a fade-in-out image slider with thumbnails which have active styles. The slider does not have any page jump when you click on the thumbnails.
The markup is very simple and scalable to accomodate any number of slides without redundant and bad CSS. Javascript may be added to enhance the functionality.
A Complete Guide To Create An Animated SVG Chart
Today lesson is to explains how to create an animated SVG Chart that works across browsers using Google Chart API.
The Aztecs’ Mark on Modern Art and Culture
The Aztec people are one of the most renowned ancient civilizations, whose influences are visible in modern culture to this day. They are best known for their religious practices, architecture, art and mythology and have managed to put a powerful stamp on numerous artistic fields.
The Complete Guide of Retouching Photos with Human Subjects
There are tons of magazine covers with models, females and males that amaze the onlookers with their bodies or faces. The perfection expressed by these models conducted to deviated behaviors, many young women attempting to look similar to these and many times the effects were disastrous.
20 Quality WordPress Themes For Design Studios
In today’s post I am showcasing 20 WordPress themes that are perfectly suited to design studios, creative agencies and freelancers. These premium WordPress themes are perfect for showcasing your work and providing in depth information on your projects, the WordPress themes all feature pixel perfect designs to compliment your studio and work, some featured examples are also responsive WordPress themes.
How to Create an Video Player in jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3 [Tutorial]
In this tutorial we will code an Video Player from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it with CSS3 for the styling and the “MediaElement.js” for the functionality.
Mini Actions Icon Set (32 icons in JPG & PNG format)
Mini Actions Icon Set containing 32 icons in JPG & PNG format.
The icons included are for all types of actions including padlock icon, cloud icon, new document, edit document, delete document icons, mail, pin.map marker, mail icon, comment icons, rss, dribbble, twitter, facebook, pinterest social icons and more..
Our Mini Actions Icons come in JPG & PNG format and come in a size of 20 x 20px.
Transforming Elements in 3D Using CSS3
In this tutorial we will go through the basics of rotating in 3 dimensions and will combine these transforms with the scale and translate transforms for more complex results. We will also add a basic level of interaction to animate the effects as the user interacts with the page.