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45 Beautiful Minimalist Desktop Wallpapers

Submitted on 14th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Graphic Design Inspiration

Minimalist style is known for its simplicity and clean look. Many designers create awesome graphics by following this trend, even photographers have adopted this particular style.

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Using JavaScript Objects for storing data

Submitted on 14th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Javascript Resource

Some experiments and ideas about using the JavaScript Object like data-storage. We are not fully using the new browsers JavaScript engines. We can explore new ways and do the heavy lifting in the browser using the server just like permanent data storage.

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Soko – A FREE Minimalistic Photography HTML Template

Submitted on 14th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

After a new website template for displaying photos? Soko is a FREE clean and minimalistic photography HTML template that comes with four individual page templates and an animated photo gallery.

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35 Inspiring Grid Based Web Design

Submitted on 14th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

Grid based layout now becoming a very popular approach in modern web design. As we know that grids are very helpful for building a websites. So in this roundup we have compiled some creative and inspiring examples of grid based layout web design for inspiration which gives you an idea how to use grid effectively to build a websites. Enjoy!!

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Numeric Slider (PSD)

Submitted on 14th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, GUI

PSD freebie A Sweet Numeric Slider (PSD)

Included in the zip is the original psd & screenshot of the Numeric Slider (PSD)

The Numeric Slider comes in a layered & editable PSD and is completely free for you to use however you wish!

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60+ Examples of Creative Typographic Layouts and Other Examples

Submitted on 14th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Typography

Creative Typography can produce an effect of image and can attract a huge audience. Typography is nothing, only dealing text with creativity. Sensible use of colors can add new values in creative work. The essential point is to get a huge creative collection of font

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Simplico – Free PSD blog template

Submitted on 14th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

Almost every website template includes blog section. Almost every professional designer or web developer have personal blog. Moreover almost every self-respecting company should have blog.
Since 60 percent of Americans use social media, and of those, 59 percent interact with companies on social media web sites it`s imperative to communicate with your potential clients by means of blog.
That`s why it`s not surprising that a great deal of web designers create psd blog templates every month.

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40+ Examples of Outstanding One-Page Website Designs

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

With all the heavy content websites out there, it’s nice to run into a single-page website. The thing I love most about one-page websites is that you can quickly get to where you want to, you have all the important content in a single page and they have a great impact on the viewer.

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10 Essential Differences Between HTML4 and HTML5

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Graphic Design Inspiration

HTML5 is the new version of the HTML standard and sooner or later every web developer will find themselves working with this newer standard and many of us may find it easier to build a site from scratch than to migrate the code from HTML4 to HTML5 because of all the differences between the two versions.Actually, HTML5 isn’t a major revamp of HTML4 there are many similarities between the two.

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Responsive Web Design, The most complete Guide

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

Full responsive web design review: a new trend in web design. Good practices, pros and contras, great examples and tons of useful tools and articles.

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20 Revealing Fonts Used in Logo of Popular Websites

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Font Resources

Are you still figuring out which typeface used in logo of some of the popular websites? If you have experimented many fonts and they just don’t work, this post is all for you .Revealing the font used on each popular logo website is somewhat interesting to follow, either it was modified or just plain used. You need to have a lot of research since finding fonts are somewhat tricky. In this revealing post, we have covered 20 Revealing Fonts Used in Logo of Popular Websites.

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Painting “Girl With the Rainbow” in Photoshop

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

Learn how to create a detailed 2D painting in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. This tutorial will show you some techniques and methods that the author uses for coloring.

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Fun with CSS3 Text Shadow Property

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, CSS Resource

Typography is everyone’s favorite toy in web design. The CSS3 text-shadow property is commonly used to recreate Photoshop’s Drop Shadow type shading to add subtle shadows which help add depth, dimension and to lift an element from the page. But this isn’t all the text-shadow property is capable of. With a little ingenuity and creativity text-shadow can create some remarkable effects.

Today we’re going to run through several CSS3 text-shadow examples that you can copy and paste for your own work.

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14 Brand New Fonts for Your Designs

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Font Resources

We regularly bring you freebies and it’s time for another fresh free fonts collection.The collection consists of 14 brand new fonts for your designs.They are all free to download,however please read the license aggreements of the fonts.Click on the font sources to download them.

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35 Beautiful Contact Form Designs

Submitted on 13th of September 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

This article is about good looking, intersting, modern, clean and simple contact form designs that I hope to inspire you for your next project.

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