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How to Create a Stylish Image Content Slider in Pure CSS3 [Tutorial]

Submitted on 8th of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

In this tutorial we will create a CSS3 only image slider. The CSS3 features that we’ll be using in this tutorial are in tests in the most recent browsers.

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How to Create a Dramatic Fisheye Spartan Scene with Photoshop

Submitted on 8th of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to blend and distort different desert landscape stock images to create a dynamic fisheye-like perspective and use different adjustment layers to get different coloring and feel to the manipulation so let’s get started!

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CSS3 Tricks: Animated Twitter Bird

Submitted on 8th of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, CSS Resource

Recently we developed a simple Twitter widget for WordPress. I wanted to bring a little life into it so I created an animated Bird with CSS3.

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Soko – A FREE Photography / Portfolio HTML Template

Submitted on 7th of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

Soko is a FREE HTML template for photographers who want to showcase their photos and services online. It includes four individual page templates such as a custom home page design (which includes an animated photo gallery), templates for displaying your services & photography articles, and a fully functional contact form.

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ZeroBundle – Free Bundle for Designers

Submitted on 7th of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

Head to ZeroBundle so check out and download hundreds of free professional and exclusive design resources like different elements to build amazing User Interface, free PSDs, vectors, brushes and many more.

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HTML5 Details Tag

Submitted on 7th of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

The details tag is used to easily implement a click to show more feature. It allows you to add a title and content inside the tag, the content will be hidden until the user clicks on the title which will then display the content.

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Behance Launches Student Show, an Initiative to Support Emerging Designers

Submitted on 4th of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

If you’re a student, here’s an exclusive design community where you can get your work exposure, get feedback from peers as well as world-renowned creative professionals, and even get hired!

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Tutorial: Create A Minimal Single Page Portfolio With HTML5/CSS3

Submitted on 2nd of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

This tutorial is the second installment of how to create a minimal single page portfolio using HTML5 and CSS3, take a look at part one where I initially designed the single page portfolio concept. In this tutorial I will walk you through the basic front-end build and what resources I used to rapidly build the page.

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Irritating Error Messages

Submitted on 2nd of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Just a damn good read!

Lots of applications and sites are increasingly making use of error messages that attempt to be funny, cool, and laid-back about the error that has occurred. But how do users perceive such messages and what impact do they have on user attitudes?

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Hand Drawn UI Kit

Submitted on 1st of February 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

This is Hand Drawn UI Kit made in Photoshop and Free for use. All the Photoshop Layers (elements) are hand drawn in raster format. Raster format is used to improve the fidelity of this UI Kit.

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What Makes A Premium WordPress Theme Premium?

Submitted on 30th of January 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

Which made me think what makes a premium WordPress theme Premium? Really the only difference there is between a free WordPress theme and a premium WordPress theme is the price. But in order to start selling Premium WordPress themes you will need to add a couple more features in theme than the Free WordPress themes.

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What Does Google’s Page Layout Algorithm Mean For Web Designers?

Submitted on 30th of January 2012Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

Google recently announced that the layout of a web page, especially what appears “above the fold” is a signal for how well that page ranks in search results. Here’s what you need to know about this algorithmic change.

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How to Create CSS3 Buttons [Tutorial]

Submitted on 30th of January 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

In this tutorial we will be making some cool CSS3 buttons. They are based on the Futurico User Interface by Vladimir Kudinov and we will try to make a precise copy of them. Let’s get started…

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50+ Creative Minimalist Portfolio Websites

Submitted on 29th of January 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

In this article, we have collected 50 creative minimalist portfolio websites for your inspiration in designing your own portfolio.

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Create A Jeans Vector in Illustrator

Submitted on 29th of January 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Illustrator Resources

In the following steps you will learn how to create jeans in Adobe Illustrator. We will study several important techniques. You’ll learn how to use blends, gradient, add effects, and create strokes in Appearance panel.

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