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50+Web Development Tools (Really Useful)

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools

Web Development Tools is very perfect tools for web developer. Today i had collected 50 Web Design/Development Tools that you can use online or download to install in your computer.

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What is WireFrames Web Design And 10 Tools To Create Wireframes

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

A wireframes is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. It is also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint.

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Surrealism Art: Everything But Ordinary

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Graphic Design Inspiration

Surrealist artworks are described to be inspired by the imagination, subconscious and fantasy.

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Creative Doodle Art in Web Design

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

Doodles are a great way to feed your creativity. Those that might consider them a waste of time are actually the ones that haven’t tried doodling or maybe don’t even know exactly what these are. Doodles are an experiment every web designer should try at least once.

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30 Extremely Useful WordPress Code Snippets & Hacks

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Wordpress

Productivity is a great asset in a business. Once you are productive, you are committing yourself to excellence. That’s what snippets do. Snippets are tools – reusable codes that display specific functions – which can increase your speed in coding. By using snippets, you are able to minimize the use of repeated codes thus time consumed in coding is reduced.

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How to Take Good People/Portrait Photographs

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photography

People are probably the most widely photographed subjects. However, people photography needs special treatment in terms of composition, lighting, depth of field and most importantly a “natural look”. It is a misconception that shooting people/portraits needs elaborate studio equipment. Contrary to the popular belief, people can be photographed successfully in natural light.

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Which Famous Logos have been more Effective – Simple or Complex?

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools

Among so many famous logos, few are simple logos while others are complex logos. Simple logo design of Shell and Nike are memorable while 2012 London Olympic Logo is a complex logo.

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How To Add Non-Textual Elements To A Baseline Grid

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

Most articles that talk about baseline grids focus on textual elements and often neglect to mention non-textual elements such as forms and images. This post, with accompanying demo, adds some non-textual elements to a design and shows how to align them to a baseline grid.

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Image map with CSS3 & jQuery tooltips

Submitted on 18th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, CSS Resource

Tooltips can play a big role in your web designs and that isn’t new anymore. Just use them correctly and they will help you improve user experience.

We have seen before how to create some good looking CSS3 tooltips and today you’ll learn how to create an image map with pins and tooltips.

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Collection Of High Quality and Free Brick Textures

Submitted on 17th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

Here is another freebie from Designbeep.As you know we share high quality free textures,patterns,brushes et. every weekend and this time we have a great collection of brick textures from various free texture resources. These kind of textures are extremely useful for graphic and web designers and there are 30 brick textures in this collection.

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20+ Slider Pricing Design Showcase

Submitted on 17th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

If you want to create your own slider pricing you should use JQuery UI Slider, YUI Slider, ExtJS Slider with snap to increment feature. Many websites have use this to showcase their work. This gives the vistor a better impact or a clear view about the website. This not only gives the visitor a better view but also speed up the loading time as compare to Flash image content slider. These slider pricing are also user friendly.

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20 Useful Free Mini Icon Sets

Submitted on 17th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

Our sets of these mini icons will make your design complete and your users completely satisfied with your design. Our icons will enhance your business prospects and earn you a good fame.

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It’s Drizzling Pretty Hard! 30+ Splendid Rain Photography To Inspire You

Submitted on 16th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photography

Most photographers do not feel comfortable in taking photographs in bad weather. Yet bad weather sometimes presents the perfect opportunity to get most out of photographer skills. In particular, well in the beginning of autumn rain can provide the perfect opportunity to capture wonderful photos of rain fall in streets……

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HTML5: New Functions Of The Old Tags

Submitted on 14th of October 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Just a damn good read!

It is well known that tags b, , , are presentational, and consequently, in terms of a paradigm “structure, presentation, behavior” their use is not welcomed. Elements strong, em, are seemed more usual. So it was during the long years of development practice. However a great deal changed in semantics of these elements with arrival of HTML5. Now we have 4 new tags with sense and our thoughts are in a muddle.

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55 Amazing Black and White Photography

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

Photography is an art of capturing the best moments for ever. Great photographs are those which have depth and layers of meanings about the person, thing, area or anything which is being portray and this is best done through black and white photography….

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