Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

A beautifully use the handwriting fonts on a website add unique feel to the whole design. Designers use handwriting fonts and graphics as different element in web design some use in logo, navigations, with or without icons and even in main content. This type of element can be used for small details or even for the whole site layout.
In this post I’d like to take a look at many great examples of handwriting that surely affect the design of a website. The list includes a great deal of variety. Regardless of what you personally prefer, there should be some inspirational examples in here for you, obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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Lewebdefi

Thisisbrandnew

Socialsnack

Markforrester

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Kreativaunlimited

84Colors


Tourdust


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Freelenz


TShirt Blog


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FREE FONTS RESOURCES
20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources

50 Free Handwritten Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists

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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Build It With Me is a great application to brings all the designers, developers and entrepreneurs under one roof. Getting funding for your app idea is hard and often unrealistic; it will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps.
Have you ever had an idea for a website or application that you just couldn’t develop yourself? How many times have you just let that idea fall to the back of your mind to possibly get lost forever – just because you couldn’t get the right funding or couldn’t find the right people to work on it? By using the Build It With Me powerful tools that simply enable users to improve how they work and share ideas together.
More from Build It With Me:
“Build It With Me is a tool that connects design and development entrepreneurs. It exists to make creating apps easier by connecting you with like-minded designers and developers with the same goal: create cool and useful apps.”
“Getting funding for your app idea is hard and often unrealistic. Most of the time you may just need to connect with a partner who has a skill set you lack to finish off your app. This is where Build It With Me is comes in, connecting you to those people. Skip the funding. Build It With Me will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps.”
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Movie posters are known for a brief introduction of what the movie all about. Every movie has a poster for its publicity and marketing purpose. Now over the past few years, we’ve continuously seen a boom of posters and DVD covers continuing to appropriate the style.
A good poster is a very easy job for an regular artist but a creative poster takes a lot amount of time and thinking for one or more group of artists which however, reaches beyond the simple advertisement work to a piece of art and the outcome is so wonderful then a regular movie poster that it made movie memorable. Still there are exceptions in which movie rating was really low but the posters are really inspirational.
In the Presentation below, we collected Best Cinematic Poster Arts that fairly creative and dare to be different, all from 2009 films.
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Best Movie Posters of 2009
01. Terminator: Salvation

02. Watchmen

03. Avatar

04. Inglourious Basterds

05. The Hurt Locker

06. Crank 2: High Voltage

07. District 9

08. Moon

09. The Hangover

10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

11. Up

12. Star Trek

13. Saw VI

14. Up in the Air

15. The Ugly Truth

16. Friday the 13th

17. Jennifer’s Body

18. Antichrist

19. In the Loop

20. Three Blind Mice

21. Public Enemies

22. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

23. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

24. Blue Gold: World Water Wars

25. Cold Souls

26. The Final Destination

27. Leaves of Grass

28. Order of Chaos

29. Zombieland

30. Fanboys

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Friday, January 1st, 2010

jQuery can help designers and developers create impressive animations and interactive websites that are appealing and accessible to the widest range of browsers.
Here are 90+ useful jQuery plguins focusing on gallery and slideshows, navigations and further resources to reduce time and effort while increasing your audience.
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Accessibility
Stylesheet and text size switcher.
Accordion
Accordion interface with a few variations.
AlphaNumeric
Prevent users from inputing special characters.
Ajax File Upload
Loading graphic displays while file is uploaded.
AppendDom
Write HTML with JavaScript, great for displaying Ajax results.
AppendText
Converts text into post friendly html.
BlockUI
Create a message overlay while blocking user interaction on elements or the entire page.
BogoFolders
View text through a ‘file menu’ interface.
BogoTabs
Basic tabbed interface.
Bubble
Demo highlights selected table rows in groups of tables..
Calendar
Aids date entry.
Checkbox manipulation
Select, unselect and toggle checkboxes.
Chili
Syntax highlighting for displaying code on webpages.
Choose Component
Select data from a table row through a modal window.
Click Menu
Generates dropdown menus.
clueTip
Tooltips with many variations.
Color Animations
Add color animations to div backgrounds.
Color Picker
Pass in color choices and attach custom events to each color block.
columnHover
Highlight table rows and columns.
columnManager
Add, remove and toggle table columns.
ContextMenu
– Menus that show when you right click specified elements.
Confirmer
Adds a listener to check if user confirms their action.
Cycle
Add flash-like image effects to rotating image galleries.
date picker
Aids date entry.
Delicious
Read delicious bookmarks from a user to display on a webpage.
Dimensions
Get accurate window and document attributes across browsers.
Equalize Columns
Make columns the same height as the longest column.
FCKEditor Plugin
Adds a rich text editor to a textarea.
Field
Expand the ability to retrieve and set values in forms.
Form
Change HTML forms to submit via Ajax.
Gallery Viewer
JavaScript image gallery.
getUrlParam
Function to get url parameters.
Google Feed Plugin
Display any RSS feed to a webpage.
Gradient
Adds a gradient to a div without needing an image.
Grid Column Sizing
Table column draggable resizing.
Grid Row Sizing
Expand and collapse table rows.
hoverIntent
Prevents unintended hover events.
idTabs
Add tabbed interface to a website.
Impromptu
Create modal windows and messages.
jQuery Localisation
Applies localisation packages based on the user’s language preference.
jBox
UI dialog widget.
jCalendar
Aids selecting of dates inline on a page.
jCarousel Lite
Simple carousel for images and HTML content.
jCodeViewer
Syntax highlighting for displaying code on webpages.
jdMenu Hierarchical Menu
Generates dropdown menus.
jEditable
Live editing of elements on a webpage.
jFeed
XML feed parser.
jPanView
Replaces big images with a zoom viewer in HTML.
jqDnR
Drag’n’Resize elements on a page.
jQMaps
Interact with Google maps.
jqModal
Display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser.
Treetable
Make a tree view out of an HTML table.
Tree View
Tree view controls.
Suggest
Add autocomplete to input fields.
YAV
Form validation library.
jqUploader
Provides a status bar for uploading images.
jScrollPane
Customize your scrollbars.
jTagEditor
Turn a textarea into a tag editor.
jVariations
Create a control panel to manipulate elements on a page.
Keyboard Navigation
Dynamically determine which element to focus on based on it’s position on the screen.
labelOver
Overlay labels over an input field.
LavaLamp
Navigation menu with a ‘lava’ effect.
Lazy Load
Only load images that are in the current window.
Live Query
Adds event listeners to elements.
Masked Input
Add mask to inputs to aid user data entry (phone numbers, etc).
Media
Unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content.
Extra selectors for JQuery
Add more selectors to jQuery.
Mousewheel
Mousewheel event handler.
Mousehold Event
Add repeating event as the user holds down the mouse.
Multiple File Upload
Select multiple files one by one as it adds to a queue list.
newsticker
Create a fading news ticker.
Password Strength Meter
Indicator to show the strength of a users password.
PopupWindow
Creates an preview popup of destination link.
Query String Object
Useful for sending URL parameters.
Select box manipulation
Remove and add options from a select list or dropdown in many ways.
selectCombo
Tool for making dependant dropdowns with Ajax.
Star Rating
Generates star rating from input fields
Grid
Dynamic ajax grid control.
slideViewer
Image gallery as slides.
Spoilers
Hide content behind an image until user action is taken.
tableHover
Row and column highlighting with variations.
tableFilter
Search box is added to each column header to filter table.
tablesorter
Client side table sorting.
Taconite
Easily make multiple DOM updates using the results of a single AJAX call.
Textgrad
Add gradients to whole blocks of text.
Time Entry
Sets an input field up to accept a time value.
Tooltip
Add tooltips from title page.
Validation
Add live validation to forms.
WYMeditor
Web-based XHTML WYSIWYM editor.
Zoomi
Zoomable thumbnails.
XSLT
Transform XML/XSL from JavaScript.
XAP
Ajax library.
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes to selection of right resources you need to be very careful and specific about needs.
In this round-up, you’ll find number of top resources, tutorials, freebies which left deep impression on web design community, as the month of December had a lot of interesting articles produces by different sources.
The more time and effort you dedicate for useful and creative resources, the higher are your chances for getting better results.
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Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In December’09
Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The Definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for content. There is no “Good” and “Bad” in design. It always define as a “Different”.
So how can you make sure your design is better than the designs of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your product? Here we might be able to help you by showcasing following list of best resources available on web in the month of December.
Design Showcase, Feature Collection
The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites

30 Impressive Ways to Design Sign-Up Page/Form

25 Funny T-Shirts for Designers and Developers

Logo Design Inspiration: 70 Creative Fresh Designs

Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More

40+ Vintage Posters to Inspire Your Next Designs Color Palette

70 Gorgeous Blog Footer Designs

50+ Most Creative and unusual 404 error Pages

Best of CSS Design 2009

Photography, Digital Showcase and Art inspiration
35 Powerful Photos That Tell A Story

Mix Collection of 88 Stunning Photographs to Refresh Your Mind

Snowy scenes

60 Humorous Print Advertisements to Tickle Your Bones

100 days in Glacier National Park

125+ Unusual Crazy Advertisement Designs will Grab your Attention

45 Breathtaking Examples of Slow Shutter Speed Photography

Design Something Every Day!

HDR Photography: Tutorials, Tips and Stunning Examples

Freebies Resources (Themes, Wallpapers, PSDs, Icons, Vectors, Fonts etc.)
A Gold Mine of Adobe Illustrator Resources

A UI Design and Prototyping Treasure Chest

30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designs

100 Premium Like But Free, Fresh WordPress Themes: Year 2009

50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design

50 Free Resources Of Hand Drawing Style Icons, Brushes, Textures and Fonts

Tutorials, Tips, Tricks & Hacks Resources
Top WordPress hacks of 2009

22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks

50+ Fresh CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Resources

How To Create a Sleek Audio Player Interface in Photoshop

How to Create Cityscape Concept Art

40+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials

CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles

CSS, xHTML, PHP, Javascript and Ajax Resources
Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3

A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials

10 jQuery snippets for efficient developers

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS

How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

Top 15+ Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code

Appz, Tools and Development Resources
7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website

How To Support Internet Explorer and Still Be Cutting Edge

Optimizing WordPress for Search Engines

50 Best Free Tools To Create Perfect Color Combinations

Freelancing Resources
How to Start a Freelance Company

How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong

What to Do When a Client Doesn’t Pay in a Timely Manner

My Website Design Was Stolen! Now What?

Doubling Your Rate: A Thought Experiment

How Many Ideas Do You Show Your Clients?

5 Misuses of Social Media That Could Kill Your Freelance Business

The Best Books for Freelance Graphic Designers

Miscellaneous Resources
50+ Free Resources for Writers, Bloggers, And Other Freelancers

50 Professional Web Design Agency Web Sites

15 Sites for Learning and Mastering SEO

How to Brainstorm Brilliant Ideas for Your Blog

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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Christmas & New Year Special Mega Giveaway had announced the giveaway of some of the most famous hardware and design related stuff.
We’ve got more than 400 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 240+ valid comments. It’s really good to see that how we can able to help in our reader’s life and their profession.
We want to thank you all for such a good response with original & helpful comments and useful feedbacks. You can find the all winners information below.
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Winners
Following 35 Winners are selected randomly from the comments list of Christmas Giveaway Post. In case, If you missed the giveaway, make sure you ready for next one as we going to create more such giveaways in future.
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. Photography is one of the key sources of inspiration for some of my past work. Here we talking about photography of various forms like aerial, wildlife, underwater, portrait, nature, travel etc. which I find usually amaze me more than anything. If you know how to shoot a photo then you can also change something fairly simple to something creative or abstract or otherwise more artistic. You don’t need any special skills for taking such shots. It all depends on the environment and perfect timing.
There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning collection of Photography and Pictures taken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages.
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Stunning Photography to Refresh Your Mind
Photography can serve as a nice source of inspiration. We designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything around, and this collection can fulfills your various photography inspiration related needs as the creativity in shooting photos is somewhat hot trend now days. We can promise you that when you start browsing them farther in details it will surely refresh your memory.
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Monday, December 28th, 2009

This post is part of our weekly series of posts showing the most inspiring stuff selected by some of the 2expertsDesign team and users.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, So take a look at the tweets that we sent out this past week. We’ve selected some our favorite and useful tweets for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s going on out there!
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35+ Usability Resources for Web Designers -
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Best Free Christmas Wallpapers -
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Ultimate Resource List for Vector Graphics -
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Create Collage Design Photoshop Tutorial -
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25 Creative 404 Error Page Designs -
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30 Impressive Ways to Design Sign-Up Page/Form -
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125+ Unusual Crazy Advertisement Designs will Grab your Attention -
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Multi level dropdown/flyout menu – NO hacks, NO conditional comments, NO tables and NO javascript -
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How to Get a Professional Look With Color -
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15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials -
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40 Awesome Websites with Big Backgrounds -
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81 Inspiring Sketchs from Flickr -
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99 Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers to Spice Up Your Desktop -
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Comic : How A Web Design Goes Straight To Hell -
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35 Adobe AIR Tutorials for Web Developers -
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30 Best CSS Techniques for a Unique Navigation -
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
We all love desktop wallpapers as they always come in handy and you will always find a wallpaper to express your feelings or mood. I know some of my friends who keep changing their desktop background almost on a daily basis. Unless like me, who rarely change their desktop wallpaper. So, How about you? When was the last time you changed desktop background?
2010 (MMX) is a common year starting on Friday in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It is also the first year of the 2010s decade. It’s almost party time so start collecting the party songs, conjure up some cool costumes and prepare joy, and don’t forget about your computers. In this post we present amazing collection of New Year wallpapers related to typography, culture, events and, of Course, lots of colors. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting to refresh their desktop in this celebration time.
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Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers to Spice Up Your Desktop
Wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. Infect, we designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything around, and this collection can fulfills your joyful holiday inspiration related needs as we can promise you that when you start browsing them further in details it will surely refresh your memory and force you to download any or all for your desktop right now. All wallpapers can be downloaded for free from their original source.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

We appreciate to all those talented Photoshop Designers who designed and share their Creative design stuffs with their efforts, so others designers can learn and get inspiration from their works.
Here we are listed 25 Quality PSD Files for your next Web or Graphic Design Projects to Download from various direct locations, hope you like the download list.
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Sticker byTLMedia

Under Construction Page Design by Creamania

One page Free Portfolio Design by PsdThemes

Colorful Video Them by PsdThemes

Cool Blog Design by PsdThemes

Laptic2 by TLMedia

BEER Can by TLMedia

PSD Book by TLMedia

Star Fish Watch TV by TLMedia

Carpati Cigarettes by TLMedia

Old Paper by TLMedia

Etiquette PSD by TLMedia

Idle PSD by TLMedia

Dacia by TLMedia

World Music by psdgraphics

Web News Icon by psdgraphics

Zoom Icons by psdgraphics

Red Christmas Bags by psdgraphics

Light Bulb by psdgraphics

Trash Can by psdgraphics

Money Back Guarantee Seals by psdgraphics

PSD Vote Empty Buttons by psdgraphics

Gears Icons by psdgraphics

Shield Icon by psdgraphics

Umbrella Icons by psdgraphics

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