Category Archives: Design Resources

North Starr home remodeling

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Setting Up a Quality Website

The success of your business is heavily based on how well it's marketed. As the internet becomes ingrained in our daily lives, having a website has become a key part of a successful marketing campaign. While most people think that only large businesses are capable of having nice, professional websites, there are many tools available now that allow anyone to gain a top-notch spot on the web. You can even do it without spending tons of money on a web developer or graphic designer. Keep reading this article and I'll explain the tools you can use to make a quality website.

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60+ Beautiful Websites Showcasing Minimalist Design

Minimalism in design means removing the unnecessary elements and focus on simplicity. Minimalist design has been applied in different field such as visual art, music, architecture as well as wed design. It is highly influenced by Japanese traditional design, where it doesn’t have fancy colors or effects , and focus only on the fundamental features.…
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12 Free and High-Res Grungy Wall Textures

In this freebie, we share with you 12 free grungy wall textures that you can use on your future design projects in an innumerable amount of ways. They have a liberal Creative Commons license so that you can use them in any manner you choose, whether it’s personal or commercial. They come in various dimensions…
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This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind

PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch and automatically turn it into a naff montage. According to authors, their software can take any rough sketch, with the shape of each element labeled with its name, find images corresponding to each drawn element, judge which are a better match to the…
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Hacker Tip | Hide Your IP Address

Are you safe on the Internet? Do you feel as all your personal information is secured behind a firewall on your computer? Well, thing is that you are not. As soon as someone has your true IP address they can find out just about everything about you. Even down to the exact street your at…
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Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts

Since tables were co-opted for layout purposes, columns have become key to many Web design layouts, and this thinking continued when CSS took over from tables (at least in the minds of savvy designers) for Web-page presentation. However, other fields of layout design don’t think in arbitrary columns, they work with grids, and these form…
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Amazing Drawings from Cataclysm-X

Nicolien Beerens, aka Cataclysm-X on deviantART, is a 21 years old self-taught artist from Netherlands. She likes all sort of arts: traditional art, digital art, poetry and writing! I found Nicolien's work at deviantART (while searching for some House Md. artworks) and loved it. Her drawings are amazing... full of details, personality, beautiful lines and…
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Learning jQuery: 11 excellent resources

Blog posts with tons of jQuery scripts are pretty cool, but you’ll have to know how to use them first. To be able to use these scripts, you’ll have to learn jQuery first. For that, here is a list of the best resources for learning how to use the javascript framework. View article source
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5 Ways to Use Twitter to Kill Your Business

There are lots of people out there with pretty strong opinions about how Twitter should and should not be used, particularly from a business standpoint. I’m of the opinion that Twitter is a flexible medium that you can mold, twist and bend to fit your individual needs; it’s there for you to use however you…
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30+ Coolest Free Premium Blogger Templates

Today some of our fellow bloggers decided to stay with Blogger platform, so really nice wordpress themes are converted to Blogger Templates. Some are so nicely done, you won’t be able to tell if it’s a Blogger or Wordpress. View article source
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101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1

If You have been following to latest articles, I compiled 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials article some time ago. This should be considered as next step to web development process. There are a lot of really professional and high quality XHTML, CSS templates available for free – if You are familiar with coding, You…
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40 Free PSD Website Templates

Starting from scratch on a new web-design project can be tough for the beginner and even the advanced user when the ideas aren’t coming. A quick fix for this can be to start with a template as the foundation. It can be dissected for quick learning and can spark ideas that you may not have…
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99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates

As you already familiar with the fact that your website represents you and your brand. It’s up to you how you set-up your website. Just because WordPress themes tend to get a lot of exposure and attention in the design community these days, It doesn’t mean basic (X)HTML/CSS templates are ugly, cluttered, and boring. You can…
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33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section

33 Wordpress plugins, which can be used effectively to power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security. If programming is not your strongest side, then such automatized plugins will be irreplaceable for your blog. View article source
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Xobni Brings Twitter To Your Inbox

Earlier tonight, Xobni quietly released, at least to some users, a new version of its Outlook plug-in that brings Twitter streams into your email in an intelligent way. Instead of acting like any other Twitter client and showing you the full stream of everyone you follow, it shows you only the recent Tweets of the person whose email…
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Ink Blots: 20 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

There are very few things more satisfying than converting a boring, clean design into amessy grunge layout. There are tons of ways to do this using brushes; sprays, drips, and splatters are all excellent brush types to use in a grunge design but if you’ve researchedgrunge design you have probably noticed that those types of brushes are…
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Taming Advanced CSS Selectors

CSS is one of the most powerful tools that is available to web designers (if not the most powerful). With it we can completely transform the look of a website in just a couple of minutes, and without even having to touch the markup. But despite the fact that we are all well aware of its…
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15 Great jQuery Plugins For Better Table Manipulation

DataTables uiTableFilter Scrollable HTML Table Tablesorter Flexigrid HeatColor JQTreeTable Ingrid jQuery ColumnManager plugin jQuery treeTable CSV2Table Table Pagination jQuery TableRowCheckboxToggle Table Drag and Drop jQuery plugin uiTableEdit Find downloadable links here
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30 Horrific Commercial Photoshop Disasters

Here’s a collection of horrific commercial Photoshop disasters made by professional graphic designers, who have made a poor job of not paying attention to detail when it comes to retouching photos. Check out original source
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10 Tips To Help Freelancers Prioritize Tasks

Being a freelance designer brings a lot of challenges to the daily work aside from the expected design-related issues. Running your own business means that you’ll have to deal with finances, customer service, marketing and every other aspect of the business on top of the design or development work that produces an income. For many…
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New free social icons vector set!

Here is a new free social icons vector set, which consists of 16 popular icons, available in both vector and PNG (64×64 pixels) format. Free for any use Download from here
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