Category Archives: Design Resources

As I have previously stated in prior posts, JavaScript is the one of the most utilized programming languages, because a large majority of the browsers are compatible with it and make use of it. JavaScript has become very accepted, very quickly, because it is so straightforward and has a wide-range of capabilities. Check out original…

As a freelancer, you are in total control of what you do with your time, who you work for, how you work, and when you work. You control all aspects of marketing, and servicing your clients. That is why it is the ultimate goal of a freelancer to reach a state where their work flow…

Wordpress is getting more and more popular and that tons of blogs are powered by it. The community around Wordpress is excellent providing free themes and plugings in nearly any form ans shape to meet your specific needs. Further on you can achieve amazing things if you know a few Wordpress hacks and have learned…

In this article tripwire magazine presents a very large collection of Photoshop actions. A Photoshop action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files. Actions can make nearly any change to an image and examples could be changing the image size, adding new layers, appling…

One thing that is great about viewing other graphic artists Photoshop PSD files is that you can examine what kind of methods and techniques they use to achieve their works of art. I have assembled an amazing set of high quality, free PSD files such as iPod, iPhone, badges, credit cards, photo manipulation, and DVD…

The SupraSlider Basic Component represents a basic must-to-have tool for every Flash developer. The component has resizable slide bar which is based on the height of the scrolled movie clip. All the parameters in the component inspector can be accessed dynamically by code. The component has a set of public methods that give you a…

You can use this countdown timer to show the time left until an event happens. This timer has an XML file where you can control the colors. A sound starts playing when the time is almost finished, and the colors change. Check out original source

Map Component displays geographical locations and polylines, allowing for easy map navigation. Component uses Equidistant Cylindrical Map Projection and Longitude and Latitude position data to display location points. Component also allows user to set a custom map and location icon. Check out original source

The Flash Bookmarks component was created to give a FREE solution for web page creators/owners to include social bookmarking buttons within their sites and let visitors share the pages on most of the basic social bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Facebook, Google and Reddit. Check out original source

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes. Check out original source

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki. Check out original source

Create photos, CDs, magazines, products, landscapes navigation with 3D Walker Gallery XML. Check out original source

jExpand is ultra lightweight jQuery plugin that will make your tables expandable. Typical for line of business applications, this feature can help you organize tables better. This way, tables can hold more information such as images, lists, diagrams and other elements. Check out original source

Wordpress just becomes more and more powerful, it’s very hard to keep up with new features. Thankfully there are several very active people behind great blogs, who write very well explained tutorials and premade code snippets to let you learn everything in very easy way. Today I made my exercise to find such sites and…

@font-face is one of the new CSS3 feature that has been implemented in every major browser beside IE, this is also the kind of stuff that can degrade really well in non compliant browsers. Let’s face it, sIFR is really painful to implement as with most text replacement techniques. @font-face could solve this problem, web…

Web designers are a special breed – we’re one of a small group of professionals that actively seeks out to improve ourselves and our craft through any means possible. This generally means on our own, from each other, and through an awful lot of ‘guess, test and revise.’ Web design isn’t for the faint of…

A while back David Walsh published a list of 7 MooTools Plugins You Should Use on Every Website which included ‘AutoGrow’ a text area expander plugin. ‘AutoGrow’ is very similar in results to the class I wrote for Education.com, Flext. I decided to release this code as ‘AutoGrow’ has a few things I don’t like…

Having trouble navigating the Components menu in the Joomla Administrator when you have dozens of extensions installed? Advanced Administrator Menu has been designed to give you the ability to create additional menus in the Administrator Menubar. Group components from your favourite vendor together, your most commonly used extensions or just balance the length of your…

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the language of Web design, and the next generation of CSS design properties are just chomping at the bit to be released. Are you eager to start using them, but don’t know where to start? Although many of the new properties are not yet “official”, some browsers have already implemented…

When you start a website, everyone talks about finding a domain name. But, going straight to Godaddy or some domain buyer does not help if the name you want is taken. Domain registrars are not very good at giving creative options to a particular word. That is why we have listed 10 good domain tools…

Adobe Photoshop is probably one of the most popular graphic editing program used extensively. There is one simple reason for that. Photoshop is easy to learn and offer a variety of advanced tools to optimize and emphasize some impressive results. In today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of new & high quality Photoshop tutorials that…

We’re always scanning the web for new interesting stuff in the design field to show you guys the best finds. Today we have for you a list with the coolest newcomers in the blog business. Please feel free to add your suggestion in the comments and we’ll update the post. Cheers! Check out original source

Adobe Photoshop is definitely the most powerful image editing software. It had a lot of great features and can be used by professional such as web designers and graphics designers. Its filters, plugins, actions, brushes and easy-to-use are the main reasons why most designers prefer Photoshop than other tools. However, Photoshop is very expansive and…

Looking for design inspiration on CSS and logo galleries and similar sites is great, but sometimes you need to take a good look outside the window and see what’s out there and get your creative juices flowing. Being a typography addict, I’m always looking for some examples of great-looking typography. I’ve always liked signage and…