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The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:17:09 +0000

Since the year is winding down, we thought it would be helpful to go back and pick out the best Illustrator tutorials that were published in 2009. The year was full of great tutorials, and 50 of the best are featured here. For more Illustrator tutorials please see:

Smoothly Shift Winter Colors While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape

How to Create a Landscape Wallpaper for Your Desktop

Create a Grisly Zombie Illustration with a Pen Tablet

How to Create a Vector Wacom Tablet in Illustrator

Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration

Create a Happy Sun Character

Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label

Create a Character Mascot with Adobe Illustrator CS4

How to Create a Craft’s Inspired Vector Kid Illustration

How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse

Blend and Mask Yourself a Great Poster

How to Design a Skate Deck with a Cool Skull Pattern

Bling Bling Text Effect

Perfect Silhouette with Live Trace

3D Lighted Text Effect

Create a Realistic Candy Bar in Illustrator

Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

Quick Tutorial: Gradient Strokes

Illustrator Full Spectrum Spirograph

Realistic Orange

How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator

How to Create Shiny, Vector Dice in Illustrator

How to Make an Icy Cocktail

How to Create an Energy Saving Bulb in Illustrator

How to Create a Rainy Windo Vector Background

Turn any Font into a Sketch Font

How to Create Seamless Watermark Patterns

Abracadabra, How to Create a Magic Hat Icon

Design and Print Bold Promo Cards in Under 60 Minutes

How to Create an Identity Package in Illustrator

How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale

Geometric Flower Effect Logo in Illustrator

Rad Pattern in Illustrator that Makes You Dizzy

Complex Symbols with Pathfinder

Creating Editable Letterpress Styled Text

Illustrator Ring Shape Via Overlapping Crescents Effect

Illustrator Swatches Gradient Background Effect

Illustrator Diamond Flower

How to Draw a Vector Kiwi

Gradient Mesh Flower

Adobe Illustrator Textures

Striping Live Type in Adobe Illustrator

Blend Tool Backgrounds

Design a Cute Hamster Avatar

Easily Create Sticker Text and Graphic Effect in Illustrator

Create a Vector Art Twitter Bird Character in Adobe Illustrator

Everything You Ever Want to Know About Creating Seamless Patterns in Illustrator

How to Create an Awesome Vector Skate Deck Design

Elegant Gradient Ribbon in llustrator

Create an Awesome Space Rocket in Illustrator

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60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:36:18 +0000

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of December. You’ll find everything from a Minimalistic Poster Designed in Photoshop, to creating a [...]

31 Apple Beautiful Inspired Photoshop Tutorials

BlogPoster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:11:28 +0000

It was planned to release those Apple related tutorials in different order, but however it’s not so bad in this way as well. If you have been following you will remember 15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials, but if you haven’t be sure to check it out. Apple has always been famous with their amazing simplicity and usability designs – no matter if it’s webdesign, logo design, software, Macintosh, mouse – all of their releases are simply eye-candy!

If you ever wanted to recreate iPhone, Macbook, some of their icons, wallpapers – here you will find a lot of really unique and not so well known tutorials teaching you how to do it in Photoshop or Illustrator!

1. Apple iPhone Mobile Phone Design

2. iPod Shuffle From Scratch

3. Create an Apple IPhone case from scratch

4. Create the Glass Shelf Dock from Leopard OS in Photoshop

5. Create a Slick Black iMac in Photoshop

6. Creating A Vector Style MacBook From Scratch

7. Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop

8. Create iPhone from Scratch

9. Apple iPhone Photoshop tutorial

10. Recreating Apple Macintosh Logo

11. Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote

12. Create New MacBook Pro From Scratch In Photoshop

Icons

13. Create a Custom Mac OSX Style Ring Binder Address Book Icon

14. Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon

15. Design The iTunes Icon For The iPhone And iPod Touch

16. Mac Os X Mail Icon Style

Effects

17. Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop

18. A Cool Lighting Effect In Photoshop

19. Create Apple Navigation Bar in Photoshop

20. Create Mac Style PhotoFlip Gallery

21. Green Apple Style Design

22. Mac – Colorful Design

23. Brushed aluminium effect

24. Creating a Cool Brushed Metal Surface in Photoshop

25. iPhone Gift Ribbon

26. Recreating Apple iWeb photo reflection effect

27. Create Apple Style Banner

28. Make Your Own iPod style Photo

29. Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop

30. Apple Leopard text effect

31. Apple logo and wallpaper tutorial

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The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:35:33 +0000

Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you. Eventually, we come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2009. These are selected from our published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from our Photoshop users and readers.

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45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:40:56 +0000

We have listed 45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials for those designers out there who want to try this type of art. Read through the tutorials below and gain useful tips to master the technique… Have fun!

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Merry Christmas and a Roundup of Web Design Articles from Speckyboy Design Magazine

BlogPoster — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:05:46 +0000

Christmas is here, and the wife has ordered me to take the next three or four days off. I haven’t had more than two days off at any given time in the past year, so perhaps she is right. I have handed over my laptop, handed over the power lead to the desktop and at this moment she is trying to pry my mobile phone out of my hands. I will fight this one, I love my mobile!
Truth is, I love everything about Christmas. The family is all together, lots of food, loads of drink, (hopefully) new gadgets and gaming devices, playing with the kids and there new toys and to top it all off there is lots of snow outside. It could just be the perfect white Christmas.

I will be back next Monday and as most people will still be on holiday I will keep the posts light, with some roundups and showcases.
As time is limited today, I have put together an article on the best of and the most popular Web Design related articles from Speckyboy that have been published in the past year.

I would just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Season Greetings, from Speckyboy (Paul Andrew) from the Highlands in Scotland!

16 Usable CSS Graph and Bar Chart Tutorials and Techniques

Have you ever even tried to create your own CSS graph? If you have, you will know how difficulty involved. Using Flash is one way to go, but you just can’t beat a beautifully crafted CSS Graph.

32 Indispensable Bookmarklets for Web Developers and Designers

A Bookmarklet or Favelet is a small application tool, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page.
To use these bookmarklets you simply drag links to your Bookmark Toolbar or right click and save link as, this way you will always have quick access to these great and useful tools.

30 Essential Free Portable Web Design and Development Applications

All of the freeware applications, in this post, have been in some cases, modified and trimmed down in size to allow them to fit on to a portable device like a USB drive or a portable hard drive. Rather than carrying a bulky laptop, you can carry all your applications and programs, your bookmarks, local servers, emails, passwords, graphic editors and favorite browsers with you anywhere in your pocket.

34 Amazing Tumblr Themes, Twitter could never look this good!!!

Twitter is the number 1 in the war of the microblogging apps, does it deserve its place there? Maybe. What about the others? Do you remember Tumblr?
A down side of Twitter is the inability to Customize your Twitter homepage, changing the background and styling the links is about all you will get. With Tumblr, there is a lot more, you can create a sophisticated unique theme very easily, all you need is a basic knowledge of CSS, and you are good to go…or you can download a theme.

25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers

jQuery is everywhere, its fast and versatile, and is rapidly becoming as common on websites as CSS. The only small problem you may have is keeping up with its speedy development. This article aims to do just that, it attempts to bring you up to speed with latest developments with these fresh jQuery plugins and tutorial

40 Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free WordPress Themes

What has happened to blogging, minimal design seems to be a forgotten style within blogging, everywhere you look the themes are graphically heavy and the basic premise of blogging is missing, which is a simple online diary.
Minimalism as a term is used to describe a design style that has been reduced to its bare elements, were only the content and navigation are evident and with limited graphics. In this post we have 40 Minimal WordPress Themes, so, lets make blogging look like its suppose to!

22 Versatile Adobe Flash Menu and Navigation Tutorials

Flash design is being used less and less within web design nowadays, ads and games aside. We all know how about its down sides, and everyone certainly hates the “Click here to open in Full Screen” links that are, fortunately, not being used as much as in years gone by. There is no denying it though, visually Flash is beautiful. In this post we have 22 Flash Menu and Navigation Tutorials.

22 CSS Button Styling Tutorials and Techniques

CSS button styling can be tricky and sometimes tedious. If you are looking for a simple and effective way of creating dynamic CSS buttons with cross browser compatibility, these tutorials are for you.

15 Amazing jQuery Image Gallery/Slideshow Plugins and Tutorials

Image galleries, sliders and slideshows have become increasingly popular within webpages over the last year or so, and with jQuery becoming ever more popular, more and more developers have been creating these amazing powerful, versatile and sleek galleries. In this article you will the most powerful, the most creative and most versatile of jQuery plugins and tutorials built using jQuery.

24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials

The most important part of designing a new site is the planning and design of the navigation or menu system. But this can be tricky, time consuming and often frustrating. You need something that will fit into your design and most importantly, allow your readers to navigate with ease. In this post you will find 24 CSS (in some cases with a little jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials to help you on your way.

14 Essential WordPress Development and Design Cheat Sheets

It amazes me how, sometimes, the simplest of posts can become one of the most popular. I remember I had chicken pox when I put this together, I was feeling awful, and just wanted something quick and painless to publish… and it became popular.

20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS

Forms do not have to be boring and ugly, they too can be beautiful. With the proper understanding of each element (radio buttons, checkboxes, textareas..), CSS know-how, a little patience and some creativity you can make your forms beautiful. Throw in, the always important, semantics and accessibilty and things can get tricky.

40 Free and Essential Web Design and Development Books from Google

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Google Books is perhaps one of the most untapped design and development resources…time to change all that. In this post there are over 40 web design and development books available from Google, they range from CSS, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, Actioscript, Javascript, Ajax, Perl, Ruby, MooTools, jQuery, Firefox and evem iPhone development. Not all books are complete, but offer plenty of information to help with your development.

50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development

All of these CSS tools have been sorted into the following categories: Grid and Layout, CSS Optimisers, CSS Menus Tools, CSS Buttons, CSS Rounded Corners, CSS Frames, CSS Sprites, CSS Tables, CSS Typography and CSS Forms.

30 Tutorials Combining Both WordPress and jQuery

Take the most popular CMS, WordPress, and then take the easiest and most versatile of Javscript libraries, jQuery, and you have a match made in heaven. Implementing jQuery within WordPress is a lot easier than you would think, all you need is a little support from the huge WP community and a little patience, and you are good to go. In this post you will find 30 Tutorials Combining both WordPress and jQuery.

20+ Free and Stylish Typography WordPress Themes

Stylish typography in web design gives your site or blog an added air of quality and sophistication, it demonstrates that mere text can transform a dull and bland design into an eye catching collage of visual architecture. In this article you will find 20 of the best Stylish Typography WordPress Themes.

50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger

Blogger may not be the first blogging platform you would choose, it does have a reputation of being lacklustre, featureless and the bog standard skins have the look of a site that was designed five years ago. The reputation is maybe a little bit exaggerated, but really, when was the last time you had a look at Blogger?

The Blueprint CSS Framework – Tutorials, How-to Guides and Tools

CSS frameworks are a Gods send. They speed up development, ensure usability, meet all W3C standards, compatabile across most browsers and a hell of a lot more. Sounds marvelous doesn’t it. Why doesn’t everybody use them? Well, for the novice developer, frameworks, may be a little bit tricky to get there head around? That is were this article comes in, to hopefully give everybody a better understanding of what a framework is and how to use it effectively.

40 Awesome and Fresh WordPress Themes

Think back to three years ago and to the standards of blogging platforms and to the power of the then themes. WordPress and its community changed all that, the blogging platform has evolved into an industry standard power house CMS, yet it is still easy to use and build upon. That is why it is so popular.

10 Online Tools and Apps to Help Optimize and Format CSS

Why would you ever need to optimize (or optimise, which ever spelling you prefer) or reFormat your CSS? Optimizing your CSS will not only allow your web page to load quicker, it also increases the durability and resilience of your site when there is a spike in visitors (i.e. the Digg effect) and, for me, the most important part is that it gives you more readable code.

A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources

Wireframing is one of the best parts of starting a new web design project. You have a blank canvas and for that short period you are allowed to let your creativity rein free. OK, your design may eventually be spoiled by the clients input… but for that short time it was perfect …
Anyway, today’s post is a collection of useful resources for web design wireframing, prototyping and mockups. There are templates for, possibly every browser in every size, there are form and button templates for all browsers and a hell of a lot more.

An Introduction to Understanding and Implementing Web Usability

The main reason web sites are built is so that they are functional to be USED. It’s a simple as that. They are tools, references and resources, nothing more. And as web designers, we need to always remember that.
Designing a web site needs to be about the user and only for the user and every possible need of said user has to have been foreseen and catered for. Only then can a web site be usable. That is what USABILITY is.

25 Graph and Chart Solutions for Web Developers

Creating an accessible data chart or graph in HTML is very tricky to achieve, especially with some elements, such as images, that allow only the most basic features that give textual information to non-visual users. What are the solutions?
PHP, Flash, Javscript (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype) and CSS can all be utilized successfully to implement interactive visualizations, and there are many techniques and solutions from each that will allow you to display them on web pages and apps.

A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials

By now everyone has heard of HTML 5 and its new functionalities. Pretty exciting isn't it… also a little daunting.
Of course, there are two sides to the excitement, most developers love it, others feel it has come to soon and we are not ready for it. What ever your feelings are on this issue, it doesn't matter, it is here, so lets work with it.

8 Free Pictogram Icon Libraries and Collections

A pictogram is a graphical symbol that can represent a sign, simple instructions or even an idea.In essence, pictograms area concept that has been stripped down to its bare essentials, yet still recognizable as the original idea.
Pictograms can be of help with usability and accessibility on your web site. It is a universal language, everyone understands and can read the icons.

40 Fresh and Free Icon Sets for Web Designers and Bloggers

One of the most sought after elements of any web design are icons. If you are creative enough to design your own icon set and tailor make them for your sites design, you are very lucky, and I am envious. For the rest of us, we have to settle for the work of the many talented graphic designers who release there icon designs freely, and to them we are grateful.
In this post we have collected 40 recently released free icon-sets for web designers, developers and bloggers.

35 Original and Creative Free Twitter Icon Sets

Most Twitter “Follow Me” buttons and icons are boring (look at mine, very dull),souless and cliched. How about something with some creativity, originality and a little bit of charcter. In this post that is exactly what you will find, 35 Original and Creative Twitter Icon Sets.

50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format

When a designer releases a free high quality icon set, we are all delighted and grateful. And when a designer releases an icon set accompanied by the .psd files we are ecstatic. An icon set may at times be limited to your requirements, but with .psd you now have the chance to extend the set and ctreate something original.

50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers

There are many elements of blogging that are essential, on of the the most important is giving readers the chance to share your posts and information with a wider audience, and we accomplish this via the many social bookmarking services (digg, delicious, twitter…) that are available. Finding a bookmarking iconset that fits into your theme can be difficult or maybe you simply want something that is not boring or the bland.

50 of the Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets

This was our most popular post of the year, so, if you are looking for that perfect icon for your web site, blog, web app or application, you will find them here.

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Colorful Collection Of Must-Have Free Christmas Resources (Exclusive Designers Kit)

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:20:36 +0000

Christmas day is just coming and every one is getting prepared for himself to celebrate this holidays with much more enjoyments. Designers are also excited in this Christmas as well to come up with exclusive designs specially for Christmas. Sometimes, general users also love to use or change their wallpapers on the desktop as per the currently going events. For everyone like you, we have compiled a list of Must-Have Collection Of Free Christmas Resources (Exclusive Designers Kit). I hope designers will surely like this collection as well all the other guys will love it as it has lots of resources like icons, wordpress themes, tutorials, wallpapers, cards and much more. So enjoy the collection of resources, And yes Happy Christmas in advance!

You are welcome to share if you know more free resources related to Christmas that our readers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

25 Most Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

35 Exceptional Pack of Free Christmas Vector Graphics

Beautiful Christmas and Winter Wallpapers For Your Desktop

The Ultimate Christmas Round-Up: Patterns, Brushes, Vectors and Fonts

45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season

60 Tutorials, Icons, Design Materials, WordPress Themes and Christmas Fonts

Free Christmas Stock Photos

20 Best Christmas Tutorials for This Year

99 Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers to Spice Up Your Desktop

Creative Christmas Cards Ideas and Free Christmas Vector Graphics

40 Free Christmas Wallpapers for your Desktop

20 Fantastically Festive Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

How to Decorate Your Blog for Christmas

100+ Santas For Your Every Web Design Need and Inspiration

Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers for 2009

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The Best Photoshop Resources of 2009

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:20:30 +0000

What a year it has been for Photoshop, with a multitude of new, fresh and original tutorials, a wide array of useful Actions, textures for, well, every possible texture you can think off. Resources are seemingly endless.

What we have done today is put together a collection of the best Photoshop resources from this year (2009), There are tutorials for image manipulations, text effects, icon design, digital imagery, illustration… and much, much more. Accompanied with all of this, there are also huge collections of PS actions and textures.

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year searching for the best photoshop tutorials for you. They have come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, selected from there published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from there Photoshop users and readers.

The 30 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009 – Computer Arts

Whether you're after advanced advice on font trickery or you hanker for detailed guides on photo manipulation, you're sure to find something here to help you while away those long winter nights and boost your Photoshop know-how in the process.

The 30 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009 – Computer Arts

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

In the resource you will find The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design.

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

The author of this article have listed 45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials for those designers out there who wants to try this type of art. Read through the tutorials in this post and gain useful tips to master the technique… Have fun!

45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions

In this article Tripwire magazine has a very large collection of Photoshop actions (some in large bundles). With the click of a button an action can help you achieve time consuming effects in no time, you just need to have access to the right actions.

200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions

25 New Photoshop Action Sets for Photographers and Designers

This time, the Photoshop actions are for Photographers, with an impressive collection of 25 actions, this post is worth bookmarking.

25 New Photoshop Action Sets for Photographers and Designers

26 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

This style of designing is mainly achieved using Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw to get that vector-like effect, but for those who do not have vector graphics editor, orsimply prefer Photoshop, this is a nice selection for you.

26 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season

The holiday spirit is once again here. Santas, Christmas trees and Christmas balls are once again in fashion…and just for that Naldz Graphics have collected 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season.

45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009

There are a few things that a designer can not have enough of in his or her design arsenal, and one of them is textures. Since there were so many textures released in 2009, it must have been difficult to choose the best. However, this post does a damn good job with this collection, and most will be valuable additions to your texture library.

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

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Free Design Resource Roundup #1

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:11:03 +0000

This holiday season, we’ve decided to give more to our readers by starting a series of free design resource roundups. In these roundups, we’ll compile the fresh free picks of the week, from fonts, brushes, patterns, and textures, to contests, giveaways, and tutorials. Hope you like the roundup for this week, and let us know if you’d like us to include other stuff!

Weekly Design Resource Roundup

Brushes

Broken Heart Brushes – QBrushes

50+ Free Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets – Naldz Graphics

Fonts

30 Useful and Free Dingbats – Web Resources Depot

50 High-Quality Free Fonts – DesignM.ag

30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts – instantShift

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #27 – Abduzeedo

Giveaways

Win a Typography T-Shirt – Comment to Win – Bittbox

Wix Unlimited Package Giveaway – WebDesignLedger

Icons

The Best Free Web Icons for Different Purposes – WebAppers

35 Beautiful Set of Christmas Icons – Onextrapixel

30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons – Tutorial9.net

Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set – Smashing Magazine

Christmas Gadgets: A Premium Free Icon Set – Little Box of Ideas

Patterns

30 Free Adobe Illustrator Pattern Sets – Naldz Graphics

Textures

25 Free and High Quality Grunge Textures – DesignM.ag

Tutorials

35 Dazzling Logo Design Tutorials (Part 1) – Acris Design

40+ Impressive Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials – Graphic Mania

40 Best Ever Photoshop Tutorials of Web Layout Designs – Tutorial Lounge

20 JQuery Introduction Tutorials and Resources for Beginners – Queness

Vectors

Christmas Buttons – DryIcons

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Fundamental CSS3 Resources for Designers

Facebook-Web-Design — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:56:50 +0000

Here are useful CSS3 resources for designers including, new features Selectors introduced, design enhancement, alternative rounded corners, CSS3 with jQuery, other useful tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials and plenty of quality articles and many more. We hope you will find this post helpful as it contains the best resources you may need to use these useful CSS3 techniques for your next project.

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A Look at Some of the New Selectors Introduced in CSS3

5 CSS3 Design Enhancements That You Can Use Today

70 Must-Have CSS3 and HTML5 Tutorials and Resources

CSS3 rounded corners for every browser? An alternative quick solution without headache

Rounded Corner Boxes the CSS3 Way

Using Rounded Corners with CSS3

jQuery DJ Hero – CSS3 and jQuery fun

Nice And Simple Toolbar For Your Website With CSS3 And jQuery

Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

Old School Clock with CSS3 and jQuery

CSS3 Resource: Preview Custom Web Fonts with Font Dragr

CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

CSS3 Unleashed – Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module

Browser support for CSS3 properties

Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

20 Very Useful CSS3 Tutorials

CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

CSS3 Embedding a Font Face

Six Questions: Eric Meyer on CSS3

30 Essential CSS3 Resources

20 CSS Short Hands You’ll Love

First thoughts: Using CSS3 in a live project

5 Web Design Techniques for the Future

CSS3 Multiple Backgrounds Obsoletes Sliding Doors

A comprehensive CSS 3 reference guide, tutorial, and blog

Introduction to CSS3

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This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.14

BlogPoster — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:06:15 +0000

If you are not following us on Twitter, why not? You are missing out on a lot (talk about blowing our own trumpet!).We love to share fresh design related news and resources, highlight new blogs and finding cool things. You can follow us (if you like) via Twitter here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, here are some of things we tweeted about in the past week.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to send them to us here: Submit News. Thanks to everyone that has been emailing.

Design Tutorials

Stupid WordPress Tricks – Perishable Press

Fancy Quotes With jQuery, AJAX & CSS – Tutorialzine

50 Fresh CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Resources – Noupe

How to Create an Impressive-Looking Text Effect

How to Create a Simple Green Button in Photoshop

Recreate the New Moon Movie Title Treatment in Photoshop

40+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials

Good Reading in Design

Please, Create a Unique Site and Avoid the Crap – 72nd Ave.

The Philosophy of Design – Tripping Words

10 Things to Consider when Writing for the Web

Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More – Webdesigner Depot

The Smashing Book Is Released – Smashing Magazine

RIP: How the Death of the Magazine Affects Designers – Daily Design Mag

WordPress SEO Issues – Managing Duplicate Content Effectively

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design – UX Booth

Design Inspiration

30 Retro and Vintage Websites For Design Inspiration

50 Examples of Fantastic Photo Manipulations

30 Highly Creative Blog Design Layouts – Spyre Studios

30+ Error 404 Page Designs

The Outstanding Work of Jon Malkemus

21 Sparkling Armour Concept Designs

50 Most Beautiful Trees Photography

60+ Simply Professional Looking Website Designs – instantShift

Design Resources

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

40+ jQuery Plugins Improving Your Website Look and Feel

Websites To Search And Find Code Snippets

Project Bubble – Simple, Free Project Management and Invoicing Tool

14 Top Typeface and Font Combinations Resources

Freebies

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Icon Design "Metalcon Social Network"

Design Police – Bring bad design to justice

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25 Incredible jQuery Slider Tutorials and Plugins

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:50:40 +0000

In this collection you will find 25 Excellent jQuery Slider Tutorials and Plugins that you can implement into your website.

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20 Fresh and Beautiful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:37:58 +0000

Text Effect using photoshop is a very popular technique often used by designers. In this post we are features 20 top text effect tutorials using different photoshop techniques. No matter what are you planning to design using a text effect really makes the design stand out and attracts the visitor. There are several photoshop text tutorials on the web but for today we have picked some of the most awesome and fresh photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers. Try using some of these photoshop text effect tutorials in some of your coming design projects.

Below we present 20 fresh and awesome Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials linked to their original sources.

You might be interested to check other Photoshop related posts:
32 Excellent Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorial

55 Useful Photoshop Tutorials on Designing Wallpapers

21 New and Fabulous Retro Style Photoshop Tutorials

27 Excellent 3D Effect Photoshop Tutorials

29 Excellent Typography Tutorials for Designers

1. How to create an impressive-looking text effect

2. How to Create a Silver Text Effect with Photoshop

3. Create Gloomy Text Effect by Utilising the Amazing Cloud Filter in Photoshop

4. 5 Useful Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance For Your Design

5. Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

6. The Wheels Text Effect

7. Create mile-high type art

8. Create a Colorful Vibrant Typographic Wallpaper

9. Create a fancy neon text effect

10. How To Create Great Typographic Wallpaper In Photoshop

11. Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment

12. How to Create an Ice Text Effect with Photoshop

13. How to Create Eroded Metal Text with Photoshop

14. Magic golden text effect in Photoshop

15. Creepy bloody text effect in Photoshop

16. How to Create Gross Evil 3D Text

17. Create a Unique Burning Text Effect

18. Wave’s text effect

19. Create a Blazing Lava Text Effect in Photoshop

20. Brushed Silver Reflective Text Effect

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10 Tutorials using WordPress and JQuery

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:34:57 +0000

Getting the awesomess of JQuery integrated into WordPress is much more simple than you think. Here are 10 Tutorials using WordPress and JQuery.

10 Tutorials using WordPress and JQuery

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50+ Fresh New Tutorials From Around The Web

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:22:14 +0000

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of November. You’ll find everything from old style typography sign in photoshop, to designing a [...]

30 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Your Own Portfolio

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:55:13 +0000

If you are a designer/developer you must have an attractive portfolio with best works. Portfolio main function is to showcase your works and make new potential clients, so it must be professional and informative.

In this article you will find various styles 30 Photoshop tutorials on creating your own portfolio. These tutorials are useful because you’ll learn new techniques and improve your skills.

30 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Your Own Portfolio

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15+22 jQuery Image Slideshow/Slider Tutorials and Plugins

Facebook-Web-Design — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:05:19 +0000

Nowadays, using jQuery effects is getting increasingly popular within web templates and if you check some of new designed themes on themeforest , you probably can’t find a popular theme without any kind of jQuery effects. One of those effects that designers use it widely is jQuery image slideshow or image gallery which can be implemented easily by lots of free jQuery slideshow plugins and tutorials featured here.

15+22 jQuery Image Slideshow/Slider Tutorials and Plugins

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66 Excellent Photoshop Web Design Layout Tutorials

Facebook-Web-Design — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:35:20 +0000

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

66 Excellent Photoshop Web Design Layout Tutorials

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The Best Free WordPress Themes of 2009

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:20:46 +0000

In our “Best of 2009″ series, we’ve shown you fonts, icons, and Photoshop Tutorials. In this article, we’re presenting our picks for the best free WordPress themes of 2009. There were plenty of free themes created in 2009, but here are the ones that we feel had a little something extra that made them stand out from the crowd. If you think we missed or left one out, let us know about them in the comments.

Magazeen

Bueno

Gallery

Manifest

deStyle

Imprezz

Folio Elements

Compositio

Selecta

Irresistible

Glassical

Mainstream

FREEmium

Black Power

Vintage

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25 More Places to Become a Photoshop Expert

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:53:12 +0000

As you’ve seen in our part one of websites you can visit to learn Photoshop, there is plenty of resources available for the Photoshop expert wanna be. Because you never get enough of knowledge sources, here are a few more places where to get educated about Photoshop.

1. PSD Fan

2. PSD Learning

3. Photoshop Lab

4. PS Wish

5. Photoshop User TV

6. Planet Photoshop

7. PSD Core

8. Photoshop Essentials

9. Good Tutorials

10. Photoshop CS Tutorials

11. Photoshop Guides

12. Adobe TV

13. Tutorial Park

14. Pixel2Life

15. Tutorialized

16. Adobe Video Workshop

17. Spoono

18. Photoshop Videos

19. Revision3 PixelPerfect

20. Tutorial Blog

21. Photoshop Tutorials on Vimeo

22. Tut Factory

23. Instructables Photoshop articles

24. Computer Arts

25. Layers Magazine

About the author: Mirko Humbert is a freelance designer from Switzerland. He shares his thoughts about his passion on his design blog. To connect with Mirko, you can follow him on Twitter.

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25 Places to Become A Photoshop Expert

BlogPoster — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:09:59 +0000

The Internet is the perfect place to learn pretty much anything, Photoshop is no exception. The popular image-editing software gets quite a few evangelists ready to spend their time to teach their techniques. In this collection you’ll find some of the best websites to become a Photoshop expert.

1. PSD Tuts+

2. Photoshop Lady

3. Tutorial9

4. Photoshop Roadmap

5. Photoshop Tutorials

6. PSD Vault

7. Photoshop Star

8. PSDVibe

9. PsDeluxe

10. Grafpedia

11. PS Hero

12. 10Steps.sg

13. PSD Burn

14. Abduzeedo

15. Photoshop Tutorials Blog

16. My Photoshop Tutorials

17. Creative Overflow

18. Luxa

19. Photoshop Support

20. Total Tutorials

21. Photoshop 101

22. GoMediaZine

23. Tutorial Wiz

24. Tutorial Lounge

25. Tutorial Sphere

About the author: Mirko Humbert is a freelance designer from Switzerland. He shares his thoughts about his passion on his design blog. To connect with Mirko, you can follow him on Twitter.

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The Best Illustrator Tutorials For Creating 3d Effects

BlogPoster — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:36:35 +0000

A collection of the best illustrator tutorials for creating 3d effects and some of my own personal favourites. Illustrator is an amazing software which allows you to create some superb 3d graphic using simple tools.

1. How to Create a Rocketing, Vector Aircraft Shuttle

2. Create a Vintage TV Set Icon in Illustrator

3. Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon

4. Create a Vector Home Cinema Design

5. Create a Rotatable Globe in Adobe Illustrator

6. How to Create a Retro, Vector Invaders Illustration

7. 3D Bowl

8. How to Make a Detailed 3D Vector Tire in Illustrator

9. How to Create Shiny, Vector Dice in Illustrator

10. My First Tutorial: Part 1: Create an Animated 3D Poker Chip

11. How to Create an Hourglass Icon in About an Hour

12. Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

13. Illustrator Tutorial : Create incredible 3D type-based infographic art

14. How to Create Sheet Rolls with Custom Spirals

15. 3D Rings in Illustrator

16. How to make a shiny transparent 3D graph in Illustrator

17. Illustrator Tutorial: How To Make 3D Vector Vintage Stars

18. Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth

19. How to Create an Energy Saving Bulb in Illustrator

20. How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse

21. Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice

22. How to Create a Textured Grungy 3D Type Design

23. How I Created Turqua: 3d Isometric Vector Icon Tutorial

24. Working with 3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design

25. Design Gift Boxes Using Illustrator’s 3D Tools

26. How to Create a 3D Rss Icon

27. Spice up Pie Charts

28. How to Create a Pencil and Paper Illustration

29. Illustrator Tutorial – 3D lighted text effect

30. How to Create Funky 3D Springs in Illustrator

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50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design

BlogPoster — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:38:46 +0000

Currently, two of the most popular web design trends are: taking the minimal approach, which we will look at next week, and the use of clever and creative typography. Today we focus on typography.
Not only do we showcase typography in the classic sense, but also illustrate that the combination of web design and great typography can be used effectively, along with clever color selection, and create usable web sites thats base design is dominated by text, for either navigation, a good headline, a logo or even used for the entire content.
As the selection below illustrates there are no limitation to using typography within web design.
Below you will find 50 varied styles and examples of creative and effective typography within web design.

Hull Digital Live 09

Project 365

ESPIRA

Oliver Kavanagh

Denise Chandler

Brunet-García Advertising Inc

Random Thought Pattern

StackOverflow DevDays

New to York

The Skyline

gregorywood.co.uk

Gareth Dickey

Ryan Keiser

Love Freelancing

Bobulate

FIT Digital

A Way Back

Jack Bloom

The Personal Disquiet of Mark Boulton

Ribbons of Red

Inspire

Design Taxi

Great Works

daus.trala.la

Circus

Nick Sigler

MAD in Spain

One day without Google

Five Simple Steps

Second And Park

Brooklyn Fare

Snook.ca

The Beast Is Back

River City Church of Jacksonville

Inkcover Blog

Web Designer dan Blogger Cepu

Europe by Designers

Denise Chandler

m360

Jon Brousseau

Gritti Rollo

Present Joys

Mark Wallis

Paulo Zoom

For A Beautiful Web

DearIE6 – So Long

LOREM IPSUM

Independent Studio

Filmaster

Intersected Blog

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80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October

BlogPoster — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:47:05 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of October which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

75 PSD to HTML Resources for Web Designers

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Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster

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Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop

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30 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Gamers

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50 Awe-Inspiring Underwater Photos

21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art

100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs

15 Fabulous Examples of Origami Inspired logo Designs

39 Astonishing Examples of 3D Typography

35 Smart Logos With Second Thought To Make You look Twice

11 Amazing Photo Manipulated and Digital Art Wallpapers

A Showcase of 35 Beautiful Typographical Illustrations

40 Beautiful HDR Pictures You Would be Amazed

Trends in Pricing Page Design and Layout

14 Bold and Colorful Print Ads from Various Brands

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30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps

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15 Inspirational Single-Page Websites

10 Unforgettable Interactive and Inspirational Business Cards

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40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos

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Showcase of Social Networking Websites

15 Elegant Cartoon Wallpapers You Can Not Miss

40 Striking Examples of Graffiti Art

24 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Designs

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Javascript and Ajax

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xHTML and CSS
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9 Open Source Microblogging Applications

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Fresh PHP Resources and Tutorials

BlogPoster — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:39:20 +0000

PHP is the most popular server side scripting language. It is reasonably easy to learn and use, compared to others anyway, and with it being very popular, it is backed up by a huge community of developers always willing to offer new techniques and tutorials. In todays news we have collected the best recent PHP resources.

40+ CodeIgniter Framework Tutorials for Kick-Ass PHP Application

CodeIgniter is an Application Development Framework – a toolkit – for people who build web sites using PHP. Here is the list of 40+ Excellent And Useful CodeIgniter Application Development Framework Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and a few great resources that has been developed for programmer and designers.

40+ CodeIgniter Framework Tutorials for Kick-Ass PHP Application

25 New & Useful PHP Techniques & Tutorials

Finding new and useful PHP techniques can be difficult, in this great resource they have collected 25 tips, tricks, tutorials and of course, techniques.

25 New & Useful PHP Techniques & Tutorials

10 great Alternatives to phpMyAdmin

Most people in the web development world are under the impression that phpMyAdmin is the only MySQL client out there for websites. There are others, many more. The author of this post has listed and describes in detail 10great Alternatives to phpMyAdmin.

10 great Alternatives to phpMyAdmin

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

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50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

BlogPoster — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:13:03 +0000

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of October. You’ll find everything from creating a slick rich user interface, to designing a [...]

38 Great Websites for Photoshop Tutorials

BlogPoster — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:33:41 +0000

Everybody loves to get new and newer tutorials of Photoshop. In the post, you will get 38 sites, which provides exciting Photoshop Tutorials.

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31 Fresh Photo Manipulation from DeviantArt

BlogPoster — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:47:30 +0000

Photo manipulation is an art of editing images using different techniques to pictures in order to create a surreal or illusion effect using digital means. Photo manipulation is fun and very inspirational to designers. Here is a stunning 31 examples of newly created photo manipulation recently from DeviantArt.

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1. Matter of Time

2. The Darkest Hour

3. Mi vida en el bosque

4. Selma

5. Neo Queen Serenity-The Moon

6. A taste of liquid

7. Fox or Bird

8. Deep cuts

9. Bittersweet taste

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27 Excellent 3D Effect Photoshop Tutorials

BlogPoster — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:26:31 +0000

Photoshop might not be the best 3D software to design 3D elements but almost all kinds of 3D effect can be achievable using photoshop. It doesn’t matter you need to remember each and every step how to create an 3d design but understanding what kind of methods are possible is the key to this post. 3D effect can really spice up your design and create an magical effect to your design.

Adding 3D effect into design is now more popular and you can notice that in portfolio sites. Here we have 27 awesome 3D photoshop tutorials, these tutorials collected here will show you how to create gorgeous 3D effect in photoshop step by step.

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1. Create a Shiny 3D Box

2. 3D Magnetic “A”

3. 3D Metal Text

4. Make a Realistic LCD HDTV from Scratch

5. Create a Robotic 3D Spider

6. How to Create 3D Text Blocks in Photoshop

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14. Draw a Classy 3D Poker Chip in Photoshop

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17. How to create a 3D Logo Object

18. Photoshop Portable Meter Icon

19. Photoshop Watchmen Whistle Logo

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21. 3d Model Grip master studio tutorial

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If you find this 3D effect tutorials interesting and have tried the techniques from these tutorials please leave your design link in the comments.

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25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects

BlogPoster — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:53:38 +0000

You will find tecniques for the currently in vogue HDR, Tilt-Shifting and Lomography to the less common and diverse Sabatier and Escher effects. Which ever effect you use, your images are going to look cool and unique.

25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects

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65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September

BlogPoster — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:27:25 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of September which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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