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35 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

opper.hoofd — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:35:48 +0000

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave.

http://www.instantshift.com/2010/08/18/35-fresh-high-quality-free-fonts-for-professional-designers/

free XML based flash photo gallery

opper.hoofd — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:32:09 +0000

Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. We’ve again came up with cool freebies as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the instantShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now. We never wait for special occasions to announce good freebies. To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release this Free Flash XML Photo Gallery Slim Web Gallery. It’s our latest high-quality freebies addition for instantShift readers. “Slim Web Gallery”, as the name implies, it’s something to do with photo gallery which is actually a XML based flash photo gallery script suitable for any project where you want to display images creatively in 3D slideshow and make interactive flash photo gallery to inspire others. This script was developed by Ourpix as an exclusive gift for instantShift readers.

http://www.instantshift.com/2010/08/26/slim-web-gallery-a-free-flash-xml-photo-gallery/

500 + free psd files for graphic designers

opper.hoofd — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:22:04 +0000

Why redo what is from the web “free download” ? Plenty of web designers create and share with the community, plenty graphic files. Most often, they are free download and can mostly be used in business projects.

But the plenty ways used for the distribution of these files is problematic (from own blogs, social networks, sharing networks)…Lot of you have interest for these files, and regarding this point, 2experts decided to create selection lists of these files.

These lists give to the web designers, the possibility to get a quick overview of some of the best free download files, grouped on an unique page.

Today is an exceptional day because you are not restricted to one list but you can browse a selection of the best lists from all of them, and this final selection cumulate all together, around 500 Photoshop files, files you can download.

http://www.2expertsdesign.com/2009/10/28/500-free-download-high-quality-photoshop-psd-files-for-designers

get some photoshop actions. FOR FREE!

opper.hoofd — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:15:00 +0000

http://naldzgraphics.net/freebies/60-useful-photoshop-actions-to-enhance-your-photos-for-free/

Photoshop Action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files menu commands, palette options, tool actions, and so on. Sometimes, editing pictures could take a lot of time especially if you’re a beginner in photoshop. That’s why I collected some of the best photoshop actions that can help turn your photos look more professional in just a few clicks.Here is 60 Useful Photoshop Actions to Enhance your Photos for Free. These actions are free to download so you can try them all and see which actions will fit for your images.

40 great wordpress themes

opper.hoofd — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:10:31 +0000

http://naldzgraphics.net/resources/40-first-class-premium-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/

WordPress Themes, being one of the most prevalent CMS especially for bloggers, has become very in demand as time passed by. With its good-looking designs and features, it somehow helped the bloggers to improve their websites to gain their beloved readers/subscribers. Today, with the many free wordpress themes being made and with numerous blogs and websites being created, it would not be surprising if the competition to have a better website is getting tougher. For this fact, it may be reasonable to spend some to get a different, better and more efficient wordpress themes that may greatly enhance your website or blog.

15 Incredible WordPress Theme Customizations

opper.hoofd — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:46:35 +0000

Given the quality of WordPress, it’s no surprise that it’s become the platform of choice for many web professionals. Due to its incredible popularity, though, the majority of WordPress sites look very similar. It can be hard to find a site without the same-old header, footer, and sidebar that is seen on the majority of themes. But those sites do exist. If you look hard enough, you can find the incredibly talented designers that take WordPress to an entirely different level. By combining an eye for design, technical know-how, and a sense of “outside-of-the-box” thinking, these designers create customizations that make you wonder how you lived without WordPress as your CMS. Check out the sites below for 15 of these impressive theme customizations, and see what can happen when you take the standard function of WordPress and step it up a notch.

beware… html 5 is coming

opper.hoofd — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:20:33 +0000

http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/25-stunning-websites-using-html5/

Now, HTML5 is the new web standard. HTML5 defines many elements and attributes that can be seen under the hood. Apple is continuously exaggerating the statement that flash will be soon replaced by HTML5. It has opedned new doors for those web designers who love to create readable codes and semantic layouts.

Forms Some new forms have been defined. They were originally developed into a separate specification of web 2.0. This specifications bring new features like:

New input types, such as e-mail addresses, Internet addresses, dates, etc. so that they can be checked by the browser for syntactic correctness. You can also define the input field as the required field. Clarification as CSS properties affect form elements. To create an adjustable control object. (for example, the volume of audio and video can be determined) Elements

New elements can be defined also.

Like Time element is used to provide time data with meta data for example: Interactive Calendar. The Progress element specifies the progress of any task. The canvas element creates a drawing surface and it is used with DOM methods. So, much new coming up with HTML5. Below there is amazing collection of websites made with the use of HTML5. Have a look on these. We are sure that it would be a great learning experience for you.

need some icons?

opper.hoofd — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:18:17 +0000

http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/25-beautiful-icon-sets/

Icons are a great source of identification and recognition. In most modern designs, it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate the right message to the visitors in a more intuitive and effective way. There are some key points, need to be kept in mind while designing and using icons as part of website designing -

wakker worden – get up!

opper.hoofd — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:01:03 +0000

Nop not a real product but part of a ad campaign for Oishi Black tea.

Wake up!! Oishi Black Tea now with natural caffeine.

And when your awake.. please stay awake

Underwater Animals – Photographs that Amaze and Inspire

opper.hoofd — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:37:19 +0000

It is a surprising fact, but people say that we know about the Mars surface more than we know about the depths of the oceans on Planet Earth… Isn’t it astonishing and mysteriously interesting to know that today, when human race has already peeped into the microcosm of tiniest atoms and sent its spacecrafts to the far away planets in the space, the global ocean, located right here on Earth, still has many unexplored regions beneath its surface, where unbelievable creatures exist. This photo gallery of underwater animals opens a whole new world of underwater life and mystery. Cruzine magazine offers you to take this virtual tour and get familiar with some really interesting creatures, with which we share the Earth but do not share their unique living environment.

http://www.cruzine.com/2010/08/04/underwater-animals/