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28 Free Slab Serif Fonts
Typography plays a huge role in any design. Here we have collected 28 free and high quality fonts for you to use. In this post you will find variety of slab sefif fonts. Enjoy!! If you like these free fonts you might also want to check out our previous post below.
Guide to Building Semantic Web Forms
In the web design industry there are many different rulebooks you can follow. Most notably the World Wide Web Consortium is renowned for creating these standard rules of the road. Web browsers do not always conform to these standards, thus you have many of the hacks seen today(such as Internet Explorer).
In this guide I’d like to focus solely on building input forms for the web. There are plenty of semantic rules to cover for both beginners and experienced web developers. To gain some further insight into the discussion check out this W3C FAQ on the topic of our ‘semantic web’. It goes into a lot of detail and behaves as the perfect starting point.
25 Google Chrome Extensions for Web & Graphics Designers
There’s no questioning the popularity of Google. What started as a search engine for the WWW has transformed into an enormous conglomerate media company which has truly changed the way we live. Google Chrome is alternatively a fast-growing browser which trumps Firefox in many regards.
In this gallery below I’ve put together a beautiful set of extensions. If you’re a web designer you’ll love at least a few of these tools, and maybe find some you’ve never heard of! Web/graphics design is a difficult job, but with these browser extensions you’ll likely finish work much quicker. Let us know your ideas in the discussion area below.
colorPicker
32 Christmas and New Years-Themed Desktop Wallpapers
With Christmas just around the corner we’re sure to be seeing a lot more of Santa Clause. The spirit of the season is touching and comes down to a shared love of your family and friends. What a better way to celebrate the season than with a new desktop wallpaper?
In this gallery I collected 32 seasonal wallpapers for Christmas and New Years Celebration. There are countless artists on the web offering their designs free for download. And this collection is just one of many to perk up your holiday cheer! Let us know if you have any thoughts or questions in the comments below.
Small Christmas Tree
28 Free High-Quality Fonts
In this post we have collected 28 free high quality fonts. Amazon.com
has some great books on fonts that you may also want to check out.
46 Beautiful Poster Design Tutorials
Poster design is one of the most popular among graphic designers. In this post we have collected 46 of the best poster design tutorials to improve your skills. Enjoy!
Create a Refreshing Beer Themed Poster Design in Photoshop
Design Resource | 45+ Quality Free Vector Files to Download
As a designer its always handy to have a collection of pre-made vector objects to use in your designs, Most Designers share their Creative design stuffs to others for free. so that others can learn from their works, At sometimes these collection will become marvelous time saver
Here i’ve listed 45+ Quality Vector Resource to Download varies form special illustrations to design elements and more, hope you like the download list, Also be aware about license terms and agreements before you put them in use.
1.) Illustration
Ornamental Heart
Beautiful fashion pattern
Material retro music
Design Resource | 27 Free High-Quality UI Wireframe kits to Download
In User interface design it’s always good to have the graphical elements which you are going to use quite often handy , having them handy will highly increase your productivity
In this post i tried to collect and list some to the best wire-frame templates which you can add it to your library most of these web UI template kit is made completely with shape objects and in some cases converted into SmartObjects. So they’re totally scalable. hope you find this collection useful
1.) Flex 3 Stencil
2.) Web Form Elements
3.) Web Form Elements Vol.2
30+ Useful Adobe Air Application for Web Designers and Developers
The Adobe® AIR® runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.
Dozens of companies like National Geographic, eBay and Nickelodeon use the free Adobe AIR to create exciting new applications letting the user use their services on their desktop. Applications using Adobe AIR are easier, more powerful, more fun to use.
Here I’ve collected 30+ useful adobe air application for web designers and developers, these are the applications that help you to achieve more that you could using a web browser alone.Hope you find this apps useful
1.) Shrink O’Matic
Shrink O’Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs. Simply drag and drop images and they’ll be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats.
2.) Font Picker – finding the right font for the job
This simple tool shows you all the fonts installed on your computer and helps you choose which one is most suitable for a particular project.
3.) Klok
Klock- Personal time tracking made easy, Keep track of anything with Klok’s simple work timer and visual display of how your days “fill up”.
Top 10 Open-Source Platforms to Build Your Own Social Network
Building a social network isn’t an easy task, let alone a successful one. As developers our job is to create, build, and bring to life the gears and functions of a social network. When it comes to marketing, well that’s a different department in most cases. We build then later deploy, and in order to develop a highly efficient and functional social network we’ll need to use a few tools.
Most developers are switching from building networks from scratch using PHP to highly-customizable social network platforms that give way to flexibility. Below we’re going to cover several of the most sought after open-source platforms that allow you create your very own social network and run it on a server of your choice. These networks will give you a hyphened control over the front/back end design along with a social networks most valuable asset; the database. Let us know if we’ve missed any and which ones appeal to you the most through the form of a comment!
BuddyPress
BuddyPress is the social network platform version of WordPress. As you can guess WordPress is one of the most popular CMS’s available due to its quality, same goes for BuddyPress, this is one of the most widely used platforms. It’s absolutely free, allows you to fully customize your social network, and offer your users a unique experience through the use of features such as friend connections, extended profiles, discussion forums, private messaging, and powerful plugins.
On top of the social network platform, you also receive the option to integrate WordPress as your ultimate blogging solution for each of your users. Here you’ll find a massive collection of quality plugins.
