Let’s not forget that the Web 2.0 hype was not just about glossy logos and round cornered buttons; the added value of this new wave of websites is the social part and the huge potential to ?make things together’. So here’s a roundup of the most popular and interesting services that offer us the opportunity to find or submit designs or ideas.
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Websites that use horizontal scrolling in addition to, or instead of, vertical scrolling are becoming more popular. While this trend isn’t a good idea in every situation, the sites showcased here may give you some ideas or inspiration for using this approach in one of your own projects.
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Some time has passed since we didn’t put together a free Wordpress themes compilation. Our previous free Wordpress themes compilation was a huge success, but most of the themes we presented then have now become obsolete. We’ve seen a lot of beautiful theme designs over the last year, a lot of worthy candidates, but we’ve narrowed it down to about 50 New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes.
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Patterns actually can be found almost everywhere – in print design, web design, graphic design etc. For example if you use pattern in web design, just set CSS repeat-x-y and you’ll get beautiful background,but image will be very small and page load time will be much faster. There are very big variety how you can use and implement patterns, but the fact is – free resources – like patterns, brushes, shapes are big time savers. Of course it’s better to create your own stuff, but sometimes you receive project with fast deadline and you need everything to do fast and this is one of the solutions.
This list just features 22 resource sites and several very well written articles with premade pattern collections, it was very interesting for me to write this article, I am hoping it will be interesting reading and useful resource for bookmarking.
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This Photoshop Brush Pack includes 16 High Quality, Wet Acrylic Paint strokes, all at super high resolution. Perfect for art projects, personal use, and commercial use. That’s right, this pack is free to use however you’d like, it just cannot be redistributed!
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Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.
Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.
Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.
Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day.
If you know of any good ones that we may have missed, please add them in the comments section below.
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There don’t seem to be enough print related tutorials online, so in this round up I wanted to cover as many print specific articles as possible. I also wanted to mix in some that weren’t directly print related, but that help create print related products like movie posters, ads, cd covers, etc.
The tutorials in this post cover the use of Photoshop, InDesign, and even Illustrator. I think when learning about print it is important to understand how to use the programs that are designed for print such as InDesign, and not just using Photoshop as a default application for everything. That’s why I tried to round up as many good InDesign tutorials as possible.
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(Source:directoryfordesigners)
With the paramount role that social media plays in the establishing and flourishing of your website, we are always on the look out for eye catching examples of icon sets throughout the community. A good set of social media icons can make or break the look of a blog, by either blending and feeding the overall tone and feel of the design or by contradicting the look of the site and distracting from it. So we have compiled a list of 50 free social media icon sets for you to choose from, so that you are sure to find the perfect match for your blog’s design.
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Tutorial submissions are the article submissions of the design industry. Every niche including graphic design has special ways you can market yourself online. One of the ways designers can gain exposure and new business online is via Photoshop tutorials. Not only can you submit your tutorials to get traffic, but some blogs and sites will even pay you to do Photoshop tutorials, which is a great way to make extra money.
If you are going to create tutorials I highly recommend publishing your tutorials on your own site first, unless you are specifically trying to sell them, which means you cant publish them first because the sites usually want the tutorials they buy to be exclusive and or published on their website first.
The sites below vary in what you can do with your Photoshop tutorials. Some are tutorial syndication sites, some are designs news sites, some are blogs and a few of the links are places that will pay for tutorials. Enjoy the mega list of Photoshop tutorial submission sites below!
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