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40 Fabulous 1 or 2 Color Logo Designs and Tutorials for Your Inspiration

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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Generally speaking, designers are in constant need of inpiration. Regardless of the medium, we need to always look for the best and most interesting eye candy in order to keep the creativity flowing. This is very much the case when the task is to develop a logo. The right logo has the ability to define [...]

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50 Examples and Tutorials of Bokeh in Photography, Textures and Websites

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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Bokeh, a style originally from Japan that describes an out of focus area of a image/photograph that is used to draw your eye to the subject of the image. This extremely popular photography technique creates surreal and beautiful images, either naturally or using programs like Photoshop. The light and tonal patterns created [...]

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35 Must Know AJAX Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a tool/language that is used on many web sites that allows data and content to be dynamically updated without refreshing the entire page. This can increase you sites overall interactivity, speed and usability with things like online polls, editable calendars, instant messaging systems and search fields [...]

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11 Essential New Years Resolutions For Web Designers In 2010

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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New Years has just past and now that we are in the first week of 2010, it is the perfect time to make some real resolutions that we can all stick with and achieve. Everyone likes to set really lofty goals each year, but it’s never a good idea to make resolutions that are [...]

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35 Awesome jQuery Navigation Enhancing Plugin Tutorials

Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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One of the single most important elements on a website is the navigation. For a website to work properly the navigation needs to be laid out well, intuitive and most of all useful. In the past when you wanted to do anything interesting with your navigation it took complex programming languages or Flash to [...]

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46 Icon Design Tutorials and Resources

Posted on 24. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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Icons are considered an essential element on just about every webpage. There are few graphics that are seen as a better visual representation for navigating or performing tasks. Eventhough the internet is filled with high quality icons for various applications it can be near impossible to find just the right one. This is why a [...]

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40 Awesome Websites with Big Backgrounds

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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One sure fire way to make a bold and impressive impact with your website is the use of large backgrounds. As computer monitors transition from 19 and 21 inches to even larger wide screen monitors, it seems like more websites are being designed with over-sized photo or illustrated image as the preferred background. The [...]

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40 Marvelous Minimalist Websites for Your Design Inspiration

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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Minimalism has been a very popular website design style for a while now. Some people say it is simply boring and uninteresting because all of the “eye candy” and effects have been removed… I think it is a classy and functional design style that showcases strong typography, good design and layout skills.
Simply put, the goal [...]

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30 Best Holiday Gifts for the Web Designer or Developer in Your Life

Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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Whether it is your spouse, friend, co worker, family member or your significant other it can be very difficult to find the right holiday gift for a web designer or developer. Below I have compiled a list of the 30 best gifts for this holiday season. Some are fun, a few are extravagant but [...]