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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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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 [...]

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55 Must Have Photoshop Brushes and Tutorials To Enhance Your Designs

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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Do you have an idea in your head but not able do put it into photoshop because you think it is too complex? You may be in need of some custom brushes. Especially for those of us who aren’t illustrators, custom brushes can really help you out in a pinch. Having a good collection of [...]

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36 Awesome jQuery Image Enhancing Plugin Tutorials and Resources

Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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Over the past few years, JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, Dojo, Mootools and Protools have become very popular with designers and developers who want to create dynamic effects without using cumbersome programming languages or 3d party animation programs. These effects, including smooth transitions, animation, blending and user initiated movement are relatively easy to use [...]

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35 Awesome Photoshop Actions that Enhance Your Work

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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First we need to ask What is a Photoshop Action? Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’ button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually.
Photoshop actions can be very powerful and a great time saver because it automates a multi-step [...]

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31 Essential Web 2.0 Tutorials and Freebies

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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Web 2.0 is still an extremely popular trend that has been going strong for a while now. It is generally defined by clean, crisp lines, rounded corners and smooth gradients. For those who do not want to develop dark and edgy designs, this is the way to go. It places a focus on usability, [...]

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30 Plugins to Supercharge Photoshop

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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It is well known that straight out of the box Photoshop is capable of an amazing amount of things, but mastering some effects are considerably harder than others. These days you do not have to be a Photoshop pro in order to complete some of the harder projects and achieve the more elaborate effects. While [...]

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21 Best Free Grunge Fonts for Web Designers

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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Recently we looked at 20 Grunge Style websites that profiled a very popular trend in design. These dirty, abstract and urban designs have quickly become the new favorite among designers. Now lets have a look at an essential component of every solid grunge inspired design…the right font. Good Grunge fonts normally reflect the overall style [...]

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17 Must Have Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers and Developers

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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These days its safe to say that Firefox is the most popular browser among web designers and developers. With such a crowded browser field, staying at the top of the heap takes alot of work. One of the leading factors that make Firefox the preferred browser is it’s massive library of great plugins and [...]