Microsoft, Yahoo in 10-year Web search partnership

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have launched a 10-year Web search deal to challenge market leader Google but stopped short of combining other advertising businesses or suggesting any deeper ties. [Detail]

Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip

Since the official announcement of W3C to stop working on the development of XHTML 2 in the end of 2009 and increase resources on HTML 5 instead, there has been a lot of confusion and various debates about the “proper”markup language for modern and future web-development. With XHTML 1.0, XHTML 2, HTML 4, HTML 5 and XHTML 5 we have so many languages that it’s really getting hard to keep track! [Detail]

13 Ways to Browser Test and Validate Your Work

Every day, when reviewing templates on ThemeForest, I test the submissions for validation and browser compatibility - not to mention my own work as well. Over time, I've scrounged the web for the best validation and browser compatibility testing tools around. Here's my favorites. [Detail]

8 Important SEO Techniques To Kickstart Your Website

When you are starting a website or blog, it is important to have your search engine optimizing techniques ready. Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) is important, because if SEO is implanted correctly, the search engines supply a large number of visitors for your site. [Detail]

Version Control Hosting

Although I’m primarily a back-end developer, I find my self increasingly doing front-end work and even design from time to time.
Version control systems have usually been the realm of back-end developers, but I’ve found that they are useful in all phases of website development.

13 beautiful green website designs for Inspiration

Green a beautiful color representing nature, growth, renewal, health, and environment and also a color which can Inspire Web Designer to do something creative for website growth and renewal. Though there are lot of best color tools for designers that can be useful to determine matching color but designers out there always do something creative on there own and come out with such excellent results. Aside from color tools here I would like to share some green website design which may be inspirational when working on your next green website project. [Detail]

35 Inspirational Shopping Cart Page Designs

Shopping carts are an integral part of the online shopping experience. E-commerce designers face challenges in creating an attractive, yet user-friendly, website that will provide customers with a pleasant purchasing experience. [Detail]

Essential List of Resources for Graphic Designers - Part 1

When I started this blog, I always thought of preparing an “incredible list of design resources” that I have been collecting for years to share with you but then had to accept the fact that the list maybe endless and may need pages and pages that will make my readers tiresome and lost. So I rather reconsidered by thought to edit the collection and create a “list of incredible resources” instead. [Detail]

55 Fresh Examples Of Corporate Website Designs

As you already seen in 80 Corporate Website Designs that a perfect layout, A good design and nice resources can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. However, When it comes to corporate website design you need to take care about many things which includes simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility. [Detail]

The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins

Since the recommendation of CSS2 back in 1998, the use of tables has slowly faded into the background and into the history books. Because of this, CSS layouts have since then been synonymous with coding elegance. [Detail]

50 Beautiful Photographs Of A Cloudy Day

Nature in its vivid colours amazes and inspires everyone in different ways. It could be a sunset, a sun-rise, the flowers or a cloudy day. Photographing a cloudy day is an art that requires the photographer to make the best use of the natural light. [Detail]

Weekly 30 inspirational websites #38

Hello, hello! We’re seeing ourselves again in a new environment as the site’s design has been changed… by the Easter bunny, of course. It’s now more painty. If you want, it’s drooling for inspiration and tutorials. But that’s not why you opened this link. You wanted to see some inspirational CSS and Flash sites. Mostly CSS cause you know… CSS rocks. [Detail]

Travel Brochures for Popular Destinations

Travel brochures are not really different from other brochures. However, effective travel brochures contain visuals of higher quality, since they need to give the right feel and positive image of the places they campaign or advertise for. Travel brochures also serve a second purpose–as vacation guide. Thus travel brochures are usually full of maps, pictures of tourist spots, and information about landmarks and must-visit sites in a destination. In addition, travel brochures also contain information such as the climate, culture, history, geography, flora and fauna of the places mentioned in the brochure. Ideally. travel brochure should also give information about flights, roads, the shortest way of reaching a particular place, and other such information. Apart from this, it should give detailed information about accommodations–a list of hotels, motels, upper-range hotels and mid-range accommodations. [Detail]

Weekly Web Design Inspiration # 12

It feels like an age ago since last weeks web inspiration list. Well I’ve just had a look at what this week has in store and wow it’s a great list of some awesome web design! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! [Detail]

How to Create A Simple Web-based Chat Application

In this tutorial we will be creating a simple web-based chat application with PHP and jQuery. This sort of utility would be perfect for a live support system for your website. [Detail]

Mega CSS Resource Roundup

In this article you will get access to one of the largest collections ever of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc. You may have seen some of these before but here they are all put together ... [Detail]

Create an Attractive jQuery Menu with Fadein and Fadeout Effect

Apparently, I have seen this kind of menu before, in Dragon Interactive . During the implementation, I was having a bit of problem, I thought it's just a simple fadein and fadeout effect, but it actually required a lot of CSS works and the right images. [Detail]

simple web designs blog + framework development + social media and seo

Simple Web Design: 75 Sites Featuring Minimalist Interfaces [Detail]

20 Clean and Light Personal Blogs

20 clean and light blog designs to inspire you today, as well as some great Photoshop tutorials for creating a similar design. [Detail]

65 Absolutely Cool And Creative Twitter Backgrounds

Twitter is one of the most powerful social media tool. You can have an “One Line Bio” to describe yourself. But unfortunately, the “One Line Bio” is limited to maximum 160 characters. So, creative Twitter users started to use Twitter backgrounds to add more information about themselves. [Detail]

Tabbed Social Media Icon Set 50+ Icons

A Beautiful icon pack exclusively to Creative Nerds readers designed by chethstudios. A huge collection of icons including over 50 simple but elegant icons which are perfect for minimalistic websites. I hope you like the icons also we would love to hear your thoughts and feedback about the icon set. [Detail]

30 Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

As a follow up on last week’s roundup of 105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps, I thought this week would be the time to share with everyone examples of extreme minimalism in web design, and how with minimal elements, when properly used, so much can be achieved. [Detail]

50 New Beautiful Blog Designs

There are things that can’t be showcased too often. For instance, beautiful blog designs. We have presented hundreds of beautiful blog designs in the past and now it’s time to provide our readers with a fresh portion of tasty design inspiration. [Detail]

50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design

CSS is almost certainly one of the best developments in web design since the first graphical web browsers were adopted on a wide scale. Where tables created clunky, slow-loading pages, CSS created much more streamlined and usable web pages. Plus, CSS has allowed designers to achieve a number of different styles that used to only be possible with images. [Detail]

Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design

Also known as International Style, the Swiss Style does not simply describe a style of graphic design made in Switzerland. It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers, but it emerged in Russia, Germany and Netherlands in the 1920’s. This style in art, architecture and culture became an ‘international’ style after 1950’s and it was produced by artists all around the globe. Despite that, people still refer to it as the Swiss Style or the Swiss Legacy. [Detail]

HTML5 and The Future of the Web

Some have embraced it, some have discarded it as too far in the future, and some have abandoned a misused friend in favor of an old flame in preparation. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you’ve most likely heard all the blogging chatter surrounding the “new hotness” that is HTML5. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news. [Detail]

A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools

As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) user you might think that there is not that many options for PNG optimization, especially for truecolor PNG’s (PNG-24 in Photoshop), which doesn’t have any. Some of you may even think that this format is “unoptimizable”. Well, in this post we’ll try to debunk this myth. [Detail]

Clever PNG Optimization Techniques

As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) user you might think that there is not that many options for PNG optimization, especially for truecolor PNG’s (PNG-24 in Photoshop), which doesn’t have any. Some of you may even think that this format is “unoptimizable”. Well, in this post we’ll try to debunk this myth. [Detail]

60+ Must Have jQuery Toolbox

When developing Web Applications one of the most challenging tasks is to make the solution cross-browser compliant. It’s been this was since the early days of www and it is not likely to change in the near future. Client side scripting is very important for creating interactive functionality and dynamic effects on web pages but Javascript is executed in the client browser and this means they are directly affected by the differences in web browsers. Fortunately some of highly skilled developers have dedicated their precious time and passion to create frameworks that encapsulate most of the browser related difficulties and in many ways makes difficult parts of client side scripting fun and not a nightmare. This article will briefly introduce you to the Javascript framework jQuery and then provide excellent examples of the low hanging fruits waiting for you if you’re starting to use jQuery. jQuery is just one of several frameworks that all have powerful features. Why focus on Javascript frameworks anyway? [Detail]

35 Extremely Useful Free Online Tools for Web Developers and Designer

Creating Web Sites is not a simple task at all and the value of getting some help from useful online tools should not be underestimated. Creating web applications requires deep knowledge and experience with many different tools, techniques, standards etc. and it is hard for developers and designers to keep track. [Detail]

50 Burning Logos - Amazing Must See!

Below you’ll find a collection of 50 burning logos which will definitely heat up your creativity. Browsing through the showcase, you will get inspired by the creativity and art work shown by designers. [Detail]

50 Burning Logos - Amazing Must See!

Below you’ll find a collection of 50 burning logos which will definitely heat up your creativity. Browsing through the showcase, you will get inspired by the creativity and art work shown by designers. [Detail]

90+ Home Office Hacks for Bloggers & Freelancers

We all aspire to have the perfect Home Office (some of us take it more seriously than others). Many people spend all day every day in their office, others casually use the office in the evenings & weekends as a way to escape reality. [Detail]

15+ CSS Tips and Tricks

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is not very difficult to learn. The hardest thing is to ensure the CSS layout being displayed identically among different browsers. Even though CSS3 will be released soon, but I believe it will take quite a long time for all the browsers to start supporting it, especially all the old browsers like Internet Explorer 6 *AHEM*. [Detail]

50 cool free desktop wallpapers

Everybody likes to have nice pictures for their desktop wallpaper, designers are no exceptions, I would even say that they pay more attention to their computer’s customization. To make your life easier in picking a new one, I’ve chosen 50 beautiful wallpapers for you. Enjoy! [Detail]

15 Really Useful Web-based HTML Editors

Web-based HTML Editor, WYSIWYG editor, or rich text editor, is a web component that let users enter rich text input within the browser. Most of the time, these html editors are used within content management systems where administrators or authors can easily create posts and contents from the backend system. [Detail]

Weekly 30 inspirational websites #37

Many artistic designs in this article. It’s somehow similar to #35. As usual, people from Eastern Europe have their way in adding some artistic touch to their designs using a Wacom or simply by manipulating some elements. You can see this in cpeople.ru and agote.lt. Foehn.co.uk strikes back with Flash technology but with the same magical looking techniques. Must be said that the typography from Squarespace’s blog rivals with the one Gareth Dickey that was found in article number 25. [Detail]

25 Abstract and Beautiful IPhone Wallpapers

The IPhone is becoming an increasingly popular accessory in our lives, and so of course we want an attractive wallpaper for it! I’ve compiled 25 abstract and beautiful wallpapers to improve your screens. [Detail]

13 New and Amazing Icon Sets…That Are Free!

A great icon set can really help a website stand out and bring attention to otherwise anonymous sections of your website. Here is a selection of some of the newest and best icon sets available. [Detail]

10 Must Have Portable Applications

Portable applications are handy when you are on move and can be run on most of the removable storage media like USB drive, mobile hard disk, iPod etc., Here in this article you will find extremely good 10 portable applications, that are very useful to carry with. If you are interested in application, just click through and you’ll get much more technical info and descriptions there. Hope this will be useful for some people! [Detail]

10+ Free And New Icon Sets

I remember the old day when I used to create icons for old windows version operating system, I used to hurt the images much to reach the required color limit for the operating system. Now, I can use high quality images is icons, not only for application but also for websites as well. [Detail]

Creative Image-Galleries by jQuery

Creative Image-Galleries by jQuery [Detail]

10 Free Icon Sets For Web Developers

The use of icon is very frequent in modern web design to highlight button, box or menu content. To help the common user to find a particular section of the web-page you can integrate icons in your websites. In fact with a nice and expressive icon set the web designer have a powerful instrument to emphasize his ideas. [Detail]

A Short but Very Useful List about Websites for Web Designers and Web Developers

We selected 12 useful websites to stay updated about webdesign and webdevelopment. Insert these in your bookmarks and visit their twitter profiles for extra news, you will not regret it! [Detail]

18 Beautiful Left Aligned Website Designs

Most websites these days are center aligned probably due to the monitor sizes getting wider and wider. What is interesting though is recently, we have been noticing a come back with left aligned websites. [Detail]

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

In this article, we are creating a checklist of all the basic but essential tasks which should be done and tested before launching any new website. [Detail]

15+ Useful Firefox SEO Tools For Serious Bloggers And Web Designers

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO is the process of structuring your web page so that search engines can reach, read and index your page in a higher ranking and finally bring more organic traffic to you. [Detail]

50+ Fresh and Unique Personal Portfolio Websites

Designers have an urge to stand out as unique, specially when building their own portfolio websites to showcase their work and skills to future employers. [Detail]

Animating Design Elements: 7 Unique & Creative Practices

We saw different methods and techniques that truly speak to the designer’s capabilities and creativity. A great way to distinguish yourself from the crowd is to have a truly unique user interface. Although there are many possibilities, you should carefully plan each project on its own. Not all techniques provide a solution for everything. Some of them are very helpful and easy to implement, but some lack usability and simplicity. [Detail]

Line25 Sites of the Week for July 17th 2009

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Carsonified, 84Colors, Orman Clark, Ungarbage and Ashley Baxter. [Detail]

Microsoft goes open source again

Once it had dipped its toe into the open-source waters, it didn't take long for Microsoft to take the plunge again. The company has just made its second release under the General Public License with software for the open-source online learning system Moodle. [Detail]

First Look: Firefox 3.7’s New Design

It hasn’t even been a month since Firefox 3.5 was released to the masses, but Mozilla is already hard at work on Firefox (Firefox) 3.7. We gave you a sneak peek at what features are coming in 2010, but now we know what Firefox 3.7 may look like when it’s released. [Detail]

9th ITCN Asia

From its inception in 2001, ITCN Asia, now being organized for the 9th consecutive year, has grown up as the biggest IT & Telecom extravaganza of Pakistan. Most powerful brands of the world will showcase their state-of-the-art products and services which would allow the user community to get exposure to a wide range of technology and solutions under one roof. Most importantly, it would provide an opportunity for business-to-business alliances, leveraging their mutual strengths. ITCN Asia Exhibitions & Conferences have been playing a pivotal role in landmarking the image of Pakistan on the world IT Map, bringing in huge foreign and local investments in the Country. [Detail]

Online Visitors Registration
Register now to get FREE Entry to ITCN_Asia. Please note that a Visitor Registration Fee of US$5.00 per visitor shall be applied after 15,000 visitors. [Visitor Registration]

50 Creative and Inspiring 404 Pages

Whenever a user is trying to reach a website’s page that is non-existent or missing, they are usually directed to a page where they’re informed that that specific page cannot be recalled by the HTTP server; this is what is called a 404 error page. [Detail]

10 Utile tools and resources for design community

I hope these tools and resources would be very helpful to all my readers. [Detail]

jQuery Image Magnify

jQuery Image Magnify enables any image on the page to be magnified by a desired factor when clicked on, via a sleek zoom in/out effect. The enlarged image is centered on the user's screen until dismissed. It works on both images with and without explicit width/height attributes defined. This means you can take a large image that by default would look out of place when shown, shrink it using explicit width/height attributes, then enable users to magnify it on demand to its original dimensions when the image is clicked on using this script. [Detail]

Using Backgrounds with CSS2.1 and CSS3

Today we want to try to give you some tips about Backgrounds in CSS2.1 and CSS3. In the article you can see also a list about impressive websites with stunning backgrounds. [Detail]

40 Beautiful Apple based iPhone Wallpapers

40 Beautiful Apple based iPhone Wallpapers [Detail]

Inspiration: Nature Themed Websites

In this inspirational post we are going to look at some websites that have a natural theme. Natural layouts are great way to give your website a clean fresh look. Lets look at some examples. [Detail]

CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

In this post we present a printable CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF), a complete listing of all the properties, selectors types and allowed values in the current CSS 3 specification from the W3C. Each property is provided in a section that attempts to match it with the section (module) that it is most actively associated within the W3C specification. Next to each property is a listing of the expected values that that property takes (normal text shows named values it accepts and italics shows value types it will accept). [Detail]

Microsoft Office 2010

Tell your story with video. Instantly brainstorm and share. Inform and inspire using photos and graphics. Connect, share, and collaborate in real time. Access and edit your files from virtually anywhere on your PC or smartphone.
Microsoft® Office 2010 gives you powerful new tools to express your ideas and work together, wherever your life takes you. [Detail]

Creating a Keyboard with CSS and jQuery

Sometimes it's just fun to play around with the programming languages we know and see what we can create. I thought it might be nice to create a little online keyboard with CSS, and then make it work with jQuery. The keyboard includes "action" keys (caps lock, shift, and delete) which dynamically changes the keyboard when clicked. I'll show you how to build it today. [Detail]

Create fancy share box with CSS and jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to turn unordered list (UL) into an fancy social bookmarking sharing box. You will see how to style such box, how to add interactivity, and how to create jQuery plugin that will turn any UL into sharing box. [Detail]

Create a Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal Sliding Content Website with jQuery

Content Sliding website is one of the famous and creative design techniques for portfolio website. One thing, please make sure you put the menu on every single page to avoid confusion/dizziness.

* You should put the navigation menu in every single page
* Or, fix the position of the menu
* Let your visitors know exactly what section they're reading, like highlight the selected menu item and have a clear title. [Detail]

Amazing Vector Tutorials Collection

nother morning and another vector tutorials collection by Graphic Mania. In this collection, I would like to share with you some of the most amazing Adobe Illustrator tutorials I found over the web. [Detail]

Bits of Inspiration

There is a good number of websites out there that are awesome in every way. It’s a good number, but not great: perfection is not exactly around the corner. I also happen to see a lot of websites that are just nice but won’t make your jaw drop thinking “Geez, why didn’t I design that?”. Yet some of these websites have really great details, such as a nice color palette or a well designed form. [Detail]

10 Broadcast Designers

Even though I may be designing something static like a logo, a graphic or a poster, I might sometimes look to broadcast design and animation for inspiration. Here are 10 websites I’ve visited recently… [Detail]

Beautiful Gradient Effects On Web design – Research: Part 2

It’s Monday and beautiful time to get inspired with very good examples and research a little bit what’s happening behind the scenes from graphic designer view. [Detail]

20 Websites for Inspiration

These are some brilliant website designs I’ve plucked from the internet. There’s definitely some great stuff here and some interesting designs. Some are quite simple, some are detailed, some are just plain over the top! If you’re struggling for inspiration, take a look through these websites… [Detail]

Quick Tip – Resizing Images Based On Browser Window Size

In fluid layouts it is easy to format the text to adjust nicely when the window is resized, but the images are not as fluid-friendly. This Quick Tip shows you how to swap between two image sizes based on the current size of the browser, div, or whatever you decide to make the deciding factor. For those looking for a real life example, Last.fm uses this technique on their artist pages. [Detail]

40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers

Adobe AIR is one of the most under-appreciated application platforms, but the number of applications available for AIR make it incredibly useful. [Detail]

5 Unbelievable NoteBooks Concept

I summed up 5 concepts of notebook with futuristic design and extra usability. Enjoy reading this post and I would like to know which concept is having your interest on it? You can let me know your opinion by leaving comment on this post. [Detail]

Rounding Up the Top 10 Mootools Lightbox Scripts

Everyone loves lightbox javascript effects, since the original Lightbox script there has been countless clones generated for all the popular Javascript libraries. Last week saw the top ten jQuery ligthtbox scripts, check out this collection of the top ten Lightbox scripts for the Mootools framework. [Detail]

Free WordPress Theme: Paper Wall

Today we are glad to release the Paper Wall WordPress Theme, an original, beautiful, high-quality WordPress theme, designed by Adrian Lazariuc from Indeziner.com exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme has a unique, colorful design that will perfectly fit for your personal blogs and, if customized, can be a perfect fit for a unique magazine-style-blog. [Detail]

35 Beautiful Photography Websites

Interest in photography has exploded over the last 10 years, largely thanks to the developments in digital photography. Cameras and computers have become cheaper and more powerful, software more sophistocated and printers can now print photos that are as good (if not better) than anything produced in a chemical darkroom. Now, once you’ve acquired a digital setup, the economic restrictions of film and development costs have been removed and the cost of photography is virtually nil. [Detail]

Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI

In this tutorial we’re going to be using the jQuery UI slider widget to create an attractive and functional content slider. We’ll have a container, which has a series of elements each containing different blocks of content. There will be too many of these elements to display at once, so we can use the slider to move the different content blocks in and out of view. [Detail]

Largest collection of games wallpapers available for download (113 pictures)

I know you always wanted to download free wallpapers of your favorite games, those cool games that you play. The wallpaper that you’ve searched for to put on your computer’s desktop are all in this article. You can surely find what you desire, whether you have a normal 4:3 monitor or a widescreen 16:9 one. The high quality wallpapers in here are in a large number of screen resolutions from the classic 1024×768 or 1152×864 to 1280×1024, 1680×1050 or more. [Detail]

Ten Practical Tips for Writing in English

Online opportunities are not created equal. Although access to the Internet is open to everyone, and the cost of publishing your thoughts are minimal, language gives a huge advantage to those who have learned English as their first language. They can reach the whole world by writing in their own language. For the rest of us, it requires a bit more work. [Detail]

26 incredible single page web designs

Some of us love the classic site design, with N number of pages, with links to other site page, right? If they are well designed too… whoa!, a beauty. But what if you change your mind and want to go for a new kind of design? The single page one. If you like to have [Detail]

CSS3 box-shadow property

In this tutorial I will show you how to use the CSS3 box-shadow property to add shadows to a box. For box here I mean the box each HTML element is included in by the CSS box model (if you want to know more about the CSS box model read this tutorial). [Detail]

15 Website for jQuery Enthusiast and Addicts

Are you someone who is constantly wowed by the cool effects and animation jQuery can do and always searching jQuery tutorials and plugins? Here is a post for you. jQuery is now the coolest, easiest and the best JavaScript libray on the web. The ability to “Write Less and Do More” got everyone’s attentions. Here we have complied 15 best websites that provides jQuery tutorials, tricks, plugins, news, development and more. If you follow up with this sites/blogs you will never miss anything about jQuery. [Detail]

45+ Unusual Layout Website Designs 45+ Unusual Layout Website Designs

We have collected up a list of websites that are unusual, coll and some quite different. Websites that are unique, unusual design, structure, navigation, flow. All this is so different from regular websites that we see everyday. Some of these seems to be very simple but still due to its interaction and structure it makes them fall in the list of unusual websites. [Detail]

Deluxe Template

Deluxe Templates - Professional Blogger Templates [Detail]

Top 15 Logo Design Inspiration Galleries

For companies getting their logos designed in a proper and standout way is very important and on other hand for designers it is not that easy task as they have to show everything that company represents in a small image. [Detail]

The Ultimate Drupal Showcase

Drupal is a great open-source CMS suitable for virtually any kind of websites. This Ultimate Drupal Showcase contains over 150 Drupal based websites grouped in six major categories: business, media, government, non-profit, university & research and entertainment. Enjoy. [Detail]

Maximize Your Keyword Efficiency

The Do’s [Detail]

Collective Thanks To 80 Companies Supporting Design Community

I really must refer to Colorburned post here – He did a great job by bringing up so many companies and idea, which helped me to directly find related companies, which could sponsor my website too. It’s been a while and now I wanted to take a deep research about current companies, which use and actually buy those advertisement banner places thereby supporting design community in return helping to build good page rank and actually get very targeted design related clients. I listed here all the companies I’ve found advertising on graphic design, web design, blogging related blogs, showcase sites like mine is. Now after research I must say I was surprised, browsing through all those blogs daily I didn’t checked those sites, but now I found many good softwares, services I would really love to try myself! Not always the best stuff available is for free and really what did I see was very reasonable prices for several really good services. [Detail]

A Collection of 20 Stunning Nature Inspired Desktop Backgrounds

Desktop backgrounds are a huge source of inspiration for me. I’m constantly changing mine in an effort to keep things fresh, and keep my creativity flowing. Because of my quasi-obsessive behavior and all the cool wallpaper and photography sites out there, I’ve developed quite a large library of photos. [Detail]

Four Methods to Create Equal Height Columns

Back when tables were used for layouts, creating equal height columns was very simple. All you had to do was create three cells in a row and you have a layout with equal height columns. The method for creating equal height columns isn’t as straightforward when you use CSS for layouts. [Detail]

25 Funny Advertisements With Great Recall

Funny advertisements always sell! Plain and simple. If you want people to remember your advertising campaign, your corporate identity or product branding, humor is the way to go. It does not only get the attention of consumers, it also make your product or service easier to recall or remember. We love to remember things that make us smile or laugh, don’t we? People love to be entertained that is why laughter has an enormous power when it comes to advertisements. Remember that as long as people smile, they will surely buy. [Detail]

Line25 Sites of the Week for July 10th 2009

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from FeedStitch, Elliot Jay Stocks, The Energy Cell, Ragged Edge Design and the Squarespace blog. [Detail]

The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer

Becoming a freelance web designer is a common dream among many designers, although it takes quite a bit of talent, business savvy, committment, and time. With all there is to consider when becoming self-employed, one can become overwhelmed — enough to deter themselves from trying at all. [Detail]

Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs

n May we announced the Typographic Layout Design Contest that aimed to collect beautiful typographic (X)HTML+CSS-based layouts created by the design community and release them for free as a gift for the web design community. The response was overwhelming and we really had a hard time going through the designs, analyzing them and deciding which templates deserve the awards. Unfortunately, many templates were just copies of the current designer’s blog and some weren’t related to typography at all. So in the end many templates didn’t make it to this post. [Detail]

Perform Better With AdSense: The Ultimate Round-Up

Google AdSense is the easiest and quickest way to make your website, of any size, profitable. Sign-up, generate your ads and copy & paste the code into your web page, and…well, that’s it really. You are earning money. It works by by reading keywords from your content, and then displays content related text and image ads, thus enabling ads specifically targeted to your site and readers. [Detail]

50 Best-Of Designer’s (NEW) Download Picks and Resources

For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative resources every designer is looking for, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done. [Detail]

A Complete Guide for Domain Portfolio Management

A good Domain name is always an asset for you. If you don’t use this, yet it can be a great thing for your earning. Only using a small creative mind on domain name, you can earn lots of dollar. [Detail]

Show me some well designed logos!

Tried to throw a little bit more color than usual in this article by adding more artistic works to the logos collection. However, logos like Oh, fuck, Fish and Sleep tend to keep the balance with their one color look.

33 Spectacular Black and White Photographs

There’s just something about black and white photography. Maybe it’s because humans are used to seeing the world in color, or maybe it’s because we associate black and white with a sort of “old time” feel. Or maybe it’s that black and white photography force us to examine beauty not as a myriad of colors, but instead, absence of color. [Detail]

Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery

This tutorial would not be anything special without the graphics, so let’s make sure you’ve got those under control. [Detail]

Using Wireframes to Streamline Your Development Process

Creating a wireframe is one of the first steps you should take before designing a website.

A wireframe helps you organize and simplify the elements and content within a website and is an essential tool in the development process.

A wireframe is basically a visual representation of content layout in a website design. [Detail]

Mixing CSS3 and jQuery

Mixing CSS3 and jQuery… How to CSS3 Effects via jQuery [Detail]

20 Excellent Web Hosting Providers: Be Smart And Choose The Right One

Searching for right hosting provider is always been a terrible headache for a web designers and developers like us. Also it’s a one of the most difficult decisions which one can made with his limited earnings. There are many things which needs to be taken cared of before making your final decisions about any hosts includes it’s reliability, technical support, customer service & billing, server & network speed, price & value for Money, and finally reputation around. [Detail]

30+ Creative Personal Photography Websites

Today pretty much every photographer has some form of online portfolio. Having a professional photography website is a good way to display the photographer’s art and establish their name on the Web market. However, on the Web the way your photography website looks and feels matters just as much as your actual works. Thereby, many photographers choose their photo websites to be no less unique and artistic than their images. And their photography websites become just as inspiring as their photos. [Detail]

Design Your Own Icons – 25 Tutorials and Articles Designers MUST Have

With icons, web designers and graphic artists have a good opportunity to showcase their skills, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A well created, good looking icon set is a great way for designers to showcase their work and it may be a way to build up some reputation in the online sommunity. Creating professional Icons and allowing people to download them for free is a certain way to attract attention and visitors on a design portfolio or blog. But how how should you get started with creating icons that rock and stand out from the endless masses? This article provides a large collection of tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator that currently is the de facto standard tools for this purpose. The article also provides links to some very interesting and worth reading articles on icon design. Get started and please comment and drop a link to your own creations and favorite icon tuts and resources. [Detail]

19 Best Resources For Free Blogger Templates

Well according to me Wordpress is the best for blogging but Blogger is also one of the most popular hosted blogging platforms. So today for my freebies section i have collected 19 best resources to get free blogger templates. [Detail]

Post Pic List of Free Icons for personal and commercial use

As you all know there are some laws, moral or not, that doesn’t give us the permission to use things that did not belong to us. So it’s the case of the icons that we use in webdesign or other graphic creations like business cards, banners and so on. And this is why I’m going [...] [Detail]

12 Navigation Options That Help Users Navigate Through Your Website Effectively

A website can offer readers at least 12 different navigation options. Not all of them are applicable to every website. However, a quality website should always offer a range of navigation options. [Detail]

16 Impressive Image Optimization Tools

Images are an important component of blogging. Nobody likes to wait an eternity before a page loads, just because it has heavy images. One of the surefire techniques to reduce website load time is to compress your images as much as you can so that your server, your visitors, and you benefit from it. [Detail]

Introducing the Google Chrome OS

It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. [Detail]

Gmail leaves beta, launches "Back to Beta" Labs feature

We get asked all the time why Google keeps its products in beta for so long. And Gmail, five years after launch, is consistently a subject of this questioning, even of jokes. [Detail]

Xen

The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. [Detail]

What is ASP.NET MVC?

ASP.NET MVC is a free and fully supported Microsoft framework for building web applications that use a model-view-controller pattern. Like ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC is built on the ASP.NET framework. [Detail]

Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials

Ideally, users will fill the web form with necessary information and finish their job successfully. However, people often make mistakes. This is where web form validation comes into play. The goal of web form validation is to ensure that the user provided necessary and properly formatted information needed to successfully complete an operation. In this article we will go beyond the validation itself and explore different validation and error feedback techniques, methods and approaches. [Detail]

HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along. [Detail]

40 New Places to Spread Free Your Articles

This is the best way to quickly share your articles ... [Detail]

15 Good CSS Forums for Web Designers and Developers

If you are intermediate in CSS and looking to enhance your CSS knowledge then this post going to help you. By joining any of the following CSS forums will help you to boost your CSS knowledge. [Detail]

50 Best Examples Of Select Your Language Pages

Select Your Language Page is that single page you see when you arrived for the first time on a website like cocacola.com or nintendo.com, a pre-home page, with a list of options: language, country, region, etc, normally related to a big brand or name with presence all over the world or some many others sites with the idea of being seen in any country, like mini-sites or promotional sites even personal portfolios. [Detail]

Adaptable view - how do they do it?

Adaptable view is a user interface design pattern which you can use to allow users to manually change visual appearance of content in order to fit their needs. This is usually done by switching styles (in web sites and applications). This way you provide your users with more control over the appearance of content which improves user experience. [Detail]

33 Promising Web Development And Social Network Firefox 3.5 Plugins

Since the big success with Wordpress related article showcasing promising and new Wordpress plugins, I decided to continue with similar list showcasing Firefox plugins. Several of these plugins are still experimental, but I tested them, checked for reviews and references and carefully picked these all extensions together.

I divided this article in three sections – Web development, Social development related plugins and finally just overall handy plugins for better browsing. [Detail]

15 Must Read Articles for CSS Beginners

Are you new to CSS? The initial process of learning this nifty language can be a little daunting, there’s so much to learn it can sometimes be difficult to figure out where to start. Luckily there’s plenty of valuable information and resources out there on the web that covers everything from the basics through to advanced topics. This collection of 15 articles pulls together some of the best must read blog posts for anyone looking to get started with CSS styling. [Detail]

10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

You better watch out, because the HTML police are about. They scour your code and pick out the most unspeakable crimes against HTML markup. This handy list of ten HTML tag crimes sheds some light on some of the most common coding mistakes and helps provide an alternate solution. Tips include writing valid markup, making semantic choices, avoiding deprecated tags and more! [Detail]

Internet Explorer under attack warns Microsoft

Microsoft has warned that hackers are attacking Internet Explorer by exploiting an unpatched bug in DirectX, the second such attack in six weeks. Microsoft's security team has issued an advisory acknowledging reports of in-the-wild attacks and providing more information about who is vulnerable. The bug was first identified by Chinese security forums and antivirus firms, including Kingsoft. [Detail]

10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers

Often creative and truly remarkable design solutions remain unknown because we, designers, simply overlook them. Being busy with our own projects, we sometimes try to grasp the intuition behind (probably) complex and cluttered code of other designers to understand how they manage to implement particular design ideas. In fact, by just observing the code of other developers we can learn a lot from them; we can find interesting ideas and improve the quality of our work. [Detail]

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

XHTML is dead, long live HTML 5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead. And even although HTML 5 won’t be completely supported until 2022, it doesn’t mean that it won’t be widely adopted within the foreseeable future. [Detail]

22 Beautiful Icon Packs for Web Design and Development

Icon is an essential graphical element in web design and development. Not only in web development, Icons can be found in your desktop, applications, folders...... it's everywhere! [Detail]

50+ Beautiful Reflection Photography

We have hand picked some of the very beautiful reflection photography from the web. These photos look extremely beautiful and breath taking. However its every individual perspective to click these kind of photos, but it always nice to see these kind of photos. [Detail]

CSS Borders – Part II CSS Borders – Part II

CSS Borders continued! More borders examples for inspiration. I encourage you to play around and make these examples your own! [Detail]

Web Design Rules to Follow

Web design is the combination of graphic design, layout, content, color, and effects which culminate to give a great user experience. As I have previously stated, I think good design involves the use of excellent graphics, fonts, color, layout, web accessibility, and design, which together give a feel of uniqueness, style, personality, and individuality. [Detail]

80 Corporate Website Designs For Design Inspiration

A perfect layout, A good design and nice resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. However, When it comes to corporate website design you need to take care about many things which includes simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility. [Detail]

26 Inspirational & Exceptional Product Advertisements

today’s post consists of some inspirational and interesting product advertisements, which you do not see usually. These product ads are simply out of the usual run of things. During your web browsing, you may constantly see impressive advertisement on top most websites, but there are chances that you are missing some extra ordinary and imaginative ads. [Detail]

70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website

This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. [Detail]

25 Examples Of Light Effects In Web Design

Some examples of how people use light effects to enhance their web designs either by giving it more colour or by giving it more depth, check out my selection from around the web for some inspiration. [Detail]

Rounding Up the Top 10 jQuery Lightbox Scripts

Every loves lightbox javascript effects, since the original Lightbox script there have been countless clones generated for all the popular Javascript libraries. This collection rounds up the top ten Lightbox scripts for jQuery in particular, so remember to keep it bookmarked for your next design project! [Detail]

Sun upgrades popular virtualisation tool

Sun has upgraded one of its most popular freeware products after releasing a major new version of its open-source virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, which includes the ability to cope with demanding server workloads. [Detail]

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from ShoeGuru, Benek, R.U.4 Children, Edenbee and RonnieSan. [Detail]

CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children

I've received multiple requests for simpler CSS tutorials that teach the tricky fundamentals. This will serve as the first entry in a series that will receive new additions sporadically each month. Today, we'll be reviewing the overflow: hidden, and clearfix tricks to force a parent div to contains its children. [Detail]

Easy E-Commerce With Magento

Hundreds of ecommerce systems exist, but very few can match the power of Magento. In this screencast, I'll demonstrate how to download and install Magento to a local host, configure some of the site options, and create simple and configurable products and categories for our test e-commerce site. [Detail]

12 high technologies that failed - and why

The brainchild of budding entrepreneurs and research labs, these tech failures were intended to become commonplace in our fast-changing world.

Unfortunately, they turned into Frankensteins that no one wanted – mostly for scientific reasons, technical dependencies, or a poorly conceived business model.

Without further ado, let's get stuck in... [Detail]

Google App Engine misfires

Technical difficulties forced Google's Web application hosting infrastructure off the air for about four hours Thursday morning.

Customers who run their Web applications on Google App Engine were forced idle Thursday by a series of issues involving "elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates," according to a Google employee posting in the Google App Engine Downtime Notify group spotted by TechCrunch. A Google representative acknowledged the downtime and apologized for the outage. [Detail]

Microsoft to target businesses with IE8 push

Microsoft has announced that it will begin pushing the latest version of its web browser, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), to enterprises next month. [Detail]

50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates

In this post, we’ll showcase 50 Free high-quality & New (X)HTML/CSS template (some of them include the PSD-source files). You will also find among these elegant templates a very well written step-by-step tutorials showing you how to create your own. Hopefully some of these will meet your expectations and come in handy in your projects. [Detail]

Photo and original diagram of the world's first ethernet cable

Behind an ordinary door in a nondescript room hosting several printers and copiers at PARC is the world's first Ethernet cable. [Detail]

White iPhone 3GS units discoloring from excessive heat

Some owners of Apple's latest iPhone have been dealt a rude surprise just days after launch as models with white backs have been changing colors after frequent use. [Detail]

The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources

Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. The great thing about Joomla is the extensions (components, modules and plugins), that can be added to your Joomla website. This allows the average user to add more functionality and dynamic content to their website without being a developer or programmer. [Detail]

7 Rich & Creative User Interfaces and How to Create Your Own

There are plenty of perfectly acceptable and functional websites out there that don’t use dynamic content. But what if you want to give your site that little something extra that makes your visitors say “Wow”? What then? [Detail]

How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX

AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way. [Detail]

18 Absolutely Stylish Designs Using Photoshop Brushes and How to’s

I think many people out there underestimate the power of well used Photoshop brushes. A good designer can use Photoshop brushes in a variety of ways to accomplish a plethora of results. If you thought the Photoshop brushes were just for those new to Photoshop or just to add a touch of grunge to a design, you are sadly mistaken. [Detail]

10 Tips for New iPhone Developers

Making a webapp for the iPhone is a lot like making a normal web site, but with a few quirks to abide by. In this article, I'll give you a wide variety of tips, covering things such as: "must-haves", usability guidelines, testing/debugging, pitfalls, and performance issues. I hope you enjoy it! [Detail]

Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques

When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such as OptiPNG and jpegtran, manage to squeeze extra bytes out of image files. All of these are pretty well-known tools that provide Web developers and designers with straightforward techniques of image optimization. [Detail]

Best Practices For Effective Design Of “About me”-Pages

The “about me”-page is one of the most overlooked pages in development and one of the highest ranked pages on many websites. In a world that’s becoming increasingly connected through the Web, it’s important that you engage your audience in a personal and friendly way, otherwise you risk just being another faceless web designer among a sea of websites. [Detail]

Stunning Designs Using that Piece of Wood

It’s not hard to design a website, but it gets harder when you try to achieve that unique design using Wood pieces and integrate it with the design elements to make the whole design part of that piece of wood. [Detail]

40 (NEW) High-quality and Free Icon Sets

Icons are everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 40 most beautiful icon sets that were freshly created. [Detail]

20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS

The web is a perfect playground for lots of creative designers and developers. Static HTML is just boring and these days the user wants to see some more eye candy from/on the web. By using and/or combining awesome web techniques like JavaScript (and of course, jQuery), CSS(3) and Flash (or Adobe Flex) this kind of interaction can be achieved. [Detail]

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

There are thousands of sites out there offering tips and tricks for using CSS. But how do you know where that information is coming from? Who says the people writing these “tips” know what they’re talking about? For all you know, it could be someone who has not clue what CSS even stands for, let alone how to use it effectively. [Detail]

Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches

We advocate using CSS whenever possible, and we often successed. Modern browsers have very good support for CSS — it’s certainly good enough for you to use CSS to control layout and presentation. Sometimes however, certain page elements will appear differently in different browsers. [Detail]

CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

With version three of CSS, many exciting features will be implemented. CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Many time-saving rules are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image ,multi-column layout, etc… [Detail]

Firefox 3.5 now available to download

Mozilla claims that version 3.5 is twice as fast as version 3.0, which appeared a year ago, and up to ten times as fast as version 2.0. It's also true that the browser of 2009 has a lot more to do, and the new version also includes enhanced support for video content within the browser rather than through plug-ins. This has been built in to improve stability and performance. [Download]

Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files. [Detail]

Five Best Free System Restore Tools

Backing up data is a great way to minimize losses after a computing catastrophe. But what about restoring your actual system right away? Here are the five most popular options for our readers. [Detail]

Turn-By-Turn Directions with the Google Maps API

In this tutorial, we will go through the process of creating a small widget that allows users to retrieve turn-by-turn directions to a specified location. We'll be using the Google Maps API, via JavaScript, to provide this rather advanced functionality. [Detail]