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- 2/6/2012

News articles and blog posts about color, themes, layouts, and design inspiration.

25 Websites with Awesome Backgrounds

Feb 06, 2012 - In recent years the use of large background photos and illustrations has become increasingly common in web design. In some cases the background image is the most distinct feature of the design. There are all kinds of different backgrounds that can be used, like nature photos, nature [...]


Illustrated History of Web Forms

Feb 06, 2012 - How many forms are filled out each day across the web? Billions of them, for sure. From small household blogs to government portals, it’s hard to imagine a website not having at least one form. And this comes naturally, since forms are the quickest way of having users: • subscribe for a [...]


Valentine Striped Themed Vector Pattern

Feb 06, 2012 - A simple striped valentines themed seamless Vector Pattern. The pattern is simple and is to be used within your valentines last minuet designs and for your future design projects, hope you can put the freebie to good use.   What's … →/span


How To Create a Cool Vector Yeti Character in Illustrator

Feb 06, 2012 - Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cool vector Yeti character. We’ll use as many basic shapes as possible to achieve that quirky style of illustration, then bring the character to life with a palette of cold colours. Despite the use of basic shapes this tutorial [...]


3 Glaring Signs That Cry Out for a Website Redesign

Feb 05, 2012 - The thought of redesigning and revamping a website can be scary for most web designers. The thought of all the work and effort to design their website all over again can be frightening, more so are the countless review cycles, opinions from numerous stakeholders, comments from site visitors, and [...]


Webmaster Tools Markup Validation Tool

Feb 03, 2012 - pEarlier this week, folks using their Bing Webmaster Tools would have noticed a new tool slipped into the mix.  On the "Crawl" tab, you can now find a link to the Markup Validation Tool.  This tool is a great way to understand if the added code is actually going to be readable, as [...]


Price Adjustment Tool and Envato Elite Updates

Feb 03, 2012 - Last year we unveiled our Envato Elite program which has proven to be a very successful and rather fun addition to Envato community life. In that time we’ve passed 160 Elite authors on the marketplaces and our very first Power Elite author. This is pretty spectacular and has us all rather [...]


First Steps in Creating a Web Design Business

Feb 02, 2012 - You don’t like working for others and wish others worked for you? Are you also attracted to the idea of working with lots of people and multiple personalities? Then going for your own design company is something you might want to look into. Starting a web design business might seem something [...]


50 Free Photoshop Business Card Templates

Feb 02, 2012 - Business card is one of the must to have things that you need to promote your goods or services no matter how small your business is. A business card is a small piece of paper that contains your name, contact number, address and other official details that can help your customers avail your [...]


6 Free PDF eBooks on Typography

Feb 01, 2012 - As typography is becoming essential part of designs, so now it’s important to learn more about typography skills too. Web is full of free content to learn typography, but here i am listing 6 free PDF ebooks which should help you power up your typography skills. These free typography ebooks [...]





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