• Carsonified » Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers – Part 2

  This is my second article about about advanced Photoshop techniques for web designers. In case you missed my previous article, we have already covered buttons, navigation, shadows and a few other useful techniques. In this article we look at how to create fold and light Effects as well as 3D elements. This is going to be a long tutorial so grab your favorite biscuits and cup of tea and let’s get started!

• How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3 | Spyre Studios

  More and more we see people using horizontal sliding panels on their websites. And they usually look very nice! Some will put a contact or login form in there, others will put some information about them and their website, or even things like a tag cloud or social networking buttons.

• 28 Free High Quality Fonts to Boost Your Typography | Web Design Ledger

  Choosing the right typeface is an important step in any design process. So it’s a good idea to have a selection of high quality fonts in your library. In this post, I’ve listed the best of the best fonts that will help take your designs to another level from a typography standpoint.

• Image Fade Revisited | jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts

  This episode is revisiting the image cross fade effect, in particular Dragon Interactive has a beautiful little transition for their navigation that some readers have been requesting. Greg Johnson takes it one step further to implement this method using jQuery and the methods shown here.

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• Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood – Nettuts+

  Cascading Style Sheets is a presentational style sheet language. In that sense, it does not have a lot of the functionality that many developers want to satisfy their programmer instincts. Today, we're going to go over how to supercharge your CSS by putting some PHP under the hood.

• 16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials | Design Shard

  I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below.

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• PSD To HTML: Web Analytics Tools – Analyzing The Traffic On Web

  Temperature is measured by a thermometer; height or length is measured by a scale, Readership of a print medium is analyzed by readership surveys, Television viewership is gathered by Television Rating Points (TRPs) and Radio Listenership is estimated by Radio Rating Points (RRPs). Till now, there was no instrument or tool to collect or measure the internet data. Web analytics are special tools designed to understand and optimize the usage of the web world. These tools highlight the actual utilization of your website by the visitors.

• 22 Beautiful jQuery Plugins for Web Designers | Tutorial9

  This collection of jQuery plugins might come in handy next time you’re building a site. This post highlights some of the more aesthetic plugins online that can add a spark of creativity into your web design.

• 250+ Resources to Help You Become a CSS Expert | Webdesigner Depot

  CSS is the second-most-important thing you can master when it comes to web design, right after HTML.

  And the capabilities of CSS can be staggering (especially with the new CSS3 standard already making appearances in some browsers).

  If you can imagine it, it’s likely someone has already figured out how to do it with CSS.

• Taming Advanced CSS Selectors | CSS | Smashing Magazine

  CSS is one of the most powerful tools that is available to web designers (if not the most powerful). With it we can completely transform the look of a website in just a couple of minutes, and without even having to touch the markup. But despite the fact that we are all well aware of its usefulness, CSS selectors are still not used to their full potential and we sometimes have the tendency to litter our HTML with excessive and unnecessary classes and ids, divs and spans.

• 35+ Essential Web Design Resources on Best Practice, Tips and Techniques | tripwire magazine

  I have previously created large lists of tutorials on how to create web designs fx. 160+ Mega Web Design Tutorial Roundup and Essential Web Designers Guide on PSD to HTML/CSS. While articles like these are clearly focussed on the techniques needed for creating the design in fx. Photoshop and make it ready for being sliced up and implemented there are some really key aspects completely missing. If you’re serious about web design you need to familiarize yourself with Industry Best Practice and experience of what is working in real life and what is not.

• 50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format : Speckyboy Design Magazine

  When a designer releases a free high quality icon set, we are all delighted and grateful. And when a designer releases an icon set accompanied by the .psd files we are ecstatic. An icon set may at times be limited to your requirements, and the chance to extend the icon set, with the use of a .psd file is always helpful.

• AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin | CSS-Tricks

  Here on CSS-Tricks, I’ve created a number of different sliders. Three, in fact. A “featured content” slider, a “start/stop slider“, and “moving boxes“. Each of them had some cool interesting feature that I needed to build at the time. All were well-received, but as is the case with these things, people want them to do X, Y, and Z in addition to what they already did.

• 11 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area

  As we continued to emphasize the security of your WordPress admin panel due to the recent attack on our site, we have compiled a fully detailed article that will highlight some of the must have security measures for your WordPress Admin Area.

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• 27 Useful Logo Design Tutorials and Tips | Web Design Ledger

  I’m a web designer, but on a number of occasions I have been asked to design a logo as part of a web design project. I normally take on the task, but I don’t consider myself a logo design expert by any means. I know I have a lot to learn about this particular skill. If you’re like me and think you could learn more about logo design, then here are some very useful tutorials for you.

• 7 WordPress Customizations – Blog.PDWD.net

  Just because your site is powered by WordPress, that doesn’t mean it should look like a blog! I’m going to show you a few ways to make your WP powered site look more like a static website.

• Designers’Couch: What Designers Can do to be Greener

  I was looking for ways in which Designers'Couch can assist in being greener and educating our members on same. I came across "One Hundred & One Things Designers Can Do to Save the Earth" which is an exhaustive list of things designers can do to reduce carbon footprint. I went through the list and selected the easiest ones to do and added a few of my own.

• How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers | Webdesigner Depot

  We designers tend to get frustrated with developers when they take liberties with our work.

  But we have to understand they’re not entirely at fault.

  Put yourself in their shoes: imagine what it’s like opening a Photoshop file (PSD), only to find a jumble of poorly labeled layers and folders, plus a heap of unchecked hidden layers and other half-baked ideas that didn’t make it to fruition.

• 70 Must-Have CSS3 and HTML5 Tutorials and Resources | Web Resources | WebAppers

  CSS3 and HTML 5 are capable of revolutionizing the way we design websites. Both include so many new features and functions that it can be hard to wrap your head around them at times. The inclusion of native support for things like rounded corners and multi-column layouts are just the tip of the ice berg.

• 90 New And High Quality Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Inspiration, Resources and Tools

  I am continuing my research and this time I thought I’ve never done Photoshop layout tutorial roundup and wanted to become better in this matter. One of the reasons I didn’t make this kind of list, because I saw there are already many of similar articles.

• 30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners – Nettuts+

  PHP is the most widely-used language for programming on the web. Here are thirty best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals.

• 6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography – Nettuts+

  Typography on the web is anything but simple, and for many, it is a troubling mystery. Today, we're going to review six ways that web designers and developers can improve the typography of the sites they create.

• 65 Must-Know CSS Strategies and Tutorials – Webitect

  Often times we only learn the CSS strategies we need to as we go through new projects. However, we should study new strategies in our spare time as well. This way, we can discover new and more efficient methods of getting things done for the future.

• Remove elements from a photo in Photoshop CS4

  Let’s face it: no matter how carefully you try to compose your image, in some photos there’s something in the shot that just has to go! In this tutorial, we’ll review some key techniques for removing elements from a photograph using cover-up layers and the new live brush preview for the Clone Stamp in Photoshop CS4.

• 30+ Well Designed Online Shopping Carts

  There are more and more online stores within the internet. You can build an online shopping cart easily by using open source ecommerce shopping cart solution. After all, you just need to customize the look and feel of the website.

• CSS3 rounded corners for every browser? An alternative quick solution without headache

  In the last weeks I frequently received a question about how to use CSS3 border-radius property to draw HTML elements with rounded corners in Internet Explorer. How you know CSS3 border-radius property is natively supported in Safari, Firefox and Chrome but for some mysterious reason this property is not supported in Internet Explorer.

• 12 CSS Tools and Tutorials for Beautiful Web Typography | Web Design Ledger

  Achieving beautiful typography with CSS on the web is no easy feat, and there are many limitations to what can done with type on the web. However, there are generous people out there that have taken the time to build tools and write tutorials to help you overcome these limitations and create websites with beautiful typography.

• 40 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs | Fonts | instantShift

  Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

• 15 Exceptionally Useful Resources for WordPress Theme Designers | Vandelay Design Blog

  One of the great benefits of designing and developing for WordPress is the amount of quality resources that are available from others in the WordPress community. Many times these resources can wind up saving you time in your own development. The only problem is that there are so many resources available that it is difficult to know about them all and sometimes to find what you are looking for.

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• 10 Useful resources for web designers and developers

  Today I want to present you a selection of some useful resources for web designers and developers. This list contains in particular some awesome fonts, a simple PHP Content Management System, a JavaScript Cart, a PHP application for job boards, a weekly calendar (Google Calendar like, made with jQuery), an open source knowledge base application and interesting links with jQuery and MooTools plugins.

• 16 JavaScript Graph Resources For Creating Stylish Chart

  If you lay out the data visually to a user it is easy to understand and digest which otherwise is a very complicated information. Adding your data in your website in a graphical form helps users to understand the information clearly and quickly. There are several ways to present a data in a web page. We here on this blog post is focusing on 16 Excellent JavaScript graph tools for Creating a Stylish chart.

• 5 Sliding Content Techniques, Examples & jQuery How to’s | Noupe

  The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content. Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways.

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• 7 Open Source And Free URL Shortener Scripts To Create Your Own

  URL shortening services, with the popularity of Twitter, has a very wide usage, probably more than anyone had expected few years ago.

  These services not only makes URLs shorter but more readable & trackable. Also, some offer features like password-protecting, custom URLs & more.

• WordPress › WP Dummy Content « WordPress Plugins

  One pain of theme development is setting up all the pages and blog posts in order for you to see how your site will look � one by one by one.
  No more!

• 45+ CSS Grid Systems, Layout Generators and Tutorials that every Designer should know | tripwire magazine

  In this article tripwire magazine presents a large collection of CSS Grid Systems, online generators and tutorial on how to use these in your design. Using a CSS Grid System is really worth considering if you’re planning to create a complex magazine web design. This article will give you the overview and tools you need to get started.

• Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine

  CSS is one of the most basic building blocks of modern web design. It creates the structure and style that surrounds your content and is capable of making your site a joy to use or a pain in the neck. Mastering CSS is one of the most important things a web designer can do, and has really become an essential criteria for being a successful designer.

• 10+ JQuery tutorials for working with HTML forms

  Forms are definitely one of the most important part of a website, because it is used for interaction between you and your readers. Among other tools, JQuery can help you to enhance your html forms functionality.

• 25 Detailed Tutorials for Coding Up Your Web Designs

  One of the best ways to get into web design is to learn the process of transforming your Photoshop concept into a fully working coded website. Luckily there are various handy tutorials from across the web that document the process of writing a site with HTML and CSS in a step by step guide. This post pulls together the best PSD to HTML conversion tutorials to help you along your way to becoming a CSS master.

• Awesome Image-Attachment Recipes for WordPress

  Recently, I found myself on the front lines of WordPress’ somewhat complicated Media-Library system. The site that I was developing required a rather elaborate system of retrieving and displaying image attachments. So, using the latest version of WordPress (2.8.3 at the time), I found myself experimenting with as many template tags and custom functions as I could find.

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• 20 Tools For The Freelance Designer On A Shoestring Budget | Spyre Studios

  I
  n your career as a freelance designer you’ll probably use tens, if not hundreds, of different tools to perform all the tasks needed to run your business. From image editors to accounting apps to text editors. There’s no way I could list all the tools available in one post, and if I did they would range from being completely free to costing an arm and a leg. So I thought I’d focus on the least expensive ones.

• 70+ Examples of Product Comparison Tables in Web Design

  The range of functioning business models available for the sale of virtual goods is expanding rapidly. For the providers of digital goods, this means convincing the consumer of the price/performance ratio.

• Finding Fonts: Free and Premium Resources | Fuel Your Creativity

  And now for the adventurous story of a tiny little fish, searching through the great big sea…wait, that’s Finding Nemo, this is Finding Fonts, not exactly the same thing… And now for something, completely different. For a while now, we have had a fondness for fonts. From the perspectives of a designer and a writer, fonts play a very important role in presenting what we have to say and representing the tone and theme of the piece in which they are included.

• ImageCaption – a MooTools Plugin for Auto-Captioning Images

  ImageCaption is a MooTools 1.2+ plugin for easily adding figure captions to image elements on a web page. It is very customizable and painless to style.

  This plugin follows (to the best of my abilities) standard MooTools coding style/format and documentation (see below, in the section More Information). This plugin is based on a MooTools tutorial I wrote a while back, called "How to Auto Caption Images Using MooTools".

• 50 Really High Quality Photoshop Navigation Menu Tutorials | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Inspiration, Resources and Tools

  While waiting our SEO series to come out, I showcased for you pretty huge and comprehensive navigation, menu and button tutorial article. All of those tutorials are selected carefully just featuring here, the most high quality ones.

• The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do’s and Don’ts | Noupe

  Of all the elements of web design and coding, htaccess can be one of the most intimidating. After all, it’s an incredibly powerful tool and one that has the potential to completely break your site if you’re not careful.

• 5 CSS3 Design Enhancements That You Can Use Today | Webdesigner Depot

  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the language of Web design, and the next generation of CSS design properties are just chomping at the bit to be released.
  Are you eager to start using them, but don’t know where to start?

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• 200+ free beautiful Photoshop patterns hand-picked from DeviantArt – FrancescoMugnai.com

  200+ free beautiful Photoshop patterns hand-picked from DeviantArt

• 10 Most Downloaded WordPress Plugins of All Time | Best Design Options

  WordPress Plugins make blogging easier for all of us who have chosen WordPress as our CMS or content management system. Especially for people who are not good at coding, it would be impossible to add the features or interface that we want for our WordPress-powered site both front-end and back-end without these plugins.

• Carsonified » How to Make Your Web Design Stand out from the Crowd

  All web designers want their work to stand out from the crowd … but what does that take?
  In this post I’ll pick a few sites I think pack a punch and I’ll explain why.

• 77 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters | Tutorials | instantShift

  When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

• WordPress plugin: Track subscriber inbound traffic in Google Analytics / Brian Cray’s Blog

  I can’t directly attribute traffic to my subscribers because they aren’t segmented in my web analytics.
  Why? Subscribers coming from offline applications get categorized under “(direct) ((none))” in Google Analytics. I can’t simply attribute “(direct) ((none))” to only subscriber traffic because “(direct) ((none))” could include browser bookmarks, direct URL entry, or other apps (such as Twitter apps).

• Creating Flash Charts From Google Spreadsheets – Nettuts+

  With Google docs gaining popularity, it is anticipated that in the near future there will be a great demand for connecting it to external systems for various purposes such as data interchange, data visualization, etc. In this article, I will show you how to connect Flash based charts (FusionCharts) to Google Spreadsheets and plot live data using JavaScript.

• Starkers: The completely naked theme for WordPress

  Starkers is a bare-bones WordPress theme created to act as a starting point for the theme designer.

• 100 Free online seo tools | web-design | articles

  Search engine optimization (SEO) is most important factor, that all webmasters must improve everyday. Here is free 100 Search engine optimization online tools,such as Keyword density tools, Search Engine Keyword Position tools, Indexed pages tools, Keyword Suggestions tools and many others.

• 11 Fresh & Unconventional Niche WordPress Themes | Inspired Magazine

  We’re completely overwhelmed by a few trends overused in lots of WordPress themes (yes, Top Content Carousel, I’m looking at ya!) so we thought to dig out some fresh and original layouts you could customize for your projects without looking common.

• Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs | Fonts | Smashing Magazine

  Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

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• Free Adobe Tutorials | Photoshop CS4 | Website Design | Layers Magazine

  Web design is one of those areas that, when done right, you just know it. The finished site looks refined and well done—it pops! There are a number of ways that you can achieve this by polishing off your design in Photoshop. Here we look at some of the ways to do just that.

• 20 Very Clever Logo Designs | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver

  I thought that some logo design inspiration was in order, as we haven’t posted anything along the logo lines in a while. I have made a compilation of 20 extremely clever logos. The trick is to look into the logos and see what they are based on, then try and work out what the hidden message is. An example would be the Amazon logo. Many people think the arrow underneath it is a smiley face, when infact it is pointing from the a to the z.

• 33 Newly Fresh Web Design Layout Tutorials | Naldz Graphics

  Learning how to create your own web design layout could be more easier if you have lots of tutorial options. That’s why I collected the newest photoshop tutorials on creating web themes and layouts to improve your knowledge and skills on web design. These list of tutorials is more on beginners and intermediate level so i guess it will not be too hard for you to understand the step by step procedure as you go along with the tutorials.

• Portfolio Themes in WordPress, Examples and Tutorials « WPCrowd

  Portfolio Themes in WordPress, Examples and Tutorials

• Evolution of WordPress User Interface (2003 – 2009)

  WordPress we see now is the product of the love the community has provided it with. Without the suggestions, tips, and new ideas of the valued users, and the hard work of WordPress staff implementing these ideas, it would never be where it is.

• jCryption – JavaScript data encryption

  In short words jCryption is a javascript HTML-Form encryption plugin, which encrypts the POST/GET-Data that will be sent when you submit a form.
  It uses the Multiple-precision and Barrett modular reduction libraries for the calculations and jQuery for the rest.

• Handy CSS Debug Snippet – CSS – Snipplr

  Great little debuging snippet found while browsing. The code adds different coloured borders to the assets depending on its level. Leave commented out if not needed.

• 2 Great Photo Tips to Digitally Enlarge a Picture Without Ruining Picture Quality

  Up-scaling, upsizing or digitally increasing the size of a picture is perhaps less of a requirement than the opposite i.e. cropping. The basic nature of a photo makes any change in its natural dimensions an ill advised task. As any guy who has dabbled with graphic tools will tell you, enlarging a raster or bitmapped image from its natural size results in blurring and fuzziness. In general, a loss in quality. But sometimes, the discouraged becomes the required.

• 23+ Excellent Tutorials For WordPress Theme Developers

  WordPress is undoubtedly an amazing publishing platform. You can get started as quickly as with few clicks or you can customize it to any level you want. The internet is filled with good quality tutorials on customizing every aspect of WordPress.

• 30 Tutorials Combining Both WordPress and jQuery : Speckyboy Design Magazine

  ake the most popular CMS, WordPress, and then take the easiest and most versatile of Javscript libraries, jQuery, and you have a match made in heaven. Implementing jQuery within WordPress is a lot easier than you would think, all you need is a little support from the huge WP community and a little patience, and you are good to go. Below you will find 30 Tutorials Combining both WordPress and jQuery.

• ZURB – CSS Deconstruction: Atebits

  We love CSS – kind of a lot. We love it so much that we write a lot about it — including super awesome buttons, inline form labels with pizazz, tricks to bring out depth in your design and more. Now we could be like a lot of sites and just point you to some cool CSS, gallery style…but at ZURB we go the extra mile.

• 30 More Helpful Video Tutorials For Web Developers – Nettuts+

  You can find a good tutorial on just about any subject of web development, but great video tutorials are much less common. Here are a few great tutorials that any developer can use to brush up on various topics like iPhone development, frameworks, jQuery, CSS and more.

• Convert HTML to PDF with Full CSS Support, an OpenSource Alternative Based on Webkit | BeeBole

  As a background task for our web application BeeBole, I was looking for an easy and efficient way to produce PDF documents without being stuck with postscript like syntax or being feature limited in a design point of view.

• Ways and Links to improve the Typography of your WordPress site | styl.eti.me

  ILove Typography! I Love WordPress too although I’m not really very good at either so need help!
  On my search for tweaking and improving this site I found a few links to CSS or plugins that may help improve your site too:

• Getting past first base… Using WordPress as a CMS

  With so many solutions out there for managing your website, you may wonder “Why would I use WordPress as a CMS when it wasn’t intended to be so?” There is no doubt that WordPress is primarily intended for blog development, but that’s not all it can do.

• How to use Firebug for CSS — kristarella.com

  Firebug is one of the reasons that I changed to Firefox (from Camino, a faster, less memory intensive browser). It is so handy for checking under the hood of websites and anyone who does anything with CSS should know how to use it!

• Speeding up Google Analytics load times with a jQuery plugin | Geekology

  Google Analytics is a great web analytics tool to track Visitor, Traffic Source and Content statistics for free.

• 25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins | Vandelay Design Blog

  jQuery image galleries and sliders are very common on portfolio sites and are also useful for any other type of site for displaying images and photos. Fortunately, adding a jQuery gallery does not have to be difficult, even if you don’t have much experience with JavaScript and jQuery. In this post we’ll see tutorials and plugins that can provide you with the resources that you need to get a gallery of slider on your site.

• 23 Excellent Examples of How to Design Online Stores – Inspect Element

  Online stores can often be confusing and hard to use which can turn potential customers away. There are some very simple things you can do to keep your users focused on your site. Here are some great examples of sites doing just that.

• 50 Gorgeous Flash Websites You Definitely Should See | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Inspiration, Resources and Tools

  Oh well, it is time for yet another inspirational post, this time I am featuring really creative and inspiring flash websites. Such websites never stop to surprise, because really there are almost no limitations, you can do and create everything there with action-script, animation, include videos and also create really interactive designs or even games!

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• 40 (NEW) High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials | Noupe

  popular graphic editing program used extensively. There is one simple reason for that. Photoshop is easy to learn and offer a variety of advanced tools to optimize and emphasize some impressive results.

• Nicer Navigation with CSS Transitions – New Media Campaigns

  Newer versions of Apple's Safari web browser (and Google Chrome, which is also based on Webkit) support a vendor-specific implementation of the CSS3 Transition property. CSS Transitions are a very powerful effect that can eliminate the use of JavaScript for many common effects.

• 10 Advance MooTools Scripts to Outshine your Industry | Web Designer Online

  Following my previous JavaScript article on jQuery – 10 Advance jQuery Scripts to take Your Website to the Next Level – Where I showcased some awesome jQuery scripts, I thought it good to do the same with MooTools.

• Best Commercial WordPress Plugins: Ultimate Review List

  Commercial WordPress plugins offer lots of great benefits over free plugins such as great support and better functionality. Below is a review list of all the best premium plugins that are available for WordPress.

• In-Field Labels: A Better Way + jQuery Plugin | Fuel Your Coding

  Last week I was dealing with a unique problem. I needed to set focus to a username field, but the field had an in-field label. The script was set to clear out the helper text (label) when the user entered the field.

• The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start

  I have plenty of people contacting me to ask to refer to some SEO basics tutorials and guides. So I decided to start a post inviting everyone to share their favorite resources to start learning SEO.

• Digital Arts – Features – Repeat pattern swatches

  Patterns are everywhere. Look around and you’ll probably see one right now. It might be a pattern on a tie, a shirt, pants, a paper cup, bathroom tiles, an umbrella, on a bag, a sofa, wrapping paper… the list goes on and on.

• How to Create Seamless Watermark Patterns – Vectortuts+

  Watermarks play an important role in protecting your artwork. Generally, we do not give much attention towards a watermark’s appearance and use a text or a Logo to get the job done. A well designed and properly executed watermark can really protect the artwork without actually affecting its appearance.

• Sexy Music Album Overlays · Komodo Media

  It’s the social web now. We share everything, from our musical tastes, to the bacon avocado burger we ate for breakfast , to the very funny things we say and do. With amazing APIs such as the ones offered by Last.fm, Twitter, Flickr and more, we can now put them all on our sites, showing close to real-time updates of the music we are listening to, conversations we are having, and the things we are seeing.

• Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements | CSS | Smashing Magazine

  CSS is one of the most important building blocks of modern web design. Standards demand the use of CSS for formatting and styling pages, and with good reason. It’s lighter-weight and capable of much more than older methods like tables.

• 50+ Top Free Icon Resources and Icon Sets for Web Designers | tripwire magazine

  Images talk a lot more than words do, and as Icons are images specifically designed to deliver a message they are simply great at it. For that reason Icons can be really handsome when you’re designing a web site or a blog and can kick start or support the creative process.

• A Guide on Advanced Logging and Benchmarking with FirePHP

  In a previous article, we discussed FirePHP’s basic logging functions for debugging your PHP web applications. Although–as we have seen–it can be used for debugging purposes, its main utility is to log information about your web apps, and it does a terrific job in that regard.

• Smoke Brush Set – Psdtuts+

  antastic collection of coloured Smoke art pictures by Graham Jeffery’s now in a photoshop brush pack.

• 60+ Amazing Examples Of Illustrative Web Designs With Overview | Inspiration | instantShift

  There is a parallel world where it’s possible to find fantastic and talented friends, breathtaking landscapes and incredible adventures. This place is our fantasy, the main fuel for amazing web and graphic works.

• Color Scheming for Designers | styl.eti.me

  Before I start working on a website I will always ensure that I have a color scheme to work with. This is important for not only aesthetic reasons but also for creating a wonderful sense of consistency and familiarity to the website.

• A third way to write and validate forms – HTML5 | cssgallery.info

  After writing an accessible form in XHTML and validating it with a PHP server side script & after that with a Mootools client-side script, I write today about a third way of approaching the subject – using future-to-come HTML5

• 36 Beautiful and “NEW” Free WordPress Themes | Dzine Blog

  You can never have a too wide choice of templates for your blog, especially if you’re the experimenting type,Free Themes don’t have to be ugly, cluttered,and boring, Some Designers offer high quality WordPress Themes for free you can use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions.

• Making Hyperlink Icons with CSS

  You have often seen hyperlinks that have little icons beside them to let you know where they link to. In this tutorial we will show how to handle this using only CSS.

• Javascript For Designers: Getting on Your Feet Fast | Noupe

  Web designers are a special breed – we’re one of a small group of professionals that actively seeks out to improve ourselves and our craft through any means possible. This generally means on our own, from each other, and through an awful lot of ‘guess, test and revise.’ Web design isn’t for the faint of heart or those with any fear of failure.

• Easy Slider 1.7 – Numeric Navigation jQuery Slider | Css Globe

  I got a lot of emails and feedback about my easySlider plugin, thank you all for that. However, I have to apologize to all of you who sent emails asking for a little help with implementation or small bug fixes. I simply don't have the time to answer all of your emails. I wish I do.

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