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Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorials
With the growing popularity of CMS, Wikis and Weblogs, WYSIWIG-editors lose their users. However, many of those editors offer many advantages, such as Integration of SVN, FTP Clients, Developer's... More... 63 Comments
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Fontin Sans: Freefont of the Week
We continue to collect high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. A nice found of the last week is Fontin Sans, a new sans... More... 6 Comments
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Free Design Templates
Free design templates don't have to be unattractive, inaccurate and boring. Some web-sites offer high quality templates for the best price you would ever get - for free. You can download Flash-based... More... 163 Comments
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83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
Sometimes it's just like searching for a needle in a haystack: if you've ever googled for free and quality Wordpress Themes, you know exactly what we're talking about. Most designers love to create... More... 1,076 Comments
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Free CSS Layouts And Templates
As a web-developer you don't have to re-invent the wheel all the time. If it just has to work, and has to be valid, and has to have a nice, visually appealing design hierarchy, you just can use... More... 83 Comments
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Where can I find textures and background images?
If you are a graphic designer, you probably know that textures and background images are essential for every project which is related to graphics or design. But where to search for quality images if you... More... 45 Comments
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Fertigo - Free Font Of The Week
We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search is... More... 8 Comments
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Christmas Wallpapers
Our recent article on the wallpapers for desktop and web-design has been making rounds for a while, so we decided to make another present for our readers. Christmas themes might not be everyone's... More... 39 Comments
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Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop & Web-Design
Creative wallpapers can serve as a nice source of inspiration. Particularly if you are having another creativity block, but don't really have enough time to take a walk or browse through Flickr pools.... More... 108 Comments
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More Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free
We continue to collect best freeware and stock symbols, buttons and icons. Here are few sets we've stumbled upon over the last few weeks. IconCool collects Icons for Windows XP. There are 16 icon... More... 63 Comments
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District Thin: Free Font Of The Week
We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search is... More... 13 Comments
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CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions
In Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms can be found everywhere. Every start-up tries to attract visitors’ attention, so web-forms are becoming more and more important for the success of any... More... 303 Comments
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Online Generators
One can discuss whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they don't challenge our creativity, but on the other hand they make our life easier and save our precious time. However, it... More... 170 Comments
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Tallys: Freefont of the week
We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search is... More... 4 Comments
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The “seekAttention” plugin gracefully gets your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element.
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This kit contains basic UI design templates (grids, placeholders, tabs, navigation, pagination etc.) and is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Photoshop (PNG). Useful for wireframing.


