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Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up
Web 2.0 is beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you... More... 171 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... 60 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... 166 Comments
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Design Patterns: Download Buttons
In the era of Web 2.0 download-buttons are becoming more and more important. Grey and simple few years ago, now they’ve become bigger, more colourful and come in dozens of variations. As the... More... 10 Comments
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Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free
We’ve all been there: sitting in front of a new design layout, we realize that something doesn’t fit, is even disturbing, but we have no idea what it is and how we should improve the... More... 57 Comments
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David Leggett shares 5 Pixel Popping Techniques for Adobe Photoshop. Among them the 2 pixel divide effect, the pixel shadow and the shadow highlight.
The most memory efficient browser is Firefox 3.0. Not only trumps its older version, but every other popular offering on Windows. Sam Allen's findings.
Everyday Icons offers over 30 sets of beautiful patterns and icons for free download. Some of them are just sexy. 
Finetuna is a free service that allows you to upload an image, comment on it and share it with clients and co-workers. Firefox-extension is available as well. Useful.
Designers can design everything. For instance, packing tapes. Examples of pretty and clever packing tapes designs.
Euro 2008 icons is a collection of transparent .png-icons of each country up to resolution 600×600px. Germany plays in a semi-final.
Tiles Generator generates tiles, patterns and stripes on the fly.
Envelope icon set features a variety of different envelopes and folders of different sizes. Available only as .eps.
Hyphenator is a Javascript that implements sophisticated, automatic, client-side hyphenation. It inserts soft hyphens using an algorithm commonly known from LaTeX and Openoffice. Useful.
To comfort your visitors with a pleasing and intuitive composition use the Golden Ratio Calculator for your designs. More on this topic.
