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Now More Than Ever: 50 More Excellent Blog Designs
Designing blogs is easy. Designing blogs in a unique way is hard. Whatever blog engine you are using, there are literally thousands of templates available which you can apply directly, without any... More... 159 Comments
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Pixels Go Mad - The Celebration Of Pixel Art
Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, "pixelish" video ads and even pixelated tattoos. And... More... 155 Comments
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Best Of April 2008
Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll... More... 56 Comments
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Inspirational PDF Magazines
PDF magazines are a great promotional tool used by companies and collectives. They are quick to put together, can be attached to emails, or made available as free downloads. Numerous visual arts... More... 111 Comments
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Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design
Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That's not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different realm,... More... 145 Comments
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Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks
Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human's eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it's getting even harder: to... More... 92 Comments
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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.

Kotatsu is a simple html table generator. The tool lets you attach classes to cells in the same column easily.





