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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... 172 Comments
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Printing the Web: Solutions and Techniques
Users don't read, they scan. In fact, after many years, reading online still didn't manage to assert itself against reading offline. Therefore long articles are usually printed out and read on paper.... More... 56 Comments
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Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
As a vector-based drawing program Adobe Illustrator has nowadays become the standard for illustration design. This tendency can be noticed in the Web as well as in Print Design. Few weeks ago we've... More... 95 Comments
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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don't have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design... More... 922 Comments
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White Space and Simplicity: An Overview
Last year we've seen a lot of simple, even minimalistic designs, which impress not with the amount of presented information but with the way the information is actually presented. Complex layouts are... More... 28 Comments
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Hand-Picked Photoshop Tutorials
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for designing various visual elements one can use for web-pages. However, sometimes it's important to know what to do in order to achieve some effects. In such cases,... More... 54 Comments
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Henry Jones presents 400 High Quality Patterns — a collection of patterns of all shapes, sizes, and color. Some are images, and some are pattern files for Photoshop and Illustrator.
Facebook and YouTube Icons is a free set of fresh Leopard-optimized Facebook and YouTube icons (512×512px). Formats: .icns, iContainer.
How many blogs give link credit? Phrases like “via Boing Boing” and “via Instapundit” are ubiquitous in the blogosphere. But this is far from universal. Simon Owens knows.
WordPress Function List is a quick cheat sheet and a reference guide to expedite WordPress theme development.
Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and JavaScript basics.
Eye Movement Patterns Study presents results of a recent research on single and dual-column web pages, encouraging 2-column presentation for articles published online. [via]
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.
