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25 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed
When it comes to coding editors, it's damn hard to a get a clear overview of all the benefits and functionalities different editors have to offer. However, in the end everybody needs one, so it's... More... 223 Comments
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Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas
Web form is often the main communication channel between visitors and site owners. Feedback is always important which is why it's necessary to make sure that web forms are easy to understand and... More... 106 Comments
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39 Creative Flash Designs
Flash is powerful. Using it properly, you can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite medium for usability... More... 83 Comments
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The Secrets Of Grunge Design
Shiny and glossy design elements are now officially outdated. Just like retro is becoming trendy again, grungy look appears to rapidly gain on popularity. And there is a damn good reason behind it. In... More... 191 Comments
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45 More Excellent Blog Designs
We, designers, are creative folks. And being creative, we permanently strive for inspiration — innovative approaches, crazy ideas, smashing concepts and, in general, unique designs which can help... More... 192 Comments
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Grunge Style In Modern Web Design
Most design trends come unexpectedly, evolve over time, become pointless and finally disappear from the design landscape. This holds particularly for web design, which is — just as every other... More... 181 Comments
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Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of
Although usability evangelists often consider Flash to be a usability nightmare, used properly, Flash can provide users with a rich and interactive interface which would be impossible otherwise. Today... More... 152 Comments
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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For... More... 394 Comments
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30 More Excellent Blog Designs
It's not hard to design a weblog, but it's getting harder when you try to achieve a unique weblog design. It doesn't matter what weblog-engine you are using — frequently used themes tend to become... More... 194 Comments
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65 Excellent Flash Designs
With Flash you can do more than just displaying videos. You can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite... More... 126 Comments
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170+ Expert Ideas From World’s Leading Developers
Few days ago we've published the first part of our survey "50 Designers x 6 Questions". We've presented the first three questions which we've asked and 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from... More... 64 Comments
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45 Excellent Blog Designs
Designing a blog is easy. Whatever engine you are using and whatever style you prefer, you'll always find a number of templates you can apply to your weblog in seconds. No styling is necessary, no... More... 314 Comments
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Crème de la crème of CSS: List of CSS Galleries
One can discuss whether numerous CSS-galleries challenge our creativity, however they can serve as a quite nice source for inspiration. The galleries of CSS-based designs showcase exemplary design... More... 56 Comments
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How Usable is Your Copy?
There is one element that should not be ignored as it alone can waste all the hard work you’ve put into crafting a beautiful UI. Copy.
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A gallery of rainbow photos.
Seek Attention jQuery plugin
The “seekAttention” plugin gracefully gets your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element.
Yahoo Design Stencil Kit
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.
Vector Magic
Converts bitmap images to vector images online. The results are delivered right away in EPS, SVG, PDF, and PNG formats
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