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A look at the trend towards specialty themes and the best ones available for purchase.
An interview with expert graphic designer Chris Spooner.
A collection of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials that show you exactly what needs to be done in order to create professional using which tool and option.
In this post, you’ll find 28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet.
Adobe Photoshop tutorials for creating amazing backgrounds and abstract art
There is so much you can do when creating your own theme we couldn't nearly cover it all. So, we're going to look at how themes are structured, creation of the core files and splitting up that index.html file.
Pixel by painstakingly crafted pixel, artists create masterpieces styled as early video game art. Let's take a look at some of the top pixel art studios and artists that will leave your mouth dripping with wet little squares. Then we'll review a wid
A categorized collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools.

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As new advancements in mobile phone technology continue to appear, so do the mobile phone tutorials. As these new cell phones are released many tutorial writers become inspired to recreate these beautiful new phones in Photoshop and Illustrator
Ok, today we are going to look at how to make grunge / worn style type to use in your art. The process is actually quite simple, and you can get endless variations
If you're a follower of CSS Globe, you'll enjoy getting to know more about Alen.
How do you know if your blog theme is getting the job done?
Check out these awesome retro-style illustrator brushes complete with corner elements.

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Making a photograph of a person look amazing adds an extra dimension of professionalism to your design. These photoshop body enhancement tutorials will help you transform your people pictures to stunning models in next to no time. Most techniques in
25 essential articles for anyone new to WordPress or simply looking to improve their understanding of the platform.
In the showcase below we present 40 creative out-of-the-box layouts which break the boring structure of typical 2- and 3-columned, boxed layouts. We have collected pure CSS-designs, CSS+JavaScript-layouts as well as Flash-designs. Most designs prese
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a vector lightsaber. You will use some simple shapes, blends, and gradients in this intermediate tutorial.

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Over the past year I’ve worked on improving the overall quality of leads from my portfolio site and I have a few thoughts that I’d like to share (and I’d love to get some feedback from other designers). I’m personally still a work in progress, so th
At FreelanceFolder, we’ve been on a sort of quest to find the ‘holy-grail’ — A combination of web apps that completely fulfills a business owner’s needs without breaking the bank or over complicating things. We’ve organized our findings into the fol
What is more useful than simple, time-saving and handy tools you can use in the development process? Here is a roundup of 15 tools, services and ad-ons that is worth your time.
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Why have websites all morphed into the pseudo-blog format. What web designers can do to make their sites look different than the CMS they run on.
When you’re freelancing for a living, you’re trading time for money – so you want to make sure that every hour is time well spent.
The browser has been rumored for a very long time, and on the surface sounds like a great idea, but do we really need another web browser?
A round-up of awe-inspiring CSS techniques.