Blogging is such a huge activity on the Internet and in fact Technorati the Internet search engine for blogs managed to track 112.8 million blogs in June 2008. Amazingly, the popular trend of blogging began a decade ago in 1999 and has stayed ever since. This large influx of bloggers, along with the inquisitive nature of people to explore and seek out another’s opinions or comments, explains why blogs are one of the most visited type of websites on the internet.
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Undoubtedly, content itself plays the biggest role in attracting visitors to follow a blog’s posts. People visit blogs to check out what the blogger has to comment about recent events, the current affairs, his or her personal story and the likes. Still, a good design can be how a blog first captivates people enough to be aware of its presence. In other cases, bloggers want to stand out from the vast number of blogs in the blogosphere. Making improvements to the content may be an abstract task, so the easier way to distinguish the blog from others is to work on the design.
When we talk about design, the key word is ‘impression‘. A visually attractive blog leaves behind a deep impression among people such that the person remembers it enough to actually revisit the site another time. This list of absolutely gorgeous-looking blogs below was compiled to provide you with some ideas on what you can do to come up with an attractive and well-designed blog.
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Initially silhouette was applied on portraits or pictorial which were be used for thin black card. But nowadays, we can easily find silhouette images in many media forms like artworks, illustration, photography, movies, graphic design or even fashion and fitness.
Modern designers use silhouette to create dramatic effect in many art works because silhouette emphasizes the outline and view of an object. The mystery of silhouette objects create a space for viewers’ imagination. Apple’s iPod advertisement is a successful example of using silhouette.
This week, we’ve managed to compiled 85 free high quality silhouette sets to speed up your designing job. Full list after jump.
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Drop-down menu (also known as pull-down menu) is an essential in most web design. It plays important role in the creation of an effective and user friendly website. It’s a good solution to trim down long menu that is overwhelming the screen space, getting them to display in a more organize category-sub category pattern.
In this article, we’d like to show you some of the best drop-down menu scripts we come to know. These drop-down menu varies from CSS only, CSS & Javascripts and menu that will work with your current Javascript library like jQuery, MooTools and Prototype. Full list after jump.
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Icons are everywhere in a website and their primary purpose of guiding and giving out information to visitors is a highly important one. Other than words themselves, these little graphics within a website that tells you how you can move to the next page, cancel a transaction, checkout the cart and the likes, basically the entire navigation. In a general sense, they act as symbols that allow easier and smoother communication between the webpage and the person interacting with it.
Depending on the web context, icons should be designed in a manner that are pleasing to the eyes, and most importantly, communicate what it is suppose to communicate. Here’s a showcase of 40 Free and Useful Icon Sets for your reference. Full list after jump.
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World of Twitter is a series of mosaic tile wallpaper created with thousands of Twitter avatars as background and Twitter logo as foreground. These mosaic artworks are generated with Mac’s MacOSaiX and further refined with Photoshop and resize to fit as wallpapers.
Each set comes in four different screen resolution. Feel free to download and use them as your desktop wallpapers. You might also want to check out the wallpaper gallery, or Blue Bird Twitter wallpapers I’ve previously created.
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There’s no hard and fast rule to achieve creative photography nor there are guidelines and steps to think out of the box. But one thing’s for sure, for those who create some of the most creative photos in the world, they have great passion for photography and some good few years of practices and experience.
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Here is a collection of some really creative photographs that truly inspires. Full list after jump.
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Table is an excellent way of presenting information, especially when a company wants to cite various prices for its services or products. For instance, some websites require users to sign up different levels of membership in order to access certain exclusive contents. They can present to users the distinct features that each level has to offer in a table-like format. Depending on the content, tables can be good for arranging many other kinds of data for deeper clarity other than pricing.
Creating a table is easy, but organizing data in an easy-to-understand tabular format together with an appealing layout is often challenging. Most of us have came across numerous tables on the net, and some of these can be rather plain-looking ones with no or minimal design whatsoever. However, we are about to show you that tables need not be such uninteresting and boring visual communication. It can be uniquely designed to suit your web content and stand out from the vast array of tables from websites all over the world. Also, we’ve put together a list of useful scripts to help you get the best of of table display.
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Editing, enhancing or having fun with photos in your iPhone is not a dream anymore as the latest 3Gs iPhone is now furnished with an auto-focus mechanism taking 3 megapixel images. A look around the internet will show you rather decent photos taken by iPhone as people quit printing photos – who will when with a few taps, they can share theirs instantly.
Plenty of photography apps are available for that cause, be it subtle enhancements or quirky modifications – It’s time to put your new iPhone on play and show off to your friends! In this article, we put together 20 Free Photography Apps and recommendation of some good paid apps. On top of that, we’ve also included 10 best Free Video Applications. Free apps after jump.
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As the world gets flatter each day, business and start-up are blooming like mushrooms. This can only lead to one possible situation – competitions are tightening up. There’s only one chance to give a good first impression to your potential clients. Business card speaks for a brand and they are a good and effective tool to impress and maintain relationship with clients. However if your business card is plain and dull, it can only tell so much of your company’s image.
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There are no rules for creative card design. Custom shapes & cuts, spot UV, matte finishing etc are all playing factors but the crucial part is always an eye-catching design, whether it’s graphical, typographical or just simple great ideas.
In today’s article, we proudly present a series of truly creative business card design together with tutorials and template that you can start with. Here’s a list of a collection of 100+ Creative Business Cards, Templates and Tutorials. Full list after jump.
Examples of Creative Business Card
Wood, Plastic and Metal. These unorthodox materials for a business card can draw susbtantial attention to anyone looking at it for the first time. The texture itself feels unique too, and all these can leave behind a good impression for the company.
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From the earliest video game such as Pong in 1972 to the recently released Halo Wars released this year, the video game industry has progressed rapidly in terms of graphics, interactivity and the likes. Today, computer video games are no longer limited to the young and tech savvy generation. People of all ages are coming to appreciate the entertainment value and appeal of a variety of video games ranging from platform to action adventure games.
Video games has evolved from mere 2D platform games to a couple of interesting game categories. Gathered from the more commonly played video games genres, it is our pleasure to present 80 Amazing Video Game Wallpapers across the different game consoles.
Fightings
Fighting games have been around early in the video gaming history. Some of the earliest fighting games include Street Fighter and King of Fighters. More likely than not, the mass appeal for fighting games stems from adrenaline rush a game player gets when he or she unleash a devastating finishing blow!
Street Fighter IV
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Designing a website has never been easier. These days, you really don’t have to be attend design courses nor Photoshop workshop to pick up a skills or two; everyone can be self-taught thanks to generous designers who are willing to share their techniques online.
Whether you are looking at creating a personal portfolio, corporate website, blog template or merely a simple personal websites, chances are somewhere out there there’s a Photoshop tutorial with a step to step guide showing you how to turn a blank canvas into a complete layout.
Here’s a round-up of some of The Best Photoshop tutorials related to website interface design. Full list after jump.
Business and Corporate Look
Trendy Business and Finance Layout
Whether you are a single entrepreneur involved in financing and accounting or a member of school of business, you will definitely love the following layout.
Corporate Business Layout
Make a clean corporate style layout for your business.
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(Mac only) Blogo is by far one of the easiest and most complete desktop blogging application we’ve seen. Really! It’s simple interface allows you to effortlessly post, preview and publish a blog post. Blogo supports these following blogging platform: WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla and Expression Engine as well as Twitter.
And here’s what we thought really distinguish Blogo from the rest of the desktop blogging applications.
- Offline mode – All tools are functional even if you are writing without an Internet connection.
- Microblogging supported – Follow friends or even Twitter status when you have a new article.
- WordPress custom field- It’s rare to find a desktop blogging application that allows you to add WordPress custom field. Blogo is probably the only one.
Blogo in fullscreen mode.
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They say a picture speaks a thousand words, and that is definitely true when it come logo design. A well-thought logo design can effectively use a simple icon to leave a deep enough impression for the public. Most logos communicate ideas to people, for instance the kind of quality services a company can provide for its customers. A memorable logo is always a plus if one wants to ensure first-time visitors to their websites will return in future.
While there’s no easy answer as to what kind of logo design is the most effective and impressionable, it is probably intuitive to assume that creatively designed logos are more likely to stand out. However, that does not necessary mean that a logo has to be very elaborated. A simple logo with an innovative play of wordings can be as intriguing as a aesthetically pleasing logo. This is the beauty of logo designs.
Here is a compilation of 80 creative logos of different variety, all categorized under these groups: Wordmark, Symbolic, and Combined mark. Enjoy!
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Unlike the serif font family, these hand drawn fonts looked less serious but they tend to give and convey strong human touch wherever they are applied. Hand-drawn fonts are hard to stand on it’s own, but they are utmost perfect for these following situations:
- Hand drawn websites
If you are inspired to give your new web design a sketchy or hand-drawn look and feel, these fonts are without a doubt the perfect math to the layout. Click here for more examples of Hand-drawn style websites.
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- Guides and instructions
Whether its a storyboard, an online guide & tutorial or merely an attempt to help user understand an illustration better, arrow, pointer and text guide gets the job done seamlessly. In terms of text, typography that mimics human writing tend to make reading and understanding things easier. Here’s a good example:
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- Comic and dialogues
You don’t need Marvel to tell you Helvetica won’t fit for the text in drawing and illustrations.
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