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Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration – #11

A series of web design inspiration collection published every week. We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration

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written by Waheed Akhtar on 20. March 2010

Icon Library >> Illustrating a business briefcase in Windows 7 style

How to make a beautiful briefcase to make your applications even more appealing

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written by icon library on 19. March 2010

10 Reasons why you Choose PixelCrayons Markup Services

Though there are so many markup service providers in the market but PixelCrayons has emerged as a market leader due to its commitment and dedication towards quality and customer support.

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written by Manish Chauhan on 19. March 2010

Learn how to design a dark business layout

In this tutorial you will learn how to design a sleek black business layout.

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written by Razvan on 19. March 2010

Interview with Cerven Cotter of pixeldeath

Once again we are back with another intriguing interview, with a certified cool dude from the design community! Seriously, why are they all dudes? Any ladies would like to be interviewed??? Anyway, watch out, here he comes, consider yourself warned!

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written by Teylor Feliz on 19. March 2010

A font that looks just like you

Mary Huang created a software that turns your face into a font.

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written by Mirko on 19. March 2010

Icon Library >> How to use icons to enhance your designs

A great article that shows you great uses for Icons

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written by icon library on 18. March 2010

5 Creative Image Compression Technique To Use In Webdesign

There are creative ways to use simple compression techniques in Photoshop. That is what we’re going to discuss in this post.

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written by Frank on 18. March 2010

PerfectPixel Business and Portfolio WP Theme 10 in 1 Released

This site is best suitable for a business, company, Blog, portfolio, or freelancer portfolio website as well. For the most part you can just follow the provided Help file which is very extensive.

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written by Themeflash on 18. March 2010

25 Beautiful Websites That Use jQuery

Showcase of beautiful websites built with jQuery

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written by Martin on 18. March 2010

Review of Rework by 37 Signals

A review of Rework; the latest book by the 37 Signals camp. (Creators of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, Highrise, and more web 2.0 software.)

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written by Matt on 18. March 2010

11 Wordpress Plugins To Manage Your Ads Banners

These 11 Wordpress plugins help you effectively manage your banners so that you monetize your blog better.

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written by Dicky on 18. March 2010

Free icon sets: 55 user icons designed pixel by pixel

Carefully design set of 55 user icons created pixel by pixel to look optimized in smaller sizes.

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written by icon sets on 17. March 2010

110 Excellent Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design – Part I

In this post we present a 110 Excellent and Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design or Project of Part I that are available for free download and (sometimes only for personal) use. Please make sure to read license agreements before using icons in your designs – they can change from time to time.

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written by Themeflash on 17. March 2010

Resources #1: +270 Free Vintage Textures

Hi guys, recently I was in the need of some vintage textures for a personal project, so I started looking and found some great stuff, and that gave me this idea, ” why not put together in a post all the resources that I`d found to help in someone else search”. So this one is for you, hope it helps!

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written by Concept Dezain on 16. March 2010

8 Common CSS Mistakes and How to Fix Them

CSS has the distinction of being one of a handful of web technologies that newcomers tend to learn by doing.

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written by Frank on 16. March 2010

Icon tutorial: Speaker icon with Illustrator (win7 Style)

In this tutorial we will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create a speaker/music icon inspired in Windows 7 style.

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written by icon library on 16. March 2010

Creating an Animated CSS3 Horizontal Menu

Inspired by CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time from A List Apart and Using jQuery for Background Image Animations written over a year ago, I decided to create a short tutorial about a animated menu just using CSS3.

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written by Teylor Feliz on 16. March 2010

11 useful free sandbox WordPress themes

The following blank WordPress themes will help you to create WordPress themes faster, so take a good look at it.

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written by Mirko on 16. March 2010

Html5 & CSS3 layout tutorials and templates

Experiment with the new powerful features of HTML5 & CSS3 and improve your coding skills by trying out these great tutorials and free layouts.

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written by NetKit on 16. March 2010

How to Make a Beautiful Spring Butterfly Scenery

In this tutorial I will show you the steps I have used for making the Butterfly in the spring image.

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written by Frank on 16. March 2010

Captchas: The Anti-User Experience? Gripes and Alternatives

An article about a captchas place on today’s websites and some more user-friendly alternatives to using one.

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written by Matt on 16. March 2010

50 Terrifying 3D Monsters To Make You Shiver

Mindblowing collection of 50 3D models impersonated in monsters, trolls, warriors and demons.

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written by Frank on 15. March 2010

Beautiful Artworks By Maciej Hajnrich

Maciej Hajnrich was born in 1981, living and working in Katowice, Poland. Self-taught and full-time freelance artist with five years of experience in print and webdesign. Valp has established himself as a creative digital artist – after years of experimenting and playing with imagination he has build his own style with high attention to details, colours and textures. Graphic design for Valp always was something more than just a profession.
We hope that you will like his collection of artworks, find out more about the artist and her work on

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written by Sarawdc on 13. March 2010

Incredible Examples of Superman Illustrations

I am sure many designers will agree with me when I say that comic illustrations are amazing, and I never get tired of looking at them. The core of a good comic is amazing illustrations, because, in my opinion, the words on the page come secondary to the graphic depictions they accompany.

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written by Teylor Feliz on 12. March 2010