20 Great Web Page Backgrounds You Can Certainly Use Advertisement There can be times when your web design is almost done but you can’t finalize a beautiful background for your site. Importance of a Background can not be ignored since a site is viewed differently in different browsers and resolutions and the empty space at the background kills the foreground’s beauty. Designing a background yourself is a time consuming process and its hardly required when the fellow designers have heartily and happily contributed so many beautiful backgrounds and patterns for websites. We have collected few sets of Beautiful Backgrounds which will surely be useful to you. If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our other articles on Wallpaper Patterns, Damask Pattern Collection, Grunge Backgrounds, and Great Photoshop Backgrounds. Dark Patterns More Information on Dark Patterns 13 Asphalt Textures More Information on Asphalt Textures 103 Various Textures More Information on Various Textures 94 Walls More Information on WALLS Sue’s Wood Patterns
Useful Free Web UI Elements PSD Packs | chethstudios Design Magazine Everyone Likes Freebies, and when those freebies saves you a lot of time they surely become priceless and worth a mention, and we are here with a neat and useful roundup of all the web UI Elements every designer/web developer must download. Nothing more useful than saving some time which you were going to spend designing these. Need more? check out other GUI and PSD freebies. Know of any other freebies? share it with our readers in the comments section. Related Posts:Roundup of Best Free Smart Phones GUI PSD Packs80+ Free PSD Web UI Elements For Download80+ Free Editable PSD Website Templates Massive Web UI, Button Set WEB UI Treasure Chest v 1.0 Webdesigner Toolkit Free PSD: Checkbox Replacement Free Web UI Wireframe Kit Wireframe Symbols Sketching & Wireframing kit Facebook GUI free PSD resource Facebook Applications Flex Darkskin PSD UI Scalable calendar Free Web UI Element Pack Flex 3 Stencil Modern Web UI Set
20 New and Free Icon Sets for Web Designers As we do once or twice a year, today we are featuring some of the best recently released free icon sets for web designers. Just like previous times we have found a fantastic selection for you, covering most aspects of web and mobile development. You will find some glyphs & pictograms sets, a couple of mini sets, mobile app icons and finally, a small selection of beautifully designed social media icons. You will love them all! Pixel Perfect Icon Set Number of Icons: 350 Format(s): PSD Pixel Perfect Icon Set → Jigsoar Icons Number of Icons: 60 Format(s): AI & PNG Jigsoar Icons → Freshy Icons Number of Icons: 99 Format(s): PSD Freshy Icons → Minicons Number of Icons: 100 Format(s): PSD Minicons → Secret Pixels Number of Icons: 35 Format(s): EPS & PSD Secret Pixels → Freecns Number of Icons: 200 Format(s): PNG Freecns → Glyph Icons Number of Icons: 50 Format(s): PNG & CSH Glyph Icons → Visual Idiot Icon Set Number of Icons: 108 Format(s): PSD Visual Idiot Icon Set → Pixel UI Icon Set Pixel UI Icon Set → SweetiePlus
Create A Cute Creature Character From A Sketch In Illustrator In this tutorial I will show you how to create a cute creature from a sketch. This tutorial uses custom brushes, the Paintbrush tool, Pen tool, and the Live Paint Bucket tool. Even if your not a huge fan of the cuteness, you can use these techniques for other illustrations, logos, and vector elements. Final Image Below is the final image we will be working towards. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Difficulty: Intermediate Topics Covered: Custom Brushes, Paintbrush Tool, Live Paint Bucket tool Estimated Completion Time: 1-1.5 hours Step 1 Create a sketch with traditional media or in a design application like Photoshop. Step 2 In Illustrator, create a new document, go File > Place, find your image, and place it on your document. Step 3 Press the Create New Layer button from the Layers panel and rename it “Outline”. Step 4 For the outline of the creature we are going to create two custom Art Brushes. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Paintbrush tool or Pen tool Avoid Paths with Sharp Angles Step 8
A Collection of Printable Sketch Templates and Sketch Books for Wireframing | geekchix.org At the beginning of a web (or application) development project I always create the sketches first. While sketching can be done on a blank paper, it’s much better to use a sketch template. For me that is the best and most productive way to work on and improve my ideas before application development begins (and things get more complicated :-)). This way I won’t pay too much attention to some details that should be taken care of later, but stay focused on general layout and functionality. Below you will find more than 20 resources that you can use in sketching phase of application development. If you have some additional resources to share, please leave a comment so I can add them to the list. And, of course, don’t forget to share your wireframes on I ♥ wireframes :-) Printable sketch templates for websites These are some pretty good, printable sketch templates for website design. Browser Sketch Pad (PDF) Browser Sketch Pad by Design Commission — see original source 960 grid template Graph paper
10 Online Strategies for Your Next Product Launch Beverly Cornell is the marketing and social media director at Mango Languages, a provider of self-study language learning products that teach actual conversation skills and culture, now available in 28 different languages. Learn more at mangolanguages.com. Long gone are the days when announcing a new product was simply a matter of putting together a news release, sending it off over the wire and counting on major news outlets to spread the word. Today, because consumers are able to get information from a variety of sources and platforms, a successful product launch requires an integrated approach; one that includes traditional, social and online marketing tools. Here's a look at how to focus these approaches into one concerted effort around a product launch. 1. Even though new media seems to get all the glory, traditional television, print or radio media outreach remains an effective way to expose a never-before-seen product to the masses. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Conclusion
Free and Premium Weather Forecast Icons Sets There is hardly any subject on which you will not find a website. Be it education, marriage, photography or weather forecast; all are there on the internet. While talking about weather forecast icons for websites there are some interesting facts to discuss. When we visit the websites that forecast the upcoming weather or give detailed information about the weather condition of some specific places, we find there are several icons. It is really easy and simple to find out a weather forecasting icon. As it has been said, normally these icons come in set. How to Find the Weather Icons for Forecast Websites? If you are the owner of a weather forecast website then these icon sets are must for you. However, the free icon sets are not at all poor in quality and are equally helpful. Most of the set of icons are good for both the ObjectDock weather docklets and DesktopX weather objects and widgets. These icons can be colorful or in black and white. Free and Premium Weather Forecast Icons Sets
65 Beautiful Fonts You Can Download For Free Freebie 65 Beautiful Fonts You Can Download For Free by Alex on Aug 9, 2012 • 9:43 am 17 Comments There are so many free fonts all around the web these days and sometimes it makes me think is their any really point purchasing fonts. If you like fonts, you’ll love our favorite premium font, check it out here on Envato Market. Neuton Font Family Download Font → Intro free font Download Font → Bemio Download Font → Exo Font Family Download Font → Rex Free Font Download Font → Metropolis 1920 Download Font → Free Typeface NeoDeco Download Font → Hagin Free Font Download Font → Mosaic Leaf Download Font → Cubano Download Font → Cubic Sans Download Font → Banana Brick Download Font → Sofia Download Font → Sansita One Download Font → Villa Didot Download Font → Accent Download Font → Lavanderia Download Font → Blanch Download Font → Lorena Download Font → Age Download Font → Arvo Download Font → Banda Download Font → Bigmouth Download Font → Cappuccino Download Font → Code Download Font → Copse Download Font → Cube Download Font → Dan Days Deibi Dekar
Free Texture Packs To Spice Up Your Designs Feb 25 2011 Every day we try our best to present to you some useful tips, dear reader, to inspire you with fresh ideas and to try out new things. Today, we’ve prepared a nice collection of free texture packs that you just may have been looking for to freshen up your designs you’re working on. 5 High Resolution Brick & Tile Textures 9 High Resolution Metal Surface Textures Starry Textures 4 Free High Resolution Grunge Textures 5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures 10 High Resolution Grungy Surface Textures 46 High-Quality Graffiti Textures High Resolution Fabric Texture Pack 6 High Resolution Sand and Seashell Textures 27 High Resolution Watercolor Textures 12 Free Grungy Bokeh Textures 27 High-Res Playdough Textures 8 High Resolution Screen Print Ready Textures 30 High-Res Foam Dot Textures 14 High Resolution Paper & Canvas Textures 12 High Resolution Denim Textures 11 Free High Resolution Fabric Textures 10 Free High Resolution Wood Textures Wood Textures Grunge Texture Texture Pack: Let It Snow! (ik)
Building a Social Network Site in Rails | Ruby on Rails I’m not going to cover how to actually code an entire social network site in rails as all social network sites vary in their functionality (and it’ll take too long). I will cover plugins and other things you might find useful though. Quick Start If you don’t really want to do the coding but want to get a site up and running and soon as possible, you may want to have a look at Lovd by Less by the guys over at Less Everything. Social Network Plugins Here’s a list of plugins that I’ve found to be useful while coding my own social networking site: Restful Authentication RESTful Authentication is pretty much the defacto standard for user authentication in rails. # To Installruby script/plugin source script/plugin install restful_authentication Paperclip Paperclip is a brilliant plugin by Jon Yurek over at ThoughtBot. Will_paginate Will paginate is a great plugin for allowing paging of your records. Acts_as_slugable White_list ReCAPTCHA Throttler