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11 New High Quality Free Fonts

amelie — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:47:06 +0000

A useful variety of free fonts that differ in their forms, size and practical meaning, being able to make your work original and unique one and to create a special atmosphere by means of word form united with a word meaning. Multitude of typography styles gives you a chance to emphasise your message and to create a certain design style that will be able to reflect your ideas by means of various fonts. Looking for a high level of typographic elegance and sophistication, you can be sure in reaching the result because of using this resource, selecting that type of typography which is the most suitable one.

RBNo2

Coming Soon Page Designs: 25 Standout Examples + 8 Free Templates

amelie — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:59:09 +0000

Sometimes we get a domain name before we have a website to put on it. Of course we may leave it hang blank, but wait! Even here designers find a field for their creativity and self expression. Even with one page you can share the idea of your resource and provide your probable visitors with the projected image of your coming website. You can also use this space to invite people follow you on a social media networks or sign up for your newsletter to let them know as soon as your most usable project takes off. Or you may just want to say HI!

Take a look at this sparkling and inspiring set of the best of the coming soon page designs and maybe you’ll have an idea of what to put on your website instead of that boring blank page.

Bonus: 8 Free Coming Soon Page Templates.

Now you definitely want a beautiful and catchy announcement to put no your domain name. You don’t have to worry to hire someone do that for you. Just grab one of these handsome free coming soon page templates to impress your guests and make them want to come back when your site is ready. Here you go!

Ready2Launch WordPress Theme

Site Under Construction WordPress Template

Launch Page With Ajax Newsletter

Placeholder

Beback Theme

WpLauncher WordPress Theme

Changing Room

Timelaph

Let your visitors have fun on your page even if your project is not yet up and running yet. Enjoy!

45 Free High Quality Icon Sets For Web Design

amelie — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:55:27 +0000

It is our rule and common practice to find and share the newest sets of free icons with web designers. It is difficult to overestimate the value of the high quality icons while designing a modern website or web design templates. They should flow with the site’s look and feel and contribute to the general image of the resource making it solid and wholesome.

In this article we give you all the links to these beautiful and valuable freebies. You are welcome to get them right away!

Professional E-Commerce Icons Set

A number of HQ e-commerce icons delivered by Web Icons Set. The set is an exclusive release for the Smashing Magazine and its subscribers.

20 icons in 64px, available in .png-format.

E-Commerce Icon Set

10 icons in 128, 64, 48, 24px, available in .png-format.

Payment Icon Set

10 icons in 64, 48, 24px, available in .png-format.

30 E-Commerce Icons

30 icons in 128, 64, 48px, available in .psd-format.

These icons are designed by GraphicsFuel.com and released exclusively for Six Revisions.

Kaching

24 icons in 48px and 400px, available in .png-format + source files in PSD and Illustrator format.

The icons were designed exclusively for WDD by WordPressThemeShock.

Siena

A great and exclusive set developed for Webdesigner Depot. So many icons to incorporate in your designs!

200 icons in 6 different raster sizes, plus vector files for all the icons, so you can resize them as needed.

Shopping Bag

One .png icon having 3 colors of ribbon handle and 5 sizes.

Cute Blogging Icon Set

10 icons in 128, 64, 48, 24px, available in .png format.

Mobile Icon Set

10 icons in 128, 64, 48, 24px, available in .png format.

iCandies

The icons in the iCandies set feature round rectangle shape providing your social media projects with a sleek and geeky look, which is appreciated by lots of Apple fans.

60 icons in 64px, 48px, and 32px, available in .eps and .ai formats.

MobileMe Icons

6 icons in, available in .psd format.

48px Icons

13 icons in 48px, available in .png format.

CS5 Icons

Most beautiful images and icons of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and Dreamweaver created for Adobe CS5 Master Collection.

5 icons in 256px, available in .png format.

Useful Icons for Designers

The icons including Illustrations, Parinting, Fonts, 3D, Photography, Drawing, Vectors, Palette, Sketchbook and Printer.

10 icons in 64px, available in .png format.

Minimal Icon Set

A set of handsome icons featuring minimal design.

20 icons available in fully editable .psd source format.

The Noun Project

A versatile set of icons, available in .svg format.

48 Free 16px Pictograms

48 icons in 16px, available in .ai format.

Classic Rounded

44 icons, available in .psd format.

Plastique Icons

This is a broad set of applications and web icons inspired by advertising clip art of the 1920′s and 1930′s.

434 icons in vector format and also includes a CSS/PNG sprite version.

Icon Sweets

400+ icons in 64, 32px and 292 icons in 16px, available as vector Photoshop shapes.

Contemporary Mail Icons

A modern and stylish set of mail icons.

16 icons in 256px, available in .png format.

Vector Mail Icons

9 icons, available in .ai format.

Google Plus Circular Icon Set

One icon in 2 sizes available in .psd and .png format.

Cute Twitter Icons, Chrome

A new cute set of twitter icons in chrome colors. The bird’s new look.

9 icons in 256px, available in .png format.

Brand New Social Icons

A complete new look on representing social media icons. A social icon served with a cup of tea!

6 icons in 256px, available in .png format.

Social Trucks Icons

10 icons in 512px, available in .png format.

Social Media Icon Set

42 icons in 64px, available in .png and .psd format.

Social Sketches

This is a free hand-sketched style icon set comprising popular social networks icons (Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, StumbleUpon, etc.) exclusively released on Six Revisions. This style will be a perfect fit for hand-drawn websites.

16 icons in 6 standard sizes (32px, 48px, 64px, 128px, 256px, and 512px) in .png format.

Seal Social Icons

20 icons, available in .psd format.

Sketchy Icons

67 icons in 128px, available in .ico format.

Coquette Part 5 Icon Set

50 icons in 128, 64, 48, 32, 24, 16px, available in .png format and .ico, .icns: 128px.

Cutie

20 icons in 512, 256, 128, 64, 48px, available in .png and .ai format.

3D Glossy Icon Set

20 icons in 64, 48, 32, 24, 16px, available in .png and .psd format.

48px Web Iconset

226 icons in 48px, available in .png format.

Html5 Icons

10 icons in 512px, available in .png and .ai format.

Exclusive Free Multimedia Icon Set

A contemporary stylish set of speakers, headphones, display, and other multimedia icons developed by iconshock.com exclusively for Speckyboy readers.

14 icons in 256px, available in .png and .ai formats.

Replacement iOS Icons

5 icons, available in .psd format.

“This Is Art” Icons Set

10 icons in 128px, available in .png format.

Mobile Phone Icon Pack

A fine set of amazingly realistic phone icons to incorporate into your designs. These icons include the iPhone4, HTC Evo 4G, Motorola Droid, Blackberry Bold, Samsung Captivate, Acer Stream, LG Fathom, Nokia N8, Sony Ericsson Vivaz, and the Microsoft Kin.

10 icons in 512px, available in .png and .ai formats.

Apple iPad Icon Set

One full size graphic, one icon in 256, 128 and 64px, available in .psd format.

iPad 2 Icons

18 icons in 16px, 32px, 48px, 64px, 128px, 256px, available in .png format.

Landscape Icons

8 icons, available in .psd format.

Architecture Icons

4 icons, available in .psd format.

Food and Drink Icons

4 icons, available in .psd format.

Fast Food Icons

3 icons, available in .psd format.

The resources enumerated above would be a considerable contribution to every designer’s stock of handy freebies. These are provided by design lovers. Yet, if you need really professionally-made icons you may turn your attention to premium icon providers. Here are 5 worth of your attention:

Plus Bonus: Premium Icon Providers

Icon Demon

IconDemon.com is probably the biggest premium icon provider on the web. Their stuff continuously work to broaden a vast collection of web, software, and digital media icons. IconDemon has an option for membership that provides access to more than 5300 top quality stock web icons. The icons are available in .png format and different sizes (64px, 80px, 100px, 128px). Use these lovable custom icons to increase your sales and usability of your products! You will definitely be amazed to have such a great variety to choose from.

Professional Icons

At professional-icons.com provides the icons representing both classic styles and custom designs. You’ll find all the sizes and formats needed for a variety of possible usages.

Icon Objects

Icon Objects is a division of DreamTemplate.com. They offer high quality stock icons, web icons and vector design objects. The stock objects offered by IconObjects undergo vast quality control, then they become available for download.

Stock Icons

The icons delivered by Stock Icons provide for compatibility with software, web apps, websites, print, mobile and iPhone. They also offer free download of any collection sample for testing prior to purchase.

Icon Shock

The company claims to deliver 5000+ new custom high quality icons every week.

We are sure that you will find this article useful whether you’ve been looking just for the freebies or for professional stock icons with custom designs. Enjoy the variety and have fun incorporating them in your projects!

30 Curious and Ingenious Illustrations in Web Design

amelie — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:19:29 +0000

The websites featuring great designs standing in line with their content provide inspiration and are real masterpieces. While looking for inspiration you might want to take a glance at this set of 30 curious and ingenious website designs based around the idea of illustrations and cartoon-like characters. A masterly and relevant illustration can set up a memorable image of your site in the visitors mind and it’s worth the effort.

Rob Sheridan Sketchblog

Pigeon and Pigeonette

Candy Candy

The Great Bearded Reef

The popularity of illustrated website designs is growing and having a creatively illustrated website will definitely let you stand out from the crowd. Want your website illustrated right away? Here are some out of the box fancy illustrated designs by TemplateMonster and off course many more on their website TemplateMonster.com:

Personal Page Template

Design Studio CSS Full Site Flash 8

Personal Page CSS Static Full Site

Teens Closes and Jeans CSS Full Site Flash 8

Pet Grooming Salon CSS Full Site Flash 8

Creative Design Group Flash Site

Let you visitors have fun and enjoy!

25 Creative 404 Error Pages

amelie — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:21:21 +0000

According to one of the recent polls only 23% of visitors who encounter a 404 error make a second attempt to find the missing page. The rest 77% of the visitors will not make any effort to find it. A custom error page is viewed as an added feature and advantage of your website. It shows that you care for your visitors and make an attempt to have them stay.

Check out this set of 404 page examples ingenious, original and creative in every respect. Enjoy!

LightPostCreative.com

DeliciouslyCreative.com

Oh, and by the way in case you’ve become a fan of creative 404 error pages hurry up to download one of the free 404 error page templates by TemplateMonster.com!

Cemetery Style 404 Page Template

Halloween Style 404 Page Template

Heaven Style 404 Page Template

Hellish Style 404 Page Template

Dead-End Style 404 Page Template

Customise your website’s 404 page and entertain you visitors. Have fun!

20 Examples of Minimalism Expression in Web Design

amelie — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:42:46 +0000

A website with great web design is important for the growth of a business because most commonly it is the first place where a company can introduce their cool stuff and services. The art of simplicity creates a fresh and neat image for a company, product, or a service thus making a minimal and super-clean layout the perfect solution for an attractive website.

Enjoy the beautiful web designs implementing the idea of minimalism I’ve picked recently:

aMillionThingsToDo.com

NeveraBetterTime.co.nz

CemalOkten.com

HauserLacour.de

KeepItComplicated.com

Concentric-Studio.com

Also, here are 5 awesome web templates inspired by the idea of minimalism from TemplateMonster.com. Whether you own a one product site or a site based around one idea – you will have plenty of beautiful templates to choose from.

34257 JS Animated Full Site Mercury

34357 JS Animated Full Site Astra

33861 Facebook Flash CMS Template Mercury

34265 Flash CMS Template Ares

33295 JS Animated Full Site Svelte

Thank you and keep it simple!

20 Catching Dark Web Designs For You To Check Out

amelie — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:28:50 +0000

The so-called dark web design can represent non-mainstream, elite, and off-the-wall type of content. Such colour palette may awaken some feelings or induce certain emotions forming the general impression of the website. Check out this engaging set of sites featuring the dark colours scheme and see what they can invoke in you.

AustralianOrchids.com.au

AquariumIndia.com

GuitarHeroGame.com/gh1/gameplay.php

Also, here are 5 stunning dark web templates from TemplateMonster.com. Actually, there are many more if you know what you are looking for And if you are aimed at exacting or high-end audience – these dark designs will make the audience yours:

34254 Xml FLash Site Delta

34257 JS Animated Full Site Mercury

34537 CSS Full Site Flash 8 Mercury

34334 Facebook Flash Template Delta

33709 Flash Site 8 Sawyer

Thank you and have a dark one!

Mobile Plug-ins for WordPress

amelie — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:02:40 +0000

Since 2010, when it has become an actual urgency, rendering websites on mobile handsets is a chief web design trend of 2011.
As an internet user, you can’t disagree that quick and convenient browsing is an advantage of vital importance nowadays.
Either checking e-mail, posting for a blog or updating your E-shop – you would surely love to make it fast and friendly through your mobile, I-Phone, Blackbery etc.
This saves your time and efforts, provides you with the needed information on spot. Consequently, website keepers have been looking for the most suitable solutions to deliver the best quality layouts combined with an appropriate functionality.
According to recent researches there are approximately 4,5 million WordPress based websites, which make WordPress the most popular content management system on the Web. In a heyday of blogging popularity we have collected some Mobile plug-ins rather necessary for a modern WP blog.

MobilePress

MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. Built into MobilePress is the ability to track your mobile sites analytics and serve ads with Aduity.com.

Integration with Aduity.com enables you to serve ads from some of the biggest mobile ad networks such as Admob, Quattro Wireless, Buzzcity and InMobi. You can also serve you own managed ads. You will also be able to track your visitors every move with Aduity analytics.

The plugin allows WordPress theme developers to create custom mobile themes for MobilePress enabled blogs. Theme designers can create specific iPhone themes or generic mobile themes for other mobile devices.

MobilePress is SEO enabled and detects Google, Yahoo and MSN mobile search bots. These mobile search engine bots will see the mobile version of your blog and get your mobile site indexed in the mobile search results.

WordPress Mobile Pack

The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.

It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

WPtouch

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.

The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to touch mobile visitors, without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.

The theme also includes the ability for visitors to switch between WPtouch view and your site’s regular theme.

Wickett Twitter Widget

Display the latest Tweets from your Twitter accounts inside WordPress widgets. Customize Tweet displays using your site or theme CSS.

Customize the number of tweets displayed. Filter out @replies from your displayed tweets. Optionally include retweets. The widget plugin automatically links usernames, lists, and hashtags mentioned in Tweets to keep your readers on top of the full conversation.

BAAP Mobile Version

The BAAP Mobile Version is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.

WPtap Mobile Detector

This plugin automatically detects the type of mobile browser that you site is viewed from, and activates the mobile theme you have chosen for it. User can install multiple mobile themes and link it to different mobile browsers for best performance. If you have a separate WAP or mobile website, this detector also allows you to redirect your mobile traffic to the WAP/mobile site.

Features:

1. Automatically detects mobile browsers & mobile user agents
2. Automatically detects installed PC and mobile themes
3. User can link different mobile themes to different mobile devices for best performance.
4. Option to redirect mobile traffic to a separate WAP or mobile site.
5. Complete mobile device listing (iPhone, iPod, Android, Blackberry, etc.) User can also add devices to this list.

BuddyPress Mobile

Mobile BuddyPress theme optimized for viewing on iPhone, iPod touch. Will also work on Android and some Blackberry devices. Activate and plugin will detect mobile devices and use the BuddyPress Mobile theme.

IamMobiled Mobile

Key features include:

1. Mobile Theme “Blue Heart” included
2. Automatic mobile detection
3. Images are optimized for mobile view
4. Make money through integrated ad system.
5. Optimized for touch screen phones 6) Mobile users can even leave comments 7) Mobile users can search for contents.

Live Mobile Phone News Ticker

The Live Mobile Phone News Ticker uses RSS feeds from a variety of sources to offer an embeddable stream of the latest cell phone news – as it happens – directly to your site.

The feed is fetched for every view, so users are guaranteed the latest mobile news and information. Clicking on a news headline will take users directly to the relevant article, at the respective site.

A mouse hover over a headline shows a snippet of each post, and the plug-in automatically customizes the styling and font to remain in keeping with your site.

The Live Mobile Phone News Ticker displays feeds in a random order, enabling a mix of news from numerous sources, and the plug-in width adjustable to fit in a range of site sidebars.

Mobile version with Onbile Plugin for iPhone, Blackberry, smartphones.

Mobile version of your wordpress. With Onbile your wordpress have a Mobile Version with this plugin your users can visit your wordpress with theirs smartphones and visualize all content in a friendly way. Feateures – Multiple themes.

* Multiple configuration.
* Total customization.
* Change colors, texts, icons, background, etc.
* Your users can comment.
* Compatible with all smarts phones ( Android, iPhone, blackberry, nokia, opera mini, etc)

As usual, you are welcome to check out some great WordPress designs at TemplateMonster.com

10 Useful Floral Photoshop Brushes

amelie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:03:17 +0000

Turn your face to the sun, take a deep breath: “The Spring has come!” Life awakens everywhere with its beautiful herralds of the surrounding flora. There are always flowers for those who want to see them, as Henri Matisse said.
The following is a set of nice floral Photoshop brushes collected for your Spring inspiration:

evashoots.deviantart.com

browse.deviantart.com

crazykira-resources.deviantart.com

sleepwalkerfish.deviantart.com

photoshop-addict28.deviantart.com

kezako.deviantart.com

keepwaiting.deviantart.com

gfx-elfe.deviantart.com

20 Inspiring Art & Photography Web Templates!

amelie — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:20:34 +0000

Logically, an online presentation of any art-related business is to be witty, unconventional and have smart, eye-catching design. Here is the set of 20 most remarkable web templates by TemplateMonster.com related to Art&Photography category.
These templates are sure to provide inspiration and freshness, evoke the flow of your creativity! Best fitting for photographers, art dealers, galleries and artist portfolios.

24487 by Mercury

31247 by Delta

03524 by Nessy

30004 by Astra

24668 by Delta

19693 by Matrix

13944 by Delta

7185 by Delta

7120 by Matrix

6470 by Velvet

5546 by MariArti

3211 by MariArti

7257 by Delta

8876 by Cotton

15135 by Delta

15844 by Delta

17733 by Delta

23200 by Nessy

28980 by Matrix

31723 by Hugo

All the templates have been designed to draw attention to the works while making navigation absolutely hassle-free and intuitive. Hope, you enjoyed the pretty collection.
Also, find more at TemplateMonster.com!