Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

Slideshows, carousels and sites that are generally image-driven is a web design trend that has been with us for a while now and shows no signs of going out-of-date. Reading and writing seems to be a dying art in terms of imparting information, and that is mainly due to our very busy lifestyles nowadays. Road signs have been imparting information in image form for many years, and I suppose it was only a matter of time before other informational sources grasped the concept. So now when designers and developers have a new project, the question is not ‘Do you want to include images?’

Rather, ‘Where, how many and what size do you want your images, and how would you like them presented?’ And that makes slideshows and carousels very important and necessary elements in website design. Here is a collection of some of the best, free jQuery slideshows and carousels available at the time of writing.

It is becoming more and more important for companies to promote their products or services as much as possible. The importance of using social media is well documented, but the value of sending a beautiful, regular newsletter to subscribers is enormous. HTML newsletter templates are extremely time-saving, usually customizable to your own requirements, and a pleaure for subcribers to receive. Here we have listed some of the best free HTML email newsletter templates currently available, along with a short round-up of email marketing sites through which you can regularly email your subcribers and target prospective clients.

Google Chrome was fully introduced in December 2008, and as of February 2013, Chrome has a 37% worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the most widely used web browser in the world, and with those kind of statistics, it is no wonder there are thousands of extensions available for Chrome. Here we have collected some of the most useful and essential google chrome extensions available for web designers and developers.

In this article I decided to list several free CSS editors where you can create and edit CSS files. Some of those editors listed need to be downloaded but many others are available directly from your browser.

I hope you find on this list something useful to help you when working with CSS and don’t forget to check our previously article 14 Useful Sites for Designers.

Cheat Sheets are quick reference cards that help you quickly find information you want about specific topics, in this case HTML, CSS and Javascript.

In this article you will find a list of some good cheat sheets and hope you like them (PDF format or web page).

In this article I decided to list some tutorials that teach you how to convert a design from PSD to HTML using CSS3 and latest HTML version.

Today, HTML5 and CSS3 are finally being used but there is still a lack of good and detailed tutorials teaching you how to code one page using this versions. I tried to select the ones I thought were the best but hope to see more tutorials about this topic being published in 2013.

Last week I was working on a new project and needed some buttons that I would prefer to create using CSS3.

I decided to look around and see what was available and ready to be used on a project and at same time I decided to create a post listing the ones I liked the most so you can also benefit from this quest.

You want to learn how to create text effects in Adobe Illustrator? Look no further. In this article I am listing 20 amazing text effect tutorials that will help you create your own text effects.

With this list of Illustrator text effect tutorials you will learn to create glossy, stitched, folded, grungy, neon and a lot of other type of text effects.

I decided to write another useful post, now with a list of 15 Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials, after receiving great feedback from the previous post.

I tried to select tutorials that will teach you how to do specific things in Photoshop that will help you work with your photos.

Christmas, once again, is just around the corner, it is believed that 45% of the world’s population celebrates Christmas to one degree or another. Therefore, perhaps designers should be considering hanging decorations not only in their homes and offices, but also on their websites.

Here we have collected a selection of free Christmas decorations related resources including icons, PSD files, vectors and fonts specifically themed on the festive season.