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50 Dazzling Examples of Polar Panorama Photography
Polar panoramas, also known as stereographic projections or ‘little planets’, are spectacular images that are created out of panoramic photos. While the effects are quite stunning, these images are actually very easy for anyone to produce...
45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo
The logo is the face of any brand — the very first impression — so its design is extremely important. When executed correctly, a logo is a powerful asset to your client’s brand....
The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources
Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. The great thing about Joomla is the extensions (components, modules and plugins), that can be added to your Joomla website....
50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills
Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jun 21-27, 2009
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers....
An Artistic Homage to Michael Jackson
As the world pays tribute to the king of pop, we’ve decided to do so in WDD in a unique and artistic way. In this post, we feature a selection of some amazing artistic creations portraying Michael Jackson, created by various artists around the ...
An Artistic Homage to Michael Jackson
As the world pays tribute to the king of pop, we’ve decided to do so in WDD in a unique and artistic way. In this post, we feature a selection of some amazing artistic creations portraying Michael Jackson, created by various artists around the ...
35 Examples Of Stunning Macro Photography
35 Examples Of Stunning Macro Photography
100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration
If you’ve ever created a Twitter account and customized it with some text, you would have discovered that the amount of text that you can display to describe yourself is very limited. This is where designing, creating, and publishing a creative...
35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design
10 Tools to Improve Your Site’s Usability on a Low Budget
Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that the user’s experience is as enjoyable as possible....
Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog
Advertisements In this post we release Birdies: A Free Twitter Icon Set , a set of 12 beautiful and lovely Twitter icons. This set was designed by IconEden and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers....
Module Tabs in Web Design: Best Practices and Solutions
Advertisements A module tab is a User Interface (UI) design pattern where content is separated into different panes, and each pane is viewable one at a time....
30 Free Photoshop Swirl Brushes
Advertisements Today we are glad to release 30 Swirl Brushes , a set with 30 high-quality swirl Photoshop brushes with an average size 2000px. These brushes were created with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and also work with the version CS, CS2 and CS3...
How to Make OS X’s Exposé Work: 5 Productivity Tips
Advertisements Working on a Mac is a nice experience. Not only because of the aesthetics, but also because of the many useful tools built right into the operating system. One such tool is Exposé, which allows instant access to just about anything on...
Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Your Website
Advertisements Almost everyone out there who runs a website has toyed with the idea of selling ads on their website....
Freebie Release: Quartz Icon Set
Advertisements Today we are glad to release Quartz Icon Pack , a set with 90 clean, sharp and (hopefully) useful icons for your project. This set was designed by our friend, a Romanian designer Andy Gongea especially for Smashing Magazine and its rea...
10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards
Advertisements Without argument, one of the most important things to consider when creating a website is that it be accessible to everyone who wants to view it. Does your website play nice with screen readers?...
30 Photoshop Brushes: ‘Drippy Sprays’
Today we bring you a great set of exclusive Photoshop brushes which include 30 high resolution drippy sprays . The set was created by Grant Friedman from Colorburned exclusively for WDD readers. These brushes are completely free for both personal and...
10 Web Design Rules That You Can Break
As web design and design in general have evolved, rules have been established to ensure consistent and usable designs. Some of these rules were created simply because website creators abused certain principles without regard for their users. But thes...
Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout in Photoshop
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a clean corporate layout in Photoshop. The original layout was created by kuntiz from ThemeForest and I want to thank him for allowing me to write this tutorial. Materials Needed: leafs pixelated ...
Informative And Usable Footers In Web Design
Advertisements Website designs have so many different elements that work together to convey information in a usable and organized manner. For a website to be effective, every element on the page, from the header to the footer, needs to add to its ove...
How To Create Your Own Stats Program (JavaScript, AJAX, PHP)
When creating a website, one main goal is to attract visitors. Traffic generation is a necessity for monetary purposes, showing off your work, or just expressing your thoughts....
