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Two Free 960 Grid Photoshop Templates

Oct05

For most people who design custom websites, the first step is creating the layout in Photoshop. Having a three or four column template ready is the fastest solution to make sure that your design will fit inside the browser window and that everything is evenly spaced and lined up correctly.
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Beautiful Logos to Inspire that Creative Spark

Oct01

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Designing logos, like any other design process, sometimes requires a little inspiration to spark creativity and get you headed in the right direction. Here is a collection of logos that posses different styles but are all beautifully designed and high quality.
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20 Beautiful Dark Website Examples

Aug16

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It's not easy to design a dark website and have it come out absolutely stunning, but many in the design community have managed to incorporate beautiful visuals within a gorgeous dark layout. Here are just 20 of my favorite standards setting examples of Dark website design for your inspiration.

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Making Stunning Buttons in Photoshop

Aug12

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Buttons are an important part of a design. Their main purpose is to call a user to action and get them to press it, to make an action happen on the page. Many sites out there simply leave buttons in forms and on pages to the default style and let the users operating system take care of making them look, well, boring. In this tutorial I will show you how to create stunning buttons that will draw attention and get some clicking going on.
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Cross-Browser Blockquotes Using CSS and jQuery

Jul28

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Back in December 2005, Simon Collison posted a tutorial on how to get "Swooshy Curly Quotes Without Images" on 24 Ways. I'd like to expand on that concept using jQuery, automating and skipping adding the additional span tags each time getting the same effect.
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