Themes, Templates, Tutorials, Art, Design, Photography... and lots of Freebies
February brought to us some great Free Vectors, so here is a collection of our top picks for the month. You will find many vectors to help you with your website designs, most are free for personal and commercial use. Read More »
Responsive web design is the process of designing and developing websites that can react to user’s input and detect where the site is being viewed so to provide the best experience in terms of navigability and readability. The theory behind this involves the utilization of several grid and layout systems, image optimization and CSS media queries, therefore, no matter how many devices are released on the future, responsive websites will always be able to provide a proper response. Read More »
This article presents a list of 25 Premium WordPress ecommerce templates for your 2012 business. Themes use built-in custom ecommerce solutions, or support ecommerce plugins like Jigoshop, WooCommerce, Cart66 or WP E-Commerce.The WordPress Ecommerce templates are destined for a not so heavy shopping cart but, one of the best thing that can be claim by any WordPress Ecommerce theme is the good SEO and that because of many SEO plugins what work so great with WordPress. Read More »
This jQuery mp3 music player is very flexible and can be used with a rating script or even to lead the visitors to your tracks shop or files for sale (PayPal etc). Is easy to be managed in any kind of web design projects and with a small amount of work, it can be integrated and in your WordPress theme or Joomla Template etc. A nice feature is that the player use a separated playlist file. Read More »
This article presents 20 professional WordPress templates created for restaurants, pubs, cafes and any other related food business. Booking and reservation systems, events manager, galleries, menu cards,testimonials, custom posts and theme options panels are just few of the assets of these themes. Read More »
This article contains a roundup of free PSD layouts for your web design projects, to be used for your inspiration or even (many) in commercial projects. Many of these templates are already coded and available on theme markets like WordPress or HTML templates. When we talk about free professional PSD templates, beside the coded versions that can be purchased from market, these free templates are examples of what it means to have a good balanced web design layout, and what it means to have a proper usage of space and typography, concepts and creativity. Enjoy! Read More »
The photo retouching technique is usual associated with glossy magazine covers, superstars and top models print presentations or with photo restoration. Even today it is used often in an extreme way, the digital retouchers can cover poorly shot photographs and provide effects for a scene with a minimum of costs and therefore it is a cheap way to deceive the viewers. Read More »
Facebook fan pages are getting more popular today, not because of the social side, but because it is a serious market niche for almost any company, product or service. You can take advantage of a well made Facebook page template to create a mini-site, a portfolio or even a small ecommerce solution, and all this without the need to leave the Facebook application. Read More »
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a logo with a badge, fence and barbed wire, using simple shapes, a custom brush and few simple Illustrator tools.
For this logo we will use 4 elements: rounded rectangle, ellipse shape, the barbed wire and the fence crop. Read More »
Read this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to learn how you can use layers, transparency and feather style to achieve quite same effects rendered by a gradient mesh tool. In the last weeks we posted few gradient mesh galleries. Gradient mesh is one of most difficult Adobe Illustrator tools to learn/use at its true value. So, if your gradient skills aren’t great, even you are not a beginner do not disarm. For small illustrations/purposes, using a few tricks you can apply similar visual effects. Read More »
This is an intermediate Illustrator tutorial level where you can learn how to create a vector student character mascot from a sketch in Adobe Illustrator. The techniques can easily be applied to other character design, illustrations or icons. Make a sketch or use mine for following steps. Read More »
A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or visit. Historically, matte painters and film technicians have used various techniques to combine a matte-painted image with live-action footage. At its best, depending on the skill levels of the artists and technicians, the effect is “seamless” and creates environments that would otherwise be impossible to film (wiki) Read More »
