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Web Designers: Win a Compaq Presario Laptop

2011-04-05T13:14:00.001-07:00

Attention Designers, Writers and Programmers. WDI is giving away a Compaq™ Presario Notebook PC to promote their new directories.
Just register for free on one of the participating sites to enter.

The contest eligibility period will run from March 31st 2011 through May 1st 2011. Details are available on the
WDI Homepage (http://www.webdirectoriesinc.com/). The grand prize is a new laptop computer. The second and third prizes are $250 and $100 credit
packages from design quote ( http://www.DesignQuote.net ) that designers can use to get fresh verified sales leads.

10 Great Web Design CSS Galleries

2009-08-27T11:32:00.000-07:00

CSS Clip CSSClip.com

An excellent showcase of web sites that can be used for web design ideas. Visitors can drill down designs by color and view the best sites of the year - or you can submit your own web site for inclusion. Design resources and news are also featured.

Design Creme DesignCreme.com

View this web design gallery that showcases the "creme de la creme" of only the best web designs. Feel free to submit your site.

CSS Selection CSSCollection.com

This gallery showcases fabulous looking web sites that use CSS for layout and positioning. Feel fee to submit your site for review in our gallery.

CSS Heaven CSSHeaven.com

This is a great resource for designers to gather web site design inspiration. View the most up-to-date and fresh CSS web site designs that have been provided by experienced designers everywhere.

CSS Vault CSSVault.com

Here's a showcase of only great-looking web sites built utilizing CSS. You can also submit your web site for review.

Style Boost StyleBoost.com

Established in 2001, this is a showcase of the best-designed sites on the internet and is updated several times a week. Features such as usability, unique graphic style, CSS trickery, and looks are taken into account before being added.

Unmatched Style Unmatchedstyle.com

Visit this site for design inspiration and to see gorgeous web sites that only utilize the best web standards. You can also read industry related articles and interviews.

Web Creme webcreme.com

This web site showcases the most outstanding designs broken down by month and color. Glean great web design ideas from browsing through these sites.

CSS Elite CSSElite.com

CSS Elite is a gallery of beautiful web sites built using a CSS structure. The gallery is broken down and easily viewable by category, and you can find other web site resources here too.

Divine CSS DivineCSS.com

With a tagline of "made to make your mouth water", these guys aren't kidding. The gallery features some of the world’s best web sites that use CSS and Flash. Feel free to submit your site for review.

Photoshop CS4 Photo retouching tutorial

2009-08-25T19:53:00.000-07:00

A few cool new tools in CS4 to show how to photo retouch and create virtual weight loss.

In Need of Some Free Video Editing?

2009-04-20T08:46:00.000-07:00

Thefreecountry.com has compiled a list of free video editing software, which you can use to edit and process your video files. You can even use this to do training videos or if you feeling a bit "Hollywood" then you can even make a movie. Editing can be as simple as cutting or trimming unwanted footage. There are some complex task such as adding effects, layering an audio track, adding subtitles, and more. For a complete list of free editing software click here: Free Video Editors (Video Editing Software)

Tips & Tutorials for The Savvy Designer

2009-03-24T14:33:00.000-07:00

Sixrevisions.com has a resourceful blog with useful lists of web design tips, tutorials, and information regarding web development.

Free Web Layout For All

2009-03-16T09:06:00.000-07:00

Smashingmagazine.com has compiled a list of Free Web design Templates. You can find loads of templates for whatever ever your design needs are. From CSS-Based, Flash, fireworks, Photoshop to Dreamweaver you name it they are here. One great place to find everything.

Gmail Going Internet-less

2009-02-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

The future of Gmail is headed towards internet free mail from your desktop and smartphone. Here you see Google's VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, showing just how it will work.

10 Must Do's for Competitive Web Design

2009-02-10T12:26:00.000-08:00

Tech Radar.com consulted with Designers from top agencies regarding what should be the 10 things that Web Designers add to their to-do list. They provided these tips as a useful edge in staying ahead in the game of web design. Here are the 10 topthings that needs tending to:

1. Understand the smaller screen

2. Teach yourself new skills

3. Practice good typography

4. Focus on what's important

5. Investigate frameworks

6. Continue innovating

7. Diversify your client base

8. Think 'refurb', not 'relaunch

9. Master JavaScript.

10. Bring about catharsis

For a more indebt information on these top 10 items click here:
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/10-things-to-put-on-your-web-design-to-do-list-504213

Google Does It Again

2009-01-27T14:58:00.000-08:00

Google will be launching a new product called The Google Drive or "Gdrive”. The Gdrive enables all users to have access to their personal computer via internet from virtually any connection. There are some risks involved with a good thing however, such access makes us just as vulnerable to others trying to gain possible control to our personal data.

The Google Drive will be stored on Google’s own servers verses the traditional desktop. This highly anticipated service will attract the likes of those who currently are using web-based services. For more info click here: Google Plans to Make PCs History

20 of The Best Ajax Effects

2009-01-21T14:50:00.000-08:00

Nettuts.com has interesting, need to know Ajax effects in its tutorial section. These effects are sure to enhance your web design efforts. Nettuts.com list their top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. Check out the Best Ajax effects here:
http://nettuts.com/web-roundups/20-excellent-ajax-effects-you-should-know/

One Stop for Fine Tuning

2009-01-13T09:45:00.000-08:00

TweakGuides.com

Here is a great site for fine tuning your system. TweakGuides.com has tons of guides for optimizing games, browsers, and drivers. These site features aides in getting the maximum performance out of Windows XP.

Make scenery photos look like miniture models

2009-01-08T09:50:00.000-08:00

Tilt-shift is a program that makes miniature style pics from the images that you upload. This nifty program takes real-life scenes and manipulates them to look like photographs of miniature models. The name "tilt-shift" comes from the type of camera lens that can give this effect.
This program allows you to alter digital images into tilt-shift miniatures. This effect appears to have been done with a bit of blur and sharpen effects.
For more check out:

http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

http://tiltshiftmaker.com/tilt-shift-photo-gallery.php

Easy Rounded Image Corners

2009-01-07T12:39:00.000-08:00

This is a simple javascript include that will create rounded corners on any image file. It works dynamically wihtout images so it will work on any background.

You can download it and see examples here.

Here are some of the features listed on the site:

Free Easy to use JavaScript object
Requires no images or image editing
Full Anti-Aliasing support
Anti-Aliasing over graphical backgrounds
Fluid height/width support
Solid border support, any colour/width with Anti-Aliasing
User defined corner radiuses

You can acheive rounded corners several ways, such as with a PHP library as demonstrated here:

(From PHP GD Library)

There are also some sites that will Generate the CSS code for you just by adding a few imputs. such as Rounded Corner

If you want to learn how to make rounded corners yourself, this web site has compiled a list of tutorials on the web.

Goodby 90 degree angles, hello smooth rounded curves!

New blog for cool webmaster tools:

2009-01-07T12:37:00.000-08:00

This site will post cool resources for webmasters such as tutorials, scripts, templates and lots more cool ideas and stuff to help make any website better.