A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes to selection of right resources you need to be very careful and specific about needs.
In this round-up, you’ll find number of top resources, tutorials, freebies which left deep impression on web design community, as the month of January had a lot of interesting articles produces by different sources.
The more time and effort you dedicate for useful and creative resources, the higher are your chances for getting better results.
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Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In January’10
Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The Definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for content. There is no "Good" and "Bad" in design. It always define as a "Different".
So how can you make sure your design is better than the designs of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your product? Here we might be able to help you by showcasing following list of best resources available on web in the month of January.
Design Showcase, Feature Collection
Drop-Shadows and Gradients: Be Consistent in Your Visual Metaphors
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40 Inspiring Single Page Websites
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Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends
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55 Trendy Web Design Interfaces From Deviantart
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40+ Examples of Typography Inspired in Web Design
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40 Apple Inspired Website Designs for Design Inspiration
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Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples
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Photography, Digital Showcase and Art inspiration
25 Breathtaking Examples of Nature Photography
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Stunning Under Water Photography
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At work, part II
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35 Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal Photography
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30+ Captivating Fire Dancing Photos
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Dakar Rally 2010
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99 Brilliant Examples of Infrared Photography
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30 Best Movie Posters of 2009
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Freebies Resources (Themes, Wallpapers, PSDs, Icons, Vectors, Fonts etc.)
45 High Quality And Inspiring 3D Desktop Wallpapers
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40 Striking High Resolution Photography Wallpapers From National Geographic
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29 Resources for Freelance Designers Operating on a Tight Budget
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35 Stunning Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs
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25 Fresh, Clean and Unique WordPress Themes
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35 High Quality Apple Inspired Icons
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50 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers For Designers
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Calendars for 2010: Printable Calendars and Wallpapers
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Tutorials, Tips, Tricks & Hacks Resources
15 Invoicing Tips for Designers and Freelancers
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Illustrator Tutorial: Vector Handphone
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Create James Cameron’s AVATAR Movie Poster in Photoshop Tutorial
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How to Create a Fun, Red-Haired Boy Character
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Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster
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HOW TO: Build a More Beautiful Blog
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Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers
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Create a Jelly-like Text Animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects
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Create a Slick and Minimalist Web Layout in Photoshop
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How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds
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Create a Grungy, Translucent Web Portfolio Design
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How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3
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CSS, xHTML, PHP, Javascript and Ajax Resources
jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program
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Tips for Coding and Designing Usable Web Forms
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The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App
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45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques
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How to speed up your blog loading time
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Curating Comments Threads
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Appz, Tools and Development Resources
10 interesting projects from Google Code
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Are You Ready To Transfer To Chrome? – 30 Irreplaceable Chrome Extensions
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18 Unique Uses of WordPress and the Plugin or Theme Used
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Freelancing Resources
12 Reasons You Shouldn’t Freelance
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5 Branding Basics Every Logo Designer Should Know
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How to Increase the Value of Your Design Services for Clients
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Email Marketing for Freelancers
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How to effectively organize, manage and maintain your freelance design business
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Don’t Forget The Small Stuff This Year
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20 Writing Mistakes that Make Any Freelancer Look Bad
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What’s In A Price: The Guidelines For Pricing Web Designs
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7 Tips for Negotiating a Freelance Contract
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Five Ways to Guarantee Your Failure as a Web Professional
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Should You “Fake It” If a Client Asks for Something You Can’t Do?
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How to Become an A-List Blogger
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Miscellaneous Resources
The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter
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14 Traits of Successful Blogs
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Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color
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Networking Tips for the Busy Designer
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Self Taught vs. Formal Education with Showcase of Design Schools
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Design Trends (Predictions) in 2010
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A Brief History of Eye Tracking
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An In-Depth Look at the Apple iPad
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How to Do 500 Times Better than AdSense
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Thanks for great stuff all at one place,
now going to check some article in this post which I missed earlier.
:)
this post is the really amazing it is result of al ot of time and dedication…
great compilation!!!!!!!
A great list of resources. Thanks for sharing them
wow, how did you miss sliding labels? http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels/
Great compilation…Thanks for including Designrfix.
Keep up the good work.
That’s ( REALLY ) BIG List, Tweeted.
thakns
thakns
good
Great Inpiration
Very useful collection of articles
Thanks very much for these. I gone through some of these, detailed and informative.
Beautiful…
Really very good idear which provide new look to Website.
I’m impressed! You’ve maagnde the almost impossible.
I gone through some of these, detailed and informative.
Very nice post. I simply stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I’ve truly enjoyed surfing around your blog posts. After all I’ll be subscribing in your rss feed and I hope you write once more very soon!
At this time it seems like BlogEngine is the preferred blogging platform out there right now. (from what I’ve read) Is that what you are using on your blog?