An interesting and unique site that uses full screen graphics that pan around as you move your mouse. The navigation can be a bit frustrating but much of the work on display is quite attractive. This design was featured on the 3rd September 2010 . It falls under the category of Portfolio, and has a layout style of Other. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

“This week we are posting 10 photoshop actions which will be very useful to produce some retro/vintage effect on your photos. I hope this freebie will make you happy.” … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

“We have scoured the tubes to find you the coolest collection of commercial free-use Photoshop brush packs we could dig up. So check ‘em out and enjoy.” … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Google is taking site’s loading speed into consideration in determining its ranking. Even though this will not land a big impact, it is still something we (webmasters) should really look into. The reason is pretty simple – majority of visitors are usually in rush and no one is fond of waiting half a century before the website finally load its content or failed to load. In another words, if your site is slow, you are subjected to lose a lot of visitors. Visitors are traffic, traffic affects reputation and they can pot … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

An beautiful and free functioning photography web template. Normally so grab it fast! … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Powerpoint has produced more bad design in its day that perhaps any other digital tool in history with the possible exception of Microsoft paint. In this post we’re going to address the epidemic of bad presentation design with ten super practical tips for designer better looking and more professional presentations. Along the way we’ll see a number of awesome slide designs from Note & Point along with some custom examples built by yours truly. Let’s get started! Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant shopping cart and ecommerce websites. With the exceptional flexibility for customization of ecommerce scripts, third party tools and advanced functionality, shopping cart websites have revolutionized their look and feel and overall performance. In this post, we bring you 50+ fresh ecommerce websites that are not only beautiful but are also effective in presenting themselves as an online shop. Please go through the websites and let us know which ones are your favorites in terms of their design and usability. You can view the previous … Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

bxCarousel is an easy to use and customizable jQuery carousel plugin. It allows specifying number of elements to display, number of elements to be slided and has optional prev-next controls. It can work manually or with the "auto" mode where the duration between each item, speed and the direction of the transitions can be defined. bxCarousel works as [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

Here it is, our winners for ShortrunCard custom-printed plastic cards contest. Sorry for the slight delay! A little recap of what the winners will be getting before we announce the list. 3 winners, each getting a 0 gift card, 0 gift card and gift card, courtesy of ShortRunCard. These gift cards can be used to order customized plastic cards. Some of you raised the concern whether this includes the shipping fees – the answer is yes/no. Assume you won the 0 gift card, and yo … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

Tumblr. If you’re a savvy tech maven, you may have heard of, or had the chance to use, this powerful microblogging platform. No wonder; millions of people have chosen Tumblr as their blogging service, and the average Tumblr user creates 14 original posts every month. Half of those posts are photos, and the rest consist of text, links, quotes, music and video. Tumblr is nothing to sneeze at. It has proven itself worthy of receiving cash infusions from two venture capital firms and a number of angel investors. If you’re thinking of climbing on board the Tumblr train, this article is your golden ticket. We’ll discuss what Tumblr is and how it works, then we’ll look at how to customize it. We’ll cap that with a few miscellaneous bits of wisdom—things I wish I kn … Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot