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Bright, colourful, and making great use of space within the design. The map located in the footer is also a unique touch! This design was featured on the Friday 18th of May 2012. It falls under the category of Charity, and has a layout style of Grid. 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

A logo concept with style, colour, gradient, and simplicity. This design was featured on the Friday 18th of May 2012. It falls under the category of Logo, 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 PSD contains three different styles of to-do list, each with a unique look and feel, and intricate detail. It’s also included as a high resolution “retina ready” PSD for use on mobile devices. This design was featured on the Friday 18th of May 2012. It falls under the category of Web App, 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

Having problems with a profile picture that has been reused one too many times? With so many social networking profiles to manage, and running out of ideas on how to customize them for every single platform, it’s time you start looking for external help. We’ve compiled for you 10 websites that you can use to create your very own Avatar. Apply effects, distort, clean up or reimagine yourself in an impossible scene – you can do all that on these websites. But we’re not going to give all the fun away, you should try them for yourself and show us your avatar creations. Recommended Reading: 25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos Montagraph Montagraph is a social platform that gives you an easy way to make and share you … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

We’re back with another great exclusive freebie for you. This one is a Photoshop pattern file (.PAT) which contains 40 beautiful textures that you can apply to your designs. A detailed step by step instruction is provided inside the file to help you use them. You can use these as textures for your websites or any background. Thanks to Rayz Ong from LemonGraphic for creating this awesome freebie for WDD readers. Redistribution is not allowed, so if you’d like to share this one with your friends, kindly direct them to this page so that they can download their own copy from here. The file is free for personal and commercial use… see the full preview and download after the jump! Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

Recently, we took a dive into the very core concepts behind CSS layout and explored the differences between absolute and relative positioning. We’re going to follow that up with another CSS layout talk, this time based around a fundamental question that almost every new developer asks: how do you center something? There are a bunch of different types of web elements and layout situations, each calling for a unique solution for centering (both vertically and horizontally). Today we’ll go over a bunch of these scenarios so you can wrap your mind around how they work and come away with the co … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

In some cases, you are not able to update/upgrade your WordPress and plugins to a newer version without providing your FTP connection information. This is a common issue whereby the WordPress system can’t write to your /wp-content folder directly. To solve this issue you need to define the FTP details in your wp-config.php file so WordPress will remember it. Alternatively, you may also provide WordPress with write access to your /wp-content folder by accessing the FTP root file and changing the f … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

Collaboration and education are two key words intrinsically associated with hackathons (the third being ‘free pizza’!). Hackathons promise a chance to meet other coders or designers, network with influencers and industry experts, and even find recruitment opportunities. It isn’t surprising that, with the spread of startup culture across geographic boundaries, hackathons too have started mushrooming in the likeliest – and the unlikeliest – of places. There are certain rules – both said and unsaid – that apply when attending hackathons. While most hackathons remain informal, free-wheeling affairs, you can learn a lot more from them if you follow a few tips: Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

Advertise here with BSA Previously, WRD had shared Pubwich, an open source application that can fetch data from different sources. It is not updated since 2010 and there is a regularly updated fork named PubwichFork. To remind, the application can aggregate any published data from multiple sources including websites + social networks and display them in a single-page. The [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

When we go through some movie based on college life, it seems to be so exciting and fun. There everyone seems to be so happy, living a carefree life, dancing, singing and roaming all around. It is felt that they are not at all worried about their future but in reality life is very mush opposite to that. While college days must be the most exciting and days to be enjoyed in everyone’s life, the reality is so far different from it. These is a lot of pressure on a students to achieve good marks and grades in all the exams and to remain equally alert in other co curricular activities and to secure a good job for him by taking advantage of all good jobs opportunities especially when there is lack of good jobs in the market and scope is less after graduation. Here are some smartphone applications you can do a great management of your stress. So just have a look at these applications. 1.  Stress Tracker Condition you’re appeari … Read the rest of the article on : SaveDelete