Glow Brushes – 11 brushes

Glitter and Sparkle Brushes – 28 brushes

Stars and Sparkles – 14 brushes

Sparklies Brushes – 29 brushes

Lightning Brushes 1 – 6 brushes

Lightning Brushes 2 – 7 brushes

Star Brushes – 10 brushes

Stars 01 – 10 brushes

Light Beams – 26 brushes

Lightning Brushes 3 – 24 brushes

Lightning Brushes 4 – 10 brushes

Fantazy Sparkle Abstract – 5 brushes

Light Brush Set – 15 brushes

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In this article, we are going to see how these web designs implement the idea of minimalism. These 60+ websites showcase how to built a minimalistic design by using simple and basic elements. Remember, less is more.

1. JOE NYAGGAH

2. Jamie Gregory

3. Monk

4. Network Osaka

5. Pixelbot Webdesign

6. porcupine colors

7. DJ Johny Favourite

8. Pixelcraft

9. gb Studio

10. Stack Magazines

11. 4Wall

12. Agenda26

13. AREA 17

14. anebstar macht webseiten

15. Brian Hoff

16. Brian Piper

17. BRILLIANCY

18. Buffalo

19. cabedge.com

20. Counter-Print.co.uk

21. Purple Raincloud

22. David Arias

23. David Bushell

24. Design Intellection

25. dunnodt

26. Emptees

27. Fat-Man Collective

28. Daniel Oliver

29. fridayfonts

30. Guzzle.it

31. Erskine Design

32. hellopanos

33. SB Studio

34. horchata design syndicate

35. iconwerk

36. Imaginary Design

37. Indie Labs

38. James Chambers

39. kind company

40. L’Ormindo by Cavalli

41. Luma

42. MADE BY CEMAL OKTEN

43. Martin Hipp

44. Miguel Buckenmeyer

45. Minimalissimo

46. Nick Sigler

47. Olympic Canvases

48. Raymond Selda

49. Proud Creative

50. Ribbons of Red

51. Self Conclusion

52. ShareSomeCandy

53. Shay Howe

54. Studio Volk

55. Susie McConnell

56. Sveinn Davíesson

57. The International Office

58. this is a working library

59. TrueSlant

60. Typejockeys OG

61. Web Design Glasgow

62. Ancient Wisdom Productions

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PSD to HTML Tutorials:

If you’re interested in learning more about doing the PSD to HTML coding yourself, these tutorials will be very helpful.

From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website Designs Step-by-Step

Build a Sleek Portfolio Site from Scratch

Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML/CSS

How to Convert a PSD to HTML (video)

How to Code a Clean Portfolio Design

How to Code a Grunge Web Design

Coding a Clean and Illustrative Web Design

How to Create a Dark and Sleek Web Design from Photoshop

Coding a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design from Photoshop

Converting a Design from PSD to HTML

Slice and Dice that PSD

The Design Lab: PSD Conversion

Converting a Photoshop Mockup (video)

PSD to HTML Providers:

Here is a look at more than 40 of the leading providers of PSD to HTML services. Additionally, some offer options to have a PSD coded into a WordPress theme, some other type of CMS template, or for a particular shopping cart system.

Snobby Slice
You can read our review to see why we recommend Snobby Slice.

Markup4U
Markup4U also did some excellent work for us. You can see our review of the services from Markup4U.

PSD2HTML

W3 Markup

Pixel Crayons

Rapid XHTML

Markup Service

Quality XHTML

CSS Ninjas

HTML Cut

HTML Rockstars

Slice ‘n Dice

XHTMLizers

XHTML4U

Slice My Design

XHTML Slicer

Choppr

XHTML Genius

XHTMLized

HTML Blender

SEO Semantic XHTML

2HTML

PSD XHTML

PSD Cutout

Image 2 Markup

PSD Slicer

YoDiv

XHTML it

XHTML Team

PSD Slicing

XHTML Chop

PSD Converter

XHTML Mania

Dr. Martian

PSD to HTM

Feather Code

Convert2XHTML

PSD to HTML/CSS

You We You Coding

PSD to HTML Ninjas

HTML Burger

We Do Markup

Yummy CSS

Finely Sliced

9XHTML

Lemberg

PSD to WordPress Providers:

The companies listed below specialize in taking a PSD file and coding it into a WordPress theme.

WPCoder
WPCoder has done some work for us, and you can read our review of their services.

PSD to WP

Theme Slice

WP from PSD

PSD to WordPress

XHTML This

PSD to Any
In addition to WordPress, they offer coding services for other CMSs.

Reviews:

Finding the right PSD to HTML provider can be a challenge. There are a few sites that exist to allow reviews of PSD to HTML companies, which may be helpful if you are trying to find a provider that comes highly recommended.

Most Sliced

PSD to HTML Reviews

Best PSD to HTML
Also see the post Tips to Choose the Right PSD to XHTML Firm.

PSD to HTML Companies

Resources:

There are a few resources that will take your PSD and automatically create the code for you. I have not personally used any of these tools, so be sure to pay attention to the code that is produced.

SiteGrinder 2
A premium Photoshop extension that will convert a PSD to HTML.

PSD 2 CSS Online
A free online tool for PSD to HTML conversion.

Divine
Converts a PSD to a WordPress theme.

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We Love WP

WPCandy Gallery

Unmatched Style WordPress Tag

CSS Bloom WordPress Category

CSS Glance WordPress Category

I Heart Blogs

WPcube

LoopPress

Best CSS Gallery, WordPress Tag

45 Excellent Blog Designs from Smashing Magazine

AND BONUS

WPFloat

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1- Floom

Floom is blind-effect slideshow. It looks like a flash slideshow. One of my favourites.

2- Noob Slide

It is slideshow plugin based on mootools.

3- Panorama

A Mootools plugin for making 360 degree view with a slick navigation.

4-Phatfusion Slideshow

A slideshow with a good effect

5- Agile Carousel

A fully featured Jquery slideshow. It is best for website headers.

6- Simply Scroll

simplyScroll is a jQuery plugin that can animate (scroll) a set of elements either automatically or manually, horizontally or vertically. It can also accept dynamic image input via a Flickr feed (note not full API integration) or a local JSON source. This plugin can be performance intensive, so speed and framerate are fully configureable to accomodate lower spec systems.

7- Cross Slide

CrossSlide is a jQuery plugin that implements in Javascript some common slide-show animations, traditionally only available to the web developer via Adobe Flash™ or other proprietary plugins. CrossSlide builds upon jQuery animation facility, so it is as portable across browsers as jQuery itself (a lot.)

8- Sliced Image Slider

This plug-in provides sliced Image Navigation. The plugin loops through the given images and displays each image partitioned into n number of slices. The number of slices is a parameter that should be passed as an argument to the function. It also has other options like direction in which you want the image to slide.

9- S3 Slider Plugin

The s3Slider jQuery plugin is made by example of jd smooth slide show script. I needed something like that for jQuery (for my web site kruskica.net). Since i didnt find it after a small research i decided to build it by my self. It is very easy. First include the jQuery library then include the s3Slider javascript in the head of the page(s) where you want to use s3Slider.

10- Image Cube

A jQuery plugin that sets a division to rotate between images (or other things) as if they were on the faces of a cube.

11- Slideviewer Pro

slideViewerPro is a fully customizable jQuery image gallery engine wich allows to create outstanding sliding image galleries for your projects and/or interactive galleries within blog posts. slideViewerPro is the direct descendant of the popular jQuery slideViewer plugin

12- Panel Gallery

A simple image gallery where the images are sliced and fade in one piece at a time. Not one image needs to be sliced or edited to work with this plugin, in fact the plugin handles everything itself. You can choose the direction in which the transition occurs from left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top.

13- GalleryView

GalleryView aims to provide jQuery users with a flexible, attractive content gallery that is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.

14- SlideFlow

AJAX Image Gallery powered by slideflow (like Cover Flow)

15- Horinaja

Horinaja is a slide-show ready-to-use for scriptaculous/prototype or jQuery. Horinaja is innovant because he use your mouse wheel for a best navigation.

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Photoshop Tutorials:

30 Awesome Photoshop CS4 Tutorials From MirazWeb

Using Photoshop Gradient Tool from FreeTimeFoto.

Photoshop 101 – The Gradient Tool from Shape Shed.

A Gradient Tutorial from 9rules.

Creating Web 2.0 Effects with Photoshop – Part 1 from SitePoint.

Smooth Gradient Header Photoshop Tutorial from Tutorial Blog.

How to Create a Transparent Gradient in Photoshop from MediaCollege.com.

Creating Stylish Gradient Buttons from Wipeout44.

Jazzed Up Text With Gradient Effects from Wipeout44.

Become a Gradient Junkie from Wipeout44.

Gradient Mapping Effect in Photoshop from Wipeout44.

Web 2.0 Badge Photoshop Tutorial from Ajax Lessons.

Create a Shiny Badge Photoshop Tutorial from Tutorial Blog.

Tutorial: Rays of Light from Bartelme Design.

Sleek and Spicy Website Header Tutorial “Web 2.0 Style” from Photoshopit.

Gradient Text with Photoshop from Depiction.net.

Underwater Scene with Gradients from Heathrowe.com.

Warm Gradient Sunsets with Gradient Maps from Photoshop Essentials.

Using Gradients to Make Light and Shadow – and a Coffee Cup! from PSDTUTS.

Illustrator Tutorials:

Create Realistic Illustrations Using Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh from Veerle’s Blog.

Colorful Gradient Effects in Illustrator from Veerle’s Blog.

Transparent Gradients in Illustrator from CreativeTechs.

Adobe Illustrator – Gradient Mesh Tool, Gradients and Blends from Kevin Hulsey.

Transparent Gradient in Illustrator from Creative Bits.

Create Abstract Backgorunds in Illustrator from Vectips.

Illustrator 101: One Gradient Across Multiple Paths from BittBox.

Gradient Mesh – The Adobe Illustrator Video Podcast.

Gradient Meshes Introduction from Biorust.

How to Create Gradient Text in Illustrator from Wow Web Design.

GIMP Tutorials:

GIMP Gradient Tutorial from TankedUp Imaging.

GIMP Gradient Tutorial at YouTube.

General Tutorials:

Gradient Text Effect from Web Designer Wall.

Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds from A List Apart.

Pure CSS Text Gradients from CSS Tricks.

Span-Free Gradient Text Effect from Sam Rayner.

Cross-Browser Gradient Backgrounds Without Images from Slayer Office.

Web 2.0 Design Kit from Photoshop Lab.

Gradients – The Web 2.0 How-to Design Guide from Web Design from Scratch.

Gradient Tiles with Shadow from Projectseven.

CSS Gradient Background from DMXzone.

Background Gradients and CSS from TankedUp Imaging.

CSS Web 2.0 Glossy Text from Just Talk About Web.

Creating Gradient Fills with ActionScript from Lukamaras.com.

The Push vs. Pull Gradient from Blogoscoped.

Gradient Generators:

Gradient Image Maker from Dynamic Drive.

Gradient Text Generator.

CSS Gradients Demo.

The Amazing Gradient Generator.

Online Gradient Image Maker.

RoundedCornr – Create a rounded corner with a gradient.

Form Style Generator – Includes a gradient generator.

Gradient Generator.

secretGeeks Gradient Maker.

Gradient Resources:

600+ Photoshop Gradients to Download from Best Design Options

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Gradient Pack from Estetica Design Forum

CSS Text Gradient from CSS Globe.

CSS Gradient Shadow from Dynamic Drive.

900 Gradients For GIMP from Deviant Art

Tabs Generator – Create Gradient Tabs.

Dynamic Gradient Background.

1000+ Gradient Pack from Deviant Art

Color Blender.

Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients – Free Downloads from Deziner Folio.

Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients – Volume 2 from Deziner Folio.

Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients – Volume 3 from Deziner Folio.

Gimp 2.2 Gradients Muted from Deviant Art

130 Web 2.0 Gradient Swatches for Illustrator from Deziner Folio.

Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles – Free Download from Deziner Folio.

Some Gradients to Save Some Time from GoSquared.

Free Photoshop Gradients Download from Euphorish.

Gradient Progress Bar from Slayer Office.

Lose the Images: How to Get Rounded Corners, Gradients, Drop Shadows and More Using CSS from DesignVitality.

The Gradient Green Navigation Bar from Listamatic.

Plasma Gradient Gradation PSD from Deviant Art

130 Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients for Gimp from Gimp-Tutorials.net.

GIMP Gradients from Gimp.org.

36 Color Gradient Sets For Photoshop from 1stwebdesigner

Inspiration:

Yukio Miyamoto – Master of Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool.

Color Inspiration: Blends, Gradients, Steps, Oh My! from COLOURlovers.

AND DO NOT FORGET

25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs by Listelog

5000+ Color Gradients Set For Photoshop by Listelog

30 Light and Sleek Web Designs for Inspiration by Listelog

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So, what makes PHP so popular? PHP is so popular because it is relatively easy to learn compare to other language. Furthermore, there are a lot of great tutorials for beginner to get started. Although there are a lot of resources for us, but coding a site from scratch is very tough. Luckily, there are a lot of reliable PHP Framework which can shorten the development time. These frameworks are supported by huge community and they are willing to help if you face any problems.

Without talking much, let’s start to look into these 22 open source PHP frameworks:

Most Promising Frameworks

1. Zend Framework

Zend Framework is an object oriented framework written in PHP 5. It is based on simplicity, corporate friendly license, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. The loosely coupled architecture also allow developers to use Zend components within other framework.

2. Symfony

Symfony is a PHP 5 framework which provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. The official site provides a practical tutorial for Symfony beginner too.

3. CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is another popular PHP framework. It has the advantage of having a wiki for easier navigation. New users can get started easily by referring to its documentation. It supports PHP4, which makes it can’t take full advantage of PHP5.

4. CakePHP

Using commonly known design patterns like MVC  and ORM  within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

5. Prado

Prado require PHP5 and above to run, and it is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications. There is a quick start tutorial for beginner too.

6. Kohana

Kohana is a PHP 5 framework that uses the Model View Controller architectural pattern. It aims to be secure, lightweight, and easy to use. Kohana is originally based on CodeIgniter, but it is strict PHP5 OOP, which i think is more suitable to use in building new and large scale projects.

7. Solar Framework

Solar is a PHP 5 framework for web application development. It is fully name-spaced and uses enterprise application design patterns, with built-in support for localization and configuration at all levels.

8. Fuse

FUSE is a Model View Controller framework for PHP. Taking influence from other web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and CakePHP, then adding in custom, intuitive features of our own design, FUSE has developed into a robust, stable platform for MVC development using object oriented PHP.

9. Yii PHP Framework

Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for developing large-scale Web applications. It has a full stack of features and written in strict OOP(require PHP5 and above).

10. Akelos PHP Framework

The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern.

Other alternative PHP frameworks

11. Recess
12. Agavi
13. Qcodo
14. Zoop
15. QPHP
16. Seagull PHP
17. PHPDevShell
18. PHPOpenBiz
19. WASP
20. evoCore
21. Lion
22. Flow3

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Since we had looked into 22 open source PHP frameworks, i decided to do a roundup of 20 Open Source PHP Content Management Systems so that readers who don’t have strong PHP knowledge can easily create their website using free and open source CMS.

1. Wordpress

Wordpress is a powerful yet easy to use content management system. Initially it was designed as a blogging platform. However, it slowly become popular and can be customized into a powerful CMS with some tricks and plugins. I had wrote an article about Wordpress SEO plugins and also talked about things that you should know about Wordpress 2.8.

2. Drupal

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites.

3. Joomla

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

4. Frog CMS

Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management.

5. SilverStripe

SilverStripe is a PHP CMS built with Sapphire framework, and it uses MVC design pattern. you can view example sites that built with SilverStripe from the official webpage.

6. Mambo

Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Although some Mambo sites had already migrated to Joomla, but i think i should include Mambo as it is still a great CMS.

7. TYPOlight

TYPOlight is a PHP 5 CMS and it has a lot of features such as live update, cross-browser CSS framework generator(IE7 compatible), templated based front end output, use Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies. You should check out the main page for more info.

8. Concrete5

Concrete5 is an open source content management system with simple administaror interface. You can edit a web page live by using the editing toolbar provided after you log in as administrator.

9. Textpattern

Textpattern is yet another very popular content management system. It requires PHP 4 to run and has a lot of plugins that you can use for various customizations.

10. Symphony

Symphony is a CMS that uses XML/XSLT as its templating language. Symphony lets you customize anything you like, from the website’s URL structure to your publishing environment. For a non programmer, this CMS might be complicated to learn.

11. MODx

MODx is both a PHP application framework and content management system. MODx is the first free PHP CMS to offer an API that fully supports Web 2.0 Ajax technology. It is SEO friendly CMS, and allows you to configure the meta content for each page.

12. Habari Project

Habari is a highly recommended open source blogging platform. It is being written specifically for modern web hosting environment, and uses modern object oriented programming techniques.

13. CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple is highly customizable and there are a lot of Modules for you to download. The Documentation is pretty complete and easy to follow.

14. ImpressCMS

ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System. It is highly scalable and is extremely useful for managing online communities.

15. Exponent CMS

Exponent uses an intuitive and flexible content editing system that allows website pages to be edited on the page as it is displayed. You can download modules and themes from the official website too!

16. MiaCMS

MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. It has a powerful and extensible third party entension system, and also a flexible site theming capabilities. MiaCMS supports OpenID and can consider to be a stable and mature CMS.

17. Jojo CMS

Jojo is a search engine friendly CMS. You will have SEO friendly URL to your article, and Jojo will handle www/non-www domains for you. Beside SEO friendly, Jojo also lets you extend the functionality by adding product databases, blogs, image galleries or whatever takes your fancy.

18. TYPO3

TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.

19. Elxis CMS

Elxis CMS comes with a lot of features such as Search Engine Friendly URL, strong security, adjustable member list and complete user profiles. Its automated tasks, modern design, AJAX technology and multi-lingual interface helps you be more productive.

20. Chyrp

Chyrp is a lightweight blogging platform and it uses Twig as the templating engine. The documentation is quite complete and you can download a lot of useful modules from the main site.

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Fleuron | Twitter

Creative Depart

Human Resources | Twitter

An Idea | Twitter

Change The Thought

Chopping Block

Colour Lovers

Surf Station | Twitter

Design Charts

Chunnel TV

The Design Inspiration

Design You Trust | Twitter

Wooster Collective | Twitter

Inspired Magazine | Twitter

Not Cot | Twitter

Behance Mag

Grain Edit

Urban Outfitters Blog

Evening Tweed

Linefeed

Reform & Revolution

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I’ve put together a list of my favorites, that I feel every designer should put in their toolbox.If i had missed out any fonts that you think are cool, please share through the comment section. Without talking much, let’s see the list.

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A Bite – designed by Billy Argel. Download

Anja Eliane – Anja Eliane is a bold rounded box. Best result in medium-big size. Download

Asenine – A nice san serif option. Makes for a clean elegant feel. Download

[ank]* font Download

Abusive Pencil

Acid Label Akoom Ambulance Shotgun AnthologY Ascent 2 Stardom Artistamp AE Scrawl

AUdimat Mono

Angelina

advent

Automania

Americana Dreams

AUdimat

Abrosia

Alte Haas Grotesk

Athena Unicode

And do not forget

Other listelog posts about css:

40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design

52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design

65 Popular And Professional Free Fonts For Creative Typography

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