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15 Tips on How to Retain Designer’s Creativity

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in Inspiration with No comments

An artist, whatever genre you are passionate of, would always experience a “Creative Block”. This means that you couldn’t patch up what you are trying to work on or you really couldn’t work ‘coz something inside you doesn’t have the eagerness to work! But the moment requires you to come up with a good project because a client needs it or maybe you just want to make a work of art. So what should you do to stay creative?

Actually, there are many ways to spark creativity. In this article, we will give you a few tips to enlighten your mind and break free from being a thwarted artist.! Continue reading →

50 Email Templates to Enhance your Newsletter’s Appeal

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in Inspiration with No comments

From the old fashion telegraph, fax and snail mail, e-mail or electronic mail has indeed replaced and innovated this generation’s communication through the fast and hi-tech way of reaching our loved ones no matter how far they are. Although there are some people who still prefers the former from the latter, email has gained the majority’s approval. Through the years of using email, it has indeed caught the idea of some webmasters to create email templates that will somehow take interest in not only conveying information but creating a nice presentation as well. All throughout the web, various email templates are continuously circulating and is somehow attracting the interest of email marketers, promoters and some bloggers who can easily identify the possible attraction a good email template can create.

As an initial offering, 50 Appealing Email Templates is presented in this next post, showcasing several unique and cool email templates. The templates can be purchased and installed with some unique features that are enumerated in the collection. Feel free to check them out!!! Continue reading →

25 Must Learn Slider Tutorials with jQuery

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in JQuery, Tutorials with No comments

A slideshow is a display of a series of chosen pictures, which is done for artistic or instructional purposes. Many businessman, resource speakers, and students alike have been using slideshows to present new ideas, report investigations and the like. Slideshow presentation comes in many and varied ways. Numerous computer-literates today have discovered a great way of presenting ideas and animating a simple slideshow, that is through the usage of jQuery technology. For those who are not familiar with jQuery, it is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. Technically speaking, jQuery is a free, open source software, designed to make it easier to navigate a document, select DOM elements, create animations, handle events, and develop Ajax applications. It also provides capabilities for developers to create plug-in on top of the JavaScript library. Now, a combination of both will create a splendid and spectacular audiovisual presentation.

Here, in this next post, a compilation of great and cool tutorials in utilizing the jquery is presented in instructional and creative ways. Feel free to browse through this 25 Must Learn Slider Tutorials with jQuery and get new and fun ideas to turn your simple slideshow into a cool and dynamic presentation!!! Continue reading →

25 Fresh Web Layout Tutorials for Beginners and Advanced

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in Inspiration, Photoshop, Tutorials with No comments

Designing websites in Photoshop is becoming a necessity for every designer. With this matter, we’ve come up another list of tutorials for every aspiring designers. The new tutorials featured here will take you through the process of creating a website design in Photoshop for beginners and advanced. They are all different types of websites and styles of design represented, so you should certainly be able to find some useful tutorials from this roundup. By following each tutorial, you’ll surely learn some tips and techniques as you go along the way.

Below is 25 Fresh Web Layout Tutorials you should learn. The tutorials covers different types of website design like wordpress themes layouts, business layouts, portfolio websites, hosting layouts and portfolio layouts. Check them out and enjoy learning. Continue reading →

50 Collection of Bitmap and Pixel Fonts

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in Fonts with No comments

A bitmap is a type of graphic composed of pixels (picture element) in a grid. In many designs today, bitmap graphics is also used in various images and creativeartworks. In this post, bitmap is used in such a way that more designers will be able to use them. The following is a collection of 50 Bitmap and Pixel Fonts that you surely wouldn’t want to miss!!!

Grab your mouse and get ready to download the fonts of your choice and start using them to your designs, now… Have fun!! Continue reading →

30+ Free Mobile & Web Application Icons

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in Icons, Resources with No comments

Interested in Mobile and Web Application Development? If yes, well here’s the post for you! We have collected some cool icons for your current and future projects. The icons showcased here are specially designed for mobiles and web applications of all sorts. Nevertheless, you may also use the items other than web development.

Free Mobile and Web Application Icons has been showcased. You sure wouldn’t want to miss these amazing freebies. The icons presented here are all unique. So download the icon of your choice and get started with your project!!! Continue reading →

40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in 3D, Resources with No comments

Autodesk 3ds Max, (formerly known as 3D Studio MAX) is a software that models, animates and renders any design to look more realistic. At present, more and more designers are into mastering this software to widen their skills and explore the design possibilities especially nowadays that almost everything is 3D.

To aid those designers who are aiming to master 3D designs, we bring you 40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance . The list is composed of several techniques that you may need to use in creating 3D graphics with the help of other software like Photoshop, Zbrush and special plugin like V-ray to enhance the result. For advance users, however, this post may be used as a refresher for techniques you may have learned before or you may also find new and innovative tips as shared by the author… Have fun learning!!! Continue reading →

25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in Code, Resources with No comments

Ajax allows for rich-internet applications that mimic the responsiveness and complex user interfaces typically associated with desktop applications. Moving applications to the web browser opens many possibilities, including the ability to save user data, connecting with other users for collaboration and sharing, and making deployment and using the application easier since web browsers are standard-issue with most computers regardless of operating system.

If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications. Though most are geared for budding and intermediate developers, veterans might find a trick or two they haven’t encountered before. Continue reading →

22 Open Source PHP Frameworks To Shorten Your Development Time

by Maotun on 08 Kasım 2011 in PHP, Resources with No comments

PHP is a widely used programming language for web development. Although there are a lot of alternative programming languages for web development such as ASP and Ruby, but PHP is still the most popular among them.

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: Continue reading →