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60 Beautiful Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration

60 Beautiful Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration

To be unique and original, you need to have a good source of inspiration. You can get inspiration from music, family and friends, even other people’s work, to get a great design idea. To help, we bring you this collection of light and clean websites, separated into different categories

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20 New & Extremely Useful Mac Apps For Web Designers

20 New & Extremely Useful Mac Apps For Web Designers

Whichever type of Mac user you are, today’s post will certainly help you in completing your day-to-day tasks, develop & code projects and make your Mac as fast and clean as possible. For this post we tried to get you the best selection of New Mac Apps that will help you be a more efficient designer. Though, not many applications mentioned here are free, you do receive a good range of features for your money.

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How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

Learn How To Design a translucent 3D Frosted Glass Box based on the Safari Icon in Adobe Photoshop. Quick Nav: Tutorial Download the PSD (Source Files) Step 1: Setting Up Make a new document with these settings: Next, select the fill tool (G) and fill it with #626262 . Now, we need to make a new adjustment layer

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AutoCAD to Photoshop

AutoCAD to Photoshop

There are many reasons why you might want to move your AutoCAD drawings into Adobe Photoshop. You may have realised by now that although AutoCAD is great for creating accurate, clear and intelligent drawings, it often is found wanting when it comes to presentation. Various add-on applications have been written to improve and extend the use of AutoCAD into the presentation arena.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Saving Images for the Web

The Comprehensive Guide to Saving Images for the Web

On the surface, saving images for the web can be a pretty straightforward process. However, if you dig deeper there’s a wealth of information and techniques you might be missing out on. This article will focus primarily on the diverse features of Photoshop’s “Save for Web & Devices” command along with some best practices related to saving images that are optimized for web use

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Free XHTML Template Pack: Classic Luxury

Free XHTML Template Pack: Classic Luxury

Classic Luxury is a high quality, clean and simple CSS-based template with three custom pages created by CssTemplateHeaven exclusively for Six Revisions readers. It is clean and has a lot of whitespace and nice typography. The code is well-organized and uses standards-based HTML and CSS

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Free Dark and Clean WordPress Theme: Designpile

Free Dark and Clean WordPress Theme: Designpile

In this post we are glad to release DesignPile WordPress Theme , a theme designed by Site 5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme comes with 3 color styles and a couple of jQuery-based goodies.

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25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

“Coming soon” pages are a great way to tide over your visitors until you finish your new website. They can be used as a teaser for your future website, or places to simply put your information where people can get to it while you are under digital construction

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Create a Clean and Professional Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Clean and Professional Web Design in Photoshop

In this Photoshop web design tutorial we are going to design a smashing, clean, and professional website layout in Photoshop. The layout we are doing in this tutorial can be used as personal or corporate website design

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30 Brilliant Websites So Smart in Organizing Design Elements

30 Brilliant Websites So Smart in Organizing Design Elements

We are always looking for inspiration, specially when it comes to web design. And If you’re looking for a way to break out of the box with a design, creating a unique layout is one way to accomplish this. Designers play around with different elements to create a memorized design, some of them use layouts, colors and typography to style a well organized design.

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Email Newsletter Design: Guidelines And Examples

Email Newsletter Design: Guidelines And Examples

The email newsletter is a powerful marketing and communication tool that has various useful functions. It reminds your users about you; it informs users about your products; it tells them what you have been up to; and it helps you build a unique relationship with them.

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10 Hand-Picked Tutorials for Beginning Web Designers

10 Hand-Picked Tutorials for Beginning Web Designers

So you’re starting to show interest in web design, but are having trouble figuring out where to start?

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Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery (Part 1: Photoshop)

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery (Part 1: Photoshop)

This tutorial will show you how to build creative hover animations for buttons using sprites. The particular effect illustrated in this tutorial is inspired by the “Download” buttons on Tutorial9.net. Part 1 of this tutorial explains the design process in Photoshop

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Create An Apple Ipad

Create An Apple Ipad

Good evening everybody, in today’s tutorial il be showing you how to create an “Apple Ipad” from scratch using only photoshop. Lets get going. The Finished Ipad This is what the finished result will or should look like once finished.

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Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Over the last months we released a variety of icon sets, tools and templates, but now we would like to release something a bit different for a change.

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The Three Golden Rules of Site Redesigns

The Three Golden Rules of Site Redesigns

Last month I made a New Year’s resolution to schedule myself as a client and rebuild my website. Basically, the design and code had become entirely embarrassing to me.

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Applying Mathematics To Web Design

Applying Mathematics To Web Design

“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies

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Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes

Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes

In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology . While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes. Well, that’s where Part 3 comes in.

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A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs

A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs

If there’s anything web designers learned from the past year, it’s that mobile web usage will continue to soar .

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Personal vCard Pt.2

Personal vCard Pt.2

Hello everybody welcome to the second part of the vCard layout tutorial.

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