Inspiration

30 Stunning Examples of Websites with Beautiful Gradients

10 Comments 15 February 2010

Being able to create transitional effects using two or more colors layered with one another is a vastly utilized technique in web design. Color gradients sometimes can be extremely easy to create, while others can be somewhat difficult and require discipline.

Below we’ve compiled a showcase (to inspire you) that contains various websites with a variety of gradient effects. Some of the effects will be within the background of the site while others will be located within several other elements of design such as the menu, sidebars, footers, and more.

365 Days of Anatomy

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Resources

10+ Places Where Designers Can Upload and Host Their Work for Free

9 Comments 09 February 2010

As designers we work hard to produce work with unparalleled uniqueness, and sometimes we need a place to upload, store, and share our work. Anything further than that, of course, is a plus. The only thing that can be somewhat as hard as producing quality work, is actually finding a place where you can upload your work with ease and one that gives you the option to share with others for great exposure. Below we’ve outlined over 10 websites that allow designers to upload and host their work for free.

We tried to focus on sites that are geared towards designers, and steered clear of massive sites like Photobucket and Flickr. We then ranked them for each websites quality and ease of use. The sites aren’t in any particular order. If you’d like to share any sites or thoughts, let us know in the form of a comment below!

CarbonMade

CarbonMade is a place where you can display and show off your portfolio. You’ll be able to easily manage every image that you upload with the use of a simple and clean interface. You can fill your portfolio with images, flash, videos and more! You’re also allowed to organize your projects however you’d like, style the visual properties of your portfolio, keep track of visitors, share with everyone in the Carbonmade community and anyone else. You can sign-up for the free plan (Meh) that comes with 5 projects and 35 images, or you can sign-up for Whoo pro-plan allowing you to upload over 50 projects, 500 hi-resolution images, and 10 high-quality videos to your profile.

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Tools

25 Excellent PHP Tools That Enhance The Way You Develop

11 Comments 06 February 2010

PHP has grown to become one of the most wide-spread server-side scripting language that’s used on a daily basis in a variety of ways. For the most part, almost every developer that’s introduced to this programming language uses it and becomes fond of it at some point. With the support of a very large community, this incredibly fast technology is taking over other server-side scripting languages. If you conduct a quick search on the subject you’ll find countless ready-to-use scripts and a fist-full of quality frameworks.

Here you can see we’ve complied 25 Excellent PHP Tools That Will Enhance The Way You Develop in detail. Take a look at a few of these tools, assess which ones address your needs, and take advantage of them. After all, they’re there for us to use.

PHP_Debug

PHP_Debug is very useful open-source tool that allows you to output processing times of your PHP and SQL, check the performance of specific code blocks and get variable dumps in graphical form.

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Various

Quick and Informative Review on Apple’s iPad

8 Comments 05 February 2010

Recently there’s been a lot of buzz surrounding Apple’s long-awaited and upcoming “phenomenon”, the iPad. If you’re wondering what the iPad is, it’s a tablet with a touch screen that operates on Apples entirely new (not OS X, but similar to the iPhone) platform. Let’s go a bit further and imagine an iPod touch that has a 10-inch screen, and with the capability of fast Internet surfing speeds, giant app icons, and versatility. That’s pretty much the iPad in a nutshell.

Within this article, we’ll touch base on a variety of features that may make or break the iPad. We’ll layout the facts and leave the rest to you. Let us know what you think!

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Photoshop

35 Amazing Custom Photoshop Brushes

4 Comments 04 February 2010

Brushes are a main part of every Adobe Photoshop user. They give you the ability to create awesome designs where they’re used in logos or wallpapers. Presenting a collection of 35 of the best free custom photoshop brushes that will surely help you in your upcoming projects.

How to Install A Custom Photoshop Brush:

• Start Photoshop (We’re using Adobe Photoshop PS4 Here)
• Right click on the Brush Tool

• On Top, you’ll see Brush. Click the arrow and it will bring down the brushes.

• Click (>) and a small menu will pop up. Click Load Brushes and select the download file (make sure you’ve unzipped it if it’s in the zip format). Select and it will load all the brushes in that pack and you’re done.

Amazing Custom Photoshop Brushes

1. Tree Brushes (8 Brushes)

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