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20 Beautiful Examples Of Free Abstract Desktop Wallpapers

Reza — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:39:47 +0000

Today, we present you 20 Beautiful Examples Of Free Abstract Desktop Wallpapers that will absolutely inspire you.

Best 5 Flash CMS and Flash Builder

Reza — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:40:24 +0000

Flash websites are still very popular and they are getting more popular these days. Flash templates look really beautiful and they are very easy to manage. Flash CMS gives you the opportunity to build a flash website without using any code or being a flash developer. Here is a collection of the top 5 Flash CMS and Flash Builder we found on the internet.

1. Wix

2. SpryFlash CMS

3. Royale CMS

4. FlashMoto CMS

5. Yooba

Top 35+ Amazing Sand Sculptures Of The World

Reza — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:22:57 +0000

Sand Sculptures are beautiful sources for creativity and inspiration. Today we present the 35+ amazing and unbelievable sand sculptures of the world. So check it out.

Vampire Girl1
Detailed Aztec pyramid.

This huge triceratops is amazingly textured.

Stunning sculpture depicting the Crusades.

The elegant Cleopatra with two cheetahs.

Sandtastic
Commission for the Democratic debates featuring Obama’s likeness.

Stunning sandcastle in epic proportions.

Batman and Spiderman make an appearance at a surf expo.

Tine Verheyden
Sculpture of a wizard.

mermaid and dolphins playing.

Sultan of sand
Awesome Jack and the Beanstalk sculpture.

Ornate budha sculpture.

Mary and Joseph looking for a room at the inn.

This sculpture has a peaceful quality about it.

Jacques Daigneault
A huge sandcastle.

Ferencseitz
The lion and the mouse.

Shamus O’Reily
Hades and his helpers.

Stewie D
Jason and the Argonauts.

Skeleton warriors.

Sandsation
Taj Mahal in astounding detail.

Large Buddha and skyline.

Unique sculpture.

Fab
Life-like hippo sand sculpture.

Sanssational

Dan Belcher
The Presidential Seal.

Beethoven in sand.

Amazing Jack and the Beanstalk sculpture.

An angel looks over Marry and Joseph seeking a room at the inn.

Kingsand
This sculpture is full of expression.

Egyptian sculpture on a large scale.

Huge Little Mermaid sculpture.

Pancinha
The Simpsons on their famous couch.

This black and white really shows the great forms the artist rendered in sand.

Very detailed sculpture of a man and a dragon.

This sculpture is full of Egyptian symbols.

Radovan Zivny
A very large Buddha made to look as if it were constructed out of bricks.

Giant sculpture of Gulliver from Gulliver’s Travels.

This photo gives you a real sense of the large size of this sculpture.

This classic sculpture looks amazing in sand.

Caesar’s head over Roman soldiers.

Michaelangelo’s famous Creation of Adam in sand.

35+ Great Places to Find Web Design Jobs

Reza — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:35:54 +0000

Designers and developers are always looking for a job, whether it is full-time employment or freelance opportunities. There are some great websites taht can help you to find these types of jobs. This post contains a collection of 35+ best websites that include specialized job boards to find the right job for you.

Authentic Jobs
A very active job board used by a lot of recognized and respected agencies. Includes freelance and full-time opportunities.

Smashing Jobs
Smashing Magazine’s job board includes positions throughout the world for design and development.

Krop
Krop has a very active job board that usually has a number of new jobs each day.

Coroflot
Coroflot’s job board typically has a number of new listings each day in a variety of design disciplines, including graphic design.

Design Jobs on the Wall
Web Designer Wall’s job board freelance and full-time opportunities for design and development.

FWA Jobs
FWA’s job board includes a good balance of design and development positions throughout the world.

Design Related
The job board at design related includes a variety of web and graphic design positions, mostly located in the U.S.

AIGA Design Jobs
The AIGA job board includes various types of design jobs, including a number in web design

Freelance Switch
FreelanceSwitch lists freelance opportunities of all kinds, but design and development accounts for the majority of listings. Users must pay $7 per month to be able to apply to jobs.

LinkedIn
LinkedIn includes a job board with all types of positions. LinkedIn users can join groups, and these groups often include excellent niche job boards in addition to the main LinkedIn job board. If you search for web design or graphic design groups you’ll find some that include a large number of job opportunities and as a group member you’ll be able to respond to the person who posted the job.

Behance Network
Behance has a job board that includes listings in a variety of creative fields. Web design and graphic design are two of the most active categories for listings.

All Dev Jobs
All Dev Jobs includes listings for interaction design, graphic design and web development.

JavaScript Ninja
The JavaScript Ninja job board includes a good balance of design and development positions, both full-time and freelance.

Boxes and Arrows
The Boxes and Arrows job board includes listings for a variety of design and development positions.

Fresh Web Jobs
Fresh Web Jobs is a smaller job board that includes design and development positions.

Your Web Job
Your Web Job includes categories for design, development, UI/UX, Social Media, SEO, and more.

SearchWebJobs
Search Web Jobs includes full-time, part-time, and freelance jobs in categories of design, development, tech, marketing, and management.

Highend Careers
Highend Careers includes jobs in design, development, video games, animation, advertising, and more.

Creative Hotlist
Features listings for creative positions in advertising, design, video production, and more.

Dice
Dice is a huge job board for tech-related positions. There are a lot of web development positions as well as some web design opportunities.

CrunchBoard
Tech Crunch’s job board CrunchBoard includes jobs in several categories, with a number or development and programming positions available.

ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb currently has almost 200 jobs listed, with most of them being development-related.

Ars Technica
Ars Technica has a very active job board for development and IT-related jobs. Most are full-time and located in the U.S.

Ajaxian
Ajaxian currently has around 150 jobs posted, mostly development-related.

Wired
The Wired job board includes a variety of categories, with a good number of development and programming jobs.

Mashable
Mashable’s job board is most active in the marketing category, but there are also a good number of development jobs listed.

Just Tech Jobs
Just Tech Jobs includes web development positions, among others.

Elance

PeoplePerHour

Guru

oDesk

iFreelance

Project4Hire

GoFreelance

Freelancer

Xemion

Most Hired

15+ Amazing jQuery Navigation Menu Tutorials

Reza — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:47:25 +0000

The design of a website should be always clear and intuitive. And, of course, the key to clear design is a clear navigation. Today we are presenting you some of the most best and amazing jQuery-based navigation menu tutorials, you have to see.

Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery — Demo | Details

How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery — Demo | Details | Download
The author builds a menu and animates it with some smooth effects.

CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time — Demo | Details
In this tutorial, author will show you how to create a navigation menu using jQuery to compete with flash based navigation.

jQuery Random Link Color Animations — Demo | Details

Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery — Demo | Details | Download

Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery — Demo | Details | Download

How to Create a Drop-down Nav Menu with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery — Demo | Details | Download
In this tutorial, author will show us what we can achieve with HTML5 and CSS3 when it comes to the staple of current web sites: the humble drop-down navigation menu.

How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu — Demo | Details | Download
In this tutorial, author will tell us on how to build a lava-lamp style menu using a JavaScript library.

How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery — Demo | Details | Download
In this tutorial, author will tell us how To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery.

Making Accordion Menu Using jQuery — Demo | Details | Download
In this tutorial, author will show us how to create fancy accordion menu using jQuery. In this post, you’ll see two examples of accordion.

jQuery idTabs — Demo | Details | Download
In this tutorials author will show you how to use idtabs. idTabs is simple and easy to use.

Create a multilevel Dropdown menu with CSS and improve it via jQuery — Demo | Details | Download
In this tutorial author will show you how to make a multilevel dropdown menu with a sleek touch

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations — Demo | Details
In this tutorial author will show you how to create background image imagination with the help of jQuery.

Drop down menu with jQuery — Demo | Details
Here’s a drop down animated menu example made with jQuery.

Creating a Floating HTML Menu Using jQuery and CSS — Demo | Details | Download
Author will show us how to make floating menus that move as you scroll a page.

Designing the Digg Header: How To & Download — Demo | Details | Download
In this tutorial, author will show you how to create a navigation menu just like the one used in Digg.

20+ Free Thin And Light Font Collection

Reza — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:01:02 +0000

Typography and fonts are importent aspect of web and graphic design. If you’re looking for high quality thin and light font, this collection will help you improve your typography skills. Here you’ll find 20+ free thin fonts that can be used in your designs.

Champagne & Limousines

Garogier

Spirequal Light

Aaargh

Colaborate

Asenine

Bonveno CF Light

Caviar Dreams

Greyscale Basic

Engel Light

20+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

Reza — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:58:59 +0000

Adobe Fireworks is an excellent tool for designers. It provides a unique balance between vector and raster graphics, which is a nice hybrid between Illustrator and Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 20+ of the best tutorials for Fireworks that will help you to get started.

Creating Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks

Create a Vibrant Digital Collage Mixing Buildings and Vector Shapes on Paper

Dot Matrix Effect

How to Create a Stylish Navigation Bar in Adobe Fireworks

Create a Collage by Fading Images in Fireworks CS4

Masking in Fireworks CS4 (video)

Fireworks 101 (video) and Fireworks 101 Part II (video)

Fireworks CS4 CSS Export (video)

Fireworks CS4 Color Management (video)

Fireworks CS4 Layout Tools (video)

Build a Professional iPhone App Website Wireframe in Fireworks

LED Cinema Display in Fireworks