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Delicious bookmarks június 4. – június 7.:

• Web Designs that Use Textures Beautifully – Using textures in a web design gives it a unique look that roughens the sharpness and crispness that you can find in most other site designs. When used properly, the results of utilizing textures in a web layout can be stunning. This collection follows up on a collection posted last year called "30 Beautifully Textured Web Designs" (which you should check out if you haven’t already) with even more web designs that use textures masterfully.
• Transparency in Web Design | CSS-Tricks – How is it done? Let’s take a gander at four different ways. Each of them handling the illusion in a different way, and each completely appropriate depending on the situation at hand.
• 34 Inspiring iPad Application Websites | Inspiration – A while back we published an article showing you 50 Inspiring iPhone Application Websites. Since then, we’ve seen the launch of Apple’s iPad along with thousands of apps designed just for the device. This means that just like the iPhone, many of these iPad applications have their own website for promotion. So in order to bring you more inspiration, we’ve sifted through them and found 34 of the best.
• 50 Collection of Bitmap and Pixel Fonts | Naldz Graphics – The following is a collection of 50 Bitmap and Pixel Fonts that you surely wouldn’t want to miss!!!
• 40 Handy Photoshop Custom Shape Sets: Save Time | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Browse trough these 40 sets (over 400 unique shapes) to find something useful for you to use in your next web or graphic design project! Feel free to experiment!
• Beautiful Examples of 3D Elements in Web Design – In this collection, you will find 45 modern website designs that use 3D elements. I hope this showcase will be useful and inspiring to you.
• 50 Creatively Designed Websites On Single Page | Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers – Sometimes a single page website delivers much more information as compared to a multi-page website. The only thing these sites require in order to spread the message is one page that also demonstrates the effective use of space.
• Project Icons: A Set Of 165 Free Icons – They come in 32*32px sizes (some of them are in 48*48px too) and in .PNG, .ICO, .ICNS formats.
• Inspiration: 35 Unique Examples of Vintage Design | Nettuts+ – In this collection of retro-themed websites, you’ll find some excellent designs that will leave you in awe. Vintage websites have been quite popular in the last year, and I hope that these examples will inspire you to create your own!
• 10 Free Printable Web Design Wireframing Templates | Freebies – Here we’ve rounded up 10 free printable templates that will help you get started with your own wireframe sketches.

Delicious bookmarks június 2. – 12:23 – 12:29:

• 20+ Awesome Free Fonts for Big, Bold Typography | Most Inspired: Design Inspiration Blog – f you’re designing a poster or a header for a website, a big bold font can be just what you need to make your message stand out.
• 35+ Beautiful Examples of Creative Collage for Your Inspiration | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Below are samples of graphic and web design work using the collage technique with great concepts for your inspirations.
• The Beginner’s Guide to BuddyPress (Open Source Social Networking) | Graphic and Web Design Blog – As more and more sites start to use BuddyPress its true power, and that of WordPress is astonishing.
• 50 Insanely Awesome Pieces of Summer Inspiration | Graphic and Web Design Blog – This collection has illustrations, photo-manipulations, drawings and photos for you to get refreshed and inspired by!
• A Guide to Google Font API – Though we have so many typefaces to choose from, we could only use a specific set of regular fonts installed and supported by most computers — these fonts were collectively known as Web-safe fonts.
• 10 Massively Popular Websites with Plain and Simple Designs – Here they are, 10 massively popular websites with pedestrian designs.
• Beautiful and Useful 404 Error Pages for Inspiration – Here is a collection of 30 beautiful and creative 404 Not Found error message pages.
• Beautiful Web Designs That Use Nature Themes – Here is a showcase of over 40 exceptional web designs that use nature themes.
• Windows-Like Popups With jQuery: AeroWindow – AeroWindow is a jQuery plugin for creating Windows 7-like aero style pop-ups.
• Starter Kit For Designing Social Icons: Socialmonochromicons – Socialmonochromicons is a set of 150 vector social bookmarking icons to help you create a custom one by providing you the shapes of popular services.
• 60 Excellent Examples of Illustration in Web Design | Inspiration – As illustration is somewhere in between those options and is something that can be used to give your website a very unique touch, we decided to gather 60 excellent examples of illustration in web design. There should be plenty here to inspire you.
• 20 Elegant Fonts for Clean Design | Freebies – There are 20 in all and they’re all free.

Delicious bookmarks május 21. – május 25.:

• A Promising Open Source Shopping Cart: eCart – eCart is an open source e-commerce shopping cart application that is built with PHP-MySQL.
• 20 Best WordPress Ecommerce Themes | Resources – WordPress is a great platform for setting up an online store, and there is a wide range of themes available to help sellers reach target customers. This post presents 20 of the best ecommerce themes, including both free and premium examples, covering storefront templates aimed at a variety of niche markets.
• 50 Red Web Designs to Inspire You | Inspiration –
• Free Wireframe Toolbar Icons For GUI Designers – Gentleface Toolbar Icon Set is a set of 244 icons that focuses on the "toolbar part" of applications..
• Beautiful Footers in Modern Web Design for Inspiration – Today, we have the next generation of footer designs showcased in this collection.
• 40 Beautiful and Very High-Resolution Wallpapers – This collection contains beautiful, high-quality and high-resolution (at least 1900×1200px) wallpapers.
• 40 Fantastic Pricing Tables for Your Inspiration | Graphic and Web Design Blog – When selling a product or service online, a pricing plan is a not simply a portal the user has to click through to purchase their item. It allows you, as the merchant, do drive you’re deal home, and provide alternative deals that will secure you further purchases.
• 44 Free Beautiful Sunset Wallpapers | Naldz Graphics –
• Web Design Trends 2010: Real-Life Metaphors and CSS3 Adaptation – Smashing Magazine – In this article, we’ll explore some new design approaches and techniques that you may want to develop for your own projects.
• 17 Free Content Management Systems For Better Content Handling | Graphic and Web Design Blog – In this article I collected 17 free to use content management systems that will make your content creation process an easier task.
• 10 jQuery Plugins to Help with Web Page Layouts | Tools – Every now and then a web project will come up that has special and unique layout requirements, and the current capabilities of CSS just aren’t enough. With projects such as these, jQuery can be your best friend. So here are 10 jQuery plugins to help you out with page layouts.

Delicious bookmarks május 17. – május 20.:

• Google Font API & The Google Font Directory – Google just announced a very functional font resource with an API which will help using custom fonts within web pages.
• Stunning Black Wallpapers For Your Desktop | Wallpapers – One of the most debated issues about color is whether black is truly a color or not. To an artist (or a child) black is a color and white is not.
• Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces – Monday By Noon – I have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux.
• Top 50 Web Graphics, Admin Skins and Scripts to Accelerate Development | Nettuts+ –
• 13 Pure CSS Techniques for Creating JavaScript-like Interactions | Tutorials – We all know that JavaScript allows us to do great things when it comes to user interfaces, but with a little imagination and creativity, the same types of effects can be created with only CSS
• Web Design Trends for 2010 | Webdesigner Depot – In 2010, we’re seeing designers continuing to push the boundaries of web design, setting the following clear trends…
• Free Vector Black & White Icons: Default Icon – Default Icon is a set of frequently improved and free vector icons in their simplest form possible.
• 70 Unique Examples Of 404 Error Pages For Your Inspiration – What does 404 error page mean? It’s just a page that shows up when user tries to browse the page that doesn’t seems to exist anymore – link may be  broken, moved, or even it has never existed and never will.
• 61 High Quality And Free xHTML Templates Part 2: Year 2010 | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Study code, design, style – how templates work in different browsers, what makes them look good – great case study! Evaluate it and bookmark for later use, when you’ll need to complete quick project or check some nifty effect with some cool code.
• 25 Best Icon Sets for Application Design | Web Design Soul – Today, we’ve compiled a list of 25 best icon sets for application design, there icon sets were hand-collected from the internet and all of them are free for using on your projects…

Delicious bookmarks május 12. – május 17.:

• 60 Minimal and Super Clean Web Designs to Inspire You | Inspiration – A clean and minimal web design is an effective way to convey an image of elegance and sophistication. This type of design is all about doing more with less, and making use of plenty of white space to let content and page elements breathe.
• 30 Creative and Unique Free Fonts – Everyone love free fonts. If you want to be a bit different, you can use these creative fonts to make sure that your designs will stand out.
• How to Add Post Thumbnail to your WordPress RSS Feeds – In our earlier tutorial, we showed you how you can add post thumbnails in WordPress. The sad truth is that even if you enable the post thumbnails, it will not show up in your RSS feeds. But we have a solution for that. In this article, we will show you how you can add post thumbnails to your WordPress RSS feeds with a simple function.
• 40 Free Adorable Animal Wallpapers | Naldz Graphics – These are all for free to download for your personal use. Why don’t you take a peek and choose your pick.
• 20 Plugins That Extend the Standard WordPress Feature Set | tripwire magazine – 20 Plugins That Extend the Standard WordPress Feature Set Unlimited possibilities characterize the WordPress platform.
• Bring Back Nature 1 | Wallpaper Art – Enjoy the selection and prepare for a big update. Some of you may have noticed an under construction page during the day.
• 20 Sets Of Free Twitter Icon Sets | Open Source Technology Blog – Lately, twitter icons have become one of the most popular icon that sits on your web site to promote your activity via twitter. if you want to catch the eye of the visitor to your website, it becomes more important to have a catchy twitter icon showing up on your site. To find a catchy twitter icon all you need to do is to  search relevant sites on the web that provide free twitter icons or you could find right here in this post!
• Useful (Offline) Utensils and Toolkits for Designers | Tools – Why start completely from scratch when you can use one of these pre-made guides to save time and better direct your creative energies? Below we’ve compiled a great list of free, downloadable tools, as well as a collection of notepads and other products you can purchase for offline planning and design.
• 50+ Conceptual Logos for your Inspiration | Most Inspired: Design Inspiration Blog – Although very difficult to pull off, if done correctly hiding meaning in a logo, can be a very powerful way to brand yourself, your company or your website
• 20 Fresh High Quality Free Fonts – Smashing Magazine – Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview.
• 65 Free Premium Like Mini Pixel Fonts | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Pixel fonts come in handy, when you need to write really small, solid, easy readable text.
• Incompatible Browser Alerts: Free The Foxes – And, with the increasing usage of HTML5+CSS3, they are becoming incompatible with more and more browsers everyday.