Design Resource - 30 Sites to Download Free Stock and Royalty Free Images

When you are designing a website,blog, brochures.., you mostly always want to add some stock images to it, to give a good looking feel, Mostly Images play a vital role in design, Here I’ve listed 30 best websites where you can download stock and royalty free images for free

1. Photocase

2. StockXchange

3. StockVault

4. Dreamstime

5. Open Photo

6. morgueFile

7. Every Stock Photo [ Search engine for free photo ]

8. Studio 25

9. Woophy

10. DexHaus

11. Photogen

12. About Pixels

13. FreeFoto

14. Free Photos Bank

15. Bancoimagenes



16. Pixel Perfect Digital

17. Pixelio

18. Pixel Galerie

19. Nations illustrated

20. Vintage Pixels

21. Free Picture Click

22. 9×13

23. Design Packs

24. Image* After

25. MIcro Shots

26. Turbo Photo

27. Free Digital Photos

28. Bluevertigo

29. FontPlay

30. Digital Dreamer

Art on a Board: Creative Skateboard-Arts by Emil

Emil Kozak began at an early age to develop his skills, inspired by skateboard-art and the result today is a unique artist with brilliant ideas. The style is fresh and positive, but often with a message that digs deeper. He is a master of composition and has an eye for detail, that is not seen very often, His art works in skateboard are just amazing!!!, Hope dzineblog readers likes it

27 Best Photoshop Gadget Design Tutorials to Design Realistic Gadgets

There are plenty of Photoshop tutorials out there, to improve Photoshop skills and techniques, actually you can improve your skills by designing a very realistic objects, as everyone says the design is in the details, In this post, you’ll find 27 Best Photoshop gadget Design Tutorials to Design realistic Gadgets like cell phones, Camera, Computers and more

1. Mobile Phone Styled Like HTC Touch Diamond

2. Designing loox Pocket PC

3. Mp3 Player Design

4. Shiny Photo Realistic Apple Remote

5. Realistic LCD HD-TV

6. Blackberry Style Mobile Phone From Scratch

7. iPod Shuffle From Scratch

8. Create a Sony PlayStation 3

9.  A Slick iMac Pro in Photoshop

10. Sony Ericsson S500 Cell Phone Interface.

11. Nokia 5300 Cellphone Interaface

12. Design a Watch in PhotoShop

13. USB Stick Tutorial

14. Design a iPhone in Photoshop [ Video Tutorial ]

15. Black Spider Mp3  Player Design

16. Audio Receiver Illustration

17.  LCD Monitor Design

18. Super Retro Style game Controler

19. Cute Strawberry Phone

20. 3D Mp3 Player

21. TV Aquarium

22.  Custom Mp3 Player

23. Cute Little TV

24. Floating USB

25. Blackberry Phone

26.  Design a Camera

27. XBox 360 Design

10 Websites with huge list of resources for web designers and developers

These are the sites which have a huge list of links that are divided up into categories and then thrown together on one giant page of resources for web designers and developers, all these website covers mostly all topics is design and development, such as Icons, Templates, Fonts, Scripts, Color tool,  CSS and more

1. Skout - Resource for Designers by Designers

2. Web Developer’s Handbook

3. For Web Designers - 673 Helpful links and Counting

4. Devlisting | Web Devoloper Resources

5. All Great Web Design gallery Roundup

6. Cork Dump | Customizable Resources for Designers and Devolopers

7. Resources for  Web Design

8. Agency Tool | Web Design Dashboard

9. BLUE VERTIGO | Web Design Resources Links

10. N Design Studio - Links Section

TiltViewer - A 3D Flickr Image Browser

TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space. Images are pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list.

TiltViewer was built using Away3D, a branch of Papervision. Currently Away3D provides better handling of mouse events for nested 3D Objects. One limitation of Away3D is that there is no access to a 3D object’s sprite, so you can’t apply filter or alpha effects. I’m guessing that soon these features will be added to both engines.

Does a 3D UI give more functionality than the equivalent 2D interface? No, but its certainly a lot cooler! Part of the motivation to build this was to explore ways to make 3D interfaces simple and intuitive.

Being able to load Flickr images into a 3D engine was recently made possible when Flickr added crossdomain XMLs to it’s image servers. Thanks Flickr!

Click here for more about TiltViewer

Award winning Flash Websites of the year 2007

The FWA Review is an ongoing series of articles providing a snapshot of each year , The FWA Review will act as a history of cutting edge webdesign and a reminder of those future-thinking sites ,who have paved the way so far.

2007 was definitely a year of renewed innovation, As budgets and bandwidth have grown agin this year, so has the quality and creativity witnessed on the web

Monoface

a simple idea executed perfectly made monoface a site you’d never forget

I Spy with my little eye>Avery creative campaign for an extremely worthy project which drew attention to the plight of children in the Netherlands

I want to see a ghost

A grat viral campgain which was also rather unnerving. Your cahnce to send your friends and foes some terror, Spanish styles

Nokia The PassengerA pioneering example of a first person driving game using actual video footage

Instinct

Wild and Wacky and delicious visuals drag and drop navigation giving the site an added edge

Get the Glass

This site is worth “site of The Year” award , Amazing levels of production and attention to detail

Michelin A etter Way Forward

Silck 3D fly-bys and clever contant managment brought Michelin in to the cool web world

Benny The Brave

Simple Idea and almost had a back to the oldschool flash4 feel but with 2007 creativity

A Massive and diverse site with something for everyone, even if you are not planning a holiday

UniqlockPossibly the most addictive website of the year, you have been warned!

Education is EverywhereOutstanding colors combined for a world calss innovative educational site

Using a mini-world view, this site for Nokia Embraces the nonstop living theme Perfectly

Good Things Should Never End

Loaded with gorgeous graphics, animation and content. Scroll to your heart’s content

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Actually there are 50 Of them Read the Full Article @ THEFWA.COM

CSS3 Opacity

Need for Handling Transparency:

Before the introduction of features in CSS3 for handling transparency of images the web design though took over in various aspects had a great limitation embedded in it. That is the print design can handle overlaying of text on a background which could either be an image or color background.

This overlaying of text on background ability have the print design the ability of giving fading of text effect in the background and thereby handling the feature of transparency of images. But in contrast the web design lacked this powerful ability before the introduction of features in CSS3 which was handled in CSS3 by its powerful feature of opacity.

What is Opacity in CSS3:

Opacity is actually a property of CSS3 which gives its the ability to change the opacity of web design objects or elements and thereby make the element achieve the effect of fading and appearing thereby handling transparency of images. In short opacity is actually a property introduced in the version of CSS3 which would help users to define and handle the transparency of images on web screen with respect to its background.

Structure of Opacity in CSS3:

The general syntax of the powerful feature opacity in CSS3 is as below:

opacity: <alphavalue> | inherit

In the above the alphavalue denotes any value in the range from number 0.0 to 1.0 inclusive of both. In this the number 0.0 denotes fully transparent image which means that the background image to the element would be completely visible and number 1.0 denotes fully opaque which means that the background image to the element would be completely invisible. The default initial value is 1.0.

For example

opacity:1.0

The above example denotes the transparency of element to be completely opaque thereby making all the background images below the element defined to be completely invisible.



The option inherit is optional which if included denotes that the opacity property of the element defined should be maintained in the same way as that of its parent opacity. The opacity feature is handled and supported by Netscape browsers and is not supported by non-Mozilla browsers and is also not supported by Internet Explorer6 and Internet Explorer 7. The above statement may put the users feel that Internet Explorer being famous browser could not handle opacity property making it less powerful ability. But it is not so because though Internet Explorer does not support opacity property of CSS3 it supports an equivalent property alpha filter which is a property of Microsoft. The alpha filter property of Internet Explorer takes any value in the range from number 0 to 100 inclusive of both. In this the number 0 denotes fully transparent image which means that the background image to the element would be completely visible and number 100 denotes fully opaque which means that the background image to the element would be completely invisible. Thus it now clear from the alpha filter property that if one wants to handle transparency of images in CSS3 using Internet Explorer then they must multiply opacity by 100 and add the corresponding alpha filter.

So the general syntax for handling transparency of images in CSS3 using Internet Explorer property of alpha filter is as below:

filter: alpha(opacity=value);

The Mozilla-based browsers also support the property of opacity of CSS3 but some of the Mozilla-based browsers use the syntax with keywords as

-moz-opacity

for handling opacity property of CSS3

Apart from the above representation placement position also has to be specified along with the sytax of opacity definition. The placement position supported by Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based browsers is float:left

An example of the representation is given below:

<span style="float:left;filter:alpha(opacity=30);-moz-opacity:.30;opacity:.30;">

One more feature which makes using opacity property powerful is the way or syntax of opacity property is convenient to handle. This is because one can use the same value for rgb but still can achieve shades in images by using the opacity property defined in CSS3 instead of achieving different shades by giving different values for rgb which is inconvenient for users to handle. The example given below explains this in detail.

Defining using opacity property of CSS3 takes the below format:

<div style=" background: rgb(255, 0, 0) ; opacity: 0.1;"></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(255, 0, 0) ; opacity: 0.3;"></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(255, 0, 0) ; opacity: 0.5;"></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(255, 0, 0) ; opacity: 0.7;"></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(255, 0, 0) ; opacity: 1;"></div>

Instead of inconvenient way of handling using rgb without opacity property as shown below:

<div style=" background: rgb(241, 182, 178) ; "></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(243, 152, 132) ; "></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(247, 86 , 84) ; "></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(251, 35, 40) ; "></div>

<div style=" background: rgb(255, 0, 0) ; "></div>

The above concepts and effects of transparency which we applied for background images of elements defined can also be applied to elements transparency. That is the user can define the opacity in the same way for the image or element directly which will make the element to fade and appear in and out of the background. Let us see an example to understand this concept of handling transparency for background images in detail:

<img src="http://exforsys.com/sample/test/training.jpg"

style="opacity:0.3;filter: alpha(opacity=30) ;" />

Css3: Attribute Selection

I was reading some things on Css today and came across Css3. After some research I found out that they added some cool things to Css in the new version. Something I really like is the Attribute Selection. Insted of having a choice to grab a Class, Id, or a Tag, now you can get more specific and grab a tag with only a certian attribute or that matches a certian letter pattern. Here is an example:



<style>

img[alt*=e] {

background-color: #593940;

}

</style>



What does this do? Well, it finds all the images (img). Next, I put the attribute and what I'm going to do in square brackets "[ ]". In the brackets what this says is: If anywhere (*) in an alt attribute you find an e. Then, you do your normal css to tell it what to do if it finds an e. Here is an outline of what the code is:



<style>

tag name[attribute*=string] {

code

}

</style>



Just so you understand it more  . Hopefully you understand the basics of it, but what is it with the *? Well, that tells it where to find the string. Here is a list of them:



[attribute^=string] - This looks for the string at the Beginning of the Attribute.



[attribute$=string] - Looks for the string at the End of the Attribute.



[attribute*=string] - Looks for the string Anywhere in the Attribute.



Examples:



<style>

img[alt^=Ho] {

background-color: #593940;

}

</style>



<style>

img[alt$=me] {

background-color: #593940;

}

</style>



<style>

img[alt*=om] {

background-color: #593940;

}

</style>

Rounded Corner Boxes the CSS3 Way

If you’ve been doing CSS for a while you’ll know that there are approximately 3,762 ways to create a rounded corner box. The simplest techniques rely on the addition of extra mark-up directly to your page, while the more complicated ones add the mark-up though DOM manipulation. While these techniques are all very interesting, they do seem somewhat of a kludge. The goal of CSS is to separate structure from presentation, yet here we are adding superfluous mark-up to our code in order to create a visual effect. The reason we are doing this is simple. CSS2.1 only allows a single background image per element.

Thankfully this looks set to change with the addition of multiple background images into the CSS3 specification. With CSS3 you’ll be able to add not one, not four, but eight background images to a single element. This means you’ll be able to create all kinds of interesting effects without the need of those additional elements.

While the CSS working group still seem to be arguing over the exact syntax, Dave Hyatt went ahead and implemented the currently suggested mechanism into Safari. The technique is fiendishly simple, and I think we’ll all be a lot better off once the W3C stop arguing over the details and allow browser vendors to get on and provide the tools we need to build better websites.

To create a CSS3 rounded corner box, simply start with your box element and apply your 4 corner images, separated by commas.

1. .box {


2. background-image: url(top-left.gif), url(top-right.gif), url(bottom-left.gif), url(bottom-right.gif);


3. }

We don’t want these background images to repeat, which is the normal behaviour, so lets set all their background-repeat properties to no-repeat.

1. .box {


2. background-image: url(top-left.gif), url(top-right.gif), url(bottom-left.gif), url(bottom-right.gif);


3. background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat;


4. }

Lastly, we need to define the positioning of each corner image.

1. .box {


2. background-image: url(top-left.gif), url(top-right.gif), url(bottom-left.gif), url(bottom-right.gif);


3. background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat;


4. background-position: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right;


5. }

And there we have it, a simple rounded corner box with no additional mark-up.

As well as using multiple background images, CSS3 also has the ability to create rounded corners without the need of any images at all. You can do this by setting the border-radius property to your desired value as seen in the next example.

1. .box {


2. border-radius: 1.6em;


3. }

This technique currently works in Firefox/Camino and creates a nice, if somewhat jagged rounded corner. If you want to create a box that works in both Mozilla and WebKit based browsers, why not combine both techniques and see what happens.

5 CSS3 Resources for Web Designers

When Internet Explorer 7 for Windows (IE7) was released in early October of this year, the browser featured the hard work of many developers and engineers to bring the browser up to par in rendering CSS. Sure, there are some things missing, but overall it’s a solid rendering browser (with it’s fair share of bugs).

Yes, IE7 is the browser we should have had five years ago and because of that Web designers can finally do what they haven’t been able to do for quite a long time: start looking foreword. Namely, at CSS3.

I decided to cull together a short five item resouce list to help designers get on a good path for learning more about CSS3:

1. Jina Bolton’s presentation slides CSS3 and What Could Be (PDF) from her presentation at FoWD2007 is a good start to the potential of CSS3. (I wish there was audio to go along with it!)


2. Roger Johansson’s Web site is where I go to when I need a quick refresher on the upcoming CSS3 selectors when I want to stop getting cross-eyed reading the W3C documentation.


3. Cédric Savarese writes about the CSS3 Multi-Column Module at A List Apart:
   
   

   
   

   “The W3C multi-column module is a CSS level-three working draft, proposed by the W3C to extend the current CSS box model. The module’s intent is to allow content to flow into multiple columns inside an element. It offers new CSS properties that let the designers specify in how many columns an element should be rendered. The browser takes care of formatting the text so that the columns are balanced.”

   
   

   
   


4. Everyone likes rounded corners. I wrote up four different methods for pulling off the technique in the last edition of my CSS Cookbook. Fellow CSS author and speaker Andy Budd wrote about a pure CSS3 solution to tackle rounded corners that works in Firefox.


5. Check out a preview of CSS3 text effects, backgrounds, borders and more at CSS3.info.

Free Professional XHTML/CSS Website Templates For Download From NuvioTemplates

NuvioTemplates is offering free professional XHTML/CSS website templates for download.

All the templates are valid according to XHTML 1.0 Strict, and use table-less layout only. The templates are carefully tested in all modern browsers (IE 6+, Opera 8+, FF 2.0+). The template source (including CSS code) is carefully commented and well-formed. The templates are created with emphasis on maximum accessibility. All the templates contain print style sheet.

Edit Your CSS Code Live In Both Internet Explorer And Firefox Simultaneously

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.

Download CSSVista (v0.15, Windows XP/Vista only, 8.9mb. Uninstaller included.)

Compress Your CSS With CSS Compressor For Speed-Up Your Website And To Save Bandwidth As Well

CSS Compressor from CSS Drive is the utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression. The “Normal” mode should work well in most cases, creating a good balance between the two. It has ability to Strip ALL your comments. Just to safe-side keep your original CSS file.

CSS+Javascript Fancy Menu By Devthought!

With the  image below our most of the readers are already aware of this and had an idea about this css+javascript fancy menu but to have this great resource in the Smashing Apps list is very necessary that is why I am adding this. This fancy menu is also great for those who do not know about this and I believe there are alot of those guys as well often visits to SmashingApps.com.

 

In this article Guillermo Rauch’s will go through the creation of a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends and the visitors coming to your website. This custom navigation bar needs Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible.

Edit Websites On The Fly With CSSFly!

CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files : what you code is what you get! This tool is designed for developers. Use it for developing, testing or checking your web-project or take a look behind the scenerys of your favourite websites.

Build Professional CSS/DHTML Menu For Your Website Just For Free!

Now you can create professional looking CSS menus for your Website as easy as never before. Build your cool menu online, without writing a single line of code!

This is IzzyMenu - it’s easy to use Menu Builder, which allows you to build your CSS & DHTML menu in minutes. Choose from dozens ready styles or create your own menu style. This online menu generator is the best solution for amateurs and professionals!

A New Way Of Linking With Scrollovers

 

Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren’t expecting.

Integration of Scrollovers into your web site couldn’t be easier, even if you’ve already built the site that you want to include Scrollovers on. In just minutes you will be able to have them appearing on your own pages.

Dynamic Drive CSS Library For Practical CSS Codes And Examples

Dynamic Drive’s has a new CSS library where you’ll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.

There is a great collection of Horizontal CSS Menus, Vertical CSS Menus, Image CSS, Form CSS, DIVs and containers, Links & Buttons, Other.

Download Free XHTML-CSS e-commerce Website Template

Most of us sometimes very much interested in finding a well designed theme which is free as well. CSS Creme has released a free css theme related to e-commerce website. The theme is really neat, clean and beautiful. There are Product listing template, detail template, contact us form template in it.

Funky Sliding Door Tabbed Menus By A BulletProof Idea

This Tabbed sliding doors menus look funky and elegant as well as being scalable. You can add as much text as you want and the tabs just expand and don’t break apart, they also re-size nicely when you bump up the text in your browser. You can take a look at demo here!

In this tutorial John Stephen is going to show you how to create his own little twist on the very popular Sliding Doors of CSS menus by Douglas Bowman

The menu is working great with all standards compliant browsers (Firefox/Safari/IE7/Opera etc..) and also works as far back as IE5.5 and IE6!

21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free Wordpress Themes

We have been asked many time via email that we have to write a blog post about wordpress themes. So, this is the post in which we have listed down 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free Wordpress Themes. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes which are not less than premium themes and you may consider any of these themes as per your need before going to purchase any paid premium theme.

You are welcome to share if you know more premium-like free wordpress themes which our readers may like.

Outdoorsy Wordpress theme is very unique, and quite graphics heavy and it’s perfect for the individual who wants something slightly different from your usual standard free theme.

Upstart Blogger Minim is very clean and easy to read.Its lightweight, for speed and the columns are sized specifically to accept standard ad formats.

A CSS Gallery Wordpress theme for webmasters who want to build CSS showcase or web gallery. Packed with built in Tagging, Google ads and a sidebar block with 125 x 125 banner ads. Theme is valid XHTML 1.0 transitional and valid CSS!

A grungy, two-column weblog theme, WordPress Fun is stylish and modern, and includes a neat featured posts list in the left-hand sidebar.

Mimbo magazine-style wordpress theme is a theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking.

Spotless is a Wordpress Theme designed specifically to be used for Photoblogs. Its a valid XHTML and CSS based theme.

The Unstandard WordPress theme comprised of a - grid aligned - images for forward facing pages, and clean textual presentation on the inner page.

Aspire is a valid XHTML and CSS free wordpress theme. This theme is widget ready, fixed width, 3 columns and works flawlessly in IE (6 and 7), Opera and FF.

WP Premium is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options.

PerfecTOM Wordpress Theme is optimized for all browsers and XHTML/CSS valid. Fixed width, 2 columns, light blue colours scheme and fast loading.

Indomagz Premium Wordpress Theme is a magazine style, cross browser supported (tested on Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE7, IE6) Valid XHTML & CSS based free theme.

Brightness Wordpress Theme comes up with these big features. It’s magazine style, It’s Free and It’s noob ready.

Options WordPress Theme is free beatiful magazine style nice and attractive wordpress theme.

SubtlyMade is a free nice and beautiful wordpress theme.

WP-Gold is a free beatiful full CSS, widgetized and multiple sidebars theme. It´s called Conceditor WP Gold.

WP CODA WordPress Theme is a unique WordPress theme with a fluid slider providing navigation between key website pages, which could be useful for small business websites.

WP-Polaroid is a modern, funky design perfect for a personal website, with pink and blue versions. It offers widgetized sidebars and valid XHTML/CSS code

Monochrome Gallery is a free widgetized theme for Wordpress packaged with an author archives page, AJAX slideshow, categorized posts with thumbnails on the homepage and a CSS framework to aid in customization.

Night Whimsy theme is definitely feminine and is great for Spring. It’s customizable though, so if girly isn’t your thing, or you don’t like the colors - you can change the colors and images to something that better suits your taste.

Purple Fever is a fresh 2-column styled premium WordPress theme by WTM, created for sites that wish to establish a lasting impact with visitors. Users looking to maximize their Google adsense or affiliate revenue will also find this theme of great promise.

Notepad Theme is a simple, clean and sharp template designed for small business websites for personal branding that is ideal for personal coaches, consultants and independent professionals.

Porftolio Wordpress Theme is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can edit the head quote text, you can edit all theme colors, font families, font sizes and you can fill a curriculum vitae and display it into a special page.

BlueGrey Wordpress Theme simple, clean and light wordpress theme for heavy traffic blogs.

300+ Latest Free CSS Templates For You To Download

FreeCSSTemplates is a website from where you can download free standards compliant CSS templates.

All of the templates are free for any type of personal or commercial use (dont forget to read the license) so you do not have to pay anything to use them. All you just need that you link back to the FreeCSSTemplates.org website in some way. They also update the collection on the website with new templates regularly so check back for even more free CSS templates.

Features

• Released for FREE under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license


• Very lightweight in terms of images


• Tables-free (ie. they use no tables for layout purposes)


• W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML Strict)


• Provided with public domain photos, generously provided by PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons

Free Customizable CSS Menu For Everyone

Are you searching for free, nice and easy to use CSS menu for your website? No need to worry about it! CSS Menu Builder is an online menu builder website from where you can create 30+ horizontal, 700+ vertical and our breadcrumb menus that consist of more than 200+ combinations.

The menu creation process and interface is very easy to use. This helps you to work fast and efficiently in less time with the amazing result of free css menu.

Simple And Free CSS Menu Designs For Your Website

While designing a website designers want to see the inspiration or free design resources which can reduce their work on the project. We help those guys because we are always in the search of great free resources and list here. Below are the simple and free CSS menu designs for you to download and use any way you see fit.

You can download the complete set, or an individual menu by clicking the Download Menu button located on each menu from the original website.

Please feel free to download for commercial or private use, and modify to suit your needs.

More Than 90 Free CSS Layouts To Design Your Website

As you know that our main focus is on providing you the access to fresh free stuffs available on internet which can reduce the working time of designers and developers. Today, we are listing another great resource for free css layout. This is Code Sucks, where you can find more than 90 free css layouts to design and to create your website in a more easiest way.

All markup has been validated against a strict Doctype. They have made these CSS Layouts for Screen resolutions for 1024 x 764. You can go and see layouts categorized in these 2 categories.

Fixed Width CSS Layouts

Faux Columns CSS Layouts

How To Create Tabbed Structure Menu Using CSS And jQuery

Today, designers and developers has one of the biggest challenge is finding ways to place a lot of information on a page without losing usability. Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently.

Nettuts is a website where you can find useful tutorials, tips and tricks for your web design and development challenges. There you can find a tutorial to Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery. In this, you can learn in a step by step working in details to come up with your own designed and developed nice and beautiful tabbed content area. You can click here to see how it will look in action!

Discover The Best Of The Web In August 2008

We are always in the search of great free resources, tips and tricks, etc for our readers. Every day, we work hard to find new resources and show them here for you. Today, we are starting another great section Discover The Best Of The Web on SmashingApps.com. In this, we will find and make a list for the best of the web for the whole month. Maybe, we cannot cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of august which our readers/viewers may like.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

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Colorful Glowing Text Effect

40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects

30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II

35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs

Single-Page Portfolio Sites

Web Design: Illustration

50+ High-impact Illustrated Vector Posters

20 Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers

30 Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers

31 Websites Using Wood Elements

Javascript and Ajax

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A study in Ajax Web trends. What are the best Free Ajax Resources?

5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers

xHTML and CSS

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19 CSS Menu Tutorials to Spice Up Your Web Designs

40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

12 Great CSS Resources: From Inspiration to Implementation

Resources

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13 Sources for Background Patterns and Textures

Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers

30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes

Retro Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images - Giant Design Pack

Retro Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images - Giant Design Pack

200+ Photoshop Brushes for Light, Sparkles

10 Awesome typewriter fonts for web designers

Miscellaneous Articles

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14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs

Top 5 Graphic Design Forums

9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client

10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks

9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter

Ajax Star Rating

Minimal, yet complete. How a star rating system should be.

Our percentage based Star Rating function gives you 1,680% increase in accuracy — compared with the traditional 5 star system, it has 84 hotspots (84px wide), instead of 5 hot spots… let’s do the math: (84/5)*100=1,680%. Why restrict your users?

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