Category: Resources

Ultimate Christmas Resources: 60 Tutorials, Icons, Design Materials, WordPress Themes and Christmas Fonts

December 21st, 2009 in Resources | View Comments

Last week, we shared about 66 beautiful Christmas Wallpapers. How is your Christmas holiday preparation? This is the time when us, designers are busy with the projects. A lot of clients want to do a redesign in order to add some Christmas and winter look and feel for their sites.

So, i believe this is the time for us to do a sharing and roundup for Christmas resources. Today, we are going to do a roundup for various resources including Tutorials, Icons, Designer Materials, WordPress themes and Fonts for your Christmas uses. With these resources, you can shorten your design and development time and hopefully can finish your projects before the date.
(more…)

TopUp – Javascript Library For Pop Up And Lightbox

December 7th, 2009 in Resources | View Comments

TopUp is a cross-browser compatible Javascript Library for creating popups to display images and web pages. To maintain the cross-browser compatibility, TopUp is jQuery and jQuery UI driven. However, Prototype developers can use TopUp along with Prototype by including TopUp before Prototype.

TopUp able to display various contents while maintaining your HTML code 100% clean. For example, it can display web pages, images, Flash, Yuotube, QuickTime, iframes and DOM elements. TopUp is compressed with Yahoo! YUI Compressor so that it is small in size and load faster.

Topup - Javascript Library For Popup/Lightbox

(more…)

60+ Photoshop Tutorials For Icon Design

November 17th, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources | View Comments

Icon design is an essential skill for every web designer. A website or blog with beautiful icons will definitely attract visitors’ attention.

Although we may download free icons or purchase stock icons from the web, but learning the skill of icon design will definitely brings you a lot of benefits. Besides brush up your Photoshop/icon design skills, you will also have custom made icons that suit your website’s design. Some of the free icons are only for non-commercial products or websites. So having your unique icons, you can get rid of these restrictions.

If you are looking for Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Designs, then you had reached to the right place. Here, we collected 60+ Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Design. I am sure you will become a good icon designer after reading these tutorials.

If you are looking for simple icon editors which do not require advance Photoshop skills, then you may want to refer to our previous post about 6 free icon editors.

1. How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop
How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop

2. Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
(more…)

6 Free Icon Editors To Create and Edit Icons

October 26th, 2009 in Resources, Tools | View Comments

We use icons for our web designs, favicons and also Windows/Mac application. To create or edit an icon, you can use either powerful image editors like Photoshop, Paint.NET, premium icon editors, or just use a free icon editor.

Today, we are going to share 6 Useful Free Icon Editors where you can create and edit your icons for free. Some of them offer advanced features like extract icons from binary for free.

1. Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a very powerful icon editor. It is portable, with <1.8MB after unzip. It supports layer, able to create animated cursors, offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow.
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro

(more…)

12 Free And Open Source PHP Forum Scripts

October 12th, 2009 in PHP, Resources | View Comments

Forum is a great place where people can have discussions and postings. Generally, a forum is a community with lots of user inputs and needs moderators to moderate the posts.

If you want to setup your own forum, you can go for either open source forum scripts or commercial forum scripts such as Invision Power Board. Should you choose a commercial forum script or open source forum script? It is depends on your requirements and also you or your forum’s administrator experience.

Today, we are going to share 12 Free And Open Source PHP Forum Scripts where you can easily build your forum and online community with them.

1. phpBB

phpBB is the most popular and wide-used open source PHP forum script. It has an easy to use administrator control panel and takes only few minutes to install. phpBB is very customizable, you can easily create your own themes and modifications to the script. If you face any problem with phpBB, you can always refer to the documentation.
phpBB

(more…)

140+ Sets Free Floral and Flower Textures

September 23rd, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources | View Comments

Do you use Photoshop textures? I like to collect Photoshop textures as these textures can help me to add unique effects and speed up my design works.

We had shared about Watercolor Textures before, and now let’s look into some free floral and flower textures. Flower textures can always add splash of color and realism to your renderings.

10 floral textures by mystique87

Textures: 10 sets
10 floral textures by mystique87

Floral Carpet Texture by stocks-for-you

Textures: 1 set
Floral Carpet Texture by stocks-for-you

(more…)

9 Useful jQuery Calendar And Date Picker Plugins For Web Designers

September 20th, 2009 in Javascript, Resources | View Comments

Event calendars and date pickers are really useful plugins for web applications. WordPress does have a date picker, which allow bloggers to schedule the article.

I am a big fan of jQuery, so i always use jQuery Calendar plugins to accomplish my tasks when the clients asked me to implement an event caldendar for them. In this article, i would like to share 9 really useful jQuery Event Calendar and Date Picker plugins that every web designers and developers should know.

1. FullCalendar

FullCalendar is a famous jQuery calendar plugin which offers features like drag-and-drop, integration with Google Calendar and able to fetch events through JSON. Designers can easily customize the look and feel of the calendar, while developers can utilize the exposed hooks for user-triggered events.
FullCalendar

2. Astonishing iCal-like Calendar

This is a tutorial which uses both jQuery and CSS to build an iPhone styled calendar application. The author also implement the Coda-like effect for the popup event.
Astonishing iCal-like Calendar
(more…)

15 Great jQuery Plugins For Better Table Manipulation

September 6th, 2009 in Javascript, Resources | View Comments

Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table.

But, we still need table in our daily applications, one of the best example is comparison table. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table.

1. DataTables

DataTables is very powerful jQuery plugin which offer a lot of features. For example, you can have on-the-fly filtering, ajax auto-loading of data, pagination, sorting columns, highlight sorted columns, extensive plug-in support, themeable by CSS or jQuery UI ThemeRoller and also a complete documentation.
jQuery DataTables plugin

2. uiTableFilter

uiTableFilter is a jQuery plugin for filtering table rows. The author shows a detailed example on how to implement the filter function for your table together with the plugin.
jQuery uiTableFilter

(more…)

10 Easy To Implement Flash Based Mp3 Players For Your Website

August 30th, 2009 in Flash, Resources | View Comments

Flash Mp3 players are cool because they let web developers and bloggers embed music players and build customized JukeBox on the websites.

With these online music players, you can add a list of songs easily and embed the given Javascript code to your website. Most of these music players are customizable and you can have your won skin that suit the web design.

Today, we are going to look into 10 flash Mp3 players that you can easily implement to your website.

1. Audio Player

Audio Player is an open source flash mp3 player which is released under the Open Source MIT License. This is originally a plugin for WordPress but the developer had built a standalone version which can be used by any website as well. WordPress user will get a lot of customization options.
Wordpress Audio Player

2. Flabell Flash Mp3 Player

This is a fully customizable music player for your website. The playlists are being loaded externally using XML file and you can add multiple artists and albums to your playlists.
Flabell Flash Mp3 Player

(more…)

270+ Sets Free And Beautiful Watercolor Textures

August 23rd, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources | View Comments

Both grunge and watercolor effects are really cool and hot in web design industrial. There are a lot of website backgrounds using watercolor effect. Some people may think watercolor and grunge effects are “dirty”, but if you are able to mix the design with these effects, then you will have a beautiful layout which able to give visitors an impressive appearance.

So, we decided to share 270+ sets free and beautiful watercolor textures that we had collected from various sources from the internet.

Water Color Textures II

Textures: 25 sets
Water Color Textures II

25 Free, High-Res Watercolor Textures

Textures: 25 sets
25 Free, High-Res Watercolor Textures

(more…)

Page 2 of 41234