Posts tagged: images

20 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils

April 29, 2012, by No comments yet

No doubt every web designer has spent many endless hours mocking up web pages, and as such every designer should have a good set of re-usable and uniform Web UI elements that they can rely upon to save them precious time and spare headaches when they are in the initial stages of a web project.

In this article we have 20 completely free Web UI kits and stencils that are perfect for the initial mockup or wireframe stage of a web design project. Most of the kits are editable and the kits are in either .psd, .ai or .png format, but you will also find some Omnigraffle stencils and some kits in .svg format. So, whatever your preferred format you are bound to find the perfect kit for you. Read more →

How to Create Icons: 30 Lessons

March 27, 2012, by No comments yet

When you approach Icon design, you need some guidelines and ethics that are worth studying. If you want to create effective icon designs, then you should keep the issues in your mind such as audience, size, simplicity and style. Today we’ve arranged 30 practical tutorials from the experts and they will give you a good start for creating icons that work well together and fit perfectly within your designs. So let’s start learning and practicing at the same time! Read more →

Free Icon Fonts (Pictograms) For Web Designers

March 19, 2012, by No comments yet

Icon Fonts (or pictograms) are available for a very long time but the ones that are specifically designed for web apps are appearing lately.

They are so flexible and fun to use considering each icon can be resized, colored, rotated and styled very easily. No need to hack them in our image editing apps but just CSS is enough.

And, making buttons, menus, lists, etc. with icons becomes painless as we deal with a single element: “the text” rather than “the text and the images/icons”.

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75+ Awesome Fullscreen WordPress Theme Collection

March 2, 2012, by 1 comment

It’s time for another great update on our fullscreen wordpress theme collection. This time there is a responsive theme that is great for showcasing your work on any platform like iPad or iPhone. There’s a musicians theme and Facebook app, an all purpose and creative theme etc. So check out the new themes – there are themes targeted a wider audience. I will keep updating this post as more fresh themes are being released. So please come back again for even more fantastic themes! Read more →

Design a One Page Portfolio Site in Photoshop

January 24, 2012, by 1 comment

In this tutorial, we will learn to design a one page portfolio site in Photoshop. In the process we will use subtle pattern and lots of layer styles to make a simple and interesting design. Let’s get started!

This tutorial is a collaboration with a young and talented web designer from Indonesia, Aris FM.

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