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30Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results.And this is where small time-savers become handy. Be it a handy checklist, batch installer, dummy image generator or converter from Excel spreadsheet to HTML — all these things can save us a couple of minutes every day, making our work easier and more efficient. And this is why we keep collecting them for Smashing Magazine’s readers. Whether you like lists or not: this one will probably help you find those little nuggets out there that will help you avoid headaches and stress. Below we present useful time-savers for web designers.

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Aagey Se Right(Upasana Nattoji Roy interview)

The inspired plot-and-character impulses of Upasana Nattoji Roy’s title design for Director Indrajit Nattoji’s “Aagey Se Right” are a stamped and stitched lot of subjective fabulism in blinkingly bright rubbery Gothic impressions. We are jolted and whisked into a lickerish dervish where M.I.A., Nina Paley and/or Gogol Bordello could be your partners in menace.INTERVIEWA

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24Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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Inspiration, Photography
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Amazing and weird photography of clouds

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for designers to see things differently.We all know that trees do not always have the green leaves, the water is not blue and the clouds are certainly not always white and swollen. As designers, we need to know to look outside the obvious when he saw something.Cloud formations like mammatus or lenticular, among others, is a perfect

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19Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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Graphic Design, Inspiration
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50 Examples of Beatiful Bussines Card Design

Hi guys,Below are fifty examples of excellent business card designs to inspire you and give you ideas for your own business card designs. just for your inspirationHow do you design your own

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18Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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Graphic Design
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CSS3 Dropdown Menu

View Demo CSS3 Dropdown Preview The image below shows how the menu will look if CSS3 is not supported.One Gradient Image is Used A white-transparent image is used to achieve the gradient effect. Because the new CSS3 gradient feature is not supported by all browsers yet, it is safer to use a gradient background image.The instensitiy of the gradient can be changed by shifting

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18Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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Tutorial, Web Design
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Sexy Image Hover Effects using CSS3

HTML[html] <div class='img' id='img-1'> <div class='mask'></div> <img src='http://www.nikesh.me/image/01.jpg' /> </div> <div class='img' id='img-2'> <div class='mask'></div> <img src='http://www.nikesh.me/image/07.jpg' /> </div> <div class='img' id='img-3'> <div class='mask'

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18Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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48 Examples of Excellent Layout in Web Design

Beautiful graphics and colors are great and play a big part in web design, but most would agree that the backbone of a solid user experience is the layout. After all, what good is all of the eye candy if one can not easily read and digest the content. There is nothing better than opening a perfectly organized and readable website – a page where the layout invites you to browse the site’s

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17Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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Graphic Design
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Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping

The old adage, “a picture speaks a thousand words” captures what user interface prototyping is all about: using visuals to describe thousands of words’ worth of design and development specifications that detail how a system should behave and look. In an iterative approach to user interface design, rapid prototyping is the process of quickly mocking up the future state of a system, be

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17Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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Inspiration, Web Design
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34 Inspiring iPad Application Websites

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.

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15Jun2010
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Deni Permana
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News, Web Design
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10 Features to Look Forward to in WordPress 3.0

WordPress 3.0 is scheduled to be released within the next 30-60 days. There are some great new features coming, including custom post types, a new default theme, and a menu manager. Read on to find out what to expect in version three! 1. Choose your Username and Password You’ll encounter new features as soon as you start! Currently, when you first install WordPress, you are assigned a

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