Archive for December, 2009
IconShock Free Icon Set and 1st Freebie in Year 2010!
Dainis GraverisHappy new year 2010! In order to make this new year special, there will be released fresh icon set created specially for 1stwebdesigner readers in collaboration with Iconshock professional Stock Icons company. I am very excited how you will like this first freebie, please let us know in comments! Designers worked hard to deliver you this amazing icon set, so be thankful if you evaluate this work! With good thoughts and much regards, we present Detective icon set, which consists from 5 high quality icons in *png and *ai source format. Icons are free for use both in your private and commercial, however it would be nice to give some credits to Iconshock company and 1stwebdesigner website, however it's not necessary:
65 Creative And Stylish Footer Designs of 2009
Hello back there - I guess this will be the last article in this Year 2009 - and it will be inspirational one! Actually this is special post after all - I just got my laptop back from repairing and now I can publish article I created in June! All things happen right - and main thing is, they really happen! Just keep working - there is no magic pills for success, there is just hard work. Now let's get inspired, because I showcased here really good examples of footers, that really stand out from crowd - not only from design point of view, but about great usability as well! Happy new year! Happy new 2010!!!
Getting Back To You & IconShocks Cartoon & Christmas
Hello, my design friends and loyal readers!
I bet you've noticed little silence here and how articles don't come out as often then they should, but I have really strong reason for it. For 2 weeks now, I have session and examinations in academy, so of course my daily work-flow is really messed up - I am working almost until morning, then sleep through days, wait for teachers, try to print everything out in time and so on. Very intense - since I left most of my exercises for last night.
15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials
Apple style is very popular trend in our days - their design and style is really unique, clean and always good-looking. No wonder there are many designers trying to understand that style, why it works and how. There also a bunch of advanced coding tutorials available out there. Since I am Apple website style fan myself, I did research and showcased several amazing coding tutorials I found in the Internet.
I thought I will find more, but I guess Photoshop Apple tutorials are a lot more popular now than coding tutorials. But I hope you will enjoy this article as well - it's short, but really quality one!
33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles
Since previous article about CSS text effects got really big attention I decided to research and find more interesting articles and websites just focused on CSS3, teaching you how to use it, showing pros and cons and much more. To be honest it's hard for me to keep up with technologies myself, but we really cannot not to use those new great selectors to make our designs even more beautiful, user-friendly and lightweighted. However since HTML5 is sort of tied with CSS3, I will soon continue with HTML5 article as well, so don't miss it and keep coming back! Enjoy!
22 Advanced CSS Text Effects And Web Typography Tips
You definitely should have seen those advanced CSS text effects for now already, they are rapidly getting popular as upcoming and current trend in good webdesign. The best thing about these effects is, it can be achieved with pure CSS, no more image replacements and image heavy web designs. In this article I showcased all the best explained CSS tutorials and typography tips I found and thought you definitely must read! Scroll through or definitely save this article to bookmarks so the next time you create new design in Photoshop with letterpress, shadowed etc. effects - you can create them just with pure code!
Typography takes also very important role in good web designs, so I strongly recommend to read articles I featured there as well! Enjoy and get inspired for your new, advanced web designs!
100 Premium Like But Free, Fresh WordPress Themes: Year 2009
When I checked last time, there was a lot less free premium Wordpress themes, to be honest this research really surprised me - quality has been grown unbelievably! There are so many themes available, so I was really picky in this article and after few days work selected 100 fresh and beautiful Wordpress themes from Year 2009. Let your blog get new look with one of these mostly easily customizable themes with advanced admin,theme,widget options right now. I am sure you will find at least suitable framework and only with a little tweaking you'll get theme what you want without paying anything.
