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27 Best Looking Free Drupal 6 Themes

Peteris Kelle — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:45:48 +0000

There are hundreds of Drupal themes which you can find on the Internet but not all of them are good looking. So, this time I have collected the best looking free Drupal 6 themes I have found.

I have no idea how much of you guys use Drupal, but I’m a big fan of Drupal and this time I take a big risk and hope you’ll at least check out this selection and compare it with your CMS. Drupal is definitely worth trying out, it has a lot more customization options and chances to add different features, which even mighty WordPress cannot handle.

1. BlogBuzz

Stunning Drupal theme! Everything is so clean, very well made. Could be a great theme for your portfolio web site or a blog.

2. Magazeen

Great looking theme! Just clean and shiny.

3. Gardening

Beautiful cartoon-style Drupal theme. Great piece of art!

4. Acquia Prosper

Clean, good looking theme for an e-commerce website.

5. ColorPaper

Great piece of work! The best implementation of this theme could be for a blog or just a personal website.

6. Beach

Good looking Drupal theme. It has a nice underwater feeling.

7. Notechoas

Interesting piece of art. Background has a big role in this theme.

8. RootCandy

This is very cool and great looking theme for Drupal’s administration section. Everything looks clean and shiny and those icons look awesome.

9. Scruffy

Great Drupal theme for a blog.

10. Grassland

This theme looks nice. There’s a positive atmosphere inside this theme.

10.1. Clean Design – The Clean and Elegant Drupal Theme

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11. Coolweb

Great theme for a corporate website!

12. Cleanfolio

Beautiful theme for a small and simple website.

13. Abstract

Beautiful theme for a blog or portfolio website!

14. Fusion Theme

Clean and simple theme which looks great!

15. A3 Atlantis

Very interesting theme. Could be good for a corporate website.

16. Orange

Very well made and great looking theme for a social networking site!

17. Arclite Theme

Clean and simple theme which could be great for a blog.

18. Fields 2009 template

Good looking theme for a corporate website.

19. NonZeroRed DTB

Just a simple and good looking theme. Could be implemented for many types of websites.

19. City Magazine – The Most Advanced Drupal Theme

CMS Magazine is a Powerful Professional Premium Drupal theme. It comes with an impressive fully customizable jQuery homepage slider with more than 10 different jQuery effects together with fixed/fluid, 1, 2, 3 Column Layout Options on a click.

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20. Elements Theme

Interesting Drupal theme. Could look good for a portfolio website.

21. A Cold Day

Nice looking theme which has three color versions available.

22. Ebizon RedFire

If you want just a clean and simple website then this theme is a theme you are looking for.

23. Acquia Marina

Cool theme for many types of websites.

24. Alek 2.0

Simple Drupal theme for a simple website.

25. Twittish

If you would like that your website would look like Twitter then you have found the best solution for you!

26. AD Redoable

Simple theme which would look great for a portfolio website.

27. Austin Zen Sub Theme

If you want just a simple website without any flashy, shiny elements then this simple theme is for you.

30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs

Peteris Kelle — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:56:59 +0000

Tooltips on website are small things which can play a big role in website design. If a tooltip on your website is very well made and looks amazing then it can lift up visitors impression about your website. And that’s why here comes jQuery to help with its well made tooltips. And remember that all those small website design things make your website look better.

So this time I will show you my Top 30 of jQuery tooltip plugins. Enjoy!

1. The Tooltip

The Tooltip is a good looking tooltip that appears when you mouseover a tooltip handle. It’s not jQuery plugin, but CSS3 code, but it has cool animation and is very handy, view preview video on site to see how powerful it is!
Benefits:

CSS3 fade in and fade out gives The Tooltip a smooth appearance (works in modern Webkit browsers, Firefox 4.0, Opera 11)
Gracefully degrades in older browsers
25 awesome color schemes included
Good documentation and examples (as seen in the video preview) are present
You can use The Tooltip as a regular speech bubble too
No images, no JavaScript, less load time

1.1. Dynamic tooltip

Very cool tooltip! It’s very well made because it consists of cool transition effects and it also has a transparency and a drop shadow effect.

2. Popup Bubble

Brilliant tooltip! It looks so simple but it has awesome transition effects. This tooltip could be very useful for clean and simple websites.

3. jQuery Horizontal Tooltips Menu Tutorials

Beautifully made tooltip! This tooltip never disappears but follows when you hover over other links. Such a simple looking tooltip but its animation is brilliant.

4. Coda Popup Bubble

Very nice tooltip with cool transition effect and it also has a drop shadow.

Fresh Tooltips

Precisely designed and coded Fresh Tooltips. Great for any kind of website, very practical. The top one is 100% transparent black, which looks very very cool. Also perfect for learning—I’ve made lots of cross-browser research before I’ve done these, you won’t find better tutorial with such an amazing design than personally going through my code.

5. Awesomeness

Cool tooltip with nice transition effect and cool transparent border around it.

6. TipTip

Beautifully made tooltip with fade in / out transition effects, transparency and drop shadow effect.

7. (mb)Tooltip

Beautifully made tooltip with nice transition for input fields.

8. vTip

Simple but well made tooltip with a fade in transition effect. It has a cool looking border around it and when this tooltip appears, it also follows your mouse.

9. jGrowl

Cool tooltip which appears when you click on the link and then it sticks on the right-top corner of your window, and disappears after some time or when you close it manually by clicking on the close button. It also has fade in / out transition effects.

Generic Popups

I know the main focus of this collection is for Tooltips but I just can’t let this gem pass without you knowing about it. It has tooltips too, and most of all you have the freedom to customize it at your own liking!

10. jQuery Ajax Tooltip

Interesting tooltip which can handle image and text together like a mini page. It has a drop shadow effect.

11. Digg-style post sharing tool with jQuery

Cool digg-style post sharing tool. This tooltip could be very useful for social networking website.

12. Input Floating Hint Box

Interesting tooltip with rounded corners for input fields. Tooltip fades in when you click on the input field and fades out when you click somewhere else.

13. Simpletip

Beautifully made tooltip with fade transitions. When you hover over a link, a tooltip fades in just above or below the link.

14. qTip

Very simple but good looking tooltip. This tooltip is available with rounded corners and also as a speech bubble tip.

15. Orbital Tooltip

Interesting tooltip plugin where you can set manually where your tooltip will show up.

16. Inline HTML Tooltip

Cool tooltip with nice transition effects.

17. tipsy

Interesting good looking tooltip which appears above, below, on the right or left side of the link.

18. Easiest jQuery Tooltip Ever

Simple tooltip but it could be useful to display an image when you hover over a link.

19. BsTip

Various simple tooltips with fade in and fade out transition effects and border around them.

19.1. Shiny Tooltips

Have you seen a tooltip that makes an item…shine? Blind your visitors with magnificence!

20. EZPZ Tooltip

Very simple tooltip with border around it, which follows your mouse.

21. BeautyTips

Nice balloon style tooltip with transparency effect. There are available various tooltip styles, even interesting tooltips with cool animation, so you can choose one that fits best for your needs.

22. Tooltip

Various tooltip plugins for your website. Here you can find a simple tooltip with a nice fade transition and also you can find a good looking bubble style tooltip.

23. clueTip

Simple tooltip which shows up when you hover over a link and stays until you close it.

24. Creating A Simple Tooltip Using jQuery and CSS

Few simple but different tooltips.

25. BetterTip

Tooltip which appears on the right side of the link.

26. jTip

This is simple but useful tooltip for login form.

27. jqTooltip

Simple tooltip with ajax loaded content. It has fade in and fade out transition effects.

28. Pop!

Simple tooltip which shows up when you click on the arrow button and disappears when you click somewhere else.

29. Create a Simple CSS + Javascript Tooltip with jQuery

Simple tooltip with rounded corners. It follows your mouse movements.

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50 Superb 3D Flash Websites You Must See!!!

Peteris Kelle — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:25:32 +0000

It’s not a secret that Flash websites can be considered as a different kind of art in website community because of their limitless animations and stunning designs. Flash websites can also be divided in two groups: 2D and 3D Flash websites.

This showcase will consist from 50 3D Flash websites, which really stood out from crowd, have received unique attention and got awards! Don’t think this is just another list – you’ll find here endless inspiration in these websites, where each one of them is a huge masterpiece!

1. Element

Hard to describe how cool this website is! Very stylish intro and superb 3D animations combined with great looking website.

2. Ge

Cool website with beautiful 3D objects and animations. Every page has its own good looking 3D objects.

3. Gears Of War – Emergence Day

Brilliant peace of art! Massive 3D scene with animations. Beautifully made 3D fade-in, fade-out transitions for every page.

4. Audi A6

Simple but very good looking website with 3D menu and 3D transitions.

5. Summer Festival

Good looking website with fantastic 3D balloons and stunning animations. And also it has a great feature – if you just wait for some time and do nothing, then after some period of time a jet-man will run out of fuel and will fall from the sky with interesting animation. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.

6. Coca Cola

What’s that? Hey, it’s Coca Cola! Very creative website which consists of many different sub-websites where every website is different from each other with its own style, design and animation.

7. Optus Whale Song

Beautifully made website. Great underwater 3D scene. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.

8. Martini Asti

Very classy website with 3D graphics and animations. Also it has cool 3D transitions.

9. White Void

Very beautifully made 3D menu. This 3D portfolio is very good representation of the style called “minimalism”.

10. The Eco Zoo

Well made 3D website. This website consists not only of some 3D elements but whole website is like a 3D world and almost every animation is in 3D. Good work.

11. Premiyum

Beautiful 3D website with great 3D effects. Fantastic. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.

12. Get the Glass

Interesting Flash website with brilliant Flash intro which has tons of 3D elements.

13. Sensi Soft

Beautiful work with beautiful 3D scene and animations. Consists of many different 3D scenes where each scene is like a different period of time.

14. Plantate

Beautiful and cartoon style website. A 3D planet in the middle of website which you can rotate using your mouse.

15. Soft Whiteroom

Beautiful website. Everything is in 3D and very nicely responds to mouse movements.

16. Ha-py Island

Very cheerful website. Whole website is in 3D where you can walk around with bear. It feels like you are playing some 3D game. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.

17. Hatica

Beautiful and simple website with 3D object in the middle of website.

18. The Egg Republic

Beautifully made website. It has great 3D animations and transitions from one page to another. It’s also great that every page responds to movements of your mouse. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.

19. Foxtel I am uniQue

Social networking website where you can create your own unique 3D portrait. Fantastic idea with great work of 3D.

20. Cortex Design

Good looking 3D photo gallery with beautiful reflections. Just clean and simple.

21. The Morph

This website is brilliant! Turn on your webcam and see how all 3D objects follow your motions. Or if you don’t have a webcam then this website also responds to movements of your mouse.

22. Twist and Drink

Cartoon style 3D website with mini games and that kind of stuff for children. Very well made, amazing!

23. Chuyue

Great piece of work! Beautifully made 3D menu and animations. You can even choose 4 types of 3D menu layout.

24. Mr A

Very cool website with awesome 3D work. Great 3D reflections and effects and there is also a mini game in the background of this website.

25. Dasai

A simple website with 3D navigation menu as a planet. Good use of Papervision3D.

26. Orange

Great piece of work. Everything is in 3D. You walk from one page (room) to another. Well made 3D animations.

27. TBC

Very simple website with pretty cool 3D menu as a library. And also it has a cool animation when you choose something in this 3D menu.

28. New Work City

Pretty interesting corporate website with some 3D animations. It also has a stunning design. Great work.

29. Off The Street Club

Interesting website with many 3D objects which can be rotated.

30. Eight Interactive Studio

Just clean and simple website with 3D animations, beautiful!

31. Ecsw

Great 3D website with cool Flash intro, and one of the coolest 3D features this website has, is that you can walk around the building by yourself.

32. Zeebee visual communications

A small website with 3D effects which looks brilliant. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.

33. Thinking Space

Flash website which has a menu with very interesting 3D effect. Good looking 3D transitions.

34. Domenico Tedone design

Clean and simple 3D website. Very well made. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.

35. Silenzio

This is like a 3D movie library with beautiful 3D transitions. Every animation is very smooth. Good work.

36. Philter Design

Simple and clean 3D website.

37. Rule the Stars

Interesting way of how to draw something – draw it in the sky with stars! Great 3D work. Can also be like a nice little present for your girlfriend/boyfriend (your drawing of course) – she/he will like it, I promise. This website was awarded as “site of the day” on FWA.