Macro photography is close-up photography. The classical definition is that the image projected on the "film plane" is close to the same size as the Lenses designed for macro are usually at their sharpest at macro focus distances and are not quite as sharp at other focus distances. Today in this article I collected some of the eye catching macro photographs for the inspiration of fellow photographers. So go ahead see these pictures and get inspired to click more beautiful pictures like these. Enjoy!

Today we are pleased to provide another huge compilation of free downloads for our readers. This compilation includes so many vector icons sets of high quality vector icons. These sets have a variety of icons from application icons to transport and social media icons. We hope that you will find these icons really useful, please share your views in the comments section.

Are you looking for 3D Studio Max and Maya Tutorials. Whatever is in your mind is available here. 3D Max and Maya are using in film industry of all over the world for making special effects. These software have strong modeling and animation capabilities and contain everything which you need to make high end 3D graphics and animations.

If you are a web designer who considers time as a essential factor of your productivity, then you will tend to find Free, or Paid online tools that will improve your workflow and increase your productivity without wasting so much time on it.

In this post, you’ll find a collection of cool websites and handy tools that will help you boost your work.
We do hope that this collection will give you an inspiration and we do hope that you will try some tools listed here.

We will learn how to create a dynamic ajax based shoutbox with jQuery from scratch. It will be very interesting to know how to use the ajax function of jQuery and how it can be used to insert and recover data from a MySQL database via PHP in a way asynchronous

In this tutorial we are going to write a simple jQuery tooltip plugin. It is going to convert the title attributes of elements withing your page, into a series of colorful tooltips. Six color themes are available, so you can easily match it with the rest of your design.

In this tutorial we will show you how to create and use a thumbnails preview slider with jQuery. Since we got a lot of requests to show how to make the preview slider work separately from the full image view, we decided to make a tutorial on how to use the little thumbnails preview part only.

Well PDF gives you let your design and fonts to be intact even after saving and opening on different systems but some people jerk the idea of using it because of the fear of lower search engine rankings. Today we will discuss someways to Optimize Your PDF for SEO.

PDF is an excellent format for many business materials that you post on your company website, such as flyers, resumes, company statistics, product information, and so on. Many business owners, however, feel that they cannot or should not use PDFs on their website for fear of hurting their search engine rankings. In actuality, PDFs can be optimized for the search engines just like any HTML Web page. Here are 5 SEO tips to help you create PDFs that will get the attention of the search engine spiders.

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth. In this post I collected some of the examples of weather photography for the inspiration of our readers.

As much as we don’t like to deal with the IE bugs, we still have to face it because your boss and visitors are still using Explorer. It gets frustrating when different versions of Explorer displays web pages differently due to the inconsistent rendering engine. We typically use IE conditional comments to fix the IE issues. But there are more ways than the conditional comments…

Welcome to the MediaLoot HTML5 compendium! The purpose of this page is to be a consistently updated reference for web designers and developers who want to start using the new features of HTML5.

Let’s face it, it’s difficult to keep up with all the new changes to the language, and there’s a lot of pressure for designers to start using HTML5 and CSS3 too — both of which can be overwhelming at first.

The W3C specs for HTML5 and CSS3 are also incredibly long and practically unreadable, not to mention unfinished - so it’s easy to see why a lot of designers choose to hold off on taking the effort to learn the new languages, however it’s really not that hard to start using both languages today, there doesn’t need to be a lot of pressure either because the beauty of adopting early is that you can work your way into it slowly and the only thing you actually need to know if you’re already using XHTML/HTML4 and CSS2 is what’s new and how can it benefit you.

Today, we selected our Collection of CSS3 Tools for your Next Web Development. Let us know what you think about our collection and feel free to comment below.

website wireframe is a basic design draft done before any artwork and used in web design to show the structure of a website, custom user paths, most important user interface elements, their position and relationships between website pages. Wireframes lay out in black and white schematically most important elements in the interface such as header, footer, contact form, navigation.

Wireframing is a process that can significantly decrease the amount of time required in design and development by removing potential visual distractions and focusing the attention of project stakeholders on vital functionality and strategic marketing factors.

Here are a few key reasons you should always wireframe:

Allows you get a clear picture of what information will be needed on each page before design
Allows you to spend time and really focus on what each page’s purpose is. Careful plannings is paramount.
Allows you a fail-safe for uneducated clients who tend to change their minds during the design phase of the project. If the site is planned out properly in the wireframe stage the functionality of the individual pages shouldn’t change much.
Allows you to set a fallback point. When a client signs off on a wireframe that means they agree to what’s on that page. Education of the client also plays an important role here as well as they need to know that changing items already signed off on the wireframe can and probably will bloat the budget.
Allows you to have a clear look at how the site will react to various visitors without the clutter of color or design elements.
Allows you to remove any clutter that may be added to to the site that may be unnecessary and detrimental to the site goal.
They’re easily adjustable (pre-signoff) and easy to produce allowing the planning process to move along smoothly and efficiently.
Reduces the chance of scope creep.
Gives the designer a clear view of what needs to be designed
Gets the client deeply involved in the planning process early and opens communication between both parties

Chrome Experiment has been coming out with heaps of incredible HTML5 canvas and javascript experiments. Thanks to all the awesome developers, most of the experiments are truly unique and jaw dropping. I could never imagine with the combination HTML and javascript can achieve such an amazing result. Take Tank World as an example, stunning 3d graphic, and it's a game! However, it will take year before most of the modern browsers fully support them, and also, I can feel the slowness when the browser loads and renders the graphic. So in the mean time, flash is still the best solution for intensive animation and web based game development.

Check out the list, preferably with Google Chrome. Mind you, some of them are pretty addictive :)

JavaScript, with the rise of Ajax, is definitely a must-know-well for every web designer/developer.

Besides form controls, alerts & similar simple JavaScript usage, you can almost do anything with the help of JavaScript (& Canvas). Some samples are:

Drag’n drops
Animations
CSS manipulations, Ajax & more.

As JavaScript-HTML5 development is getting more popular and browsers supporting new features are being utilized by more users everyday, -as expected- many new games are being developed with JavaScript.

JavaScript-powered games are not only easier-to-develop for web developers but they are also the only cross-platform ones including desktop, web and mobile.

The main focus of CamanJS is manipulating images using the HTML5 canvas and Javascript. It's a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques. It is also completely library independent and can be safely used next to jQuery, YUI, Scriptaculous, MooTools, etc.

CamanJS is very easy to extend with new filters and plugins, and it comes with a wide array of image editing functionality, which is only growing as the community makes more plugins. It has a powerful layering system, much like the one present in Photoshop and GIMP, that makes the sky the limit for your creativity.

They use no images, just CSS3 fancies. Like a good little designer always does, they fall back to totally acceptable experience. Here's what they look like in Opera 11 which supports some of the CSS3 used here but not all.

Good unit tests are focused, fast and isolated. Unfortunately, the code to test sometimes depends on other code that may comprise performance and/or isolation. In this article we will explore some of those cases, and how we can deal with them by planning for testability and loose coupling, and by using test fakes.

I have never had enough of watching National Geographic, the people at National Geographic are just too professional with their cameras and skills. The inspiration led me to come up with some Breathtaking Real Time Inspirational Photography. The post contains images of diverse cultures, different places among lovely people.

The images may not be the best for designer’s but certainly they have a lot of inspiration for those who want use their camera effectively. Don’t miss out on these as every image tickles the senses.