These fancy looking buttons brings together CSS3's border-radius, box-shadow, and linear gradients to create glossy looking menu buttons that use NO images. They consist of just a regular UL list that can easily be left, centered, or right aligned. Visually these buttons look best in FF3.5+, Chrome, and Safari 4+, while in other browsers, they still look presentable enough.

Many designers love to view photographs for design inspiration. In this post we’ll showcase some beautiful black and white photos for your own inspiration. If you like a particular photo and you want to see more, click on the image or the link in the photo credit and you’ll be led to the source where you can view more work from the photographer.

In the last years, the USB flash memory drives have evolved a lot, from the capacity of 256mb to 128gb and maybe even more. The interesting thing is that their capacity isn’t the only thing that evolved, the design also suffered some lovely changes. New and inventive designs are put on memory sticks almost every week, the products being either really cheap and accessible or expensive and luxurious. In this article, you will see the coolest of all USB flash drive collection, having bad ass looking drives, useful ones, crazy looking ones but more important, inventive and interesting pieces of work.

Everyone has heard of Adobe Photoshop. It is one of the most popular and expensive image editing programs you can buy. For those of you who do not have the hundreds of dollars to plop down on software I have compiled a list of nice photo editing applications you can use instead.

This script adds near-native PNG support with alpha opacity to IE 5.5 and 6. Now you can have full translucency and no more ugly grey borders! Full CSS background positioning and repeat are supporting (including CSS sprites). It requires only one line in your CSS file, and no changes to your website HTML. <IMG> tags and background images are both supported.

CSS3 gradients are available to use in Webkit (Safari, Chrome) and Mozilla (Firefox) browsers. They’re not exactly new but I only recently started using them consistently myself so I’ve put together this quick article.

FYI this isn’t the holy grail of CSS3 gradients, it’s more of a reminder for me or quick getting started guide.

It’s time for another vector release of fire elements, consisting of 15 different flame related vectors.

You will get one EPS, AI and SVG file with the above flames.

These vectors are free for personal use only.

Do you remember your first form? The first time you realised you could send emails through your site, thanks to a hosted service like Bravenet (remember them?!).

Or perhaps you hacked together a cgi script or even some PHP. But when that first email arrived with the subject line ‘test’ you realised that your website had now become interactive. You could now not only interact with your users, but also tailor your site based on their input.

Nothing as majestic as a bird in flight

If you don’t like bugs I would keep readying

Halloween is one of the most popular and widely celebrated holidays of the year, and people around the world put time and money into developing the perfect costume, buying candy to give out to neighborhood kids, carving elaborate pumpkin designs, and decorating their houses into scary mansions. The iconic characters of Halloween, such as the Headless Horseman, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, witches and scarecrows, allow for a great theme for artists to develop upon.

This post showcases 30 dark Halloween digital artworks to get you in the mood for Halloween, no matter how you celebrate it.

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WordPress seams to be the number one platform for bloggers and it is also gaining popularity in other areas like business web sites, web shops etc. What makes WordPress unique and a really strong choice is the enormous community providing tons of both free and premium themes and plugins. This is great but can also be problematic for some as the massive availability is making it really difficult to make a decision on what theme to use. There are many collection of WordPress themes for bloggers in general, web sites, portfolios, magazines, but I thought it would make sense to help out female bloggers looking for a theme. In this post I have collected a list of more than 55 WordPress themes which I believe will be liked by most female bloggers. The themes are cute, funky, beautiful, colorful and sexy. Please share your opinion in a comment and good themes that you think should be added to the post.

There’s a lot to get excited about in mobile application development today. With increasingly sophisticated hardware, tablet PCs and a variety of software platforms (Symbian OS, iOS, WebOS, Windows Phone 7…), the landscape for mobile developers is full of opportunities — and a little complex as well.

So much choice can be overwhelming when you just want to get started building mobile applications. Which platform should you choose? What programming language should you learn? What kit do you need for your planned project? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to start writing applications for Android, the open-source mobile operating system popularized by Google.

Making layouts responsive using CSS3 Media Queries are a big part of the work that I’m doing for the Hardboiled Web Design site in the run up to the book’s launch.

Since I started using Media Queries extensively over the last few months, I’ve revised the queries several times for each project, so it made sense to build a boilerplate to use as a starting point. These hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries are empty placeholders for targeting the devices and attributes I’m interesting in making responsive designs for right now.

They’re part of a wider toolkit that I’ll be releasing at the same time as the book. But for now, you can download and incorporate these override queries at the bottom of your existing CSS files. Download the CSS file

It's often interesting to think about where on a given element, whether it be the page, an image, or a static DIV, your users are clicking. With that curiosity in mind, I've created HeatMap: a MooTools class that allows you to detect, load, save, and display spots on a given area where a user has clicked.

Another year has passed and Halloween is just a few weeks away. Spooky design resources are once again in demand and are sought after by designers everywhere. You may think that you have all the design tools you need to take part in this cool season. Well then, think again! We have searched the internet far and wide to provide you with new Halloween-themed icons you can add to your design arsenal.

Free Halloween Icons are showcased as a treat to Halloween-lovers out there. Get a load of this great new set of fantastic icons to complete your Halloween designs and themes. These will give you more ways to customize your desktop and websites to go with the creepy season. Have fun downloading!

Beach: Whenever you hear that word, thought of white and yellow sand; gorgeous sunset; beautiful chairs and smiling people passes your mind. Beaches are the only place where you just go to feel the nature, the strokes of the wind and to forget all your worries. You just want to live in the moment.

The photographers aren’t any exception. If any photographer goes to a beach, a camera is on his/her list at the very top. Rightly so, because beaches provide for an amazing set-up for beautiful photographs. You can take photos of almost anything – be it sand, the sea, the people or just the chairs and other furniture lying around.

We are showcasing some of the most interesting and exquisite photos taken at the beach. These photographs are some of the best beach photos you are going to find online. Hope they inspire you and help you to take you own stunning photographs of a nearby beach.

These days the whole world is progressing towards the web. From small businesses to big firms to online schools, universities etc., all are pushing hard to make a big online impact because this is almost free advertisement for their brand and results in it reaching a wider range of audience than using other manual ways to do so. One big aspect of Website Design is a “Mobile Version” of the website because these days mobile phones with internet facilities are becoming too common and thus everyone wants to remain connected to their favourite websites on the go.

CSS is the fundamental way of styling our web pages. Its deceptively easy syntax allows us to do many things to affect the visual layer of our work. And especially with CSS3, the language has gotten even more powerful.

There are many useful CSS techniques and tricks out there for you to take advantage of. This is a collection of a few useful CSS snippets that you might want to keep in your toolkit.