Calendars can be seen frequently in most web pages today especially in blogs and personal websites. As for corporate sites or e-commerce sites, it is utilize to layout announcements, up-coming events, contest and much more. What makes a calendar almost essential? It allows users to know what is new, what to be expect on specified date and track back older information all at one glance.

If you admire food photography but have always been intimidated to shoot it, here is a bit of advice. Approach food as you would any other still life. Don’t automatically psyche yourself out before you begin. People often remark that food is the most difficult subject to shoot. Perhaps once upon a time, but today digital SLR's have completely altered the landscape.

As we all know, Microsoft’s Bing is the new kid on the search engine block. However, with high profile ad campaigns, a deal to power the rejuvenated Yahoo! search and some recent bad publicity for Google, Bing now finds itself powering nearly 30% of the search market share[1] (if you consider Yahoo! search). Not bad considering it was launched just a little over a year ago.

Since Bing’s launch in June 2009, SEO experts all around the world have been testing away and pouring over the new algorithm in an effort to understand how it works, what the ranking factors are, and what carries most weight.

As Bing continues to gain search engine market share, it becomes even more important to find out how Bing works.

Whether you’re a site owner wanting to fare better on Bing, or a web developer or web designer working with the marketing team of a project — this quick guide will get you up to speed on things you should know for optimizing your sites for Bing.

Lets Share with you stunning and usable free vectors for your next design. All graphics in this post come in .eps file format. You will need a vector editing program to open this file such as Adobe Illustrator. You can use these graphics in many different ways and edit them according to your need. Download it free and enjoy.

Storing information locally on a user’s computer is a powerful strategy for a developer who is creating something for the Web. In this article, we’ll look at how easy it is to store information on a computer to read later and explain what you can use that for.

If you have ever been to Montreal, Canada you know that this great city is host to a slew of events all year long. Some of the most popular ones are The Just For Laughs Show, The Jazz Festival and The Auto Show. The one I look forward to the most every year is the Montreal Auto Show. Besides going to the show to check out all the latest car models of the year, I also enjoy seeing all the latest concept cars and what industrial designers have come up with for the future. Most of these automobiles are futuristic in design and give the impression they are straight out of a Sci-fi movie. In this post I have put together a collection of amazing concept cars designed by some very talented industrial designers and artists from around the globe. Enjoy!

Do you like a style template with flash? Of course you love it, this is because some things, such as your website looks more animate, interesting, and also seem more professional. There are so many flash templates that you can get on the Internet, both free and paid. Which one wills you choice? And if you’re interested in trying some kind of template, there are a few examples of flash templates for you, and it’s free.

Starting a new business can be quite a hassle, and from tax forms to business registrations, employees, and marketing, it can be a bit overwhelming. Often, business owners want to get online fast, to get their name out there over the internet, but hiring a web designer and developer is either out of the price range or a bit too time consuming for an untested venture.

We’ve gathered up 20 high quality free business PSD web templates for you to use for your portfolio, small business, or personal use. These templates all are a bit more corporate and business-oriented than others, but they are all excellent quality templates.

Charts and graphs are graphical representation of data that organizes and represents a set of numerical or qualitative data used for analysis such as bar graphs, line charts and pie chart. Are you tired of lame and not-easy to deal with graphs and charts?

There are techniques that will lessen the static images and create more accessible content of the charts and graphs. Techniques in using CSS, jQuery plugins ,and online chart tool generator are some of the few things you can do about your charts and graphs.
Here are some techniques to style up you charts and graphs:

Flash vs HTML5 is one of the hottest topic today , but we are not getting in the argument of which is superior to other and which is not. Flash will always be an awesome choice for rich content web applications and games same as HTML5 in developing cool animations and simple gaming applications unless some major development to be made in future years. Today we have collected 50 awesome HTML5 demos to show its potential.

Here we showcase some fantastic Halloween wallpapers to adorn on your desktop on this festive part of October, They include all sorts of zombies, ghouls and much more ghostly characters. This is the ninth installment of our wallpapers feature and is specifically tailored to all you pumpkin heads!

Please enjoy this fantastic selection of creative wallpapers that come in the following sizes and let us know which one is your favourite in the comments below.

1900×1200
1680×1050
1400×900
1024×768
iPad
iPhone

Please note that clicking on the wallpapers below will take you to the full sized version and will also give you the opportunity to visit the artists full portfolio. As always we would love to know which is your favourite in the comments below!

Halloween is just around the corner and so is the eve of All Hallows Day. It’s HALLOWEEN season again – the time when ghost stories, horror movies, extrasensory phenomena and the supernatural, mystical prevalence everywhere. Keeping this festivity in mind, we have come up with a roundup of forty mysterious looking wallpapers to give you the actual feel of Halloween.

May it be pumpkins, spirits, ghosts, trick or treat, lanterns — scroll through and find your favourite in a jiffy! Enjoy the new look of your desktop and freshen up your mind. Feel free to leave comments below.

Showing one’s teeth doesn’t always mean they’re smiling for the camera. Animals tend to expose their teeth especially when it comes to territory and lack of food sources. The fight may end up harmless, but sometimes also very brutal. The opponent may bleed to death and this may seem merciless to us, but that’s how nature occasionally works. As a matter of fact, we tend to describe a merciless fight between humans as animal-like.

Taking close-up pictures like these can be highly risky, as animals don’t like any hindrance during their combats. For whatever reasons they may be fighting, this can injure the person or animal coming between them. Today we have come up with some dazzling shutterbug shots to inspire you and take you on a walk with us through the wild side. Enjoy with us some spectacular animal fighting moments!

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.

Time passes by so fast and I can’t believe that I’m a father already and my little boy is 4 months old right now! The truth is that it takes most of my time and as I’m doing the important jobs right now, doing vectors and so on for WDB community I must face it, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something fresh.

You will get now a simple and joy

A couple months ago, I wrote a blog post in my Chinese blog about my own experience of configuring XML SiteMap plugin in the WordPress MU. It turned out that a lot of MU owners had the same problem before. So I decided to re-write it in English and share with you here.

Automatically generate standard XML sitemap for wordpress MU blogs (works for both sub-domain and sub-directory WPMU blogs) and add sitemap into current robots.txt.

Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane.

In this massive roundup, we’ve collected the top 100 best Photoshop tutorials that have ever been created, that yield professional results, teach you a useful effect, are well explained, and will have you designing like a pro in no time. These tutorials are collected from niche tutorial sites around the web, and range in age from creation in 2008 to a few tutorials that were created just last week. So, if you think you’ve seen all there is to see from Photoshop, guess again and check out this post.

Despite being an emerging technique still unsupported by some browsers, CSS3 gained a huge attention from designers and web developers in the last 6 months. In fact, CSS3 brings to life countless new possibilities to make even better websites. In this article, I have compiled a list of the best 10+ tutorials to make extremely gorgeous buttons using CSS3

Like most designers, I am constantly looking at the nature around me, and I am constantly in awe at its stunning beauty. One of the places I go to get inspiration is in nature, because of its amazing color spectrum, textures, and depth. The most amazing thing about nature is being about to capture these amazing nature moments on camera. Today’s round-up features absolutely stunningly beautiful nature photography shots for your inspiration! I hope you find them as inspirational as I have!! All of these amazing Photographs contain links back to their original sources, so please click on the images if you would like to see more! Enjoy!