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These tools will create a variety of images that you can use as backgrounds for your Web pages.
Visit 8 Addictive and Fun Background Generators for Designers

As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective.
To help you in your analysis, here are 15 [...]

This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test website color combinations.
The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.
If you are looking for Color Combination ideas, check out the Combo Library. The library contains hundreds of color swatches, along with their [...]

It’s been about 7 months since the original Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of was published, and in that time there have been many more noteworthy tutorials released. With all of that new content , it’s only appropriate to put out a second edition of the best Illustrator tutorials. In this post you’ll find some basic tutorials on getting started with [...]

The grunge movement in design combines rips, tears, decay, smears and scratches to form a dark and gritty result. Here we’ve collected fifty of the best ever Photoshop grunge tutorials for your enjoyment and education.
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The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about. Finding the perfect Layout that have Total Flexibility, Equal Height Columns and just works fine.
So we’ve decided [...]

Tabs are fundamental to web design, Nowadays Animated Tabs and accordions are used by most websites, here we have collected 30+ Tab-Based and Accordion scripts vary from CSS only tabs ,Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation . which you can easily incorporate into your future designs
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Without a doubt, a logical and structured layout is the best way to go. Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout.
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Illustration is usually done in vector graphics applications like Adobe Illustrator or CORELDraw. But with the robustness of Adobe Photoshop, designers who don’t have access to vector graphics software can achieve vector-like objects and compositions with it.
In this collection, you’ll find 30 brilliant illustration/drawing tutorials using Adobe Photoshop from top-notch Photoshop tutorial sites.
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It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as engineering, architecture and Web design.
This means that design is not just graphical in nature (which is a form of visual artistic representation), but [...]