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20+ Useful High-Quality Fonts

cosmos — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:17:36 +0000

This week, we are bringing you more high-quality fonts that have been created in just the past few months. There are 22 in all and they’re all free. There are a few however that will require a quick registration, but they are well worth it.

Raleway

Orbitron

Public Gothic

Juice

Sonrisa Thin

Prociono

Palm of Buddha

Metal

Hunstrüct

PT Sans

Museo Slab

Playtime

Sylar Stencil

DejaRip

Orial

Kain Block

Otari

Nautik

A_B_ Stochome Modular

Aldo Open

Sans Serious

Kilogram

50+ Colorful Web Designs to Inspire You

cosmos — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:15:41 +0000

In this selection, we are presenting 55 colorful web designs to inspire you.

Haãfe & Haph

colorchakra.com

Lyrically Noted

Hughes

Silver Pistol

christmastweets.co.uk

rareview

Frances Cycles

Glucone-R

Chris Kaufman

Leaf A Legacy

fuelbrandinc.com

N.Design Studio

Maurício Guimarães

intuitive designs

curiousgeneration

The House Media

asemota

The Touch Agency

kikiandbree.com

rekkiabilly.com

tapmates.com

Cobble Hill Towers

dibi conference

vegasuncorked.com

savetheturtlesgame.com

teleiosman.com

indofolio.com

Wake Somebody Up

freshnotcanned.com

Aussie BBQ Legends

f91w.com

havaianas.com

arkix.com

Open Atrium

mbdizajn.com

organicgrid.com

MarcosXotoko

colourpixel

moradito.com.ar

Matt Salik

akedesign.com

TANQ

F5

pixelcool.com

scarygirl

garamiz.hu

k4lab

Giancarlo Fajardo

Duirwaigh Studios

vanityclaire.com

ilovecolors.com.ar

David Lanham

tori’s eye

agami creative

10 Useful Website Analytics Tools

cosmos — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:13:04 +0000

When you start a website, no matter if you have chosen a top business hosting package or a cheap website hosting package, you will find various website analysis tools in your web hosting admin panel. Website analysis tools, such as Awstats, are typically included in both business hosting and cheap website hosting packages and these tools are indeed good. However, if you want options when it comes to website analytics tools, here are some suggestions.

JAWStats

If you like Awstats, you will certainly appreciate JAWStats as well. JAWStats runs in conjunction with Awstats and produces more graphics than Awstats.

goingup!

Goingup! is one more tool website stats freaks will love because it offers many kinds of statistical data, which is represented in visually attractive ways. A substantial part of the functionality of goingup! is SEO-related, so if you don’t use any other SEO-tools, this tool will do this job as well.

Clicky

Clicky also made the list of useful website analysis tools not only because it has tons of great features but also because it is one of the few website analysis tools you can use from your iPhone.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is rightfully considered one of the best because it is really a comprehensive tool, which gives you tons of useful data about your site.

W3Counter

W3Counter is a free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.

Woopra

Woopra is another excellent website analysis package. It has many, many features and there are webmasters, who name Woopra, not Google Analytics, the most comprehensive website analysis tool.

W3Perl

W3Perl can use server’s logfiles and/or be used as a page tagging tool. The perl scripts analyze logfiles and produce HTML/PDF reports. It can be run from the command line or from the web interface.

Piwik

Piwik has all the features you can expect from analysis application. Its main advantage is that its features come in the form of plugins, which means you can choose which features to get and which to skip.

TraceWatch

TraceWatch lets you keep track of the visitors to your website in real time with detailed statistics and deep analysis using an innovative user interface for FREE and helps you make your website more effective. It can be easily installed on any website supporting PHP and MySQL. You only need to upload some files to your server.

Snoop

Unlike almost all the other tools on the list, which are either used on the server of their developer, or have to be installed on your web host, Snoop is a desktop application. Snoop has a Windows and Mac version and after you install it, it runs in your tray and you get notified if an important event on your site occurs.

50+ Free High Quality Gothic and Horror Fonts

cosmos — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:05:22 +0000

If you have recently receive assignment or job to create design for something gothic, spooky or old-fashioned we urge that you take a look at the following free fonts we’ve collected before adding premium fonts to your shopping cart. Here’s a list of 50+ free gothic and horror fonts you may want to bookmark.

Cold Night for Alligators

Feast of Flesh BB

The haine au carre

Cannibal Corpse

Solstice Of Suffering

You Murderer Font

Sin of the innoccent

Windswept MF

13th Ghostwrite

Splywaj

Almost Dead Bloody

10 Beautiful girls wallpapers

cosmos — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:47:52 +0000

10 Windows Linux Desktop Wallpapers

cosmos — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:11:30 +0000

here we collect 10 Windows Linux Desktop Wallpapers,help you like them.

11 Photoshop Brushs

cosmos — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0000

Awesome Photoshop Pencil Brush

Complete Tree Brush Pack

Hearts Photoshop Brushes

Eyelashes Photoshop Brushes

Star Brush

Eyeshadow Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop HAIR brushes

Lips Kisses Brush Set

Feather Brush Set

Photoshop Brush Set – Arrows

Car Wallpapers

cosmos — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:30:35 +0000

Today ,We collect some Car Wallpapers,help you like them.

Concept car Wallpaper 02 BLACK

dream car

Electrify the Night

Computer World

cosmos — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:00:45 +0000

Today,more of us have a computer,to study ,play, search resources,and comunicate with each other.one computer is must be.

Computer give me a lot of happy and let our life colorful.

Now if you have no Computer,you can buy one,I tell you to buy laptop computers,it is Portable，best prices of Aplle,mac,pc and computer equipment.

apple laptop is the best laptop computer ,the Performance is very advanced,related computer equipments are good,Looks nice

I have owned many macs. The 1st was a G4 desktop never had an issue with the 2 years of ownership. The second computer was a Powerbook G4, never had a problem. Third was a Powerbook again had a couple of issues but apple was always on point. Fourth computer was a Macbook (white) I honestly liked the computer but wasn’t impressed with the overall quality of the casing.

I had issues with the build quality and took it to the genius bar a total of 3 times. They repaired it with no questions asked but the third time they called me…They decided to give me a brand new computer no questions asked for my trouble. They offered for me to get a brand new white one or the new uni body Macbook. I obviously took the new uni body Macbook and its gorgeous. They also transferred everything over for me and polished it up at the bar before handing me my brand new laptop. Apple stands behind its products and has amazing customer support.

BE NICE AND ALWAYS BE SYMPATHETIC WITH THE GENIUS BAR THEY DON’T BUILD THE COMPUTERS!! Way to go Apple!!

Google Buzz Icons

cosmos — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:44:05 +0000

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400+ Photoshop Floral Brushes

cosmos — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:37:12 +0000

Free Floral Brushes:

Hi-Res Floral Brushes (10 brushes)

Floral Brushes (9 brushes)

Floral Brushes (15 brushes)

Messy Flora (20 brushes)

Floral Swirl (15 brushes)

Fresh Foliage Brushes for High Resolution (67 brushes)

Floral Brushes (9 brushes)

Floral Brushes II (6 brushes)

Suddenly Spring Photoshop Brushes (25 brushes)

Floral Stroke (6 brushes)

Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes (4 brushes)

Mini Flower Brushes (6 brushes)

Jakandara (17 brushes)

Vector Foliage-Plants Photoshop Brushes (35 brushes)

Flowers (Let’s Say Mega Pack) (28 brushes)

Barbarja Floral01 (15 brushes)

Nature Brushes (10 brushes)

Floral Deco (72 brushes)

Swirls and Flowers (15 brushes)

Vector Flowers II (19 brushes)

Rose Garden Brushes (8 brushes)

Fantasy Floral (4 brushes)

Floral Photoshop Brushes (4 brushes)

500+ Photoshop Textures Brushes Collections

cosmos — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:07:03 +0000

Textured graphics are obviously very popular right now, and fortunately there are tons of free Photoshop brushes that will help you to quickly and easily get the textured look you want. This post is a showcase of some of the best sets of brushes available anywhere for creating textures.

Free Texture Brushes:

Dirt Spray (8 brushes)

Rust Brushes (13 brushes)

Dust & Scratches (12 brushes)

Texture Brushes (52 brushes)

Scratch Splat Grunge Brushes (15 brushes)

Dumpster Brushes (8 brushes)

Grunge Brushes 007 (7 brushes)

Digea Rust Brushes (9 brushes)

TurkHitBox Grunge Set (10 brushes)

Cracks (12 brushes)

Grunge Notion Brushes (24 brushes)

High Res Dirt Brush Set (8 brushes)

Stone and Rust (22 brushes)

Cracked Brush Set (19 brushes)

Keep Dreaming Volume 44 (12 brushes)

Abstract 17 (10 brushes)

Grunge Brushes (50 brushes)

Peeling Paint (20 brushes)

Scratch Texture (17 brushes)

Grunge Brushes 7 (30 brushes)

Grunge Brushes 8 (60 brushes)

Grunge Brushes 9 (60 brushes)

Grunge Brushes 10 (46 brushes)

Grunge Brushes by KeReN (40 brushes)

Paper Brushes (4 brushes)

Rough Edges (19 brushes)

Dirt Brushes (5 brushes)

Textured Cracks (20 brushes)

Texture Brushes (21 brushes)

Paper Textures (25 brushes)

In Obscuro Texture Brushes (9 brushes)

In Obscuro Old Paper Brushes (12 brushes)

120+ Usefull Photoshop Actions

cosmos — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:54:21 +0000

vintage wash ps actions (10 actions)

Vintage II – PS Actions (6 actions)

Old Photo

Photoshop Action 11

Vintage Colors (8 actions)

Victorian PS Action

Vintage Photo Action

Vintage Effect (6 actions)

Vintage meets lomo

Vintage Actions (2 actions)

photoshop actions – 63 (6 actions)

photoshop actions – 133 (12 actions)

photoshop actions – 136 (4 actions)

Slightly Vintage (3 actions)

photoshop actions – 41 (4 actions)

photoshop actions – 38 (8 actions)

Lith Print Action

Vintage

20+ Usefull Blogging and Social Media Icon Sets

cosmos — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:45:53 +0000

Icons are a favorite free resource of designers and bloggers. There are tons of quality, free icon sets out there and in this post we’ll feature 25 that are great for blog design. These icons sets include the those that are great for use with blogs and social media.

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Extended Set of Social Icons

Web 2.0rigami

Socialize Icons

Grunge Peeling Stickers

Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

Sketchy Web Icons

Glossy Blogging Icons

Function Free Icon Set

TurboMilk Icons

Blogging Icon Set

Social Bookmark Iconset

Social Bookmark Iconset – Part II

Handycons

Old Bottle Crowns

Heart

Pixel Perfect Social Media Icons

Social Media Icon Set

Rivet Social

Circular Social Media Icons

Cheers

Color Stroked Icons

Polaroid Icon Set

Handy Icons

Social Icons

Free iPad Icons, Tutorials and PSDs

cosmos — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:37:10 +0000

Since its controversial release, the iPad has been both criticized and admired by the design community.

In this post we have compiled a list of great resources, that teach you how to create your own iPad icons, as well as a collection of ready made icons and PSDs.

To download the files, please click on the preview image to go to the source site and remember to check the terms of use before using them in your projects.

If you know of any other great iPad freebies, please add them in the comments section below and we’ll include them in this post when appropriate.

iPad Tutorials

Callum Chapman’s iPad Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial, Callum explains the process of designing the Apple iPad from scratch in Photoshop using shape tools, layer styles and blending modes. You will also use the brush tool to create detailed chrome and lighting effects.

Chris Spooner’s iPad Photoshop Tutorial

Chris Spooner also creates an Apple iPad from scratch in Photoshop using simple modification tools, the pencil tool and transformation tools.

iPad Icons

Seeing how many great iPad icons are already available to download for free across the web is pretty amazing. Here is a small collection that will surely grow.

Enthusiastik iPad icons (2 icons; PNG format)

Chris Spooner iPad Icon Set (1 icon; PSD, PNG and ICN formats)

KR Design iPad Icon (2 icons; PNG format)

Sudhithxavier iPad Icon (1 icon; PNG format)

Chris Noakes iPad Icon (1 icon; PNG, ICO and ICN formats)

Adidadidu iPad Icons (18 icons; PNG, ICO and ICN formats)

TinyLab iPad Icon (1 icon; ICN format)

Bisiobisio iPad Icon (1 icon; PNG, ICO and ICN formats)

Santieldarlaine iPad Icon (1 icon; PNG format)

iPad PSD Documents

If you’re looking for something a little easier to customize, try out these iPad PSD documents.

Kevin Anderson iPad PSD

This PSD is completely editable. Every object was created using vector masks, meaning you can scale it up or down without any loss of quality.

Mppagano iPad PSD

This huge and incredibly detailed iPad PSD comes in at a whopping 2400 x 2400 pixels, large enough for almost any design project.

Geoff Teehan iPad GUI PSD

This one is for the application developers out there. The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it is fully editable and scalable. The workable screen design is formatted to 768 x 1024, so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK. This is a beauty of a document, coming in at around 24 MB. Start designing those apps!

10 awesome PSD to XHTML tutorials

cosmos — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:30:22 +0000

How to Convert a PSD to XHTML

Source

Creating a CSS layout from scratch

Source

From PSD to CSS/HTML in Easy Steps – Part 1

Source

From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step

Source

How To Create a Horizontally Scrolling Site

Source

Converting a Design From PSD to HTML

Source

The Design Lab: PSD Conversion

Source

Web Design Layout #9 SiteBuild

Source

Convert a Photoshop Mockup to XHTML/CSS

Source

Coding a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design from Photoshop

Source

19 CSS Tools For Web Developers and Designers

cosmos — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:10:58 +0000

Even if you know CSS very well some tasks take lot of time to complete and for this there are lots of tools available using which you can complete your projects quicker. These tools can help you in creating forms, buttons, curve boxes, pages and lots of different CSS generated stuff.

Today we have collected 19 popular CSS tools, which will make your life easier. Don’t forget we are here to help our design community, if i missed any good tool don’t hesitate to tell us.

1. CSS Type Generator

CSS Type Set is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content.

2. Drawter

This tool gives you the possibility to draw your website’s code.

3. CSS Sprite Generator

Very helpful tool to generate sprites for your web projects.

4. Deploy

“Whenever starting a web project, I used to always begin with the tedious process of creating the basic framework structure for the site. This included creating folders for CSS and images, downloading and including jQuery, and adding a CSS reset, among other things.”

5. CSS Compressor

Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression.

6. Blueprint Grid CSS Generator

This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files. Whether you prefer 8, 10,16 or 24 columns in your design, this generator now enables you that flexibility with Blueprint.

7. Button Maker Online

Use this online tool to easily and visually create those popular “XHTML valid” micro buttons (80×15). You can also opt for the larger 88×31 button instead.

8. CSS Layout Generator

This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

9. CSSFly

CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files.

10. CSS Button & Text Field Generator

Very helpful tool to create buttons and text fields.

11. CSS Colors Palette Generator

Upload an image to generate a color palette based on the image’s primary colors. Useful for quickly grabbing a particular color within an image for inspiration.

12. Spanky Corners

‘Spanky Corners’ is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produce ’round-cornered content boxes’ with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to work

13. Replace CSS Colors Editor

Change the entire color scheme of your site with this CSS Color Editor.

14. The Box Office

The Box Office lets you wrap/float/contour text around freeform images using CSS for usage in (X)HTML pages.

15. EM Calculator

Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design.

16. Page Maker – The Generator Form

CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker.

17. Clean CSS

A tool to optimize and format your CSS.

18. W3C CSS Validation

Check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and (X)HTML documents with style sheets

19. Markup Maker

Markup Maker takes a simple list of page ids that you enter and converts it to a valid XHTML/HTML document (scaffolding, if you like). Now includes HTML5 support

Cool Photos and Artworks

cosmos — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:40:51 +0000