Browsing all articles from August, 2010
Aug
14

Top 50 High Quality Twitter Icons for Free

Author rtekpro    Category Freebies     Tags ,

“Here are some lovely twitter icons you can use on your blog, and hopefully help increase your follower count. We found this post from problogdesign.com and was written by Toan Nguyen Minh”

Currently, Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites. Most bloggers are therefore interested in adding some twitter icons to their blog, so that their readers can submit their article to Twitter quickly, or just find their Twitter account and follow it.

Here we’ve collected together some of the best twitter icons we’ve come across online. Surely you’ll find one that suits your site!

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Aug
13

CSS3 Examples and Best Practices

Author rtekpro    Category CSS     Tags

“This ones another post from Webdesignerwall.com, Nick LA talks about some of the best practices and examples of CSS3″

The CSS3 trend is getting more and more popular. In fact CSS3 new features open a lot of new possibilities. Check out my previous post on “CSS3 Animation Demos” to see the things that you can do with it. However, don’t get too excited so soon because it is not fully supported by all browsers yet. But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it at all. So, when should you use CSS3 new features? Well, continue on this post to see some excellent examples.

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Aug
13

60 Free Handwritten & Script Fonts

Author rtekpro    Category Freebies     Tags , ,

“A set of 60 great handwritten & script fonts for free from WebDesignerWall.com”

People mostly use either serif or sans-serif fonts and often miss out the handwritten fonts. They are as important as the main font classifications. I particularly like to use handwritten fonts to highlight significant items in screen captures. They add the personal touch in my design and also provide great typographic contrast. However, not all handwritten fonts are legible. I’ve put together a huge list of free handwritten and script fonts that work well.
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Aug
7

40+ Awesome Grunge Style Photoshop Brush Packs

Author rtekpro    Category Photoshop     Tags ,

“Brushes have been one of the most important design resource for Photoshop designers, heres a post that links to more than 40 Photoshop brushes. A post from 1stwebdesigner.com”

Grunge style has become a trend in design community so here is the ultimate collection of really nice and high quality grunge brushes. I am really hoping these brushes will help in Your work flow, as these do while I am designing. So play with them and bring your creativity to design community.
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Aug
3

40 High Quality CSS and XHTML Web Layout Templates

Author rtekpro    Category Web Design     Tags , , ,

“A great collection of quality CSS and XHTML web layout templates are shown in this posts, a post from speckyboy.com”

Whether you download and dissect pre-built CSS templates to learn new layout techniques or if you download them to be used as easy-to-edit ready made and standalone web sites, you shouldn’t be limited to using one of the many cloned, dated and often dull templates that are freely available. Popular trends and techniques change very quickly within web design and as such your choice of template should reflect that.

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Aug
2

25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know

Author rtekpro    Category Web Development     Tags

“Another super post from tutsplus.com to get you started with the new html5.”

This industry moves fast — really fast! If you’re not careful, you’ll be left in its dust. So, if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with the coming changes/updates in HTML5, use this as a primer of the things you must know.

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Aug
1

Jump-Starting Your Company’s Twitter Account

Author rtekpro    Category Twitter     Tags ,

“A post from twitip.com that gives you tips on starting your twitter account and making the follower count go up from day one!”

Most companies have joined Twitter by now but there are a few that have lagged behind. If you’re a part of this group (as my company was), it can be really intimidating to jump into the social media scene when your competitors already have established accounts with hundreds (or thousands) of followers. I used these techniques to jump my new account from 0 to 350 followers in one month, bypassing the awkward infancy period of a new Twitter account almost entirely.

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