“A round up from 1stwebdesigner.com featuring 60 quality icons sets for download”

Using icons in designs is a hot trend these days. Most of the websites now a days uses icons for their logos, navigation, bookmarks or use to represent their website.

I’ll be featuring 60 high quality icons set that are free to download but be sure to read the terms of the owner’s icon.

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“A great post from the Income Diary Blog that lists some of  the great blog sales through out the years, this post will serve as good inspiration to those who want to do some serious blogging and make a living out of it and maybe later on sell the blogs for a fortune”

The whole point of this post is to make you think of your end goal, where you want to go with your online business. Every day your working on your business, don’t just think about how much you made that day but how much your going to make for investing an additional day into your business when you go to sell your blog/company. Some of these guys were worth $30,000 a day – now that’s what gets me excited about blogging.

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“A round of some very useful cheat sheets for graphic designers”

Is there a time that you really don’t know the easiest way to create your design applications? Then there are things that could help you, these are cheat sheets. Cheat sheets give you a good refresher on the topic you want to learn. Just google on your keywords and surely you will find a bunch of cheat sheets that will help you. You’ll find cheat sheets on graphic design applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks.

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Whether it be web design or just a poster design a pattern if used in the right way can really make the design stand out, here is a collection of a lovely set of colorful Photoshop patterns with a touch of “grunge” to it. Its completely free for you to download.
We thank webtreatsetc for making these awesome photoshop patterns and making it available freely for personal and commercial use. Without taking any more space here are the patterns.

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“The Tutplus blog brings you this great post on css selectors. A must read for every web designer who wants to code decent css”

So you learned the base id, class, and descendant selectors – and then called it a day? If so, you’re missing out on an enormous level of flexibility. While many of the selectors mentioned in this article are part of the CSS3 spec, and are, consequently, only available in modern browsers, you owe it to yourself to commit these to memory.

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“A round up of 70 super hand drawing style resources for designing thanks to Dainis Graveris of 1stwebdesigner.com Download all of them for free!”

As promised I finally finish my hand drawing related article series with this one. I categorized all resources so You can more easier navigate through. Here You can find the best resources You need to create hand-drawing style designs, artworks or websites. There are wood, cork and leather textures, various office brushes, photos, templates, icons and even few tutorials at the end of the article as final reference. And I even didn’t mention hand-drawn doodles, fuzzy lines, sketches and many high-quality paper backgrounds, notes, pins – just look through and take what You need!

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