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Mini-icons for web design

ARTEgami — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:00:09 +0000

The little icons are a great help for creating web sites. They give life to the site in a few minutes, help to determine sections, and help the visitors to recognize it faster visually. Making the site easier to browse, something that we all look for.

In PsdTuts+ published a pack with little icons for web design that could help you with many projects. There are 512 icons of 16×16 px in PNG and they are all related with design.

33 packs of icons for web design

300 icons for web design

25 sites with icons for web design

75 Wood Textures

ARTEgami — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:52:57 +0000

Textures are useful just because they bring us the possibility to fill with life a bored design or to cover a big space with some style. We can use it as a background for a grunge styled site, or use it with transparency to come alive an image without saturating it, and also, add it to an attractive text.

The grunge style is the kind of design that’s trending now, seen in a lot of sites. And one of its principal elements is the wood. So is a good idea to download the textures that offers us Designm.ag

There are 75 wood textures of an excellent quality that we can download clicking on the image.

25 wood textures

10 great wood textures

8 paint textures

ARTEgami — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:02:38 +0000

We talked many time about the importance of textures. If you have in mind a calm design, grunge (or not), with soft colors, attractive and relaxing for readers, the paint style will help you for sure.

In Circlebox published a list of 8 paint textures with soft tones and very attractive, all of great quality for use in so many designs that requires calm styles. The textures are free for commercial and personal use without any restriction.

75 Wood Textures

15 brick textures

25 wood textures

33 packs of icons for web design

ARTEgami — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:21:36 +0000

When we develop a new web site, there’s a moment in which the icons are helpful. They give life to details and the design, highlighting for example the date, categories or showing links to our profiles in the social networks. On the other hand, one of the tends this year is to accompany with this images the options of a menu, so it’s great to know where you can find them.

In Appstorm published a compilation of 33 packs of icons for web design, that also could be used in other projects. The list is varied, so it worth to visit it. They include social icons, apps, browsers and some related with blogging.

Mini-icons for web design

10 packs of icons for web design

50 packages of Mac icons

25 calligraphic fonts

ARTEgami — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:30:16 +0000

The calligraphic style typos are always good looking. Never go out of fashion and sometimes a customer will order a project using this kind of fonts with classic style. So is important to get in our personal collection a good selection of this kind of resources.

We can start with a compilation created by Designm.ag, where shows 25 calligraphic fonts in good quality, really attractive and ideals for design. There’s some very originals, so you can find someone you like for sure.

35 free fonts

25 tools for working with fonts

Photoshop’s Paper Brushes

Download free abstract backgrounds

ARTEgami — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:13:47 +0000

Backgrounds are always a great resource because a lot of designs could get a lot of life in seconds with this elements. Two things are important for that: They must be high quality and good size. So they can cover more space normally in a web site background.

In Deizguns published a great pack of abstracts backgrounds very varied. There’s twelve totally, with lights, waves, lines that fill it with life and color. The file is 5,7mb and includes twelve background in Jpg with good sizes (4000×3000 and 5000×4000 px)

They can be downloaded from Rapidshare, DepositFiles or Mediafire and are totally free for personal uses as corporative with some requirements as don’t sell them to thirds and don’t say that we created them.

Free retro style backgrounds

Vectorized Backgrounds

12 different backgrounds

100 resources for designers

ARTEgami — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:46:50 +0000

As designers (Or blog users) we thank the lot of site that offers us the Internet for our help. You can find addons for your programs, elements for design, varied applications and so many things that make our work easier.

In WebDesignDev published an interesting recompilation with 1000 resources for designers (That will be useful for who don’t design too). It includes sites to search for icons, how to, scripts, online apps of all kind, plugins for Wordpress, articles, programs and templates for our blogs.

Good places to find Wordpress templates

25 packages of icons to designers

25 sites free icons for designers

Send your resume via internet.

ARTEgami — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:05:17 +0000

A good Curriculum Vitae is important for all of us when we search for a job and also when we want to change it. It’s a very important document, that should show our experience and studies.

Today, with the furor of the Internet the things are handled in this scope, and it includes the job search. For that is important that we focus in the possibility of offer our CV in this way.

CeeVee is a tool that help us with this. Just registering us we can access to three different templates and star adding the information we wish, and also a photo. Once published we get an url like www.ceevee.com/user for all you need to see it.

How to create animations with Photoshop

SEO in 15 minutes

Tutorial, creates a transparent sphere

Wordpress cheatsheet for work

ARTEgami — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:00:20 +0000

Those who work in Wordpress themes, or have a blog in this CMS, know that for having a lot of options for personalize it has some pieces of code that we should know.

A cheatsheet is a sheet for help in which are published the more important things and where we can find some details that we shouldn’t forget.

In NetTuts+ published a Wordpress cheatsheet, ver useful for all who have a blog in this CMS. It’s in PDF and includes codes about the structure of the template, the categories and the menu. It’s a resources needed b everyone, so I recommend to download and keep it nearly in case you need it.

100 Wordpress templates

5 new templates for Wordpress

Good places to find Wordpress templates

Make a background for your Twitter profile

ARTEgami — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:26:54 +0000

With the Twitter furor in the social networks, maybe lot of us have an account and use it diary. If we give the possibility of following us to our readers is important to have a profile that looks good and not the default background.

The people of Designora found a site that can help us with that. It’s Free Twitter Designer, where step by step teach us how to create a new profile for our user.

You must pick a background, set some details and save the image on your PC. The you log into your account on Twitter, in the profile tab load the image and just left modify the color scheme to combine with the new background

42 backgrounds for inspiration Twitter

New package of Twitter icon

30 amazing fantasy background