40 Best Ever Photoshop Tutorials of Web Layout Designs

Here is a collection of 40 Best Ever Photoshop Tutorials of Web Layout Designs to teach you create your own layout for your website, check them out, learn and enjoy the tutorials.
http://www.tutoriallounge.com/2009/12/40-best-ever-photoshop-tutorials-of-web-layout-designs/

Aviary.com

Free On-Line Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com Check it out... it's all free with large libraries and easy access to Facebook, Picasa, and more. http://aviary.com/

Web Pages That Suck

If you don't know which web design techniques on your site are hurting your business or organization, you can't fix them. Web Pages That Suck will show you where you're going wrong.

• Checklist 1 149 Ways to Kill Your Web Site


• Checklist 2 82 Ways to Ruin Your Web Site


• Top 30 Web Design Mistakes


• What Do I Do Now?

THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF WEB DESIGN

There are many good and bad things you can do in web design; the following is a list of some of those options and how you should deal with them.

http://www.secretsites.com/do_dont_part1.jsp

Also checkout the Pre-flight Check List and the Web Designers Handbook.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world.
This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/07/15-essential-checks-before-launching-your-website/

60+ Logo Design Tutorials & Resources

When we talk about a famous brand, the first thing that comes to mind is its logo. The logo is the most essential component of any personal brand and also the hardest part to execute. A logo must be appropriate, aesthetically pleasing and a reflection of the company’s credibility. Furthermore, a logotype should be synonymous with the company or product it represents and should penetrate people’s minds as a selling agent. An amateurish logo design can more likely make your business fail for a number of reasons. A logo is of great importance in creating brand identity, and you should be very careful in selecting one for your business.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/30/60-beautiful-logo-design-tutorials-and-resources/

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is probably the most widely used graphics editor in the world. Everyday professional and enthusiast designers use Photoshop to create graphics, logos, special effects and even web templates. Members of this site have submitted hundreds of photoshop tutorials on topics such as web design, logos, buttons, photo effects and more.

TheDesignWorld.com
http://www.thedesignworld.com/photoshop-tutorials/

FREE backgrounds for your blog

FREE backgrounds for your blog! ...you'll find INSTRUCTIONS on how to install my free backgrounds and Categories to find exactly what you're looking for!
http://aquapoppydesigns2.blogspot.com/

InfoServeMedia.com Graphics

The following Web site backgrounds and blog backgrounds are completely free to use on any personal, commercial, or non-profit Web site, blog, etc.* The backgrounds are sized to fit into the body of most Web pages or blogs (Blogger®, WordPress®, TypePad®, etc.).
http://www.infoservemedia.com/design/resources/backgrounds/

Dynamic Drive DHTML & Javascripts

Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site! New Script(s) http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

PhotoshopStar Web Tutorials

Here is a list of all of the Photoshop tutorials listed on PhotoshopStar.
http://www.photoshopstar.com/tutorials-page/

Good-Tutorials Photoshop

Good-Tutorials is the largest source of tutorials on the web today. It has been featured on the BBC, SkyNews, TechTV (now G4), in the British magazine iCreate, PC World, and has been linked to by thousands of sites, blogs and forums.
http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop

1. CSS 2. Flash 3. HTML 4. Illustrator 5. Java 6. JavaScript 7. Maya
8. Photography 9. Photoshop 10. PHP 11. Ruby 12. Ruby on Rails 13. 3ds Max

11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers

In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 11 Premium But Free Web Apps For Designers that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/02/10/11-premium-but-free-and-useful-web-apps-for-designers.html

Javascript Slideshow Generator

This is a more complex Slideshow Generator. Through this generator you can make a slide show javascript with a wide variety of display and mechanical options. There is also the original slideshow script that uses a lot less code (however, it also has fewer options). Here's a link to the page to check out the newest... http://www.ricocheting.com/js/slide2.html

101 Essential Blogging Resources

With the amount of tools and programs cropping up all over the web for every type of person imagineable, its about time that someone wrote a massive list of resources for bloggers. Continued

The Newbie Guide to Blogging

We live in a blogging world. Whether you’re a business startup, an established business, a freelancer, an intern, a musician, or anyone else, blogging can help you:

* Make your name or brand visible
* Connect with others in your business or interest
* Reach out to the public about issues you’re passionate about
* Express yourself
* Update clients or an audience about projects you’re working on
* Share your knowledge
* Learn to write better
* Share your life with people important to you
* Connect with your fans or customers
* Make money

More of the article here.

100 Beautiful Free Textures

Use of texture in Web design is extremely common. Part of the reason textures are so useful to designers is the relative ease of the integrating one into a design if a high-quality textured image already exists, not to mention the endless possibilities. Fortunately, plenty of photographers and designers are willing to share their work with the rest of us so that we can use them in a number of different ways.

In this post, we’ll look at 100 different textures in a wide variety of different categories. Of course, each image is linked to the source where it can be downloaded. As with any type of freebie, be sure to read the terms and conditions or stipulations by the owner before using it in your work.

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