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• 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition

  • Thursday, 19 Aug 2010, 07:14 GMT+7 (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Smashing Magazine Feed

    It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick…

• Free Creative and Professional CSS3 CV/Resume Template

  • Wednesday, 2 Jun 2010, 00:57 GMT+7 (2 Jun 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Typography

  
  Earlier this month we published an article on the best HTML & CSS CV and Resume templates, and today we feel we can top all of those templates with one of our own.
  Today we have the pleasure of releasing free to our readers a resume template that is choc-full…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.42

  • Saturday, 22 May 2010, 00:52 GMT+7 (22 May 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel…

• Beginners Guide to Using the Power of Color in Web Design

  • Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 04:39 GMT+7 (19 May 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Good color choices should never be taken for granted in web design. A bad color selection or combination can have the same negative effective as poorly layed-out content or can create the same frustration as an excessively slow loading page. So, underestimate the power of color at your own peril.…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.41

  • Saturday, 15 May 2010, 01:33 GMT+7 (15 May 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.40

  • Saturday, 8 May 2010, 01:44 GMT+7 (8 May 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.39

  • Saturday, 1 May 2010, 02:24 GMT+7 (1 May 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel…

• World Cup 2010 Posters Inspired by African Pattern Heritage and Contemporary Football

  • Thursday, 29 Apr 2010, 00:37 GMT+7 (29 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  There are now only eight weeks left until the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This is the first time the greatest sporting event in the world is being held on the African continent, and promises to be an exciting exploration, of not only football, but of…

• 50 Examples of Black in Web Design – Black is Beautiful!

  • Wednesday, 28 Apr 2010, 03:12 GMT+7 (28 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  A common misconception is that black is thought of as a color in the same way that red, blue, purple or even green are. In actual fact, black is the complete absence of all color and light, essentially making it the ultimate non-color. And as such, a certain element of…

• Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.34)

  • Tuesday, 27 Apr 2010, 01:57 GMT+7 (27 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  We have slightly re-branded our weekly ‘Twitter’ design news, by simply dropping the Twitter from the title. Its not that we no longer like Twitter, we still love, it is just that we use a multitude of other sources as well, and we are not limited to only sharing via…

• 30 Pure CSS Alternatives to Javascript

  • Monday, 26 Apr 2010, 01:05 GMT+7 (26 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  With all the cool things that surround Javascript (especially with jQuery) its easy to forget that it’s possible to push pure CSS (with a touch of HTML) into an all singing and all dancing interactive site, with absolutely no scripting at all.
  The pure CSS techniques, outlined in this article,…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.37

  • Saturday, 17 Apr 2010, 01:12 GMT+7 (17 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.36

  • Saturday, 10 Apr 2010, 01:17 GMT+7 (10 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel…

• This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.31

  • Tuesday, 6 Apr 2010, 07:52 GMT+7 (6 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and facebook in the past week.
  Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.35

  • Tuesday, 6 Apr 2010, 00:54 GMT+7 (6 Apr 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Posting a little bit later than usual (it was Easter after all), this is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope…

• Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates

  • Monday, 29 Mar 2010, 04:24 GMT+7 (29 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Smashing Magazine Feed

    Sketching and wireframing are a specialized style of drawing, used for fleshing out preliminary complex ideas, group brain-storming, a lo-fi method for evaluating interaction concepts, and as a way of roughly perfecting a design technique.Sketch and wireframe paper is essentially drawing paper that is designed specifically for this purpose. You…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.34

  • Saturday, 27 Mar 2010, 03:24 GMT+7 (27 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• 50 Examples of Large Photography Backgrounds within Web Design

  • Thursday, 25 Mar 2010, 09:47 GMT+7 (25 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  The first thing that springs to mind when thinking about large photography backgrounds within web design are of simple photographers portfolio website or even that of a design company. Upon researching this article, the surprising thing was that this type of background does not seem to have any limitations, it…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.33

  • Saturday, 20 Mar 2010, 01:09 GMT+7 (20 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books

  • Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 02:13 GMT+7 (19 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  There are a multitude of books (whether in digital format or print) that cover every possible aspect of web design, each one is unique and offers a personalized opportunity for the author to both educate, inspire, and guide the reader through there knowledge.
  In this post rather than offer all…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.32

  • Sunday, 14 Mar 2010, 01:23 GMT+7 (14 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• Showcase of 20 Mobile-Friendly Popular Design Blogs

  • Thursday, 11 Mar 2010, 06:03 GMT+7 (11 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Roughly 3-4% of our readers view this site via a mobile device and that percentage is growing week-to-week. They aren’t very high percentages but it was certainly high enough to prompt me into action – I started considering a mobile version of this site.
  Let me start by saying that…

• 50 Examples of Creative 404 – Page Not Found Pages

  • Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010, 09:04 GMT+7 (10 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  There are two ways you can go when designing a 404 page for your website – you could go the sensible route and make it usable and try to help the reader find exactly what they were looking for or, you could design a 404 page that not only defines…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.31

  • Sunday, 7 Mar 2010, 01:46 GMT+7 (7 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• Falling Off the Wall Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

  • Thursday, 4 Mar 2010, 03:02 GMT+7 (4 Mar 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Typography

  
  At some time or another we have all seen it – neighbourhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.30

  • Saturday, 27 Feb 2010, 07:10 GMT+7 (27 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• A Showcase of 50 Amazing Personal Blog Web Designs

  • Thursday, 25 Feb 2010, 06:18 GMT+7 (25 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  The importance of a unique, memorable and well designed blog, especially within the design community, should not be underestimated – First impressions will always count and your blog gives you an opportunity to showcase your skills and highlight how professional and serious you are as a designer.
  For most web…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.29

  • Saturday, 20 Feb 2010, 04:03 GMT+7 (20 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.28

  • Saturday, 13 Feb 2010, 04:48 GMT+7 (13 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• 50 Beautifully Crafted Corporate Ecommerce Web Designs

  • Thursday, 11 Feb 2010, 06:18 GMT+7 (11 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Imagine a representative from a huge corporate company walking into your office and he drops on your lap a proposal for there new website, you read through the huge document and then you ask: “What is your proposed budget for this project?” – He gives you the answer, and… WOW!!!…

 
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