Using these subtle textures is a great way to create grunge backgrounds for your websites, vintage logos and type treatment or provide a useful backdrop to your design mock-ups if you are looking to upload them to Dribbble or Behance. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com 15 Free Subtle Brush Set Hi-Res Subtle Grunge Vector Textures Dirtbag #3 50 Subtle Grunge Brushes Vector Brushes: Free High Res Fabric Texture Brush Set Scratchy [...]

Today we’re going to take a look at some amazing artwork from elsewhere on the web, all of which are either constructed using polygonal meshes or simplified with basic geometric shapes.   IMPERFECT BALANCE BY URSULEANU DANIEL WARRIOR BY DKNG STUDIOS SEA LEVEL BY JEREMIAH SHAW GEOMETRY SERIE BY PABLO ALFIERI GEO BY LEGAN ROOSTER ACTIVITIES OF THE INANIMATE BY ANDY GILMORE INADVERTENT HAIKU BY NATE LUETKEHANS HALFTONE POLYGONS BY JESSE JOHANNING 03-24-2010 BY ANDY [...]

It takes two easy steps to install WordPress but you may tweaking some of the default settings to further optimize the performance and also improve the security of your WordPress website. How to Optimize your WordPress Installation These suggestions are only applicable to self-hosted WordPress.org sites and not blogs that are hosted on WordPress.com. Also, I assume that you are running WordPress on Apache. Let’s get started: 1. Change the default media upload folder The [...]

It’s the time of year when holiday music is playing in most places, and winter scenes are prominent in advertising and on the web. Some websites will even change or tweak their designs to have a winter or Christmas theme. Winter photographs can play a significant role in providing inspiration for your own winter designs, and with that in mind we decided to compile this collection of beautiful photos. In this post you’ll find 25 [...]

Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2012, they just happened to be featured as a ‘Picture of the Day’ this year. The pictures are also listed in reverse chronological order. There is no ranking between the photos themselves Enjoy! And stay Sifty my friends     75. THE RED ZONE AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   Photograph by Elia Locardi on Google+ | blamethemonkey.com       74. ONE TRIPPY PROFILE [...]

Web designing Tools and techniques are ever evolving and it’s the responsibility of the designers and developers to stay in touch with the latest innovations to provide the web design clients with best pieces. Books are great source of knowledge and web designers should think about reading new books on web designing, written by well-known authors. In this writing, there is short discussion about 8 books on the same topic. 1-      Universal Principles Of Design [...]

Nearly 6 years after the initial release of jQuery, it’s more popular than been. This can mostly be attributed to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers is constantly building plugins that allow web developers and designers to easily add amazing functionality to their projects. Continuing our “Best of 2012″ series, the focus this week is on jQuery plugins. Over the past year, we’ve seen a tons of great new [...]

Christmas is here once again and what best represent this season but winter season and snowflakes. . This year, we rounded up 12 sets of free snowflake vector graphics that you can use to make your own Christmas themed design like greeting cards, posters, gift tags, decors, web icons and backgrounds, and many more holiday season design related stuff. Merry Christmas and enjoy the holiday! 1. 52 Snowflakes Vectors from Dezignus 2. Free Christmas Ribbon with Snowflake Design 3. Snowflakes Tree Card Vector Graphic 4. Winter [...]

This is a humorous but somehow still quite informative break down of the key differences and similarities between web programmers and web designers in the US. From the official and not so official stats we learn that the web programmers earn more than their web designing colleagues do but that they are also perhaps more prone to being nerds whereas their web design counterparts are fashion victims who could not be seen anywhere without the [...]

Using texture is a great way of adding personality and depth to a webdesign. It doesn’t matter if you choose to use texture only in the navigation menu, the header or if you go with a totally textured background, as long as you pick the right texture and don’t over use it, the result, most of time, will be elegant and beautiful, as the examples we’re showing you in this post. Alxandr Grain & Mortar [...]