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Details : 2 columns, right sidebar, wodget ready, 125×125 ad zones, footer widgets, cross-browser compatible (Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Safari 3+ and Chrome 0.2+)Requirements : Wordpress 2.6+Demo : ZinePress - Free Wordpress Theme demoDownload : ZinePress - Free Wordpress Theme download

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Giving the great outcome of our previous contest we thought it’s time for another one. Sometimes as a designer your work load is so heavy you need a bit of help. This is where PSD to XHTML services come really handy. So for this contest we’ll be giving away to the winner a free, professional, [...]

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I received an email from a reader recently. For any of you that are also new to InDesign, I thought you might benefit from my response, below, a little more organized than my response to her. In this post I'll cover Paste in Place, a little bit about InDesign Layers, a few InDesign shortcuts, adjusting the stacking order of objects, the Step and Repeat function, contextual menus and more beginner articles on Creative Curio. If you have any questions about InDesign, be sure to check out this article and post a comment!

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Finding a good and fast PSD to XHTML slicing service* can be quite a hassle with all the slicing websites existing on the market today. Markup-Service.com provides hand-coded conversion of your designs into high quality, W3C valid XHTML/CSS in less than 8 hours.The XHTML / CSS services they provide are :W3C Valid and compliantCross browser [...]

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Simply Green MultiWidget Wordpress Style


With this style you can control the widgets in the side column as well as three spots in the footer.

As I said, you have multiple spots for widgets on this wordpress style.
This style is 100% valid on wordpress, here is the Demo and here is the download link.
You are welcome to edit the style in any way shape or form, but I do ask that you keep the copyright link in place.
Thanks
-Brandon

Simply Green MultiWidget Wordpress Style


With this style you can control the widgets in the side column as well as three spots in the footer.

As I said, you have multiple spots for widgets on this wordpress style.
This style is 100% valid on wordpress, here is the Demo and here is the download link.
You are welcome to edit the style in any way shape or form, but I do ask that you keep the copyright link in place.
Thanks
-Brandon

Color inspiration is something we've done infrequently on Creative Curio. Come take a look at color palettes from packaging, a yoga studio, and several branding images. These include a wide range of colors as well as color theories from monochromatic to a palette of six distinct colors.

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Details : 3 fixed columns, Flickr, Twitter and delicious integration, thumbnail cover design. Demo : Infinity - Free Wordpress Theme demo Download : Infinity - Free Wordpress Theme download

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The ending of the summer expands into the design world as September hasn’t been that productive and inspiring for designers like July or August. Nevertheless here are the CLD design picks for September 2008.Before we start be sure to take a look at the previous issues :Best Design Resources of August 2008Best Design Resources of [...]

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Details : lifestream module with carousel, custom archives page, animated drop-down menus, built-in AJAX contact form, author-highlighting for comments, user profile module, control panel for lifestream and contact form. Requirements : Wordpress 2.6+ Demo : Agregado - Free Wordpress Theme demo Download : Agregado - Free Wordpress Theme download

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Practika is a set of 11 high-quality icons developed by DryIcons for Smashing Magazine. All icons are available in sizes of 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px, in 32-bit transparent PNG format. Download Practika Free Icon Set

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Graphic design is tons of fun, but it’s also work—and it takes a lot of mental energy. Sometimes you just have to get away and play. So how do you play and relax?As many of you know, one thing that I’m enjoying a lot at the moment is letterpress. I’ve successfully restored a Vandercook SP-15 press, and today I cleaned up the C&P (not sure the model number or size at the moment. I know there’s a chase somewhere, but I haven’t measured it yet). And again, I must say, Evapo-Rust is a wonderful product!Check out the results of the Evapo-Rust and see what I'll be printing as my first official project on the Vandercook!

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Artist David Garibaldi creates a really cool painting of Jimi Hendrix in a very creative an unusual way. If you can’t see this video click here.

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Never know my name Genre: Rock/Metal Written: October 2007 Reason: After a friend of mine passed away i wrote this song... Verse 1 Always second place Kiss the rain Hide your pain Nobody knows my name Lay me down to rest the ground above my head make this pain go away Nobody knows my name Chrous Invisible is what i've become and even if i scream my words are gone I could hide my tears behind a smile But you'll never tell cause your in denial (scream-in denial) Verse 2 This is a charade My debts will go unpaid And when i'm gone you'll hear this song and your heart you'll know that you were wrong and you'll kiss the rain and you'll hide your pain cause you didnt know my name Chrous 2 Invisible is what i became and even when i cried, i cried in vain you saw my pain but denied my name and now i'm gone and your all alone as you reminisce on all you've done try to trace the steps of what went wrong but you closed your ears, never saw my tears and now your left with shallow fears Kiss the rain and hide your pain Cause you'll never know my name No you'll never know my name You'll never know my name :) no its not an amzing song..but i wrote it...and i'm proud of it...:) its emo_ish...oh well...

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In a very wonderful day, me and Thomas are having a light chat on Yahoo Messenger, I thought it would be interesting if I blog about it, so you can also enjoy this short conversation too. Here we go

audeemirza: Hello Thomas, thank you very much for taking the time to start this interview with us. Could you please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you?
share.brain: Hi Audee, my name is Thomas and I run ShareBrain.info. I am 34 years old/young spend most of my time on my computer, have no dogs or cats and love to eat. My main work can be seen here Lockruf.com

audeemirza: ShareBrain is a resource website for web workers created by you. Can you tell us a little about how it started and when?
share.brain: It started in November 2007 after some of my friends asked me questions like "hey, where can I find ...." or "Hey Thomas, I know that you know where to find...". So I just had to stop this asking and so that was how ShareBrain was born. But don’t get me wrong, because I still love talking with them

audeemirza: What makes ShareBrain different than any other resource websites?
share.brain: I really don’t know .... Our readers must decide that. Maybe its the combination of daily updated resources along with tutorials, a css-showcase, interviews and community news. I think it has a lot of content that is interesting for a lot of web workers out there. Knowledge & Inspiration.
share.brain: what do you think is the difference?
audeemirza: I think, it should be because you've been publishing daily review with quality
share.brain: there you have it!

audeemirza: ShareBrain has a different look today, which we think is so cool and refreshing. Please share with us the story behind the make over, from classic red theme and then suddenly going grey and clean!
share.brain: working on ShareBrain is a daily process ... so if you look at a project over and over again you notice things that are good and things that are bad. ShareBrain has one main focus: "the content". With the old red layout I thought the "red" color theme could be "too strong" and it didn’t make it easy to focus on the content. So I wanted to create a layout that makes it easy for our readers to focus on the content with descent colors scheme.
Another problem is how to structure so much content like we have on ShareBrain ... in the beginning we had over 120 categories, and in time I realized "OMG ... that is way to much" ... so we worked on that too ....
Now there are only 5 "main categories" left with 60 "sub-categories" included


audeemirza: “Off time” work…what do you do when you are away from your computer?
share.brain: I am a musician too.... I play the drums for about 20 years and i was a "drum instructor" some years ago and played with a lot of bands from "50s & 60s big band rock n roll" to "punk". But sometimes in life you have to decide what you want to do ... it was all getting to much "practise & play", "giving concerts", "regular work", "side-projects like ShareBrain" ... so I decided to give up drumming for some time. Sad but true, so sometimes I feel like an "old man" and in my free time I enjoy being around with my girl friend and friends. Beside that, I am also addicted to "TV-series" .... and music of course !!!!

audeemirza: WOW
share.brain: wow ?
audeemirza: I didn't know that you are actually a drummer... I mean: cool!
share.brain: yeah it is.... Another reason why I stopped, was also because the guitar player always get the girls LOL
audeemirza: :))

audeemirza: Everyday you are working seriously to update the ShareBrain journal and having new resourceful websites to be submitted. I wonder if you have sort of favorite and inspirational (regular) blog rolls to visit, would you care to share if there is any?
share.brain: I really love reading my feeds list. I have about 600 feeds which I follow. Most of the resources I follow can be found on ShareBrain

audeemirza: Is Graphic Identity Blog belong to your feed reader list too? LOL
share.brain: yes, definitely!
audeemirza:

audeemirza: Is there any particular recent design jobs that drive yourself into challenging situation?
share.brain: in normal work: every design job does. The challenge is not just to create something to please our client, but to create something that will please your client's customer as well

audeemirza: Why you don't have any dog or cat?
share.brain: I think if you have a pet you must be able to take care of it, and I have no time to do so.
hmmm...maybe I should get myself a "rat" or an "earthworm" ... I guess I don’t need that much time taking care of them

audeemirza: but if it is possible for you to keep one, which one you love the most? cat or dog? )
share.brain: dog
audeemirza: nice....


audeemirza: You said you are a "TV-series" addict! Is this why you end up with a brilliant round up article titled: 50 Movie Posters for Your Graphical Inspiration? share.brain: yeah of course ...for example I love to watch movie trailers. I think "movie trailers" are some of the underrated creative things around. This is the same as with movie posters. You only have a few seconds to get the attention of the viewer and sometimes I look at a "trailer" or a "poster" and think to myself "WOW... this is so good". They can say so much with no words. Or just few words
audeemirza: true! Graphic tells more than words can say
share.brain: yeah right

audeemirza: We were discussing the idea of ShareBrain’s regular interview before the first launch…, I had some arguments when you mentioned that it would be published with the same questions of interview over respectable designers on internet. But finally, it is truly amazing to know that this kind interview reveal how many designers response differently to each of the question. What is your opinion about this?
share.brain: I always know that it would be interesting to read different answers to the same questions. And I agree with you (it is truly amazing): it works!
share.brain: oh.. One thing that makes ShareBrain different from other sites is our RSS feed. We hacked our feed so the readers of the feed always can see in which category a post was made. So we hope it can be a time saver for our readers when they surf down ShareBrain
audeemirza: That is smart thing! Ever!

Well thank you for the nice chat Thomas!

We are planning to post another chat with Thomas! As some of you have probably knew that he is launching a new social media bookmark website called Devmarks.com ~ This web spot is dedicated for web designers and web developers to share articles related to their specialities. Hopefully we can bring this topic for the upcoming chat with Thomas!


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In this modern world the dressing style of us are changed a lot. It all depends upon the change is life style, tastes, culture and so on. One of the thing that is rocking the youths community is different kinds of T-Shirts with different designs. Here in this post we will review about the site Inkfruit.com, which is a social site where people upload their designs for t-shirts. There is an ongoing weekly contest with cash prizes. The subject of the contest is to design some beautiful and nice tee shirt design. The designers can design their own designs and then can upload that into their site. After that best designs will get selected based on the voting by all the users who are visiting the site then the best design which got selected will get printed in the T-shirts of all sizes made of high quality fabrics. Finally those T-shirts will get sold on the site for best prices. In addition to this the winners will get attractive amount of cash money from the site for best designs. So this is a nice opportunity for all the designers, you all just try this site, then design your own t shirt and make it as the best one in the site. Don't wait for any thing just add some fun to your life by selecting the best graphic tees at Inkfruit.com and make use of those spectacular designs.


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