PSDfreebee is a website presenting free PSD files which you may find helpful while designing websites & applications.
You can find PSD logos, website layouts, icons & more. It is a fresh website where there are already 25+ quality files and new ones are added frequently.
There are several options for creating rounded corners like: with one image, four images, javascript and plain CSS (and more).
Ask The CSS Guy puts the CSS rounded corners used in Google Analytics under scrutiny.
The technique works by leaving a 1px notch in every corner which creates the rounded corner effect .
This is definitely a nice way of creating rounded corners as it is always more flexible working with CSS rather than static images.
Backgrounds, patterns can easily change the total look & feel of a website.
Squidfingers is sharing 150+ patterns that can be used in our designs.
Click to check them out.
Dragonartz created a nice set of 8 free vector web stickers.
The set comes with 1 main EPS file and PNG files of every sticker.
There is also another set of vector stickers by Dragonartz which covers the different colours of the first circle sticker that can be found here.
We sometimes try to understand the font used in images / logos and we don’t have the source files.
What The Font is a free service by MyFonts which lets you upload an image, scans a large font database and gives you the font name as a result.
Even if you searched your font in What The Font and couldn’t find the font, you can still post the image in What The Font forum to ask help from the community.
Ganato Design gives away 24 PSD icon sets for free.
The sets include icons for applications, charts, databases, documents, emails, users, weather & more.
Sizes of icon sets differ between 16*16, 32*32 & 48*48 pixels.
Web application buttons have very standard designs in general. The basic button element with styles, icons or rectangle images.
The button set below is also a classic one, known and accepted by web users which is nice, and has a good look. Also, icons are something that users love.
Set contains a PSD file with well grouped layers. You can easily create new buttons by duplicating or editing the current ones.
Icons used are the famous famfamfam silk icons. You can download the icon set from their site and generate more buttons with the set.
P.S. If you share the buttons on your website, please don’t give a direct link to the file and give the link to the post. Thanks.
Nearly every project needs a printer-friendly output option.
Hartija is a CSS framework that aims to simplify creating such outputs.
The CSS file includes styles for common tags to make them look good as a printed material.
It is enough to insert the CSS file with the media value "print" like:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" media="print">
By doing so, when a user tries the print the page, print.css file will be used instead of the website’s standard CSS file.
Crystal Clear is a high quality & free icon set.
This icon set includes nearly every icon an application may need as it contains 1300+ icons.
Set comes with sizes: 16*16, 22*22, 24*24, 32*32, 48*48, 64*64 and 128*128 in PNG format.
Badges are maybe the most famous design elements of the Web 2.0 design trend.
They are commonly used to emphasize information, sometimes as buttons, in logos, and sure, for the "beta information" of web applications. When used creatively, they are really powerful.
I have collected 36 Web 2.0 badges from the websites which I like the designs of them and hope you will like and inspire.
To use badges on your website check the previous post: Web 2.0 Badges Collection.
