With the rise of the CSS3, we're seeing more & more tutorials + websites everyday that help us to use it.
After the CSS3, Please!, which was shared at WRD few days ago, Randy Jensen has created a very easy to use website for creating CSS3 rules named CSS3 Generator.
It simply lets you to choose the rule from a list that includes:
and customize them while previewing the outputs instantly.
Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of a $50 printing credit and 2 * 1000 standard business cards by NextDayFlyers.com.
The winners are selected & can be found at the bottom of this post. But before that, let's remember:
NextDayFlyers.com is an online printing service that can cover all your printing needs like premium club flyers, business cards, greeting cards & other marketing materials with a quick turnarond.
They have different options of sizes / papers for maximum customization & offer low prices for quality prints.
Winners are selected by NextDayFlyers.com and here they are:
Congratulations to the winners & thanks to everyone for contributing.
Weebly, a very easy-to-use, popular & web-based website-builder service has just opened its theme gallery to all designers.
And, to celebrate this, they launched a design contest with $13,000 in prizes which the entries will be judged by well-known designers:
Prizes are $10,000 for the winner, $2000 for the 2nd & $1000 for the 3rd position.
Creating a theme for Weebly is very easy as you don't have to worry for the HTML-CSS. Just focus on the creativity, design a layered PSD & Weebly team will convert it for you.
If the design created is not one of the winners, it may still be added to the themes database by Weebly & designers will be credited.
Deadline for submitting designs is April 30th, 2010 & it is open to everyone.
To read more and join the contest, check the contest page.
P.S. This post is a sponsored review.
CSS3, Please! is a web-based & simple-yet-effective cross-browser CSS3 rules generator.
As every browser may require different prefixes for the CSS3 properties, this tool makes it so easy by providing them all with an editable & well-commented way where the output can be seen instantly.
Currently, it helps you write the rules for: border-radius, box-shadow, linear-gradients, rotation & @font-face. Some other transforms like skew & scale will be added soon.
For some transforms, that Internet Explorer can support via IE filters, they are mentioned too.
NextDayFlyers.com, an online printing company, is giving away 3 prizes to WebResourcesDepot readers: a $50 printing credit and 2 * 1000 standard business cards.
The details of the giveaway can be found at the bottom of the post, but before that:
NextDayFlyers.com is an online printing service which is specialized in quick printing, mailing/finishing of full-color postcards, premium club flyers, business cards, greeting cards & other marketing materials.
Prints come with different options of sizes & papers for maximum customization.
The service offers low prices for quality prints, has an online design tool (if you didn't design it already) & orders are printed within 24 hours.
There are 3 prizes given:
In order to join the giveaway, please comment with "why you need this free printing offer" & winners will be selected by NextDayFlyers.com 1 week later (11 March 2010).
And Few Rules:
That's all, good luck to everyone.
Visual or not, there are lots of factors that define a brand. And within the visual ones, logo is probably the most important element.
It can be a logotype, a symbol or a combination where none is better than other & can define too many things like strength, sincerity, quality, speed, etc.
If you're looking for inspiration to create an awesome logo, here is a collection of 20+ frequently updated websites that present beautiful logos around the world which will definitely help you:
Almost every web developer has a favorite database that he/she feels comfortable working with as all the tricks & gimmicks are already experienced.
or even simpler ones like XML, text, etc.
It is understandable why these databases are frequently used; they are well-documented, have a community behind them, integrated with most popular CMSs', easy-to-use, offered by most of the hosting companies ,etc..
But there are also many other databases which are getting popular day-by-day & may have advantages over what you're already using.
Here are 25+ open source alternative databases that you may consider using in your next project:
It is an open source, high-performance, scalable, schema-free & document-oriented (JSON-like data schemas) database.
There are ready to use drivers for most popular programming languages like PHP,Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, C++ + more.
Hypertable is a high performance distributed data storage system designed to support applications requiring maximum performance, scalability, and reliability.
It is modeled after Google's BigTable and mostly focuses on large-scale datasets.
A document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript.
CouchDB offers a RESTful JSON API which can be accessed from any environment allowing HTTP requests
A good way to be more creative is interacting with other people who share the same interests.
Anyone can easily make full use of the communities which are available today to boost creativity. Also, interaction with others in the community, collaborating and getting feedback can become a motivating factor.
Rony John
I am a 21 yr. old web developer and student living in Baltimore. I run Appsheriff which is a blog about latest and useful web applications for designers, developers and photographers.
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Once you are in one of these communities, you will be both criticized and supported which will improve your skills at the end.
Let's look at 10 great creative communities available which will help you to show-off your talent in design and art.
deviantART is amongst the largest internet art community. It is a place where artists from every part of the world come together.
This is a perfect site for both professional and amateur artists since anyone can browse through countless works of other artists or sign-up and post their creations.
There are large number of free features including free thumbnailed art galleries, comment system, user page, journal, and more.
Behance Network is a platform for creative professionals to gather, collaborate on different projects and connect with companies/agencies who are looking for creative talents.
The major focus of the site is to assist creative persons/companies to boost their productivity and demonstrate themselves professionally. It has creative tools + a great search engine to navigate through the network and come across fresh talent and opportunities.
FeedBurner's popular chicklet FeedCount is the most-used way to display the number of subscribers for a feed.
Also, a similar design is used by TwitterCounter to display your Twitter followers.
We'll be creating a dynamic FeedCount-like interface that can display your website's statistics like pageviews, visits, etc. (one or all of them) using PHP.
Footers of websites are being used more & more effectively everyday to provide a better navigation and more information.
Footerama is a fresh design gallery which presents inspiring footers of beautiful websites.
From Footerama:
footer became an area where the web designers had the maximum opportunity to show their creativity, craziness and umm..personality, individuality.
The footers presented are well-categorized with their themes/colors & new items are added regularly.
