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Showcases are the best places to get the inspiration and to know latest design trends. So today, I am going to show you some very cool CSS Galleries. These are the showcases of very beautiful and modern websites where you can also submit your own creation also. If you are stuck in the current design project or want to redesign your own site then the galleries in this list are worth looking at. Enjoy the post!

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1. CSS Drive

2. CSS Dance

3. CSS Built

4. CSS Heaven

5. CSS Creme

6. CSS Perk

7. Best Web Gallery

8. CSS Leak

9. CSS Bay

10. CSS Illustrated

11. CSS Galaxy

12. CSS Design Yorkshire

13. CSS Collection

14. CSS Beauty

15. CSS Count

16. Divine CSS

17. CSS Mania

18. CSS Vault

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I am professional Web, Graphics & Logo Designer from India. I like to design creative websites. You can follow me at @Powerusers

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Nowadays online advertising is becoming a trend for many business owners. I recently read at Techcruch that after the first three quarters of this year being flat in online advertising now it is up by 1.7 percent from the second quarter of this year.We see different product promotions in our day to day life. But I have brought some very beautiful ads which will blow away your mind. I got these awesome illustrations on deviantArt so brought to you as a post. Hope you would like it!

1. Beat Attack

2. Flyer – Sei-Sei

3. Fight Global Warming Poster 1b

4. Sony Ericsson K850i

5. Global warming PSA – time

6. Wrigley’s 5 – Pulse

7. Mirror

8. Martini Asti Elements – Earth

9. Orange – 100

10. KDU x Adidas

11. Ty Nant Water Advert

12. Advert for Apple Macbook

13. Street Shop

14. Bacardi – Water Bat

15. Diesel – Only The Brave

16. iPod-Play Your Music

17. JOHN MOON’S FLYER

18. Nokia L’Amour – II

19. Oakley – Hydrophobic

20. Poetry in The Air

21. Just Heat It

22. SC-Futura

23. Snack it.

24. VW: Pilot’s Wanted

25. Free Gaza

Author: Nikhil

I am professional Web, Graphics & Logo Designer from India. I like to design creative websites. You can follow me at @Powerusers

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Quality Logo Products

“Using your logo to promote your business on custom promotional products can help your company grow and build your brand.”

Today I am going to show you the evolution of the logo of top corporate brands in the world. You can now see the first logos designed for these brands and how it gets modified over the years.

Logo is the identity that reflects the brand, so what do you think is the best logo modification?

Let’s take a look at how these brands changed there logos over time to to reflect their identification.

1. Adobe

2. Alfa-Romeo

3. Apple

4. Aston Martin

5. Audi

6. BMW

7. Boeing

8. Canon

9. Fiat

10. Firefox

11. Ford

12. Google

13. IBM

14. Mercedes-Benz

15. Microsoft

16. Motorola

17. Nokia

18. Pepsi

18. VolksWagen

20. Xerox

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This is really a huge list of tutorials for you. I would recommend to bookmark this post on delicious or stumble it so that you can get back here easily whenever you want.

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30 Awesome Design Enhancing jQuery Plugins

10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks

55 Decisive Useful jQuery Tutorials | Dzinepress

10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers

14 jQuery Plugins for Working with Images

10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery

16 Free JavaScript Solutions for Displaying Your Images

30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes

20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples

How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3

Crafting an Animated Postcard With jQuery

17 Hours of JavaScript from the Masters

How to Build a Simple Content Slider jQuery Plugin

5 Lesser Known JavaScript Libraries that Make Web Design Easier

Further Reading:

1. 25+ Tips and Tutorials of HTML & CSS
2. 25+ Tutorials & Resources on jQuery
3. 20+ PHP Tutorials & Resources

Author: Nikhil

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We always wonder how the top creative people works, manage their work, what applications they use, their source of inspiration, how they work on particular project? and etc. So, for you I have compiled nice interview of great creative people from which you can learn their work process and also reveal some of the secrets.

1. An Interview with Graphic Designer Fabio Sasso

2. Logo Design Tips & A Not-So-Ordinary Interview with Logo Designer, Jeff Fisher

3. Interview with Founders of Envato Collis and Cyan

4. Chatting With Chris Coyier

5. Five Questions with Soh Tanaka

6. An Interview With Adelle Charles

7. Interview with David Leggett of Tutorial9.net

8. Group Interview On Designers and the Pursuit of Personal Projects

9. Interview with Dan Wiersema of Guifx

10. From Client Contact to Design – A Group Interview

Further Reading:

1. 10 Creative Minds of the Design Industry

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These are the most voted and award winning (some of them) logo designs to Level Up the Creativity in you.

1. Art Hive by Matto

2. umbrella foundation by designabot

3. Jazz School Online by rudy hurtado

4. wonderlist.ca by rudy hurtado

5. TravelWorld by brandberry

6. Metroplex by brandberry

7. Adams apple by strizhart

8. dream tree by ndmgfx

9. Harness Racing Victoria by cerise

10. Matt Webb by webbous

11. AQUA by OcularInk

12. Cancer Therapies Foundation by MrSunnyZ

13. Michael Jackson

14. Super Bomb Labs

15. Pause

16. 23 Design Studio

17. Fresh Fruit Baskets

18. Water Empire

19. Swan Songs

20. Lochness

Which one is your favorite or is the most inspiring? Let us know in the comments.

Additional Links Related to Logo Design:

1. 10 handwritten logo designs
2. Logo design tips from the field
3. How To Use Colour In Logo Design To Effectively Communicate The Right Message
4. 94 useful logo design resources
5. 31 Best Logos of the March

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Looking for some quality stuff but don’t know where to get them? Yes, this is the list of all time favorite places for really excellent and quality tutorials, freebies & resources. So follow these links and get the stuff you want.

1. Freelance Folder
2. Freelance Switch
3. Problogger
4. Daily Blog Tips
5. Skelliewag

1. Bittbox
2. Brusheezy
3. Vector Vault
4. QBrushes
5. Brush King
6. Function
7. GoMediaZine

1. Favorite Website Award
2. Abduzeedo
3. Fuel Your Creativity
4. Creattica Daily
5. CSS Gallery

1. Smashingmagazine
2. Naldz Graphics
3. Colorburned
4. Instant Shift
5. Noupe
6. Vandelay Design
7. DesignM.ag
8. Hongkiat
9. AndySowards

1. PSDTUTS
2. Tutorial9
3. PSDFan
4. PSD Vault
5. 10Steps

1. Vectips
2. VECTORTUTS
3. Fuel Your Illustration
4. Blog.SpoonGraphics
5. Learn Ai
6. N.Design Studio

1. NETTUTS
2. CSS-Tricks
3. In the Woods
4. Line25
5. Web Designer Depot
6. Sohtanka
7. CSS Globe
8. Woorkup

Did I miss something? Let me know your suggestions in the comments.

Author: Nikhil

I am professional Web, Graphics & Logo Designer from India. I like to design creative websites. You can follow me at @Powerusers

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Hi, I hope that you have enjoyed and learned previous posts on Web Design i.e. 25+ Tips and Tutorials of HTML & CSS & 25+ Tutorials & Resources on jQuery. This time I have compiled some great tutorials over PHP, so you can now work on server side scripting. So go on and make use of these tutorials and resources. And yes, for the beginners the Diving into PHP Video Series is great to start with. I have included it in this list.

1. 30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

PHP is the most widely-used language for programming on the web. Here are thirty best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals.

2. PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS

It’s safe to say that nearly every website that’s up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a website (WordPress, Drupal, etc.), it doesn’t hurt to peek under the hood and get a feel for how these systems work.

3. Simple Layouts with PHP

This tutorial is for those starting out in PHP and want to learn a great way to create layouts. This will help reduce redundancy and keep you from writing too much code. Anyone that has been developing HTML based sites for some time has undoubtedly ran in to the issue of keeping the design consistent across multiple pages.

4. Getting Clean With PHP

Data security is important and often undervalued by designers, developers, and clients alike. Since PHP 5.2.0, data sanitization and validation has been made significantly easier with the introduction of data filtering. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at these filters, how to use them, and build a few custom functions.

5. Organize Your Next PHP Project the Right Way

When starting out with PHP, it can be daunting figuring out how best to organize a project. If you’ve ever been confused with where to put your images, external libraries, or keeping your logic separate from your layout, then check out these tips; they’ll get you heading in the right direction.

6. 3 Ways to Speed up Your Site with PHP

These days, with broadband connections the norm, we don’t need to worry as much about internet speeds or the filesize of our pages. However, that’s not to say that we still shouldn’t do so. If you wish to reduce the load times on your server, decrease the number of HTTP requests, and go that extra bit for your visitors, there are a few techniques that you can use. This tutorial covers a number of PHP tricks, including caching and compression.

7. 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby.

8. Sending Nice HTML Email with PHP

This is going to be a continuation of the Website Change Request Form demo we’ve been using around here for a while. If you need to catch up, first I talked about it, then I built it, then I screencasted it, then I secured it. Throughout all of this, the end result has been a boring text-only email that gets sent to a single email address.

9. Online File Storage with PHP

In this tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to create an online file storage system with PHP. You will learn how to upload files with PHP and list them by scanning the “uploads” folder.

10. Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood

Cascading Style Sheets is a presentational style sheet language. In that sense, it does not have a lot of the functionality that many developers want to satisfy their programmer instincts. Today, we’re going to go over how to supercharge your CSS by putting some PHP under the hood.

11. 20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project

The post below is made up of the best 20 PHP + jQuery Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.

12. How to Code a Signup Form with Email Confirmation

In this tutorial, we are going to be creating a user signup form that adds a user to a database, and then sends out a confirmation email that the user must click on before their account will be activated.

13. PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website- Power Tips, Tools & How to’s

PHP is the most popular web programming languages in use today due in large part to the fact that it’s a highly flexible syntax that can perform many functions while working flawlessly in conjunction with html – Plus it’s relatively easy to learn for beginners, yet it’s powerful enough for advanced users as well. It also works exceptionally well with open source tools, such as the Apache web server and MySQL database.

14. Getting Started with PHP Regular Expressions

The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text. These search patterns are written using a special format which a regular expression parser understands.

15. Working with Sessions and Cookies in PHP and MySQL

Security is an essential component for any site to be successful. However, adding security can increase overhead and annoy your users if not done properly. In this tutorial, I will discuss common problems that are encountered when using sessions and cookies.

16. 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited

Here, on the Smashing Editorial team, we always try to meet the expectations of our readers. We do our best to avoid misunderstandings, and we try to spread knowedge and present only the best design practices and development techniques. However, sometimes we do make mistakes. And when we do, we apologize and do our best to correct what we’ve done.

17. Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which?

PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language for many different reasons – flexibility, ease-of-use, among others – but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That’s where a PHP framework can help.

18. Rotate Product Listing with PHP and jQuery

Today, I’ll teach you a simple way of rotating content on your site. We’ll be retrieving data from a MySQL database and using a dynamic widget that auto refreshes using AJAX.

19. Creating a Crypter Class with PHP

In this article I will explain how to create a PHP Class that will encrypt and decrypt any data with a given password. It is object programmed and uses existing PHP algorithms.

20. The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do’s and Don’ts

Of all the elements of web design and coding, htaccess can be one of the most intimidating. After all, it’s an incredibly powerful tool and one that has the potential to completely break your site if you’re not careful.

21. 10+ Mod_Rewrite Rules You Should Know

Mod_rewrite is an Apache-based rewrite engine for dynamically rewriting URLs. It’s built into Apache servers natively, though not enabled by default.

It’s capable of functions beyond simple rewrites, though, some of which are included below.

Videos

22. Diving into PHP: Video Series

Today marks the beginning of a brand new series that will show you EXACTLY how to get started with PHP. Just as with the “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” series, we’ll start from scratch and slowly work our way up to some more advanced topics. I hope you enjoy it. As always – feel free to make requests via the comments form.

23. Write Your First PHP Script

KillerPHP has compiled a simple, informative screencast on how to create a tidy little “Hello world” PHP script. Great for novices and those wanting to brush up on their PHP practices.

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1. How to Create a Unique Colorful Site Layout

2. 50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn

3 A. Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text – Part I

3 B. Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text – Part II

4. How to Create Eroded Metal Text with Photoshop

5. 30+ Examples of Big, Bold, and Beautiful Website Navigation Menus

6. 11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3

7. How to Write an Effective To Do List

8. Showcase of Fresh and Well-Designed Online Shops

9. 50 Inspiring Web Application and Service Web Site Designs

10. 20 More Useful Adobe Illustrator Menu Tips

Which one is your Favorite? Share in the Comments.

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