Photography and design are the heart of the Internet. Graphics, GIF clips, and artistic photos are important parts of enhancing any experience. The world wide web is full of photographic content; any web search is sure to produce billions of images. While image searches pull up plenty of unique graphics, it is often difficult to find the right sized imagery for your particular need.
1001FreeDownloads.com seeks to surpass all other Internet search experiences with its free catalog of over 1,000 design images and fonts. It is a design resource in its own class.
This unique website provides a variety of content that can be used as templates for scrapbook pages, icons and wallpaper for your computer. The limits are really endless and left to your own imagination. No matter what your passion you are bound to find an image to fit your creative need on this colorful website.
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In spite of the fact that WordPress — the most popular and widely used Content Management System — has always been simpler in terms of user interface, making users set up their websites or blogs in a few seconds, availability of a lot of scripts for installation of WordPress CMS has brought things even simpler! Nowadays, when it comes to ‘techy’ aspect of setting up a WordPress site, it is all about choosing an appropriate WordPress theme. In the post, however, we shall have a list of top WordPress themes, which, we hope, will help you when kick starting your WordPress blog or website. We hope we can now move on to the list.
X is one of the best themes you can now find in WordPress theme market, when you are concerned about simplicity of User Interface, different designs to choose from, deep-level customization and lots more. Even though basic kinds of elements may resemble the real theme, you can change almost everything in Theme X, making it seem somewhat exclusive in perspective of a user. This completely responsive theme includes other features such as a page builder, based on drag-and-drop layouts, typography that includes more than 600 Google fonts, shortcodes to extend looks & productivity of your blog or site, customizable backgrounds, integration with eCommerce etc.
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More often than not, Bridge — the WordPress theme —can be an appropriate way to bridge the gap between your, or your client’s, firm and the customer. Truly impressive & simple design of Bridge will steal almost everyone’s mind, given that the theme offers an intuitive control panel to keep things in motion. As great blessing to the visual impact, Bridge offers other sorts of features such as retina-ready display, background that supports videos and images, tons of shortcodes to extend reach etc.
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Well, if you are one of those who do not like coding, Brooklyn will be one of the best themes you can find for blog or site you have created using WordPress CMS. With a number of impressive designs, Brooklyn can different categories of requirement a professional internet marketer, blogger or web developer might have. Some of the other features of Brooklyn are ultra-responsive design and layout, seven different header styles, unlimited page styles to use etc.
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Let’s say you are about to create a personal website. It might be a simple portfolio or a complex one depicting your interests or pertaining to a topic. During the development process, you need to make sure that the programming of the website is top-notch, so that it is responsive and works seamlessly over all mobile devices and browsers.
When you are under such intense pressure of shaping your website, it is always great to take help of some already available templates and tools from the internet. These tools and packages comes with ready-made designs, functionalities and all you need to do is simply incorporate them in your website. Thus you don’t have to develop every single detail right from the scratch. Now, if you are excited to get hands on these, guess what, all the following utilities can be availed for free. So let’s find out more about these freebies and how then can be helpful for your website.
1. 59 Web Marketing Tools
Once you have developed your website, it’s time to market it. There are a number of marketing strategies which are practiced by successful marketers, that you are unheard of. This free pdf, consists of the list of top 59 web marketing tools and sites, that can help you to market your website. Also it enlists whether these tools are paid or can be availed for free. Using this tool you can get important guidelines about how to market your website and what are the additional perks of marketing your website.
2. Stylish and sizzling free vector pack
Designing a brand new icon or logo is a tedious and time consuming process. But you still need brand new icons, to set you apart from the rest of the icons present on other websites. This is when these free vector pack comes handy. These freebies consists of a bunch of stickers, themes and design which can be easily included in your website. Also as these are vector graphics, they are suitable on devices having a spectrum of variable resolutions. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple’s UI changes from iOS 7 to iOS 8 are often subtle, yet incredibly extensive. Spacing, positioning, and font sizes and weights were liberally tweaked and adjusted. To our surprise, almost every icon was redrawn as well. Even the lowly chevron and back arrow were reworked.
Mercury has released free vector UI kit for iOS 8. This file is compatible with Adobe Illustrator CC and newer. They’ve focused on making this file pixel-perfect. Everything is on a pixel, when possible, so that all assets are sharp and clean. They have also grouped like elements together so that it’s easy for you to grab an asset and drag it to your file or do isolated editing.
Requirements: Photoshop
Demo: http://mercury.io/blog/ios-8-illustrator-vector-ui-kit-update
License: License Free
Dimensions is a browser extension for coders to measure screen dimensions. Currently only available for Chrome. You can measure between the following elements: images, input-fields, buttons, videos, gifs, text, icons. For the best experience set a keyboard shortcut in the chrome setting at the end of the extensions list to quickly enable and disable Dimensions.
Your designer handed you mockups as PNGs or JPEGs? Just drop them into Chrome, activate Dimensions and start measuring. Best of all, Dimensions is Open Source and hosted on Github.
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Demo: http://felixniklas.com/dimensions/
License: MIT License
André Revin was creating an app flow in illustrator and he made an Ai file iOS7 iPhone 5 mockup for prototyping. He made a pixel perfect wireframe mockup. Super easy to create your prototype. You can download the source file for free and use in their work.
There are 28 artboards size of 320 by 568 pixels. You can export each screen separately, and can see all the screens together with relationships. All objects snap to grid 10 px. All design elements include in Graphic styles and all icons are in Symbols.
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Demo: http://andrerevin.com/iOS7-iPhone-Free-Mockup
License: License Free
Looking for a good way to refresh your resource library? How about stocking up on over $1,100 worth of themes, fonts, Photoshop actions, awesome graphics, and more for only $39? Creative Market has released a new Handpicked Bundle that gives you exactly that. You’ll have to act fast though, because this deal only lasts one week.
The Creative Market Bundle is valued at $1,151, but you can pick it up today for just $39. That’s 96% off. They are also giving part of it away free, all you have to do is go to the bundle page and use the share buttons.
Modern UI Kit is a simple, elegant and free modern user interface pack available as a free PSD download under MIT licence. Modern UI Kit is a large user interface kit containing hundreds of ui elements, which will help you design nice user interface in Photoshop with ease. They are designed in vector, so that you can resize them as you like.
You can use the royalty-free icons for any personal, commercial project including web design, software, application, advertising, film, video, computer game, gui design, illustration, for you or for your clients, without having to pay additional licensing fees.
Requirements: Photoshop
Demo: http://www.webiconset.com/modern-ui-kit/
License: MIT License
If you are a designer you will surely agree to this, won’t you? What makes them better is that they are for free! Yes, thats right. If you are a designer then you will certainly want to checkout these high quality resources which you can’t refrain from downloading.
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1. Web design UI Elements
Present your website in a professional manner with this UI kit which includes over 100 vector graphic elements in 6 categories.
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2. Elegant Print Templates
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