This here is a cute waves header that uses Flash elements to bring it to life. The little creature floats around and the top of the blue background moves like waves. The paper cutout waves look cool. I like this one.
Source: http://www.titofelix.com
Archive for October, 2008
Paper Cutouts Waves, Cute Header
Friday, October 31st, 2008Funky Little Header
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Another fun header design. Circles, lines, arrows, a nice collage. I like the little paper plane detail.
Huge Set Of Free High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Here’s a set of over 1000 Free High Resolution Photoshop Brushes.
Included Photoshop Brush Sets:
- Oil Stains
- Cracks
- More Cracks
- Urban Decay
- QuadGrunged
- Cracked
- Typographic Grunge
- Grungy Wings
- Hand Drawn Floral
- Fantasy Floral
- Flowers
- Autumn
- Floral Ornaments
- High-Res Floral
- Glow
- Attack
- Unreal
- Akatsuki Cloud
- Smoke
- Vector Scatter
- Frost
- School Dayz Sketches
- Stencil Word
- Fingerprint
- Dirigibles
- Health & Beauty
- Hair I
- Hair II
- Watercolor
- Watercolor Reloaded
- Hi-Res Watercolor
- Swirls I
- Swirls II
- Swirls III
- Curly
- Grunge Wood
- Fractal
- Fractal Lite
- Spetter, Splash, Splatter
- Hi-Res Splatter
- New Dot Splatter
Wow, that’s a lot! Enjoy.
Source: noupe.com
A Clean And Lean Header & Footer
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
This one was submitted to us this morning. Nice veggies and grass illustrations. It’s an appropriate design for a Diet site.
Source: http://www.dietdebate.co.uk
Shades Of Gray Logo Or Header
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
I like this nice logo, or header, the floral paterns make a nice background for the logo. I like the simplicity of the gray colors.
Source: http://www.liteshademedia.com
Nice Canvas Background
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
I like this canvas background. I haven’t seen one like this yet. Site design goes well with it.
Source: http://www.landof1000hills.com
High Precision Gaming Mouse For Designers
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Krait & Copperhead precision gaming mouse from Razer sure are good looking. Being a gamer mouse, these can work great for doing design work. Promising the ability for 1200 actions per second, it’s got to be great for all those high speed Photoshop and Illustrator commands :).
These are so cool, I just want one so I can show it off.
Here’s some more:
Get yours here: http://www.razerzone.com
Vintage Mechanical Style Design
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
“Wow!”, that’s what I heard myself say when this site loaded. This is an example of a website design doing it’s job. It made an impression. The site is built in Flash to look like a mechanical contraption that displays information, with a robot looking creature moving levers and all.
Awesome job! Make sure you check it out.
Source: http://funneldesigngroup.com
If You Ever Need Some Footer Ideas
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Here is a very nice list of 25 Impressive Blog Footers.
20 Of My Favorite AJAX Tutorials
Monday, October 27th, 2008 
Just found this list of 50 Excellent AJAX tutorials that was posted on Smashing magazine site. I went through them and picked out the 20 of the ones that I find most useful, the ones that I will be using in the near future and so here they are:
- Build an AJAX-Powered Shopping Cart
- AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2
- Introduction to AJAX Calls Using jQuery and PHP
- AJAX and XML: AJAX for Chat
- Building Your First AJAX Application with PHP
- Taking AJAX Further with PHP
- jQuery/JavaScript – Customizable AJAX Pagination
- AJAX Forms with jQuery
- PHP Components: Autosuggest
- AutoCompleter Tutorial
- Using AJAX to Validate Forms
- Easy AJAX with jQuery
- Quick and Dirty AJAX (video)
- Creating an AJAX Rating Widget
- Use AJAX and PHP to Build Your Mailing List
- Continuous Pagination
- How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery
- Slider Using PHP, AJAX, and JavaScript
- Log-in/Sign-up Screen Using AJAX Modal Pop-up Extender
- Creating an AJAX-Enabled Calendar Control
Please share with us in the comments if you know of any other good ones.
