Linux for Graphic Designers?

When you talk about graphic designing it usually associated with operating systems like Mac OS X or Windows because those are the "the best" platforms that your use because of Adobe Photoshop and other top commercial design softwares and applications. Any mention of Linux? well it's hardly every heard that a designer would use a platform which is basically not really good for designers

But one blogger has change that perception. His name is Eckhard M. Jäger and he has a blog called Linux for Designers. the blog is all about designing using open source graphic deisign softwares like GIMP, Inkscape , Blender etc.

A collection of CSS Code Snippets for Web Designers & Developers

Who can resist anything free? There are plenty of CSS resource sites out on the net that offer free CSS Code Snippets. Why would you want to recreate code that has already been created. The time that you could save by using these already developed CSS codes could be better used surfing the net or going on a date. Check these sites offering free CSS codes.

Get it all here

Building HTML/CSS Sites: Use a Template

If you are developing HTML/CSS websites with occasionally a little bit of JavaScript, it can be very un-productive to write your basic codes over and over again. 

You better read this article for some time-solving solutions.

5 Steps of How to Optimize Your CSS Codes

Having too much codes on your CSS that you didn't notice that your repeating some of the lines on other areas? Is your stylesheet having some bloated codes? Then your "un-optimized"CSS problems are now over, here are 5 Steps of How to Optimize Your CSS Codes

How To Use Icons To Support Content In Web Design

Why use icons? Design is all about communication: it doesn’t matter how important or exciting the information that you’re sharing is if you fail to hook your visitors. When initially viewing a website, most users will first scan the page for visually interesting content, and only after something grabs their attention will they actually begin reading. Icons are a simple, effective way to draw users into the content of your website.

Icons serve the same psychological purpose as paragraph breaks: they visually break up the content, making it less intimidating. A well-formatted page, with text broken into easily accessible paragraphs and accented by icons, is easy to read and visually interesting enough to sustain the user’s attention. So, stop wasting time writing so much content that no one will read, and start using icons!

Read more about the beautiful examples and best practices of using icons to support content in web design. Please feel free to take a look at the showcases of navigation menus, search boxes, blockquotes and web forms.

10 Reasons Why Your Code Won’t Validate (and How to Fix it)

W3C validation isn't very forgiving at times, but it allows you to see errors that are generated by your markup. Lots of errors and warnings thrown by the validator are a good indicator that your XHTML isn't in very good shape, and might not look consistent across different browsers.

Here are 10 sneaky validation problems that trip developers up, and how to avoid them.

Authored by:Glen Stansberry

Free Design Resouces for Graphic Designers

With a lot of graphic design resources scattered all over the internet, I manage to collect these resources and use it on most of my design works. Now I'm gonna share to you these websites that share those usefull graphic design resources.

45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files

50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets

50 Free Rusted Metal Texture Backgrounds

30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Sets

50+ textures for Your Design Appetite and lot more Resources

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns

45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design

12 Free Online Background Pattern Generators

21 Typography and Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without


More of these resources will be posted in the near future but these will do for now.
Enjoy!