Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn't remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor? Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas. And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don't always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.

This article features desktop wallpaper sets that are, without a doubt, the absolute cream of the crop, and the epitome of beautiful and flawless digital artwork sized down to cover your desktop perfectly. While the wallpaper artist list might not be that extensive, I settled on the fact that it just wouldn't be. With the few artists I've featured, the amount of quality high resolution wallpapers is almost overwhelming.

If you use Adobe Photoshop, whether you're a graphic designer, a website designer, a print media designer -- okay, a designer of just about any sort, then you know how useful and helpful a quality website that offers free Photoshop brushes can be. In this article I've gathered a list of my absolute favorites, and in my opinion, having this list means you no longer have to go searching Google or follow blind links for high quality Photoshop brushes.

Are you an amateur video producer, novice, professional, or just someone in need of quality templates for such things as DVD covers, cases, inlays and boxes or perhaps a music producer / artist looking to save a bit of money by designing their own CD print media? If so, I've put together a nice list of both DVD and CD related templates for you to assist in the independent process.

DeviantArt.com has recently launched its very own online web-application based portfolio creation service, and they even host it for you as well. Users have the choice of either signing up for a free account or a premium account. In this article I'm going to cover the free account portfolio service they offer, show you a few images of the user interface and give my honest opinion on its worth -- for better or worse.

Textures are absolutely fantastic when working with a variety of mediums. For instance, if you need something to spruce up a photograph, logo, website elements or just about anything else graphic-based, chances are you can find a texture somewhere to help. This article contains my favorite free high resolution textures that I think are absolutely interesting to look at and could also be very well useful for a designer.

I've put together this list of quality websites that offer free graphical vector files that also offer either a direct download link to the file or a direct link to the author's original release posting. None of these websites require a membership, a bit of change from your pocket or provide you with a hastle.

ProFolio is a professional ready to go portfolio that is perfectly suitable for both a personal portfolio or a more professionally oriented portfolio. Essentially anyone that wants an easy yet customizable way to display their graphical presentations such as photographs, digital art, web designs, etc would most likely be content with this software. Currently ProFolio is free, but the developers behind the software have been saying for as long as I've been aware of ProFolio that at some point in the somewhat near future they will be charging for further downloads. So, I wouldn't drag my feet too long before I gave this one a try.

This article features some of the more useful and free desktop graphics editors I've come across whether you're creating/editing an icon, a vector file or otherwise. I hope that everyone finds this article useful, and I also hope that it's read before you shell out $300 for a commercial graphic editor elsewhere. What you will not find in this article are the more well known image editing applications such as The Gimp

We've released another free and high quality Wordpress Template for all of you guys to download and hopefully enjoy. All of the features from our previous Wordpress Themes are in this one of course, and I've also included an extra here and there.

This article covers some of the more helpful and useful web browser addons, bookmarklets and favelets available today to assist the web designer / web developer with their tasks.

We've got 3 free Photoshop website templates for you guys in the .PSD format, and hopefully these templates will serve some of you well in designing your own websites. Set contains 1 blogging/news structured template, 1 e-commerce structured template, and another blogging based template.

FreshBooks, the company behind the popular online invoicing and time tracking services, have made the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine, and to celebrate the occasion, they want to send you a copy -- free. Did I mention their services are also free? Freelancers take note.

We have a new Twitter vector here on JungleJar thanks to Maurizio Russo, who we interviewed here at JungleJar around a month ago. Mau says his inspiration for this Twitter Bird vector came via the musical artist Moby. We also have a video of the creation of Mau's Twitter Bird from sketch concept to vector visualization.

In this article are 8 official wallpaper sets, each with 9 wallpapers in its' archive and 8 official mobile phone wallpapers. In the un-official wallpaper set collection there are 5 assembled wallpaper sets based on likeness. And there are also 2 more wallpapers that do not have sets. Total there are 97 Wordpress desktop wallpapers for you to enjoy.

This is an extremely cool and useful web application, and if it hasn't been thought of before, I'm absolutely shocked, because it makes so much sense. Essentially, PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language. In other words it is a web based application that provides PHP developers a PHP code editor that mocks a desktop application, and it does so very well.

After our last listing of Twitter icon sets, JungleJar became somewhat of the place to go to for Twitter icons. We believe we had the most complete archive at the time (and still do), but we knew it wouldn't be long before the talented graphic designing Tweeters out there had more for us. Enjoy, and respect the licensing information.

While some put a lot of stock into websites such as these, I would encourage you to not do so. As they may offer one point of reference to figure out the worth of a website you own, are selling, or would like to buy, they should just be one of many other statistical references to gather data from. If nothing else, they offer a form of entertainment, and you can grab a nifty website badge from some of them to impress your friends and co-workers.

I've found two more great RSS web application based tools for all of you webmasters, bloggers, and/or RSS Feed readers out there. One RSS tool serves a ton of different purposes such as a RSS Feed analytical report of sorts, and checks the popularity of your blog posts on various social networks. The other is a blogging community of sorts with various web based tools at your disposal and gives you the ability to create a super feed.

Time and time again I find myself trying to remember a bit of PHP or CSS code that I've used before to perform some sort of function. This is why most any web developer needs a code snippet application to archive those bits of code. In this article I bring attention to Snippley, a fantastic Adobe Air desktop application, and also Snipt, which is a web application based around a community to boot.