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Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing program that can be used to create works of all kinds - books, newspapers, magazines, flyers, brochures, posters and more. Used with another Adobe product, Digital Publishing Suite, it can also be utilized for publishing content adopted for tablet devices. In certain respects, however, it is not the best of its kind: Each of the ten applications described below is superior to it in one way or another.

Flat Social Media Icons is a collection of beautiful icons developed in the flat style. As you already know, we have issued several UI kits in the flat design style, namely Square UI (paid and free versions) and Flat UI (paid and free versions), and we've decided to create free social flat icons, so that the entire design fits the style. In the pack, you will find 35 icons (PNG and PSD formats). Use them in your projects, commercial and non-commercial use if free. Icons included in the pack: Blogger, Delicious, Designbumb, Designfloat, Designmoo, Deviantart, Digg, Dribbble, Drupal, Facebook, Forrst, Foursquare, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google, Google+, HTML5, ICQ, LastFm, LinkedIn, PayPal, Picasa, Pinterest, Reddit, RSS (Feed), Skype, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, WordPress, Yahoo and YouTube. Source: http://designmodo.com/flat-social-icons/#ixzz2VFUkPHSw

A human face can be a nice inspiration for logo design since it is thought to be among the most noticeable and viewed features that any of us stumble upon in our everyday life. We interact with lots of persons every single day. We come across some of their emotional behavior such as annoyance, joy as well as sadness. All of these emotional expressions can certainly be employed as an image in designing a logo. If you want to develop a brand that illustrate reliability and emotional aspect of business then face logo designs are definitely the ideal choice.

These days, a necessary tool of the trade for both professional and amateur visual artists, such as graphic designers, web developers, photographers, digital artists, etc., is an online presence; and that is usually achieved with a personal or professional portfolio site. So today we are bringing you a selection of powerful, usable, free WordPress portfolio themes that are all highly customizable for experienced coders, but also just as usable as they are for non-coders. Portfolium Neat and flexible grid-based theme for WordPress, Portfolium can be used on portfolio websites or blogs. Take full advantage of Portfolium's fresh, minimalistic design that is perfect as is, or as a foundation for your custom design.

High-quality usability has been the center of discussions in the industry in the past ten years, as it becomes more and more important for users. Good usability can also help build brand awareness and can generally improve a user's opinion of a website and even a company. There is so much focus on usability today because big and small companies showed how important a good usability strategy can turn out to be. Good usability has been in the past couple of years at the heart of successful start-ups. Simple ideas are most of the time the most innovative and this is mainly what usability is about: making a feature or a product easy to use, while still keeping the product quality at a high level. Today's article comes a lot down to common sense. It seems that after years and years of discussing this issue, web designers still have a hard time understanding it. Usability is not a joke anymore and the advices below should be printed out and pinned on the wall in front of your desk.

No matter which media, the sci-fi genre captures the imagination like no other, be it film, TV, books, gaming or art. Sci-fi doesn't trend, it is simply always popular and has been for many years, and I am sure will be for many years to come. It is a genre that frees the imagination, the artist, game creator or author can go where they will in their own minds to create amazing works that need absolutely no grounding in reality, and of course, sci-fi does not always have to be serious as a few of the works below will prove. In this round-up, we have collected more than 50 beautifully imaginative examples of digital sci-fi art for your viewing pleasure.

One of the most important aspects of a front-end framework is how it handles navigation. In this part of Foundation for Beginners, we'll take a look at several forms of navigation, along with some JavaScript tools which add extra flourish. I'll also introduce you to another helpful tool which will help you to become a better Foundation developer.

WordPress developers love to get into the system and hack away at their own function codes. Both JavaScript and PHP gurus are notorious for building some really amazing plugins. And since WordPress is open source it allows for greater accomplishments in much less time. I think one interesting area of the WP blogging platform is within user comments.

Since CSS shapes are becoming more important to website development, I thought that a simple list of how to create the most common shapes was in order. You'll find that most of these shapes are very simple to achieve and that they are not that complicated at all. However, at the same time they will save you a lot of trouble.

There's a plethora of new HTML5 form input types (13 new ones to be exact) that make creating engaging and easy-to-use web forms much easier for web designers. The new HTML5 input types give us data validation, date picker controls, color picker controls, inline help text, and more in the web browsers that support them. Advantage of HTML5 Form Input Types The benefits of these new input types are tremendous for web designers. First, the new input types reduce our reliance on client-side- and server-side-scripting for validating common data types like dates, email addresses, and URLs. For mobile UI developers: You know that creating cross-platform web forms using HTML4 standards is a pain. Using HTML5 form input types could make things easier. For instance, a form written with HTML5 can utilize the mobile device's native specialized keyboards depending on what the target input type is. Here's an example of using HTML4 input types (on the left) for entering dates in a web form versus using the HTML5 date input type (on the right):

In this tutorial, we will show you how to combine Photoshop with Filter Forge to create a glowing 3D text effect. We will begin by showing you how to create basic shapes in Photoshop, we'll then show you how to convert them to 3D, and finally how to add the final touches using Filter Forge and a few of Photoshop's basic features. Let's get started!

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week's collection, we have designs from Juliana Bicycles, Simple as Milk, Charlie Waite, @JRDN_SPRW and productOps.

The quality of the blur has come to be known as "bokeh". Bokeh in terms of photography referring the area in the photo which are out of focus light to increase beautiful and dramatic image. The origin of the term is from the Japanese word "romaji" (english characters) is spelled "boke" (pronounced bo-keh) and which means "fuzzy". For good Bokeh, ideally points and lines would blur smoothly as they fell out of focus, in the manner, for example, of a smooth Gaussian blurring.

As you've already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend. It's kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge.

The web is crammed full of words. There is enough content to keep you reading until you take your last breath, even if that moment is still 100 years from now. So far for the good news ;-) The bad news is, the web grows faster than you could ever possibly keep up with. Sooner or later, any netizen will suffer from information overload. I know I do already. This will become a growing problem for brands and their communication strategies as they will need to cut their messages short or risk to not get noticed. If you ask me, one of the best ways to deal with this necessity is the infographic…

WP RSS Aggregator version 3.1 is out now! There are some bug fixes and enhancements. As for new features, these are: Option to set the number of feed items imported from every feed (default 5) Import and Export aggregator settings and feed sources Debugging page allowing manual feed refresh and feed reset I hope you like how the plugin is developing, and as usual feedback is welcome. An official release of the thumbnails and excerpts premium add-on will follow soon.

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