Although digital arts is much appreciated and renowned in the world wide web, it’s undeniable that hand drawn sketches are equally impressive and delightful. Using hand drawn designs as webpage backgrounds, designer portfolios and illustrator portfolios, is getting popular these days. It has that artistic and personal touch that awes people, and not to mention it surprises the viewers too

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Grunge style is now becoming popular because of the unique design it has: crooked, stained, grubby, broken. But designers are still using this style on  fonts ,  brushes and  interface design and still it is making its mark on the designing community. You may ask why do you have to consider grunge style for your design since they are branded as “dirty type” of design.

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Hello there everybody and welcome to another PSD web design tutorial here at 1stwebdesigner! In this tutorial you will learn how to create a 3D like design using  simple gradients and other effects how to achieve great layout without any big problems. Now I will guide you through this tutorial and I am sure you will learn a few tricks as well! Let’s get started – I hope you will make out together with me until successful finish together ! Resources you will need to complete this tutorial: 960 Grid System MacBook PSD Here is what we will making, click on image for full preview: Before we get started download first 960grid system for easy Guideline creation. Open 960_downloadtemplatesphotoshop960_grid_12_col.psd We also need to make sure that our Rulers and Guides are viewed

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Having a good workplace can make an employee work effectively, productively and inspired. Instead of being in a square cubicle that feels like a jail where you lock yourself daily making your work days stressful.

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Hello everybody! Finally that day has come! Which day you may ask? Well…where should I start? –  today 1WD is celebrating 2 years anniversary and fourth ( 4 th ) version of design

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Using CSS for coding a web page is standard these days but still many people on web think that CSS has some restrictions and you can’t convert a web page from Design to xHtml perfectly. There are tons of benefits of using CSS while coding a web page, a very important one is higher rankings in Search engine because If you really want your website to stand out, its essential that you have higher SERP. In line with this, I have gathered these 45 Awesome and Creative CSS based Layouts for you to be inspired.

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Twitter is a social networking website that lets you share and communicate with your friends or here it is called ‘followers’. Are you the type of person that want to know what others are doing, share something,where they at, whom with them, what are the latest event and want to know everything being talk around the globe? Well twitter is a great tool for you

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Go Green! Does it sounds familiar to you?But this is not the typical green color we are talking about.  Now a days, global warming has been a big issue around the globe because of the world is suffering to a lot of waste created by people. By this eco-friendly website, we can create awareness to people

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For busy people who are always conscious of time, don’t we always wish for easier and faster ways to get things done? I know, it’s a pain to be doing long processes and looking at the wall clock every once in a while to keep track of time

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3D refers to objects that been created in 3 position (X, Y and Z). Now a days, there are a lot 3D objects that you can see in movies, product designs, logo, advertisements, etc. Even they are commonly seen these days but they are not easy to create

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