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You can get all of our updates, and more by following us on Twitter. We have a lot of great, resourceful posts planned for you and twitter allows you to get every one of them as soon as they’re published. You can also send us tips and more. Just follow us and direct message or @DesignVitality to send us a tweet.
Don’t know what Twitter is? It is a way to answer one simple question, “What are you doing?”
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Posted by Mustafa
If you are a designer, I am sure you definitely like it when people see your desktop and tell you that they really like the wallpaper. Too bad that when you want to find a good selection of hot wallpapers, you have to comb through hundreds of crappy desktops just to find the goods.
So when I see a hot wallpaper I download it and save it, and today I have put together the first selection of our series of posts about stunning hand picked wallpapers.
Here are 25 Amazing Beautiful nature themed desktop wallpapers. Enjoy.
Posted by Nicholas
Web 2.0 is a term coined in recent years that describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and social indexes.
Web 2.0 websites are typically known for the use of CSS, Folksonomies (social tagging, classification, and indexing), Microformats, REST/XML/JSON-based APIs, rich internet applications such as Ajax, Flex, or Flash, semantically valid XHTML and HTML, RSS/Atom syndication and aggregation, weblog-publishing tools, wiki or forum software, and the extended use of internet privacy and content management. Below is a list of the top 15 websites that have been influential in establishing these methods of functionality on the web.
1. iGoogle
Google has been a rising star for the past decade now, and is officially the largest American corporation not a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The original site started out as a simple search engine, eventually becoming a wide network of sites and services that include Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Desktop, AdWords, Analytics, Picasa, and Google Earth, among others. As a testament to the company’s popularity, the word “Google” was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a verb in 2006, meaning “to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the internet.” Google’s “iGoogle” variant site has shown to be a comparable staple on the 2.0 scene.
2. Flickr
With the advent of modern Web 2.0 content, one of the first forms of media to become the cornerstone of user-generated communities was photos. With the popularity of blogging, people began to not only want to share their experiences in text form, but in photo form as well. Hence, this form of visual expression became a popular aspect of the internet. Flickr introduced the ability to upload and share your photos with the world and receive feedback.
3. Facebook
In the natural order of technological evolution, there is always a “new” website that debuts as an advancement over an existing one. For MySpace, that natural evolution was Facebook. In recent years MySpace has become a breeding ground for social abuse, including stalking, child predation, sexuality, and other forms of depravity, including the overuse of cutesy sparkling animated GIFs. What Facebook offered was a straight-forward, minimalistic, accessible social network that cleaned up where MySpace had made a mess. With it’s heightened privacy protocols and lack of profile clutter, Facebook quickly became a popular utility for social networking.
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Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard when it comes to editing images. Photoshop comes with a variety of powerful tools to help you when editing. Photoshop also allows users to expand that tool set using filters and plug-ins to make it even more powerful.
Below are 50 sets of filters and plug-ins that can be added to Photoshop for absolutely free!
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As a designer I see the Photoshop startup screen several times a day. I can easily recall what each one looks like, from 5.0 to CS3. This got me wondering: What did the startup screen look like before I ever used Photoshop?
After some research I was able to find the Photoshop startup screen from the very first retail version all the way until CS3. Take a walk down memory lane and see how many of these you remember and discover the humble beginnings of the world’s most powerful image editor.
Posted by Mustafa
If you are a designer and you haven’t heard of Firefox, I want to know where you’ve been. Seriously. No need to panic, because today is the official download day for the new Firefox 3.
Firefox offers a faster, safer browsing experience. To get the details, check out this page where you’ll find out more about what makes Firefox a better browser.
Today is the day that the Firefox community, and the Firefox users who love this browser are coming together to set a Guinness World Record. To help Firefox 3 earn the title of the most software downloads in 24 hours, simply participate by downloading it for yourself.
Posted by Justin
Now that fixed width layouts are all the craze, what are we to do with all that blank background space? You could go the tried-and-true route with a gradient, but it doesn’t always add much to the background. Why not add some beauty and texture by having a pattern take up some space?
Using this collection of links you should be able to find the perfect background to fill the void in your design!
Posted by Justin
Having a wide variety of brushes gives designers a larger toolset when creating images. Grunge brushes can be used to create a textured site design, floral brushes can help fill empty voids and even more brushes can be used to create nice little touches. Below is a collection of resources for expanding your Adobe Photoshop brush palette:
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In today’s busy world it can be hard to be tied down to one computer. With web based applications becoming so advanced it is now possible to still get work done anywhere there is a computer without installing any software. From image editing to Word documents, you can do it all online.
Here are 40 excellent web based tools to help you design from anywhere:
Posted by Justin
Well, the voting period is over for our 2007 WordPress theme design competition and the winners have been determined.
Here are the top three winning WordPress theme designs that you, the readers, have chosen!
Each winning theme author will receive one of our cool prizes.
So without further ado, we present to you…
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