Design templates help build an identity for any particular website. Since the techniques are changing very rapidly within the industry, one must be updated all the time. Many designers download the pre-built CSS templates to explore more. At many stages, designers seek help in the form of inspiration that would help them get back to their creativity track. Or they just want to learn a thing or two about the structure of web-sites and build their own projects on top of “bulletproof” templates.

To keep you moving throughout your creative adventure, we have gathered some cool and absolutely Free CSS

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By Jeremy Davis

It’s been said that the key to a civilization’s success is mastery of the food system. Unless a group of people can effectively control the basic needs for survival, they will never achieve greatness. Likewise, before CSS skills can be expanded to an advanced level, the basics must become instinct to any CSS coder. Develop these habits and you lay a solid foundation to apply advanced CSS techniques.

This habit (along with a few others) is one frequently mentioned as a CSS best practice. The goal of a reset stylesheet is

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By Tim Wright and TJ Kelly

CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. It’s simple, powerful, and easy to use. But even with all its simplicity, it hides some important capabilities. Ask any designer, and they’ll tell you that the majority of their code headaches are caused and ultimately solved by CSS.

All designers at some point in their career go through the process of encountering a weird display issue, searching for a resolution, and discovering a trick, technique, or hack could have saved them hours of frustration—if they had only known when

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By Paul Andrew

Learning CSS and how to use it effectively can be a reasonably easy thing to do for a beginning web developer. In the hands of a seasoned professional, CSS can be stretched and pushed it to its limits where it can seem complicated and yet perfect at the same time.

Being able to adapt to new ideas and different techniques, as well as seeking new solutions to old problems is part and parcel of being a web designer. And with the speed at which CSS development is constantly moving, keeping up with new developments can be challenging.

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By Justin Johnson

Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup horizontal navigation, dropdown navigation, a list of links, and even scrolling content panels (with the help of Javascript). These features can help developers build new sites and applications as well as integrate new content into existing applications.

Unorderd lists are recommened to be used with a list of items where order is irrelevant. With unordered lists (and all lists actually) the W3C

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Not that this is universally true, but some people look haphazardly into a field before deciding to dive in. We do the odd bit of research, investigating the ins and outs, slowly developing expectations about this new arena of work. Expectations are not necessarily bad to have; they can be a powerful motivator. But sometimes our expectations are shattered by a development that we never saw coming.

“Shatter” sounds a bit dramatic, but a situation can certainly get derailed. Regardless of whether this changes the course of your career, it can still knock the wind out of

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Having recently published the Illustrator toolbox, we thought we would continue down the print design path and follow up with our next toolbox in this same arena. Welcome to the Ultimate InDesign Toolbox for all of those designers and graphic artists who use this valuable tool for all of their print media needs. This expansive addition to the Adobe Creative Suite family is often overlooked by many in the community, opting instead to use Illustrator alone in their forays into the print side of the game.

Hopefully, through this arsenal expanding expedition we can

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Every designer aims for high quality resources to use for their work. Usually, this takes a lot of time to search for and collecting the best ones isn’t always easy. In today’s post we’ve prepared a roundup of a showcase of over fifty different Photoshop brushes as well as a couple of actions and styles. We hope that this ultimate collection inspires you to be more creative and — don’t forget to share your favourites! We’re always happy to read your comments and suggestions!

Fake Glitter

Arcade Brushes

25 Ink Brushes

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Typography is an integral part of any design. Therefore, an attractive web design or logo is incomplete without the adequate typography. In today’s post we have collected some artworks which demonstrate the use of typography in a totally different perspective. You must want to have a look at this one!

Here is the stunning collection of some very beautiful typographic and mosaic portraits which will surely inspire you. We hope you enjoy this collection and will feel free to leave a comment to let us know which one is your favorite!

Erik Spiekermann

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When used well, patterns can be a great way to add an extra element to your designs that take them to the next level in terms of aesthetics. Creating your own repeating patterns is one way to go about this, but it’s not always something you want to spend a lot of time on, especially if you’re working with a tight budget. And why reinvent the wheel when there are thousands of patterns out there that could work?

The resources below can help you find the right pattern for your project. Rather than just round up the best patterns, we’ll

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