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43 Minimal And Really Clean Free WordPress Themes

Posted on 30 November 2009 by admin

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From Source: 1st Web Designer

In early days blogs were supposed to be simply online diaries and way how to write your thoughts without any business purpose. I will start to write personal blog in my own language as well and that’s because I wanted to find out how many simple and minimalistic themes are available for WordPress. Certainly I got again more than expected, but I tried to narrow article and be picky, but I still got 43 interesting and simplistic themes.

Enjoy typography, white color, grid, white spaces and remember – very often simply good typography and great use of white space is a lot better than theme overloaded with effects, colors, images and too much CSS styling!

Listropolis' Take:

Tons of good themes here, and most are perfect for building an amazing site. Use these themes as the structure for your WordPress blog, then add elements for color. Simple and free!

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20 New High Quality Free Fonts

Posted on 16 November 2009 by admin

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From Source: Smashing Magazine

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

In this selection we’re glad to present you Madawaska ExtraLight, Apparatus SIL, League Gothic, Contra and many other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time.

Listropolis' Take:

Anytime Smashing Magazine makes it a list, you just know it's outstanding, and this font list doesn't disappoint. I'm a font junkie, but I have never seen most of the fonts on the list. If you're a designer, or do anything with fonts, you'll want to bookmark this post. Our favorite is Contra (probably more for the name than anything else).

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80+ Identity Logo Design With PSD Files

Posted on 20 October 2009 by admin

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From Source: VisionWidget

One of the most important aspects of identity is a logo. A logo can say everything a viewer needs to know about a company or a personal website. However, logo design is not an easy task. Even the simplest of logos often take a lot of time and thought and may cost thousands of dollars.

In today's world just about everyone has a website and everyone needs some sort of identity to make a presence on the web, You don't want to spend a lot of money on a logo but you are certain you need something to set you apart. This is the idea behind Shaboopie logos.

So we hope our free logos create an identity for your online presence or at least inspire you to pursue your own designs. Below is the few examples of our logosdesign PSD file format for free download.

Listropolis' Take:

A very nice set of generic company logos with free, downloadable PSD files. I only see 15 listed, but the post claims there are 80+. Let me know if you find the rest.

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60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers

Posted on 09 September 2009 by admin

60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers | Graphics

From Source: Hongkiat.com

Having another designer’s PSD file is as good as owning a chef’s recipe book. The only difference is – we designers are willing share and sometimes we even distribute them ourselves so others can download and learn from our techniques. Photoshop .PSD file reveals the techniques used on a specific design, it also tells us the style of the creator and most of the time there is something new we can learn from it. In today’s post, we want to bring to your attention some of the that you can download. We suggest you consult the author before using them for commercial purposes. Full list after jump.

Listropolis' Take:

There are tons of places to get PSD files, but this is one of the best lists I've ever seen. If you're looking for files to learn new techniques, make this your first stop.

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20 Best Free Professional Fonts

Posted on 23 March 2009 by admin

I've been working on a presentation for a meeting in a few weeks, and realized I needed a few new professional looking fonts for my headers. After a few hours of searching - and finding some amazing free work - I was left with about 20 fonts I absolutely loved. I decided it would make a great post, so below, you'll find what I think are the 20 Best free fonts on the net - at least fonts that work for business presentations. Your mileage may vary.

#1.
Delicious

delicious

#2.
fontin

Vitaly Friedman's Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts

#3.
Cardo (Download - English)

praegnanz.de: Cardo

#4.
Union (Download)

Vitaly Friedman's Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts

#5.
Existance

37 FREE Must-Have Fonts - FrancescoMugnai.com

#6.
Tuffy

37 FREE Must-Have Fonts - FrancescoMugnai.com

#7.
Museo

MUSEO :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris

#8.
Steiner

Steiner Font | dafont.com

#9.
Cicle

Cicle Font | dafont.com

#10.
District Thin

Phil's Fonts | Free Font!

#11.
Sling

Sling Font | dafont.com

#12.
Diavlo

Diavlo :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris

#13.
Just Old Fashion

Manfred Klein @ typOasis - 2003

#14.
Mido

Mido Font

#15.
Geo Sans Light

Geo Sans Light Font | dafont.com

#16.
Lido STF

Storm Type Foundry

#17.
Day Roman

Day Roman

#18.
Liberation Serif

Liberation Serif Font | dafont.com

#19.
Scriptina

scriptina

#20.
Romeral

Typies: Romeral, a display typeface

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30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Sets

Posted on 27 January 2009 by admin

From SpeckyBoy:

This article is a list of the best and most creative Social Bookmark Icon Sets for your web sites or blogs. If I have missed any, leave send me the link via the comments.

Listropolis' Take:

Not much to say. It's a great list of beautiful social icons from some of the best designers.

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22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers

Posted on 26 January 2009 by admin

From Instant Shift:

This list is a combined effort of professional web designers and art directors to speeding up your project development time so you can save money and focus on making great applications. All the screenshots again made in usual way so there is no confusion in checking the actual preview and corresponding font types.

The basic purpose behind this post is to show popular and professional free font types to save your time searching online. This time direct download link available for all the font. You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. Just make sure to read the license agreements carefully as they can change from time to time.

Listropolis' Take

As far as I'm concerned, you can never have too many great fonts, and these are some of the best I've ever seen. The post has plenty of screenshots showing the fonts, so there's not a lot of jumping to other pages for examples.

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10 Killer WordPress Hacks

Posted on 08 January 2009 by admin

From Smashing Magazine:

2008 was a very good year for the WordPress community. The software was updated numerous times, leading to the recent release of version 2.7, and many new blogs dedicated to WordPress were created. Of course, tons of new hacks were discovered, which helped lots of bloggers enhance their blogs.

In this article, we’ll show you 10 new useful killer WordPress hacks to unleash the power of your favorite blogging engine. Each hack has an accompanying explanation, so you’ll not only unleash the power of WordPress but also understand how it works.

Listropolis' Take:

An amazing list! Usually, the "hack" lists are old hacks that can now be accomplished easily, and that almost everyone already knows about, but this is Smashing Magazine, so you know it's good stuff. The list has some surprisingly great ideas, and all are very simple to do. If you have a wordpress site, take a minute and read/bookmark this site as a reference.

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15 Breathtaking HDR Wallpapers

Posted on 14 December 2008 by admin

If you're anything like me, you like to change your wallpaper often. Below are what I consider the best HDR wallpapers in Flickr. To see the wallpaper version, click on the title, and then click "View All Sizes."

Stiftsruine Lippstadt #2

Very First HDR

Mt. Tolmie stairs, HDR and color rotated

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friendly tractor

somewhere in oderberg

castle rheinsberg

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by the water

Amtsgericht Wedding

evening scenery at werder

stairway to the water

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50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008

Posted on 10 December 2008 by admin

From Noupe:

Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008.

My Take
Who doesn't love Icons? This is easily the best list of icons I've seen. I especially like the hand-drawn doodles, and the social sticker icons. If you need to update the icons on your site, this is a great place to start.

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