Archive for December, 2011
We all know that Photoshop has a daunting learning curve – you need to get the hold of many tricks and techniques to get the feel of this mainstay design software and start performing like a pro artist. In our effort to feature the most interesting tutorials for the creative community of graphic designers, digital artists as well as casual enthusiasts, TemplateMonster blog team now brings the list of top 25 Photoshop tutorials of the year 2011. These example-based lessons will help you out with many effects, manipulations, and layer styles in Photoshop. Every single tutorial is worth your precious click-through. Now fire up the program and start working the magic.
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Create a Festive Cocktail Using Photoshop’s 3D Capabilities
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Create Cool Neon Effects
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Frosty air, shiny snow and beautiful landscapes will wait for you at any ski resort. But if you are looking for speed, dynamics and breathtaking adventures you won’t even notice the beauty around you because of the adrenalin rush! As you may have guessed the virtual reflection of winter sports is visualized by web designers in various gorgeous website designs connected with winter sports and other related spheres. Here you’ll find inspirational winter sports website designs of popular ski resorts, winter sport brands and equipment suppliers. We hope that after seeing our showcase you’ll take out your ski, snowboards and skates from the closet and have a good time somewhere in the mountains (skating-rink would be ok too).
Mountain High
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Alpine Meadows
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For those who don’t know, TemplateMonster now offers the designer’s bundle that will deliver 61,015 design goodies to the creative community. And you can get such a huge goodies pack for only $49 – along with any template purchase on TemplateMonster!
Yes, we break that price down for you! But a special deal like this just cannot last for long. Expert designer’s bundle is now on sale until January 2nd, 2012. The next day after this date it will no longer be available – so be sure to act quickly and get your bundle today!
The bundle itself comes packed with a gazillion of your favorite design goodies including vectors, web elements, Photoshop patterns, gradients, and layer styles, hi-res textures, stock photos, 3D clipart and iconsets.
- You get ultimate designer toolkit (reg. $99):
- 27,000 Photoshop gradients;
- 18,000 Photoshop layer styles;
- 815 Photoshop patterns;
- high-quality vectors;
- hi-res textures;
- icons and tutorials;
- ProClipart.com 1 year membership (reg. $19):
- 1600 3D clip art items;
- 2200 illustrations;
- 380 iconsets;
- IconDenom.com 1 year membership (reg. $19):
- any 500 items from the total amount of 5,300+ premium icons;
- 15 stock photos from DepositPhotos (reg. $30):
- any hi-res 15 images from the huge collection of 4,000,000+ stock photos.
And all that you get for as low as $49 (regular price of all the resources included in the bundle is $167 although they’re really worth thousands of dollars). So there’re lots of reasons to go shopping! Those of you who love graphics and design would buy this bundle in a heartbeat. The elements it contains can be combined to awesome effect and they will actually save you tons of time and effort, especially when you get stuck just before the deadline searching for the right items to polish off your work. This bundle will help you out – save up to $118 when you buy it today!
To get the special price just add any TemplateMonster’s product to shopping cart and from there you’ll be able to add the bundle to your order and pay for it along with a template payment.
Holiday time would not be without some engaging promos. Over two weeks ago TemplateMonster initiated the biggest and grandest Christmas promotion, and now’s the time to announce the results and deliver the gifts.
The closing date for participation in our Christmas lottery was December 26th, so entries posted after the corresponding date are now deemed invalid. We’ve just randomly picked the winners with a help of a nice little widget from Random.org.
So the lucky customer whose name is Mike Saad from Raleigh, North Carolina, will happily make away with a valuable gift – iPad2 (64Gb, WiFi only version, $699 value). We also offered you a chance to win one of five TemplateMonster gift certificates. Customers whose names are Kristen Gusler, Alexey Chesnok, Brennan Robinson, Spyros Iliopoulos, and Todd Chant will bring home the awesome gift certificates that will enable them to get any template from TemplateMonster for free. Other 10 lucky runner-ups we’ve randomly chosen will get sweet 50% discounts for any purchase at TemplateMonster.
All winners will be notified at registered emails based on the customer’s contact details indicated in their winning entry. Once the information of the ongoing promo results reached them, we’d appreciate if they share their impressions in the comments to this blog entry.
We hope you have been having fun with our Christmas promo, we certainly enjoyed making it. Next time join in and be part of the good things coming from TemplateMonster. Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New year!
The time for winter holidays and plenty of pleasant gifts has come, and we are definitely glad to keep up with this holiday fuss and present you this freebie – Free Website Template for Law Business. Let it be our little, but high-grade and effective present for you.
Today is a good occasion to try this theme, redesign your existing project, or start the new one. Using this free website template you will be able to do it without extra efforts and money. This stylish theme provides you with all you need to start the successful web presence dedicated to the lawyer’s practice. You can check out the free template live demo for all those cool elements that are implemented in it. Try this free website template and modify your project as you like!
Free Website Template for Law Business:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Follow the link below and download HTML source files. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template for Law Business download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Website Template for Law Business with PSD files (11,9MB)
Download Free Website Template for Law Business without PSD (579KB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
Did you notice that the crazy race of updates and new releases between Chrome and Mozilla Firefox almost overshadowed any media news concerning Opera web browser. All mainstream media just ignore Opera preferring the news about Chrome and Firefox. That ain’t right, because Opera is a great web browser with impressive list of advantages. Today we would like to show you a list of Opera extensions for web developers and prove that Opera is just as good for web developers as the two bigger players. There is no doubt that Opera has many devoted fans among our readers and we assume that they will appreciate the following information concerning these web development plugins for Opera. Most of these extensions are small and narrow banded, but for example Developer Briefcase is a multifunctional extension with a set of various tools. Now let’s proceed with our today’s topic.
Readable JavaScript
This extension helps to format and colorize JavaScript code. This plugin is triggered by files with .js extension or by the toolbar button. Also it has some useful features for debugging and parsing Java scripts.
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JsonViewer
Json Viewer formats and highlights JSON data loaded from file or server. Also it helps you to process data by highlighting string and boolean values with blue, numbers – with green, null values – with red color.
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The power of CSS3 is truly unconquerable and with the lapse of time more and more web developers and designers follow the cult of this technique. Today we would like to present you a collection of CSS3 hover effect tutorials. Basically hover is an effect that occurs while placing the mouse cursor over some object on the website (such as a link, an image or even a simple text). This effect is a very important design element that is mostly used for styling and usability. Hover effect adds dynamics to the website and improves user experience instantly. This effect is unique due to its combination of creative and functional features. Now let’s dive into the CSS3 magic along with these awesome CSS3 hover effect tutorials.
Original Hover Effects with CSS3
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Amazing Hover Effects with CSS3
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This post will cursorily cover the new product line of Adobe Edge Templates that are now available at TemplateMonster. These new website designs take advantage of the advanced interactivity features in the Edge, web motion and designing tool from Adobe. If you review templates’ environment, you’ll see that they offer engaging interactivity that fills standards-based animations with nuanced details and creative personality. Admittedly, Adobe Edge designs bring animation similar to that created in Flash, but they do not require Adobe’s Flash plug-in for viewing as their web page elements are developed using standards like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript – have a look at our Adobe Edge Templates presentation page to find out more. In the overall, for many designers and website owners this new web animation software may replace Flash for creating animated content.
Adobe Edge has been offered as a free beta public preview and is now available for download through the Adobe website. If you want to know more about this web animation software, please check out the Introduction to Adobe Edge – the post has a brief overview of Edge technology and offers a more in-depth look at its major features and functions. And don’t forget to check back often our templates collection as more Adobe Edge Templates will be added.
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Online Store Facebook Reveal Template
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Ribbons are gaining popularity in website design. They can break the flat website surface and give some interesting depth to the content. Well, you may have seen these design elements appearing here and there, but today we’d like to showcase website templates that embrace attractive ribbons.
You can see them used as stylish and decorative header elements, banner navigation bars, price tags, call-to-action buttons, shopping cart and login icons, layers for writing a tagline and company name, tapes emphasizing the specials, and the like. Ribbons are a sort of a special way to drive users to the right website areas and achieve clear separation of content. Probably because they are conspicuous and so demand rapt attention. Today’s featured templates apart from embracing ribbon metaphors, also implement few more design elements which are very popular right now, check out.
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Food Online Store Zen-Cart 1.3.9 Template
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Coffee Store VirtueMart Template
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Today let’s focus on the best possible solutions for your online projects. Fresh and professional ideas are in a great demand, as usual, and you have a freedom to choose those you like best. We are going to focus your attention on the most efficient ready-made solutions for your web presence. And this time it is Free Website Template with Tabbed jQuery Slider for Fitness Project.
Of course, all of us want the unique designs for the projects that we start. But it costs and takes too much time to bring this wish into reality. The high-grade ready-made themes can solve this problem quite easily. What can you get within this free website template? The visually attractive design solution with the effective color scheme, tabbed jQuery Slider in the header and the thought-out overall execution. You are welcome to try this HTML5 theme in order to start your own project that will draw more visitors to the site. All you want to know about this theme is to be found in its free template live demo. Don’t overlook an opportunity to become noticeable in the online world!
Free Website Template with Tabbed jQuery Slider for Fitness Project:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Follow the link below and download HTML source files. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template with Tabbed jQuery Slider for Fitness Project download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Website Template with Tabbed jQuery Slider for Fitness Project with PSD files (8,50 MB)
Download Free Website Template with Tabbed jQuery Slider for Fitness Project without PSD (387KB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
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