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| CrazyLeaf Design Blog |
| CrazyLeaf fun zone where anybody can find jokes, funny pictures, videos, posts about cars, movies and music . In addition you are always up-to-date with the latest news in design & graphics. |
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| Professional osCommerce Templates |
| 2008-08-27 16:42:53 |
Buytemplates.net is a website that offers hundreds of free and paid website templates for individuals, professionals and small business owners.
The website has an extended database of professional 5 page templates, Flash websites, Blog templates and Web 2.0 templates complete with licence for each image used from photos.com and bigstockphoto.com . Each template comes with SEO [...]...
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| 20 Tips and Tricks to Speed-Up Your Wordpress Blog |
| 2008-08-25 16:30:59 |
The Wordpress content management system (CMS) is by default a pretty fast and optimized software. However by using lots of plugins and “design heavy” themes can really slow it down. This affects directly your visitors because nobody likes a slow loading website.
There are a number of things you can do to speed up your Wordpress [...]...
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| We are looking for contributors |
| 2008-08-23 12:09:04 |
The blog has grown constantly over the last year, and the need for giving our readers more quality articles has also grown. Unfortunately writing quality articles takes time, a lot of time. So, as the title is mentioning, we are looking for guest authors for the blog.
What we are looking for
We are looking for talented [...]...
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| 10 Must-Have Plugins If You’re a Wordpress Blogger |
| 2008-08-21 05:53:00 |
Every Wordpress blogger knows how important plugins are for its blog. Getting the right combination of plugins is pretty difficult and involves a lot of trial and error and, of course time. Here are 10 plugins, that in our opinion any Wordpress blog should have.
1. Akismet
Akismet, the first barrier against spam, attempts to filter [...]...
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| Cool Flash Portfolio Showcase Tools |
| 2008-08-11 07:37:54 |
How you showcase your portfolio is very important for any freelancer or design company. It reflects the way you do business, your attention to details and gives an overall feel of professional work. It can mean the difference from getting or losing clients.
To enrich your portfolio showcase you can use Javascripts based on the Prototype [...]...
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| Featured Designer #8 - Nick La |
| 2008-08-10 08:23:54 |
Nick La is a web and graphic designer based in Canada. You may recognize him by the websites he owns : N.Design-Studio (his portfolio website), Web Designer Wall (a beautiful blog about design trends and tutorials) and Best Web Gallery (one of the best web galleries on the web).
For his great vectorial art, Wordpress design, [...]...
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| 40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008 |
| 2008-08-06 16:10:51 |
2008 has brought some big changes in the design trends. One of the major ones was the end of the so called “glossy revolution“, the wrongful design interpretation of the web 2.0 current. You know what I am talking about : the glossy, vivid and colorful logos and website designs, the major usage of [...]...
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| Best Design Resources of July 2008 |
| 2008-08-01 17:42:55 |
It’s been another busy month in the world of design. Here are the highlights of July 2008:
Photoshop
Tutorials
Enhance Your Ad Designs with 3D Splashes - a Photoshop tutorial on how to enrich your images and designs with 3D splashes.
Design a refreshing beer ad in Photoshop - enhance a basic beer ad giving it a fresh look
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| Featured Photographer #1 - Amanda Chapman |
| 2008-07-29 05:51:28 |
Amanda Chapman is a freelance portrait photographer, and although she’s been behind the camera only for 1 year, her shots look amazing. You can see more great photos and find out more about her by checking her website, blog or JPG Magazine profile....
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| Superb falling leaves simulation using ActionScript |
| 2008-07-28 08:33:49 |
This is a great example of ActionScript usage. The script simulates the falling of a user-controlled number of leaves. What’s really cool about it is the level of interaction with the user.
The user can influence the leaves movement by blowing into the microphone and creating wind which modifies the falling trajectory according to the blowing [...]...
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| 216 Color Webmaster’s Palette |
| 2008-07-28 07:10:15 |
This palette consists of the most widely supported (by web browsers) colors used on the web. Using these colors for your fonts and backgrounds will give your website the best chance of a consistent appearance across operating systems, color monitors and different web browsers....
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| 5 Exceptional Plugins to Keep Your Wordpress Blog Spam-Free |
| 2008-07-25 07:32:40 |
Quoting from the Akismet website … “Remember the days before spam ?“… Yeah, I know… Nowadays spam is everywhere : in your mail box, on your website, on your blog, on your instant messenger, on your social networking profile, in your online game, on your mobile phone, on your fax, basically everywhere we look on [...]...
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| Sexy Digital Art |
| 2008-07-21 06:23:17 |
Digital art, as classic art involves many aspects. One of these aspects is the erotic one. Many artists found their fame through their nude paintings. I don’t know if this will be the case here, but the end result is quite impressive.
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| You suck at Photoshop #4 - Paths and Masks |
| 2008-07-20 08:16:13 |
In this tutorial, Donnie shows the uses of Path tools and Layer Masks in selecting an object out of an image and inserting it into another image (basically the elegant way of changing and object’s background).
If you can’t see this video click here....
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| Super Fresh - Free Wordpress Theme |
| 2008-07-17 13:54:50 |
Details : 3 columns, widget ready, professional looking Wordpress theme. Has a featured article in the main area, a customized gallery page and an “About me” section.
Demo : Super Fresh - Free Wordpress Theme demo
Download : Super Fresh - Free Wordpress Theme download...
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| Wordpress Fun - Free Wordpress Theme |
| 2008-07-17 04:53:53 |
Details : Professional Wordpress theme, bought and released for its readers by Smashing Magazine. It uses quite a few PNG files, so be sure the image paths to these are correct (for IE6). It can be used with or without the widgets.
Requirements : Wordpress 2.5.1 or Wordpress 2.6
Demo : Wordpress Fun - Free Wordpress Theme [...]...
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| Designing a stylish contact form for your portfolio |
| 2008-07-11 19:06:35 |
This tutorial will show you how to design a stylish, custom contact form for your website / portfolio from scratch. It will cover all the aspects of the design including the CSS and HTML coding and PHP programming.
The result will be a fully functional, personalized contact form and will look like this :
As you [...]...
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| Google has launched Second Life competitor called Lively |
| 2008-07-10 11:56:19 |
Google has launched a browser based virtual world environment called Lively. Lively lets users create and custom design worlds and avatars and interact with their friends.
The worlds you create can be embeded in your webpage. For now only Windows users with either Firefox or Internet Explorer can see them, but support for Mac and Linux [...]...
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| Redirect your HTML pages without using Javascript or PHP |
| 2008-07-10 07:19:10 |
This tutorial will show you to redirect users to another webpage without using header and other PHP methods. It’s actually very simple, just one line of HTML code.
Place the code in the head tag of you HTML page :
[-]?View Code HTML<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1 url=http://www.yoursite.com/newpage.html">
In the Content attribute there is the number 1, and an URL. [...]...
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| Outdoorsy - Free Wordpress theme |
| 2008-07-09 09:07:22 |
WeFunction.com has released a new, free and unique looking Wordpress theme, called Outdoorsy. The theme has a lovely crumpled paper look.
The details are amazing and the overall feel is like you’re seating and writing your thoughts outdoors, on a delightful summer day, surrounded by nature.
Outdoorsy is free and you can see a demo and [...]...
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| Body Painting - a true art |
| 2008-07-08 19:03:02 |
Body Painting is considered by many to be the most ancient form of art. Unlike tattoos, body painting is temporary, painted on the skin it lasts only a few hours or at most a few days.
The body painting movement started in the 60’s when it was impulsed by the liberalization of social mores regarding nudity.
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| CLD Wallpapers - Design is sexy |
| 2008-07-07 13:42:48 |
For the 6th issue of Wallpaper Designs we thought it would be nice to make some wallpapers of our own. We made them in 3 different colors for every taste : extravagant orange, navy blue and elegant white.
CLD Design is Sexy Wallpaper - Extravagant Orange
Download wallpaper (1600×1200 px)
CLD Design is Sexy Wallpaper - Navy Blue
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| Best Design Resources of June 2008 |
| 2008-07-02 11:02:53 |
For the past month we’ve received and collected a lot of design resources and we thought there’s enough stuff for an article. We hope you’ll find lots of interesting and useful links in this article.
Photoshop
Brushes
PSBrushes is a cool and clean website dedicated exclusively to Photoshop brushes.
Textures
Wood Textures
A large collection of wood textures by Abduzeedo.
Grunge Textures
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| The Giveaway winners |
| 2008-06-28 05:06:13 |
Last week we launched a giveaway which ended last night @ 00:01. It’s time to announce the winners.
How did we choose the winners ?
We had 26 participants to the giveaway. Each of them participated by commenting on the giveaway article, and entering the number of the Javascript they wanted to win.
Each Javascript had 1 [...]...
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| TemplateMonster 4th of July Lottery – Take part and Win |
| 2008-06-26 04:29:52 |
TemplateMonster is organizing a lottery with give-away for any participant for the upcoming 4th of July. Anyone who signs up for the lottery wins a gift from Template Monster.
Who is TemplateMonster?
TemplateMonster is a world leader in e-commerce solution. The company specializes on affordable web design products and services. TemplateMonster is most known as one of [...]...
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| Firefox 3 is ready - Download it |
| 2008-06-17 17:00:52 |
As we mentioned in a previous post Firefox 3 was released just a few hours ago. With more than 15000 improvements, this release is a landmark in internet browsing.
Built on the Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform, which has been in development for the past 34 months, this new version promises improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, [...]...
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| Graphic Design Links has been updated |
| 2008-06-15 04:02:49 |
Graphic Design Links is a social bookmarking website for web and graphic designers, photographers and developers. It’s maintained by Andi Creffield, who also owns, among others, Estetica Design Forum.
On GDL you can find loads of design resources, ranging from typography, HTML or illustration to programming and Flash related content.
You can contribute to Graphic Design Links [...]...
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| Download Firefox 3 on Dday |
| 2008-06-14 17:51:27 |
Dday, also known as “Download Day” is an attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day. Download Day will coincide with the general availability of Firefox 3. The clock will start ticking when Firefox 3 goes out the door! There [...]...
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| MTV Engine Room is recruiting designers |
| 2008-06-10 10:59:16 |
MTV and HP are recruiting designers from all over the world to join the Engine Room (reality show), a creative space where four teams (Europe, the US, Asia and Latin America) compete for a chance to win a top prize of $400,000 US Dollars (that’s right 400k) in cash plus a load of HP [...]...
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| Superb designs for the Beijing 2008 Olympics |
| 2008-06-05 16:59:51 |
Ever since I was a kid I remember the superb opening festivities at the Olympic Games. The dancers, the dances, the costumes, the olympic torch, all came together to create a great and impressive opening show. And judging by the superb arrangements below, I think this year, at Beijing will be quite a spectacle.
These are [...]...
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| Graphic Design on cars … do it with style |
| 2008-06-02 05:04:39 |
The demand for customized cars is in a continuous rising and has been for a couple of years now. But this “need” for owning an “unique car” made some people transform their car into a complete kitsch. That’s why we say if you’re going to “pimp out” your car, do it with style.
If you’re wondering [...]...
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| Featured Designer #7 - Noe Design Studio |
| 2008-05-31 07:37:02 |
Noe Design Studio is the personal portfolio of Dan Noe, an Iowa-based multi-media designer specializing in branding, advertising and web design solutions. Dan’s work has been featured in Communication Arts, Logo Lounge 4, on the FWA and in Web Builder Magazine.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art [...]...
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| 3 weird facts about Microsoft Windows |
| 2008-05-30 02:41:38 |
Here are 3 weird facts about Windows, that nobody can explain :
1. Nobody can create a folder named “Con”.
Try to create anywhere on your hard disk a folder called “Con” (without the quotes). Go to a location on your hard disk, right click, choose “New” and then select “Folder” from the menu that appears. Name [...]...
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| The best CSS and Flash web galleries - Places to inspire |
| 2008-05-07 16:21:58 |
Ever found yourself blank, with no inspiration or in a situation in which every idea you come up with seems not good enough ? Well, don’t worry. Every designer has these kind of moments.
CSS and Flash web galleries are great places to get inspiration from. Most galleries showcase loads of good and original concepts which [...]...
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| Sharebrain interviewed us |
| 2008-05-05 10:13:28 |
I’ve recently been interviewed by Thomas from Sharebrain . The interview was published today. So, if you like to read more about the better half of CrazyLeaf Design (just kidding Bogdan - n.r. my associate) check out the interview on Sharebrain.
Sharebrain describes itself as being the best resource for webworkers. The resource section, the tutorials, [...]...
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