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The Best Icon Sets for Minimal Style Web Design
Cool Theme | Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:53

With so many free icon sets available now, sometimes it makes more sense to not spend countless hours designing and creating your own. However, it’s important that you do find the right style of icons to match your design. In the case of minimal web design, it’s all about clean layouts, little use of color, and few design elements. This means that when icons are required, they should posses the same minimal design qualities. Here are some of the best icon sets for this type of design style.

Mono Icons

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Pictodeck

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:53
 
40 Amazing Examples of Macro Photography
Cool Theme | Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:53

Macro photography, simply put, is close-up photography. This usually requires a special lens that is optimized to focus sharply on a small area. What I love about macro photography is that it allows us see an entirely different world that is filled with an abundance of detail that usually goes unnoticed by the naked eye. 

Here is a collection of 40 truly amazing macro photographs from various photographers. To see larger versions of the photographs and to learn more about both the photograph and photographer, be sure to click on the images.

macro photography

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:53
 
14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development
Cool Theme | Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:52

For web developers and designers, it can be difficult to memorize the syntax for multiple programming languages and frameworks, especially since they are always evolving and growing. This is where cheat sheets come in handy. Most cheat sheets are designed to be printer friendly, so you can have them laying around on your desk as quick reference cards. Here is a collection of useful cheat sheets specifically for front end web development that will help you with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

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HTML 5 Cheat Sheet

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HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:52
 
40 Inspiring Single Page Websites
Cool Theme | Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:52

Following one of the Web Design Trends for 2010 – One Page Layouts, I made this selection of some really cool examples to inspire you. I really think that designing a single page website is great to challenge your creativity, your ‘go straight to the point’ skills and your capacity to put everything you need in a single page and in a way that will get the user attention and interest. Here you will see some colorful sites, minimalist ones and amazingly creative ones. And you will also get the chance to scroll all over the place with others… so enjoy the list and choose your favorite.

Think Green Meeting

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KINO

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:52
 
20 Color Combination Tools for Designers
Cool Theme | Monday, 25 January 2010 19:25

Being able to select the right colors is key in designing an effective and intriguing design, whether for the web or for print. If you’re able to achieve a good balance within your design, then it’ll communicate a stronger message much more easily to the users or readers because certain colors “activate” certain types of emotions.

If you’d like to read more about choosing the right color scheme and the psychology of colors, I invite you to read the following articles:

  • Tip And Tools For Creating A Stunning Colour Scheme
  • Why Color Matters
  • Color symbolism and psychology
  • How Color Influences Consumer Behavior
  • Color Psychology of Logos

Color Combination Tools

Below we’ve compiled a list containing 20 Color Combination Tools for Designers. You can use this list to chose the tool that better fits your needs or that you’re most comfortable using.

Have we missed any? Let us know below!

Kuler

Kuler
The web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 19:28
 
Xbox Live Gamercard
Cool Theme | Monday, 25 January 2010 13:44
Xbox Live GamercardThis is a module that grabs your Xbox Live Gamercard from the Live server and keeps a local copy to display on your Joomla site. This is a stand-alone Gamercard module, unlike existing Gamercard modules which are extension specific. Features/parameters: > 'Refresh Time' to specify when to update local version > 'Alignment' of the Gamercard in the module position (left, center, right) > 'CSS Source'; use the default CSS that comes with the module or use your own custom CSS in your template CSS file.

gamercard
gamercard

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:39
 
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