We’re happy to announce the launch of Finest Tees, a gallery dedicated to showcasing the best t-shirt designs on the internet. We created this site to give t-shirt lovers a place to discover and discuss new shirts, and a place for t-shirt designers to get inspiration and promote their designs. (more…)
Since typography is one of the most challenging and important aspects of web design, it’s important to have useful tools that can make things easier. Here’s a list of tools that will be a big help in making your typography beautiful, and you won’t even have to leave your browser. (more…)
Web Designers are always in need of background patterns. In an effort to reduce your time searching the internet, we’ve put together a list of the best sites where you can find seamless patterns. (more…)
There were a lot of very good tweets promoting WDL Premium, which made the judging process very challenging. What we liked most about the tweets was that there was a good mixture of both funny and explanatory approaches taken. However, there ended up being six tweets that really stood out, and of course only one that we felt did the best job of promoting WDL Premium. (more…)
If you’re unfamiliar with Adobe AIR, it’s a cross-operating system platform that allows developers to use HTML, Ajax, and Flash to build desktop applications. In the past couple of years AIR has gained a lot of popularity, and there’s been a lot of great applications created, including some that are very useful to web designers. (more…)
There’s only one thing that designers love more than a clever and cool design…and that’s being able to wear it in the form of a t-shirt. Here are 30 very cool t-shirt designs found at Threadless.com. (more…)
Every week our premium membership becomes a more insanely great deal for web designers. This week things get even better with the release of deZine, a premium magazine theme by ThemeShift. ThemeShift is a theme shop operated by Simon Rimkus. His themes are beautifully designed and of the highest quality. Be sure and check out ThemeShift’s other premium themes. (more…)
You don’t always need to use a 3D application to create beautiful 3D text. The tools in Photoshop and Illustrator, when used correctly, can help you achieve very nice results. Here are 21 of the best tutorials for creating 3D text effects using Photoshop and Illustrator. Some of these are for using Photoshop on it’s own while others explain techniques for using Photoshop and Illustrator together. (more…)
Hand drawn elements are supposed to be on paper, but lately they have been showing up on more and more web sites. The “hand drawn” style has become very popular, and it’s no surprise why. These sketchy elements give a website personality and create a fun experience for the visitor. Here are some the best examples of using hand drawn style in web design. (more…)
We’re happy to announce that Advanced Flash Components is our newest WDL Premium partner, and we’re giving you their Stack Flash component, which sells for $45. AFC is also the maker of UMapper, the first universal web-based map authoring application. Be sure an check it out. (more…)
