7 Design Related Books you Should Check Out

Back in November we showcased here a list with 8 Books Every Designer Should Read, and to the present day, five months later we keep receiving emails from readers thanking us for the list and asking for a new round of recommendations. Based on that, I decided to gather a few more books for you to check out. Since I’m not a designer, I had to ask my friends who are designers and developers to help me out with some recommendations, and here is a new round of books we believe may interest you. Feel free to also give your recommendations in the comments. (more…)

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10 Places to Get Photoshop Actions

Delivering high quality images is something every designer should worry about, especially with images being such an important part of a design. To help you with this task, we’ve rounded up ten places where you can get some really useful Photoshop actions to enhance your images. We have some premium resources and also some free, so make sure to check out all of them to get the actions that best suit your needs. (more…)

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7 Resources Every Designer Should Know

It’s essential for designers to stay on top of the ever-growing list of galleries, apps, and tools that can be found. But at this point, there are so many great design resources on hand that sometimes it can be overwhelming to attempt a survey of them. So instead, let’s focus in on the ones that you’ll really find yourself returning to, day after day. For inspiration, we’ve rounded up three resources with completely different scopes and subjects; in combination, they might be all you need to get yourself going on your next project. For tools, we’ve made selections that reach out to all the different design disciplines; whether you work primarily in print or web, alone or in a group, you’ll find a great timesaver or two. (more…)

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Best jQuery Plugins of 2012

Nearly 6 years after the initial release of jQuery, it’s more popular than been. This can mostly be attributed to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers is constantly building plugins that allow web developers and designers to easily add amazing functionality to their projects.

Continuing our “Best of 2012″ series, the focus this week is on jQuery plugins. Over the past year, we’ve seen a tons of great new plugins, which made choosing our favorites extremely difficult. (more…)

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New Free Textures for your Delight

Having good resources is important to every single designer, and that is why we like to keep our readers filled with options when it comes to fonts, patterns and textures. Today we gather new free textures to back you up and keep your library fresh. From wood to paper, paint and much more, these textures will definitely be a good add to your resources. (more…)

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17+ Resources for Churches Using WordPress

Since more than 15% of the web is powered by WordPress, itís not surprising that many churches are utilizing it. Here’s a collection of great resources for churches using WordPress: (more…)

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23 Free Textures for your Delight

Here at WDL, we take great pride in being able to find useful freebies and share them with our readers. It saves you time, and allows you to focus on creating, instead of hunting. Here you will find 23 free textures to add to your resource library. Remember that textures can always add a nice touch to a website or other design project when used properly. (more…)

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8 Responsive jQuery Slider Plugins

Whether you’re already a pro at creating responsive web sites or your just learning what it’s all about, it’s good to have some scripts handy that you can easily integrate into your site. We all know how popular image and content sliders are now, and for good reason. So we decided to round up some jQuery slider plugins that are already responsive – meaning they will adapt to the size of their container. (more…)

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HTML5 Cheat Sheets

With new additions or changes to HTML5 happening quite frequently, it can become hard to remember all the new various features. These nice up-to-date cheat sheets, created for WDL by InMotion Hosting, can help web designers and developers keep track of it all. (more…)

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Best jQuery Plugins of 2011

jQuery was first released in 2006. Nearly 5 years later, it’s still going strong – due largely in part to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers constantly releases plugins that allow web developers to easily add amazing functionality to their projects.

Continuing our “Best of 2011″ series, the focus this week is on jQuery plugins. Over the past eleven months we’ve seen a lot of great new plugins being released, which made choosing our favorites extremely difficult. (more…)

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