One of the biggest mistakes I see from web designers is making accessibility more complicated than it actually is. Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing and hot keys for every minute function of a site, and writing over-descriptive metadata, so most people just give up and don’t even bother. However, by using some simple techniques and following some basic guidelines, you can make your website accessible to a wide audience of users without spending too much time and energy...

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Of course, you need to know how to use GIMP well. The power of GIMP leads to an unfortunate effect of being too complex for a complete beginner to understand. To solve that riddle, here are some good GIMP tutorials from popular websites. Bookmark this post - we will be continuously updating it as we find better tutorial websites. Clicking on the screenshot of the website takes you to the website, and a few good tutorials that I found on those websites have been listed below the screenshot...

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This is part 3 of 3 on my website header and navigation tutorial. If you’ve gotten to this page and would like to follow along, you can view part 1 or part 2 by following the previous links.

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Unique patterns can be derived from something simple. Introducing BgPatterns, a background creator for web designers...

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Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database...

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This is an incredible free icon set I recently came across and I wanted to make sure no one misses it. While I’m at it, I’d like to apologize for the lack of activity lately. I’m slaving over a complete re-design of BittBox at the moment and I’m neck deep in code and bug fixes, not to mention icon surfing. (Oh, and when BBv4 launches, you can kiss that big Google ad at the top of each post goodbye :) Anyway, for the time being, head on over to the Function site for a killer free icon set. The set includes 128 48 x 48px icons, yummy!...

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Hello,
I have been promising for awhile and here it is a brand new free web layout.
It is

W3 validated HTML 1.0 Strict
Full CSS 2.0 supported
Comes in Four Color Flavors/li>
Is Liquid
Easy to customize...

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Changing the style of your links is probably the easiest change you can make in your design.
If you aren't sure how to do it, there is a good explanation at Echo Echo. It will show you how.
It takes only seconds to try out a new look for your links. With that in mind, here are some of the best ways to style your links, to both look good and be usable at the same time...

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This post presents the results of the contest — 45 beautiful blog header designs you can use for free. Below the designers have described their themes, intentions and shown us some examples of how header graphics can be used.

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Your portfolio is the showcase of your work, your skills and your potential for your future employers. The more time and effort you dedicate for a usable and nice-looking design, the higher are your chances for getting better account balance in the end of the month. So how can you make sure your portfolio is better than the portfolios of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your works?...

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Cute retro pink login form made using simple html and css styles - free to download...

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Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results...

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We’ve put together a great set of free Grunge & Textured brushes for you to use. The idea with these brushes is that they are to be used to create subtle grunge effects within your designs. We’ve made them from various dirty textures, surfaces and fabrics from images taken ourselves...

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A collection of the latest graphic design resources, adobe tutorials, inspirational posts and more from all around the graphic design community. Enjoy!...

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In this tutorial, we will take the graphic we created in part 1 and save the images so we can use them when we code the site in part 3...

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The way you present your post is crucial to attract more visitors on your site and to enlarge your public. Every time I add a new post on my blog I spend a little bit of time to prepare a well presented post, adding for example some explanation images with some comments using a pencil and handwritten style which my readers love!...

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For beginner web designers - design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design!, Here is a collection of 27 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website. Some of them are really good!...

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Well, the picture above says it all If you want to learn how to create a Star Wars text effect like this you should visit this tutorial now. You will learn how to use different Blending Options & Layer Styles. ..

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I’ve launched a new website to document information on the world’s most iconic logo designers. The site features inspirational creatives such as Herb Lubalin, Steff Geissbuhler and Alan Fletcher. You might wonder why I’m using a new website rather than simply publishing the details here, or on Logo Design Love, so I’ll tell you a short story...

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I have been very interested in typography, I have also noticed the growth of typography moving to the web. More specific, designers are paying more attention to typography when design for the web. There are many sites now that use typography to be a very powerful element. In my last post about typography We All Love Typography, the post was more concentrated on offline typography. Today we look at Web Typography, and I do believe the following examples will show you how powerful web typography is...

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