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Wikimedia Commons has a collection of 300 3D icons designed by Everaldo Coelho, which are free to use under the GNU Lesser General Public License .

The collection is divided into the following sections : Applications, Devices, File Systems, KDM and MIME-Types.
The icons are measured in 32×32 pixels and they are in PNG format.
They’re quite impressive and really useful for web publishers and web designers. (more…)

If you want to create a unique personalized WordPress theme, but don’t know how to use CSS or PHP: try this Theme Generator. Change colors, layout, header, font, several settings and preview instantly. Result is a saved to .zip file, download, extract and upload.

Markup is the technical foundation of front-end code. In one way or another, it influences or is influenced by design, content, accessibility, CSS, DOM scripting, and more. The quality of your markup will affect the quality of related code, and even the cost of implementing or maintaining that code. Your markup might be good now, but following…

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free piece of software available for Windows, Mac and Linux Operating systems for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. If you don’t want to pay for Photoshop, it is a viable alternative. To help you get to grips with it, Tutorialblog has dugg out the best Tutorials for you …

• 11 CSS navigation menus : at Exploding Boy
• 12 more CSS Navigation Menus. : at Exploding Boy
• 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus : at Exploding Boy
• 2-level horizontal navigation : demo at Duoh
• Absolute Lists: Alternatives to Divs : An approach of using lists instead of divs at evolt
• Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers : demo at Simplebits
• ADxMenu : multiple menu examples at aPlus
• A drop-down theme : at CSS Play
• Bookend Lists: Using CSS to Float a Masthead : at WebSiteOptimization
• Bulletproof Slants : demo at Simplebits
• Centered Tabs with CSS : at 24ways
• Clickable Link Backgrounds : A bulletproof unordered list of links, each with a unique (purely decorative) left-aligned icon that is referenced with CSS ; but that is also clickable.x

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Stock photos are an essential need of any web and graphic designer. For this purpose I have compiled a list with some Free Photo Repositories, where you can find tons of free images to use for web pages, PowerPoint presentations or as desktop wallpapers :

updated 24.03.07

• stock.xchng
• FreeFoto.com
• Stock Vault
• Flickr Stock repository group
• Fotogenika.net
• Mayang’s Free Textures
• Free Large Photos
• Kingdom Graphix Gallery
• Nations Illustrated
• Picsearch
• Design Packs
• MorgueFile
• Photo Repository
• Diwiesign studio stockphoto archive
• Stockcache Gallery
• Unprofound.com
• Piotr.Pix
• Amazing Textures
• Picturestation
• NPS
• FreePhotosBank
• freedigitalphotos.net
• ArtFavor
• BurningWell.org
• Visipix
• Photocase
• FreePhotosBank
• Majestic Imagery
• Free Stock Photos from Cepolina Photos
• ImageBase
• Woophy
• Creating Online Gallery
• FreeMediaGOO
• Free Stock Photos
• FreePhotos
• Aarin Free Photo and Digital Images
• Barry’s Free Photos
• Geek Philosopher Stock Photos
• FreeImages
• FreeImages.co.uk
• Gimp Savvy
• OpenPhoto
• Earth from Space
• FWS1
• FWS2
• Picture Station
• Afflict
• Creativity 103
• Triparalbum
• Demny Onink
• Twice Pix
• Istockphoto
• More to be added to this list

Finally do not forget to visit Flickr, but be sure to check the licence before using any photos.

If you know of any other stock photo resources leave a comment and I will add them to the list as soon as possible.

Fonts and Typography are one of the most important aspects of any design, online or off, so to help you get to grips with it we are going to round up the best online resources …

Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. In fact, navigation menu is probably the most important element in web design: after all, it is being used more often than any other element on a given page. Therefore it’s important to make sure that your visitors will find they way around the site structure - however complex the latter might be.

In this Smashing Magazine article you’ll find 53 beautiful and user-friendly Navigation Menus and solutions web-designers came up with using basic CSS styling.

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Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talanted web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style. Let’s take a look at their masterpieces.|via|