18/12/09 – Liens du jour

1. The “Wow” Factor in Web Design

Everyday, we go through hundreds of different websites. With Twitter and RSS feeds, we are able to see an excessive amount of sites in just a short time. Most of the websites that we visit are forgettable, they don’t leave a lasting impression.

2. 50+ Mac Applications with Great Interface

Having used Mac for quite some time, I discover that I deeply fall in love with smooth and sleek interface offered by most of Mac built-in applications.

And the good news is, there are many third-party applications out there developed with more or less the same design standard as those built-in Mac apps. More than fifty sample screenshots of beautiful Mac applications are ready to amaze you after the jump.

3. 24 Free High-Res Concrete Textures

24 Free High Resolution Concrete Textures for all of you to download. These textures are for personal and commercial use and no credit is required when used. Download this texture pack quick and easy by following the download link below, you will be using these textures in your own designs in no time at all. [...]

4. 50 Mind-Blowing Space Artworks

Space has always fascinated humanity.  The concept of an almost infinitely vast and complex universe stirs the deepest emotions in the viewer.  From movies, TV shows, science, music, and art, outer space has had an incredible influence on our lives.  And whether you’re a NASA scientist, a die hard science fiction fan, or just sitting in a cubicle working, space art can take your breath away.

5. 50+ Useful Mac Applications for Freelancers and Professional Designers

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to play around and tweak with applications on my Mac too. There’s little confusion that Mac is a popular platform for web designers and freelancers as it offers an enormous range of software for designing, managing, developing ,publishing websites and tracking, processing, administering your financial things.

6. How to Set Up a Killer WordPress blog

Welcome to part 4 of this series on How to set up a killer wordpress blog (we are almost there guys!!!!). In this part We`ll be choosing our plugins. The first thing you need to know is that there are lots and lots of WordPress plugins, so in some cases, I`ll be listing more than one for the same purpose, just in case you don`t want to use the same as I do, or just want to try something new, it`s you choice!.  There are some plugins that may need template modification, so I`ll let you know as we go along. Well Lets Get Started.

7. 40 Cold Colour Palettes For Winter Inspired Web Designs

Don’t you hate it when you are designing a website, but you just can’t find the “perfect colour set” that makes your website flow? Trying to find nice colours really frustrates me, so that’s why I go and look at colour schemes on many different colour websites. Compiled here is a list of 40 cold colour palettes for winter inspired web designs.

8. 35 Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials For 3D Artwork

Adobe Illustrator is a best vector illustration application. Using illustrator you can create cutting edge graphics and give your artworks 3d effect too. May be illustrator is not the best tool to create 3d objects, as there are lots of 3d tools available, but still you can create realistic-looking 3D artwork.

9. 30 cool 3d and Text Effects Tutorial in Adobe PhotoShop

Today i covered 30+ amazing 3d text , bubbles, glass, Stunning effects on Text. These are high quality adobe Photoshop tutorials from various toped ranked websites.

10. Free Design Resource Roundup

Hundreds of free brushes and icons, loads of holiday giveaways for designers and more goodies! Today’s free resource roundup is totally jam-packed. Download now and help us spread the love this season by bookmarking, tweeting, or sharing this post. Ho ho ho!

11. Create a Zoomed In Effect in Photoshop

This tutorial will walk you through a simple process of giving a zoomed-in effect for your illustrations. This can be used in numerous ways, but primarily for designing instructional visual material.

12. The Evolution of Olympic Torch

Today, the 2010 winter torch relay just passed my city. It is the first time that I have a close look of the torch. It looks more elegant than I thought and just raised my interest of the past torch designs. Back to 1936, torch is only a functional torch, doesn’t have a lot designing element.

13.  12 of The Best Free Website Analytic Tools

To most serious webmasters website analytics are a major part of their life. Knowing who is coming to their website and how they got there is an important factor to building a successful website but being able to make changes because of access to this data is even more important as it will bring both growth and profit.

Without the creation of such informative and helpful software, webmasters would be clueless on how their website is doing and what they can improve on. Obviously, different software supply different features and at the end of the day its down to a webmasters preference to which software they use.

In this post, Designussion are showcasing what we think are the best free website analytic tools available on the Internet.

14. 60+ Creative & Inspirational Newsletter Designs

How about creating an equally good newsletter that matches its company’s standard. Many companies practice sending newsletters periodically/occasionally to their clients. Many do it because their competitors are doing, but some do it purposely. Among many reasons couple of reasons which seems logical to us are: -

• Spreading awareness and giving an insight to the customer/client about what is going on in company.
• To create an impression about themselves as a company, sort of brand building practice.

15. 20+ New Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Today we are going to tell you about 20+ Excellent Free WordPress Themes that you probably haven’t seen. WordPress themes always come in handy either if you are a professional coder or a newbie to the blogging world. WordPress is simply one of the most powerful blogging platforms that the blogosphere has seen and we hope that this article helps you to identify some new themes that you left unnoticed.