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Nice Fitness Center Website Showcase

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If you like going to Gym, you would like the showcases in this post. My personal favorite is Bally and Crunch fitness center’s design. Enjoy and tell us which ones you like in your comments....
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Great CSS3 Drop Down Menu Tricks

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Here is one of my newly discovered CSS3 tricks. Features: A dropdown menu withour javascript fade in border radius drop shadow gradient fill Browser compatibility: Safari and Chrome will have all the styles, Firefox will...
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12 Excellent FREE WordPress Themes

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It’s been a while since my last post on WordPress themes. Here we have 13 recently developed stylish free themes. Hope you enjoy theme! iTheme Blog Koi Theme Notepad Bueno DesignPile Indezigner SimpleFolio SimpleCart SimpleCart(js)...
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JavaScript Image effect: ImageFLow

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Don’t we always want a image flow effect without Flash? Image Flow is a comprehensive script that does not require any other library. XHTML compliant Keyboard and Mouse scroll wheel navigation supported Free to use...

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10 Excellent Free Children’s Vector Illustrations

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Got any projects for Children’s day? well these lovely vector art works look good on cards as well as children related web sites. Hope you find them useful! Children Surfing Kids Social vector Kids Children...
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11 Excellent FREE Fonts for Corporate Branding

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Bold and clean is always a good choice for branding. Font is the most important element when designing a brand or logo. Here I collected several FREE fonts which are good for branding design. I...
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CSS Hacks to Target Firefox Browser

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All browsers render differently. Firefox has been proved to be one of the best and most favored browser. However, sometimes targeting Firefox is just as necessary as targeting any other browsers. Target Firefox 3 /*...

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7 Most Valuable Skills in Web Industry

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Job hunting – The most annoying part of life. The “hunting” part is time consuming, the “waiting” part is frustrating. The worst of all is...

Best jQuery Rounded Corner Plugin

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When I say I found the best rounded corner solution, you have to trust me, cause I have tried numerous solutions and scripts. Finally I...
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10 Beautiful Designer’s Portfolios

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Having inspiration crisis? Here I’ve got some beautiful portfolios from experienced designers. One page design is still popular and great for individual designers who doesn’t have too much content. Visual impact is a great way...
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10 Great Design Firm Websites

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Ever thinking of stop freelancing and start doing some serious work? Like join a design firm? Um… Anyway, there are som nice looking design firm websites I stumbled upon this week. Hope you enjoy them...