Archive for September, 2010

Gridulator

Gridulator:

Handy tool for creating pixel-based grid layout guides. Creator David Sleight explains, “tell Gridulator your layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers.�


“Inspect element� is not the same as “View source�

Tools like Firebug for Firefox, WebKit’s Web Inspector and Opera’s Dragonfly are indispensible tools for front-end Web developers, letting you view the DOM as the browser sees it.

And that’s where these tools can actually cause some problems, or at least a bit of confusion. When you choose “Inspect element� or otherwise bring up one your browser’s DOM inspector, what you’re looking at is the document tree after the browser has applied its error correction and after any JavaScripts have manipulated the DOM. It is not necessarily the same as what you see when you choose “View source�.

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Received a beautiful pre-event package from Andy McMillan today….



Received a beautiful pre-event package from Andy McMillan today. Very much looking forward to thanking him in person in November at the Build conference in Belfast.


100 Useful Free Textures

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In Web design, texture is one of those elements that are widely used by designers, yet often hardly noticed by users. We don’t see them is because they usually remain in the background and supporting the overall design. Used primarily for background images, they need to fit to the overall design making the content easier to perceive.

Textures are not necessarily used in fashion-related or grungy websites; more often they are applied subtly to lend a personal tone to otherwise lifeless and faceless design elements. Textures are also often be used in combination with other elements such as typography, lighting and colors. They are most common for backgrounds, but are also use to fresh up a flat and boring appearance of design elements. Texture adds dimension to virtually any style of design, if applied properly. They also add a certain level of realism, creating a less formal, more inviting and aesthetically pleasing atmosphere that reflects our environment — after all, plain flat surfaces rarely exist in reality.


In this post we present an overview of some useful, freely available textures that you can download and use in your personal and/or commercial projects. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the textures — the license can change from time to time.

You can find some examples of textures applied to webdesign in various texture design showcases.

Grunge Style

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Wood Textures

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Cloth & Fabric

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Drains Textures

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Wall Textures

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Free Resources For Textures

Urban Dirty

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Hybrid Genesis

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Lost and Taken

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Alice Grafixx

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2010

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Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a little bit more distinctive from the usual crowd, we’ve decided to embed calendars for the upcoming month. So if you need to look up some date, isn’t it better to show off a nice wallpaper with a nice calendar instead of launching some default time application?

This post features 45 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.

Please notice:

  • all images can be clicked and lead to the preview of the wallpaper;
  • you can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?

So what wallpapers have we received for October 2010?

[Offtopic: by the way, did you know that we are publishing a Smashing eBook Series? The brand new eBook #3 is Mastering Photoshop For Web Design, written by our Photoshop-expert Thomas Giannattasio.]

Liquifly

Designed by Nicolle Marie from USA.

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Any Browser

"I just wanna spread the message, “Use any browser, it doesn’t matter. But use the latest version!”." Designed by Minhaj Mohamed from Sri Lanka.

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October 2010 Wallpaper

"For October 2010, still with the summer in the head, I wanted to imagine a magic place where I can go sometimes far from work, far from the Earth." Designed by Benoit Chartron from France.

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Symbian World

"Scene from Symbian World." Designed by Anna Alfut from UK.

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The words I’ve never said to you

Designed by Matteo Palazzani – Palastar Photography from Italy.

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The Colours of October

"Colourful autumn leaves." Designed by Anna-Lena Lewerenz from Germany.

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Breath of Fresh Air

"”Breathe in the cool air!” – if we can’t have summer, embrace the chilly air! :D Enjoy October everybody! Ps. thanks to Rosanna Bell for modelling." Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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Turning Leaves

"It is a magical time of year when trees light up from the inside and dazzle us with colors. Feast for the soul!" Designed by Kim Carney from USA.

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October Sentense

"Just motivating sentence for October :)" Designed by Temeshi from Poland.

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Smart Crow

Designed by Sixlightyears from Reunion Island (France).

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10/10

"Enjoy the last sunrays in October, at least in Germany!" Designed by Marco Palma from Italy / Germany.

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Sleeping Cowgirl

Designed by Sasha Bell from England, UK.

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Chillin’ Gnomies

Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.

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Time Intensity

"I was sorting out all my brushes in Photoshop and started playing around with loads of variations of brush strokes that I actually forgot I had. I was trying to create a cloudy hole and have a fetish with time and time traveling at the moment and it turned out to be something in between a black hole and some sort of disrupted void in the space time continuum. I liked it that much afterwards I thought I’d use it for my own desktop and then thought I’d share it on smashingmag :)" Designed by Rik Hopkinson from UK.

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Eerie October

Designed by Jennifer Leigh Holt from Canada.

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Pumpkin Spice Spookster

"A spooky, fun, orange-tastic wall for Halloween lovers of all ages." Designed by Allen from USA.

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Abyaneh

"Abyaneh is a beautiful city in Iran." Designed by Soodabeh Amirakbari from Iran.

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Smoked

"Personal tribute to Winchester School of Art." Designed by Wirdy Hamidy from Brunei.

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Harvest Sunset

Designed by Kellie Gave from USA.

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Ghostober

"I made this wallpaper a year ago, but i didntcame on time to send it to Smashing magazine.Serching other files i found it, and decide to finish it and post it, halloween is coming, hope you like this ghostsperms hehe!" Designed by Ricardo Delgado from México City.

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Purple Fall

"Fall is coming, and that means cool mornings, hot tea, warm jackets, and purple." Designed by Daisy Gillam from USA.

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Touch Autumn

"Summer is over, enjoy autumn!" Designed by Martin from Latvia.

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Jump into Fall

Designed by Kristin G Jackson from USA.

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Marissa & Liloo

"Let’s bring back authentic made by hand illustration, and follow Marissa & Liloo in their cute world. /Fr/ Retour ? l’authentique illustration faite main gr?ce ? ces adorables personnages Marisssa et Liloo." Designed by 23 Graphic Design from France.

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