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5 Places to Download Free and Cheap Images to Use on Your Blog

A little while back, we talked about the importance of using photos in every post when you’re blogging. Now that you’re convinced that images are an important part of each and every blog post, you might be wondering where you get photos and graphics for your posts. Of course, there are several places where you can find just about any image you might need. Unfortunately, stock photography can be expensive. The secret is knowing where to look to get the best deal, or even find free images that you can use on your website.

Here are 5 places to get started when you need to find free (or at least cheap!) images to use on your blog.

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Freebie: Organic Vector Elements in EPS (80 Vector Files)





 



 


Today we are delighted to release another freebie for our design community. This set contains over 80 original high quality vector files designed by the team at Vecteezy. These masterfully created, hand drawn organic elements are saved as Illustrator 10 EPS files and are perfect to add a touch of nature to any design project. The set includes items like swirly vines and weeds, Hawaiian flowers, Japanese cherry blossoms, butterflies, and much more!

Organic Vector Elements

Download the Collection for Free!

The elements contained in this collection are free for personal and commercial use. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word or give it a tweet or share it on Facebook! You may modify the file as you wish but please do not redistribute them elsewhere without written permission from Smashing Magazine and Vecteezy.

Free Vector Art

Free Vector Art

Behind the Design

As always, here are some insights from the designer:

“By nature, Web design is a decidedly “indoorsy” activity. Maybe that’s why we love opportunities to work with the organic! This vector set allows you to design with nature’s paintbrush. Inspired by some of our favorite parts of the great outdoors, these elements will add a natural feel to your projects.

We don’t always have the privilege of walking through a sunny meadow or feeling fallen leaves crunch under our feet. But hopefully these organic vectors will bring a bit of that serenity indoors and allow you to add a touch of nature to your next design project. Enjoy!”

Thank you, guys. We appreciate your work and your good intentions!

(il) (vf)


© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2011.


Free E-Commerce WordPress Theme: Balita





 



 


In this post we release yet another freebie: the Balita WordPress theme, a theme dedicated to shops that sell products for children. The theme was designed by Tokokoo and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use for both private and commerical projects.

Not many theme providers have produced e-commerce themes for baby and toddler products. For you who have been working in this particular market niche for some time or are about to start, this Balita e-commerce theme is a great opportunity for you. Using such bright and cheerful pantone colors that suit this clothes department (baby/toddler products), this Balita e-commerce theme will surely attract more and more customers to your online store.

Download the Theme for Free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

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Balita Theme: Features

  • WordPress E-Commerce Plugin:
    It will help you generate your e-commerce store on a WordPress platform. The Balita WordPress theme uses a powerful plugin to encourage the functionality of WordPress used.
  • jQuery Slider:
    It helps potential customers to generate general information about your online store and its products at a quick glance.
  • Custom Shopping Cart:
    The custom shopping cart notifies customers about the total amount of items and pricing within their shopping carts.
  • Product List With Grid View:
    Customers can easily compare the general overview and price of the products.
  • HTML5 + CSS3 Optimized:
    Latest tech weapons for the prime look of your online store.
  • Ads Banner:
    Show off, promote, sell ads… anything! Each inch on your website is worth the attention.
  • Product Slider:
    Our aim is to make e-Commerce as interesting and as profitable for you as possible. If you wish to have a vivid description for your product showcases, product slider will be a good match.
  • Zoomable Product Images:
    Allow your customers to get a closer look at your product. Your customers want to see high-detailed pictures of your product when making purchase decisions.
  • Search Products:
    It helps shoppers to find and buy products on your site without having to browse each and every page. You can place an input text form on the sidebar that allows shoppers to quickly and easily find your site.
  • Blog Integration:
    This is a powerful tool on the Web to help build trust and provide updates for people who could be your potential clients. The theme already provides you with this feature — all you have to so is prepare the contents.
  • Related Products:
    The idea of cross-selling basically means offering alternatives and additions to the current product which are considered. The most common way of doing this is by presenting within the site’s product details page, which is usually manually assigned. This may be known as the “Related Products” or “Similar Products” page, but might also be a manually assigned “Accessories” page or even more generic recommendations using the titles “May We Suggest” or “You May Also Like”.
  • Multiple Product Images:
    Do you happen to have a lot images for particular products which you sell on your online store? No problem. This theme and its functions will help and let you upload multiple images at once for the products you sell.
  • Multiple Widget Areas:
    You can place widgets on any suggested area. Otherwise, all of our themes support widget allocation almost anywhere, but not limited to the sidebar.
  • Facebook Page Integration:
    This feature enables you to market your products through one of the biggest social networks around the world. Reach the highest sales potential with this Facebook integration feature.

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Capture Left Side (Large Preview)

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Footer Left (Large Preview)

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Footer Widget (Large Preview)

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Logo Nav (Large Preview)

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Right Nav Cart (Large Preview)

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Single Add to Cart (Large Preview)

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Single Full (Large Preview)

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Single Preview (Large Preview)

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Single Sidebar (Large Preview)

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Slider Nav (Large Preview)

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Visible Area (Large Preview)

Behind the Design

As always, here are some insights from the designers:

“We designed the brand logo section as well as the navigation below to be very clear so that this theme looks neat and attractive. We made the single product page to look clean so users would concentrate more on products and thus is free of distractions. Contents are on the left side, while the add-to-cart button are on the right side, beside the contents.

Don’t miss the opportunity to get this free Balita Theme because there are not many ways you can get a free premium theme everyday. Last but not least, once again, thank you Smashing Magazine for the opportunity.”

Thank you, Tokokoo. We appreciate your work and your good intentions!


© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2011.


Freebie: Twitter GUI PSD





 



 


Updating your Twitter profile can give you really unnecessary headaches. In today’s post, we proudly present to you a Twitter UI GUI template, designed by Shelby White which has exclusively been released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.

Download the Template for Free!

The template is released as freeware. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the template as you wish.

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Behind the Design

As always, here are some insights from the designer:

“Time after time I dealt with the headache of updating my Twitter profiles. After searching thoroughly for an alternative to editing live, it was clear that there weren’t any great solutions or intentions by anyone to create a pixel-perfect template for anyone to use. Not to mention, a template that would remain up-to-date as the website evolved.

This PSD includes grouped elements by name respective of their location in the HTML of Twitter.com. The profile images utilize smart objects to ease the pain of changing images. Update the image once and it will proportionally scale the images across the whole PSD. Hope this template makes mocking up your profile a lot easier. Enjoy!”

Thank you, Shelby White. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.

(il) (vf)


© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2011.


Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms





 



 


Forms, forms, forms: so often overlooked in design. In this post, we are pleased to release the Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This crib sheet contains an Omnigraffle template, as well as Photoshop (PSD) and PDF examples for you to download and use as you wish. Print out the sheet, stick it to your wall, send it to clients, and just generally help make everyone’s forms a bit better.

The designers of the crib sheet have spent years designing and testing forms, and they’ve decided to summarize the most common problems and issues that come up in their projects.

As usual, this goodie is absolutely free to use in private and commercial projects. The crib sheet is released under a Creative Commons license.

Form Design

Form Design Cheat Sheet: Full preview

Features

The crib sheet presents best practices for a variety of Web form issues:

  • Variety of fields (simple, optional, etc.);
  • Layout and examples;
  • Page-level error handling;
  • Password strength;
  • Currency values;
  • Inline validation;
  • Buttons.

Download The Crib Sheet For Free

The crib sheet is released under a Creative Commons license. You can use it in all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish. We know you’ll find it useful in your next project!

Thank you, guys. We appreciate your work and your good intentions!

(al) (fi) (il)


© Joe Leech for Smashing Magazine, 2011.


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