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4Oct

How fellows! We want you to ask something. How the visitors of your website can drop you a line? Of course using a contact form. You can use different tools to create an awesome contact form but today we are going to speak about jQuery contact form tutorials.
We are sure that you will agree that contact form is very important functional element of the website. It enable your visitors to contact you without any problems. These great Jquery Contact Form Tutorials are aimed to help you to create web forms powered by the popular Java script library.

Incredible Login Form With jQuery

Our Jquery Contact Form Tutorials collection has tutorials of all kinds to any taste. You will find a detailed information about original design solutions and also will be given a useful info on how to create simple and effective validation forms. Definitely these jQuery contact form tutorials will be useful for both the experienced web developers and rookies. Browse these awesome Jquery Contact Form Tutorials now and improve your skills! And don’t forget to drop us a line!

15Jun

Cinema 4D is well-known software for creating models, animations rendered objects. This software has pretty simple and efficient interface, huge list of powerful tools and of course great performance. These Cinema 4D Tutorials cover various topics including creating different animations, models and other stuff. We hope that you’ll use these Cinema 4D Tutorials in your future projects and following examples will help you to produce more fresh and creative ideas that you can implement using Cinema 4D software.

1. Metaball Tutorial in Cinema 4D

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2. Working with Procedurals to Make a Screw

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23May

The social media world has been stricken by the wave of various infographics, which have flooded all popular websites with supersonic speed. Any infographic must be visually appealing and clearly deliver fresh information. Today we offer you ten creatively designed informational graphics that perfectly demonstrate the importance of visual component in infographics industry. If you are going to design original and unique infographic – these wonderful examples will help you to find some inspiration and adopt some techniques and methods.

Skateboard Infographic

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11Apr

We adore Flash technology because it delivers us stunning and exciting visual effects such as graphic motion, videos and sound. Nevertheless that Flash has few some drawbacks like SEO issues, support for i-devices we can state that Flash is very popular technology and that is why we are offering you a bunch of hand-picked ActionScript tutorials. Our collection contains various materials that will help you to enhance your skills in creating more new awesome Flash effects and useful Flash components.

1. Customizing Flash Context Menu Using AS3

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2. Trendy Custom Cursor Using the Action Script 3

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2Apr

Today a great deal of people use GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program). It is a free software raster graphics editor. In this post we want to help those who have already started with GIMP. We’ve collected the most useful GIMP tutorials and tips that are aimed to enable you to create cool stuff with special effects.
As far as you have already known: “A picture paints a thousand words”. So we dedicated this post to GIMP video tutorials. Watching video tutorials makes the process of understanding a new material much more easier and quicker. A well made video tutorial explains everything clearly step by step. Also it pays more attention to each important detail.
So if you are looking for a great collection of the best GIMP tutorials you are in the right place at the right time. Hope these GIMP video tutorials inspire you to create something amazing and breathtaking. If you want to enrich your knowledge or learn something new we are always happy to help. Now it is time to present you our great selection of GIMP video tutorials. Feel free to browse it and visit us more often as we enrich our collection of useful stuff daily.

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Gimp Tutorial. Car Photography Motion Blur in Post

 

11Mar

Google Non-Standard Fonts Tool

Greetings to you all! Have you ever faced a problem of embedding some cool fonts to your online website? Today we want to discuss the question of displaying non-standard fonts. Without doubt we can say that the great part of this problem is solved due the growing popularity of various solutions similar to CSS @font-face etc. But nevertheless you can’t embed any awesome font to your website just with the help of several clicks.

May be you have a problem with your clients when you can not convince them that this not ordinary font may cause some extra difficulties and troubles for you. So what to do in such a situation? How to solve it? Don’t despair – the solution is ready. We are glad to tell you about several popular tools that might help you in embedding some great fonts to your online projects or your clients websites. You will be satisfied with the results.
What is the main secret of such tools? These tools use some scripts or even third-party storing for displaying non-standard fonts. Now it is a time to look thought these great solutions. Hope these tools for displaying non-standard fonts will be helpful for you.

8Mar

I guess you won’t find better software for creating icons, logos and other useful design stuff than Adobe Illustrator. It is not so popular as its elder brother Adobe Photoshop but those folks who are in professional web design and design industry do know and value this excellent software. Today we are glad to offer small set of original and efficient tutorials that would help you to improve your skills in working with Adobe Illustrator and of course learn some new tricks and tips that are perfectly described in these great tutorials. So, have fun and don’t forget to leave your feedback!

1. Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator

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2. Create a Nice Price Tag

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3. Make a Delicious Vector Orange in 9 Decisive Steps

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6Nov

Logo is one of the most important elements of company’s expression and self presentation on the market. This little image will advertise you even when you don’t think about it. A professionally done logo will work on you day and night and attract more and more clients to your business.

Logo Creation

Logo creation process is not easy and requires creative approach and lateral thinking. If you are going to start drawing your logo but you don’t know where to start than we are glad to inform you that TemplsteMonster Blog team has prepared an excellent article which tells some simple and magic secrets about how to draw a logo effectively and painlessly.

The article urges to stop and think before you will try to create the logo. What do you want to convey through the logo? Choose the correct main idea which will mirror the company’s mission and which will follow you everywhere. This simple thing will facilitate your interaction with clients and competitors in condition of strong competition.

The post contains eight points about logo creation:

  • Logo types;
  • Logo concepts;
  • Design a vector-based logo;
  • Color in logo design;
  • Shapes and lines;
  • Logo size;
  • Aspect ratio;
  • Logo with surrounding text.

So spend a little time to read the post about logo drawing and we’re sure that you’ll find some new and useful tips.

29Oct

Do you like sitting by the computer staring on slow web pages which crawl like flies in front of you? We guess you don’t like this boring and annoying process. And that’s why we are glad to demonstrate you the 10 Practices to Speed Up Your Website which were carefully prepared by TemplateMonster Blog team.

How to Improve Website Performance

Website speed optimization is an extremely useful thing not only from visitors’ point of view. Search engines and metrics companies take this parameter into consideration when they reconsider your website’s rankings. Every website owner dreams to see his/her website link on the first page of Google search. But wishes are all in vain if your loading speed will be too slow. Nobody wants to wait. And that’s why the question “How to improve website performance?” sounds more and more often.

Now look through this useful list of tips and tricks about how to speed up your website:

  • Parallelize downloads across hostnames
  • Use URL paths instead of hostnames
  • Optimize images
  • Browser and proxy caching
  • Put CSS in the Head
  • Enable compression
  • Diminish content of CSS, HTML and JavaScript file
  • Serve scaled images
  • Take care about requests
  • Correct order of styles and scripts

You’ll find more detailed information about each of these practices at the TemplateMonster post page. And we hope that you’ll listen to these suggestions and our web space will be more dynamic and fast.

14Oct

In the far 1995 the earliest CSS draft was created and presented for general conversation. From that time the history of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) technology began. And from that time this pretty nice trick constantly entered Internet everyday life.

CSS infographic

So today we are glad to inform you that TemplateMonster.com released a nice and very cognitive infographic about CSS history. This one will be good for CSS beginners, it will help them to learn more about main basics of this technology. Even if you are an advanced user you still can find interesting facts for yourself there. Undoubtedly you know much about CSS technology but mostly it concerns practical things, such as working tools and techniques of CSS. You know very well about how to make your website look great and beautiful but you can hardly say what the beginning of Cascading Style Sheets was. And today TemplateMonster demonstrates you all milestones of CSS history.

The infographic is really interesting so take your time to review a piece of information attentively.

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