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XXX Inspiring Desktop-Space and Book Theme Web Designs

We found many of portfolio’s designers are typically done in “Desktop-Space” themes, since they need to personalize their sites. What we mean is a desk where every designer enjoys the work with a cup of coffee, a pencil, a note papers to sketch and bunch of designing tools on it. Another interesting part of this kind of web design are adopted “Book” themes for aesthetic reason. Book theme in web design is also a good pick to introduce services to the visitors; for instance: a restaurant, or hotel because it has the welcoming look in overall.

And why XXX? Well, right now there are 15 sites and if you know any other good looking desktop-space or book themed web designs, drop us a comment and let us know so we can add them :-)

So here we go:

Councours de Theologie

http://www.concoursdetheologie.fr/
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DoTemplate.com - Free Professional Website Templates

DoTemplate.com is a free online web templates generator. All templates are customizable as you can easily tweak the colors, the fonts, and apply a bunch of graphical effects (gradients, drop shadow, and round corner) to create a unique professional template.

Customization made easy, because there are some controls to let you edit typeface and the design of web elements such as: background, container, banner, title, slogan, navigation and also the sidebar. Pick a template then start to customize! You will be surprised of how easy to have a nice looking professional website with a touch of personal style simply by downloading this tableless XHTML template for free :D

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NicEdit - WYSIWYG Editor for Websites

NicEdit is an innovative website content editor. Integrated Javascript NicEdit makes any element/div editable or convert standard text-areas to rich text editing. This will provide visitors an effective means to express themselves in rich text.

NicEdit custom features are:
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Star Filter in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial, will explain you how to carefully identify the light sources from the photo and use the separated light sources to create a 4 point star filter.

A photo with dramatic scenery will have more glamorous with this Photoshop starry night effect from light sources.

Learn for more by visiting the tutorial page now!

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JavaScript Color Fading Script

Are you looking for another simple effect that can bring something brilliant to your website appearance? Try this lightweight JavaScript Color Fading Script. It gives you color transition that is fading gradually to another color.

You can apply this script for tables, divs and many more.
Some elements that you can target are:
- background
- border
- text color

You will need to set the hex value of starting color, then hex value to fade to and number of times to divide the color difference. Experiment a bit on some different transition speed values to see how the color fading effect work beautifully for you!
The good news is, Michael Leigeber has written this script with the demo page! Visit the site to check it out ;)

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Wufoo - Fully Functional Forms with No Coding

Wufoo is a form building service for website, contact forms, surveys, and many more. If you are a web or graphic designer who not much into PHP coding and the like, Wufoo is a great solution!

Collis Ta’eed, the admin of Nettuts.com shows you how using Wufoo to create stylish and functional form.
You will learn some customization steps of Wufoo form, such as:

* Creating and Adapting the Theme Files with CSS
* Integrating form code with iFrames

Visit the resource page to see live demo whenever you’re ready to customize your own Wufoo’s stylish forms now!

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Design & Coding RAP

Lets start the day with something to smile :-)

Lyrics:

Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can’t find what you want it causes frustration
a clear Call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation
if you have animation
use with moderation
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Braintalk with Xavier Encinas, swisslegacy.com

1. Hi , who are you and what do you do?
My name is Xavier Encinas, I am a french print/branding art director living in Paris. Most of my clients are movie makers, art galleries, magazines editors… I also run the blog www.swisslegacy.com


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