Freebie Thursday – 7th of March – Pinned Paper Note PSD Mockup

Today’s freebie is a notepaper PSD mockup pinned to a wooden board. This is one creative way to showcase your photos, design works or information to grab some attention.

The PSD file is fully editable with the main layer in red, “ARTWORK HERE“ is an smart object layer that you can double-click and add your artwork or pre-made design and save to update the notepaper mockup. Included are a few Photoshop instagram-style effects (layers named “photo effect1, 2, 4 & 4″) inside the main smart object layer file, which you can use to apply to your photos. The effects come just handy in case if you want to showcase your photos.   Importantly, the PSD file canvas is 2500 pixels wide in 150dpi. Large enough to showcase big pics!

Download from GraphicsFuel

25+ New Resources, Tools, Apps & Handpicked Goodies For Web Developers & Designers

As web developers and web designers, we constantly looking at the sheer amount of new resources, tools and applications that we can tap into increases exponentially with time.

And here is just a quick look at some recently created resources that deserve your attention — everything from new CSS and HTML frameworks, things for WordPress, to some great jQuery plugins and some awesome apps that deserves your attention to some great news items that developers, designers and anyone else who like news about the iOS 6.0.1 update, the lanuches of GitHub Training or ColourLovers Creative Market and anything else I’ve missed in the industry.

JavaScript & jQuery

Uiji.js

uiji is jQuery in reverse. Instead of using CSS selectors to find elements, you use the same syntax to create elements.

WordPress Wednesday – 10 WordPress Plugins To Spruce Up Your Comment Box

Out of the box, WordPress(self hosted) has a nice commenting system, but with many things in technology you can play with it and modify it as and how you please to make it even more spectacular. This WordPress Wednesday features 10 Free WordPress Plugins to spruce up your comment box.

1. Sticky Comments

This plugin allows you to do the following:

• Allow you to set comments as Sticky from the comment edit page
• Re-does the order in which the comments are shown, putting the sticky comments at the top. You can also change the order of comments ( newest first / oldest first )
• You can put either a text or an image on the left / right of the sticky comments author

30+ New Resources, Tools, Apps & Handpicked Goodies For Web Developers & Designers

As web developers and web designers, we constantly looking at the sheer amount of new resources, tools and applications that we can tap into increases exponentially with time.

And here is just a quick look at some recently created resources that deserve your attention — everything from new CSS and HTML frameworks and tools, to some great jQuery plugins and including some awesome places that you can start selling items, great themes, frameworks and plugins for those who are use or deciding to use WordPress, to those that looking for a twitter bootstrap code snippet website and there is also some design goodies.

JavaScript & jQuery

Jarallax

Jarallax is an open-source javascript library which makes adjusting css based on interaction easy. With Jarallax it’s easy to create a parallax scrolling website.

WordPress Wednesday – 20 Newly Released Free & Premium WordPress Themes

 

It seems like every time you go looking for a new WordPress theme, you find countless roundups of the same old free and premium wordpress themes and while many of those themes are featured for good reason, you probably searching for those newly released wordpress themes instead. Well today’s WordPress Wednesday  features 20 newly released free and premium themes.

Free WordPress Themes

Patus

Patus has a clean & responsive layout that means it adapts to the screen resolution of the viewing device: your blog will be equally usable and good-looking on large monitors, laptops, tablet devices, and smartphones.

40+ New Resources, Tools, Apps & Handpicked Goodies For Awesome Web Developers & Designers

As web developers and web designers, we constantly looking at the sheer amount of new resources, tools and applications that we can tap into increases exponentially with time.

And here is just a quick look at some recently created resources that deserve your attention — everything from new CSS and HTML frameworks and tools, to some great jQuery plugins and including some awesome applications that can help with your project and time management, charging your clients with the right amount of money, sharing your code snippets to some well designed fonts, user interface elements, icons and more little goodies for web developers and web designers.

JavaScript & jQuery

tQuery

tQuery API aims to reproduce the success of jQuery plugin ecosytem by mimicking its API. Thus people who know jQuery will learn tQuery in no time. Thru three.js, they will be be able to reach webgl technology faster than before. Hopefully they will get exited and develop extensions for three.js.

Freebie Tuesday 1st of May – vCard Minisite

This is a beautiful minisite vCard in PSD format. It contains elements for your social media profiles, an avatar, a small bio, and a “folded corner” for someone to download a copy of your vCard. If you want to put up a vCard website, this is the perfect way to do so!

Download from Pixels Daily

8 Great Podcasts for Designers & Developers

Being a designer or a developer isn’t your average job as it is constantly evolving, giving you new tools to either become more productive or to simply create better work.  We often read books, brush up our skills with tutorials, subscribe to blogs and even attend conferences but we most of us still overlook one medium and that is the almighty podcast today’s post is about 8 Great Podcasts for Designers & Developers.

1. ShopTalk Web Design Podcast

Shoptalk is a live and pretty new podcast from Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert. Both of them does an excellent job focusing the conversation on front end web development, and they bring on great guests to talk . They balance show by answering audio and email questions including all that great geeky humor. I’ve personally been a listener to their very first show.

WordPress Wednesday – 8 Free & Premium Shortcodes Plugins

So what are Shortcodes, Shortcodes were introduced in WordPress 2.5. To put things simply, it is a shortcut. Shortcodes are WordPress specific pieces of code that allow you to save time. Many themes includes shortcodes these days but having them in a wordpress probably not the best way to handle them because if you change themes you will lose those codes.

That’s why it is best to include them within a plugin so if you change themes all of those codes stay within your posts/pages. Today’s WordPress Wednesday post is all about free and paid for shortcodes plugins. To start with I’ve personally used both Style With Shortcodes and Shortcode Kid which are premium/paid plugins which are included on this list.

Free Plugins

J Shortcodes

J Shortcodes allows you to add custom buttons, content boxes, tabs and accordion panels, build call to action and information boxes. You can choose color, size and shape for any of these elements.

Freebie Tuesday 13th of March – Complex Map Pop Up Window Free PSD

Today’s freebie is the Complex Map Pop Up Window to use in your design project. Download zip file contain the original layered Free PSD Template for you to use and edit as you wish. Enjoy!

Download from Pixel Monarchy