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10 Really Nice Photoshop (PSD) Web Templates | Best Design Options

10 Really Nice Photoshop (PSD) Web Templates

Adobe Photoshop is probably the most popular program for creating website layout or design. In fact there are countless of tutorials online that teach you how to convert Photoshop web templates or layout into a CSS-based HTML page. There are also numerous sites that ogffer coding services for web layout created in Photoshop. I am referring to those "PSD to HTML or XHTML" kind of sites. However, that is not what we are going to do in this post. Instead we search for quality Photoshop web templates shared by talented designers at Deviantart community that you can use as a starting point in designing your very own page in Photoshop. In short, these Photoshop web templates are intended for those who make HTML or CSS sites using PSD templates and especially for those who have exceptional talent in coding but lacks the artistic juices for creating visually appealing websites.

Please note that the file that you can download does not include codes but only templates in Photoshop format (.psd) that you can open and edit in Adobe Photoshop to suit your requirements. Also make sure to check the rules for using these templates from their respective authors.

01 – Halloween Template
Author: Apokalypse AT

02 - Personal Portfolio Page Layout
Author: Elhadibrahimi

03 - Your Design
Author: Feenwick

04 – Clan Template
Author: blazedryan

05 - Full PSD Gaming Layout
Author: Sundox

06- Template 1 PSD
Author: An1ken

07 – RD Web Layout PSD
Author: PAULW

08 – Business Website Template
Author: PAULW

09 – Halloween Template
Author: Velvet Elvis Design

10 – Vista-Themed Template
Author: soflyfx

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15 Sets of Free Halloween Icons for Websites | Best Design Options

15 Sets of Free Halloween Icons for Websites

Here is another set of Halloween-related graphics that you can use for free in your designs. This time, we rounded up 15 fabulous Halloween icons that you could use for web designs and web applications. The Halloween icons include the usual Halloween characters and graphic elements such as Jack O'Lanterns, spider webs, cemetery, witches, skulls, tree silhouettes, full moon, bats, ghosts, black cats, candles, among many other things. To download the set that you want, simply click on the text link provided below each preview image. These are linked to the source where you can download the icon files and get more information about their usage. Be sure to check the individual terms of usage before downloading any of these resources. I hope you find these free Halloween icons useful. Have a happy Halloween!

If you need some free Halloween clip art and vectors, check out our previous post.

FREE HALLOWEEN ICONS

01 – Smashing Pumpkins from Smashing Magazine
This set includes 14 exclusive Halloween icons (.png, up to 512×512px) as well as vector sources (.ai CS3 file and .eps file), so you can modify and scale them as you wish.

02 -World of Aqua: After Dark – by Dave Brasgalla
There are four scary and spooky icons are included in this set.

03 – Halloween Icons by DragonXP
There are five icons in this set composed of pumpkin, skull and witch hats and ghost.

04 – Vista Style Halloween Pumpkin Emoticons by Icons-land.com

05 – Halloween Avatars by deleket
This set consists some avatars of popular horror characters like Jason, Freddie, and Jack. There are a total of 20 icons for PC and Mac which can be used as dock and desktop replacements as well.Included also in the latest update are some 10 new characters like Hannibal, Hellboy, Guy Fawkes, and Michael Myers.

06 – Halloween Icons by ncus
The set contains 11 pumpkin smilies and 8 halloween icons.

07 – Trick or Treat by Corey Marion, The Icon factory
This collection contains 4 individual icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard.

08 – Horror Icons by Smashing Magazine
If you are designing some project that is supposed to be scary – be it a Halloween-themed site, a private blog or an online-store with some particular merchandise – you may need some beautiful yet scary icons to set up the atmosphere on your site. David Arazim created a horror icon set for this very purpose. The set contains 8 icons (axe, bat, eye, grave, gun, jason, skull, voodoo) and is available for free download and use.

09- Halloween Icons by CSS Creme

10 – Halloween Framed Icons by elsie432
This is a set of folder icons that are in Halloween colors. Note that the full trash icon is full of candy.

11 – Halloween Wallpapers and Social Media Icons by tnerd

12 – Dia de Muertos Dock Icons by chico21net

13 – Vector RSS Icons
Author: DaPino via QVectors

14 – Halloween Icons by Zeus Box via Icon Archive

15 – Halloween Icons by Iconshock via Icon Archive

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15 Best Sites for Freelance Web Design Jobs | Best Design Options

15 Best Sites for Freelance Web Design Jobs

Are you having a hard time searching for freelance web design jobs? Well, the year is about to end and many of us are contemplating on having brand new freelance web design jobs or clients to work for next year. Maybe a new career that is more financially rewarding? There are a number of websites where you can search for web design jobs–big sites and more popular sites such as Craigslist, Monster, and Career Builder, which I am sure most of you are already familiar with. On the other hand, just in case you have not noticed it yet, there has also been a trend among web design blogs having their own web design job boards to take advantage of the large proportion of readers from the web design community.

Thus, it is much easier to spot the specific freelance web design jobs that you are looking for since most of the job postings from these web design job boards are very much targeted. That is why most of the sites that you will find below are links to the web design jobs boards of blogs. We hope we will be able to help you find that dream job of yours whether it is full-time work, freelance gigs, or just part-time work. Good luck and we hope you will find this post useful.

01 -Behance Joblist
Behance Network's Joblist includes full time and freelance web design job opportunities and for other creative professionals as well. These freelance web design jobs are targeted to the thousands of creative professionals visit who visits Behance daily, and many of whom host their portfolios on the Behance Network.

02 -Coroflot
Coroflot's job board is the largest and most active site on the internet specifically targeted at hiring designers and other creative professionals. Among its clients are Frog Design, Microsoft, Nokia, Landor, RIM, Nike, Intel, Blu Dot, and Sony.Coroflot has grown to host over 1.4 million images of creative work, from the portfolios of over 150,000 creative professionals and students from all over the world. Coroflot users are industrial, graphic, fashion, interior, textile and interaction designers; 3D modeling and rendering specialists; architects, illustrators, art directors, design managers, and dozens of other disciplines.

03 -Smashing Jobs
The Smashing Magazine blog is among the top 20 blogs in the world and has nearly 200,000 subscribers. Since majority of the readers of this blog is from the design community, the jobs you can find here are also highly targeted to web designers and allied professions. It literally features thousands of great jobs for anyone looking for web design jobs and related opportunities.

04 -Freelances with Job Board
The freelance web design jobs that you can find in this site includes web design jobs and web development along with other types of freelance jobs and opportunities. To apply for the job, however, you must first pay a subscription fee of $7 per month.

05 -Sensational Jobs
The Sensational Jobs board easily connects thousands of talented and creative web professionals with the world's best organizations.

06 -37 Signals Job Board
For people looking for freelance web design jobs and other tech projects or work, this site is one of the best places to start. Its many clients include industry leaders such as Apple, The New York Times, CNET, Facebook, Adobe, Trek, and American Express.

07 -Dice
Whether you're looking for work, worrying about surviving the next round of layoffs, thinking of starting your own business, or starting life as a consultant, Dice does not only list job opportunities but survival tips, resume advice and job-hunting guidance as well that you can put to use right now.

08 -Design Crowd
The jobs that you will find at Design Crowd (formerly Design Bay) are exclusively graphic and web design jobs. The categories of jobs you will find here range from logo design, web design, poster design, illustration and many more.

09 -Mashable Jobs
Boasting a large readership composed of web designers and other tech professionals, the Mashable job board lists freelance web design jobs and other design and tech jobs under different categories like design, development, blogging and marketing.

10 -Authentic Jobs
Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for web design jobs and other jobs for creative professionals, and the companies seeking to hire them. Since 2005, qualified candidates have been applying for great opportunities at Apple, Comcast, Facebook, frog design, Meetup.com, HBO, HUGE, MSNBC.com, Backcountry.com, Fluidesign, Magnani Caruso Dutton, ESPN, The Motley Fool, Estee Lauder, Turner Sports Interactive, Phinney Bischoff, Garmin, Sony BMG, Electronic Arts, HP, and many other companies large and small.

11 -Jobs on the Wall
A great Web design blog, Web Designer Wall also features a job board offering web design jobs and related projects for designers of all skill levels.

12 -High-end Careers
Find hundreds of jobs in the Video Game, Animation, VFX, and Software/Technology industries. This site hopes to provide Employers with a highly economical, effective tool that streamlines their staffing and recruitment process, and also offer Job seekers access to job opportunities across multiple creative content industries.

13 -Just Tech Jobs
JustTechJobs.com is Internet.com's job site and part of the Web Media Brands. It provides Employers with a technology specific focus and provides Job Seekers with job postings aimed at those specific tech jobs. The benefit of using JustTechJobs.com is that it offers a community of 15 million tech professionals supported by 120 tech Web sites.

14 -Fresh Web Jobs
Fresh Web Jobs is a job listing site dedicated to web development and design. It also lists both full time and freelance jobs.

15 -Site Point Marketplace
Site Point has a section called Looking to Hire which features numerous web design jobs and other work for not only web designers but for other tech professionals as well. Job opportunities include web design, SEO, web development, web programming, etc.

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18 Best Sites With CSS Tutorials for Beginners | Best Design Options

18 Best Sites With CSS Tutorials for Beginners

Learning CSS is a lot easier with the abundance of free tools and resources that you can access online. For the benefit of those who do not know what CSS is, it actually stands for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (such as the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for table-less web design).

Prior to CSS, almost all of the presentational attributes of HTML documents were contained within the HTML markup> For example, font colors, background styles, element alignments, borders and sizes had to be explicitly described, often repeatedly, within the HTML document. CSS allows authors to move much of that information to a separate style sheet resulting in considerably simpler HTML markup. Thus using CSS can save you a lot of time both in the process of web designing and website maintenance. Using CSS also makes your site load faster, thus saving you bandwidth.

Mastering CSS is very important and essential skill for web development and design. So if you are ready to become a CSS master, then here is a list of top useful resource sites where you can find CSS tutorials for beginners, CSS references, CSS articles, CSS tips and tricks and other CSS-related topics:

01-W3Schools
W3Schools is very useful resource site for web designer which provides free CSS tutorials for beginners and advanced levels. The CSS lessons are very detailed and will take you through most of what you need to know. However, there are quite few examples and most of them are quite technical. However, if you already know some CSS this is a great reference source since the site also features CSS reference, CSS quiz, and CSS exams.

02-CSS Basics
CSS Basics provides 18 chapters of CSS tutorials which cover necessary CSS skills such as CSS class, CSS IDs, CSS position, CSS fonts and so on. The tutorials can also be downloaded as PDF format so you can learn CSS at your own pace in your computer.

03-HTML Playground
HTML Playground offers a selection of tags plus the ability to click on a tag/element and get a description. It also lists CSS attributes and an area to test code and see the result. This site is ideal if you have some HTML+CSS knowledge and just want to test what a certain tag/element does and to check if there are better-suited attributes.

04-CSS Play
You can find many specific functionalities in CSS plus you can view the source codes of these CSS functions. Instead of having a whole page or a whole site, you can just check out examples of flyout menus, opacity examples, and many more. Thus if you just need a specific functionality that you want to learn, then CSS Play is an ideal place to start off since the methods or functionalities are very thoroughly explained.

05-Tizag
This is the best site for those looking for CSS tutorials for beginners. Although most of the information found here are almost similar to that of w3schools, most users find the site better structured with more practical examples.

>06-CSS Dog
CSS Dog is another good resource for learning CSS and HTML. You can learn CSS start from beginner to advance level. In website, you can also found the CSS reference.

07-HTML Dog
Good resource for web designer both HTML and CSS. At HTML Dog, you can find CSS tutorials from beginner to advance level, CSS properties reference and articles. Not only CSS but there are also HTML tutorials available for you to learn and increase your web design skill.

08-Max Design
You can learn many useful CSS tutorials for beginners such as tutorials on one list many options and on nested list options, tutorials on CSS based lists, tutorials on CSS selectors, tutorial on CSS floats.

09-Select Tutorial
Select Tutorial lets you conceptualize visually by showing you what happens as you complete each step in CSS.

10-Site Point
Site Point is another very good reference for those who are interested to learn or master CSS. One feature that makes Site Point a more useful CSS reference is that it lets you view the code in live demo and test CSS code yourself.