Looking for a resource where you can sell your photos, illustrations and vector art? Or, maybe, you want to buy some? In any case I have a perfect solution for you! Before we go any further, be advised that it’s easy to edit photos on an advanced dual core laptop when an interactive Adobe illustrator software is installed.

A few days ago I’ve found a huge source of photos, illustrations and other graphic materials. I was struck by the breadth of choice there. It is called Depositphotos.

You can use this service to sell your works. There is no limit on the number of files that you can upload per day. Moreover, I think you should upload as many photos as you can to earn more money. In order to make your life easier, uploading with the help of FTP is available too.
At the same time you can buy photos and use them in your work ( if the files have been purchased under the Extended License). The only task you should do is to find the materials you need and buy them.

To find some inspiration, you can visit Depositphotos official blog. Lots of creative posts are waiting for you there! Interviews, tips and books reviews – all this information will be in a great use for you. Popular Keywords shows you the most popular tags and keywords. It will help you to find and sell photos.

The most interesting feature of Depositphotos is its categories. With its help you don’t get lost in a big forest of photography but you can easily find the photo you need. There is a huge list of stock images by categories.

For example, let’s start with my favourite category Vintage and retro. Vintage is a trend today, many people are going crazy about it. Even in web design you can easily find vintage elements and stuff. That’s why this category is very popular nowadays.

A useful variety of free fonts that differ in their forms, size and practical meaning, being able to make your work original and unique one and to create a special atmosphere by means of word form united with a word meaning. Multitude of typography styles gives you a chance to emphasise your message and to create a certain design style that will be able to reflect your ideas by means of various fonts. Looking for a high level of typographic elegance and sophistication, you can be sure in reaching the result because of using this resource, selecting that type of typography which is the most suitable one.

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Sometimes we get a domain name before we have a website to put on it. Of course we may leave it hang blank, but wait! Even here designers find a field for their creativity and self expression. Even with one page you can share the idea of your resource and provide your probable visitors with the projected image of your coming website. You can also use this space to invite people follow you on a social media networks or sign up for your newsletter to let them know as soon as your most usable project takes off. Or you may just want to say HI!

Take a look at this sparkling and inspiring set of the best of the coming soon page designs and maybe you’ll have an idea of what to put on your website instead of that boring blank page.

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It is our rule and common practice to find and share the newest sets of free icons with web designers. It is difficult to overestimate the value of the high quality icons while designing a modern website or web design templates. They should flow with the site’s look and feel and contribute to the general image of the resource making it solid and wholesome.

In this article we give you all the links to these beautiful and valuable freebies. You are welcome to get them right away!

Professional E-Commerce Icons Set

A number of HQ e-commerce icons delivered by Web Icons Set. The set is an exclusive release for the Smashing Magazine and its subscribers.

20 icons in 64px, available in .png-format.

The websites featuring great designs standing in line with their content provide inspiration and are real masterpieces. While looking for inspiration you might want to take a glance at this set of 30 curious and ingenious website designs based around the idea of illustrations and cartoon-like characters. A masterly and relevant illustration can set up a memorable image of your site in the visitors mind and it’s worth the effort.

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According to one of the recent polls only 23% of visitors who encounter a 404 error make a second attempt to find the missing page. The rest 77% of the visitors will not make any effort to find it. A custom error page is viewed as an added feature and advantage of your website. It shows that you care for your visitors and make an attempt to have them stay.

Check out this set of 404 page examples ingenious, original and creative in every respect. Enjoy!

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A website with great web design is important for the growth of a business because most commonly it is the first place where a company can introduce their cool stuff and services. The art of simplicity creates a fresh and neat image for a company, product, or a service thus making a minimal and super-clean layout the perfect solution for an attractive website.

Enjoy the beautiful web designs implementing the idea of minimalism I’ve picked recently:

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The so-called dark web design can represent non-mainstream, elite, and off-the-wall type of content. Such colour palette may awaken some feelings or induce certain emotions forming the general impression of the website. Check out this engaging set of sites featuring the dark colours scheme and see what they can invoke in you.

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Since 2010, when it has become an actual urgency, rendering websites on mobile handsets is a chief web design trend of 2011.
As an internet user, you can’t disagree that quick and convenient browsing is an advantage of vital importance nowadays.
Either checking e-mail, posting for a blog or updating your E-shop – you would surely love to make it fast and friendly through your mobile, I-Phone, Blackbery etc.
This saves your time and efforts, provides you with the needed information on spot. Consequently, website keepers have been looking for the most suitable solutions to deliver the best quality layouts combined with an appropriate functionality.
According to recent researches there are approximately 4,5 million WordPress based websites, which make WordPress the most popular content management system on the Web. In a heyday of blogging popularity we have collected some Mobile plug-ins rather necessary for a modern WP blog. Find a way to combine a diverse Adobe creative software and a user-friendly development software for extra template customization.

MobilePress

MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. Built into MobilePress is the ability to track your mobile sites analytics and serve ads with Aduity.com.

Integration with Aduity.com enables you to serve ads from some of the biggest mobile ad networks such as Admob, Quattro Wireless, Buzzcity and InMobi. You can also serve you own managed ads. You will also be able to track your visitors every move with Aduity analytics.

The plugin allows WordPress theme developers to create custom mobile themes for MobilePress enabled blogs. Theme designers can create specific iPhone themes or generic mobile themes for other mobile devices.

MobilePress is SEO enabled and detects Google, Yahoo and MSN mobile search bots. These mobile search engine bots will see the mobile version of your blog and get your mobile site indexed in the mobile search results.

WordPress Mobile Pack

The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.

It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

WPtouch

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.

The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to touch mobile visitors, without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.

The theme also includes the ability for visitors to switch between WPtouch view and your site’s regular theme.

Wickett Twitter Widget

Display the latest Tweets from your Twitter accounts inside WordPress widgets. Customize Tweet displays using your site or theme CSS.

Customize the number of tweets displayed. Filter out @replies from your displayed tweets. Optionally include retweets. The widget plugin automatically links usernames, lists, and hashtags mentioned in Tweets to keep your readers on top of the full conversation.

BAAP Mobile Version

The BAAP Mobile Version is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.

It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

WPtap Mobile Detector

This plugin automatically detects the type of mobile browser that you site is viewed from, and activates the mobile theme you have chosen for it. User can install multiple mobile themes and link it to different mobile browsers for best performance. If you have a separate WAP or mobile website, this detector also allows you to redirect your mobile traffic to the WAP/mobile site.

Features:

1. Automatically detects mobile browsers & mobile user agents
2. Automatically detects installed PC and mobile themes
3. User can link different mobile themes to different mobile devices for best performance.
4. Option to redirect mobile traffic to a separate WAP or mobile site.
5. Complete mobile device listing (iPhone, iPod, Android, Blackberry, etc.) User can also add devices to this list.

BuddyPress Mobile

Mobile BuddyPress theme optimized for viewing on iPhone, iPod touch. Will also work on Android and some Blackberry devices. Activate and plugin will detect mobile devices and use the BuddyPress Mobile theme.

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Key features include:

1. Mobile Theme “Blue Heart” included
2. Automatic mobile detection
3. Images are optimized for mobile view
4. Make money through integrated ad system.
5. Optimized for touch screen phones 6) Mobile users can even leave comments 7) Mobile users can search for contents.

Live Mobile Phone News Ticker

The Live Mobile Phone News Ticker uses RSS feeds from a variety of sources to offer an embeddable stream of the latest cell phone news – as it happens – directly to your site.

The feed is fetched for every view, so users are guaranteed the latest mobile news and information. Clicking on a news headline will take users directly to the relevant article, at the respective site.

A mouse hover over a headline shows a snippet of each post, and the plug-in automatically customizes the styling and font to remain in keeping with your site.

The Live Mobile Phone News Ticker displays feeds in a random order, enabling a mix of news from numerous sources, and the plug-in width adjustable to fit in a range of site sidebars.

Mobile version with Onbile Plugin for iPhone, Blackberry, smartphones.

Mobile version of your wordpress. With Onbile your wordpress have a Mobile Version with this plugin your users can visit your wordpress with theirs smartphones and visualize all content in a friendly way. Feateures – Multiple themes.

* Multiple configuration.
* Total customization.
* Change colors, texts, icons, background, etc.
* Your users can comment.
* Compatible with all smarts phones ( Android, iPhone, blackberry, nokia, opera mini, etc)

As usual, you are welcome to check out some great WordPress designs at TemplateMonster.com

Turn your face to the sun, take a deep breath: “The Spring has come!” Life awakens everywhere with its beautiful herralds of the surrounding flora. There are always flowers for those who want to see them, as Henri Matisse said.
The following is a set of nice floral Photoshop brushes collected for your Spring inspiration:

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