Best 30 WordPress Themes of June 2012

Today`s post celebrates wordpress, particularly the best wordpress themes released along the month of June. Probably you`re wondering what makes a theme to be one of the best? Well, there are some key factors which differentiate a good theme from a regular one and some of them are: design, flexibility, stability, power. In my vision, the perfect theme has to be flexible enough so its layout can stretch on every screen, even mobile phone screens or TV screens, the coded structure has to be faultless, without generating undesired errors or bugs, there must be enough options integrated into it, like a custom admin panel and shortcodes which generates versatility and last but not least, the design has to be outstanding, in order to create the right impression over visitors!

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20 Inspiring Photo realistic Oil Paintings by Artist Daniel Adel

Artist Biography: Daniel Adel (b.1962) graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 with a degree in Art History. He continued his studies at the National Academy of Design, and at the Hunter College MFA program in New York City. While developing his own work, his commissioned projects have been featured in the pages of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times, among others. His work has also appeared on the covers of many magazines in the States and abroad, including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, and Time, for whom he painted the Man of the Year cover in 2004. He has also been commissioned to paint the Managing Editor of Time and the Editors-in-Chief of Der Spiegel and Vanity Fair.

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Stunning 3D Illusion Sketch Art

These captivating Sketch Art 3D illustrations were created by talented Japanese artist, Nagai Hideyuki. He used two separate sketchbooks to create illusions that use shadows and unique perspective to simulate 3D effects. You’d have to view these from the correct angle, of course…

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40 New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Are you a professional or a beginner in Adobe Illustrator? Well, never mind! To make progress at least in something you should read, learn and practice, practice and again practice. And if you are ready to start learning new techniques, you’ll need some fresh tutorial to keep to. To help you with that we’ve gathered here a list of step-by-step tutorialsthat might come of a great interest to you, in case if you’re searching for new methods of enhancing your personal skills and to make your work with this program more efficient and easy.

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HTML 5 For Web Designers Review

I recently splurged for our team at Atilus and bought the entire A Book Apart series, described as “Brief books for people who make websites.”

The series is written by A List Apart alum and features the very same writers and forewords by-the same people that initially helped me learn web design (if only through their amazing books on XHTML & CSS).

It was with excitement that I recently rediscovered A List Apart (a blog/web resource for those passionate about the web) and then I realized the book ad coaxing my attention from the lower right corner of the website.

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Using CSS3 Attribute Selectors

Since CSS2 developers have been able to use HTML element attribute values to identify Web page items for styling properties. With CSS3, this is extended significantly with the addition of substring matching within attribute selection. This allows you to define styling rules in a more dynamic and efficient way than before, by identifying elements with one or more chained substrings defined in your CSS code.

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Using Firebug to Improve your Web Design Skills

Have you ever come across a beautifully designed website and wished you had X-ray vision to see how all those HTML elements on the site work? Have you ever wanted to see how a certain design might look on your site without actually changing the underlying code?

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Displaying the Progress of Tasks with HTML5

With the progress element, HTML5 pages can display the progress of a task, for example a download or background activity. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to use the progress element in your pages, with a simple JavaScript function updating the element as the task executes. At the moment the progress element is only really supported in Firefox, Chrome and Opera, with support developing in Internet Explorer and Safari, so you can’t rely on it just yet.

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30 Examples of High Resolution Chain Texture

Texture is among the important components of any artwork. It is an element that is often present in a design and in fact is a factor that can also make your artwork exceptional as well as appealing or perhaps something that could possibly make the design dull and unrealistic. It is the primary resource applied to create distinction and provides a touch of individuality as well as appeal. In today’s post, we are going to showcase several high quality examples of chain texture which can be used as a background for websites, digital or printed graphic design projects.

Here are the 30 Examples of High Resolution Chain Texture which you can downlod for free. Let us take a closer look at these textures and find one which can make your artworks stand out from the rest. Have fun browsing!

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A few Tips & Tricks to Create a Brilliant Portfolio Website

Day by day I walk around the Internet space. Often I’m just looking for inspiration and after thousands of different portfolios were before my eyes, I can distinguish a good portfolio from a bad one. Today I’d like to share with you my thoughts on how to create the correct, interesting, useful and incredibly beautiful portfolio website.

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Superb Drawing Illustrations By Bjorn Hurri

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Modern Design Trends for Landing Pages

Product landing pages can have a very different feeling based on what you’re selling. Internet marketers are always studying the best design tips for gaining traction and increasing sales numbers. But unfortunately there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the problem. Instead you have to consider which modern design trends are working for other people in your shoes.

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Design Chat with Albin Holmqvist

Designer Albin Holmqvist of Spain and Sweden and I have a chat. It's 3am in Sweden and 8pm outside Chicago. Albin is a fabulous designer and typographer. We talk about his work with the EF International Language Centers called Live the Language. He helped create a series of promotional videos that can be seen on his site, albinho.com.

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25 Professional Presentation Folder Designs

Now days there is a massive competition in brand advertising and marketing. Different techniques and trick are used to catch the attention of the people. Presentation folder is the key way to advertise a company or brand. Flyer and Presentation folder is the object that is frequently presented to the client to compliment as an introduction about your company’s description. It is ordinary required especially when dealing with clients. Here we have collected some “25 Professional Presentation Folder Designs” for your inspiration.

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Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript Techniques

Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques, we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become obsolete, others have established themselves as standards, and many techniques are still in the “crazy experimentation” stage.

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20 Free and Fresh PSD Web Elements For Designers

Nowadays designing a website is too much trendy and designers are ongoing to design numbers ofwebsites every day. Web element is very main part of web designing and is very much time taking and tough task. There are a lot of web elements on web but it is hard to find free and best of them. In this roundup we have collected 20 Free And Fresh PSD Web Elements for the ease of designers. So let’s have a look below and download them. You can also modify them according to your design. Enjoy.

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Astonishing Insect Life Photography

My mind was blown by these. I really enjoy insect photography, but these pictures would leave anyone in awe, even the greatest insect hater out there... right? These photographers are true artists.

I was impressed by their captures. Such great details, colors and compositions! As I just stated, these people are true artists, with an eye to capture the insect world. But the greatest thing about all of these is that you can actually buy prints and hang all of 'em on your wall. I'm planning to buy one for my new place some time soon. And what are you waiting for? Check these out and visit each photographer's portfolio by clicking the pictures. And of course, buy some prints! These amazing artists will very much appreciate all your love. Cheers. ;)

Murat Yilmaz

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8 Top Notch Apps for Web Professionals that Save Time and Money

It is always very important to know some apps that can help us saving time and money. So from deals to tracking data to managing social network content, here is a list of top notch apps you can always count on. Make sure to click on a few and give them a test drive.

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Creative Facebook Timeline Cover Ideas

The opening of Facebook Timeline has shaped a lot of debate, but it also resulted in many Creative Facebook Timeline Cover. Facebook Timeline is the newest feature that was set up in the recent Facebook meeting. A lot of companies are filling out their Timelines on Facebook back to the beginning days and many designers are wondering about the inspirations of the Facebook Timeline Cover. So today we have decided to post this listing, feel free to go through these timeslines and get inspired. If you have a imaginative timeline cover, feel free to post it in the comments below!

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Quick Tip: Use the New Timeline in Photoshop CS6 to Create an Animated GIF from a Video

The new timeline feature in Photoshop CS6 will allow you to open, edit, and export videos without ever having to leave the application. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use this new feature to create an animated GIF from a video; a feature that could be used for banner ads, avatars, and more. Let’s get started!

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How to Create Infographics in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn how to create the information graphics (Infographics) using the standard tools of Adobe Illustrator. We will also show you some ways how to change graph appearance retaining its dynamic functions; i.e. you will be able to edit the data graphs after all transformations. Let’s begin!

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Interview with Anton Emdin - Abduzeedo

Today we have the great pleasure to interview one of the top cartoonist from Australia, please welcom Anton Emdin. He told us more about his creative process, lifestyle and perspective on life and career, hope you guys like it.

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