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40+ Extremely Beautiful Fonts

Noupe.com has a great round-up of hand-picked fonts from the pages of deviantART. Well worth browsing!

40 Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART

Technorati Tags: Fonts, Free, Downloads, Design, Typography

30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download

From Positive Space Blog, a nice collection of PDF resources for web designers. The collection includes Resources, Web Development and Programming, Presentation, Freelancing and Income and PDF Collections. A nice list of resources worth browsing. 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should DownloadTechnorati Tags: design

Build your sprouts on the web !

Sprouts are advanced Flash based banners that come in all sizes, containing all sorts of media, can be 100% custom designed or based on a template and, like a paper leaflet, they can contain several independent pages. For example you can use a Sprout to promote your website, add a short description, a live feed and a URL back to your page. If you are an artist you can promote your work by adding sounds, videos, pictures, and much more. The Sprout can be posted on any website, on social network pages like MySpace or as a signature in a forum.
Sprout Builder is the free online tool that allows you to create Sprouts. Below is a Sprout that I created as a demonstration in less than five minutes with close to no knowledge and experience.Technorati Tags: Design, Web

54 unique and inspiring Blogger powered designs

54 unique and inspiring Blogger powered designs: some of these seem based on generic/free templates, while others are so far from the generic norm that it was difficult to believe these are powered by Blogger at all!

ICONLOOK - icon searching made easy.

When it comes to tracking down some icons for a project -- nothing real fancy, and preferably under some kind of open license -- image searching on Google doesn't always do the trick. ICONLook is a search site that you can try instead: it's specifically for icons, and it has some useful features that make it worth a peek if you're in a pinch.

Technorati Tags: Icons, Download

50 Excellent Blog Designs

Our favorite design site Smashing Magazine today posted another gem. Totally awesome blog design is rare and very difficult to achieve. But the list compiled in their post shows some stunning blog designs. Simply brilliant.

You can also have a look at their previous showcases:

45 More Excellent Blog Designs (February 2008)
30 More Excellent Blog Designs (November 2007)
45 Excellent Blog Designs (August 2007)

49 Professional and Innovative Websites

If you're looking for a little design inspiration, this collection of 49 inspiring websites from inspiredology.com might be just what you need. Some nice sites I hadn't seen before. Worth browsing.

49 Professional and Innovative Websites (inspiredology.com)

How to Optimize Your Site for Speed

A nice article from site Jonathan Hedley, detailing how to optimize your site for speed. This is a nicely detailed how-to article, well worth a read.

Does your website load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? If not, here’s a detailed set of proven guidelines aimed at improving the speed of your site.

How-to: Optimize your site for speed - Jonathan Hedley - Live from Sydney

101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers

Website Free Geekery has a nice list of free fonts all nicely categorized by font style. Well worth browsing for some new font finds. 101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers (Free Geekery)

Fonts and more Fonts !

Searching for a free font that suits your need is quite a challenging task. Most of the free font sites don't host the classiest fonts. Worry no-more. Here is a list of the most amazing free font sites.

Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers and "anyone that appreciates the web's highest quality fonts".

The very visual layout makes it easy to browse through the many fonts to find just the right one, making it a worthy font bookmark.

Font Sugar promises only the most totally awesomest fonts and delivers them in both free and pay fonts. Download fonts | ddfont.com - all the fonts you'll ever want. - a nice new (to me) font site. Some cool True Type fonts : Peter Saville Graphic Design - fonts

Best Fonts of 2006 and some fine fonts they are! Worth a look for some font inspiration. The 100 Best Fonts (Die 100 Besten Schriften) - the site may be in German? but font names are universal.

Free Font Manifesto - a new movement to encourage more quality fonts in the public domain.

Smashing Magazine | 17 More Free Quality Fonts - because good, free fonts are always link-worthy! and finally...mother of all lists.

Finest Fonts

WebIntenta has a wonderful list of superb free fonts.

Technorati tags: Fonts, Web

Design Inspirations...

I have been stumbling upon more great artists in my random surfing, and I think you all would really enjoy the sites in this list, if haven’t seen them already. This is the kind of inspiration that makes me skip meals :

Technorati tags: Art, artists, artwork, design, inspiration, list

Wallpapers again - Social this time.

After so many social networks, we have social wallpapers. a community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high-resolution images for use as computer wallpaper. Some nifty Menus are worth checking out.

60 Brilliant Designs

Smashing Magazine shows us some stunning web designs. Excellent use of CSS and visual elements.

Mindblowing Free Fonts.

Vitaly Friedman has compiled an astonishing collection of free fonts. Take a look. Vitaly says..." One of the best resources I’ve found was Gerrit van Aaken’s essays collection “Freie Schriften im Portrait” (free fonts in a portrait) in German language. Before reading this article any further I strongly suggest you to visit Gerrit’s site and add it to bookmarks, for it is regularly updated and contains great links and a great fonts library. Besides, I’ve found some collections, created by freelancing typo-artists, such as Manfred Klein’s Fonteria, Designer In Action: Fonts, Typemotion.de, Apostrophic Laboratories’ Collection, Identifont – Free Fonts and others. [Update: Following my statistic data, I’ve found another great resource, which inlcudes links to license-free fonts and is updated regularly. Take a look!]..."

Some Fine CSS Magic.

Below you’ll find a brief overview of css-galleries you can explore inspiration from.

CSS Beauty
CSS Beauty focuses on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based sites, as well as news and happenings on the CSS Design Community. It showcases designers work and serves as inspiration for those looking to build CSS based websites.
CSS Blast
Russian CSS Showcase
CSSBloom
CSS Gallery with Blog’s and Online Portfolio’s
CSSGreen
CSS Gallery Of Great Design and valid Web Sites
CSSBrain
CSS gallery with comments.
CSS Clip
Web Design Inspiration and Gallery
CSS Collection
CSS collection web sites without tables
CSS-Demo
CSS Showcase
CSS Design Yorkshire
A gallery of CSS web design in Yorkshire UK
CSS Drive- Categorized CSS gallery and examples
CSS gallery, code samples, tutorials, and moreCSS Collection
CSSelite
We are glad you like our site, that’s why we save every single entry we make so you can get real inspiration from the best of the bests!
CeeSeS
CSS Gallery - We are the BalkaniCSS!
CESKO
CSS Showcase - Slovenia
Creative-Pakistan
Creative-Pakistan.com is a platform to showcase web and CSS designs of creative Pakistani web desginers
CSSFill
CSSFILL provides free CSS based layouts and templates
CSS Galaxy
CSS Gallery with voting and comments.CSS Hazard
CSS Inspiration and Gallery
CSS Heaven
CSS Gallery - submit your own css design and view a gallery full of creative design inspiration. The submitted designs can be rated
CSS ImportCSS
The no-frills CSS Gallery
CSS-Mania
CSSmania, the most updated css showcase all over the globe
CSS Princess
CSS princess is showcase gallery of beautiful css sites. You can find web sites primarily done completly with css , without tables.
CSS Reboot
CSS Gallery - The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. This November 1st at 18:00 GMT Rebooters from all over the world will launch their web standards-based redesigns
CSS Remix
A Fresh Blend of the Best CSS Web Design
CSS smooth operator // Tite site collection
Tite site collection, conforms to Web Standards and designed with CSS
CSS Thesis
A Gallery of CSS based web sites, ranked by votes.
csstux - The best dressed sites on the web
A gallery of inspiring web site design and resources, focused primarily on sites using cascading style sheets.
CSS Vault - The Web’s CSS Site
A repository of sites using cascading style sheets and a list of resources
CSS Website
Gallery of Css Design Website. Submit your site.
CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Classic!
Data Tables and Cascading Style Sheets Gallery
The CSS Table Gallery is a showcase of how CSS and data tables can work together to create usable and pretty results.
Design Shack - Inspirational CSS and Blog Design
Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. We feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn’t fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.
Liquid Designs
Liquid Designs is a gallery of websites designed with liquid layouts using XHTML and CSS
Piepmatzel
collecting best practice web standards design examples
Proestilo
CSS/XHTML Gallery all standard complient.
showcase GR
The best of Greek CSS web design
Standards Reboot
Standards Reboot is all about the use of standards in web design. This site was built to take a back seat and showcase your talent.
Style Crunch
StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery
Stylegala - Web Design Publication
Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.
Submit CSS
Submit your own css design and view a gallery full of creative design inspiration
Unmatched Style
Unmatched Style is a constantly growing community dedicated to acknowledging those who have made exceptionally gorgeous web sites using Cascading Style Sheets and web standards. By recognizing these exceptionally beautiful designs, other designers and businesses can get inspired and find a direction they may wish to take with their own web sites.
W3 Compliant Sites: Sites designed to comply with W3C Web Site Standards
A collection of web standards compliant web sites and their designers
Webdigity
CSS gallery
Web Standards Awards
Awarding web sites that successfully combine form and function
Well Designed CSS Sites
Andy Budds List of well styled sites.

{From Smashing Magazine}

Search fonts with SearchFreeFonts

If you dig Fonts, this is the place to be. SearchFreeFonts is a search engine that licks around 13,000 free fonts.