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If you haven’t heard about Dribbble yet, I won’t make fun of you, but I will tell you this: you are missing out. As they say on their about page:

Dribbble is show and tell for creatives. Designers, developers and other creatives shareshots—small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on.

What comes out of the site is nothing less than creative awesomeness. Sneak peaks into the latest and ongoing works of your favorite designers: what could be better? So to celebrate Dribbble’s noble existence, I am bringing you 15 of my favorite shots on the site. Enjoy.

Today we bring our Web Design Fan Club members some beautiful and useful social media block icons. Read more to join the club and download the icons.

A layout for an e-commerce site is not new to any web designer but any such project has a fairly large scale. Its importance is that the difference between a good design and a decent one can be the key to profit. Web designers know that any error can be worth thousands of dollars and success is a good way of attracting other clients. Certainly, the design of an online store is very important, but there are two other factors with greater influence: price and the offer itself.

Below you will find a rundown of some lesser-known Wordpress theme shops and some of my initial thoughts on the quality and pricing they offer. I thought it would be nice to have a resource such as this to refer to when looking for a new theme. We all know of Theme Forest, WooThemes, and the like, but what about the up-and-comers and smaller shops? So many design firms are releasing such incredible work, it would be a shame to neglect them.

Note: This will be an ever-evolving list so please alert me to shops I’ve missed in the comments. As I learn about and tool around with more themes, I will update the list accordingly. Thanks in advance for your help.

This may sound obvious, but your business card says a lot about your company’s personality. It can also be incredibly difficult to express that identity on a 3.5” x 2” piece of card. If your company has a fun, quirky, interesting & unusual personality that you want to show off, instead of having a plain business card you could take a leaf out of the designers cards we’ve selected below and include a stylish, hand-drawn illustration to make your card stand out, and to show your company isn’t stuffy and corporate like the rest.

Ah, typography. It can not only make or break a design, but inspire new ideas as well. A good font is one of the most valuable tools a designer has. For 15 excellent and fresh fonts, read more.

Today we have something very cool for our Web Design Fan Club members. It is our second premium Wordpress theme and this one is for a portfolio and services based website.

In the package comes the full Wordpress theme as well as PSDs of every page.

To download this theme, you must be a member of the Web Design Fan Club.

The term “grunge” within graphic design is often mistaken to mean dirty; however, a grunge look is simply one that is achieved by including natural elements into your design. For instance, you may create typography from vine images or your background could be a photo of cement. Some websites even use every day items, such as paper towels, to create backgrounds and texture within the design. Incorporating grunge into your website can be obvious with lots of dirt and grime or subtle with only a fabric background. So, whatever level of grunge you intend to take your website, one of the following backgrounds may be exactly what you need to help you achieve the perfect amount of grunge in your project.

Many websites today feature a small news ticker that provides text links to pages with recent news or other features. It’s a great way to highlight important links without using much space. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to easily build one of these news tickers using jQuery. We’ll start with a HTML list of links, then use jQuery to make them automatically cycle, fading in and out. When the user hovers over a link, the ticker will pause so they can click the link to learn more.

Today I would like to show you how to create a clean and detailed login form design in Photoshop. In few simple steps you will see how to use blending options, layer styles, how to stylize type for the web and more.

Hope you will find this tutorial useful and you will learn something new. Please share your opinion about this tutorial in comments section below.