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Well it’s the end of the month and you’re waiting in anticipation for Help Developer’s countdown of the top photoshop tutorials of the month, well maybe your not but your here now so you might as well check them out :). As I say everytime I publish this list it gets popular every month and there were some great photoshop tutorials in August, I may have to start increasing the number soon if this continues. So sit back, open your Photoshop and get ready to start learning with our countdown of the top 10 photoshop tutorials of August 2008.
I am always looking for inspiration in web design and where better to look than designers portfolio’s, after all the design of their sites and projects tells you a lot about their skills and styles and can give you hints about what the current trends in the design industry are. In this list I am going to give you my 10 most favourite portfolios I have come across and have used for inspiration alongside CSS galleries. These are in no particular order because to me they are all 10/10.
The month is coming to an end and across all of the blogs in the graphic design sector authors are pulling together the best resources, tutorials, icons, fonts and everything else of the month, and it is now customary for Help Developer to publish our countdown of the top 10 photoshop tutorials of the month. So here it is the top 10 hand-picked photoshop tutorials of July.
I do a lot of work in Gimp that uses fonts so I’m always on the look out for new stylish fonts that fit my work and because I can’t afford fonts that cost loads of money I’m always browsing the web for websites that have loads of free fonts. So here goes with the Top 5 countdown of Free font websites.
Nearly 5,000 people viewed last months Photoshop Tutorial countdown, so here is June’s. Photoshop Tutorials are becoming more and more common every month and with great sites like PSDTuts designers are never without the knowledge of learning new techniques. So here goes, the top 10 photoshop tutorials of June, you may notice a lot of advert designs, this has been a very common trend in tutorials this month for some reason, please don’t ask me why. Enjoy…
The navigation menu is a fundamental part of a web design, no longer is it okay to simply have a load of hyperlinks linking to the different main pages of a website. It is now normal to see hover effects on menus and in this collection I am going to show you my favourite 10 I have seen over the past month. Enjoy!
I follow a lot of CSS galleries and have noticed the massive increase in the amount of brown colour based designs. As a template designer I have noticed that when I try to sell a brown based template, they sell. When I design a brown based website it gets into CSSmania. All this leads me to believe that Brown is one of the design trends at this moment in time.
I am going to show you the nicest brown sites I have come across when updating my CSS gallery, inspireCSS.
There are hundreds of CSS galleries out there, most of which aren’t too great however the good ones are a great source for inspiration for both graphic and web designers. They enable you to see the creme de le creme of web design and help you keep up to date with the latest effects and design techniques.
In this list I will go someway to bringing you the top CSS galleries and some that you may never have heard of before. If you are a web designer it is also a way of getting more exposure for your designs, by getting into one of the top CSS galleries you can be assured a nice amount of traffic.
Getting exposure for your portfolio is extremely important as you are not likely to get your portfolio to the top of Google. Portfolio sites are where a lot of designers turn to.
In this list I will show you the very best places to post your portfolio. I have also added my portfolio for each of the sites so go have a look if you get chance 
I am a big follower of Graphic Design Blogs on the internet and looking at my Google Reader I keep noticing posts popping up saying the Top n Icon Sets and I love them, it really shows off some exceptional work. So I thought why don’t I create one as well, so here are my top 10 icon sets that I discovered in May 2008. All icons featured are free to use however please check appropriate licenses and readme files if you wish to use on commercial projects.
