Design Inspiration by Squid Fingers

Posted by Snap! on December 27th, 2007

These free patterns from Tennessee based designer Travis Beckham are a treat!
squid fingers pattern
There are over 150 of these classic designs on his site Squid Fingers. Check em out.

Tagged: Design, Design Inspiration, Fractal, Free Downloads, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Resources, Graphic Designers, Graphics, Inspiration, Nature, Resources, Squid Finger, Travis Beckham, Web Design, Web Tools, free, wpSnap News, wpsnap

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Posted by templatepanic on October 25th, 2007

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft, a Wordpress theme. Three column layout, bottom menu, widget ready, and image gravatar ready. Valid XHTML and Valid CSS. Tested in Firefox, IE 7, Opera and Safari.

Live demo | Download

Tagged: 3 Column, Best WordPress Themes, Bittbox, Black, Deep Blue Sea, Free Downloads, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, RSS Feeds, Red, Template Panic, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, dark, submit your themes, world of warcraft

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Posted by Snap! on August 3rd, 2007

We often find seasoned bloggers using clean templates with little or no color and hardly any imagery. Colors and graphics do make a theme visually appealing, however they do conflict with the content if not used carefully. All themes cannot be plain and generic though, so for those of you who love colors and are constantly looking for inspiration, here are a few resources (which some of you might be familiar with) to jazz up your themes!

COLOUR lovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends by providing not only color galleries, but a palette of the trendiest colors in the blogosphere based on a variety of genres. It would serve as a good reference guide for web design, architectural specifications, interiors, product design, ad campaigns, magazines, etc. You can also suggest a website of your choice for an add. It’s cool and contemporary, and one of the hottest sites for color resources.

Color Combos offers a variety of irresistible features such as:

9 Rules Logo Colors Combo Tester: Extracts colors from websites, gives complimentary color options, gives text color options, and you can even try your own template with different header, sidebar, footer color and text options.

Color Library: For color combination ideas

Articles: On colors, color meaning and application.

Daily color scheme (Beta) provides you one inspirational and usable easy color scheme a day. If you do not want to use the colorpicker or the eyedropper tool, this site is for you. As of now, you cannot make a search to get instant color information of a site that is not listed in their archives. The enhanced search feature will definitely make it a steal.

Color Burn Widget

The ColorBurn widget features a new color palette every day with 4 colors, along with its hexadecimal values. Each daily palette has the option to change your background from black to white and back again. Previous palettes are saved for one week.

Color Schemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Mix, match, darken, lighten, and add your own color combinations to the gallery.

Tagged: Artistic tools, Bittbox, Colors, Colour lovers, Design Inspiration, Dot Dot Dot, Graphics, Hearts, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, RSS Feeds, Resources, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress Themes, color burn, color combos, color schemer studio, daily color schemes, wpsnap

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Posted by linda on August 2nd, 2007

Do not make derivatives of these greeting cards. Just a bit of inspiration from O+D for your designs.

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Tagged: Bittbox, Creative, Graphic Design, Graphics, Inspiration, PimpDaBlog, Social Bookmarking, wpsnap

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Posted by Snap! on August 1st, 2007

Cute, tiny cool Web2.0 Icons… Vikiworks just released part II collection of 10 social bookmarking icons, including icons for Newsvine, Furl, Windows live, Blinklist, Blogger, Lifelogger etc. All icons are sized to 64*64 in PNG format. You can check the terms and conditions of use (if any) and download here!

Tagged: Bittbox, Cool Buttons, Creative, Free Downloads, Free Web 2.0 Icons, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Icon Set, PimpDaBlog, RSS Feeds, Resources, Social Bookmarking, Utombox, Vikiworks, wpsnap

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Posted by Snap! on July 29th, 2007

The Sandbox Competition comes to a close, the entries are in and some of the screenshots and designs are already being made available. Since there is no one place to view (until August 2nd) and demo them all, we will list them here (updated on the go) for the viewing pleasure of those following this competition closely. So without much ado, here are the available designs, demos and downloads listed in no particular order:

Note: You must have the Sandbox theme for these designs to work.

Takimata

Demo | Design URI

Promised Land

Demo Not Available | Design URI

Walk in the Shadows

Demo Not Available | Design URI

Hourglass

Demo Not Available | Design URI

Crystal liberty

Demo Not Available | Design URI

Prima

Demo Not Available | Design URI

Blueberry

Demo | Design URI

Black and Blue and Read All Over

Demo | Design URI

Moon Under Uranus

Demo | Design URI

Blueberry Dreams

Demo | Design URI

Sandpress

Demo Not Available | Design URI

Potassium