It’s a festive season and we all are busy. 24 hours a day are not enough to finish our work. And, sadly, Christmas is a holiday season. Time to be with family, time to prepare gifts for friends and special ones, attend gatherings and parties, and the time when the air is full of [...]

The most recent collection of creative blog designs was featured here on Smashing Magazine back in July. Only three months have passed and we’ve got a new dose of inspiration for you. Beautiful and sophisticated designs are constantly appearing on the Web; creative activity is in non-stop mode, despite global economic shocks and [...]

Vexel art is a digital art that is an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the vector graphics technique, but is distinguished from normal vector graphics or raster images. “Vexel” itself is a mixture of two words ‘Vector’ and ‘Pixel’. [...]

High quality texture, backgrounds and patterns are the most demanded freebies on the internet. Designers love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, [...]

We’ve released another version of FlexxTheme called Candy Apple, a theme designed with a feminine touch!

Test drive it here and buy it here
We’ve got about 6 more to come! Stay tuned!

by Dmitry Fadeyev
Your website represents your brand. New visitors will form a first impression of your service or product within seconds of arriving at your website, and the visuals, layout and aesthetic will play a large role in shaping that impression. Sure, your website may be very usable and have great content, but it’s the [...]

In this post we’re going to outline 5 WordPress trends for web developers who know their stuff.
There are plenty of WordPress techniques and hacks out there for beginners. Everyone knows about the routine tricks like:

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These features are all fine and very [...]