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Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices « Smashing Magazine.

I posted a video of what may be the fastest MMA knockout in history – one punch, two seconds. So I got to wondering about other knockouts in fighting history and went a-searchin’ on the ole Internet and, of course, there have been many one-punch knockouts over the years, but here are 10 of the best…

via Epic Carnival: 10 of the best one-punch knockouts of all-time.

Boy, drinks are delicious, right? Oh yeah, nothing screams relaxation like a tasty beverage. Yet, did you ever stop and think about just how many of these drinks have mascots? No. Probably not. Well, for the sake of argument, let’s just say that ten of the most popular beverages have a anthropomorphic ‘thing’ as their spokes… thing. Seriously! For this list we’ll focus on the “soft” drinks and follow it up with a list of Alcoholic Beverage Mascots in the future. Oh, and we stuck to North American mascots (sorry, no Pepsi Man), so grab your glass, and take a look at these ten famous beverage mascots.

via Top Ten Beverage Mascots | Gunaxin.

Drinking alcohol is usually a good idea, but sometimes even the most reasonable of us drink too much and may find ourselves in compromising situations. Sometimes, the consequences amount to a slap on the hand — other times, one can find him or herself faced with some jail time. The best rule of thumb is to put yourself in situations where the fewest mistakes possible can be made. The following are 15 drunken acts that seem to commonly be made, and which, in most cases (even if they are fun while you are doing them), can be avoided.

via 15 Most Common Mistakes People (We) Make When They Are Drunk | Sloshspot Blog.

Whether you can run faster, jump higher, and fart louder than I can, or if you’re a couch-bound porkmonster with crisco for blood, we all have one thing in common: videogames probably won’t make any us a hell of a lot healthier. Of course, that’s not going to stop them (and Daisy Fuentes) from trying.

via Top 5 Videogames That Think You’re Fat from 1UP.com.

7 Amazing Handmade Eco-Friendly Homes | EarthFirst.com.

Many leading movies have surprise endings. And audiences love that. The surprise ending can be tough to get right and sometimes overdone but it can be impossible to keep the secret once it’s out. Here are 10 movies that got it right – their surprises really were just that.

via Top 10 Most Surprising Movie Endings – moviesoddity.com.

From flash intros, to logo theft, to information overload, clients often ask a design team to do a lot of stuff that’s just plain wrong. Here are 7 of the most common mistakes clients might ask you to make — and how to talk some sense into them.

via 7 Common Design Mistakes That Clients Love (and how to fight back) | Crestock.com Blog.

Firefox’s extendibility is one of its great advantages, and there are thousands of plugins to choose from.

But having so much choice can be confusing, and it’s often hard to tell which add-ons are worth installing and which are best left alone. So look no further – here’s our 12 essential Firefox extensions.

via 12 add-ons every Firefox user must have | News | TechRadar UK.

All of these logos are very creative and following different trends like PhotoFill, Concealed, VariDots, Candy Stripe, Flip Flop, Sequential, but most importantly Texting which is a common element among all of them. Also, try to catch how they created using specific colors combination, typography adjustments and font selection.

via 60 Beautiful Logo Designs For Design Inspiration | Inspiration | instantShift.

jQuery is one popular library, and for good reasons! It’s easy to use, flexible, and most of all there’s a lot of jQuery tutorials and plugins available out there. Today we will take a look at some portfolio sites that use jQuery and different jQuery plugins to enhance either their look, functionality or usability. I hope you enjoy this post. Please let us know what you think in the comment section

via 25 Portfolio Sites Using jQuery Amazingly Well « CreativityDen.

Over the past couple month/years we’ve seen grungy-looking websites and designs popping all over the place I much prefer that over the glossy web 2.0 look. Of course using patterns and textured backgrounds can help give a website a dirty and grungy feel, but let’s not forget about typography. While most of the fonts on this list can’t really be used for website copy and articles, they can certainly be used for logos and headings or other types of graphics.

via 32 Trashy And Distorted Fonts For Your Next Grungy Design | Spyre Studios.

When there are many browsers available for the users to surf the internet, it becomes evident for you to check the Cross Browser Compatibility of your website. Different people use different operating systems and browsers and you cannot control their wish to surf your website on one particular browser, just because your website does not look well on it. Though among many available browsers, Mozilla and I.E are the most used browsers around the world. But still while designing a website web designers make it sure to check the browser compatibility of the website in all browsers.

To rescue the web designers from this aching job of testing browser compatibility in different browsers there are few websites which offer this service. On these websites you can check the compatibility of your website in all desired browsers.

via 7 Awesome Resources to Test Cross Browser Compatibility of Your Website.

In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend because your website represents you and your brand.

via Beautiful Single Page Website Designs: 65 New Examples | Showcases | instantShift.

In this article, I have collected 16 amazing logo design processes by top logo designers on Twitter. Before writing this article, I went through each logo design process and read the details of these designers perspectives in bringing out brand new memorable logos. I invite you to read each logo design process thoroughly and find out for yourself new ideas brainstormed by the masters, so you can implement them in your logo design process.

via 16 Logo Design Processes Of Top Logo Designers | Pixelactic.

Website footers have become more than just a place to put the copyright information and a few links. Now web designers are making full use of the footer as way to keep the visitor on the site longer. You will see from the examples below that this can be achieved by using clever placement of graphics and design elements along side links to additional content.

via A Showcase of Fantastic Footer Designs | Web Design Ledger.

If we look at the web design today, it’s anything but simple. Sometimes you need that extra Photoshop knowledge in order to achieve the look we need.

In this step-by-step tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create five killer effects for your site.

When I was choosing examples for this article I visited some design galleries and roundup posts and took screenshots of design details that are used (sometimes overused) in web design. I don’t encourage you to follow trends but rather develop your own style. Nevertheless, it is always useful to polish your Photoshop skills a bit more. Let’s get rockin’!

via Carsonified » 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers.

In today’s global economy, it’s more important than ever for students to be fluent in more than one language. Doing so will open you up to more opportunities and a chance to work around the world. Here, you’ll find 101 tools that can help you learn a new language without spending a dime on tuition.

via 101 Tools to Learn ANY Foreign Language for Free | Online College Tips – Online Colleges.

Cartoon and Comic fonts are very popular among the design industrial. These fonts are funny and have unique cartoon styles which able to give a fresh feeling to visitors.

We had shared some awesome grunge fonts previously. The article received a lot of comments and our readers like these fonts very much. So, we decided to collect some cool and free comic fonts and share with the readers.

In this post, we will look into 40 free cartoon and comic fonts that every designers should look into and collect.

via 40 Awesome Cartoon And Comic Fonts For Designers.

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using images in an artistic manner. Photoshop is useful for both creating and editing images to be used in print or online. Not too easy to use, but full of high-quality features, Photoshop is the best choice for any image manipulation job.

This article showcases the Most beautiful and ready to use free Photoshop PSD files and resources which helps you to enhance your design work and features.

via 110 Ultimate Round-Up of Free Photoshop PSD Files and Resources | Showcases | instantShift.