Creative Free Icon Set for Web Developers: Coded

Today we’re excited to present you a new icon set called Coded. Designed with web developers in mind, Coded features 25 high-quality icons ranging from 512×512px to 32×32px. Designed by Thomas McGee of WinePress of Words2, this set has been released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The Coded Icon Set makes an excellent addition to any website, especially those inspired by the trade of web development. Perfect for your next client’s site or for showcasing your own web development — these icons are useful for every coder.Download the Icon Set for Free!You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions....

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Free SEO Accounts From My SEO Tool

How Can My SEO Tool Help YouAs a web designer, you may have been in and out of the SEO trenches more than a few times. When it comes to creating a new website design and content, focusing on SEO is not a simple task. It’s hard enough to know what your SEO strategy should target, but it is even tougher to manage and track its results. This was the motivation behind My SEO Tool - Online SEO software specifically developed for web designers. Real-Time Traffic, Ranking & Activity UpdatesThe most important aspect of SEO is understanding your current situation. My SEO Tool keeps you informed by providing real-time activity updates.Easy...

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Learning to Love HTML5

It seems that new resources and articles for teaching and promoting HTML5 are popping up almost daily. We’ve been given HTML5 templates in the form of the HTML5 boilerplate and HTML5 Reset (although they both go beyond just HTML5 stuff). We’ve got a plethora of books to choose from that cover HTML5 and its related technologies. We’ve got shivs, galleries, and a physician to help heal your HTML5 maladies. And don’t forget the official spec.From my own vantage point — aside from a few disputes about what the term “HTML5″ should and shouldn’t mean — the web design and development community has for the most part embraced all the new technologies...

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Post-Production Trends in 3D Visualizations

Post-production might well be the most under appreciated part of creating 3D visualizations. It gives you the power to easily make some changes; put in the sky you like, add some dirt, make the colors more vibrant and even correct some little mistakes in your 3D mesh.Most of the traditional 3D artists tried to do as much as possible within their 3D package since these packages were not focusing on post, but rather on the 3D products themselves. Rendering masks for the different color corrections one would like to do was a painstaking job of fixing the lighting and materializing — making artists choose to do most of the work in 3D (such...

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