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Dark Rising Grafx brings you their first “Pack” of wallpapers for the Apple iPhone entitled the “Animal Kingdom Pack”. When downloading from your computer simply unzip the file, browse the images in the package and choose those you wish to use. Email or sync these images to your iPhone, open photos and set your new Animal Kingdom picture as a beautiful wallpaper, optimized for the Apple iPhone.

Browsing from your iPhone right now? Great!, Simply click on the images you like and save them to your iPhone directly. Couldn’t be easier.

This is a pack of over 100 icons that can be used to fully customize any website with a similar theme already in place or perhaps you will take a look at the set and be inspired to build your site around them. Either way, we hope they are useful and most of all… enjoy!

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Icon set comes to us courtesy of Web Treats Etc. Be sure to visit the site and follow them on Twitter for updates.

Dark Rising Grafx is in the process of creating it’s first pack of wallpapers for the Apple iPhone. It is set to include 10-15 great wallpapers depicting different animals of the world. Depending upon how the feedback is for these papers, Dark Ri

sing is considering launching a whole new page/site dedicated to custom wallpapers. It is a thought that we may offer custom wallpapers upon request as well as user submitted wallpapers that are subject to review before post. Anywho, this is the first prototype in our “Animal Kingdom Pack” feel free to download and use on your iPhone or any other suitable mobile device where screen resolution is 320×480. Hope you like.

What are the best ways to boost your position in search engines? What keywords should you use on your web-pages? And which tools should you use to improve the quality of backlinks, link popularity and Google Pagerank? We deliver answers. Here is the list of the most useful SEO-tools you might be willing to use, developing and optimizing your next web-site. Our personal choice: 156 Seo Tools – one of the most comprehesive lists with essential SEO-references and tools. For even more resources check out the SEO section of The Web-Developer’s Handbook. Links checked: May/11 2008 Read the rest of this entry »

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Sorry for the brief neglect on our part for anyone who was checking The Daily Dose for new posts, we have been on vacation this past weekend, but we are back! As I opened my browser window this morning, I decided to see what may be out there for inspiration as well as resources related to graphic design. If I was unable to find something, my plans were to compile a comprehensive list for our readers. Lucky for me (and my clients waiting on their work to be completed) someone has compiled a list just as I wanted to. 99 Sites All Designers Must Know About…. here it is courtesy of www.justcreativedesign.com and it lists such items/sites related to the following categories:

General Design | Web Design | Resources | Show Cases | Development | Flash and Flex | Typography | Video and Motion | Personal Design Blogs | Web 2.0 | Relaxation | Various

Please stay tuned for the list of sites that we have personally found useful for showcasing work as well as social networking within the visual communication community. These sites will ALL be sites that we are members of and/or have our work showcased. So feel free to add us or stalk us.

Css-Website.com

Css Website is an innovative gallery of simple websites. Its purpose is to showcase designer’s work and to expand the CSS design community. They propose a classification by color and contents for a better usability.

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designerfolio.net

DesignerFolio.net is a web designers inspiration gallery where a high quality design CSS and Flash websites placed around the world. This is a place for everyone who love web design.

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Faveup.com

Faveup is a simple gallery of inspirational design. Everybody gets designer’s block sometimes so it’s nice to have somewhere to go to get your creative juices flowing again. Faveup also gives credit where credit is due, rewarding great design with the respect and linkage it deserves. Read the rest of this entry »

Here it is, the DRGFX background for twitter.

Free for all to use. Please be sure to follow us if you choose to use this background. www.twitter.com/darkrisinggrafx

Download the full resolution here http://www.darkrisinggrafx.com/DRGFX_blogimages/twitter_bg.jpg

For best results, set your background color to 9e9999 and set the image to no tile.

So I was browsing the web looking for some cool new tools to use with website interfaces and I stumbled upon this gold mine! Courtesy of www.sixrevisions.com, I am able to provide for your enjoyment, new and exciting javascript techniques to animate your web site builds. Please be sure to “digg” them for this one!

.Complex and slick JavaScript-based animation has been made easier with the emergence of frameworks and libraries that give developers the ability to create stunning and eye-grabbing animation and transition effects that make it easy these complex tasks.

In this article, you will read about the top 10 JavaScript-based animation frameworks and libraries that will enable you to create engaging and captivating user experiences.

1. $fx

$fx is a compact and lightweight JavaScript animation library which extends native JavaScript DOM methods with its own animation methods and functions. Its small file size (weighing in at only 3.7 KB), hassle-free implementation, and low learning curve makes $fx a powerful option for adding eye-popping animation effects to your web projects. Check out the Examples section on the Manuals page to see the library in action.

2. jsAnim

Created by web developer Kevin Dolan, jsAnim is a JavaScript animation framework for creating high-impact and slick animation sequences for web interfaces. Crafted with standards and best practices in mind, jsAnim allows you to create stunning animation effects without sacrificing web accessibility of your web projects. Read the rest of this entry »