Computer Arts Magazine is the one-stop shop for professional advice on creating digital art and illustrations. This magazine is a must have for anyone who creates any kind of digital art or just enjoys reading about it. Their website is also just a resourceful as their magazine. The website contains interesting articles from the top designers around the world. It also has some very helpful tutorials that can be downloaded directly from their site. If you are a designer and are interested in discussing your latest projects as well as lending a helpful hand to other's work check out their forums on the site. Here is how the magazine describes itself. source: computerarts.co.uk Computer Arts, the world’s best-selling magazine for digital artists and designers, boasts a strong line-up of tutorials every issue, covering everything from manipulating photographs with Photoshop to creating amazing vector illustrations with Illustrator. You’ll also find tonnes of tips and tricks for web design, typography, 3D, animation, motion graphics and multimedia. It’s the one-stop shop for professional advice. Computer Arts has undergone something of a reinvention. We’ve introduced a fantastic, fresh design to make the most of some brilliant content, and we hope you will enjoy the new look. Here’s ...

While browsing the internet today I came across a little article from the official Google Blog. Over the years of web design, designers have face a delima when it comes to full Flash sites. Does a designer worry about being SEO friendly, or do they worry about have a dynamic eye-catching site? In the past designers would have to chose one or the other. In recent months, Google has announced that they have develped a way to crawl Flash sites. Here is the quote from Google: Google learns to crawl Flash 6/30/2008 09:26:00 PM Posted by Ron Adler and Janis Stipins, Software Engineers Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology. In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find. Now that we've launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designers can ...

InterfaceLIFT.com is the number 1 spot for free high resolution wallpapers and icons. They have every size you could possibly use. They have widescreen, fullscreen, HD, dual monitor, triple monitors and mobile sizes. The site is updated constintley so there is always a reason to go back. Another great part of this site are the icons. Anyone with a Mac will know that changing your icons is very addicting. InterfaceLIFT.com has a pretty extensive library of icons for your Mac. For more on customizing your icons check out Candy Bar by Panic Software.

WPElements.com has some of the best looking and some of the most functional wordpress themes on the net. Since this site was kind enough to provide me with a free theme, which can be downloaded from wpelements.com, I figured I would throw a shout-out and spread the good news. Most of the themes on the site are free to download if you keep the credits to the designer on your site. Go and download some today.

          The title for this is pretty self explanatory. Telepro.co.uk lets you input different fields you want for your form, then outputs them in an HTML form and a PHP form. It is plug and play with any website. No knowledge of php is needed to create a useful and impressive contact form for your site.

  Good-Tutorials.com is by far one of the top resources for anyone working with: CSS, Flash, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Maya, Photography, Photoshop, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and 3ds Max.  As the time of this post there are 26,480 different tutorials. Whenever you are stuck trying to figure out how to get a certain effect come to this site. The tutorials also are a great source of inspiration for any project.

All designers have been stuck on color combinations for their projects. Colourlovers.com is a great place to visualize your palettes and color options. If you have one color in mind and need help with combinations you can search by color names and find a wide variety of palettes. The site also a wide range of patterns to aid in your designs. One of the best features of the site is the ability to download your palettes to import directly into photosphop and other design programs

Welcome to ADDICTIVEstudios.com. My goal for this site is to keep all graphic designer, digital artist, and anyone who loves art informed about different inspirations and resources, For my first post I wanted to share a site called DesignCharts.com This is a weekly chart of all the top sites from around the world. Take some time to browse the chart and get inspired.