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I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel, then I took some pictures of textures to give away for free! It was a long and hard journey, but in the spirit of the holidays I pressed on. Kinda.

Below are a few samples of what will be in the package, (the .zip can be downloaded below) with links to larger versions hosted on Flickr. On the Flickr page you can explore the set and download Large versions of them individually. The downloads on Flickr are only around 1000px wide at the most.

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There are times when a page gets moved, deleted or a url mistyped and you get the ever-so-famous 404 page declaring that the page you are looking for has been moved or no longer exists. While it is never good to get one, it should not be neglected in the design process. A well designed 404 can be visually appealing and can also help guide the visitor to the page they might have been looking for in the first place. Our 404 was recently featured over at Hongkiat in the article 60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 Pages. Check it out and try to use the good ideas you see as inspiration when designing your next website.

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The web is constantly evolving, it’s functions and limitations are stretching beyond what anyone could have imagined when it was first released to the public in the early 90’s. Thankfully, web design has evolved as well. If it hadn’t, I might still have sleepless nights about the nightmarish dancing baby and flashing buttons that did nothing but risk a user having a seizure.

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One of the good things about CSS is that there are always different ways to complete a certain task. Wether it be getting your background to display correctly with a pattern or getting nice rollovers on your buttons. We will talk about the latter today, or whatever day you read this counts too. We are going to follow this step by step tutorial (which hopefully makes sense to more than just me) to recreate the list of social media buttons in the footer of our site.

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