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Bokeh, a style originally from Japan that describes an out of focus area of a image/photograph that is used to draw your eye to the subject of the image. This extremely popular photography technique creates surreal and beautiful images, either naturally or using programs like Photoshop.  The light and tonal patterns created are often very unique, giving the image or design an extra added depth.

Below, take a look at a collection of 50 awesome photographs, websites, textures and tutorials that all use the Bokeh style.  When you are done, drop me a comment and let me know what you think.

Photography

Here are some wonderful examples of Bokeh in photography.  Some are achieved with the camera, others are done post production with Photoshop.  All are amazing and great examples of this unique style.

Garden Fireworks

Let’s Watch Together

Bokeh Christmas Tree

Dancing in the Bokeh Sky

Seaview St – Chatham, Cape Cod

Cookie Splash

Bokeh Drop

Bokeh People

Slow Down

Take Me Away From Here

Je suis…

Plaza Lights

Kev

Pink

alejandrohdezruiz

Little Fireflies

Water Bokeh

Websites

Below is a list of some great websites that use the Bokeh style in various places but most frequently as backgrounds.  This style adds an extra layer of depth and texture to the overall design.  The multi size and opaqueness of the circles and shading help the content areas to stand out.

Eighty8Four

Sony CES

Pixel Pleasure

SoSo Juicy

Le-Marquis

IconDock

Sephora Claus

Razoo

Envato

CauseCast

Newcastle Web Design and Development

Lisa Maya

Textures

Download these great textures to use on your website designs.  They are great to use for backgrounds and accents to bring out important content.

Lost and Taken (30 Textures)

Blue Feathery Bokeh Textures

Bokeh Stock Texture

Ten Texture Pack

RedwolfStock518 Bokeh Textures

High Resolution Bokeh Texture (5 Textures)

Multi Colored Bokeh Pack

Light Textures

Bokeh Hearts Texture

Free Pink & Silver Bokeh Textures

Bokeh Texture Pack Four

Bokeh Dreamscene

Slodive

Grungy Bokeh Textures

Grunge Bokeh (5 Textures)

Tutorials

Learn how to reproduce many of the same techniques as seen above.  Here are some of the best tutorials for Bokeh on the web.

All About Bokeh Photography

DIY – Create your own Bokeh

Bokeh inspired Background / Bokeh Design Style

Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop

Creating Faux Bokeh Backgrounds in Photoshop Tutorial

Awesome Bokeh Effect Tutorial

Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb

How to Create the Perfect Bokeh Effect

This post is dedicated to the redesigning of websites in 2009. This post will give you an opportunity to express your criticism or to show your love for these redesigned websites . Overall, websites showing in this list are simple, sleek and decent having a look of current web 2.0 trend. The usage of color scheme, font selection and look and feel of presentation is really cool and attractive. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them in detail it will must boost your creative logo design ideas professionally and motivate you to design your new website in a way that people will never forget that you have made it. This is a list of 16 Popular Website Redesigns Of 2009 For Your Inspiration and Information.

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CNN

Twitter

Yahoo

WordPress

The White House

N.Design Studio

MSN

Abduzeedo

Network Solutions

Smashing Magazine

Reuters

Brand New

Web Design Ledger

XBOX

FOX News

ESPN

Flash is a household name when it comes to multimedia. Whether you’re creating interactive demos, browser games or cool web components, Flash is a solid foundation on which to base your work,

Flash Games plays a major role in browser based games over the internet and have always been one of the best pass-times for all internet users, For flash beginner , creating a flash game is a quite tough job and also interesting as well.
Here i’ve listed 20 best flash game tutorials that will help you in creating a simple but cool flash game of your own

1. )3D Slidin Puzzle

2. )Pool Game

3. )Pseudo 3D Pong Game

4. )Star Shooter

5. )Away3d Game

6. )Baloon Shooter

7. )Mini Golf

8. )Racing Game

9. )Random Wheel

10. )Guessnext

11. )Ball Game

12. )Chicken and Eggs Game

13. )Minesweeper

14. )“Nodes” Game

15. )Strange Way to Move

16. )Tower Defense Game

17. )Catapult Game

18. )Helicopter Games

19. )Base Defender

20. )PongOut Game

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One of the single most important elements on a website is the  navigation.  For a website to work properly the navigation needs to be laid out well, intuitive and most of all useful.  In the past when you wanted to do anything interesting with your navigation it took complex programming languages or Flash to achieve, today that is different.  jQuery is an excellent choice for creating dynamic, exciting navigation without all the hours of programming.  Check out these 35 awesome jQuery plugins for creating the perfect website navigation. Check out the demos and download the already-built scripts and add them quickly and easily to your site.

Interested in more jQuery tutorials, take a look at jQuery image plugin tutorials

Puffer Fish Navigation
Rollover navigation with a glow

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Sexy Drop Down Menu with jQuery and CSS
How to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.

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jQuery Simple Drop-Down Menu
Extremely simple drop-down menu. The peculiarity of this menu is that these 20 lines of code and absence of various cumbersome mouse events within html code.

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Fancy Navigation with jQuery
Rollover navigation with a glow. Has simple and elegant roll over effects

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iPod-style Drilldown and Flyout Menu
The iPod-style menu provides easy navigation of complex nested structures with any number of levels.

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Beautiful Slide Out Navigation
Gives a beautiful effect and using this technique can spare you some space on your website.

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jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial
Build your own tabbed Interface using jQuery with slideDown/slideUp effect.

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Fanciest Dropdown Menu You Ever Saw
Fancy and Stylized Dropdown Horizontal Navigation

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Superfish v1.4.8
Enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu

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Color Fading Menu with jQuery
CSS and jQuery powered rollover that alters the color of the button

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Simple and Beautiful jQuery Accordion Tutorial
Well-known javascript accordion with the most minimal amount of html, css, javascript code and of course, with a beautiful interface

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Slide and Hide Section Navigation
Create a slide and hide menu, where the menu items slide in and then hide themselves elegantly to give way for the selected menu item.

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Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery
Build a really cool animated navigation menu using just CSS and jQuery.

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jQuery UI Tabs
Simple jQuery powered tabbed navigation

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Kwicks Menu with jQuery
An apple style menu and improve it via jQuery

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Vertical Sliding Menu
Create a sliding menu button using jquery

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Mega Dropdown Navigation
Dropdown navigation with multiple links and lists

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Sliding JavaScript Menu Highlight
This sliding hover effect script is an easy method to add some flavor to your navigation.

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Create Vimeo-like top navigation
Create a curved drop down vertical navigation with curved edges.

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jQuery for Background Image Animations
Pull off various Background Effects in Your Navigation With This Tutorial

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Scrolling jQuery Menu
Vertical Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery

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Navigation Effect Using jQuery
Simple sliding animation when you hover over each button

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Query (mb)Menu 2.7
Powerful jQuery component to build easily a multilevel tree menu or a contextual menu (right click) in an intuitive way

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Image Menu With Jquery
Image Driven Expanding Horizontal Navigation

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Animated Horizontal Menu
Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery that scrolls automatically according to your mouse axis-Y movement.

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jQuery plugin: Treeview
Lightweight and flexible transformation of an unordered list into an expandable and collapsable tree, great for unobtrusive navigation enhancements.

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Simple Accordian
There are a lot of scripts we have seen and sure you too would have seen them. This script is one of the smallest accordion script which is extremely simple and easy to integrate.

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Scrolling jQuery Menu
Horizontal Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery

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Menu Fader
Fading Menu – Replacing Content

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A circular menu with sub menus
A follow on from the simple single level circular menu, this one adds a sub menu level of smaller icons in a circular pattern within the top level circle.

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Animated Drop Down Menu
Smooth Animated Menu using jQuery

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JQuery/CSS Dock Menu
This mac style navigation menu provides the user a clean, organized and animated interface for surfing a site’s content.

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Super slick jQuery menu with CSS3
Animated graphic menu that fades the inactive navigation.

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Sliding-Sliding Doors – Animated jQuery Menu
Animated menu with sliding rollover

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In most online business the revenue of the site solely depends on the registered and active users and Making the visitor of your site to sign up isn’t easy, nobody likes to fill in forms .

Web forms bridge the gap between the product and the customer therefore, we designers, need to figure out sound design make the form completion process easy.

But while designing the Signup page / form lot question will arise in designers mind like how should the text box / buttons should look? alignment of labels in form? the size of the textbook, where to place the tooltip link ?, to name a few. To help you in that, here i’ve collected 30 examples of nicely designed and implemented sing-up page/ form design, in various style formats which suit the over all website design perfectly , hope you like this collection

1. )PSDThemes

2. )Nibbledish

3. )Livestream

4. )Big Cartel

5. )Gowalla

6. )Next Big Sound

7. )YouAre

8. )Omgpop

9. )Footytube

10. )LaunchMind

11. )PopScreen

12. )StrawPoll

13. )Thumbslap

14. )Virb

15. )Wedding Jojo

16. )14dayz

17. )Builditwith

18. )CulinaryCulture

19. )GoSquared

20. )Newspond

21. )Foodspotting

22. )Brightkite

23. )Mint

24. )Bills Are In

25. )Huffduffer

26. )Tasty Planner

27. )Aviary

28. )Vanilla

29. )Roboto

30. )WantsThis