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Yeah guys! One more time we have surpassed a new daily unique visitors record, thanks for all! This month yensdesign.com is growing so fast!

This time we are featuring a free pack of 177 vector icons designed by Oliver Twardowski for Smashingmagazine. It’s called flavour:

The set is available as a free download and you can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects.There are 177 vector icons and their sources to modify them as you wish.

I am really impressive with this set, very talented, kudos for Oliver!

Download the pack (2.0MB)

Download the sources (.PSD files, 5.9MB)

Via Smashingmagazine, visit the original post for further information.

Hi there guys! In yensdesign, we are continuously talking and publishing tutorials, tips, tricks and cool effects to improve the user’s experience by making our websites more friendlies and accesibles.

But there is a very important thing that you must not forget and which is the main cause by which users leave the site : LOADING SPEED.

We are going to review some important concepts about website’s performance and explain best practises to speed up your websites to reduce the loading time. Your server and your users will be happier at the end of these articles

Actually we have published these articles:

• Minimize HTTP Requests
• Selecting the Right Format for your Images
• Optimizing JPEG images
• Optimizing PNGs images
• Optimizing GIFs images

So let’s dive into the first part of these series: Minimize HTTP Requests.

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Hi there guys! I have spent my spare time in creating a new theme theme for submit it to Themeforest, but finally I decided to sell it directly in yensdesign for a lower price 9$

I tried to create an underground template for personal websites such portfolios, combining darks colors, with blues and light grays with smooth gradients. I am really happy with the final result.

I called it Underground Elegance, judge for yourselves

I am really excited to see if some of our visitors are really interested in buy our themes over here…

You have more information about the theme, just continue reading.

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Hi guys! If you have tested the beta of Plusmusica (it’s a beta, report bugs please!) maybe you have find some tips when you move the mouse over some elements. We will learn how to create them in a very easy way.

We are going to learn how to create our custom jQuery plugin to show tips on mouse over event on our desired elements. We will also be able to customize the appearence of the tip division for each kind of elements in the CSS code and much more.

A real example is worth a thousand words:

As always, you can try the living example over here.

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.
Let’s learn guys!

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Ey guys! First of all thank you so much one more time for your response to our tutorials, yesterday we have passed our daily unique visitors record! yayyy!

This time we are showing you 32 glossy icons from starfishwebconsulting for your eCommerce web applications:

Presenting 32 free glossy icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file under GNU license.

You can download it by clicking on the above image or by clicking over here.

See you soon guys! Don’t forget to visit our forums to solve your doubts and share resources and remember you can follow us on twitter to know what are we doing in each moment

Hi there guys! As you may know, we have published a lot of tutorials to learn how to improve the interaction of our web applications mainly using javascript and jQuery. We have created our layouts for these tutorials using xHTML and CSS and this time the CSS part will be the important thing and not a simple spectator.

We will learn how to use the CSS property background-position to create different kind of buttons, interfaces and more by using only one image as background. It will reduce the loading time and supress the user’s waiting on mouse over effects.

As always, you can try the living example over here.

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

It will be an interesting (and funny) tutorial, come on guys!

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Hi there guys! Continuing the freebies section, we are recommending you a new set of free fonts with high quality to use in your designs.

We are showing you a new set of 10 high quality free fonts to use in your web designs. Most of recommended fonts got more than 2-3 styles and are available in TTF and OTF format.

Remember guys: Don’t overestimate the importance of typography in design!

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What’s up guys! Last hours I have spent my spare time in creating anoter simple and clean theme for submit it to Themeforest, as you may know the marketplace of envato, where users can submit and buy (x)HTML, Wordpress, Joomla themes and more.

This time I tried to create a very clean template for personal websites such portfolios with one thing in mind: tell to to world who I am. I am happy with the final result, considering the time invested in the theme.

I called it Cleanfolio, judge for yourselves

I have reused some interesting things in javascript from the Dark Elegance theme like validation form and a fade in / out effect to the transition between sections.

Comments about the theme please!!

Hi there guys! We continue reviewing our partners. This time we are here to talk you a little bit about ProjectThingy, a web application focused in project’s management and administration.

We can add users, setup their access (team or client access) in each project to let them participate in current or future projects and more…

Let’s take a closer look at the project…

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Hi there guys! If you remember we have published a tutorial about How to create a music player interface in jQuery some weeks ago. Some of you have sent me e-mails, posted comments in the tutorial and in our forums asking about how to implement “the music” to the music player interface. And now I am here to show you the basics to acomplish it.

We are going to learn how to Load, Play and Control our MP3 songs and FLV videos to share them with our visitors in our websites by using javascript (some jQuery) and the flash player JW Player.

As always, you can try the living example over here.

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

Come on with me guys!

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