Being a web designer can be difficult at times, always striving for creativity in your design and new techniques that will dazzle your clients/users. Sometimes we need inspiration from other designers to turn that creative spark into a flame.

Smashing Magazine has posted yet another incredibly inspiring list of 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective web design. You may already know some of them but definitely not all of them.

My personal favorite on the list is #22 CSS Dock Menu (shown below) but I assure you that everything is worth taking a look at.

Next to coding, I enjoy to design. I also find my self spending a great deal of time editing photos, designing graphics for websites etc. My favorite tool used in completing these tasks, has to be Adobe Photoshop.

With a good tool like Adobe Photoshop, you’ll need some good resources; Fonts, Plug-ins such as Brushes and Textures, Stock photos and other things that will help you out a great deal when designing.

Here’s a list of some good photoshop design resources.

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