CSS3 button set with 42 login/social icons. It’s image-free, small and easy to use. CSS buttons have a number of obvious advantages in comparison to image buttons: editable labels, smaller bandwidth consumption, graceful degradation, and editable size. Available on github.

Iconic is intended to be minimal renderings yet unique in form. Alternatives for several marks have been added for greater choice in style.

Works in all sizes; one main goal for these icons were to have them maintain high legibility over a large scale range. Almost all of the icons in this set will work from 8×8 pixels to however large you need to go. To give the greatest flexibility, the icon set packages all icons in PNG, SVG, SWC, OFT/TTF/EOT and Omnigraffle stencil formats.

All raster-format icons come in 5 sizes; 8×8, 12×12, 16×16, 24×24 & 32×32 pixels as well as 14 colors. This set is currently licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

Looking for something to give a simple lightbox effect (maybe just a login prompt), but don't really want to include something like jQueryUI for just it's dialog effect? This little function is less than 1 KB.

"Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows."

"Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates."

The great features of Chrome's Page Speed, but if your not sure if it's just your browser slowing things down or your internet connection, with this online version you get an unbiased analysis of the webpage from who matters most; the way google sees it.

"Creating themes for Tumblr sucks.

It’s a testament to the passion developers and designers feel for Tumblr that so many great themes exist – despite the complete lack of tools. No matter how you tackle it, developing a theme involves a time-consuming mess of manual copying and pasting, saving, testing, and copying and pasting again.

TumblrThemr solves this problem, letting you develop navigable themes locally using real data from your Tumblr blog."

"Thanks to text shadows, outlines, transitions, and even text gradients, we can now create cool typography that you’d swear had to be made with a program like Photoshop. Nope, all CSS3 baby! Let’s take a look in this video quick tip."

"Most people already understood that good content is the key to a successful blog, but a great design can really help capture our attention. So for this post, we’ve gathered 40 blog designs that are guaranteed to inspire you."

"A common design technique lately is to create a fold effect, where it appears as if a heading is wrapping behind its container. This is generally achieved through the use of tiny images; however, with CSS, we can mimic this effect quite easily. I’ll show you how in four minutes."

"BlueMasters is a dark, sexy, custom theme that has a solid, professional look and a very simple structure. You can access all files and layers used in a well organized structure and naming convention, making it easier for slicing the template or modifying it. BlueMasters can be customized to fit your business brand as well as your clients’ websites."

"Icons are an effective aid in helping users quickly find and gather information. They not only communicate information but help break it up and add visual interest to grab the users’ attention.

With thousands of icons available, with endless gradients, colors and reflections, it can be overwhelming as to what will best suit your minimalist design. There are alternatives to all those over-glossed icons, should you require a more simple, elegant design style.

Here are ten noteworthy icon sets which match the minimalist design ethos."

Do you remember the last time you were stunned by someone’s work? We can’t stop praising the works of ~AntiAliasFactory a DeviantArt Artist. Maziar Firoozmand, a very talented designer from Iran is the man who publishes some stunning work under the handle AntiAliasFactory, you can check out his stunning deviantart gallery and download some high quality design freebies

"The days of being limited to a handful of fonts on the web are very close to being a thing of the past. The @font-face CSS method is among the strongest, simplest and most flexible competitors in this game. It seems to be the current rockstar of the bunch, garnering all the attention and causing a number of sites to pop up offering both free and premium fonts in support of it.

This guide will teach you how to implement @font-face with cross-browser compatibility and will also look at a number of the supporting services that have arisen, making it even easier to use custom fonts in your web designs."

"Giving your web design a natural look can make your website friendlier as well as show your appreciation of the environment. Nature-themed web designs can also give your website a unique character.

There are many ways you can use nature to make your website stand out or help you get a message across to your website visitors. Here is a showcase of over 40 exceptional web designs that use nature themes."

Amongst these other goodies in this SmashingMag post, I really like this clean, simple a nice navigation menu, designed by Nick La.

"Although there is a very thin line between Art and Design, its an entirely different brush altogether. Here are some Super creative wallpapers trying to define the very basic of design. Some amay sound out of the point and funny nevertheless they are creative and worth downloading for your desktop!"

"The design and development industry has a number of excellent job boards, and thousands of people take advantage of them each day. However, for many people, the time is not always available to browse through job boards on a regular basis.

This is where RSS feeds can be an excellent tool"

"Whether you’re a CSS pro or just learning, it’s important to have a good set of tools to speed up and simplify your development."

"Having a mobile-optimized web site can really make your site stand apart from the pack. We’ve put together a toolkit of resources for the designer and non-designer alike to get you started. "