This issue of What’s Cool for Designers this Week is filled, as usual, with awesome stuff for you to download, use or learn. We have some great PSD files for you, a Christmas retro flyer, over 150 free flat Christmas resources, several icon sets and an amazing portfolio WordPress theme.
You will also find some beautiful flat website design tutorials, a collection of very useful JS resources, CSS3 buttons and much more. Enjoy!
PSD
Flat Responsive Showcase Template
Retro Christmas Flyer
150+ FREE Flat Christmas Graphic Resources
Icons
Simple line icons
WordPress
Spotlight Portfolio Theme
JS
Cool Kitten Parallax Scrolling Framework
Knwl.js
Find dates, times, emails, phone numbers, links, reading time, even the emotion of the text, or check if it’s spam. Knwl.js makes it possible to scan through large amounts of text for data that may be of interest.
Color Thief
This script helps you to extract the color palette from any image. This script could be useful for sites that sort and search by color.
Portfolio JS
Portfoliojs is a lightweight jQuery gallery plugin for your beautiful images with horizontal scrolling which supports desktop, tablet and mobile browsers.
Sequence JS
Sequence.js is a refreshing and modern take on website sliders. Using just HTML and CSS, Sequence allows you to create your own responsive slider with unique transitional styles.
Tutorials
Photoshop Animations Techniques (video)
CSS Ribbon Tutorial
Create No Image Icons in CSS3 Tutorial
Create a Flat Website Template – HTML/CSS Tutorial + File
How to Build a Simple Portfolio Template
Create a Clean Website Layout PSD to HTML/CSS
CSS and HTML
Progress Button Styles
A set of flat and 3D progress button styles where the button itself serves as a progress indicator. 3D styles are used for showing the progress indication on one side of the button while rotating the button in perspective.