This week we bring you 19 well crafted and functional websites. These all have a simple and yet eye catching design ranging from CSS to Flash based. Hopefully they will give you a little boost to your creativity.

These textures are all taken with a tripod to ensure accuracy. They are all at a very large 3264 x 2448 so will come in handy on a variety of projects. They are of various shrubs trees and plants from nature in the British Summer.

Summer is finally here (for the Northern Hemisphere which inspired me to gather together some stunning nature inspired wallpapers. Hopefully these will bring you as much inspiration as they did me.

Here we have a selection of various Photoshop photo effect tutorials fresh from this year. They are all in Photoshop but if there are enough requests, I’m sure we can do some in other photo editing programs too.

I like to think that this is a list of some of the more high quality 3D text effect tutorials out there, Some of these aren't for the faint hearted as they use programs such as Xara and 3DS Max.

Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or an initial great first impression of the site, here are jsut a few of what im liking.

These were created by soaking A4 pieces of paper in a tray filled with food colouring and then left to dry in the sun.

We had some old picture frames in bags so I took the opportunity to take photos of them and remove the backgrounds and the actual paintings in Photoshop and create some stock .png images

I've selected various Photoshop tutorials that I'm liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs.

Robert DeVore of GreenStar TV has kindly donated these awesome concrete textures to be released here at design shard.

Free Smoke On The Water digital wallpaper download in various sizes and for iphone.

Ive had these fully stained paper textures scanned in a while now made by soaking them in coffee for a few days, you can see all the little details on them and they look great in my opinion!.

I've collected a few twitter accounts together that retweet certain #hashtags that you apply to your tweets, id reccomend adding one or two to the end of your tweets of the related subject.

Some examples of how people use light effects to enhance their web designs either by giving it more colour or by giving it more depth, check out my selction from around the web for some inspiration.

Here’s a free repeating pattern that is ideal to be used as a twitter background, created from Victorian images from some books I’ve arranged them in a way that they will tile perfectly... how convenient!