As a designer we all know what we can do with Flash. With the latest release of Adobe CS5 we have seen a huge step forward in the Flash development environment. Not only does the release include additional tools, menus, and commands, but the Action Script panel has been upgraded as well. But having a flash contact for websites is bit different, one should always take care of how it looks on different browser and how effective it is.

Here are we gathered 30 Best Flash Contact forms from Web for your inspiration.

1. 2 Advanced

2. Tr80

3. Face Off

4. M1 Designs

5. Frontire Room

6. Redbull Soap Box Racer

7. Wing Cheng

8. Harmony Republic

9. Lunalunerafestival

10. Edpeixoto

11. Try Triangle

12. Bio Back

13. Christian Sparrow

14. Miki mottes

15. Inspirational Media Solutions

16. Odopod

17. Infinvision

18. Born With Design

19. Normanniae

20. Notorious Design

21. Pointofe

22. Swiths

23. Beakable

24. Golden Tale

25. 6 Degree Design Studio

26. The Electric Mind

27. Finn Media

28. Adrienneferreira

29. Art Flavors

30. Bright Bulb

Author Bio - Lief is a creative designer, blogger and iPhone app developer. He works for several companies as freelancer contributing brushes, filters and helping designers across blogosphere. He currently works for 123ContactForm.com, a web form builder to make awesome custom forms at 1-2-3-GO Concept.

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Today, we are presenting an interesting collection of some very creative and artistic sand sculptures that will inspire you a lot. We all have seen sand sculptures at some stage of our lives but we never think that sand sculptures and / or sand castles can be so huge and artistic in nature.

Sand sculptures can also be a source of inspiration, creativity and imagination specially for the designers and artists. Children love to play with sand and make sand castles and sand sculptures on the beeches. However, making sand castles and sand sculptures on the beeches is only for fun.

Sand castles and sand sculptures are now taken a shape of artwork that represents the artistic nature of the creator. Let us have a close look at these imaginative and eye-catching sand sculptures. Artists all over the world have created sand sculpture of different conceivable theme, translating your ideas into dazzling realities guaranteed to make an eternal impression.

Sand Sculpture Festival in Algarve

Charles darwin sand sculpture

Sandstorm Events

Sand Story

Sand Sculpture

Life Cycle

Car Sculpture

Dinosaur Sand Sculptures

Sand sculpture Festival in Algarve

Sand sculpture DE-07-1 Uldis Zarins

Rembrandt and Girl

”Crocodile” Australian days in Arhus

Sand sculpture CH-08-2 Uldis Zarins

Tsunami victims

Sand sculptures

Sandstorm Events

A Visit to The Denist

Sandtastic

Work in Progress Finished

Petronas Towers

Egyptian sand sculptures II

Sand sculptures

World of sand

Fiesa : Neuschwanstein

The Sand Castle

Made of Sand

sand sculptures

Giant Sand Sculptures

sand sculptures jesolo III

The Art of Sand Festival

Statue of Liberty in Sand

Sleeping Dragons

Mercator

Sand Geisha

Sand World 2009

The Sandman

Sand Sculpture

You know that, right? Design industry is flooded with self-proclaimed designers who brag about being featured in various galleries. But, are galleries even rejecting designers? Design galleries are like survey companies. Their numbers are sky rocketing and this makes it pretty tough for us to gauge their authenticity.

Designers have ceased to exist in this era of Photoshop and XHTML/CSS. Look for one and you will meet multiple “expert designers” who can design an outlook after reading couple of tutorials and quick tips. One might end up paying few hundred dollars for a re-designed idea that is actually an inspiration from multiple ideas already floating around the Internet.

Don’t let technical terms fool you.

One might argue that a Manager’s job (especially the one who did his/her MBA from a prestigious B-School) is to use overly complex jargon to excite clients. Marilyn Monroe was famous not only for her painfully romantic roles, but also for the similar image that she carried in her real life. She had moulded herself to be what you saw her in movies. This is exactly what happens to most of the Managers out there. They carve themselves so well in their shells that they (by default) believe that they aren’t fooling their clients with jargons. It simply results in the over usage of terms that have no meaning and no useful end results.

Same is the case with designers. Terms, like “increased user experience”, have been used by multiple designers to squeeze out few extra dollars off their client’s pocket. Such designers believe that their new design ideas will enhance user experience, but they fail to understand that the “new” idea is nothing but a derivative of the pointless Internet design industry.

Take inspiration but be different.

We all get inspired by things around us. Our brains have been designed like this and nobody can avoid this fact. I am not asking you to close your eyes and do your own thing. Rather, I want you to sit and study a design. Ever thought why a particular font was used while creating the logo for Amazon? Ever wondered the reason behind the colour theme of TechCrunch?

You might have walked across a design that you could have done better but ever wondered why that designer was getting the recognition and why you weren’t? I am asking you to dive head first into the world of design and understand “why” the famous designers do things that have made them famous. Don’t think about how they do it? Think about why they do it? It is about standing in front of a mirror and asking yourself what you like? Keep questioning yourself till you know the right answer. Ways to achieve your dreams will come up themselves. First, you got to start dreaming.

Design principles make hell lot of difference.

Heard of principles like Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, Chunking, and The Grid? Well, these are few of the very famous (I meant it) design principles that are the reasons why the real designers are able to come up with master pieces that leave you full of jealousy.

If questions like “How can a particular design look awesome?” or “Why aren’t my design as good as that of the famous designer?” killing your night’s sleep then I will suggest you to learn these design principles. I can assure you that the end results will blow your clients away!

History repeats itself, henceforth you better be aware of it.

Path to expertise is lengthy in every career. People have been covering the same since years and it is suggested that you read the history behind your career before you get going with your career. Design Archives will help you understand how designers were able to come up with flawless designs even when they did not have access to complex technology. Such design archives are full of inspirational designs that will force you to think about your abilities. It’s a faceoff with reality that you must experience.

Instead of a lengthy article I will like to leave you on your own. Ask yourself if you are really designing unique ideas or are you just re-designing the old ones. Figure out your client’s needs and not the zeroes in his account. Money will flow in when you are worth it!

Iphone has been the most popular gadgets ever and people have created thousands of applications for it and everyday there are new apps on the apple app store. But to make your app stand out from the rest you need to create something different. In this post we have listed some of the best Iphone app websites that are so crisp and clean in design and catches everyone’s attention. These websites will serve you as an inspiration to create your app website or if you are taking up a project.

Go ahead and Enjoy

1) Getconcentrating

2) Spiffing Apps

3) Ramp Champ

4) Itenary App

5) Faces

6) The Heist

7) Calcbot

Drync

9) Happy Dangy Diggy

10) Keypoint

11) Paraply

12) Little Snapper

13) Classics

14) Bird

15) Firetask

16) Tapbots

17) Top Floor

18) Tic A Tac

19) Tea Round

20) Courier

21) Kaleidoscope

22) Bord

23) Instagram

24) Ecoki

25) Awesome Note

26) Convert

27) Cellar

28) Barista

29) Postman

30) Cocktails

31) Pretty poo

32) Thermometer

33) Sudoku

34) Twitbit

35) Syphone

36) Seek n Spell

37) Parablox

38) Sketches 2

39) Filemagnet

40) Bottle Rocket