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Today marks the 2-year-anniversary of Tutorial9. In so short a time, our community of designers and artists have helped ten of thousands educate themselves—and have shared hundreds of valuable resources to use freely in commercial and personal projects.

Welcome to 2010! It's been a wonderful year for us here at Tutorial9, and we'd like to give something back to the greater community.

Our friends over at Obox Design have allowed us to share some of their premium Micro Blogging Themes with the community here on Tutorial9. You can grab it through the 16th in our Ultimate Resource Package for Web Designers

For one week in November, Tutorial9 fanboys and gals will have access to the Ultimate Resource Package. 500 Downloads, Premium Wordpress Themes, Icons, and much more. All for free.

Today marks the 1-year anniversary for Tutorial9. That's 365 days of serving the friendliest community on the planet, striving each and every day to find new ways to help designers.

Our first annual contest has ended! We'll be announcing winners within the next week, and sending out prizes soon.

We've upgraded our site and we're not gonna lie, we really love it. Let us know what you think of the changes, and be sure to give everything a quick look!

Here's your chance to really make a difference in the world, and win some cool prizes along the way. Donate your mind to the community by writing a guest post, and we'll send you some great prizes along with donating $100 to a child in need!

It's been a big year for the Design Community. We've taken the liberty of finding the past years greatest design blogs that you should be subscribed to in 2009!