July 2009
Best of the Web: July
Our First Monthly Roundup!
Monthly roundups are something that a lot of sites have been doing, and to be honest, have been missing from PSDFAN for some time. I read a lot of design related blogs in my spare time, and feel that I should give some credit for the host of people/blogs that inspire me on a daily basis.
Therefore I give you the first on many monthly roundup posts to come! Please let me know if you like the idea of a monthly roundup at PSDFAN, and I recommend that you check out all of these great tutorials, articles and freebies!
Tutorials
40 Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
No matter you want to design a banner or logo, text effect is very important. Why? It is because a beautiful text effect on the banner or logo will attracts the visitor and also delivers a better message.
There are tons of Photoshop text tutorials around us, but today we are going to pick the most 40 beautiful Photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers.
You may or may not seen them before, but believe me, they are really useful, cool, beautiful and easy to follow tutorials.
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10 Typography Tips to Bring your Skills to the Next Level
An often overlooked aspect of web design, by those just starting out, is typography. In fact, web designers that have been around for a couple years even have a tendency to overlook and undervalue the power of typography. Don’t be mistaken though, it’s one of the most powerful tools web designers have.
In this article, we’ll review ten web typography tips that will bring your typographic design skills to the next level.
1. Leading
Leading is the space between lines of text and probably one of the more commonly known elements of typography. Leading will greatly effect the readability of your text content. Leading will need to be changed based on the type face, size, weight and measure (covered next) used.
I generally stick with about 2-5pt’s larger leading than font size depending on the type face, size, etc. and how it feels reading it.
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Best Of The Web July For Web/Graphic Design
The best of the web features a range of different types of articles including some great illustrator and Photoshop tutorials. Creative Nerds also managed capture the best aspects from web design, SEO, JavaScript and also a great compilation of freebies released in July.
Photoshop Tutorials
How to Create a Surreal Scene of Flying Bombs on Fire
Creating an AJAX Web App Using the Bit.ly API
Over the past few years, the web has seen an explosion in the number of URL shorteners. A lot of this growth is due to popular microblogging and social networking sites such as Twitter. With this growth, comes the demand for custom use and the ability for developers to create their own apps to take advantage of the shortening service. Today, we will use Twitter’s url shortener of choice and create an AJAX web app using the bit.ly API and the jQuery library.
Final Demo
You can check out what we will finally achieve after this tut at the online demo page.
Creating an AJAX Web App Using the Bit.ly API
Over the past few years, the web has seen an explosion in the number of URL shorteners. A lot of this growth is due to popular microblogging and social networking sites such as Twitter. With this growth, comes the demand for custom use and the ability for developers to create their own apps to take advantage of the shortening service. Today, we will use Twitter’s url shortener of choice and create an AJAX web app using the bit.ly API and the jQuery library.
Final Demo
You can check out what we will finally achieve after this tut at the online demo page.
[ Plugin ] Picturebook – WordPress Forums
PictureBook Allows for the combination of both text and images when displaying a list of bookmarks. As with the case of this web site the footer.
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[ Plugin ] Picturebook – WordPress Forums
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Interview With Designer Rob Palmer From Branded07
Today I have interviewed an amazing graphic designer called Rob Palmer. Rob has his own very uniquely designed website (branded07), compared to many other web design portfolio’s and blog’s out there today. His website is featured on many design galleries, and he scored number 20 in our 30 Most Influential People In Web Design post at the beginning of the month.
Did you study anything when you were younger?
I took Art, Design Technology and Computing at GCSE along with my other subjects!
