August 2009
30 Top Photoshop Tutorial Websites For Web Designers
The internet is swarming with tutorial websites, many of which are to do with or provide photoshop tutorials. Ive done the hard bit and separated the best ones from the ever growing crowd. So here is WebdesignDev’s compilation of the best websites for photoshop tutorials. We have tried to select more personal tutorials sites for designers sites, rather than mass tutorial directories. Of course we couldn’t include our self to our own list, but we also provide some great Photoshop Tutorials.
You may want to check out one of our older posts, titled Top 30 Photoshop Web Design Layout Tutorials. Enjoy!
PSD Vibe
Some great tutorials and resources here for web designers.
Best Of The Web August For Web/Graphic Design
Another awesome monthly roundup featuring a couple of videos including a “A Crash-Course in Advanced CSS3 Effects”. Some great Photoshop and also illustrator tutorials featured in the roundup, also a great SEO article and video which contain some really valuable SEO tips.
@font-face and 15 Free Fonts You Can Use Today
Fonts are a huge part of design (as we all know). Text on the web needs to be much more dynamic than in any other media. We have solutions like Cufón, sIFR, etc. but perhaps one of the better options is using @font-face in CSS.
We’ll take a quick look at using @font-face in CSS and 15 great free fonts you can start using today.
What is @font-face?
@font-face is a CSS rule that lets web designers link to a font that visitors may not have installed. Using this, we can get around the problem of web-safe fonts as well as prevent creating additional dependencies in other methods such as Cufón, sIFR, etc.
Once the font is linked, it is used just like you would use any other font in your CSS. Imagine the possibilities! Unfortunately, there are concerns from many font foundries and others that is currently limiting the use of this rule.
Launch Of A New Design Website Design Chair
Design chair is a new design related website launched on Monday by the Creative Nerds team, below within the article is a little bit more about what exactly Design Chair is.
About Design Chair
Design chair is the perfect website for designers offering daily Photoshop and illustrator tutorials also high quality design resources such as brushes and vectors.
10 Ways To Add Value To Your Service And Build Customer Loyalty
Many businesses fail because of the lack of value they give to their customers. I have wrote a quick handy guide on how to increase value to your website service / product, and build loyalty with existing customers and new ones. Adding value to your service allows you to raise the product price, so you earn more money, or keep the price the same, but conversion rates and customer satisfaction with the product will be higher. Anyway here is my guide. If you want to share a tip you have to add value, drop us a comment.
Your Product Needs To Be Unique
Theres no point in having an exact duplicate of another product / service. You want to offer something unique to your customers. Your product needs to be in a league of its own, so when people come to look at it, they will be like “that’s awesome, no other service offers some of these features” etc.
Add Social Bookmarks to your WordPress Theme
In this short tutorial, we’ll be adding buttons to our WordPress theme to allow visitors to easily submit the current article to social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter and Facebook.
All of these sites provide a simple way to create these buttons. For example, to add an article to Reddit, the URL is: http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=THE-URL&title=THE-TITLE. As you can see, we just have to fill in the URL and the title for the submission.
I implemented this functionality into my recent ‘ target="_blank" href="http://themeforest.net/item/magazine-otuts/38654">Magazine o’Tuts‘ template:
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Blogger Tutorial (1/6): Introduction & Getting Started
I know some of you guys are keen about blogging but unwilling to spend extra on web hosting and domain. The good news is there are tons of great blogging platform around and they are absolutely free. One of the top rated blog platform is of course Blogger.com manged by Google. For the next few weeks (or months), I’m glad to have experienced blogger E-Quan on board to share his experience and knowledge in operating a Blogger blog. I’m sure his tutorials bring great joy and valuable information, so stay tuned and have fun learning!
Blogger: Introduction & Getting Started
So you’ve decided to start a blog, great! I bet you have plenty of thoughts, ideas, or even wonderful photos to share with close ones and the world. What better way of doing that than writing them down, publishing them easily, and at the end, archiving them systematically using Blogger (www.blogger.com)?
PSDFAN Relaunches With New Look!
PSDFAN 3.0!
After 14 months of serving the community with top quality tutorials and design inspiration, I’m very happy to unveil the brand new PSDFAN!
This is the third design to grace PSDFAN’s pages. Yet it is far more than just a design! As PSDFAN continues to grow it has become apparent that it was outgrowing it’s old skin. It is time for the site to reach it’s true potential, and so allow me to talk you through some of the exciting changes that have, and will be happening over the next few weeks!
What’s New
Several things are new with this version of PSDFAN, ranging from the prominent, to the subtle, from the visible, to the invisible… All of these changes were made with YOU in mind. This new version of PSDFAN should be far more user friendly.
60 Tutorials Creating High Quality Design Icons
Icons are essential within web design and within interface designs. There are many sites across the web where you can download free icons. This article features a wide selection of over 60 tutorials which will guide you through the process for learning how to design icons.
What’s Coming Up in September!
It’s been a hectic 3 days for us here at target="_blank" href="http://envato.com">Envato. We’ve had a massively successful target="_blank" href="http://envato.com/birthday">Birthday Bundle (over 5,000 sales in 3 days), lots of giveaways, a fantastic Tuts+ tutorial set up for free download and our first video interview. Here in the office we’ve also been celebrating today with a big lunch and lots of network gaming! With the birthday all wrapped up now though I thought I’d give you a very quick preview of what’s coming up in September…
