May 2010
Design a Super Clean Blue Portfolio Website
Final Image
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
Step 1
Create a new document (1000X800px).
We want to start by laying out some guides for our content areas. Go to view>new guide and then create 2 vertical guides, at 50px and 950px (creating a main column for your content that’s 900px wide).
Now create horizontal guides at 130px, 250px, 500px and 800px.
Your document, complete with guides should look like the image below:
Magento for Designers: Part 4 “Magento is a stunningly...
“Magento is a stunningly powerful e-commerce platform. In this miniseries, we’ll learn how to get started with the platform, getting to know the terminologies, setting up a store and all related aspects of it and finally learn how to customize it to make it our very own.
“In this fourth part, we’ll lay the groundwork for our theme which we’ll be building completely from scratch. Excited? Let’s get started!”
Best Of Web And Design In May 2010
Another month has passed which means its time for our monthly wrap of of design tutorials, freebies and articles form over the web/design community. A great collection of photoshop tutorials which have been published this month which i feel is the highlight of the monthly roundup, feel free to leave a comment we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts upon the article.
Fortune3 Review
In this article I will focus on http://www.webdesigndev.com/reviews/fortune3-review ">Fortune3 review. From small to large online retailers, Fortune3 ecommerce software is one of the easiest and user-friendly platforms in the shopping cart space. With over 10 years in development, the Fortune3 shopping cart software was developed by online retailers for online retailers to build an ecommerce store within minutes.
5 tips for Persuading Clients to Hire Your Design Service
These are simple quick effective tips which can be implemented into your online portfolio weather you’re a designer or maybe even a web designer to persuade potential clients to hire you for their next design project just from a quick glance at your portfolio.
Making Is Easy for Potential clients to get in touch
How To Create an Ultra-Realistic Cracked Head Effect
Final Image
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
Step 1
We will start with importing a stock image named anger.jpeg taken from sxc.hu
Quick Tip: Pure CSS Text Gradients “With the latest...
Quick Tip: Pure CSS Text Gradients
“With the latest advancements in CSS, we now have access to powerful styling techniques, including box shadows, rounded corners, background gradients, etc. However, we don’t currently have the ability to apply gradients to the text itself. Luckily, with a bit of trickery, we can force this effect — at least in webkit browsers! I’ll show you how in today’s video quick tip.”
35 Beautiful Examples Polar Panorama Photography
We recently did a tutorial on how to create little planets using Photoshop the tutorial went down really well, therefore we felt it was only right to follow up the tutorial with some beautiful examples of Polar Panorama Photography to show our readers the different results which can be achieved following this simple tutorial. check it out
How To Create Little Planets Using Photoshop
A quick tip a design tutorial on how to how to create Polar Panoramas also know as little planets. The tutorial is in the form of a screencast making is super easy to follow along with the tutorial.
What we are going to be creating ?
Little planets polar panoramas are also know as polar panoramas, to achieve this simple unique effect its created from panoramic photos.
Tutorial details
Time Estimation: 3 to 6 mins
Difficulty: Beginner
One Developer’s Switch from PC to Mac “If you’ve...
One Developer’s Switch from PC to Mac
“If you’ve watched/read my latest tutorial and screencast, you may have noticed a change: I’ve switched from Windows to Mac. If you’re curious about this change, wonder no more. I’ll tell you why I made the change and give you some reasons you might consider switching, as well as what trip-ups you might run into in the process.”
Rip Ubuntu 10.04 ISO image with ImgBurn Free CD DVD burning software Video
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Ever wanted to back up your CD and DVD which gets scratched so easily to your computer. ImgBurn is a free program which let’s you rip a CD or DVD to your hard drive. ImgBurn saves the image as an ISO file which you can use to install a operating System [...]
WP Robot 3 Wordpress Autoblogging Plugin Video Tutorial – How to …
May 12, 2010. WP Robot 3 is the latest release of the popular autoblogging plugin for Wordpress with many exciting new features. To learn more visit http://wprobot.net/.
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30 Super Fresh Web Design Tutorials
30 Super Fresh Web Design Tutorials
Web design tutorials are incredibly useful, as layout design is often considered a ’sticking point’ for many new designers. These tutorials each teach you how to create highly professional, unique layouts through a set of easy to follow steps. After looking through these tutorials you should have all the skills in place to go and create your own professional website!
Best of all, we haven’t selected dated tutorials for you, but only the freshest, newest tutorials, so that you can learn the most up to date techniques!
Create a Psychedelic Alternate Reality Using Photoshop Actions
Final Image
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
Step 1
Open up a new document (600X600px) and then download this great watercolor brush set:
Apply various brush strokes on a new layer:
30 Design Tutorials For Creating Professional Business Cards
An collection of design tutorials which will guide you through the process of creating your very own business card, including showing you how to bleed a business card in order for it to be ready for print. A wide collection of tutorials which I’m more than certain that will teach you everything which you need to know about preparing business cards for print as well as creating good business cards.
Feel free to share any good business card design tutorials which you may feel that we may have missed from this compilation, in the comment below it would be more than appreciated.
Blogging Tutorial: Facebook Connect: Plugins to Integrate FB and …
wp -fbconnect Adam is a Facebook Engineer, so using WP -FacebookConnect can be a good place to start. The plugin adds Facebook functionality to Wordpress using the Facebook Connect APIs
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The State of CSS3 in Email Templates “On the heels of some...
The State of CSS3 in Email Templates
“On the heels of some of our recent findings regarding the state of CSS in email, I reckoned it was high time to shake things up a bit. So here goes – CSS3 in email lives. Ok, so I’m sorry if I made you drop your toast, there. I know you’re thinking, “But… It’s still largely experimental… In the browser, to boot!” Yes, CSS3 support is even more fickle amongst a swag of email clients that can’t even get CSS2 right. But that doesn’t mean that it’s too soon to touch any of it.
A Guide to the Vignette Effect
The Vignette Effect – What Is It?
The Vignette is an increasingly popular design trend. So, just what is it?
Vignetting has been used in photography for some time, and is a reduction of an image’s brightness or saturation at the periphery. Essentially, the center of the image is the brightest, whilst the edges often form a circular border of shadow.
Often Vignetting occurs in photography unintentionally due to camera settings and lens limitations. However, the effect can also be integrated with special filters and post processing procedures.
Below shows various examples of a vignette effect at varying intensities. How is your mood effects by each intensity?
Review – NextGen Gallery – WordPress Plugin Review | timnhanh.us
This Tutorial shows you how to create a Photo Gallery on your Wordpress Website using the NextGen Gallery Wordpress plugin . Related PostsWordpress 2.3 Easy.
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