March 10th, 2010

130+ Logo Tutorials, Tips and Inspiration to Get You Started Designing

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Good Logos are not easy to design at all but they are essential for any successful business. This article is a logo designers toolbox to get you started creating logos. First of all logo design requires knowledge of the business and how to use this information in the logo design process. Logos should be relevant, timeless and aligned with the strategy and the products and or services offered. Once you have the concept in place and a solid idea you need to be able to create the image in tools like Illustrator. This article provides links to a lot of tutorials that will help you pick up the needed skills. Please share with us you ideas, favourite tools, comments and online resources we should add.

March 10th, 2010

30 Outstanding T Shirt Design Tutorials and Tips

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As defined, a t-shirt is a garment that is used to cover most of a person’s torso. It is considered to be a basic necessity that is vital to survival and everyday living. Notwithstanding it’s importance to the society, unique t-shirt designs are widely accepted and acknowledged. Designers everywhere are looking for new techniques and styles to create the perfect and unique design.

In this latest post, you will see a collection of 30 Outstanding T Shirt Design Tutorials and Tips for t-shirt designers out there who are finding ways and means to create the perfect t shirt design. Take a look at the tips provided by seasoned designers and apply some of these to your latest creation. You may be astounded by the amazing results once done. Enjoy learning!!!

March 1st, 2010

How We’ll be Building Websites in 5 years: HTML5 and CSS3 layout

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HTML5 is the next big thing in the land of web developers, so I figured the best way to show you how it’s all gonna come together is by giving you a lesson on how to make your own HTML5 and CSS3 layout. Although this isn’t a practical solution to building websites today, in a couple of years it’s going to make our lives so much easier.

February 28th, 2010

Showcase and Tips: How to Create Effective Landing Page Designs

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The Internet truly is the land of opportunities of our time.  The amount of online sales transactions are increasing at an incredible rate and while opportunities seams nearly endless competition is harder than ever.  Being able reach anyone with a connection to the Internet certainly is amazing and the only problem is that the number of competitors have gone up at the same rate.  If you don’t manage to surface and get online presence the millions of potential buyers will surf by you store without noticing it.  Customers today can pick and choose, compare, analyze etc. your products and services against others making it essential to know your competitors well and more important to get a sale whenever you have the opportunity! This is where Landing Page Design becomes important and rally can make a great difference. This article provides essential tips and examples on creating Landing Pages that work.

February 28th, 2010

Code a Modern Design Studio from PSD to HTML

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Today we’re going to convert the Modern Design Studio PSD Template created by Tomas Laurinavičius a few days ago to a clean and working XHTML/CSS code. You can download free PSD from The Modern Design Studio PSD Template.

Start out by creating a new folder on your computer in which we will put all of the site files. I named it ModerndesignStudio. Create another folder in your working folder you just created and call it images, it will contain all the images of the site. Next open up your favorite code editor (I use Dreamweaver) and create a new HTML file titled index.html in the root of the folder, this will be our main page template. Now create a new css file, and name it style.css.

February 27th, 2010

88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

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When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using images in an artistic manner. Photoshop is useful for both creating and editing images to be used in print or online. Not too easy to use, but full of high-quality features, Photoshop is the best choice for any image manipulation job.

February 20th, 2010

Designing for the Future with HTML5+CSS3 : Tutorials and Best Practices

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HTML5 is the next major version of HTML. HTML5 provides some great new features for web designers who love to create readable code and semantically-meaningful layouts. HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including: form controls, APIs, dragging and dropping, multimedia, drawing graphics on screen and a lot more.

The new specifications has added quite a few interesting and useful tags for structuring your markup.
In today’s post, we would like to showcase some of the best blogs and websites in the industry built with HTML5+CSS3. At the end of the post we would like you to check out detailed write-ups and tutorials that aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. Let’s get started marking up the blog page.
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February 17th, 2010

30 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials And Walkthroughs

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Designing a great logo is no easy task. It’s something people will remember, something that tells a story. In fact, your logo is a very important part of your branding.

We all know branding is not just a pretty logo, but creating something that’s memorable and that reflects what your company is about and effectively conveys your message will go a long way.

The tutorials featured in this post will walk you through the process of creating your own logo in Illustrator or Photoshop. Needless to say that the design process should start with a pen and paper, but these tutorials should give you the tools you’ll need once you sit at the computer.

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February 16th, 2010

Create An Apple Ipad

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Good evening everybody, in today’s tutorial il be showing you how to create an “Apple Ipad” from scratch using only photoshop. Lets get going.

This is what the finished result will or should look like once finished

Create a new document with a canvas size of “850 pixels X 850 pixels”, Fill your background with any color. Once you’ve created your canvas select the “Rounded Rectangle Tool” with a radius of “20 pixels”.

February 16th, 2010

50 jQuery Tools for Awesome Websites

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By now, everyone has heard of jQuery. It’s a framework that makes JavaScript development much easier, and has become massively popular for adding JavaScript functionality to websites.

In this post, we’ve picked out 50 of the best scripts we know of and talked about why they rock. They can help in just about any aspect of a website, so enjoy!