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May 7, 2008

A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

In this tutorial we'll be creating a smokey night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. It's a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter..

May 7, 2008

Creating a film grain effect – Photoshop CS3 Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to create or simulate a natural film grain effect on photos in Photoshop CS3..

Apr 29, 2008

The Highly Extensible CSS Interface

A four part article series on developing a flexible web design. This links to the project summary page. There are tutorials, working demos, numerous references to resources and all of the sample code are available for download..

Apr 29, 2008

50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials

50 of the best Photoshop tutorials for working with text: how to create smooth glass text, slow shutter effect, using light and shade, create stamps and graffiti and more..

Apr 29, 2008

45 Photoshop Tutorials for Better Navigation

Here is a collection of 45 Photoshop tutorials that will help you with creating the perfect navigation. Some of them produce an end result that is fairly similar to another tutorial on the list, but you can learn something from each one as they take a slightly different approach..

Mar 21, 2008

More Than 150,000 Free Fonts And Dingbats

This list contains more than 150,000 free fonts and dingbats. Its purpose is to compile together the best sites. Use it as your main bookmark for finding good fonts..

Mar 13, 2008
Joanna Gadel

10 key principles of Web 2.0 design

Rating: 2.5 stars

Undeniably, Web 2.0 is an honored progress in the arena of web design. I am feeling massive excitement to introduce you people with this modernism of website design. Web 2.0 templates have comfort of numerous designing facilities like as innermost layout, effortlessness, content versatility, intelligibility as well as appealing color contrasts..

Mar 13, 2008
Moe Tamani

6 Web Design Tips to Grab Attention

Rating: 2 stars

As every good website design specialist knows, a well designed web page is able to draw the focus of readers to the content, news and events that the client you are designing the page for specifies. Of the many methods that can be used to accomplish this, often the easiest and simplest method is to simply modify the size of headline font. Using a moderately larger font to highlight headlines is very useful for attracting the attention of readers. Newspaper and media companies understand this concept well, and a great web design company should too..

Feb 28, 2008
Ivana Katz

10 Tips for Planning an Outstanding Website

Rating: 5 stars

When faced with the daunting task of planning what to include on your website and how to write the copy, here are a few tips that will make the task easier for you..

Jan 31, 2008

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers. Thankfully, we were graded back then for having reusable code and proper OO methodology  — never for our aesthetics. But nowadays, one of the greatest assets a developer can have is a keen understanding of design..