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If you are the owner of a website and/or you are considering a re-design or a new build, here is list of ten questions that can help you save money.
A good web professional should be asking you questions like these as part of their service. But frankly, I would advise you to consider these questions ahead of time for the following [...]
I have been re-acquainted with Adobe Illustrator lately, due to a fun project that requires all kinds of modeled objects. This inspired me to write a full tutorial on something that may be useful to the design community: a sweet flat-screen HDTV! This could be a great way to display some videos or a slideshow, [...]
Alan and I created a cool Umbraco blog skin for the new blog4umbraco blog package skin browser!
We have two skins based on the same style:
ProWorks Lozenge White
This is sort of a simple, base skin that would be great to add photos or color to.
It is based on the K2 Lite for Sandbox theme so it [...]
I’ve found that building a library of graphic resources such as textures, patterns, brushes, icons and vector artwork has been valuable to creating quality web design in a short time. You never really know what exactly you’ll need for any project beforehand, so why not go out and grab everything you find interesting now? That [...]
Using brushes in Photoshop is a great way to quickly breathe life into any design project. Sometimes it’s just not time effective to create your own, however, so building up your brushes library from web resources is a great idea. Whether it’s certain effects, design elements, texture, or atmosphere you’d like to create, there’s plenty [...]
Tonight I’m presenting “jQuery and ASP.NET” at the Corvallis .NET Users Group June Meeting.
I’ve been having lots of fun developing with jQuery with or without .Net. My first slide:
What is jQuery?
Lightweight JavaScript library
Fast (http://cli.gs/urQzG7)
Cross-browser
Cross-platform
Enables separation of behavior markup
Easy AJAX
Animation and interation API (events/DOM manipulation)
UI/plugin framework
Fun!
I have posted my jQuery and ASP.NET live demo and [...]
I used to have a rough time coming up with web design color schemes. I would look through the color books in Photoshop and Illustrator and sort-of randomly choose colors that looked good, and do my best to apply the color theory I’ve learned. Problem is, you just can’t get a good sense of the [...]
These two boxes are pretty much identical. However, the bottom one uses layer styles to more efficiently achieve the same result. This little technique (which is a given for the veteran Photoshop user) has saved me tons of time and headaches.
The top box has hand-crafted effects on separate layers. The drop shadow, the outline, the [...]
Recently I was asked to re-size the advertisement images on our latest web project forestseedlingnetwork.com. In making them shorter, the challenge was to maintain the original look and include all the original text while removing about 50% of the image size. All of them were quick and easy modifications except this one, where the text [...]