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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’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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s quite a buzz out there about what’s hot in web design, and it’s always ringing in my ear when I fire up Photoshop to create a web page. Once I have chosen the appropriate look and feel for a site, such as a clean and structured business look, or a rough and textured expressive [...]