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20 Grunge Style Websites that Rock

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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One of the fastest growing web design styles has been grunge. You will notice it right when you see it…Characterized mainly by irregular and crooked visual elements, textured and gritty backgrounds, jagged edges and faded out elements. This style is in direct contrast to the Web 2.0 craze, which maintains very straight lines along [...]

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Top Ten Photoshop Disasters and Controversies

Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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In honor of the current Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna Photoshopping controversy I wanted to go through 10 of the biggest Photoshop disasters. Usually I try and keep things positive, and derive inspiration from the best of each class, but sometimes it is important to review “photoshop gone bad” in order to know what not [...]

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The 20 Best E-Commerce Website Designs

Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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The e-commerce sector has long been known to develop websites that did not put much focus on design. They tend to get very cluttered and bogged down, consistently suffering from not being user friendly. If they were actual store fronts, they would most likely go out of business as a result of bad presentation.
Today [...]

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10 Best Prep School and College Websites

Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Good educational websites share much of the same desirable practices as commercial websites. They need to be user friendly, easily navigable, and use appropriate fonts, colors, and other design elements. Sadly, many schools have decided to take the easy road and duplicate standard layouts and functionality, as if they were all taken [...]

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Top 20 Free High Quality Icon Sets on the Web

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Icons have been around for a long while now and customized icons for the web are becoming more and more popular as time goes on. They do an amazing job to train the eye and help draw out the most important information. The most important aspect of designing an individual icon is that it has [...]

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Top 20 Awesome Single Page Layouts

Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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A growing trend that I discussed previously is single page web designs. It has been gaining popularity over the past year and I think will become even more popular far into 2010. It’s amazing to see what a designer is able to do with a single page layout.
We will now take a look at a [...]

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Photoshop Layer Effects Explained

Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Layer effects are one of the most commonly used features used in Photoshop. When you use them separately or together you can create some wonderful effects. It is important to get to know each of the styles and what each does along with the available options. This tutorial will go though every default layer [...]

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15 Creative Website Navigation/Menu Bars

Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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A site’s navigation menu is usually the first thing that users see when they visit a website. These days there are many ways to design a navigation menu , not just horizontal or vertical – and since just about every website has navigation – it is vital that designers push their creativity [...]

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Top 15 Photoshop Photo Effects

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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We forget all too often that first and foremost Photoshop is an image editing and manipulation program. Yes it is also the best program to develop your websites but the power that it has to alter and manipulate imagery is astounding. And the added bonus is that much of these examples of course can [...]

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Learning Photoshop Layers and Effects – Lesson Three

Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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In Photoshop, layers are used to work on individual parts of an image while not affecting other parts. It’s hard to believe there was ever a time when layers didn’t exist inside Photoshop. Yet prior to Photoshop 3, they didn’t. Thankfully we have come a long way since Photoshop 3.
There is no question in my [...]