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30 Best Holiday Gifts for the Web Designer or Developer in Your Life

Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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Whether it is your spouse, friend, co worker, family member or your significant other it can be very difficult to find the right holiday gift for a web designer or developer. Below I have compiled a list of the 30 best gifts for this holiday season. Some are fun, a few are extravagant but most [...]

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40 Best Photoshop Web Page Layout Tutorials

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by bmackler.

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// Photoshop is the premiere application for web designers, especially when it comes to web page layout. The 40 examples below walk you through the sometimes difficult process of creating a website layout from scratch in Photoshop. No matter if you are just starting out or consider yourself an expert it won’t be hard to [...]

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35 of the Best Horizontal Website Layouts For Inspiration

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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This design style elicits quite a response from users and design traditionalists, people either love them or down right hate them. There does not seem to be much middle ground for discussion but more and more you see horizontally scrolling websites popping up around the net. I have compiled 35 of the best examples. Instead [...]

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Interview with Chris Spooner From Spooner Graphics

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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Today I am launching a new interview section that will feature some of the top design bloggers online today. We will be discussing their work and various related topics of design and inspiration. The inaugural interview is with Chris Spooner, owner of SpoonGraphics, blog.SpoonGraphics and Line25. He is one of the most popular and well [...]

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Essential Cheat Sheets and Reference Cards For Web Designers and Developers

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Its impossible to remember all of the functions and keyboard shortcuts for all of your favorite web design and development applications. The one way to master your frequently used applications and increase productivity significantly is to use reference guides. No one will accuse you of “cheating” or doing something wrong…being able to perform a function [...]

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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 with [...]

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Getting Started with Photoshop – Toolbar Overview and Selection Tools – Lesson One

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by bmackler.

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Time to dive in, head first. To most people Photoshop seems very intimidating and overwhelming, especially if you don’t even know where to begin. In this multi part series we are going to discuss the tool bar, what they do and the overall functionality of Photoshop in relation to Web Design. There will be certain [...]

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Two Great Sites For Color Inspiration

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by bmackler.

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Sometimes finding the right color pallet is all it takes from making a good site into a wonderful site. There are two sites that I have found that I go back to all the time for the color inspiration that I need. Mixing and matching pallets helps you come up with combos that you may [...]