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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Web and Print Design tutorial recommendations
Here's our latest Roundup of Print and Web tutorials. The following tutorials are great examples of the website design and print design work we complete on a day to day basis. Tutorials make great practice and try to do different variations of them by using your own text or images.
Print Tutorials
Business Card - Making ... Read More »
Top 14 jQuery Photo Slideshow / Gallery Plugins
jQuery is becoming present in more Web 2.0 sites. jQuery slideshows or galleries take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. Here is a list of top options available for your website's photo gallery.
Galleria - Galleria is javascript image gallery written as a plugin of jQuery. It uses simple ... Read More »
10 things to do after installing wordpress
After a fresh install of WordPress it is essential to complete the following items. This will not only assist you get your blog up and running but help you get the most out of your blog or website.
1. Change the Admin Password and Manage Your Authors
2. Edit Permalinks
3. Upload Your ... Read More »
Top Twitter WordPress Plugin Roundup
Here at Blueprint Design we have been trying to figure out which WordPress Twitter plugins we should use to integrate our twitter account. Here are the results of our research. Look at the end of this post to see what we picked to use. Please note all of these plugins ... Read More »
Watch The Obama Inauguration From Your iPhone
Live video streaming site Ustream is releasing an iphone app that lets users watch live video streams from their iphone. Video of the product below.
The application will let users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone. And not only that, users will also see and be able to participate in ... Read More »
Great Photoshop tutorials for beginner to advanced users
Photoshop can be a very versatile tool and can be used in many different instances. Here are so of our featured tutorials we recommend to get your feet wet.
Image effect:
create a red hazard sign
The above tutorial is great for the beginner. Here are more great image tutorials for some great effects.
30 Nicest Photoshop Tutorials
41 ... Read More »
Sign of the times: Restaurant Drink Specials
Consumers are down in the dumps about the tough economic times we are in and restaurant owners are not happy. As this recession continues restaurant owners are seeing an increase in alcohol sales. This is a good thing right? Not so fast.
People are going out more and more during the times that restaurants ... Read More »
Wordpress 2.7 hits 1,000,000 downloads
Wordpress passed the million download mark for the latest version 2.7. Congrats!
Source: http://wordpress.org/download/counter/ Read More »
What Makes a Restaurant Menu Design Effective?
A restaurant menu is a huge part of the restaurant's brand identity. It reflects who you are in the market. Menus should be viewed as an investment for a restaurant owner, not as a cost because a menu design or redesign can improve sales if designed correctly.
Customers need guidance when ... Read More »
10 web design company marketing strategies
As web design companies get more and more aggressive with their marketing strategies we see a repetitive cycle of methods. Listed here is some of the many ways of gaining more business and exposure for your web design company. Please feel free to add your own methods or success/failure stories in the comments.
1. Billboards - ... Read More »
Web-safe fonts or fonts common to Mac & Windows
Many of our clients request fonts for their web site that just simply will not show up on the majority of computers due to the viewers computer simply not having the font loaded. Below is a list of "web-safe" fonts that will insure your site to be viewable and appear consistently with ... Read More »
Why web design & development doesn’t cost $399
Web design in this day and age can be confusing. Who's good? Who's bad? How do I know? What's the difference between going to a web design studio and going to someone that posted an ad on craigslist for $399? Well we will explain some very important facts to let ... Read More »
