Words cannot express our loss from this last weekend of coworker and great friend, Phil Ryan. An energetic presence and a positive individual who not only gave his all but cared about doing things as well as anyone possibly could. As part of our Blueprint family, his desire, dedication, and passion for enjoying the moment [...]
Below is a list of some of our recently used photoshop brushes. We’ve filtered through hundreds of photoshop brushes for multi purpose use. Typically these brushes are just a starting point for us. When working with them we modify shapes, sizes, colors and sometimes the brush it self. The brushes work great for web design but some [...]
Here at Blueprint can pretty much agree that ie6 has caused nothing but problems for everyone. Roughly 1 year has past since we discontinued support of the cursed internet browser in our web design studio. All I have to say is check this out, it explains everything. Site Support All of Norway is against IE6 No [...]
11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives For Designers – Great list giving you a free alternative with a comparison to its pay for counterpart. 11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers – Small list of useful programs. 27 Adobe AIR Applications – Handy For Web Designers 30 Essential Free Portable Web Design [...]
We noticed lately an explosion of available online and local software tools to assist with just about anything. Below are some sites recommend to all designers and developers from beginners to professionals. Everybody has their own preferred workflow from the beginnings of a design to the end. Our web design companies office is split 50/50 with both Mac and PC designers and developers. We thought [...]
Giving recruiters a centralized location for posting job positions and to have the ability to have resumes submitted back to them for specific job positions that were posted.
Flash driven site to showcase the authentic ambiance of the decor as well as displaying three separate locations and each location menu online.
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 a Print-Ready Business [...]
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 html list to load [...]
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 Theme and [...]
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 the live chat around [...]
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 [...]
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 have their happy hour [...]
WordPress passed the million download mark for the latest version 2.7. Congrats! Source: http://wordpress.org/download/counter/
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 – These are a [...]
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 you know exactly why web [...]
Here at Blueprint Design Studio we would like to thank all of our clients from this year and wishing them and our web sites visitors a safe and happy new years. Keep check our blog for great new things to come in ’09. Here’s some things to look for…. twitter tutorials wp plugins themes and [...]
This post has been modified from the original with screenshots of our site and removal of original content. Original Author: Jarel Remick Anatomy of a Web Page The elements of a web page are like organs; they are vital to a properly functioning and aesthetically pleasing web page. These are the main elements of [...]
December 29, 2008 – 12:25
Finding a unique memorable card design can be challenging. A great business card design should be relevant to your business and create a lasting impression to prevent the cards fate to sit with a pile of other cards on a desk for years to come. Below is the most comprehensive list of links to many different business card design posts. These [...]
Going through and moderating our comments is a normal thing but recently we noticed something very unusual. If you keep up with tech news you may remember sometime ago some ex employees of Google formed to start a new search engine to compete with Google called Cuil (pronounced “cool”). After some bad press a couple months following launch we haven’t heard [...]
We recently redesigned our web site and we were just picked to be featured in welovewp.com gallery (if you don’t know, see below). Our listing on we love WP here. “We love WP is a niche gallery specifically showcasing WordPress powered sites. We Love WP has been around for quite a while now and was even sold earlier [...]
Last week if you noticed in your WordPress you should see a message saying “WordPress 2.7 is available! Please update now.” That is correct, version 2.7 has been released and you can download it here. Version 2.7 is a major upgrade to WordPress. Here is a list of new features: new interface to make it easier [...]
Do you want to see snowing in your wordpress blog too? Click - Snow Blog effect on your wordpress blog or if you are one of our clients contact us here all we’ll set you up for free until march ’09. also click here to see our the bacolicious version of our site?!
September 16, 2008 – 9:53
We often develop sites that include static flash galleries, headers, menus, and intros. It’s often difficult, then, to explain which parts of the site can be changed within WordPress, and which are hard-coded. This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard. Download: flShow Photo Carousel [...]
September 10, 2008 – 1:11
We’ve finally removed the dust from our preview site. After years of updating a single HTML file every time we started a new project, we’ve caught up to our clients, and our main site. We’ve switched over to a WordPress powered portfolio. Even though we’re all quite competent at mucking around in HTML and FTP, [...]
Just a few days ago, google announced that they’re entering the browser market, with their own webkit-based browser, Chrome:
Last month, Google announced that they were significantly improving their flash spidering. This would seem to be good news for our clients whose sites depend on animation. Indeed, initial research showed that embedded flash files were being indexed.
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