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Web Design Tutorials
Web Design/Layout Tutorials & Inspiration
Going through our bookmarks here is our list of most useful links for inspiration or guidance when creating a concept. Whether you are just getting started as a designer or you are a designer with creative block these links will be sure to help.
Web Design Tutorials The Ultimate Roundup - This is a great article ... Read More »
Tutorial: How to add forms to Store-Locator plugin in WordPress
Yesterday I had to add some custom forms to a WordPress plugin called Google Maps Store Locator for WordPress (version 1.2.28) and found it's not as straight-forward as one might expect. After about forty-five minutes of digging through all of the plugin's files, I located four that were of use ... Read More »
Friday Designer Resource Links
Build a Content Slider with jQuery
A cool Jquery content slider to add to your site.
View the Demo
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Design a Unique Grungy Website Layout
The web is filled with grunge web tutorials well here's one. We like this not so much for the overall result but it is a good ... Read More »
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 »
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 »
How to move a website from one webhost to another
Most of the time, the first webhost you sign up for, you wind up outgrowing after a year or less. Most people purchasing webhosting don't know what factors to look for, and even if they do, it's difficult to tell the seedy companies from the good ones. On top of ... Read More »
Howto: Become a Web Developer
Root recently wrote a post answering a question I've started hearing with increasing frequency since I started working with Blueprint: "How do you become a web designer/developer?"
This is usually followed immediately with "I've got a copy of Dreamweaver, will that help?" Root's answers, most of which I agree with, ... Read More »
How to Choose a Web Host
There are a ton of webhosts out there. Some are cheap, some are risky, some are high quality, and some are expensive. None of those qualities confers any of the others. Choosing one is one of the most difficult tasks in setting up a website by yourself.
Windows ... Read More »
Vectorizing
I recently ran into some problems vectorizing some images I wanted to use for a logo, and took some time to problem solve, so I'm presenting my findings here in hopes it will save someone a big headache and a lot of stress.
Ok, so I got my image ready in ... Read More »
Flash Animation for Video
I like to see the infiltration of the Flash vector aesthetic offline into video. See this Beck video by Mumbleboy and this Knife video (I'm not sure if it was made with Flash, but it could have been).
Here are a couple videos Jenny Schmid and I made using Flash (she ... Read More »
Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins
For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great plugins. The strength of ... Read More »
Organizing Pages in WordPress
WordPress can be a very straightforward CMS for many types of websites. Our website, like most of our clients' sites, runs on WordPress exclusively. Writing and editing static content is pretty easy, but organizing your static content is a little less obvious. There are two parts to ... Read More »
Upgrading Wordpress the Easy Way
WordPress 2.5 is set to be released on March 10th. I don't recommend running out and upgrading right away, since there are no security flaws (yet) in 2.3.3. It is important, however, to keep your WordPress installation up to date. The good news is, most hosts provide ... Read More »
Formatting Your Content
The problem with writing for the internet is that while you have plenty of experience in your field, most of the people reading your website are only planning on spending a few minutes at best reading it. To get your point across, it's important to make your post easy ... Read More »
How to design a really bad web site.
We always see tutorials online of webmasters giving people advise on "great" or "fabulous" web design. Well I believe the web is missing a good bad web design tutorial so here it goes.
Step 1 - Pick some cool photos online. Use a photo source like Google Images. Make sure the ... Read More »
Flash With Transparent Backgrounds
When I tell people I found out how to make an SWF with a transparent background, they look at me like I'm evil because they think I'm unleashing some annoying ads that float over the navigation and content you're trying to get to. Yeah, that IS really annoying! Well here ... Read More »
Formatting Images with WordPress
Most likely, the first thing you'll need to do with your WordPress powered site, once it's been set up, is to add content and images. We'll get into content later, but first I'll show you how to add images, since the process is less familiar. Mainly because we ... Read More »
