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The Bigger Picture – What Does A Web Design Project Need To Cover?
Planning a web design project comes in various forms not to mention no plan at all (not really recommended!) to working on the fly from a barebones blueprint to a structured plan that takes weeks to reach its start date. How you approach the project depends on your resources though …
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December 17, 2009 -
10 Good Web Design Practices For Optimization
When you start out as a designer, you may decide to adopt a ‘make it up as you go’ approach. This can work for people whom have a very clear visualization of the site outcome and can work ‘on-the-fly’. Though, it is not recommended as you may end up with …
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Content Toggle For Site Content With CSS
This article shows how to write content sections that can be hidden and opened with just a click; this works well on pages with lots of content that can be broken into subheadings and the reader can control how much content is shown at one time. A good example is …
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December 17, 2009 -
Five Stylish and Free WordPress Templates
WordPress.org blogging software is one of the most popular software platforms for blogging on the internet today. Some of the most popular blogging templates on the internet are WordPress.org templates, which are sleek and simple in design and are usually fairly easy to use. Blog readers tend to prefer quick …
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December 17, 2009 -
How To Optimize JPEG Files
By optimize, I mean compression where JPEG files are concerned. If you have looked at your images and wondered why the quality is not too sharp, then you need this article. JPEG compression has been reiterated on the web for years. Beginner designers must bear it in mind when preparing …
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How To Create Glowing 3D Text against a Starry Background with Photoshop and Swift 3D
3D and Photoshop may seem to be distant from each other yet can complement each other at times. When you want to add effects such as lightning, solar flare, halos or effects like this – glowing text, it’s a good combination having Photoshop and a 3D package. This is our …
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December 17, 2009 -
Creating “Lightning Text” In Photoshop
Creating "Lightning Text" In Photoshop For this tutorial, I will show how to add a lightning effect to 2D text. There are several ways to do this though I believe this is the quicker method. Here are two examples we will aim for:
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December 17, 2009 -
How To Create A Ring Of Fire
This is a cool effect hen created with a little bit of precision. We will create a ring that appears to be ablaze or commonly known as a ring of fire. It’s actually a lot easier to do than you may think if you have not tried to create this …
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December 17, 2009
