Down Time
November 13, 2008 in News Unfortunately, Tutorial Wow went down for most of this morning. This has never happened before, and I was really surprised when I found out. This is the first time my host, 1&1 has ever been down – they have a great record of up-time.
Read more...16 Font Articles That You Should Read
November 11, 2008 in Roundups One of the most important elements of design is the typography that you use. You shouldn’t just throw a bunch of different fonts into a design, you should carefully pick each of them to fit your design’s feel. Here are a few articles to help.
Read more...Solving the CSS Padding Problem
November 10, 2008 in HTML/CSS The “CSS padding problem” is what happens when you try to add padding to a lone container. Instead of the padding pushing the content in, the content pushed the container out. I have a simple solution to this problem.
Read more...10 Ways to Get the News Out About Your Blog
November 3, 2008 in Tips With the increasing amount of blogs showing up everywhere, everyone wants theirs to be the most popular. This is hard by definition, but there are a few ways to make it easier to get the news out about your blog.
Read more...Create Seasonal Leafy Text in Photoshop
October 15, 2008 in Photoshop Who doesn’t love autumn? With it comes beautiful colors, hayrides, warm sweaters, and leaves, leaves everywhere. This tutorial will teach you how to create some seasonal text with leaves and layer styles.
Read more...Create a 4th Gen iPod Nano in Photoshop
October 10, 2008 in Photoshop As many of you know, Apple released their new generation of iPod nanos recently. I love Apple’s design style – sleek and shiny. So I decided to make a tutorial on how to recreate one of the nanos in Photoshop.
Read more...Quick Tip: Glow Style Problems in Photoshop
After all the years that I’ve used Photoshop, you’d think that I would have it all down by now, right? I thought so too! Until I stumbled upon a great new tool, right in the familiar old Layer Styles dialog.
Read more...Site Analytics with Woopra
September 13, 2008 in Misc Woopra is one of the best up-and-coming website analytics programs. It has great features like real-time analytics, wordpress integration, live visitor tracking, and more.
Read more...Quick Tip: CSS 100% Height
A common problem among designers is how to get a div to stretch 100% of the window’s height. There are a few different techniques out there, but I came up with one that is my personal favorite, which I will share with you today.
Read more...Create a Sparkler in Blender
August 23, 2008 in Blender3D Blender3D has lots and lots of cool functions and features. While some are obvious, others are hidden pretty well. This effect is one of those “nuggets”. It is a really cool lighting effect that looks somewhat like a sparkler.
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