Category: Useful tips

Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

Although web design is everywhere nowadays (even when we’re not at the computer it still manages to squeeze it’s way in to our everyday life), print design is still a huge part of the design industry and is everywhere we look: newspapers, posters, prints, manuals, restaurant menus, business cards – the list goes on and on. So how do you make sure that you leave a good impression on people holding your piece of art in their hands? This is where experience and advanced print design skills come into play…. Click here to read the article >>

63 Popular Web Design Blogs

It’s difficult to create something exceptional when you are working to a strict deadlines. If you can’t come up with a good idea in a stressful situation, it’s best to take a break and look for inspiration. Here here is a list or websites with outstanding articles, which will wake up your brain for sure. However this is not a classic huge blog roundup – here you’ll find only the best of the best ones you should really add to your RSS reader! These sites have been proven their value in long timeline as irreplaceable sources for daily inspiration, tutorials, tips and resources for every designer…. Click here to visit the article >>

27 Indespensible Resources for Graphic Designers

Graphic designers are always in a battle to create the best looking results in the least amount of time. Constantly trying to make these gorgeous, polished designs without spending an eternity creating them usually requires using some pre-built elements — things like photoshop brushes, illustrator patterns, textures, etc… Click here to visit >>

16 Powerful And Open Source E-Commerce Applications

To create an e-commerce website, there are few ways:

  • Develop an e-commerce application from scratch.
  • Use a hosted e-commerce software.
  • Use a ready to use downloadable / installable e-commerce application.

First one takes so much time & resources which is not suitable for many people.

Second one has both positive & negative points. The biggest negative points are: you’ll be limited with the presented features & it’ll probably be paid.

Third one, you won’t be getting professional support which is the bad part but will have a community to ask questions & get answers. Also, considering the software is open source, there will be lots of users improving the product (& may be you)….

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Browser Window Resizer

The Browser Window Resizer is useful tool for testing different screen sizes. It accurately resizes your browser so you can test to see if the web page you’re working on looks right in all of the standard resolution sizes.
Window resizer supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolution sizes.

¬ The Firefox extension Resize the current page via the context menu, tool menu or toolbar button.
¬ Window Resizer for Internet Explorer resize the current page via the context menu (right-click) only.

A great tool for all you webdesigners out there! Click here to visit and download >>

WordPress Development on a Mac with MAMP

Ready for some WordPress development on your Mac? First, you need to be running Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

Although Mac OS X comes with Apache and PHP, you don’t want Apple’s automatic software update to break your development environment by changing your working versions of PHP and Apache. Plus, do you really want to spend time tweaking MySQL?

quickly install and configure a working WordPress environment including Apache, PHP, and MySql…. Click here to visit article >>

The Making of Mystic

In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You’ll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how Nik creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. Let’s check it out…. Awesome tutorial indeed! Click here to visit >>

Sketching in the Design Process


Find out more about how sketching is used in the design process within multiple design disciplines… I must admit that I sketch down designs way to seldom :o( Now that i’ve started to get interested in film/multimedia i’ve learned the importance of sketching  storyboards and ideas, finally! Better late than never!  :o)… Click here to visit >>