Mar 31, 2009
A well rounded web designer’s day is spent immersed in multiple graphic design programs and writing front end code. All of this moving from one environment to another can make it hard to memorize such things as hot keys and shortcuts for each. This is where cheat sheets come into play. A cheat sheet is simply a printable reference or guide to a particular software package, language, framework, etc.
Here are 14 of my favorite cheat sheets.
Photoshop
CSS
XHTML
JavaScript Frameworks
Mar 29, 2009
Texture Resolution: 1700 pixels by 1400 pixels
No. in set: 3
This is a free pack of cardboard textures you can use for anything you want. I hate strict licenses you know! Just don’t claim it as your own or resell it (but you can use it in commercial projects).
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Mar 28, 2009
A couple of months ago, we took a look at 28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects. This time I want to show you some of the most incredible Photoshop brushes I’ve found that can be used to create similar stuff. If you have a project coming up that requires some type of lighting effect, you will definitely find these to be very useful.
Popularity: 16% [?]
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Mar 27, 2009
From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step
You can always count on NETTUTS and the Evanto network to supply you with high quality tutorials. This is a great tutorial for beginners and intermediate learners alike to advance there coding skills. Be sure to set aside a few hours, this walks you through the entire process of creating the design. From PSD, to HTML, and then to WordPress.
Build a Sleek Portfolio Site from Scratch
With PSDTUTS providing a great file to start off with, NETTUTS delivers yet another great tutorial on coverting a PSD to HTML for your own Portfolio website design.
PSD to HTML/CSS from HVDESIGNS
Mar 26, 2009
Photoshop’s text and layer tools can be used to create some really awesome effects. We’ve put together a list of 60 of the best tutorials we could find to help you stay up to date on the latest trends and techniques. You’ll find some really cool grunge and glass styles (plus a few surprises!) and learn how some of the best designers create their unique effects.
Courtesy: LemonDesign
Instead of listing 100 plus tutorials that you’ll bookmark never to come back, we’ve decided to take you through the basics of typography, hopefully inspiring and then teaching you. Typography is an art just like any other. You have to feel the form, admire the curves and connect with the flow.
Introduction to Typography
Mar 25, 2009
Vintage designs has gotten very popular over the past years, and it seems the trend keeps on going.
In this round-up, you’ll find 20 vintage Photoshop brushes you can download for free. There are over 300 individual vintage brushes here, so you will have a broad choice of brushes to apply onto your designs.
Each brush set was first tested, and the images you see below are previews of what to expect from each brush pack.
2. 1920s ladies by 500ml brushes (7 brushes)
Mar 24, 2009
Seamless patterns are a great way to add a big impact to a web design without a lot of effort. Here are 223 of them that are absolutely beautiful. Whether you use patterns to fill the entire background of your site or just a specific area of your design, you will definitely find these useful.
Mar 22, 2009
How awesome would it be if you could combine the aesthetic rigor and clarity of fixed-width, grid-based layouts with the device- and screen size independence and user-focused flexibility of fluid layouts? Completely awesome, that’s how awesome. And with a little cunning and a tad of easy math, ALA’s Ethan Marcotte gets it done. We smell a trend in the offing.
Read the rest of this great article at alistapart.com
Popularity: 17% [?]
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Mar 21, 2009
Deciding when to use light text on a dark background in web design should always be about enhancing the content and the user experience. Here are some stunning examples of light on dark designs where the designers achieved this while maintaining excellent contrast and readability.
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