Artistic and creative websites with interesting background images and/or headers seem to be more and more common all the time. I’ve done a few roundups of this style in the past, but great new examples keep popping up, so here is part 4.
25 Incredibly Artistic Websites - Part 4
1 CommentCategorized: Galleries | January 7th, 2009
35 Photoshop Tutorials for Realistic Results
Sometimes it’s amazing how realistic a Photoshop creation can look. In this post we’ll feature 35 tutorials for creating realistic effects in Photoshop. Some will show you how to illustrate an object from scratch, while others teach how to edit photos with realistic elements, such as water or snow.
Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone from Scratch
16 CommentsCategorized: Design | January 5th, 2009
WordPress Tutorial: Category Trick for WP 2.7
A lot has been written about the recent release WordPress 2.7, and I think most WordPress users and developers understand that this release adds some significant features that open up some new options for theme development. I did a little bit of experimenting with one of the changes and I wanted to write a brief tutorial that demonstrates a real-world situation for taking advantage of a new feature.
16 CommentsCategorized: WordPress | January 4th, 2009
25 Beautifully Dark Websites - Part 3
Although most websites use dark text on light backgrounds, but sites with dark backgrounds with light text can be very striking when executed effectively. In the past, I’ve published two collections of great dark designs (see part one and part two), and here is part three.
25 CommentsCategorized: Galleries | December 29th, 2008
December’s Best: This Month in Web Design
2009 is almost hear, and that means it’s time for the last monthly roundup in 2008. This month’s edition includes links to a wide variety of design and development-related blog posts, and some inspirational resources as well. if you’re looking for a good roundup of all of the best content from the past year, see Noupe’s 2008 Most Popular Design Posts, Tutorials and Resources.
Web Design and Development:
10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time - Six Revisions
How to Make Your WordPress Title Tag SEO Friendly - WP Recipes
8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks - Smashing Magazine
Top 29 Free UX Tools and Extensions - UX Booth
7 CommentsCategorized: Links | December 28th, 2008
Win a Free License from BannerSnack
Christmas may be over, but you still have a chance to get a great gift for yourself. A few weeks ago we ran a giveaway from Jumpeye Components that provided 3 lucky winners with an unlimited license for FlashEff. With a strong response from readers, Jumpeye is now giving away five one-year Premium Plus licenses ($149 value) to their new online, flash banner maker, BannerSnack.
55 CommentsCategorized: Competition | December 26th, 2008
25 Websites with Lighting Effects
Lighting effects are often used in modern web design to give a site an interesting and different look. Several months ago I published 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects, which includes plenty of tutorials that can help you to get this type of look in your own work. Now, I’d like to share this gallery of sites that are putting those techniques into practice.
37 CommentsCategorized: Galleries | December 22nd, 2008
35 Excellent Church Websites - Part Two
Several months ago I published 50 of the Best Church Websites, which has been one of the more popular posts on the blog. Since I published that collection I’ve come across many other noteworthy church sites, so I thought I would add a second post on the topic.
For those who never work on church websites, these are great sources of design inspiration in general. If you do work on church sites, I’m sure you’ll appreciate these as well.
17 CommentsCategorized: Design | December 17th, 2008
Win a Free Membership to Templatica!
Alen Grakalic of Templatica has graciously offered to give away three one-year memberships to his club that provides members with templates to use on their own websites.
If you’re not familiar with Templatica, there are two options for using/buying the templates. A one-year membership costs $24, or you can buy individual templates for $5 a piece. All of the templates use valid XHTML and CSS coding, and have been tested in all major browsers. Alen is a skilled designer and all of the templates will give a website an attractive and professional appearance.
157 CommentsCategorized: Competition | December 16th, 2008
40 Tutorials for Working with Shapes in Illustrator
in this post we’ll feature 40 Illustrator tutorials for working with shapes in various ways and for a variety of purposes. As you’ll see in these tutorials, shapes can be used for plenty of real-world purposes in every day design.
Simple Organic Shapes the Illustrator Way
18 CommentsCategorized: Design | December 15th, 2008
