How to Use 960 Grid with Indesign when designing a webpage

First we need to download 960grid from the internet
Go to http://960.gs/. Click on the big ol’ DOWNLOAD button (yes that’s what its called).You should now be downloading the 960grid zip file. (more…)

How To Write CSS Intelligently

I love CSS, it grows every day it seems. We web designers are always hungry to push CSS to it’s limits and when we hit a limit we hack arround it and push it that bit further. This tutorial explains how to write CSS in such as way that 3000 lines of presentation precision does not get confusing and you can find what you want instantly.

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Emphasize, Entice and Excite

Marketing, for me, is getting people interested in what you do and why they should do it too.  Being the marketing face means finding a way to empathize, entice and excite (in that order).

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Kyle Henderson – YouEye.com

Today’s interview is with Kyle Henderson of YouEye.com who is talking with us about YouEye, an easy user testing service for websites.

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TiltShift Photography Tutorial

This tutorial is really simple and takes just few minutes to get really good results, depending on the source picture of course. I will show you how to apply a tilt effect on a photo using TIltShift, a little Air application that works really really well in my opinion. (more…)

Dream Weaver Tutorial – Part 1 HTML

Known officially as Adobe Dreamweaver* (with no space), this great program has been a favourite of mine for a while now (10 years). Let me share how I use it, as a web designer, and hopefully convince the nay sayers that it is a wonderful tool for creating clean standard code.

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Dream Weaver Tutorial – Part 2 CSS

Now we have the elements in place (Dream Weaver (officially Dreamweaver) Tutorial Part 1 HTML) we are ready to style them. You can see the completed design here: We Love Dream Weaver

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Ugo [NooZ] Torresi – User Experience Designer

Today’s interview is with user experience designer Ugo [NooZ] Torresi, a close friend of mine and my band mates (L’ Orastrana). Ugo kindly dedicated me some of his precious free time to answer some of my questions bout’ his past-present-future “engagement” with the world of art & design. (more…)

Web Designer and WordPress Developer: MC van Rensburg

Hi, my name is MC van Rensburg. I am a Web Designer and WordPress Developer from Cape Town, South Africa. I’ve recently discovered the wonderful world of blogging, and my sports website “Outside the 22” has just won a Bronze South African Web Award. With help from Carl, Zack and all the wonderful people at Web Courses Bangkok, I took me and my friend’s idea (we always talked about having a sport blog) from dream to reality. (more…)

Quicktip:How to Add Multiple Images at the Same Time in Adobe InDesign.

If you want to add multiple images at the same time in to your design, Adobe InDesign CS5 makes it easy. You just need to know how to place them. In this tutorial I am going to show you in few simple steps. (more…)