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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images. Pixelmator supports more than 100 different file formats, [...]
Controlling Web Page Backgrounds With CSS
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007For many years, web sites all over the world generously offered free tiled background patterns to budding young web designers as a way of “enhancing” their web pages. Derided by many designers in the field as tacky, these backgrounds were generally used sparingly, if at all, by professional designers, especially where download speed was of [...]
Colours Make All The Differences In Design
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Colours Make All The Differences In Design, check out the colours of the Top 20 Magazines and their impact.
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Need that right (free)image for your next design project?
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Well, the best things in life usually doesn’t come free. But free things can be good too.
Check out this page for a listing of 100 legal images.
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10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
Monday, October 1st, 2007Sometimes you just want to get the information you’re after, save it and move along. And you can’t. Usability nightmares — which are rather the daily routine than an exception — appear every now and again; usually almost every time you type your search keywords in Google. In his article “Why award-winning websites are so [...]
20 pro tips
Monday, October 1st, 2007The difference between a good web designer and a great one is the ability to know how to take short cuts and save time without compromising the quality of work. Pixelsurgeon’s Jason Arber has put together 20 top tips and tricks you should be using to give your work that all-important professional edge
1. Planning
When you’re [...]
How Much Should A Design Cost?
Monday, October 1st, 2007Not written by us, but we spotted this well written piece on pearsonified.com:
Every week, I get emails from potential clients who all want to know one thing: How much for a design?
Nine times out of ten, my answer causes them to run for the hills. Scary thing is, based on industry buzz, my prices could [...]
Composition & Colour
Monday, October 1st, 2007At first glance a well executed design appears effortlessly sleek, as though it just came together naturally. As designers and photographers well know, there’s a lot more work and planning going into an unforgettable creation than meets the eye.
For photographers, when conceptualizing a stock image, it’s wise to think forward to what designers will be [...]
Headings and Hierarchy: is More Than One H1 a Crowd?
Monday, October 1st, 2007A recent commenter mentioned that they didn’t ever use more than one H1 tag per page. This is something that I’ve typically done as well, but as I thought about why that was I realized that I didn’t have a good answer.
One H1 to Rule Them All?
So, is there the rule of one when it [...]
Web Designer Alert!
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 The next time you determine what to use for an image file name or the alt text, remember: it probably IS going to affect your site’s ranking in Google.
The [...]