Take Control and Save Time When Designing for Clients

At FHOKE we’ve managed hundreds of projects in many ways. With our team’s industry experience, running, or working within studios, we’ve seen it all; ways that have worked and others that have failed. Over the years we’ve refined our process and found a great staged approach that works well for all our clients. It saves… Continue reading Take Control and Save Time When Designing for Clients

Freebie: 12 Large Bokeh Brushes

There are 12 color bokeh brushes. If you’re a SparkleStock member, you can pick from 18 bokeh brushes! They come in multiple sizes; 625, 1250, 2500, and 5000 pixels. In addition, you get them in pre-colored JPEG images to save you time. Drag and drop them into your document then set the blending mode to… Continue reading Freebie: 12 Large Bokeh Brushes

30 Free Ornaments, Frames & Borders Vector Resources

The ornamental, frame, and borders resources on this page vary in complexity and potential uses – some of them are so sophisticated that they can be used on their own, while others are simple and would make a great subtle addition to the other elements of your design. I’ve also included a couple of brush… Continue reading 30 Free Ornaments, Frames & Borders Vector Resources

Make a Web App with Instagram-like Filters

In this tutorial, we are going to make a simple web app that allows you to drag a photo from your computer into the browser window, and apply instagram-like filters on it. For this purpose we are going to use a number of JavaScript libraries and plugins: Caman.js – this is a powerful canvas manipulation… Continue reading Make a Web App with Instagram-like Filters

10 Great WordPress Plugins for Making Development Easier

When developing for WordPress, it’s great to know the in’s and out’s of the CMS completely, and in return output a fantastic end project.WordPress development oftentimes comes with the fact, though, that you’ll be using many of the same features repeatedly in different projects, or perhaps many times within one project. Even if you know… Continue reading 10 Great WordPress Plugins for Making Development Easier

Tools and Tips on how to Optimize Images for the Web

The time a page takes to load is something every designer worries about, or at least is something that every designer should worry about. It doesn’t matter if the layout is nice and beautiful if it doesn’t function properly. Since images can be pretty heavy, this is certainly an issue to keep an eye on.… Continue reading Tools and Tips on how to Optimize Images for the Web

Making the Most of Photoshop Layers

The way web designers are using Photoshop is changing; pixel perfect comps are less relevant than they were a year or two ago. However, Photoshop is still an invaluable design tool and using its features properly is as important as ever. The following tips will help you master working with layers. A Quick Word About… Continue reading Making the Most of Photoshop Layers

How To Get The Most Out Of A Premium WordPress Theme

There has quite probably never been a better time to be a premium theme user. While a huge increase in the supply of quality premium themes hasn’t particularly driven down prices, it has promoted a huge push for innovation, best practices and quality design. Unfortunately, there’s one crucial thing which rarely gets quite so much… Continue reading How To Get The Most Out Of A Premium WordPress Theme

30+ Abstract Brushes and Patterns

A good piece of art always contains the aspect of attraction, which provides the initial prompt of glances from potential onlookers. But a great piece of art is able to capture and compel their gaze to linger for that extra span of time. Every true artist shoots to achieve this secondary level of interest, but… Continue reading 30+ Abstract Brushes and Patterns

11 WordPress Plugins That Will Get Your Site Ready for 2013

As the clock struck midnight on New Years Eve, many resolutions were being made all over the world. If you own a website, yours might have included a few decisions about your website. Even if you aren’t the New Years resolution type, you probably have a few things you’d like to change for your website… Continue reading 11 WordPress Plugins That Will Get Your Site Ready for 2013

Finding Design Inspiration in Others’ Work While Still Being Original

Originality can be hard to find, which is surprising since each one of us are creative individuals. Why don’t we embrace that individuality more often? It seems like it should be such an easy question to answer, but nonetheless, it doesn’t seem to be. Being a designer is a constant battle between embracing our own… Continue reading Finding Design Inspiration in Others’ Work While Still Being Original

Adobe Improves 3D Functionality in Photoshop CS6.1

Adobe made some rather significant changes to its 3D features in Photoshop CS6. In CS6.1, they have made a handful of tweaks that you should be aware of. These new features include a way to generate bump map textures from flat artwork, using the Normals menu; smoother previewing of soft shadows; full-image ray tracing, replacing… Continue reading Adobe Improves 3D Functionality in Photoshop CS6.1

20 Brilliant Premium Magento Themes

The ever progressive and technological age we in has paved the way for high doses of Ecommerce to be injected into our daily lives. Ecommerce is a phenomenon that holds the reins of the world of the internet, an ever growing trend available on numerous platforms, one of the best being Magento. Magento claims to… Continue reading 20 Brilliant Premium Magento Themes

26 Open Source Tools & Scripts for Web Developers

I am a big advocate for open source codes and software. These are possibly the greatest methods for learning new techniques and bridging your knowledge from another person or team of people. Scripts and webapps are some of the most commonly shared resources, but also consider desktop-based software applications as well. I have put together… Continue reading 26 Open Source Tools & Scripts for Web Developers

Designing for Performance

Designers have a tremendous impact on site performance based on how they design for the web, before a single line of code is written. This article will cover how performance can be designed and what it takes to make it happen. Speed is a fundamental part of user experience on the web. Web performance has… Continue reading Designing for Performance

A growing bundle of fantastic WordPress themes for Free

Hi there, today we want to talk about something that turns to be good news for all web masters out there. Themeshock has released an enormous bundle of free themes. and we took some time to review them and tell you what is so good about this bundle. We will tell you about its growing process.… Continue reading A growing bundle of fantastic WordPress themes for Free

How to Make a Tumblr-powered News Ticker

Tumblr is a blogging service with an elegant interface for creating and publishing content. In this tutorial, we are going to use it as the foundation of a news publishing system. We are going to develop a simple widget which cycles through the most recent posts on a Tumblr blog, and presents them as news items… Continue reading How to Make a Tumblr-powered News Ticker

How to Utilize the Pattern Tool to Create a Pattern Brush in Illustrator CS6

One of my favorite new tools with Adobe Illustrator CS6 is the Pattern Tool. It’s great for creating complex seamless patterns in real time and gives you so many options. However it’s not so easy to create a Pattern Brush. Today’s Quick Tip tutorial is a bit of an experimental one, showing you how you… Continue reading How to Utilize the Pattern Tool to Create a Pattern Brush in Illustrator CS6

CSS: Responsive Navigation Menu

Previously I wrote a tutorial on how to make a mobile navigation for responsive design, now I’ve discovered a new technique to produce a responsive menu without having to use Javascript. It uses clean and semantic HTML5 markup. The menu can be aligned left, center or right. Unlike the previous tutorial where it is clicked… Continue reading CSS: Responsive Navigation Menu

Exceptional Landscape Photography from Jakub Polomski

Born in 1985, Jakub Polomski found his love for photography when he was 20 years old. Inspired by photos from National Geographic, he borrowed a DSLR from a friend and then it began… Since 2007 Jakub has been awarded with several prizes and commendations in various photography contests. Hist most notable achievement was the National Geographic Poland… Continue reading Exceptional Landscape Photography from Jakub Polomski

Advantages and Disadvantages of Blogger vs WordPress

The competition never ends but then, it’s a must have to find out the best available choice. This comparison has always been a part of every aspect and it does drive the result-though not between WordPress and Blogger. Both of these have been the top notch rivalries and it’s been an era since the competition… Continue reading Advantages and Disadvantages of Blogger vs WordPress

How to Write Code That Embraces Change

Writing code, which is easy to change is the Holy Grail of programming. Welcome to programming nirvana! But things are much more difficult in reality: source code is difficult to understand, dependencies point in countless directions, coupling is annoying, and you soon feel the heat of programming hell. In this tutorial, we will discuss a… Continue reading How to Write Code That Embraces Change