6 Biggest Challenges for Designers in 2013

With the economy sinking all over the place, it’s just as challenging for designers to stay afloat as it is for most other professionals. Designers, however, have even more to worry about today than most others because the design environment changes proportionate to web technologies, which really has a rapid rate of change. On top… Continue reading 6 Biggest Challenges for Designers in 2013

Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up

Congratulations! Web design can be one of the most useful skills to acquire in your professional career. Your first 30 days of learning are crucial because many people simply give up after a week or two. In this article, we’ll go through some useful tips and tricks to help you get started with web design… Continue reading Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up

50 Excellent Dark WordPress Themes – Want Your Website to ROCK?

The availability of themes for WordPress is staggering, but for some reason there us a limited supply of dark WordPress themes. The process of choosing colors for your website is one of the most crucial parts of the web design phase. Colors have a strong impact on visitors and specific colors often evoke certain types… Continue reading 50 Excellent Dark WordPress Themes – Want Your Website to ROCK?

25 Best Photoshop CS6 Tutorials

Quickly Select Skin Tones Color Splash Effect in Photoshop CS6 Quickly Change the Appearance Content Aware Move Tool Introducing the New Crop Tool Hunger Games Poster Composite Using Photoshop CS6 Use New Features in Photoshop CS6 to Create an Administrator Dashboard Interface Use the Content Aware Move Tool Create Tilt Shift Photography with the New… Continue reading 25 Best Photoshop CS6 Tutorials

Pricing tables & business icons: 50 designs, 20 colors,112 icons, with PSD sources

This massive set of pricing tables templates and icons will be a great help in your next project, they were carefully designed with special attention to details, there are 10 different templates, each one with 20 color variations, the full set also include 112 business icons. (layered PSD sources included). Details Date: January 25, 2013 Number of… Continue reading Pricing tables & business icons: 50 designs, 20 colors,112 icons, with PSD sources

The Top 6 WordPress SEO Mistakes & How to Correct Them

You’ve taken the time to choose, commission or build a theme, you’ve thought about your audiences, written some great content, added some nice pictures and you’re ready for the world to see your new WordPress site: exciting times! WordPress is optimised for search engines – using some basic WordPress settings and free plugins, you can… Continue reading The Top 6 WordPress SEO Mistakes & How to Correct Them

The Artwork of Mario Sanchez Nevado

Known as Aegis, Mario Sanchez Nevado is a freelance illustrator, art director, and Psdtuts+ author living in Spain. His work is often surreal and typically involves combining and manipulating large numbers of photographs. In this article, we will take a look at some of our favorite pieces from his portfolio. Betrayal Deliberation – Tutorial Nirvana… Continue reading The Artwork of Mario Sanchez Nevado

Quick Prototyping: Collection of Free HTML/CSS/JS UI Kits

The main idea of HTML/CSS/JS UI kits is to offer you a range of production-ready web elements with a consistent style, so that you quickly kick-start any new web project. Typically standard UI packs will include buttons of different sizes and types, form field elements, navigation & pagination systems, tabs, alerts and tags. But some,… Continue reading Quick Prototyping: Collection of Free HTML/CSS/JS UI Kits

20 Amazing Creations You Can Make With 3D Printing

If you can print in 2D, can you print in 3D? Well, the technology is already here. You can print out 3-dimensional objects based on a working template, and they aren’t just for show. They actually work! Manufacturers can provide you with a template where you can print a broken part of a machinery, let’s… Continue reading 20 Amazing Creations You Can Make With 3D Printing

Ruby on Rails Study Guide: The History of Rails

Ruby on Rails – or simply, Rails – is an open source, rapid web development framework, with a continuous goal of maximizing developer happiness and productivity. Created nearly a decade ago, Rails today forms the backbone of many of the most popular applications on the web, and has an incredibly vibrant and passionate community. In… Continue reading Ruby on Rails Study Guide: The History of Rails

Important Considerations When Building Single Page Web Apps

Single page web applications – or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to – are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing, and the accelerated growth of browser capabilities pushes us… Continue reading Important Considerations When Building Single Page Web Apps

20 Free WordPress Plugins You Should Know About

Free WordPress Plugins play a immense role in website designs today. Most people have never heard about them, and only few people have an interest in how a beautiful and user-friendly website is created. Still, the majority of us are literally “living” on the internet, and some would say that we take it for granted.… Continue reading 20 Free WordPress Plugins You Should Know About

40 Heavenly Places on Earth HDR Landscape Photography

HDr Landscape photography is among the most attractive and popular types of photography which involves too much travelling and sight seeing, which is mostly these day used by holiday makers to attract potential customer who like to travel to new, exotic and beautiful locations to find perfect holiday location. Based on some experts it’s very… Continue reading 40 Heavenly Places on Earth HDR Landscape Photography

UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design

The web development community has come up with endless solutions, best practices, and tools for coding a responsive design with ease. While the vast majority of websites can be made responsive now, it’s time to push the envelope further. It’s easy to pay attention to great coding best practices, but sometimes the best design practices… Continue reading UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design

How to Create a Vector Cross Stitch Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a cross stitch effect using Adobe Illustrator CS6. I’ll be using the Appearance panel and patterns in order to create the design and then show you how you can create a simple Aida fabric background pattern. This is a great tutorial for those who… Continue reading How to Create a Vector Cross Stitch Effect in Adobe Illustrator

A RequireJS, Backbone, and Bower Starter Template

Switching to a modular approach to writing JavaScript is unfortunately a more difficult process than we might hope. Once you understand the concept of AMD, you then have to figure out the logistics: how do you setup RequireJS? What about non-AMD libraries? What about dependency management? What about configuration and optimization? Download the Video Using… Continue reading A RequireJS, Backbone, and Bower Starter Template

Better Workflow in PHP With Composer, Namespacing, and PHPUnit

In this video tutorial, we’ll again focus on workflow. Specifically, we’ll use Composer’s built-in autoloading capabilities, along with namespacing, to make for an elegant testing experience. We’ll also review a handful of PHPUnit best practices, as we get setup with these tools. Download – Source files Nettuts+