Creating style guides is fast becoming common practise for web designers, especially when dealing with content heavy sites. With a website style guide, designers are able to set and maintain a look and feel by creating a set of rules which the design follows. The process becomes flexible, easily updateable and consistent. During this tutorial… Continue reading Maintain Consistency With a Website Style Guide
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Create A 3D Push Pin
Introduction Back when I wrote the popular A Scrap Of Notebook Paper tutorial quite a few of you wanted to know how I created the push pin shown in my final image. Well the wait’s over my friends! In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create your own 3D push pin using Photoshop… Continue reading Create A 3D Push Pin
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
Harden your WordPress security with the most complete guide
The guys at ThemeShock have published a new post called “WordPress Security: the most complete guide” which is a compendium of the most important facts about security in WordPress that have come up recently, and this post’s goal is to give you a small appetizer resuming some of the topics discussed. It is well known… Continue reading Harden your WordPress security with the most complete guide
Grid-Based Layouts 101
Learning and understanding how to build a layout is one of the hardest aspects of visual design to master. Many designers have trouble grasping the concept of alignment and how to use grids to make their designs balanced and principled. The reason that grids work so well is because they help you divide content into… Continue reading Grid-Based Layouts 101