If you already know what is a Landing Page and what it is for, I will call you a “Smarty Pants”, but please give me just 58 seconds to explain it to those who don’t really know what it is. So a Lead Capture Page, Lander or as most of us know it, a Landing… Continue reading Create Your Own Landing Page: The Ultimate Guide For Beginners
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Quick Tip: The Character Panel in Adobe Illustrator
In this Quick Tip screencast, we take a look at the Character panel in Adobe Illustrator. This comprehensive guide will show you what each field does, and you’ll learn some time-saving keyboard shortcuts for setting the character attributes of your text.
How to Create an Iron Cross Self-Mailer Template Using InDesign
Looking for something more exciting than a standard trifold or postcard? One attention-grabbing solution is the iron cross fold. This speciality, or exotic, fold gets its name from the cross shape/plus sign shape it forms when flat and unfolded. It is fairly easy to set up and will add significant flair to your piece. It… Continue reading How to Create an Iron Cross Self-Mailer Template Using InDesign
Maintain Consistency With a Website Style Guide
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
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