Tag: Using

Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop. This is a fun and simple tutorial, aim to get you familiar with the Shape Tool in Photoshop. Have an attempt! This is an intermediate degree difficulty guide plus some actions can be tricky. Note: The Photoshop guide is… Continue reading Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop

100+ Logo PSD & Vector Mockup Templates

Elegant Logo Mockup Pack This fantastic logo mockup pack includes 6 different styles for your logo, 3 different front view backgrounds, 2 different perspective view backgrounds, and is fully layered for use in Photoshop. Mix Branding Logo Mockups A beautiful assortment of 14 branding logo mockups, handpicked from multiple logo mockup categories. This bundle gives… Continue reading 100+ Logo PSD & Vector Mockup Templates

How to Color in a Traditionally Inked Comic in Adobe Illustrator

Learn how to turn a traditionally inked comic page into a warmly lit night scene in vector. With live paint, global process colors, gradients and different layer transparency settings in Adobe Illustrator, we will turn our black and white artwork into a comic page brimming with color. 1. Prepare the Line Art Step 1 I have… Continue reading How to Color in a Traditionally Inked Comic in Adobe Illustrator

Using Color Theory to Improve Website Accessibility

There are tons of articles and guides about color theory and its importance for every web designer. Colors are really essential in design and may even influence people’s behavior in many cases. Thus, web designers usually check their website colors are suitable for the overall website style and that they create a good impression for… Continue reading Using Color Theory to Improve Website Accessibility

Using OmniGraffle for Web Design

OmniGraffle is the OmniGroup’s visual design tool for Apple’s OSX and iOS. It has a deep, extensive set of features that makes it a useful tool to solve most visual problems. At JTech, we’ve found that it excels as a tool for creating wireframes and diagramming flowcharts of website hierarchies. Its diagramming and flowchart capabilities… Continue reading Using OmniGraffle for Web Design

Using Googles NoCaptcha ReCaptcha In WordPress

Google has recently announced a new project called recaptcha which is a way of spam protecting your website from bots but making it easy for humans to submit the form by simply recreating a checkbox for users to click. Registering Your Website To use Google NoCaptcha ReCaptcha for your website you must first register your… Continue reading Using Googles NoCaptcha ReCaptcha In WordPress

Posts, Pages and Post Types

In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types

WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies

So far in this series, you’ve learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. Now we’re looking at the various arguments you can use with WP_Query and how you code them. WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it to query… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies

35 Website Layouts using Fixed Header Bars

Users often feel quite divisive on the subject of sliding navbars. It has also become a sizable topic of debate amongst designers. Yet it seems that aside from ongoing quarrels the fixed heading navbar is here to stay. It’s an easy technique to recreate and it can be designed in such a wide array of… Continue reading 35 Website Layouts using Fixed Header Bars

28 Website Mockups using Fullscreen Images

Let’s face the facts: anything that takes up the entirety of your computer screen is going to draw some attention. Fullscreen images have been used in backgrounds and slideshows for quite a few years now. But ever-improving Internet connections have allowed for much larger images that relate better to content on the page. This style… Continue reading 28 Website Mockups using Fullscreen Images

18 Cool Things You Won’t Believe Were Built Using CSS

Contrary to popular belief, CSS is not only used to provide basic style for a web page in order to make it look more attractive. There are plenty of other things that one can do with CSS as well. With the ability to create animations and interactions, CSS along with HTML and Javascript allow web… Continue reading 18 Cool Things You Won’t Believe Were Built Using CSS

Amazing Frontend Design Patterns Using CSS3 and jQuery

Creating unique websites is every designer’s ultimate goal. When a website is uniquely designed it does attract a lot of viewers and the websites urge users to stay on them for as long as possible to keep them entertained. It is tantamount for all websites that they deliver to their users an amazing and lasting… Continue reading Amazing Frontend Design Patterns Using CSS3 and jQuery

16 Premium Plugins Designer and Developer Should Consider Using

Crafting websites for all sorts of clients is an art. Like all art forms, it takes perseverance, open-mindedness, and an acute sense for aesthetics. Web developers and designers know this, along with the fact that all project outcomes are only as strong as the resources that stand behind them. In other words, the choice and… Continue reading 16 Premium Plugins Designer and Developer Should Consider Using

20 Examples of Creative Using Color Filters in Web Design

Large background image has established as web design trend this year. Its quite challenging to place typography and buttons over the image and make them well-seen. Therefore, designers use creative photography filters and gradients to create a cover over the image and place other web design elements on it. New fresh vibe gives a site… Continue reading 20 Examples of Creative Using Color Filters in Web Design

33 Amazing Frontend Design Patterns using CSS3 and jQuery

Website layouts are typically seen as a combination of design and development meshed together. UI design can be performed using graphics software, code, or in most cases both. This subject offers an interesting combination of skills that work hand-in-hand with each other. Frontend inspiration can offer a lot of great ideas for anyone who builds… Continue reading 33 Amazing Frontend Design Patterns using CSS3 and jQuery

10+ Tips for Using Pinterest to Drive More Traffic and Exposure to Your Website

There are all kinds of social networks and websites where you can get involved, gain exposure for your work, and even send traffic back to your website or blog. Probably the most difficult part is deciding which social networks justify the time and effort, and managing to use those networks effectively without being tied to… Continue reading 10+ Tips for Using Pinterest to Drive More Traffic and Exposure to Your Website

Create 3D Snow Text Effect Using Cinema4D and Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the steps to create this 3D Snowy Text Effect Using Cinema4D and Photoshop. We will render the 3D text in Cinema4D, then apply the snow effect in Photoshop. Have a try! Final Image Preview This is my final effect for this tutorial To complete this tutorial, you will… Continue reading Create 3D Snow Text Effect Using Cinema4D and Photoshop

Inspirational Examples of Websites Using Parallax Scrolling

Scrolling is a part of almost all the websites whether vertical or horizontal; it’s done to display as much appropriate information as possible. Since scrolling is almost an essential part of all the websites designers have taken to giving effects to the scrolling to impress their users and peers alike. Before the proper launch of… Continue reading Inspirational Examples of Websites Using Parallax Scrolling

5 Companies Using Interactive Content to Drive Brand Awareness

Haven’t you heard? Interactive content is the new ‘big thing’ – the biggest drive in brand awareness since the infographic reached saturation point. In simple terms: if you want your company to cop some good PR, you should be creating interactive fun to draw savvy internet-users in. The best practitioners do so with a combination… Continue reading 5 Companies Using Interactive Content to Drive Brand Awareness

An Introduction to Using Bower With WordPress

The majority of web projects today start with or include third party libraries. If you are working on a WordPress theme, there’s probably a good chance that you are using the HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, or Foundation. Most of these projects are available on GitHub and accessible via Bower. In this series I’m going to introduce you… Continue reading An Introduction to Using Bower With WordPress

Design a Travel Startup Landing Page Using Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll be using Photoshop CS6 to design a simple, clean, landing page for a fictional traveling startup. During this process we’ll look at creating custom grids with guidelines, styling typefaces, using lots of white space and composing our website’s content in a very clean and professional manner. The… Continue reading Design a Travel Startup Landing Page Using Photoshop

A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes

Installing WordPress involves a series of steps. Installing WordPress successfully involves multiple steps and the first step in the series could be installing the WordPress on any local computer. Below are listed the step wise basics of WordPress installation which will make the process easier and fruitful for you. Installing WordPress on your Local Computer… Continue reading A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes