Category: Tutorials

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Adobe’s Snap.svg: Animations With HTML 5, Without Flash

Flash has long been the standard for vector-based web animations. Some say for too long. The rise of mobile clients led to an acceleration of web standards such as HTML5. Thanks to the SVG formats, which is widely supported by modern browsers, we are able to embed vector-based graphics into our web projects without the… Continue reading Adobe’s Snap.svg: Animations With HTML 5, Without Flash

Create a Nautical, Sketch-Style in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll show you how you can sketch in Illustrator in a natural fluid style, almost as if you’re drawing with pen and paper. The plug-ins DynamicSketch and WidthScribe have various intuitive tools and features to simplify your work flow and offer functionality that is nowhere in Adobe Illustrator… Continue reading Create a Nautical, Sketch-Style in Adobe Illustrator

Free Font Of The Day : Scratch

Here on idevie ,we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well,although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Scratch comes from Luis… Continue reading Free Font Of The Day : Scratch

17 New Vector Design & Illustrator Tutorials

In this article we are gathered seventeen new adobe illustrator tutorials which can really helpful to improve your design and illustration knowledge. We hope you’ve learnt a great thing from these tutorials to improve your skills. How to Turn a Sketch into Vector Art In Illustrator In this tutorial, you will learn how to use of Adobe Illustrator is… Continue reading 17 New Vector Design & Illustrator Tutorials

40 Resources for Getting Started with jQuery Development

Each year a new batch of young web developers are jumping into the field head-first. Often times frontend web development is the easiest barrier to jumpstart learning. HTML/CSS work is quite simple, but delving into JavaScript provides a deeper realization of general programming topics. These include functions, loops, variables, along with an understanding of how… Continue reading 40 Resources for Getting Started with jQuery Development

10 Tips for Building Wireframes With Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is experiencing a come-back in the world of web design. Not only is SVG becoming commonly used online, but more and more designers are using vectors for wireframing. The following tips will help you make the most of Illustrator as a wireframing tool. Wireframing is about working rapidly and iterating quickly. The aim… Continue reading 10 Tips for Building Wireframes With Illustrator

Why a Responsive Web Design Will Help You Get More Visitors

If you don’t have a responsive web design, then chances are you’re missing out on a lot of potential visitors and customers. You may even be losing some. Here’s why a responsive web design will help you get more visitors, and how not implementing this design could be handicapping your business: You cater to mobile platforms… Continue reading Why a Responsive Web Design Will Help You Get More Visitors

28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Adobe illustrator is a most commonly used software for designing great vectors and for other purposes as well. It’s being common doesn’t mean that it is as easy to use or master. There are many similarities in adobe Photoshop and adobe illustrator tools but… Continue reading 28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties

Over the past few years a number of prominent CSS3 tutorials have been published online. These are perfect for beginners who don’t have a lot of experience coding webpages. But developers who do have that experience may also find the more detailed articles quite insightful. Take a look over this collection of posts related to… Continue reading 26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties

How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

Highly detailed and accurate illustrations of animals and plants have a long and distinguished history, extending back through the western era of exploration. While initially these artworks served mainly to record new species in the absence of portable and effective photography, they were also appreciated for their artistic merit and attracted interest from admirers outside… Continue reading How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

Sproute is a hosted framework for rapid development of web applications. It allows you to easily define dynamic data and comes with lots of useful features out of the box such as user accounts and security. This tutorial will show you how to build your very own online portfolio using Sproute: a hosted environment for… Continue reading How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

4 Common Mistakes You are Making on Your Website and How to Fix Them

Your website is your most vital online tool. When visitors click on your homepage, it’s often their first opportunity to interact with your brand. If you’re not getting results, you’ve probably made some major—and pretty common—mistakes on your site. Fortunately, it’s often easy to correct such problems. By employing a few simple measures, you can… Continue reading 4 Common Mistakes You are Making on Your Website and How to Fix Them

How to Make a Style Poster in Adobe Photoshop CS5

This tutorial is an example of how a few simple techniques can be used to create a piece of digital artwork using multiple layers, masking, the Brush tool, some basic lighting and one simple noise texture. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in… Continue reading How to Make a Style Poster in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Things You Should Consider Before Selling Your Website

Don’t be to quick to sell your website. You have been working hard to get your website into what it is worth, be sure to sell it for what it’s worth! When you have a website that companies are interested in purchasing, be proud of yourself, you’ve built something amazing. Don’t be afraid to take… Continue reading Things You Should Consider Before Selling Your Website

20 jQuery plugins that you can customize visually

Here are some cool jQuery plugins that you can implement within minutes! They’re all extremely useful, and can be customized for your website with an easy and intuitive click interface of Bitconfig. Bitconfig is like a fiddle for jQuery plugins. All plugin options are listed in a config panel and you just need to select… Continue reading 20 jQuery plugins that you can customize visually

19 Attractive Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop; bliss in the world of digital designing is the most powerful tool any graphics artist have in the arsenal of designing software. A mark of excellence, Photoshop itself is one of the most prominent image editing and graphic designing software around the world, let alone in the Adobe family. It is most popular… Continue reading 19 Attractive Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

45 Creative Gig Poster Designs

If you didn’t know by now, gig poster collecting started out in the 60′s and the tradition is still going strong today. In fact, the community is bigger that ever. Indie music fanatics around the world have turned into collectors. This isn’t some small fad or trend, there are entire online communities/marketplaces solely dedicated to buying and… Continue reading 45 Creative Gig Poster Designs

8 Killer Tips and Tricks To Skyrocket Your Productivity in WordPress

Blogging can be a very productive activity in itself for many reasons. Businesses with a blog will find it easier to attract search engine and social traffic, increase trust with their clients and customers, and build up a reputation as being an industry authority Some people have managed to raise their blogging income to a… Continue reading 8 Killer Tips and Tricks To Skyrocket Your Productivity in WordPress