Tutorials

Detect Browser CSS Support With @supports Rule

Since browsers have their own decision of what features to include, we web developers frequently have to identify if the browser supports particular features, then we fill in the gap using Polyfills (if required). The popular way of handling this kind of situation is by using Modernizr but do you know that we can also… Continue reading Detect Browser CSS Support With @supports Rule

Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Beginning With WordPress So, now that we have a child theme set up we’re ready to get make some changes to the look and feel of our site. What You’ll Need Web browser – I’m using Chrome Text editor – I’m using Text Wrangler FTP… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

Create a Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a cute Teddy Bear and some school themed items. We’ll be using basic shapes and the Pathfinder panel, so you don’t need a graphic tablet or advanced drawing skills for making up such character. Let’s dig in! 1. Form the Bear’s Head and Face Step 1 Create… Continue reading Create a Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

Illustrator is important software in web design. To create beautiful logo designers need to know illustrator to create logo banners additional graphics. This article 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources is useful to all designers. Vector Tutorials Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Detailed Restaurant… Continue reading 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

9 Lightweight & Flexible PHP CMS

I used to write my own CMS (Content Management System) with PHP and MySQL. It’s not an easy task because you need to plan the structure of the CMS, its logic, testing and future enhancement. CMS development can get really complicated if it involves users with different roles. To cut it short, unless you have… Continue reading 9 Lightweight & Flexible PHP CMS

30 Photoshop and Photography Tutorials to Get You Ready for Back-to-School

On iDevie, we are know that many of you reference our content in your studies. Lots of our readers are students in schools all over the world. Unfortunately, summer is coming to an end for many of you. That means it is time to start thinking about your studies again. In this article, we have… Continue reading 30 Photoshop and Photography Tutorials to Get You Ready for Back-to-School

20 Websites with Free Vector Graphics

As a graphic designer, drawing your on vectors may take a lot of time and when you are pressured to finish a project very fast, you may want to use freebies instead. We’ve searched for the best free vector graphics on the web and selected some of the greatest websites to help you out. These… Continue reading 20 Websites with Free Vector Graphics

Creating the New Google Play’s Multi-Level Navigation from Scratch

Google have recently released a new Google Play website complete with a new redesign and what caught my attention was the way they implemented their navigation bar. With the smooth animation and how they let users peek at the root-level menu by simply hovering a back button, I decided to build a similar navigation menu from scratch… Continue reading Creating the New Google Play’s Multi-Level Navigation from Scratch

10 Easy Image Hover Effects You Can Copy and Paste

Hover effects are always a fun topic to explore. In the past, we’ve built someawesome examples of CSS hovers that were easy to copy and paste right into your code. Today, we’re going to follow that up with ten new effects specifically built for use with images. Each example comes with an HTML and CSS snippet… Continue reading 10 Easy Image Hover Effects You Can Copy and Paste

Build Bootstrap in Minutes Using Emmet

Bootstrap (currently at version 3) is all about rapidly building websites, whether they be prototypes or finished products. In today’s videos we’re going to build ourselves a Bootstrap layout, in record time, usingEmmet‘s powerful time-saving markup syntax. Using Emmet Before we dive into Bootstrap, it’s worth taking a minute to become familiar with what Emmet is… Continue reading Build Bootstrap in Minutes Using Emmet

Create a Realistic Underwater Scene in Photoshop

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Underwater scenes can be quite challenging to create in a realistic way. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create an Underwater scene in Photoshop using several stock photographs. Let’s get started! Speed Art Video Take a look at this stunning speed art video that shows how this… Continue reading Create a Realistic Underwater Scene in Photoshop

The Creation Process of “Urbanized” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this “Urbanized” photo manipulation in Photoshop. The concept behind this work is that human is increasing living in a confined urban space and being consumed by the endless expansion of the cities. I used 3 elements in this manipulation to represent the theme “Urbanized”:… Continue reading The Creation Process of “Urbanized” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Typography Basics for Developers

Typography is a fundamental element in any design that you work on. The main reason we have websites in the first place is to display information, and for that information to be consumed by users who come across it. While there may be many other elements to a website, at the core is content. That… Continue reading Typography Basics for Developers

Useful Tutorials for Web Designers and Developers

In this round up I present some useful tutorials which can be very much helpful to all designers and developers. Understanding the Qualities and Characteristics of Color Creating Content Tabs with Pure CSS Creating a Modern Lightbox with CSS3 and JavaScript Making Draggable Webpage Elements using jQuery 30 Must Have Wicked Text Effect Tutorials… Continue reading Useful Tutorials for Web Designers and Developers

Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

Plugins and tutorials are great designing resources for the designers. With the help of tutorials, designers can learn and practice new technique of using their designing tool and plugins are meant to simplify their designing work. In the recent times, jQuery has become simply miraculous seeing that with jQuery you can discover plugins to achieve… Continue reading Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

20 Awesome Graphic Design Photoshop Video Tutorials

There are a lot of step-by-step Photoshop tutorials on the web, but sometimes you’ll understand better and be more focused if you feel like someone is actually talking to you and explains to you the design process. That is why we’ve looked for the best graphic design video tutorials out there and selected 20 of them. Hope… Continue reading 20 Awesome Graphic Design Photoshop Video Tutorials

Recreate Google Nexus Menu

Recently I stumbled upon Codrops’ tutorial regarding the recreation of Google Nexus navigation menu. That was inspiring and such a creative navigation system from Google. So, I decided to create a jQuery version to challenge to myself. I have been playing with the original Google Nexus Menu for a while. Based on my observation, I summarised its… Continue reading Recreate Google Nexus Menu

How To Create Stylish Pictogram Inspired Illustrations

Illustrating with basic linework not only results in some really cool artwork, it also makes the job a lot easier! Instead of painstakingly drawing every detail, simplifying the object into its basic form and using just a single stroke weight produces a stylised pictogram effect. In this tutorial I’ll take you through the process of… Continue reading How To Create Stylish Pictogram Inspired Illustrations

Create an Abstract Tattoo Design in Adobe Illustrator

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In the following tutorial you will learn how to create hand-drawn tattoo styled illustration in Adobe Illustrator. You will need a graphic tablet such as Wacom to learn how to create, set up and use Calligraphic Brushes. Starting with sketch work you will learn how to work with Strokes and… Continue reading Create an Abstract Tattoo Design in Adobe Illustrator

Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website

Well… would you look at at that… a whole new WordPress site! Clever you! Have you logged in yet? If so, you might be sitting looking at the Dashboard wondering what the heck you do next… so, let me help you with that! (Failing that you’re wondering what on earth a Dashboard is, that’s ok,… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website

Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick

In this short tutorial, we are going to create an interesting slide-out footer with a bit of CSS. Grab the zip from the download button above, open it in your favorite code editor and read on! The Idea The effect we are after, is to give the impression that the page lifts up to reveal… Continue reading Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick

How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport

One of the key concepts in any responsive design is the change of viewport size. That’s because mobile viewports vary greatly from desktop viewports. To control the viewport size we traditionally use the viewport meta tag. However, the viewport meta tag, like all the worst browser developments of the last forever, isn’t W3C valid. It… Continue reading How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport

Create a Geometric Kermit the Frog Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I am going to draw Kermit (known in Mexico as “La Rana René”) by using simple shapes and basic tools in Adobe Illustrator. I’ll also show you how to modify your colors in the blink of an eye! So let’s get started… 1. Create a New Document… Continue reading Create a Geometric Kermit the Frog Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

Smartimage: Management of Brand Files, Simplified

I was in dire need of a good tool to handle my images, so I started scanning the internet for a solution that is both convenient and simple to use. Quite a few alternatives presented themselves, but one of them really stood out after I started using the free trial. So, here’s how it went with Smartimage. It… Continue reading Smartimage: Management of Brand Files, Simplified