Is a Web Site Builder Right for You?

Editor's Pick in Design Principles, July 2005
How can you know if using a web site builder will meet your needs? Here are some things to consider...

Romantic Wedding Montage

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, July 2005
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join one photo and one fantasy in holy matrimony. What a groovy montage.

Create a Stunning Pop-out of Border Effect

Create a new document with these dimensions. What we're doing here is creating a frame and then making some special modifications. Grab the rectangular marquee tool and create a selection like this. Create a new layer in the layers palette. Now press Alt Backspace to fill this selec...

Pop-out of Border Effect

Designing Know Hows

What is the purpose of a good design? A good design is like a logo. It stands for what the company is for. In getting a design, one should consider how it will be of use. It can be made of more than one type, depending on the preference of a company, as long as the concept is still the same...

What To Ask Your Web Designer

If you need a web designer, but have no clue about the typical web design process, I am quite certain that you must be feeling a bit overwhelmed about what to expect. As web designers, we oftentimes have a myriad of roles to fill when working with their clients...

Website Designs that Work (and Some That Don't!)

Have you seen the website with the black background and navy blue text? Oh, yeah…I’m sure we’ve ALL seen that website, and I hope the last time we saw it was 10 years ago when web design was in its infancy. By now, we all know that visual appeal is a must when it comes down to website design...

How to Design a Search Engine Friendly Website

There are many websites that fail to target their required traffic, even if they’ve had some search engine optimization work done. One of the main causes for this is simply because the website isn’t search engine friendly...

Easy Web Design Tips

Pick an easy layout; easy to design and easy to maintain. I have wasted many hours trying to design a site that was easily three steps above my skill level. This was a complete waste of time and I promised myself that I won’t make the same mistake again...

Futuristic Tech Background

Ladies and gents... this right herre is the tutorial to end and begin all tutorials. If you look at the end result there would probably be no way on earth that you would believe that this is the first design I've ever done in this genre...