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Developing the grid that supports your design
Just a few months ago when I created any design, I didn’t practice a grid system. I didn’t know much about it so I thought that I can live without it. Yes it’s true. You can live without a grid system, but should you? Why is the grid important? I will try to answer to…
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How to create a nice map using CSS and unordered list
For one of my personal projects, I needed to create a nice-looking map and position the elements in it. In the past, I would use Photoshop, and sketch the elements on layers that I can move, but today I will use (definitely) CSS. We will create an unordered list to achieve that. Nothing complex, just…
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Creating news site heading like in Daylife.com Covers
A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting news site called Daylife. Its front page (Covers) is something like an internet/TV hybrid, with its flash intro page that displays most recent news. To say the least, I am a fan of Flash, as of JavaScript and other technologies, but I think that the same…
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Using Photoshop masks for creating web graphics
If you want to create a dropped shadow background than you could just add a drop shadow layer effect to a specific layer. But what happens when you would like to create a dropped shadow background that fades with the background itself. The easiest way is to use Photoshop “power”. I am talking about Photoshop…
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Happy holidays to you all
To all my colleagues, friends and visitors! I wish you happy holidays :) I wish you love, understanding, good health, much joy, and that all your wishes come true.
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9rules submission
In the round 5 of submissions to the 9rules network, I entered an application. Yes, I wanted to get in, but the last time there were more than a thousand other applicants. Didn’t have any expectations. Well, today I got an email from Tyme White saying: “You got in.
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Advanced forms
In you read the article about creating simple contact forms than you know what the most web designers will ever need. For those of you who need some advanced forms, this is the article for you. In this article I will not cover many things, because if you know the basics you could combine the…
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Tables explained — how to use and style them
Back in the “old days” of the web, tables were used for creating page layouts ranging from complex to simple (for example — creating a contact form). Today, we use DIVs and SPANs instead, and we should use tables only for displaying tabular data. In this article I will show you how to use tables…
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Creating web graphics in Photoshop
In this brief and illustrated tutorial you will learn how to create most commonly used web graphics in Photoshop. Techniques explained in this tutorial, can be used in other similar programs as well. In this tutorial I will try to explain how to create a menu, like the one explained in the article “CSS image…
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Designing with passion
One obvious and another less obvious steal or rip-off (as you wish to call it) came to my eyes recently. In article “Is this a rip-off?” I pointed obvious one, and in the comments to the article I pointed one less obvious. Both of them are inspired by this design. What’s wrong with those people?…