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Easy Slider – Powerful and Customizable jQuery Slider Plugin
about 1 year ago - No comments
Recently, I was working on completing my portfolio website. I wanted a slick and impressive way to display my past portfolio work, and I found this little gem known as Easy Slider while surfing the internet.
Easy Slider saved my life. It’s a jQuery image slider that is highly customizable. I recommend it for anyone who More >
Top 10 Web Design Resources Every Designer Should Know About
about 1 year ago - No comments
Where would web designers be without the invaluable resources provided on the web for us? Design inspiration, stock photos, tutorials, fonts, freebies, brushes, textures … the list goes on. Take advantage of the resources and expertise other web designers offer for free! Here are 10 of my absolute favourites, in no particular order:
Design Meltdown (design More >
GIMP – The FREE Alternative to Photoshop
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
Let’s face it: Photoshop is freakin’ EXPENSIVE. At a whopping $700 US for Photoshop CS4, you had better hope your parents decide to spoil you and buy it for you next Christmas. Unfortunately, the high price point makes it difficult for beginners and aspiring web designers to get into the business – you had better More >
HMTL5 Local Storage, Session Storage, and Client-side Database Tutorial by O’Reilly
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
This tutorial will take you through the new features of HTML5 involving client side storage, sessions and databases. The tutorial is based off creating a web app for the iPhone but will serve you the same purpose if you are looking for any web based platform. HTML5 is the future and its a good idea More >
Icons – lots of Icons!
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
Icons are a great way to customize your computer and folders. Here is a list of some great Icon sites you can get started with:
http://pixelgirlpresents.com/icons/
http://iconfactory.com/home
http://interfacelift.com/icons/downloads/date/any/
http://www.iconspedia.com/
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/index1.html
http://www.iconarchive.com/
http://iconfactory.com/freeware/icon
http://www.veryicon.com/icons/
http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/categories.php
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Wordpress?
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
Wordpress is a great tool to be familiar with. It’s so popular and powerful that businesses use it all the time. Although Commonly used for a blog, it’s possible to create great websites using Wordpress as a platform. Wordpress allows you to install and apply themes so you can quickly get a website/blog up and More >
How to Brand Yourself as a Freelance Interactive Designer
about 2 years ago - No comments
Creating a memorable and successful brand and marketing yourself is a very important aspect of being an interactive designer. Here is an excellent article by WebDesigner Depot entitled The Art of Branding Yourself and Your Freelancing Business – it covers everything from writing the elevator pitch to defining the target audience to logo and website More >
Coda
about 2 years ago - 4 comments
There are a TON of different text editors out there, everything from Windows’ NOTEPAD.EXE to BBEdit to Coda. BBEdit is great as far as simple text editors go, but it lacks specialization. While it does have autocorrect features, Coda has a comprehensive CSS editor as well as the autocorrect. It also has an organizational feature More >
Web Developer Toolbar
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
If you have ever developed websites you have to get this Firefox add-on. This tool bar can turn on and off anything such as Javascript, CSS, Images and more. Basically you can test for anything to see if your webpage is stable when people have all those turned off. The toolbar has other features that More >
Firebug is every web developers friend
about 2 years ago - 4 comments
Have you ever built an HTML page and styled it thinking it was going to look like the mock up you created just to view it on a web browser and find out that you have block elements going places you never thought possible. This is the point where the browser leaves you wondering “WHY More >
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