Monthly Archive:
March, 2009

10 Image and Gallery Lightbox Solutions for WordPress – Plugins
March 31, 2009 - 36 Comments
Photography,Wordpress,Wordpress Plugins

The easiest way to create an image gallery within Wordpress is by using the add [gallery] feature (from WP 2.5+), but to give your gallery something extra you may wish to add the Lightbox effect.

30 Photoshop Video Tutorials – Learn from the Pros of Graphic Design
March 30, 2009 - 37 Comments
Graphic Design,Photoshop,Tutorial

Sit back, relax. Watch and learn from the pros of graphic design, as they show you advanced Photoshop techniques, taking the simplest elements and creating something beautiful as well as tutorials on advanced drawing and illustration techniques.

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design
March 26, 2009 - 40 Comments
Photoshop,Tutorial

All of these tutorials cover the process of designing a modern and highend web page within Adobe Photoshop, as with any great web design it is initially designed with a graphic editor, beginning with a blank canvas building up towards the complete page.

19 Tutorials for Creating Beautiful HDR (High Dynamic Range) Imagery
March 25, 2009 - 40 Comments
Graphic Design,Photography,Photoshop,Tutorial

HDR(High Dynamic Range) imaging is the process of taking several exposures and merging them together into one image. First, take a shot with normal exposure, then one with under-exposure and then overexpose a shot to capture the detail from the shadow. Then, you merge all the photos together to create your HDR image.

34 Amazing Tumblr Themes, Twitter could never look this good!!!
March 23, 2009 - 63 Comments
Inspiration,Showcase,Web Apps

Twitter is the number 1 in the war of the microblogging apps, does it deserve its place there? Maybe. What about the others? Do you remember Tumblr?

48 of the Coolest, Stylish and Creative Lego Creations
March 20, 2009 - 60 Comments
Inspiration,Lego,Popular

These Lego designs are not all the biggest, not all the most intricate and not all the famous…but they are really, really cool. You could almost call these designs art, they carry the style and character of each talented and creative designer.

March 18, 2009 - 5 Comments
Inspiration

Designing your own personal portfolio site is the hardest design you will ever have to do. No matter what you do, its never quite right. There is always something you could have done to make it that little bit better. We are our own worst critics.

25 Impressive and Inspirational Dark CSS Web Designs
March 18, 2009 - 27 Comments
CSS,Inspiration,Showcase

Stepping away from the relative safety of white/light background in web design can sometimes be quite challenging, even daunting. If it is designed properly, using a dark background, the effect can be very impressive. Here are 25 superb dark designs that prove web design can be beautiful in dark.

39 Creative Lego Advertisements – Creativty without bricks
March 16, 2009 - 73 Comments
Graphic Design,Inspiration,Lego,Popular

Lego creativity is not limited to building bricks and stop motion movies, it extends even to advertising. They can take the simplest concept and often make a powerful and witty statement. There is no end to Lego creativity.

16 Creative and Inspirational Photographs – Distil Ennui
March 13, 2009 - 19 Comments
Inspiration,Photography,Popular,Portfolio

This is a showcase of the amazing photographs taken by Alex & Cocco, a collection of photographs that re-present the everyday confinements, re-proposing the ordinary, the displaced and the the overlooked.

March 12, 2009 - 31 Comments
Inspiration

Designers always seem to go that extra mile when designing there homepage, and rightly so (it is what potential clients will see). These are quite possibly the benchmarks from 2008 that have set the (very high) standards for 2009.

25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers
March 11, 2009 - 57 Comments
Ajax,Javascript,Popular,Tutorial

jQuery is everywhere, its fast and versatile, and is rapidly becoming as common on websites as CSS. The only small problem you may have is keeping up with development, keeping up with new plugins and tutorials. This article will do just that. All of these tuts have been written within the past eight weeks, bringing you up to speed with latest developments.

Amazing Lego Stop Motion Tutorials, Resources, Tools and Showcases
March 9, 2009 - 7 Comments
Inspiration,Lego,Tutorial

You’ve seen those amazing Lego Stop Motion movies all over the internet, they are always very popular, everyone loves them. So, if you ever wanted to be the writer, director and producer of your own movie (with minifigs), this is the article for you. (its easier than you would think!)

28 Adobe AIR Apps for Designers and Developers – Need Some AIR?
March 5, 2009 - 41 Comments
Application,Web Apps

Adobe AIR is marvelous. Simple as that. It takes either or all HTML, JavaScript, Flash or Actionscript and builds you a desktop widget that is compatabile across all operating systems and can be used at any time off-line. There are very few limitations, and anyone with even a little programming knowledge could build an app with relative ease.

42 Amazing Sources of Lego Inspiration and Creativity (and a touch of wit)
March 2, 2009 - 28 Comments
Inspiration,Lego

Young or old, almost everyone loves Lego. If you admit it or not, you do. For the few that have never played or built with Lego, perhaps they won’t understand the draw that Legoo can have, but I am sure they will appreciate the art and the skills of the builders from these sites.