When I started work for a large greeting card company, they had type designers who handled all they type on cards. An illustrator would work with a designer to create the imagery and then it would be handed off to a type designer to add the copy in pretty and readable type. View the article →

I’ve prepared a showcase of premium freebies for you guys today, consisting of ten high resolution textures. I know that quality in free design resources is usually hard to come by, so I’ve especially selected ones that will make your designs stand out. View the article →

In this tutorial we will code an Upload Form from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it using the Plupload API. View the article →

In Android operating system, developer use layout to organize user interface controls, widgets on screen. In this lesson, we will look into the the Linear Layout, which is the most common layout used by most of the Android developers. The Linear layout organize controls either vertically or horizontally on screen. When the layout’s orientation is set to vertical, all child controls within it are organized in a single column; But when the layout’s orientation is set to horizontal, all child [...]

One of the most important Photoshop skills you need as a Designer is the ability to clip out images of various detail using masks or selections. Whether you’re creating designs for print, web or just fancy artwork it’s inevitable that you will be faced with the task of removing a subject from its background in a photograph. This post describes the various basic and advanced techniques you should have in your arsenal, which will allow you to tackle any masking [...]

Today we are releasing fully layered Century theme PSD freebie. If you are into web design, you’ll want to take a piece of this. View the article →

Today I will show you how I created this minimal & stylish single page portfolio design in Photoshop, I will show you step by step how I use the 960 Grid System with textures, icons and fonts to build this single page portfolio. View the article →

Responsive web design is a new concept which is growing rapidly all over the world. Responsive design facilitates with a comparatively better solution for the disintegration of the web devices. View the article →

Learn to make a stopwatch in CSS3 without any images or javascript View the article →

WordPress comes with a powerful Navigation Menu system that allows the theme developers and website administrators to add beautiful navigational menus to their websites. Using the Menu Editor, users can add and remove items from the navigational menus, customize items, add external items, create drop down menus and so on. View the article →

With the launch of HTML5 and CSS3 came new ways and techniques of using these advanced tools to resolve development challenges in clever ways. CSS3 can be implemented on websites to improve the browsing experience for users as well as help in quickly creating effects or functionality that for a long time required hours of labor for web developers. View the article →

The 26th of May is the final day for websites in Europe to comply with the new EU Cookie Law. The directive started as an online privacy protection programme one year ago and was adopted by all EU countries. View the article →

With CSS3, you can rotate Web page elements by a specified number of degrees, clockwise or anti-clockwise. With a small amount of HTML and JavaScript code in conjunction with CSS declarations, you can also animate these rotations. In this tutorial we will work through the process of rotating an image element by varying amounts as well as animating the function, initiating the rotation on user interaction with the page. View the article →

Learn to make a snake game using HTML5 canvas and Jquery. View the article →

In this example we will be adding a Styles drop down menu to TinyMCE, then we will add a purple button to it, and another element for writing tag lines. At WPlift we use that purple button to highlight links to external sites and downloads. So I thought it would be fun learning how it can be added to TinyMCE. View the article →