The Dubious Advantages of a Web Design Degree
I got a call last week from someone who was considering a three year college program in web design. The whole thing was going to cost him tens of thousands of dollars … and that’s just what you have to pay the school! He called to ask about my video tutorial courses; he saw that [...]
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5. December 2009
Smart Web Designers Play to their Strengths
One of the biggest mistakes people make, is trying to develop skills in areas that they suck in. For example, you maybe good at writing HTML and CSS code but in the end, your pages don't look all that great. ... Let's face it, some people just don't have that artistic/designers eye. Play to your Strengths
Continue reading...30. November 2009
Pixarra TwistedBrush Review
Pixarra rebranded its digital drawing Sketchbook program into the new TwistedBrush application and I don’t like it. The program claims that it is “one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence packaged in into an easy to use program”. TwistedBrush has over 5,000 brush styles, with all the customization choices, [...]
Continue reading...26. December 2009
From Header To Footer: Designing a Layout with Adobe Illustrator
In this guide you’ll learn to properly plan and design a website in Adobe Illustrator. After that, we’ll translate your design to HTML and CSS. PREPARATION: Site Map Creation and Content Gathering Your website shouldn’t be complicated and tedious for your users, and it won’t be if you take the time to plan it out and build [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2009
PhotoScape 3.3 Review
PhotoScape (Freeware: Windows Only) (Sidenote: if you are looking for freeware photo editing software and you run Mac OS X or Linux, skip this article and check out Gimp.) First and foremost, PhotoScape is a free and feature-rich alternative to paid photo-editing programs and it’s been downloaded over 6 million times (according to CNET) with an average [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2009
Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 Review
Corel Paint Shop Pro (Windows Only) Corel’s Paint Shop Pro can (and has been) referred to as a poor man’s version of Photoshop (the real deal, not Elements) and with this new version, it may be worth giving it a shot. Paint Shop Pro X2 includes more features (layers, for one) but is still maintains [...]
Continue reading...22. May 2009
iPhoto ‘09 Review
iPhoto ‘09 Review Part of Apple’s “iLife” package, and bundled with every Mac, iPhoto is more photo-management than photo editing. iPhoto’s been around for some years now, but it’s not usually regarded as a powerful editing tool although Apple has improved its editing capabilities in this release. Definitely a winner for those of you who are [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2008
Business of Web Design – Introduction to the course
Hi, I’ve just uploaded the first session/chapter of the audio-book. You can find a written outline of this session in my original post about the Business of Web Design. … I am repeating the announcement here so that subscribers to the RSS feeds will be notified. Anyway, let me know what you think … both the good [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2008
What are gravatars and why you need them?
What is a gravatar? Let’s take it from the source: A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
Continue reading...12. June 2008
Comparing blogs, CMS and Wikis
I just published an article on my blog comparing these three different web publishing tools that you have to choose from: Blogs CMS Wikis
Continue reading...5. June 2008
Book Review: Flexible Rails: Flex 3 On Rails
Book review by: Richard Mischook Bottom Line A well written guide to using Ruby on Rails with Adobe Flex to create rich internet applications. My Motivation Recently I was working on one of my pet projects – an application for managing data mapping during the analysis phase of enterprise integration projects. The details of the application are not really [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2008
New Flash CS3 Video tutorials out soon.
I will be releasing a new Flash CS3 video tutorial in the next few days that examines the differences between Actionscript 1,2 and 3. Meanwhile, you can visit our Flash section on killersites.com Stefan
Continue reading...4. June 2008
Ajax Video Tutorials
We will be releasing a new set of Ajax videos very soon. The new videos will deal less with the underlying Javascript constructs; instead we will be looking at some of the popular Ajax frameworks that are out there. Things like: Scriptacoulous Adobe’s Spry framework for Dreamweaver Until the new videos come out, I invite to check out a [...]
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21. December 2009
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