With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you’ve published online. More than that, you are responsible for comments in your posts. To make sure you fulfill your legal obligations, it’s important to know, what you, as blogger, may or should do; and you have to know, how to achieve this. After all, the ignorance of the law does not make one [...]

The old adage, “a picture speaks a thousand words” captures what user interface prototyping is all about: using visuals to describe thousands of words’ worth of design and development specifications that detail how a system should behave and look. In an iterative approach to user interface design, rapid prototyping is the process of quickly mocking up the future state of a system, be it a website or application, and validating it with a broader team [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating First impressions do count! Stunning our viewers with a visually compelling portfolio is one of the most important things that a designer can do to court a new client. Today we will demonstrate how to use photos, brushes, and textures, and 3D objects to design a creative multimedia website layout in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

The iPad. The most killing word on everyone’s lips lately… This newest mobile computing device (a.k.a. Apple Tablet) claims to revolutionize how we consume the web content. Boldly enough, however let’s admit that this tablet has a huge potential, so many people already want their website to be perfectly optimized for this recently unveiled gadget. But what do they need to do when designing pages to perform on this interesting Apple’s invention? For general design [...]

Designing a website isn’t just all graphics and strings of code, it takes style. This means that with most websites you come across, you’re bound to see a certain style being implemented or adapted. With these styles designers and others are able to reach a broader crowd and extend their brands or portfolios to the possibility of being recognized by potential clients. There are a variety of different styles, and with it being just as [...]

Is time kickin’ your back? Well, learn to defend yourself! Master these killer Photoshop keyboard combos and you’ll find yourself with more time for the important things (e.g. Facebook trivia questions). These combos assume you’re using Photoshop CS3 on Windows platform with default keyboard shortcuts. Legend: ( ) = Repeat as desired { } = Manual Input Required 10. Cloak of Invisibility Remove everything from the screen except for your file. F, F, F | [...]