Before you rush out and choose your domain name or name your website, you might want to consider the following points:
1. Your Domain Name Should Be Your Website Name
Naming your site after your domain may seem obvious to some of you, but you’ll be surprised to learn that not every website is named after [...]
Tips on Choosing a Good Domain Name
10 projects every php developer should use
As a php web developer, you should know that php is probably the language that has the biggest code repository. So no matter what module you want to include in your project there should be an open source solution.
This can help in various ways, but just in case you can’t think of one, here I [...]
Automating Photoshop; Actions and Batching Explained
If you work in Adobe Photoshop regularly, you’ll often find yourself engaged in repetitive loops that have a tendency to drain on your stamina and attention span. Today I’ll teach you how to use, and embrace the Action menu, a tool that will change the way you approach boring, monotonous tasks. Whether it’s mass resizing [...]
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
1. Bad Search
Overly literal search engines reduce usability in that they’re unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. Such search engines are particularly difficult for elderly users, but they hurt everybody.
A related problem is when search engines prioritize results purely on the basis of how many query terms they [...]
775 px, make it your default webpage width
When designing a web-page, your hope as a designer is to have your work look the same on everyone’s computer as it does on your own. Wake up. That is not happening. All browsers don’t get along, and sometimes, it’s the web-pages that are the victims. Here is how you can help:
Start using CSS to [...]
Slicing Tutorial: Photoshop
Slicing Tutorial: Photoshop
1. Here is a few simple things to watch out for when using ‘Slices’ for your web designs/layouts.
Click here to Preview the Mock Layout.
2. Organization and Naming Conventions
The above is an example of a single page layout.
Iv’e got all my layers organized into Folders for easy management. And i also have them properly [...]
Slice your layout and export images using Photoshop
Let us begin with the slicing tutorial. We need to slice the layout to save the necessay images in web format and use them in html. Click here to view the layout we are using on our 4 part tutorial on creating a website. Follow these steps to slice your layout.
1. Open [...]
