Capture a Screencast with a Mac
Posted on Jun 29, 2008 05:52:39 PM
As a writer, I often make screenshots to accompany my tutorials, blog posts, and articles. But, sometimes, static screenshots aren’t up to the job of clearly illustrating a point.
I recently wrote Web Accessibility: The Flip Side of the Coin for About This Particular Mac (ATPM). I wanted to demonstrate how using multiple links with non-unique text, such as “Read more…” can be confusing, and created a Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Capture, Screencast, withIntroduction to Django: Helping Perfectionists With Deadlines
Posted on Jun 25, 2008 08:18:49 PM
Django is an open-source Web framework, written in Python, that allows you to easily and rapidly develop interactive, data-centric web applications. It came into being when two Web developers—Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison—in Kansas, after moving their newspaper’s website from PHP to Python, found themselves repeatedly solving similar problems. They decided to extract the common functionality and released the resulting Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Deadlines, Django, Helping, Introduction, Perfectionists, withThe Rise of Flash Video, Part 2
Posted on May 29, 2008 06:00:56 AM
This will happen to you: Your client calls and informs you that she is seeing a lot of video on the web these days and, that she just happens to have a few she would like to put up on her site as well. There was a time when this request would have struck fear into the hearts of most web developers, but today’s web is a different place; the ubiquity of the Flash player in the marketplace has made this task possible. As I pointed out in Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Flash, Part, Rise, Video25 Open Source Web Design Programs And Tools You Should Already Know About
Posted on May 20, 2008 06:49:04 AM
Open-source programs and tools have really come a long way. Almost any program out there has an open-source equivalent. Using any combination of the tools below, it is possible to create, author and publish a website entirely for free (legally).
Text EditorsAptana Aptana is the free equivalent of Adobe Dreamweaver. Very powerful and very stable.
Notepad++ Notepad++ is a lightweight text editor that has code coloring and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: About, Already, Design, Know, Open, Programs, Should, Source, ToolsN.Design Studio - Blog & Design
Posted on Apr 25, 2008 07:35:22 PM
As most of you already know that I’m launching a new site and thank you for being supportive checking on my blog every day. Finally, the site is done and I’m very proud to announce the launch. The new site is called Web Designer Wall. It is my new blog on design related stuffs such as design trends, CSS, Photoshop tutorials, technology, etc. Some of you might ask: "Why do you another site? What about N.Design Studio?" Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blog, Design, StudioA Designer’s Guide to Making Your Own Stock Photography (for non-photographers)
Posted on Apr 6, 2008 08:40:23 AM
As a designer, making your own stock photography means that you'll be approaching photography from an idea of a finished concept. This isn't the way most photographers think. Most commercial photographers shooting for a design firm, need instructions from an art director. Photographers need to know what your client wants. They want to know what you know and share in your vision. This can be an interesting process with you as art director and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Designer, Guide, Making, photographers, Photography, Stock, your39 Photoshop Button Tutorials You Should Have in Your Arsenal
Posted on Apr 4, 2008 01:44:54 PM
Your website navigation plays an integral role in keeping your site easy to use and navigate. Button tutorials are useful because you can take the techniques you like from a tutorial and use them to make your own custom buttons to match the site your working on.
I have filtered through the millions of results to highlight the 39 button tutorials you should have in your arsenal.
Veerle: Creating Flexible Buttons Using Photoshop Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Arsenal, button, Have, Photoshop, Should, Tutorials, yourTo Dance the Dance of Freelance
Posted on Mar 16, 2008 12:20:27 PM
Thinking back on my transition to full-time freelance work brings a myriad of emotionally confusing scenarios to mind. I sometimes allow my brain to conduct a symphony of uneasy visions of the parts of my life that would be better had I remained under the full-time employ of The Man. There would be the certainty of my regular paycheck, and its amount. There would be a kind hand on the shoulder and a soft word in the ear from my bank. There Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Dance, FREElance20 Sources for Outstanding Photoshop Brushes
Posted on Mar 6, 2008 03:24:33 AM
Having a wide variety of brushes gives designers a larger toolset when creating images. Grunge brushes can be used to create a textured site design, floral brushes can help fill empty voids and even more brushes can be used to create nice little touches. Below is a collection of resources for expanding your Adobe Photoshop brush palette:
Free Brushes at Brusheezy! This site has a very large collection of high quality brushes.
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Tags: Brushes, Outstanding, Photoshop, SourcesFlash Player 9: Bringing HD Flash Video to the Web
Posted on Jan 25, 2008 10:15:48 AM
At a recent Adobe MAX conference, I was quietly sitting in a comfy chair absorbing the information overload, when an attendee from my session earlier that day plunked herself down beside me and shared her own Flash video story. Her clients, seeing all of those gorgeous sites out there that use Flash video, wanted to jump on the bandwagon, too. They said what I have heard all too often: “I have the stuff on DVD.”
Tags: Bringing, Flash, Player, Video