Erluvi - Web Design

The recipe to success with web sites is straightforward and common sense, yet we all too often disregard key ingredients.

• Findability
• Accessibility
• Usability
• Convertability
• Measurability

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Ok,

New insignia look: www.wakcy.co.uk/hosting/insignia
Tom Pullar's Blog: www.yesimabitch.tk

Enjoy!

Ps, these are TEMP addresses so sites may disappear.

CIao ragazzi,
segnalo questo bellissimo e spassosissimo servizio online, che riassume secondo me molto bene i concetti del web 2.0. Tecnologia, facilità d'uso e community sono racchiuse molto bene.

Il servizio in se è banale. Si tratta di comporre dei patterns con le figure disponibili ma potendo agire su moltissimi parametri, quali: colore, distanza, dimensione, rotazione, alpha.
Se ci piace il pattern realizzato, possiamo scaricarci la gif utile per i nostri Css, e possiamo anche aggiungerla alle nostre creazioni (previo registrazione).

In questo modo gli altri utenti posso votarla e noi votare le loro creazioni.

Secondo me è fatto benissimo!
E secondo voi?

Ok ok, I think it's time to start a freelance web design bizne$$, as I am always eating cans of soup instead of giant delicious meals. So. If you know anyone who needs a website designed and coded... click on the bun and spread the word...?

Well, for a number of years now we have been making our announcements, website launches, etc on this Wordpress blog. I have never felt it was ideal as we prefer to use our own solutions if possible and it always struck me as a little ironic that we, a design company, didn't even design the theme we use.

These days are over. We are very happy to announce the launch of our new website which includes a blog, news, portfolio and more. It's got a few rough edges which we will be ironing out over the next few days (and weeks and months no doubt!) and we welcome your feedback through the comments here or on our announcement page on the new site.

Check it out: www.luciddesign.co.nz

Buenos Días.

La Press de Hoy va sobre Deziner Folio, un blog de muy buen diseño y muy buenos recursos entre los que se encuentran themes para wordpress creados por ellos y muchos tutoriales.

El blog con un perfecto estructuramiento base y como comentabamos antes, un exelente diseño se conoce como uno de los mejores blog de Wordpress del Mundo, la única pega: Está en inglés.

Espero que os guste Deziner Folio y que la Press de Hoy os halla servido para acercaros como hacemos cada día a nuevas webs de diseño así como a sus diseñadores.

Un saludo: Alvaro

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

• The Photoshop Workspace . 2
• Working in Photoshop. 5
• Photoshop Layers. 9
• Photoshop Toolbox . 12
• Summary. 26

Chapter 2 - Basic Skills. 27

• Placing a Graphic in your File. 28
• Resizing a Document. 32
• Resizing a Layer or Selection . 32
• Rotating a Layer or Selection. 33
• Using Drawing Tools to Create Lines. 34
• Perfect Squares and Circles. 35
• Straightening the Edges of a Rounded Rectangle. 35
• Curved Design Elements. 37
• Reusing Vector Shapes. 40
• Sampling Colors from Image Files. 41
• Finding the Hexadecimal Code for a Color. 42
• Adjusting Layer Transparency. 43
• Fading an Image into the Background . 43
• Blending Two Images Together. 46
• Rounding the Corners of a Photo. 47
• Masking Multiple Layers with the Same Shape . 47
• Making a Dotted Coupon Box. 51
• Applying a Drop Shadow. 53
• Images with Transparent Backgrounds. 53
• Summary. 55

Chapter 3 - Creating Buttons. 56

• Making a Simple, Flat Button. 57
• Adding an Outline to a Button. 57
• Making a Smooth, Beveled Button. 58
• Creating a Chiseled Button Effect. 59
• Creating an Embedded Button Effect. 60
• Making a Gradient Button . 61
• Making a Round Push-button . 64
• Making a Metallic Button with a Matte Finish. 65
• Making a Shiny Metallic Button. 68
• Making an Aqua Button. 70
• Making a Transparent Aqua Button. 77
• Making a Plastic Button. 80
• Making a Glass Button . 83
• Making a Pearl Button. 86
• Making Angled Tab Buttons. 87
• Making a Rounded Tab Button. 89
• Making a File Folder Tab Button. 90
• Summary. 91

Chapter 4 - Creating Backgrounds. 92

• Making a Seamless Tiling Background. 93
• Making a Striped Background . 99
• Making a Pixel Background. 100
• Making a Gradient Background. 102
• Creating a Brushed Metal Background. 103
• Creating a Wood-grain Background. 105
• Making a Granite Background. 108
• Making a Textured Stone Background. 109
• Making a Textured Paper Background. 112
• Making a Rice-paper Background. 113
• Summary. 117

Chapter 5 - Working with Text. 118

• Adding a Single Line of Text. 119
• Word-wrapping Text. 119
• Increasing the Space Between Lines of Text. 120
• Increasing the Space Between Letters. 121
• Word-wrapping Text inside a Shape. 122
• Warping Text . 123
• Wrapping Text around a Curved Object . 124
• Making Small Text More Readable. 125
• Making Text follow a Path. 126
• Adding an Outline. 128
• Making Text Glow . 128
• Making Glassy Text . 128
• Creating Chiseled or Engraved Text. 130
• Giving Text a Stamp Effect. 130
• Giving Text a Motion Effect. 134
• Adding a Shadow to Text . 135
• Adding a Pattern to Text. 136
• Adding a Gradient to Text. 136
• Changing the Shape of Letters. 137
• Summary. 139

Chapter 6 - Adjusting Images. 140

• Making Whites Whiter. 141
• Adding Tone Adjustments and Contrast. 144
• Making Colors More Vivid. 147
• Removing Color Tints from Photos . 149
• Darkening Areas on an Image. 152
• Lightening Areas on an Image. 155
• Fixing the Red-eye Effect. 157
• Converting Photographs to Black-and-white Images. 158
• Making Sepia Images. 161
• Matching Lighting and Colors between Images. 162
• Combining Two Different Images. 165
• Getting Rid of Dust and Scratch Marks. 166
• Smoothing Grainy or Noisy Images. 170
• Sharpening Images. 172
• Adjusting Dark Shadows and Bright Highlights. 174
• Summary. 175

Chapter 7 - Manipulating Images. 176

• Adding Scanlines to an Image . 177
• Creating a Magnifying Glass Effect. 179
• Making the Foreground of a Photo Stand Out. 193
• Creating a Polaroid Photo Effect. 196
• Isolating an Object from an Image . 198
• Saving an Object on a Transparent Background for a Flash Movie.
  204
• Creating a Reflection for an Image. 204
• Creating an Image Thumbnail. 207
• Putting a Picture onto a Product Box. 208
• Placing a Picture onto a Curved Surface. 214
• Making Product Photos for an Ecommerce Site. 216
• Removing Distracting Elements from an Image. 220
• Removing Blemishes from a Portrait. 222
• Merging Partial Scans into a Single Image. 223
• Coloring a Grayscale Image. 226
• Summary. 227

Chapter 8 - Designing a Web Site. 228

• Designing a Web Site using Photoshop. 229
• Experimenting with Different Layouts. 234
• Creating Web-Optimized Images from a Photoshop Site Mockup. 236
• Filling an Area with a Pattern. 243
• Adding a Shadow Effect to the Content Area . 245
• Placing a Person or an Object onto a Background. 248
• Making Graphics for CSS Rollover Buttons. 250
• Summary. 251

Chapter 9 - Advanced Photoshop Techniques. 252

• Creating Thumbnails for Multiple Images. 253
• Saving Settings for a Batch Command. 256
• Pausing an Action to make Customizations. 257
• Watermarking Multiple Photos . 258
• Saving Photoshop Actions. 259
• Saving Layer Style Sets. 261
• Creating a Web Photo Gallery . 261
• Saving Multiple Comps for Presentation. 263
• Creating an Animated GIF. 266
• Summary. 272

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy."
- Edgar Bergen

I want to redesign my own Web site again. I miss it.

But I'm too lazy. I'm lucky I yanked this design from Wordpress and managed to change the picture at the top. That, and I don't feel like paying for hosting right now. So I have all these designs sitting here with nowhere to go.

Boo me.