Archive for September, 2009

How You Can Maximize Your Social Media Time in Only 15 Minutes Per Day – Part 2

How You Can Maximize Your Social Media Time in Only 15 Minutes Per Day – Part 2

In my previous post, I shared the tricks I use to limit the time I spend on my blog and reading RSS feeds in order to accomplish more, connect quicker and make myself more visible with less work and...

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Giving Snippets “Add to” Coda & TextMate Buttons

Giving Snippets “Add to” Coda & TextMate Buttons

I think this is the coolest thing since Kayne carved cult symbols onto his head: each snippet in the Snippets area now has little links when you roll over them for adding the snippet to Coda or TextMate. I...

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How You Can Maximize Your Social Media Time in Only 15 Minutes Per Day – Part 1

How You Can Maximize Your Social Media Time in Only 15 Minutes Per Day – Part 1

Most of us have a mile-long task list that keeps us busy during the day, sometimes busier than we may like. So when social media enters the picture, many of us fall into one of two categories – too...

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40 Breathtaking & Creative Logo Designs Just to Inspire

40 Breathtaking & Creative Logo Designs Just to Inspire

Designers have an urge to stand out as unique, specially when it comes to logo design. Designing a memorable logo is not easy, it requires paying a lot of attention to details when using typography , colors & shapes...

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Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation: Making a Choice

Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation: Making a Choice

In my previous article , we discussed graceful degradation and progressive enhancement — concepts that can help rich web applications support more browsers and have a wider reach. ...

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Create Type Within A Shape In Photoshop

Create Type Within A Shape In Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator and InDesign are both well known for their excellent capabilities when working with type. ...

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Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster in Photoshop

Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster in Photoshop

This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a vector Nintendo Gameboy in Illustrator and then using it to produce a cool retro poster in Photoshop. Materials Needed: Gameboy Stock Photo G.B.Boot Font Textures: Circlebox Textures &...

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Styling Design Elements: 5 Beautiful Post Headings

Styling Design Elements: 5 Beautiful Post Headings

We will start a new set of posts that will demonstrate different way of creating and styling various design elements. Today our focus will be on “ Post Headings “, how to style and markup this important block that...

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Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation: an Overview

Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation: an Overview

In this article, I will discuss progressive enhancement and graceful degradation — two concepts that are well known but perhaps a little misunderstood. The Web is Evolving The web is in a continual state of flux and evolves at...

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Two Teeny Tiny Fonts

Two Teeny Tiny Fonts

Subpixel rendering is a method used to increase the apparent resolution of LCD displays. Each pixel on an LCD screen is made up of individual red, green and blue subpixels. Subpixel rendering allows for improved character shapes and spacing...

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