Archive for April, 2010

Autodesk Homestyler Renders Your Blueprints in 3D [Design]

Autodesk Homestyler Renders Your Blueprints in 3D [Design]

If planning some remodeling, landscaping, or any kind of home renovations is in your future, you'll want to check out Autodesk Homestyler—a free and simple to use drag-and-drop design tool. More » ...

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Eight 3D Modeling & Graphics Applications Available For Free

Eight 3D Modeling & Graphics Applications Available For Free

If you’re interested in getting started with three dimensional (3D) graphics, there are a large number of applications available, and if you’re just dipping your toe in the water, applications with a price tag of FREE are always welcome....

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Single-Page Websites: Examples and Good Practices

Single-Page Websites: Examples and Good Practices

    By Cameron Chapman Single-page websites are becoming more popular among web designers, both for their own projects and for client sites. There are a lot of cases out there in which a single-page site makes a lot...

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SitePoint CEO Walks 100 kms For Charity

SitePoint CEO Walks 100 kms For Charity

Rather than coming to work today, Luke Cuthbertson, SitePoint’s CEO, is going for a walk. Mind you, this is not just some light stroll in the park. Luke is participating in the Oxfam TrailWalker challenge , a gruelling course...

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If You’re Going to Spam Me, at Least Make it Interesting.

If You’re Going to Spam Me, at Least Make it Interesting.

As far as weeks go, this one didn’t start off particularly well. I was enjoying a rare Sunday treat – a day without my kids – when I made the fatal mistake of logging into work to make sure...

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The recession and the Web design industry

The recession and the Web design industry

    By Andy Warpole In the autumn of 2008, at least for a few weeks, it looked as if the very walls of capitalism were going to fall on to the heads of its participants. The once mighty...

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WordPress Caching: What’s the best Caching Plugin?

WordPress Caching: What’s the best Caching Plugin?

Your Wordpress blog getting sluggish? Caching is a great technique for speeding up your blog and the Wordpress community has a lot of caching plugins to choose from. Lets review each one and find out which caching solution will...

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Child and Sibling Selectors

Child and Sibling Selectors

Do you know what the difference between these selectors are? ul li { margin: 0 0 5px 0; } ul > li { margin: 0 0 5px 0; } I’ll admit it took me longer than it probably it...

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Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect in Illustrator

Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect in Illustrator

In this tutorial we’ll make clever use of Illustrators built in 3D capabilities, gradients and opacity masks to design a Retro 3D Type Effect. Quick Nav: Tutorial Download the PSD (Source Files) The final image This is what we...

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Why Containers Don’t Clear Themselves

Why Containers Don’t Clear Themselves

One of the hurdles (and “ah-ha” moments ) in learning CSS is this business about clearing floats. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, check out the classic All About Floats . I specifically want to talk...

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