Why You Should Read Design Tutorials

It is an interesting topic, most of us consider ourselves the masters of our field or talented enough to be able to figure everything out on our own. this just isn’t the case for any of us. We have to be sure to infuse our lives with a little modesty otherwise we risk becoming pompous […]

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Creativity In Development and Design

About six weeks ago, at the time my new website launched (with its new name), I presented business cards to a group of colleagues - they wanted to see the new identity.
It was an unveiling of the next step in my business development process, and the changes really have moved things to the next level. […]

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CSS: Getting Content Wrappers To Wrap

You ever had that frustrating div that would stop just short of wrapping your content like it is supposed to?

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Open Source Alternatives To Dreamweaver

I have used Dreamweaver for a long time now, before that just like most in the field it was notepad.
I used to not need anything fancy but the more I learned about Dreamweaver the more I liked. For instance, the ability to create keyboard shortcuts for custom snippets was endlessly handy. It is the one […]

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Moving From Print Design To Web Design

At Agency Fusion we frequently get to work with designers who are experienced in print but are cautiously venturing into the world of Web design.
Because the Web is an entirely different medium from print, it can cause some anxiety and frustration at first.
One of the main sources of frustration for designers new to the Web […]

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CSS: Getting Safari To Behave

Safari is one of those tricky browsers that aren’t the most cooperative but there aren’t many hacks for it that will work.

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The Logo & Home Page Credibility Requirement

When visitors land on a website, the first thing they do is mentally evaluate in an instant whether they can trust the information on the site enough to continue.
Like all information, this is a matter of whether or not the source of the information can be trusted to overcome perceptions of risk and uncertainty. Trust […]

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Web Safe Fonts

Many of you have been asking, “What fonts are safe for me to use” and “What fonts are universal and good for use on the web,” Well I am here to help.
Web safe fonts are ever important but a lot of designers I have seen lately are forgoing this important step in their design creation. […]

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Sandbox Theming: Pure CSS Asides

As you probably know, I’m a fan of Sandbox, the semantically rich Wordpress theme for hard-core theme designers. Honestly, I don’t know why theme designers would want to work off anything else… it just rocks.
So for my latest example of the cool “Pure CSS” funkiness you can accomplish with Sandbox, I draw your attention to […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on October 17th, 2007