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Archive for September, 2009
Make Your Graphics Accessible
27, Sep 2009Since graphics are, by their very nature, a visual medium, our primary focus is to make graphical information accessible to screen readers for the visually impaired. There are several ways we can facilitate this: Provide equivalent alternatives to visual content.
20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorials
24, Sep 2009We’ve seen how Photoshop has been extensively used in areas like web designing and beauty photo retouching. In today’s post, we bring you into another stretch where Photoshop also rules and dominates – the modding and sketching of rides. This following article is dedicated to car lovers, forumites who use car photos as signatures, web designers or anyone who fascinates nice rides.
Let’s face it, most of us don’t create every single image and icon when we do web design. It is not because we can’t but merely because we’ve got better options. Kudos to many designers and their generosity, there are in fact a lot of really nice creative common images and icons on the Internet we can take advantage.
How To Create URL Shortener With Your Domain
17, Sep 2009We use shortening URL services like TinyURL , Bit.ly , su.pr , etc on daily basis.
- In: Server| Tech| Web Design
- Tags: custom, domain, installation, php, search-engine, shortening, sure-the-server, Tech, thoughts
In a nutshell, bookmarklets are small little applications you can place as browser’s bookmark bar and they each perform a specific function, depending on what they are coded for. Bookmarklets are usually written in Javascript and they are extremely easy to install/remove. Bookmarklets work in most common used browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari but probably lesser support in Internet Explorer
- In: Facebook| Internet| News| Object| Tech| Web Design
- Tags: browser, CSS, dictionary, installation, Internet, media, safari, sharing, tools
When it comes to web design, creativity of design should not be hold back by the limited choices of supported web fonts we call the web-safe fonts . Designers should be having freedom to use any fonts they preferred on titles and contents
- In: Object| Tech| Web Design
- Tags: browser, dictionary, Firefox, flash, image, Internet, open-source, php, sharing, technique
Checklist For Better Forms
10, Sep 2009Forms can be painless or painful for visitors. Keep in mind that visitors want to get their tasks accomplished as quickly as possible, and with the least amount of effort. Proper planning and design can maximize task efficiency
- In: Server| Tech| Web Design
- Tags: design, form, provide-either, purpose, real-estate, result, Server, web accessibility
Having another designer’s PSD file is as good as owning a chef’s recipe book. The only difference is – we designers are willing share and sometimes we even distribute them ourselves so others can download and learn from our techniques. Photoshop .PSD file reveals the techniques used on a specific design, it also tells us the style of the creator and most of the time there is something new we can learn from it
We see a lot of Photoshop tutorials on the net, but most of what we come across are tutorials written in a step-by-step manner. In most cases, the instructions are clear-cut and easy to follow, but few would argue against an even more effective kind of tutorial: Video tutorials . With the emergence of video sharing websites such as Youtube and Metacafe over the recent years, we see an ever-increasing number of user-generated videos from all over the net.