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Create a Custom Mac OSX Style Ring Binder Address Book Icon

December 30, 2009 Design

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create an Address Book replacement icon for Mac OSX. When you are a beginner, it’s better to start with designing replacement icons to get some practice. Let’s get started with personalizing the icons in our workspaces.

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Create An Aperture Style Camera Lens Icon

December 30, 2009 Design

In this tutorial, we’ll create a detailed camera lens similar to the one used as the logo for Apple’s Aperture photo-editing software. A camera lens is good for a software icon, logo, or just as a graphic for use in any design. Although, the image appears detailed, the process of creating it involves little more than simply layering objects with different fills and gradients to give a three-dimensional illusion.

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22 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

December 30, 2009 Design

So, in an effort to brush up on Adobe’s vector application, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at tutorials. Below is a list of the ones that I’ve found to be most useful for learning new techniques and brushing up on the tool sets found in Illustrator.

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Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

December 30, 2009 Design

Previously I showed you how to illustrate a construction helmet icon. In this tutorial we’ll be drawing a traffic cone, another handy icon for “under construction” elements. Our cone icon is inspired by one I saw on the VLC Player site recently.

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Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

December 29, 2009 CSS

In this tutorial I would like to go over how to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.

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Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery Tutorial

December 29, 2009 Web Development

So, in this tutorial, we will learn how to create a scroll menu. We will achieve the following objectives:

Keep html as simple as possible, and let jQuery and CSS do the rest.
Scoll up and down according to mouse-Y axis
Use jQuery.color plugin to animate the background-color changes – download jQuery.color
(Yes, you will need this to animate the background color, I thought it will do it by default, obviously it doesn’t! )

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How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop

December 29, 2009 Design

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn an easy method for creating very cool looking planet icons by using free textures and some simple lighting and shading techniques.

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The Four Key Components of a Great Web Design

December 28, 2009 Design

All aspects of a great design must compliment each other while helping achieve the end goals of the website. In this article, I’ve broken down the four key components of a great web design with examples and resources.

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An Idiot’s Guide To Accessible Website Design

December 28, 2009 Design

Recognizing the need to provide support for the world’s disabled Internet users, a number of companies have developed free and low cost tools to help designers comply with accessibility guidelines. Here are a few of the available tools that will turn you into an accessibility expert.

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10 Tips for Writing Better CSS

December 28, 2009 CSS

In this article I want to talk about 10 different ways you can write proper and clean css code as well as streamline the process and ensure you’re getting the job done as quickly and efficiently as possible.

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