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• 15 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials January 27, 2012
  Advertise here with BSAIcons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design Tutorials to keep your ideas flowing and to increase […]
• What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design January 24, 2012
  Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, it seems vulnerable and weak, but in time it grows up and becomes self-sufficient. Redesigning a website for its own sake doesn’t prove anything; quite the contrary, it reveals a lack of ef […]
• Some useful scripts for Photoshop Layer Manipulation January 24, 2012
  Last mounth I published Hand Drawn Icons it is set of 282 icons made in Photoshop. If you ever worked with large set of layers in Photoshop you will know how difficult is to mange and organize all this layers. I what to share some of scripts that help me perform different tasks in Photoshop. Many designers ignore the possibility of scripting inside Photoshop […]
• HTML5 Please – Which Features Can You Use? January 23, 2012
  HTML5 Please is a great resource for determining browser support for many HTML5 and CSS3 Features. Each feature offers a recommendation to either use, not use, use with caution, or use with a fallback. It offers great information like the browser share for each feature, as well as the fallbacks you can use to simulate the feature in incompatible browsers. My […]
• Using the jQuery Validation Engine with modal & dialog plugins January 23, 2012
  This is a question I often get asked by email, and I think there is enough requests to warrant a small blog post. All about the DOM The validationEngine expect your form to be present on the page when you initialize… […]
• 21 Examples of Inspiring Typography in Web Design January 23, 2012
  Advertise here with BSAFrom print to packages to web design and pretty much all other media that you can think of, typography always plays a big role. Not only can good use of typography add to your design from a visual standpoint, it can also play an important role in defining the heirarcy of the content. With this […]
• Extracting Logos Using Levels In Adobe Fireworks January 20, 2012
  In all the years that I’ve been using Adobe Fireworks, I have always had to perform one task in every project: remove the background from a logo. Most of the time, it’s because the client doesn’t have the original raw file that their previous designer used to create their company’s logo, or because I need to work with a bunch of affiliate logos that I downlo […]
• WDL Premium: Portrait Photoshop Actions from Union Actions January 20, 2012
  Advertise here with BSAFor our WDL Premium members, we’ve got an awesome bundle of Photoshop actions for professional quality photo enhancements. This collection is called Portrait Suite and it’s from Union Actions. This suite has a lot of actions to change the look of your portrait. Be sure to check out Union Actions for more incredible Photoshop actions. [ […]
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference January 19, 2012
  Whether we like it or not, more and more developers are being introduced to the world of JavaScript through jQuery first. In many ways, these newcomers are the lucky ones. They have access to a plethora of new JavaScript APIs, which make the process of DOM traversal (something that many folks depend on jQuery for) considerably easier. Unfortunately, they don […]
• CSS1k January 18, 2012
  Back in the day, the CSS Zen Garden was a place to showcase the power of CSS. A single page was redesigned in vastly different ways with no change to the HTML. The CSS1k project (head up by Jacob Rask) is in that same vein only you are limited to only 1k of CSS. Fun, but the purpose is to get you thinking about how to be efficient and size economic with CSS. […]