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MakeUseOf Answers celebrates its first anniversary this month. Silently made available to staff for testing on January 17th, the official launch quickly followed on February 1st, 2010. We have come a long way since then.
Over 2,700 published questions, thousands of comments, and hundreds of contributors later, we find ourselves in the middle of many talented volunteers who help us and keep the site flourishing.
This is the time to thank every one of you. And we don’t stand empty handed. To celebrate one year of MakeUseOf Answers we’re handing out prizes to our most active and most valued volunteers. Your contribution has been noticed and we owe you more than just a Thank You Read the rest of this entry »
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a simple vector soldier character. We’ll begin by building the structure of the character with basic shapes, then adjust the line weights to create definition between the elements. To bring the character to life we’ll add blocks of colour before finishing it all off with a simple shading technique.
Similar to the recent mechanic character tutorial
It’s been a little over a month since I Read the rest of this entry »
![web apps 2 Cool Websites and Tools [January 27th]](http://www.makeuseof.com/images/web-apps-2.jpg "Cool Websites and Tools [January 27th]")
Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. You can make use of them without spending a dime. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here.
LoveGrid is the latest theme available exclusively to Access All Areas members. I’ve been working on the design on and off over the past few months and have finally finished it off as a complete theme ready for you to download and use on your own websites. Are you a …
If you are looking to give your designs a technical or futuristic modern feel, or even just give them a detailed and clean look, then you are in for a treat today. In this round-up we have collected 40 various Photoshop Brushes that focus on technology.
Now that I am responsible for my company’s email marketing campaigns I have become much more interested in email design and best practices. Once you subscribe to enough marketing emails you notice that there is a lot of great design going on in this space, especially from the leading online retailers.
So I thought I would start showcasing companies that consistently produced great looking emails. I started with Kate Spade as I really like the colorful, elegant design of their emails.
View the Kate Spade email design showcase (best viewed with your browser maximized).
Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. You can make use of them without spending a dime. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here.
Follow this step by step guide to create a sexy vector pin-up girl character design. We’ll start the process with a hand drawn sketch, then draw and manipulate the vector linework in Illustrator before adding colour and shading to bring the character to life.
