Posts Tagged Color

How to Create CSS3 Christmas Tree Ornaments

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In this guide, we will display the power of CSS3 in drawing complex shapes. We will magically create Christmas tree ornaments using only CSS3 and HTML (no images). In particular, we will be drawing baubles Read the rest of this entry »

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Working With WordPress Shortcodes

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WordPress shortcodes are used frequently in plugins and themes as a way to achieve extra functionality, without the need to modify template files. You just type the shortcode word right into your post

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Ecommerce Copywriting: 11 Product Descriptions Compared

A recent article on Get Elastic — The 4 Pillars of Ecommerce Copywriting — got me thinking about the ’2nd pillar’ mentioned in the article, writing to persuade

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How to Design a Clean Business Website with Photoshop

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CSS 3.0 Techniques that You Should Know

Many of you have probably heard all the buzz around CSS3, but exactly which techniques can we use today? In this article I’ll show you some different CSS3 techniques that work great in some of the leading browsers (i.e. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera ), and how they will degrade well in the non-supported browsers (i.e. Internet Explorer). Using browser specific extensions, many of the proposed CSS3 styles can be used today!

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12 Useful Web Tools for Designers

When it comes to design, there’s a plethora of free web-based tools to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography.

In this article, you’ll find a bunch of handy online utilities for designers.

kuler Create

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kuler is a web-based application by Adobe that helps you create and share color themes. You can peruse the user-submitted color themes or create your own color themes with the kuler Create web tool.

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How to Create Inset Typography in Photoshop

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In this beginning-level design tutorial, I’ll show you how to apply a beautiful and super-easy text treatment in Photoshop: the inset text effect. It’s also often called the letterpress effect because it looks similar to text created by a Letterpress printer Read the rest of this entry »

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