I stumbled across Pugly Pixel while searching for quick and easy Photoshop tutorials. Pugly Pixel is ran by Katrina, who has created a great selection of freebies for download. She also offers services/extras for a very reasonable charge.  I'm really impressed by her clear instructions and the short and sweet projects ...

This is second part of designing a one page portfolio tutorial series. In the first tutorial, we had created a simple and elegant Portfolio PSD mockup. Now, we'll convert the PSD to a HTML5 and CSS3 with some jQuery goodness. Make sure you have read the first tutorial and make ...

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a slick download button in Photoshop and then use it as a button sprite. We will also cover some basic CSS techniques to make this design fully functional. Preview This is the result that we are going to create. The ...

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"I think you have the best looking icons of anyone on the web." I couldn't agree more. Icons-land has an extensive collection of stock icons, vector icons, and emoticons. A lot of stock icon sites are difficult to use, forcing you to sledge through image after image. Icons-land has a ...

Hello there! This post is for those who're looking for a low-cost variant of creating a Flash website. There are a few situations when this article will be of a great use to you: - you don't have time (money, patience, will, etc) to hire a professional web developer to build ...

If you are a "font nerd" or just generally interested in typography, these sites might already be known to you. For everyone else, here's a website roundup: Llamafont.com is a hilarious website, where you can use "llama font" to spell things out. You can then save the text, share on facebook ...

This is round two of my review of Android photo apps. I've downloaded and used a few more photo apps that I'd like to share with you. First up is picplz, which is really great for post editing. You can apply different filters to any photo on your phone. They also ...

While perusing the web, I found some fun websites. Polaroin This website is great for turning photos into Polaroids with the ability to add captions, without the necessity of downloading an app to your phone. I really like this for photos that I already have on my hard drive but want to ...

In this two part tutorial, we will create an eCommerce site inspired from Groupon complete with its simple jQuery slider. This design is my collaboration with an Indonesian web designer and developer, Aris FM. Today, we will learn to create its design in Photoshop. Step 1: First Page -- Setup Document First, ...