I looked at my recent work, and decided it was time to do an illustration or two So I made a cute little fish illustration

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As a webdesigner, I need to be productive. And most of the time I’m quite busy, I don’t sit and wait for new assignments to come in and my todo hasn’t been under 40 items in the last year. When I started doing webdesign, I would start over with fresh HTML and CSS files for every design I made. But you learn quite fast that starting with your basic styles in place will easily cut your coding time down. Read the rest of this entry »

Does your website have sign up forms? Are the validated as the user enters their data? They should be. There is nothing worse than signing up for a forum, a web app or an online service, pressing the Sign up or buy button and then seeing a little red line saying your phone number is too short, or your user name is taken. Or, god forbid, getting prompted by an annoying little popup box.
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We’ve all taken images like this. The sharpness leaves a lot to be desired This one is taken on my cell phone. So I’m going to show you a really quick and easy way to get a more crisp looking image.
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Have you ever taken an image that was too heavily backlit? And have you ever had problems getting details in the dark areas, that you get in that image. I know I have. But I’m gonna show you an easy technique in Photoshop to get some of the detail back into your image, without getting that kind of dusty look that normally comes out.

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Have you ever had a moment, where you thought: Doh! That’s why My traffic isn’t converting, or that’s why all my visitors bounce. Well that’s what this series of posts will be about. Read the rest of this entry »

We all want more visitors, that’s nothing new. And most people say it’s difficult, but it’s really not, it’s just hard work. You just have to do it. Don’t try to cut the corner, it doesn’t work in the long run. Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to share some of the links I’ve found interesting this week. There’s a bit of everything in there.

First up we have komodomedia’s sexy music album overlays Great technique, worth the read

Elastic – jQuery plugin to Make you text areas grow. Really nice.

SimpleCartJS – Ecommerce doesn’t get any simpler.

LoveTextures, don’t we all, I know I do

200+ Free Grunge brushes, We all love that! And a bunch of free grunge fonts won’t hurt either.

Worked a bit on a css print stylesheet the other day, and I wanted to share my sort of, basic print css setup with you. It’s not very big, but it’ll give you an easy place to start of from, then you can always add to it as you go along. I’ll explain each part. Read the rest of this entry »

I always judge a book by it’s cover and the same goes for DVDs if I don’t know the movie, so I had a look at our DVD shelf to see if I could find some inspiration. I was surprised by how different the quality of the work was. I’ve collected 20 of the best to help get those creative juices flowing. Enough talk, let’s have a look, shall we? Read the rest of this entry »