November 10th, 2008 | News | No Comments
I’ve added a poll in the sidebar if you want to give your opinion on what method you prefer to search web galleries. There are many (to much?) web galleries out there but they don’t offer the same level of search adn navigation.
For example, the gallery here gives you the categories and the search box. But some others allow you to search by layout, main colors or user ratings. I am thinking about improving Yoursiteisvalid and maybe changing the way people search for websites.
In my case I really like the option to search by colors. That what I usually search when I look for inspiration. You often don’t have full freedom on colors because of logos and brand image of your client and when their main color is yellow or pink it’s easier to search for good example using that particular color.
November 5th, 2008 | Photoshop | No Comments
In this tutorial I use photoshop but the method can be applied to any decent graphic software. The difficulty with texture when you make then from a picture is the light. Even studio shots don’t have a perfect uniform light, specially over a large surface.
The idea here is to make a picture that ends how it begins. If it’s not clear yet wait to see the example. Read the rest of this entry »
November 4th, 2008 | Resources | 1 Comment
Another site to add to your design toolbox. Cgtextures has a very large collection of high quality textures. Targeting mainly 3D artist those images can of course be used for websites or print.
The average size is for the files is around 3000×1700 so enough pixel to work with.
For example I used this concrete texture on the site background. I like textured background on website, it gives a special feeling to it, almost natural. I try to make a tutorial tomorrow to illustrate how make a texture background that repeat nicely. Read the rest of this entry »
November 3rd, 2008 | Wordpress | 2 Comments
The wordpress team has released a few days ago the first beta version of the next wordpress, 2.7. I have seen some screenshots before, mainly pick from the bleeding edge but now that it’s a beta we can excpect less changes until the stable version is out.
Si here are a few screenshots taken from my localhost running 2.7.1 beta. As you will see the new admin skin is defenetly more fancy. Read the rest of this entry »
October 29th, 2008 | Resources | No Comments
If you remember last week I told you I was playing with my .htaccess which resulted in the submit page to be unavailable. The thing I was trying to sort out was the redirection of my index.php page to the root domain of the site.
Lets start from the beginning. It all started when I noticed that if I typed http://www.yoursiteisvalid.com/index.php and http://www.yoursiteisvalid.com I was directed to the same page. Nothing new here, web server are usually configured to direct you index.php or .html or whatever when it is not specified in the url. Read the rest of this entry »
October 28th, 2008 | Resources | No Comments
Interview of respected people is for me one of the best way to get an insight into the design community. Designers are usually relaxed person, ready to share or talk about what they do and how they do it.
You can learn even learn some cool stuff. Especialy when you work freelance and you don’t talk with fellow designers all day long I think its worth the reading time.
So here is an interesting resource from You The Designer gathering 25 interview from people working in the design industry. I’ve not read them all yet but every time I’ve got some spare time (not so often at the moment) I try to read some bits.
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