Daniels Mekšs

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50 Most Creative Character Illustration Tutorials

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Drawn characters are usually cute and they can make us laugh. Nowadays, designers can turn their pencil sketches into beautiful digital art with lot of beautiful effects. You can use striking vector character as a mascot for your business or website.

This article contains 50 best Photoshop and Illustrator character designing tutorials. Most of these tutorials require a hand drawn sketch, so don’t forget about your pencil and paper.

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50 Exclusive Commercial Business And Corporate WordPress Themes

Posted in 1064 days ago • Written by 21 Comments

If you need a great, working WordPress theme, but don’t have or necessary skills, then these commercial themes are just for you. They’re completely ready to use, easy customizable and you are getting support too. This post assembles 50 good-looking corporate & business themes, so if you want to start a commercial site, this is the best option available. You get quality stuff with modern features for cheap price. Plus almost every theme has a help documentation so you don’t need to be a WordPress geek to set up and use them.

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How To Create Recognizable And Really Unique Article Thumbnails

Posted in 1065 days ago • Written by 7 Comments

Picture can save a thousand words. That’s true and it works everywhere, even in blogs. Next thing visitors spot after the title is thumbnail. Well done post thumbnails will attract more visitors and they will explore your website with interest.

In this article I’m going to share some tips and advices about beautiful post thumbnails. You will see lot examples of using thumbnails and hopefully learn something new.

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Ultimate Guide to HTML Emails – Basics, Tips, Tutorials and Resources

Posted in 1067 days ago • Written by 14 Comments

HTML emails is a great marketing tool, and if built good, they work great. In 2009 HTML email ROI was $43.52 for every dollar spent on it. If you are a freelancer be aware that sooner or later your clients will start asking for you to build HTML emails.

You might think that it’s not a big deal. Just a miniature HTML web page. But the difference from building HTML websites is that you aren’t building it to just a couple of browsers with very similar structure, but to 20+ email clients people are using. And believe me, they won’t swallow your code so easily. Each of them has it’s own particularities and that makes

HTML emails so hard to make. Below you will find 50+ tutorials, tips, resources, templates to get familiar with HTML email building.

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Improve Your Skills: 25 jQuery Beginner Tutorials Roundup

Posted in 1073 days ago • Written by 5 Comments

jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library that highlights the interaction between JavaScript and HTML. With jQuery you can write less and do more. jQuery has become an active trend and it’s features are growing rapidly.

I have assembled 25 beginner level tutorials for you to start knowing and exploiting jQuery and it’s powerful tools. After reading these guides and tutorials you will be able to proceed and start testing jQuery’s limits.

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12 Tools To Reevaluate And Analyze Your Web Design

Posted in 1075 days ago • Written by 11 Comments

Nowadays there are pretty many tools to analyze your site’s code and traffic, but there aren’t that much tools to evaluate design and accessibility. Personally, I think that best ‘tool’ to evaluate web design is other people feedback.

Surprisingly – there are just that type of tools available. Check them out together with some other useful tools and see if your design is easy accessible and practical. In this list less is more, you don’t need to much tools to analyze your web design, just few you really trust.

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Visualize Everything: 32 Free Tools To Create Different Diagrams

Posted in 1077 days ago • Written by 16 Comments

Diagrams are often used to help visualize something. What to do if you need to create a chart but don’t have a software like Microsoft Office? I’ve collected 32 online tools for creating diagrams, flowcharts, charts and graphs and all you need to use them is a web browser.

Certainly, you won’t need them all, but I offer you the choise to choose best from the best. Each of them has it’s own pros and cons, and I hope you’ll be able to choose the best option for you.

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Complete Toolbox: 55 CSS Menu And Button Coding Tutorials

Posted in 1078 days ago • Written by 15 Comments

Navigation menus and buttons with CSS styling are being used in almost every website. There are a lot of techniques to utilize and a good developer should have some basic knowledge about them all.

Below you will find a lot of tutorials each teaching you something different and appropriate. You will also find quite lot CSS3 tutorials, because CSS3 offered features are being used more and more and you should practise them too.

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jQuery Carousel Plugins: Best Resources, Tutorials And Examples

Posted in 1079 days ago • Written by 12 Comments

Carousels are handy if you have a row images and want your visitors to access them  in solid and really beautiful way. With jQuery opportunities this feature is made very simple and good-looking.

In this post you’re going to find different types of premade carousel plugins and tutorials how to make your own unique carousel gallery whenever you wish, find also some little inspiration at the end of article as bonus!

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30 jQuery Accordion Menus, Tutorials And Best Examples

Posted in 1081 days ago • Written by 14 Comments

Accordion menus are used widely in navigation, sliding, minimizing and maximizing content. Such accordions practically are expandable whenever needed, you can really save some space and be able to show a lot of information using this technique.

Yes, and of course such sliding content always is great from design point of view and giving your visitor unique experience while he is visiting. Great isn’t it? – here you will find a lot of customizable plugins, tutorials helping you to understand accordions at all as well as great examples, where this technique has been implemented in successful sites!

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