Artthatworks: Create A Beautiful Portfolio Landing Page In Adobe Photoshop
Hello readers! In this week’s tutorial we will be making an awesome, beautiful portfolio in Adobe Photoshop. The landing page will contain a header section, slider, an eye-catching about you text, what you do, a section for your current project, a footer that will contain about you, latest news, and latest tweets. This tutorial will be detailed so that beginners can follow through. Let’s get started!
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Yana: Learn How to Create an Awesome WordPress Blog News Theme
Let’s say that it’s your first time creating a news blog template and you don’t have any idea what and how to do it. Well, this tutorial will help you create a WordPress blog news theme in Adobe Photoshop. The theme will include a header section, a slider that will contain featured posts, recent news, display posts by category, sidebar, and widgets. If you’re really a beginner you can read and follow the step by step instructions, but if you’re not, maybe you’ll get some ideas from this tutorial. So let’s get started.
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Setup Surveys and Capture Data with Google Forms
Are you looking to learn more about your website visitors? If so, Google has your back. Google Docs is an excellent free online tool that allows you to create forms (surveys) for the purpose of capturing data from your online community. Google Docs allows you to create very professional looking forms, with over 60 different themes to choose from. You can customize the questions you want to ask and the answer choices you want visitors to choose from. Once the form is setup you can easily embed the form in your website or e-mail it out to a list. Feedback is captured automatically and reports can be charted and graphed for accurate analysis. Sound good so far? Let’s dig into how the process works.
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Create Your Own Premium Membership WordPress Blog – Part 1/3
Who doesn’t want to earn money from blogging? I mean, sometimes you have shortages, sometimes comments let you down, payment is not THAT good. But you know, it’s still better than real work, right? (Troll’s comments in 3..2..1..)
So instead of spending a few bucks in order to get a premium membership system, why not create your own? And you can also learn a little bit about WordPress. Big deal, isn’t it? And you will be amazed at how easy is to build such great feature.
This is our first post from 3 and we’ll be talking about user roles, register, show / hide content based on user’s role.
So, Let’s Rock!
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How to Achieve Lomography Effects Through Photoshop
Lomography is an interesting form of photography that’s on the rise today. It’s kind of like ‘backwards photography’–it’s a plastic toy camera that makes use of film. Because everything is made of plastic (yes, including the lens), the lomo camera does everything it’s not supposed to do: saturated colors, high contrast, off hues, vignettes, blurs, and more. It has developed into an art form because of these unique, ‘bad’ features.
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PS Tutorial:Learn How To Make A Mechanical Sunflower
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a flower made of mechanical components. You will learn how to embed a variety of images together to make it look quite realistic. By following this tutorial you will learn how to nicely adjust blending options and use Photoshop tools to make a grim atmosphere. This is my first tutorial and I hope that you enjoy it and learn something at the same time!
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Live Search for Your Website the Easy Way
If you want to offer your visitors a more rewarding experience on your website a customized search engine allows you to create a more rewarding search experience for your visitors and help them find what they are searching for.
The solution is to create and install a search engine application for your website. The solution you use will depend on the content management system you have and how many pages are in your site.
Below are some of the best and easiest choices I have found for helping create your site search engine. With the exception of the WordPress plugins listed below though, these solutions will work for any website.
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GD Auto Service: Learn How to Create an Awesome Landing Page in Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial we are going to create an awesome landing page for GD Auto Service as an example. The template will have a cool logo, search bar, navigation, slider gallery, login panel, blog, services, testimonials and footer. Let’s combine these all together to make an awesome template. I will try my best to make it easy for you to follow this tutorial. So let’s get started!
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50 Superb & Free PSD Files From Dribbble To Learn From The Best
Either for self-promotion or simply for goodwill and to help others, the truth is that finding free resources and inspiration can be a really easy task. If you are an experienced designer, you know the best way to learn is by just looking and studying other people’s work. PSD files can be a powerful way to learn and fulfill your work expectations.
Today, one of the main references for this purpose is definitely Dribbble. Dribbble is not only an awesome place to be inspired by many talented designers. You can actually stumble upon some fantastic free PSD files and examine them and learn more.
This collection includes some fantastic UI kits, a lot of assets for web and graphic design, as well as a few cool icons. These PSDs are as perfect for learning as they are for your future projects. Personally I haven’t practiced learning from PSDs lately but by checking out some of these I surely realized how much you can learn from a well-built PSD.
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GD-Gaming: Create a Simple Gaming Layout in Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial we are going to create a simple template for a gaming website. You will learn how to create basic highlighting, color combination, alignment, what background works, and many other important things. I hope you can follow me from start to finish.
You have two options: to follow the tutorial and acquire all the techniques listed here, and soon you can design something relevant to this. Or you can just download the file, but I promise you that you will be confused if you just download the file. The best thing to do is to follow the tutorial, it takes less than 30 minutes!
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