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November 23, 2010 By 14 Comments
Building Traffic Through the Power of Backlinks Part 1
Most bloggers and designers know that one of the best and easiest ways to get traffic and backlinks to their is to comment. But creating useful and helpful comments can be hard for some or take to much time out of their busy schedules. Commenting is not something you do once or twice a day. [...]
November 18, 2010 By 16 Comments
What Are Margins and Padding in CSS
Have you ever notice that some websites or when you working on a blog post your text wrapping around an image and the text is right up against or overlapping the image? Ugly right? Well, there is fix for this. You can use CSS or cascading style sheets to fix this. When you want to [...]
November 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
13 PhotoShop Actions To Add To Your Design Toolbox
Are you PhotoShop user that tends to have projects where you have to do a certain sequence of commands to over and over again or large batch of images that need a lot work? PhotoShop has a feature where you can create playback for a set commands that you can save and us it whenever [...]
November 9, 2010 By 14 Comments
Create A Bokeh Effect with PhotoShop
In design, bokeh effects have recently become popular and you can find them on websites and on some of the products you might would buy everyday. In photography, the bokeh effect is a blur or an out-of-focus area of an image when a lens renders out-of-focus points of light. These blurs are some deliberately created [...]
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Get Darren Rowse’s Ebooks with a 25% Discount
Earlier today I received an email from the Problogger Darren Rowse affiliate program for an offer for a discount of 25% off his both his ebooks. This is a great offer and shouldn’t be passed up. Most already have his books, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog and The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers, but [...]
October 29, 2010 By 11 Comments
Fresh and New PhotoShop Tutorials Created in October
Its the end of the month and there are some new PhotoShop Tutorials available to try out. There have already been several site sharing lists, so I thought I would share some of my favorites and ones that will be more useful for everyday users and those interested in learning Photoshop. This month’s tutorials were [...]
October 27, 2010 By 9 Comments
How To Fade An Image Into The background With Adobe Photoshop CS4
Have you ever created or found that perfect background image but it just wouldn’t work on your website or your design project because you couldn’t repeat the pattern or just looked” funny” when the background image met the background color? Or have you ever wanted to learn how to fade images so it looks like [...]
October 22, 2010 By 7 Comments
Tools I use for Designing and Blogging
Recently, I have had several readers ask me what tools I use for my design work and blog work. Today, I thought I would share those tools with my readers. As a designer and blogger, I use a wide variety of tools. Some of those are expensive and some are free. First, I want to [...]
October 14, 2010 By 12 Comments
Insights WordPress Plugin Reveiw
Even though I spend most of time designing, I am still a blogger. As a blogger, I am constantly looking for ways to streamline my content creation and find the multimedia needed for each article. For me this is the worst part, of the article creation process. There are a variety places to find what [...]
October 8, 2010 By 20 Comments
GrowMaps Anti-Spambot is a Better Way to Combat Comment Spam
Today, I found out about a new Anti-spam plugin released by Growmap, and Andy of Commentluv. As of yesterday the new plugin was released to the WordPress Directory! I have been waiting for better spam fitting tools for a while, and think this plugin may be the one! What I like about this plugin is, [...]
October 7, 2010 By 6 Comments
11 Killer Examples of Captain America FanArt
Comic books were never a big part of my life, but I was a big fan of superheroes and comic book characters. I read comic books whenever I could or watched the cartoons as a child. As an adult, I love comic books for their art and what it does for the digital art community [...]
