Navigation is arguably the most important part of a website (after content of course). Without a good navigation, your visitors will have difficulty finding their way around your site. If a visitor can’t find your sales page, you won’t make a sale. If a visitor can’t find the content they want, they won’t stay long. Continue Reading

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which is a style sheet language used to present a document written in a markup language. CSS is often used to update and change web sites written in HTML or XHTML. These are a few sites that have a excellent start up information to help someone use CSS.

W3 Schools- W3 Schools is a very helpful web site for the novice user up to the experienced user on information to program CSS sheets along with other questions for other coding for web sites.

WDG Guide – This is another tutorial on how to use CSS along with base sheets and galleries to help the user learn more about how to style CSS.
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Six Revisions is a great website with wonderfully simplified collections of resources for web designers and developers. Just to highlight a few, here is a wonderful collection of 30 CSS Techniques and Examples that are certainly worth a bookmark or a link. Web designers and developers are, as a rule, often not particularly efficient – with that in mind here are 20 Tips and Tools to Improve Efficiency. And for when you finish with a design, here are 7 Tools for Evaluating Your Web Design.

Before jumping into more Photoshop tutorials it is always inspiring to see some of the possibilities out there. This collection of animal/fruit hybrids is a great set of examples showing the power and potential of Photoshop.

Sometimes you really want to pop in a reflection into a body of water that simply refused to cooperate while you were taking a photograph or otherwise Photoshopping a scene. It is surprisingly easy to do this in a convincing way. As with many Photoshopping processes you just can’t become too obsessed with any single step or appearance along the way – in the end it will look great!

This next tutorial is a bit more involved and has more artistic than strictly practical applications. Still, if you are interested in creating any kind of space-themed logo, website or other graphic design this kind of thing can really come in handy for creating original backgrounds. Here is the tutorial on how to create great space explosions virtually from scratch.

This is more than just an absurd design tutorial video series – it is an epic saga any design geek can appreciate. In his latest example he speaks in a fully deadpan voice as Donnie describes how you can impress your new girlfriend by Photoshopping a go-kart door into your house to show how much your first date meant. Sound stupid? Well, so did Napolean Dynamite but that was a smash hit on the big screen. Who knew? Well, just watch and see above … then if you’re as hooked as you should be watch the rest of the series below.
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