Category Archives: Image Tools

The Art of Animation

In the name of Avatar and the soon-to-hit-theaters Toy Story III, we’re going to focus on animation this week.  New technologies are sprouting up daily, so if your work in web design isn’t animated, it’s hard to make it pop. Without further ado, let’s take a look at some animation programs that just might blow [...]

Got (Photoshop) Gadgets? Part I

Spruce Up Your Website
Are you tired of the same old button gadgets everyone else uses on their websites? If you are, here are a few gadgets you can create in Photoshop that may bring some bling to your webpages. A big thanks to Hongkiat for assembling most of these tutorials.
Flash Drive Gadget

For all those tech [...]

Free Open Source Web Developer Apps - Part II

More Free Dev Apps
Last week we listed some open source programs to assist you in your  web design activities. This week, we’ve added a few more to the list. The programs are all free of charge and range from simple apps to full-featured ones and will definitely help you on your way to a better [...]

Free Open Source Web Developer Apps - Part I

Five Open Source Apps for Free
We’ve chosen five open source apps that can help in your tasks in web design. They are real time savers and are totally free. You can’t beat the price.  A big “thanks” to the folks over at Six Revisions for compiling the original list of open source apps.
Open BEXI HTML [...]

Web Designs: Good, Bad, Ugly or Just Different?

Whether you are formally trained or self-taught as a web designer, there are rules, concepts and basic parameters for creating a functional and visually appealing website.
But there are always exceptions to the rules. The following examples definitely do not follow the rule book. In fact, it seems that the rule book was torn, pulverized, shredded [...]