Category Archives: web design education

Got (Photoshop) Gadgets? Part II

More Cool Gadgets
This week wraps up our series on Photoshop gadgets for websites. These gadgets are quite generic and can be used in many different sorts of applications. The accompanying tutorials are straightforward and detailed. The more difficult ones will take more time to build, but the results will be worth it. Enjoy!
Digital MP3 Player

This [...]

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 [...]

Things You Won’t Hear About Successful Web Designers - Part II

Got Customers?
Take the case of “Jesse,” a brilliant web designer. It’s obvious that he has serious skills in design and can run circles around other web designers when it comes to talent. But oddly enough, he doesn’t have many customers.
On more than one occasion he tells his customers that he is “overworked” and complains about [...]

Things You Won’t Hear About Successful Web Designers - Part I

What You Need
If you ask most employed web designers what factors were most important in their development as a web designer you’ll probably hear “experience” and “school” at the top of their lists.
Outside of coding skills there are other elements that make a web designer successful. The following traits are things that you won’t usually [...]

How to Select a Good Web Design College

Some Guidelines and Tips
If you are seriously considering going to college for your graphic design education or web design degree you already know that there are no shortages of available colleges, universities, and online education centers that constantly vie for your attention. But how can you distinguish between the good schools and the bad ones? [...]