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Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts

Apr 16, 2009

Button Design Showcase

Button design is something that may be considered a small detail and doesn’t often get a lot of attention, but well-designed buttons can make a big difference in the overall look of a site. In this post we’ll look at 40 buttons that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and colors.

If you enjoying seeing great examples of button design, you may also like:

GoodBarry

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Button Design Showcase

Button design is something that may be considered a small detail and doesn’t often get a lot of attention, but well-designed buttons can make a big difference in the overall look of a site. In this post we’ll look at 40 buttons that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and colors.

If you enjoying seeing great examples of button design, you may also like:

GoodBarry

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Apr 13, 2009

CSS Navigation Menus, Tabs and CSS Navigation Techniques Showcase

CSS Navigation Menus, Tabs and CSS Navigation Techniques Showcase

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures

Being able to work with texture in Photoshop gives you endless possibilities for your design. There are a variety of different approaches when it comes to adding texture, some are simple and others are more advanced. The 25 tutorials featured in this post will help you to learn a number of different techniques that can be used in your own design.

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures

Being able to work with texture in Photoshop gives you endless possibilities for your design. There are a variety of different approaches when it comes to adding texture, some are simple and others are more advanced. The 25 tutorials featured in this post will help you to learn a number of different techniques that can be used in your own design.

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

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Apr 4, 2009

How To Increase Google AdSense CTR and CPM

Connected Internet shows you 10 ways how you can increase your AdSense CTR and CPM.

  1. Use Section Targeting
  2. Work on your keyword density
  3. Make Your Ads Look Like Normal Content
  4. Make Sure Your Best Unit Loads First
  5. Embed Your Banners In Or Near Your Content
  6. Think About Where Your Hotspots Are
  7. Reduce The Noise Around Your Units
  8. Use The Competitive Ad Filter
  9. Don’t Be Afraid To Put Your Ads Below The Fold
  10. Use Channels And Experiment

How To Increase Google AdSense CTR and CPM

Connected Internet shows you 10 ways how you can increase your AdSense CTR and CPM.

  1. Use Section Targeting
  2. Work on your keyword density
  3. Make Your Ads Look Like Normal Content
  4. Make Sure Your Best Unit Loads First
  5. Embed Your Banners In Or Near Your Content
  6. Think About Where Your Hotspots Are
  7. Reduce The Noise Around Your Units
  8. Use The Competitive Ad Filter
  9. Don’t Be Afraid To Put Your Ads Below The Fold
  10. Use Channels And Experiment

Apr 3, 2009

Adsense Tips: Section Targeting

Have you ever experience having irrelevant AdSense ads on your website/blog? You may be talking about food or so, but it gives you some Forex text ads and you probably wondered why. The main reason is because the ads are not properly targeted and it’s getting mixed signals from other sub contents like readers’ comments, trackbacks, other categories or anything that shares the same page.

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Google AdSense gives you an option to tell which they should emphasize by using the section targeting codes. All you need to do is put 2 sets of codes, one before the content and one after the content you want to target. This should help google understand the site better and pass in more relevant ads and help increase AdSense CTR.

Before content, insert:

After content, insert:

More details on Section Targeting.

Adsense Tips: Section Targeting

Have you ever experience having irrelevant AdSense ads on your website/blog? You may be talking about food or so, but it gives you some Forex text ads and you probably wondered why. The main reason is because the ads are not properly targeted and it’s getting mixed signals from other sub contents like readers’ comments, trackbacks, other categories or anything that shares the same page.

Continue Reading

Google AdSense gives you an option to tell which they should emphasize by using the section targeting codes. All you need to do is put 2 sets of codes, one before the content and one after the content you want to target. This should help google understand the site better and pass in more relevant ads and help increase AdSense CTR.

Before content, insert:

After content, insert:

More details on Section Targeting.

Mar 31, 2009

30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II

photoshop photo effects

You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials to our previous entry, you have over 70 ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.

While you are at it, here’s more Photoshop tutorials you might be interested:

Full list after jump.

  1. Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions

    This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.

  2. Fairy Night Eye

    How to correct the photos’ colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars.

  3. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

  4. Compositing with Adjustment Layers

    Created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

  5. Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

    How to add a sparkle trail to a photo

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30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II

photoshop photo effects

You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials to our previous entry, you have over 70 ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.

While you are at it, here’s more Photoshop tutorials you might be interested:

Full list after jump.

  1. Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions

    This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.

  2. Fairy Night Eye

    How to correct the photos’ colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars.

  3. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

  4. Compositing with Adjustment Layers

    Created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

  5. Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

    How to add a sparkle trail to a photo

Read Full Article

Mar 25, 2009

40+ Greatest Web Interface Design Photoshop Tutorials, Part I

web interface design

Whether you kick off a web interface design by sketching on papers or blank Photoshop canvas, it’s good to get some guides and inspirations. Here we’ve compiled some of the nicest Photoshop tutorial that guides you, step by step, building up a web interface all the way from scratch.

While you are at it, here’s more design related content we’ve written previously that might interest you

Full list after jump.

  1. Beer/bar restaurant website layout

  2. Design a Web 2.0 tab with Photoshop

  3. How To Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu

    How to make a semi-transparent Vista-inspired menu using gradients, shadows, and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect.

  4. Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

    Produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

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40+ Greatest Web Interface Design Photoshop Tutorials, Part I

web interface design

Whether you kick off a web interface design by sketching on papers or blank Photoshop canvas, it’s good to get some guides and inspirations. Here we’ve compiled some of the nicest Photoshop tutorial that guides you, step by step, building up a web interface all the way from scratch.

While you are at it, here’s more design related content we’ve written previously that might interest you

Full list after jump.

  1. Beer/bar restaurant website layout

  2. Design a Web 2.0 tab with Photoshop

  3. How To Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu

    How to make a semi-transparent Vista-inspired menu using gradients, shadows, and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect.

  4. Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

    Produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

Read Full Article

Mar 15, 2009

31 Practical (Web) Interface Design Tutorials

interface design photoshop tutorials

Designing a website has never been easier. If you asked a web designer who been long enough in the industry, they could tell you there’s actually not much resources, articles nor communication channels regarding web design/develop in the older days, let alone high quality free tutorials.

If you intend to create your own personal websites or perhaps redesign your blog theme, it’s not something too hard already. Thanks to generous designers and contributors, the net is full of great tutorials with step by step guides helping you building web interfaces and navigation. And with this blog post, we’ve probably just scratched the surface of what’s out there. We’ve previously showcased you 40 great Web Interface Design, and today we want to show you another 31 Practical Interface Design Photoshop tutorials. Full list after jump.

Headers and Navigation

Creating effective navigation for websites are essentially important as they determine how visitors surf and navigate your website. We’ve hand-picked some really sleek and simple navigation tutorials for the showcase. Making tweaks and changes will come pretty easy once you’ve mastered these tutorials.

  1. Retro Dark Blue Header Design

    How to create a dark blue header with a retro spin on it.

  2. Wii Web Header

    How to design the Wii header found at Nintendo.com.

  3. Colorful Design Studio Header

    How to create a colorful design studio header layout.

  4. Metallic Header Design

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31 Practical (Web) Interface Design Tutorials

interface design photoshop tutorials

Designing a website has never been easier. If you asked a web designer who been long enough in the industry, they could tell you there’s actually not much resources, articles nor communication channels regarding web design/develop in the older days, let alone high quality free tutorials.

If you intend to create your own personal websites or perhaps redesign your blog theme, it’s not something too hard already. Thanks to generous designers and contributors, the net is full of great tutorials with step by step guides helping you building web interfaces and navigation. And with this blog post, we’ve probably just scratched the surface of what’s out there. We’ve previously showcased you 40 great Web Interface Design, and today we want to show you another 31 Practical Interface Design Photoshop tutorials. Full list after jump.

Headers and Navigation

Creating effective navigation for websites are essentially important as they determine how visitors surf and navigate your website. We’ve hand-picked some really sleek and simple navigation tutorials for the showcase. Making tweaks and changes will come pretty easy once you’ve mastered these tutorials.

  1. Retro Dark Blue Header Design

    How to create a dark blue header with a retro spin on it.

  2. Wii Web Header

    How to design the Wii header found at Nintendo.com.

  3. Colorful Design Studio Header

    How to create a colorful design studio header layout.

  4. Metallic Header Design

Read Full Article

Mar 13, 2009

40+ Hand-picked Photoshop Icon Designs [Photoshop Tutorials]


We know we can always count on the Internet for free quality icons, but that being said, free icons sometimes might have it’s limitation too. Here’s few we can quickly think of:

  • Copyright. Most free icons restricts usage on non-commercial product/website only.
  • Size. Don’t you just hate it when you found your favorite icon but it’s only a 32×32 and you wish they have a bigger version?
  • Colors. You found the exact icon you want, but the color is just not right.
  • Transparency. Some author did not distribute their free icon in .PNG or original source. That makes it hard to implement their icons on our design.

Creating your own icon not only overcome above mentioned problem, at the same time you gain and brush up your Photoshop skills. Nothing beats the satisfaction of creating things on your own. We’ve crawled the net, searching from sites to sites and here’s a 40+ hand-picked Photoshop tutorials that guide you through icon designing. Have fun.

You might also be interested in these following Photoshop articles we’ve previously published.

Full content after jump.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Icon

How to quickly make a slightly altered looking Adobe CS3 Icon.

Angry Emoticon

Learn about special effects while converting an ordinary orb into a fantasy art piece.

Create a Glossy Home Icon

Learn how to design your very own glossy home icon in Photoshop

Perfect Shine Button or Icon

How to create a cool looking button or an icon to suit your need.

Create a High-Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design

How to make a professional, shiny, clean graduation hat icon.

Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon

How to cover an object in a Jaguar style fur texture.

Create A Mockingly Smiley

Simple way to create a glossy mockingly smiley in Photoshop.

Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design

Wherever you wish to place a lock icon, this tutorial will show you how to create an attractive one for you to use!

Create Icons tutorial

Create a glossy looking icons.

Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon

Create a helcom icon from photograph.

Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon

Create a simple monitor icon in that style.

Design a Glossy Download Icon

You want the graphic to be eye-catching, yet smooth and small enough so it doesn’t dominate your layout. This tutorial will teach you how to create a graphic that does just that.

iTunes Icon in iPhone

This tutorial will show you how to effectively create the iTunes icon found on all iPhones and iPod Touches.

Draw magnifying glass

Learn how to create magnifying glass, which you can use it as button or as icon

Vista Aero Thumbnail Icon

Create the glossy border around most of Vista’s icons.

World Icon Tutorial

Create world icon in Photoshop.

Glossy RSS icon

In this tutorial we are going to create a colorful RSS icon for your blog.

Glowing Orb With Dial

Experimenting with layers and styles to create a cool glowing orb and dial effect.

Home Icon

In this tutorial, you will learn to create a home icon.

How to Make a Folder Icon

Learn how to create a nice folder for your desktop or a website.

Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

Drawing a traffic cone, another handy icon for "under construction"

iTunes Icon

The challange of this tutorial is to use various Blending modes and blending techniques to replicate the iTune icon.

Mac Os X Mail Icon Style

Learn how to make the Mac OS X Mail’s icon in a easy way.

Making a Photoshop Shield!

Use the Path Tools in Photoshop to draw a shield-like shape.

Designing a Safety Icon

Design safety icon in Photoshop.

Pyramid Icon Design

How to use your pen tool to create a simple and easy triangular icon design that can be used as your logo or a bulletin.

Custom RSS Feed Icons

Two ways to make your Feed Icons custom.

Photoshop Video Game Mario Icon

How to Create Photoshop Video Game Mario Icon.

Recreate the Famous Yahoo! Smiley

How to recreate the famous Yahoo! smiley face.

Skype Buddy Icon

Learn to draw skype buddy icon with this tutorial.

Skype Logo

Learn how to create in easy steps logo for Skype.

Stylish Search Icon

Learn how to design a professional stylish search icon.

QuickTime Icon

Design Quicktime Icon in Photoshop.

Clock Icon

Create simple clock icon.

Mac Sphere icon

Create Mac Sphere icon.

The Making of an Icon

Insights into the process of making icons.

Creating a clock icon

Yet another clock icon tutorial in Photoshop.

TV Icon

In this tutorial, you will learn to create a tv icon.

Vista Error Icon

How to create Windows Vista icons using a few basic layers, creative layer styles and some web 2.0 gradients.

Vista Firewal Icon

Design a Vista Firewall Icon

XP Style Woman Icon

Learn to draw a xp style woman icon.