Usually Jawad writes a web design tutorial on Fridays, but this time he told me that he had a headache so I should fill in for him. That sounds like a lame excuse, I think he learned this from his wife. This post lined up for Wednesday but this is going out today, let’s see what we do on Wednesday.
Anyways, getting back to today’s post, this is a collection of 15 essential tools to test a website for seo, accessibility, compatibility and performance. I highly recommend this post if you are a web designer or beginning programmer.
On Monday, I created a tutorial for Creating a Grungy Typography, thank you for your enormous response on that. I felt that this is a very hot topic so today I made a collection of Grungy Fonts.
You can of course create that typography but if you don’t have time, you need to create a grunge effect quickly, here you go. You can create eye catching designs with ease, for any kind of outdoor ad campaigns, such as billboards and print media.
There are many a times when a designer feels that he should avoid the nagging clients and all the business dealing, he wonders if there could a be a place where he can just go, present his designs and get paid. Such places do exist. There are two types of these places, Contest Based and Sale Based.
In the Contest Based places you present your design and compete with several other designers, then one design gets chosen and paid [heavily]. In the Sale Based, you just put your design on the market place and earn on each sale.
Today we’ll cover both of these kinds of sites. This post is for specifically created for designers so developers/coders/font makers might not get much out of it. The images I selected for the first part of the article are to give you an idea of what kind of designs are likely to be sold in large quantity on that particular site.
About a week ago, we launched a free giveaway of 123ContactForm Free Platinum Licenses. Today is the time to announce winners. But before we do that, let’s get to know our sponsors (that’ll also build some suspense 
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A week ago we published tutorial for making a Minimalist Portfolio Web Layout in Photoshop, a nice little tutorial for quickly creating a web design without much of an effort or spending several hours. Today we are presenting its downloadable PSD file. As usual, this PSD is also royalty-free so you can use it commercially without hesitation.
I’ll be making a follow-up tutorial for converting it into HTML CSS as well. I think this time I’ll convert it in HTML5.
Time for some action today. Photoshop action!!, these actions are the solution of mankind’s problems. How you ask, here’s how:
These actions help us in the color adjustments, levels and special effects such as sketch making and changing daytime lighting. They are very helpful if you want to give your image a WoW!! effect. This free pack of Photoshop actions is easy to download and very easy to use, you can download all of these in a single pack for free. If you don’t know how to use actions, have a look at: Handpicked Free Photoshop Actions and Installation Guide
123ContactForm is a SaaS (Software as a service) automatizes the creation of web forms. You don’t have to suffer from the pains of programming of which are destined to those who code such surveys and other forms. Over 150.000 users have tried 123ContactForm so far.
Today 123ContactForm has generously sponsored a giveaway with us where:
3 winners will be awarded with Yearly Platinum license of worth $300. The criterion of selecting winners is a little bit different today and that’s is one of the highlights of this giveaway. To find out more about 123ContactForm or How You Can Become the Winner, read on.
A couple of weeks ago we published a tutorial for creating travel agency web design. Today we are publishing its downloadable PSD file as usual, this template is royalty-free, you can use it commercially.
This template is for a travel agency that specializes in packages of beaches and shores. For that I chose the color-scheme of Blue and I placed the pictures of beaches only. But you can easily edit this theme and make it in the concept of your choice.
The slimmer the model is, the higher she is paid. According to ramp modeling, slimness is beauty, although I strongly differ with this theory but I do think that sometimes thin fonts do the job which solid bold fonts can’t. So today I’m sharing a collection of free thin and slim fonts.
You might not believe this but I use these fonts to create headings, yes headings! They give the headings a twist, because if use these fonts in small point size, they don’t look appealing. So make sure when you use them, use them in a big point size.
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