Category Archives: Tutorials

Design Is About Problem Solving

Every good design is created to solve a problem. So the first step in any design is to define what problem you’re trying to solve. There are many potential problems a website might solve, and every good site has its … Continue reading

Posting Announcements by End Date in MX-Publisher for phpbb3

I am the guild leader of Seelund Trading Co. on the Venture Co. (US) Server in World of Warcraft. I’m also, not surprisingly, our webmaster. This means maintaining a forum with a guild news portal, informational pages and a messaging … Continue reading

Color Wheels with only CSS3 and Primary Colors

There are no images above, nothing but css (half of it vendor propriety, sadly), and this was entirely created with primary colors: Red Yellow and Blue. Why? Because I wanted to see how well you could create other colors using … Continue reading

Vignetting/Depth of Field with Smart Objects CS4/CS5

Here’s my original image: Now, assume for a moment I wanted to focus attention strictly on the tower, up around the clock, to show off some of the great architectural detail on the Milwaukee City Hall. One way to do … Continue reading

In Search of Bolder Type and a Font Outline

I have always been annoyed by how not-bold the standard browser-safe system fonts are at smaller font sizes. And even now, calling in a bolder typeface using @font-face is not always a viable option (like a project I’m working on … Continue reading