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 →