As anyone who is in graphics and web design, we love small icons. There are many resources for such icons out there (like FamFamFam which has great collections), but the icons are few and all of them illustrate the sames: arrows, feed icons and in general anything that is needed for making a web site … Continue reading We love small icons 🙂
Easter eggs for mint 2
Mint is the famous web-stat program by Shaun Inman. If you use it for tracking your site stats, log in to your mint installation and try the following: Easter Egg 1: After you log in, type ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? b a and look on your bottom right corner in your … Continue reading Easter eggs for mint 2
Create a Web 2.0 logo using Abobe Photoshop part 2
Here is a second tutorial (here is the first one) for creating a Web 2.0 logo like the one above using Adobe Photoshop. Create a new Photoshop file (File>New). I made it in a 4500x4000px file with RGB color and 300dpi resolution, but you can do it in a smaller one. Create the talk bubble … Continue reading Create a Web 2.0 logo using Abobe Photoshop part 2
Thanks for the support!
May is over and we feel that we should thank you for your support. In April we had 1710 hits and 198 unique visitors. Our goal for May was 1500 unique visitors. But with your help we achieved a much higher traffic number: 7707 hits and 3536 unique visitors as you see in the screenshot … Continue reading Thanks for the support!
Create a skype-like logo using Adobe Photoshop
It is much easier to create a skype-looking logo than you imagine. Create a new file in Photoshop (File>New) and type anything you want using the type tool. Apply Bevel and Emboss, Color overlay and Stroke as you see them in the screenshots below and your logo is ready. Note that stroke size depends on … Continue reading Create a skype-like logo using Adobe Photoshop
5 tips for a nice-looking favicon
Favicon is the shortcut icon that is shown next to the url of a website or next to site's name in browser tabs. You can see our favicon in the screenshot above. To create a great favicon you should consider these: Select the image you want to use for your favicon and trim part of … Continue reading 5 tips for a nice-looking favicon
Digg effect: Advantages and disadvantages
Digg effect (getting to many visits from a social site) can be very dangerous, but also very helpfull. Disadvantages of digg effect: Bandwitch usage: If your site or blog is hosted in a host with certain bandwitch, you should be very carefull with digg effect as it is very easy, if you get tons of … Continue reading Digg effect: Advantages and disadvantages
Gradients for shiny web 2.0 logos
Here are five shiny gradients to use for your web 2.0 designs. Note that colors used in these gradient are in RGB mode. The color codes are written in the screenshots. We used Adobe Photoshop CS3 to make the gradients, so if you use a different program, colors may be a little bit different due … Continue reading Gradients for shiny web 2.0 logos
Web pages for handhelds: Size is not the only point!
Many designers believe that as design is seperated from content (using CSS) the only thing you have to do to have your pages available for handhelds is to create a seperate CSS stylesheet that is designed for small screens. After building the stylesheet, it is easy to update your content and have your site available … Continue reading Web pages for handhelds: Size is not the only point!
Digg effected!
In the previous two days you may had noticed a slow down in our site. This was caused as the web 2.0 creation tutorial got dugg and stumbled. The huge blow was from stumble upon. We had 400 visits in one minute, which caused the site to be temporarily unavailable. Two spikes were appeared in … Continue reading Digg effected!