How to choose a web host

There are thousands of companies around the world that sell hosting services. Most of them charge per month, but price should not be your only criteria when choosing a host for your pages. You should keep in mind the followings and then find the service that provides the quality you look for at the most … Continue reading How to choose a web host →

Web 2.0 logo creation (video guide)

Here is a video edition of our Web 2.0 logo creation tutorial that you loved. Video is streamed via youtube as it is 8 mins long and would be hard for our bandwitch to have it stored in our host. The quality is not the best, but it will help you alongside with the original … Continue reading Web 2.0 logo creation (video guide) →

Grab our OPML file!

OPML is an XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments. With an OPML file you are able to add multiple feeds to your favorite feed reader, without having to add each feed url seperately. Most feed readers (like RSS owl, Google Reader) allow users to … Continue reading Grab our OPML file! →

Introduction to XML

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a meta-language built on SGML. XML can be used to describe data (for example database data) and can be also used for creating other markup languages. HTML was rewritten in XML and the result was XHTML. With HTML tags, users can format or style pages. With XML users can only … Continue reading Introduction to XML →

Web 2.0 is here. What about Web 3.0?

As you probably know, we live in the web 2.0 time. Social websites are everywhere and users are now part of the Internet world and not just readers that read information. Now they express themselves (through blogs), they are part of social sites like digg, slashdot and so on. Broadband connections gave the ability for … Continue reading Web 2.0 is here. What about Web 3.0? →

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 →

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 →

Create the web 2.0 reflection effect with Adobe Illustrator

Few days before, I wrote a tutorial on how you can build a web 2.0 logo with Adobe Photoshop. Here is another one for adding the reflection effect in a logo (like mine above) using Illustrator, which makes the reflection more flexible and easy to scale and manage. Open your logo in Adobe Illustrator and … Continue reading Create the web 2.0 reflection effect with Adobe Illustrator →

Build a watermark in your photos using Adobe Photoshop

There are many cases that you have to include large fotos in your site, but you do not want others to download them and use them. The easy way to protect your work is to write your name in front of the photo, so it cannot be used, but it does not look nice, does … Continue reading Build a watermark in your photos using Adobe Photoshop →