10 Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School

I had a great time in design school, I was constantly learning and surrounded by lots of like minded people. However, after five years of freelancing as a graphic designer, I’ve learned many new things. The following list is the top ten things that I had to learn the hard way.
1. Your diploma doesn’t help [...]

SenCSs: Sensible Standards CSS Framework

SenCSs is a Sensible Standards CSS Framework (Pronounce it as “sense”). The current version is 0.5 and supplies sensible styling for all repetitive parts of your CSS.
What features that you can get from SenCSs? Here comes the list:
* Vertical rhythm for all elements
* Common typographic standard across browsers
* Browsers based styling
* Specified fonts for windows, [...]

Why Freelancing is Awesome

If you know a lot about freelancing, then you know that there are a lot of things that can make freelancing really hard. But that isn’t the whole story — freelancing is one of the best things on earth, despite any of the difficulties there may be.
Why is freelancing so awesome?

Control over [...]

Happy Birthday Drupal, you are eight

Eight years ago today Drupal 1.0.0 was released. It’s been a big year for Drupal, another big release with Drupal 6, a lot of awards, and a lot of recognition. The project has had some notable departures, promotions, and the addition of many great contributors and users. Happy Birthday to the Drupal project and its [...]

Flash Tutorial on keyboard listeners

So, here is your Flash CS3 Tutorial on how to make an object move using the Arrow Keys. All code is in ActionScript 3.0.

When working in Flash the key board is just as important as the mouse. However, many web sites over look keyboard intractability. If you want your site to stand out, use keyboard controls. If [...]

A Collection of 60+ Free Textures from Stock.xchng

You can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available. One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng. Designm.ag  has shared us “60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu“, you’ll find more than 60 textures from Stock.xchng. Each image links to the page [...]

Create a sketch effect with Photoshop

You can use photoshop and make any image look like a sketch. This tutorial will show you how to take an image and apply a sketch effect on it. I will be using the photo below in this tutorial.

Step 1 – Start photoshop and open the Home Simpson photo. To do this, click “File” >> [...]