15 Amazing jQuery Navigation Tutorials
Jan 7, 2010 Tutorial
Navigation is one of the most important elements in a website. Therefore, navigation should be able to work well, and be easy for website visitors to use. In the past, when you wanted to make a dynamic navigation menu, it required mastery of a programming language, such as Flash, to achieve it.
Today is different, thanks to jQuery. jQuery is the right choice to create an attractive, dynamic and usable navigation. The most important of these is making it easier for users to visit your website. Here are 20 tutorials how to create navigation menus using jQuery, accompanied by demonstrations in each tutorial for web designers and web developers.
Tags: Animated Menu, Circular Menu, Css, Demo, Demonstrations, Dynamic Navigation, Element, Elements, Highlight, Jquery, Menu Demo, Navigation Menu, Navigation Menus, Programming Language, Puffer Fish, Right Choice, Section Navigation, Sliding Doors, Using Flash, Vimeo, Web Designers, Web Developers, Website Navigation, Website Visitors
15 Incredibly Detailed Concept Art Tutorials
May 28, 2009 Tutorial, Web Roundup
As promised, today we have the follow up to my previous post, 35 breathtaking examples of concept art from deviantART, by collecting up 15 detailed concept art tutorials from around the web.
Concept art tutorials are notoriously difficult to create, as each artist has their own style, brushes, techniques and programs. However, there are some high quality tutorials available, so today we have the 15 best, detailed and informative tutorials.
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Tags: Art Today, Art Tutorials, Brushes, Concept Art, Creature Design, Deviantart, Environment, High Quality, Informative Tutorials, Landscape Tutorial, Quality Tutorials, Step 2, Step 3, Video Landscape, Video Tutorial, Web Art, Web Concept
Back to Basics: 10 Things We Forget SEOwise When We Start a Website
Mar 12, 2009 Tutorial
Today, we have a guest post by Eva Vesper, one of the masterminds behind Web Hosting Search, a search engine that allows you to view ratings, reviews, and compare hosting packages from various companies. Hopefully you find her article useful!
SEO has become an important element of any website project. A website is optimized for the search engines will as a result rank better and receive more traffic. But many site owners still neglect to apply search engine optimization, even though more than 80 % of site traffic is generated by search engines. The point of optimizing your site and code is to make sure that Google and Yahoo see the same things that you or me as humans see. If you have bad code, these little bots will get confused and run away, neglecting or misunderstanding what could be very good content on a website. To properly optimize your website here are ten basic tips on how you can improve your site.
Tags: Caveat, Domain Name, Easy As Pie, Element, Eva, Free Vectors, Google, Google Yahoo, Masterminds, Noarchive, Noindex, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Spiders, Search Engines, Search Optimization, Seo, Traffic, Ttp, Url Strings, Urls, Web Hosting Search, Web Search, Yahoo
50 Tutorials to Cinema4D Mastery
Mar 10, 2009 Tutorial
Well, I promised you a big roundup coming today, so here it is.
CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer GmbH. Noted for its flexible interface and ease of use, it is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modelling, animating, lighting, texturing and rendering.
Today we have 50 tutorials that will teach you to be a Cinema 4D master, covering all aspects of the program from modeling to animation to shaders.
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Tags: 3d Objects, 3d Text, 3d Tutorial, Abstract, Animation, Animations, Array, C4d Tutorials, Caption, Cinema 4d, Cinema 4d Tutorials, Cinema City, Crash Burn, Cross Platform, D Graphics, Diamonds Are Forever, Flexible Interface, Graphics Application, Inspiration, Ipod, Lighting, Modeling, Roundup, Snail, Tentacle, Text Caption, Typography, Vectors
10 Tutorials for Great Typography
Feb 21, 2009 Tutorial
Good typography is an essential part of quality graphic design. Oftentimes, images alone aren’t enough to convey a message, but plain text just won’t cut it. Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.
Today, we have a list of 10 great tutorials for achieving beautiful typographic effects. Hopefully they will give you a few ideas or inspiration for your next piece.
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Tags: Art Techniques, Images, Inspiration, Quality Graphic Design, Typography, Vector Art
10 Amazing Effects from Abduzeedo
Feb 10, 2009 Tutorial
For those of you who are graphic designers but haven’t heard of Fabio Sasso from Abduzeedo, this post is for you. Fabio is a Brazilian designer from Porto Alegre who is very talented with both web and graphic design. He started Abduzeedo as a way of publishing and storing some of his work, along with sharing the various effects he uses, and hoping to inspire countless other designers.
Today, it is my pleasure to bring to you 10 amazing effects that Fabio Sasso has written tutorials about. There’s some great explosion effect, along with some very beautiful, colorful lighting effects, and of course, some great typography.
Enjoy, and be sure to check out Fabio’s blog, Abduzeedo: http://abduzeedo.com/
Tags: Amazing Effects, Beautiful, Blog, Bokeh, Caption, Christmas, Clouds, Colorful Lighting, Explosion, Fabio, Geometric Vectors, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers, Lighting Effect, Lighting Effects, Photoshop, Pleasure, Porto Alegre, Sasso, Typography
The 10 Best Logo Tutorials on the Web
Feb 7, 2009 Tutorial
Last week, we looked a very important part of personal branding: business cards. This week, we’re going to look at another essential part of branding: logo design.
There are all sorts of logos out there. Simple logos, fancy logos, colorful logos, monochromatic logos, you name it. Each logo is individually tailored to meet a specific business need.
Today, we’re going to look at the 10 best logo tutorials on the internet.
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Tags: 3d Logo, 3d Tutorial, All Sorts, Branding, Business Cards, Business Logo, Business Need, Business Week, Colorful Logos, Cool Logo, Create Logo, Fancy Logos, Fly, Logo Design, Logo Tutorial, Personal Branding, Personal Cards, Social Networking Site
