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30 Photoshop Tutorials for Mastering Abstract Lighting Effects

Adobe Photoshop gives you the capabilities that allows you to express your creativity in so many ways. In this collection, you’ll find 30 tutorials to help you master abstract and lighting effects.

The Photography Guidelines Web Designers Should Know and Understand

Knowing the difference between good and bad photography will help to make your design more appealing. Think of this: you are designing a website, some photos were given to you to choose from so you can attach one of them as a header image.

Visualize Data Beautifully With the Chart.js Library

There are many free JavaScript libraries available online that web designers or developers can use to display data beautifully. You can then present data without having to create graphics in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Quickly Create Amazing CSS Animations with the Animate.css Library

The Animate.css library consists of over 50 amazing, cross-browser CSS animations that save you time having to write extra CSS to animate elements on your site.

The Terrible 20 Fonts You Should Absolutely Avoid Using

There are fonts that we all like and give that feel of freshness in your design and there are bad fonts that you should avoid.

How to Add Value to Your Web Design Business

You can become the best web designer in the world, but if you don’t know how to get your business going, your talent can only get you so far. This…

The Most Detailed PSD to HTML Tutorial

With our Photoshop PSD to Responsive HTML Web Design video course, you will learn how to design and code a website from scratch. PSD to HTML doesn't get easier than this!

10 Super-Useful WordPress Snippets & Hacks

We all love WordPress. What makes more and more people fall in love with the CMS is how easy it is to customize. With just a few lines of code you get some cool customization with all those filters, actions, and hooks.

Make WordPress User-Friendly with Shortcodes

Learn how to use and create shortcodes in WordPress and make your themes user-friendly for your users.

Are You Having Trouble Finding the Perfect Font?

It’s always nice to have ready access to a multiplicity of different fonts. But, if you’re limited to manual searches, finding the one(s) you want can take up quite a…

Mobile SEO – Can You Optimize for User Experience and Google at the Same Time?

Unlike many years ago, you can't just be satisfied to only meet your needs in today's web environment. Instead, you need to please two factors equally: the user and the Google robots ranking you. The question, however, is which one should you try to please first?

Creating a Web Design Portfolio that Sells

Your portfolio is your career calling card which provides a sneak peak for prospective clients. It’s one of the most important elements in your career as a web design professional…

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