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Review: Acrobat.com - It’s A Nice Looking Suite

by Jennifer Farley

Jennifer takes a first look at Acrobat.com, an online suite of applications from Adobe.

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 2 Comments »

Five jQuery Galleries And Slideshows

by Jennifer Farley

Add professional slide-shows and galleries to your website without the need to be a programming whiz. Jennifer takes a look at five free jQuery plugins.

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 8 Comments »

How Creative Should A Designer’s Resume Be?

by Jennifer Farley

Should a designer have an extraordinarily creative-looking resume or CV? Jennifer takes a look at some original resume designs.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 10 Comments »

Ten Examples Of Unconventional Site Navigation

by Jennifer Farley

Jennifer takes a look at ten web sites with interesting and unusual navigation systems.

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 19 Comments »

Sumo Paint: A Very Fine, Free Online Image Editor

by Jennifer Farley

Jennifer takes a look at Sumo Paint, a superb web-based image editor, which is easy to use, free and good fun.

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 2 Comments »

How To Draw An iPhone App Icon In Illustrator

by Jennifer Farley

Jennifer shows how use Illustrator to create an icon similar to those used for iPhone apps.

Monday, June 29th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 7 Comments »

How To Draw A Vector iPhone In Illustrator

by Jennifer Farley

Jennifer shows you how to draw an iPhone in Illustrator using some of the fundamental tools combined with the Mesh and Gradients.

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 2 Comments »

Use Whatever Font You Please On WordPress

by Jennifer Farley

Jennifer shows you how to use the Cufon WordPress plugin to use any font you want on your blog.

Friday, June 26th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 17 Comments »

I Can’t Believe it’s Not a Web App! Take Your Skills to the Desktop and Win.

by Rachael Wilson

Did you know that you could use your CSS, HTML and JavaScript skills to build a desktop app? If you’re a web designer or developer, then you’re going to want to download our latest Adobe AIR tutorial direct to your brain, Matrix-style! And then find out what you can win by testing your knowledge in the lastest quiz.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design, Web Tech | 2 Comments »

Outlook 2010 to Set New Standard in Irritation

by Alex Walker

A few years ago Microsoft chose to cripple the rendering-capabilities of their flagship mail product by replacing its HTML rendering engine with Word. They want to do it some more in Outlook 2010. Time to say enough is enough.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design | 41 Comments »