Design

Photoshop tutorials are everywhere, but good Photoshop tutorials can be hard to find. Designers often have trouble finding enough time to design the many projects that come across their desks, which... Read More
Sometimes the idea for an article strikes me out-of-the-blue, like a lightning bolt or an airborne toxin. The quality of these sudden onset ideas varies greatly, and it usually directly proportional... Read More
Traditional enterprize systems have well developed designs & strategies around relational databases. Relational database products are well developed not only from a data consistency point of view... Read More
Thanks to Karthick Kumar of Killer Icons, we’re offering DesignFestival users a free download of this Killer Social Media Icons set in PSD format. Consider it it our Christmas gift! You can use... Read More
 
Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage solution is useful for many things, and serves as the CDN for many major websites. But despite the portfolio of high-profile use cases for the service, it’s still... Read More
Stripes are a great way to create some energy in your background or just give your designs some texture. This collection gives you two sets of tools: generators and images. The stripe generators... Read More
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a text effect with the use of photos. This tutorial should take about two hours to complete if you’re already somewhat familiar with Photoshop.... Read More
If you are a freelance graphic designer or photographer, then you need a way to show off your work. WordPress is hands down one of the best ways to manage your own website. You can easily update... Read More
 
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Building things can be tough when you can’t anticipate what type of objects you’ll need to create or how to create them. Take for example a factory which manufactures a large number of products.... Read More
 
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Building things can be tough when you can’t anticipate what type of objects you’ll need to create or how to create them. Take for example a factory which manufactures a large number of products.... Read More
 
If you use WordPress to manage your website, you likely started with a theme that needs to be modified. It’s easy enough to use the built-in tools in WordPress to modify CSS and sidebars, but... Read More
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Craig's latest WordPress tutorial delves further into shortcode development and explains how you can nest one inside another.Read More
 
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This simple 5 step tutorial will create a working Rails 3.1 app using Twitter Bootstrap Last month I discussed all of the different gems that are available for integrating Twitter Bootstrap with a... Read More
 
In the first part of this series , we went through the basic environment GAE offers the developer. You must be excited to get yourself into coding your first application and seeing it live! Setting... Read More