10 Web Design Rules That You Can Break

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Cetrotrees

As web design and design in general have evolved, rules have been established to ensure consistent and usable designs.

Some of these rules were created simply because website creators abused certain principles without regard for their users.

But these rules are not enforced by anyone and should be broken when necessary, especially when breaking them would lead to a stunning design.

In this article, we present 10 rules that you can break if it suits your design needs.

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11 fantastic Photoshop tutorials

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Breathe life

Improve your Photoshop skills today with our round-up of 11 dazzling step-by-step guides from the Computer Arts archive

Let’s be honest, Photoshop is an essential package for anyone working in the design industry.

If you don’t know your layers from your curves, then you’re missing out big time. The only trouble is, it’s a behemoth – there are umpteen tools to master, and just when you think you’ve got it licked, Adobe go and bring out a new version with oodles of new functions.

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Jelly Remake

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Jelly Remake

A new way…. MY way to make everything ?jelly? ~ Enjoy and have fun.



Jelly Remake Tutorial

Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial

Candy Logo Tutorial

In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it’ll give your website a cavity. Then I’ll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself. If you want to skip the tutorial altogether, you can download the PSD here. The beauty of the correct way to design logos in Photoshop or Illustrator comes when we keep everything as editable text layers from start to finish. That way if we need to make changes or reuse the idea, we can just pop open a Photoshop file and quickly output a new version of an old idea. This will also make it easy for you to duplicate my steps.

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40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

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40Tutorials

There don’t seem to be enough print related tutorials online, so in this round up I wanted to cover as many print specific articles as possible. I also wanted to mix in some that weren’t directly print related, but that help create print related products like movie posters, ads, cd covers, etc.

The tutorials in this post cover the use of Photoshop, InDesign, and even Illustrator. I think when learning about print it is important to understand how to use the programs that are designed for print such as InDesign, and not just using Photoshop as a default application for everything. That’s why I tried to round up as many good InDesign tutorials as possible.

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45+ Essential WordPress Plugins for Pro Blogging

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wassup

What Others Are Saying allows you to display the most recent post of your favourite blogs somewhere on your site. It utilises the RSS link field from the blogroll for each of your links. If the RSS link exists it attempts to get the last post from it. It then displays the most recent X number of posts depending on your settings. Each blog can have one post in the list.

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