Archive for the “Design Vitality” Category

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If you are a designer, I am sure you definitely like it when people see your desktop and tell you that they really like the wallpaper. Too bad that when you want to find a good selection of hot wallpapers, you have to comb through hundreds of crappy desktops just to find the goods.
So when [...]

Web 2.0 is a term coined in recent years that describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such [...]

In today’s tech age, the modern blogosphere is becoming a much more populous region of the world wide web. Bloggers from all over the world are creating, managing, and maintaining their own websites, most often using freeware templates or creating their own from scratch.
As a designer, I recognize how difficult it can be to compose [...]

Anyone that knows what’s what about web design knows what CSS is, and how invaluable it can be to styling the navigation of a website.
The thing about CSS is that it is capable of much more than just stylistic design. It has a degree of utile functionality as well, and I’m going to point out [...]

In part one of my series of random but interesting tidbits from around the web, I present to you an extreme case of inflation. If you look at the picture closely, you will notice that this kid is holding nothing but 200,000 dollar bills from Zimbabwe.

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Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard when it comes to editing images. Photoshop comes with a variety of powerful tools to help you when editing. Photoshop also allows users to expand that tool set using filters and plug-ins to make it even more powerful.
Below are 50 sets of filters and plug-ins that can be added [...]

As a designer I see the Photoshop startup screen several times a day. I can easily recall what each one looks like, from 5.0 to CS3. This got me wondering: What did the startup screen look like before I ever used Photoshop?
After some research I was able to find the Photoshop startup screen from the [...]

If you are a designer and you haven’t heard of Firefox, I want to know where you’ve been. Seriously. No need to panic, because today is the official download day for the new Firefox 3.
Firefox offers a faster, safer browsing experience. To get the details, check out this page where you’ll find out more about [...]

Now that fixed width layouts are all the craze, what are we to do with all that blank background space? You could go the tried-and-true route with a gradient, but it doesn’t always add much to the background. Why not add some beauty and texture by having a pattern take up some space?
Using this [...]