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Web Design Tutorial Websites

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If you’re a designer or even someone who just wants to learn more about web design for your personal website these are some great websites that offer tutorials and resources.  Here are 26 websites with great web design tutorials.

Webdesign tutsplus

Webdesign tutsplus

In depth articles and tutorials on web design. From basic to advanced.

Nettuts+

Nettuts+

Variety of web development tutorials. CMSs, html, css, PHP, Javascript, Ajax and more.

Activetuts+

Activetuts+

Flash, Flex and Actionscript tutorials.

W3Schools

W3Schools

Free tutorials in all web development technologies.

Tutorialized

Tutorialized

Photoshop, flash, css, html and more.

Good-Tutorials

Good-Tutorials

CSS, flash, html, Javascript, PHP, Ruby on Rails + +

Learning jQuery

Learning jQuery

jQuery tutorials

CSS Tutorial

CSS Tutorial

CSS step by step.

HTML dog

HTML dog

html/ xhtml and css.

Tutorial blog

Tutorial blog

Variety of tutorials related to web design, graphic design, writing and many more topics.

Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo

Graphic design blog that occasionally has some high quality tutorials, mainly Photoshop ones.

Sixrevisions

Sixrevisions

Graphic design blog with strong focus on everything related to web design. Occasional high quality tutorials.

Smashing magazine

Smashing magazine

High quality articles and tutorials related to graphic and web design.

Tutorial9

Tutorial9

Tutorials on Photoshop, web/blogging and photography. Also freebies.

Grafpedia

Grafpedia

Photoshop tutorials.

Layers Magazine

Layers Magazine

Creative Suite tutorials. (Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver ++)

PSD tutsplus

PSD tutsplus

High quality Photoshop tutorials. Beginner to advanced.

HV designs

HV designs

Tutorials on Photoshop, coding, WordPress, jQuery and more.

Web Design Fan

Web Design Fan

Various web design related articles and tutorials.

Themelab

Themelab

WordPress tutorials (and themes).

Line 25

Line 25

Html, CSS, Photoshop and more.

PSDfan

PSDfan

Photoshop resources, PSD’s and tutorials.

Desizn Tech

Desizn tech

CSS, Photoshop, PHP ++.

Webmonkey

Webmonkey

Web developer’s resource.

WP Recipes

WP Recipes

WordPress how-tos and tutorials.

Web design library

Web design library

Web design basics, Photoshop, Flash, html, css, web programming and many resources.

Sep 27
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Key West Computer Repair… Gets a New Design.

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Just completed a new website for Key West Computer Repair company J Tech.  James contacted me about wanting not only website redesign but also some SEO.  He wanted a SEO friendly website as well as having a whole new re-branding of their company.  The site is built upon WordPress so he and his team can update the site whenever they need to.

If you’re in the Florida Keys and looking for a great computer repair service company please contact James at J Tech today.

Sep 23
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New Web Design for Key West Hideaways Inc.

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I’ve recently had the pleasure of redesigning one of the premiere Key West Vacation Rental businesses in the Florida Keys.  Key West Hideaways came to me asking for a redesign because their old site was, well out-of-date and required some much needed attention.  So you can see what I came up with below.  I think it’s a big improvement over the old site.

One of the major improvements was that I built the site around wordpress so now they have a fully editable site they can update themselves.  That was something that was important for them as they need the ability to add/remove rentals when necessary.  The site although not looking like a blog does of course have a separate blog section where they can post on a regular basis.  This is important for a few reasons… one it allows them to add fresh news when needed, two, it keeps Google happy in that their site is new content to spider and three it gives website visitors new content to consume and shows that the company is active. Read More

May 12
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Caterpillar Manuals

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Caterpillar Manuals Logo

Just finished up on the new design of Caterpillarmanuals.com Repromanuals.com. They offer the world’s largest selection of Caterpillar Manuals (Note: domain has changed as well as the logo and design).  They currently offer over 3,000 different Cat manuals to choose from.  They offer Caterpillar parts manuals, service manuals and operator manuals for both new and old Caterpillar tractors.  Along with the new site I designed the logo, box art for the manuals as well as the actual manual covers.  You can see some of them below.

auction-manual-service

auction-manual-operator

auction-manual-parts

If you’re looking for a Caterpillar manual please visit repromanuals.com.

Mar 07
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New Work for Super Deluxe – Charleston, SC Wedding & Party Band

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New Super Deluxe Logo

Super Deluxe Live Photo

The Best of Charleston SC Wedding Bands

Some new work I’m doing for Super Deluxe, a live music band based in Charleston, SC.  They’re one of the best Charleston wedding bands around.  But they do more than just weddings, they’re available for any live events and have played around the US and Mexico.  I’ve designed the logo and am currently working on their website.  Should be completed by the end of March.  If you’re in the Charleston SC area and looking for a band for your event give them a call.  Wilton Elder who is on the bottom right in the black sweater is the sax player and the person who initiated the project and I can personally say he’s a Super dude to work with.

Dec 17
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EZNumbers.com Launches

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Just launched the new design for EZnumbers.com. I was responsible for the logo design, software box art, software GUI and website redesign. I worked closely over the last few months with the owner Paul Hynek to launch his new and refreshing website. I’m very proud of this site and glad to finally see it go live.

EZ Numbers Home Page

EZ Numbers Order Page

Take a look and if you need to create a balance sheet, income statement or view your cash flow then give the software a try. Paul has put a lot of time into upgrading the software over the last year and it has been in development to some degree for the past decade. I don’t know how he pulled it off but he did. It’s pretty amazing software. If you want to start a business and need to see what your numbers look like then I’d definetely get a copy.

By the way, if you want to see what the original site looked like here’s a screenshot of it below. As you can see it was in desparate need of a redesign and some help with being SEO friendly.

EZ Numbers Old

Jul 03
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Thumbs Up on the Redesign of DNSstuff.com

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DNS Stuff DNSstuff.com looks so much better now that it has been redesigned. DNSstuff.com is a tool I use everyday to check whois info and to do DNS lookups. And it has looked the same for years. The new design is so refreshing. Here’s what the CEO of DNSstuff.com Rich Person had to say,

“This new look is just the first phase of a number of new additions to our site that will make it, by far, the world’s most reliable and comprehensive source for DNS information and problem solving in the DNS universe.”

Anyway, great job! Go visit the Best DNS tool around.

Jun 20
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I Love iStockPhoto! Great, Cheap Stock Photography, Videos, Illustrations

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iStockPhoto I can’t express how much I love iStockphoto. They have so many usefull graphics and videos for super cheap it’s ridiculous. You can find a ton of usefull photos, videos, illustrations, icons, etc there. If you’re a freelance web designer and don’t already use istockphoto then you’re missin out, period.

Downloads for one dollar,, are you kidding? Not with iStockphoto. You can find tons of great stuff on iStock.

There isn’t a yougraphic.com cause that would be pretty boring,, but there is a youtube. Have you figured out yet that video advertising is the wave of the future on the net? You can post any video for free to any free video hosting service like youtube, google video etc. You need footage though and maybe you’re not good with a video camera,, or maybe you don’t have one. Have you looked on iStockphoto yet? They have tons of video clips for $5 you can use to create your next video.

I’ve started experimenting with marketing via youtube and I am using video I got from iStockphoto. I’m not marketing anything really.. I’m just experimenting with how many views you can get from putting up video with certain keywords in the title. I am curious to see what gets the most hits. It’s for fun.

But seriously, Istock has a ton of great photos for your website or next brochure if you’re a graphic designer. You wouldn’t expect much for $1 but you can truly get great shots for that much if you’re looking to add nice images to your blog posts. I might consider doing that just to promote some artists on istock. There is some real talent on that site. Just search for anything under illustrations. You will see some great illustrators work.

iStockPhoto – Go have a look!

Oct 12
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Create your own wordpress theme from any css design layout

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I found this cool site that allows you to turn your css design into a wordpress theme. It’s perfect for matching up the design for a newly installed wordpress blog on an existing site. It is really easy to use. You just create an account and get started. You need your stylesheet and the html to plug into a few forms. You do have to edit your html layout with some tokens so the content and sidebar of your new blog fall into the right places. The site is called themespress.com.

With ThemesPress, you can create your own WordPress theme in a four simple steps:

1. Upload the images your design uses
2. Copy the HTML and CSS of your design into ThemesPress [?] 3. Replace parts of your HTML with a few short tags
4. Set your presentation settings and preferences using our simple menus – and you are done.

Preview your design, edit it as much as you want, and if you like it, purchase it and download it.

Your new template costs a measley $10. After I created one for an existing site I just uploaded it and changed the permissions on the template files. I did this because I knew I needed to edit the style sheet afterwards because I generated the template fast for editing later. So, here is a theme I created using themespress for a photography site of mine. See how nice it matches the rest of the site. Anyway, if creating your own wordpress theme is something you’ve been wanting to do then now is your chance. Give it a try, I think you’ll like how quick and painless it is.

Update:::

If you do use themespress to create a wordpress theme then use Internet Explorer since Firefox has some problems when trying to preview the theme at the end. I created my first theme in firefox without any problem but the second gave me errors and then after viewing the theme in IE it showed up all weird. So just start in IE, even though you may hate it.

Also, make sure you have all your html just how you want it because you can’t edit it later, only the css. So if you do create your own theme and find out later some of layout is missaligned you can go in and still tweak your style sheet.

Sep 14
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Daily Color Schemes

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Daily Color SchemerLooking for some color scheme ideas for your website or blog? I stumbled onto Daily Color Scheme which provides one new color scheme per day on their homepage. They also offer multiple formats to download the color scheme in including css, html, photoshop/illustrator file etc. I think this a nice idea as you can simply go through their color schemes and download whatever you want. I like the boldness of the sites design. The site is in it’s first beta which means it will probably last as long as the site owners have time to upload new color schemes every day and the popularity of it. Sometimes color schemes are hard to figure out if you don’t have something to go by. You can buy books on color schemes at your local bookstore like barns and noble or Borders. They are usually small are for quick reference. I know I’ve mentioned this before but Colorschemer.com offers an entire list of color schemes you can browse through and also some cool tools to get the perfect color scheme for your designs. There flagship software is called Color Schemer Studio and is a desktop application for creating color schemes. One cool feature is called PhotoSchemer. Use the PhotoSchemer tool to build unique color schemes based on any picture, image or photograph. Anyway go check it out if you’re in the mood for some color.

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