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How to Create a Website Layout in Dreamweaver with CSS

Creating a CSS website layout in Dreamweaver can be super simple and save you a lot of time. The tutorial pros over at TutVid.com put together a nice video tutorial to show exactly how this is done. It is a little bit on the long side (like 30 min.), but after watching and perfecting this, [...]

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FriDizeo Soup - A Collection of Free CSS Tutorials

It’s amazing what you can accomplish CSS. Now I’m not simply referring to styling-wise or design-wise. I’m also talking about resource-management-wise. There are very efficient ways to optimize your sites with CSS allowing them to load faster and cleaner. In today’s edition of FriDizeo Soup we wanted to share some very helpful and insightful CSS tutorials and cheatsheets. 50 [...]

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How Great Design Leads to Great Traffic

I came across this excellent post by David Perel over at Design Shard entitled “Get More Traffic with Good Web Design”. It explains how some excellent design skills, coupled with some marketing know-how (i.e. submitting the design to web design galleries), can really get some awesome traffic results. Check out their post…and maybe you’ll get some ideas [...]

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FriDizeo Soup - 10 Great Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorials

Adobe Dreamweaver is a great tool to help you build websites. Although many a web designer/coder prefers to code by hand in a text editor, using Dreamweaver can be very time-effective as it helps you by suggesting code and providing a WYSIWYG editor. Ever wish you could get a little more from Dreamweaver? Here are 10 top-notch tutorials [...]

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Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Website Layout

I know there’s a big debate whether to use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or Fireworks to layout your web design. I can’t really say that one’s better than the other. Personally, I love using Illustrator. It’s been good to me. As I was stumbling, I came across this interesting tutorial on VectorTuts entitled “Use Adobe Illustrator to Create [...]

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Who Else Wants a Web Design Contract?

Planning and writing out a web design contract is a straight up pain in the butt. But it is downright necessary! (Unless of course you want to get shafted every once in awhile.) More than likely, you want to get paid. Paid the correct amount…on time. What should you include in your contract? What verbiage should you [...]

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How to Make an Image Rollover in CSS

In this tutorial I will teach you how to make an image rollover using CSS and Adobe Illustrator. It’s pretty straightforward and shouldn’t take you more than a couple of minutes. I’ve included the HTML, CSS, and image below the video. If you like this tutorial please make it known by bookmarking it and commenting [...]

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How to Get Screenshots for Your Web Design Portfolio

I remember when I first tried to create a professional web design portfolio for myself. Man…that was tough! I would do a “print screen”, then have to open it in an image editor, crop it, resize it, and resave it. Ok…maybe doing all that wasn’t “the end of the world” tough, “but there has to [...]

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How to Get Free Vector Art

I’ve had some pretty artsy clients before. They had a contemporary style and wanted their web design to show that. Of course I would tell them that it was my specialty and that I would come up with a design that would knock their socks off. I would then go home and sweat bricks. [...]

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Web Design Tool - Web Developer Toolbar

I came across this web design tool awhile back and it has proven to be invaluable. It has taught me alot about web design as it has allowed me to take a sneak peek at other peoples’ coding and design techniques. This tool is the Web Developer Toolbar for the Firefox, Flock, and Seamonkey browsers. [...]

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