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Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Website Layout

by Freddy on December 10, 2008 · 0 comments

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 a Clean Website Layout”.

It’s broken up into 22 easy to follow steps to create a clean website layout. And while you’re there I recommend you subscribe to their RSS feed as their are an excellent web design resource.

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How to Make an Image Rollover in CSS

by Freddy on December 1, 2008 · 2 comments

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 below.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
<title>Home Button</title>
<link type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” href=”style.css”>

</head>

<body>

<a class=”homebutton” href=”#”>Home</a>

</body>
</html>

style.css

@charset “UTF-8″;
/* CSS Document */

a.homebutton {
display:block;
width:120px;
height:40px;
text-indent:-5000px;
background:url(images/homebutton.jpg);
text-decoration:none;
}

a:hover.homebutton {
background-position: -120px 0;
}

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