If you are seeing this, that means it's Friday. Each and every Friday, Devlounge takes you through a rundown of what was hot throughout the past seven days in design and development. Kick off your weekend with a fresh edition of the focus.
I need to decide, and I need to decide now! Which forum software should I use? Will it be Vanilla, or bbPress? What better way to get the best (and right!) answer, than to ask the Devlounge readers. What do you think?
Zoe tackles layers in Photoshop in this week’s tutorial. Layers can be very useful, both for creating graphic elements and banners for sites, and when mocking up a site before moving onto production. In this tutorial, Zoe works from a photo and adds some new elements to fit the project.
Wonder how those great Photoshop artist achieve their dazzling images? Talent, mostly, but it also helps to have the right kind of tools. That includes plugins, something that Zoe’s been dabbling with for some time now. This is her first look at the world, and she’s already found some extra juice for Photoshop to recommend.
Time for yet another redesign? There are do’s and dont’s when it comes to that, you know. The key to a successful redesign is, besides actually adding something with it (even if it’s just a visual brushup), is handling it right. Because you know, there are a lot of things that can mess it all up and make it a nasty experience.
Have you ever thought of adding multiple languages to your website or have done so using methods such as creating separate directories for a completely new website with only that one language? It is easily possible through PHP.
Looking for that cracked, distorted effect in a font for your website, but you’re not finding a free font that cuts it, nor do you have the budget to cash up for a commercial license? Never fear, using Adobe Illustrator, a photo, and a suitable non-distorted font, you’ll be able to create your own unique beaten-up look. Zoe tells how in this tutorial.
Billy Mabray dives deeper into the fine art of Movable Type templating, by showing us what makes up the actual template. Now we’re getting somewhere, this is your natural second step in the world of Movable Type.
One of the most frustrating things that programmers have to deal with is typos. If you forget something regarding syntax or accidentally misspell a variable name, your program can start doing weird and wonderful things or spitting out errors that are less than helpful.
A friend of mine Jonathan Snook recently wrote about this on his blog.
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