This time around I decided to mix it up a little bit in a single post. Here is a list of fancy web sites featuring cell phones. I needed to get inspiration for a website I was designing and came up with these 10 awesome sites. Notice almost all of them have a large product [...]

One of the challenging parts of web design is to provide exactly what your client needs. Some of them look to advertise a product. Others offer some kind of service, while the rest want a website for general information about their organization. Recently, I had to design for a local restaurant. Restaurant owners are quite [...]

Now we have come to part 2 of this series on how to create a single page portfolio from scratch. This part focuses on the HTML and CSS mark up to convert our .psd file to a living web page. The tools we need for this is of course – Photoshop, an HTML editor (in [...]

Ahhh – so many choices when it comes to what open source software to use: Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal…but aren’t they at times – a little overkill? For smaller web designers like myself, I still get the usual client who just wants a simple website to advertise their services. Most of the time they will have [...]

This week I’m giving away a PSD mock up for a potential client that I had a while back. The company is a Software Development Group for medical equipment inventory systems. They are responsible for developing systems for hospitals to be able to track their supplies. From bar code scanning, billing and sophisticated inventory tracking [...]

The following tutorial will show you how to create a nice key with a car alarm in Photoshop. This image is a combination of vector shapes as well as rastered images to achieve the effect. The tools we’ll be using in Photoshop are mainly the built in shape tool, filters and the pen tool. The [...]