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The Top 5 Nicest Designed PCs

July 18, 2008

Over the past week I have been looking around for a new PC and came across some really nice ones (out of my budget obviously) and thought it would be a good idea to show you the most beautiful of my findings. In this post I am going to bring to you the best looking PCs currently on the market, and they all happen to be all-in-ones.

Community Links

July 1, 2008

Welcome to community links, this page will bring you some of the very best resources from the design sector of the web including tutorials, top lists, freebies, downloads, new websites and articles.
You can submit your links by filling out the form below. Thank you

Top 10 Photoshop Tutorials of June

June 29, 2008

Nearly 5,000 people viewed last months Photoshop Tutorial countdown, so here is June’s. Photoshop Tutorials are becoming more and more common every month and with great sites like PSDTuts designers are never without the knowledge of learning new techniques. So here goes, the top 10 photoshop tutorials of June, you may notice a lot of advert designs, this has been a very common trend in tutorials this month for some reason, please don’t ask me why. Enjoy…

Check these out…

June 28, 2008

Welcome to Check these out for this week, I think that I may do this every week and it will be a list of some of the best articles, tutorials, interviews and anything else to do with design I came across in the week. Just a quick note to my regular readers, Help Developer is now number 1 on the blogs section of the CSStopsites, it took over the Crazy Leaf Blog so thank you all for keep coming back and to you new visitors I hope that you will become regulars, you can do so by subscribing to our RSS feed or of course, keep coming back. So the best of this week…

Interview with Collis Ta’eed

Abduzeedo

42 Creative Advertisements

User Contributed Link Feed Tutorial with Wordpress Comments

43 Wordpress Templates

34 Places to Get Design Inspiration

36 Beautiful Business Card Designs

CNET’s new design

Help Developer Thanks You

June 25, 2008

Help Developer was launched about a year ago, it went through many changes:

Stage 1,

Firstly, it was simply a directory where people could submit their tutorials on a whole host of areas, most of its traffic came from Stumbleupon and Digg until it got banned from Digg because it was a middle man site. This ruined Help Developer’s market on Digg where I think nowadays it could do very well. I have contacted Digg and asked them if they could change this and they quite rightly said no………………….

Top 10 Firefox Addons for Web Designers

June 8, 2008

Yesterday I was browsing the Firefox addons directory looking for an addon that would notify me when I had mail with the old “You’ve got mail” sound like in the film “You’ve got mail” (ahhh, that film takes me back). Anyway, I came across a category for web developers so had a peek through and tried a few out. This list is a countdown of the top 10 addons that I think can really help you in your web designing.

Free wordpress theme from me

April 2, 2008

I used to release a lot of these but never saw the benefit because they weren’t the best that I could do. Today I have released a great theme which is probably one of my best ones yet. It is packed full of features and add a professional look to your blog.

You can view a [...]

Create web 2.0 style text in The Gimp

September 2, 2007

The web 2.0 effect really helps websites look great, this is done with web 2.0 style buttons, gradients, lines etc. One effect is also web 2.0 text usually used in logos. I am going to show you how to create a simple web 2.0 looking text for the words Help Developer!

Firstly I am going to [...]

Creating a drop shadow with The Gimp

September 2, 2007

Creating shadows in Gimp is extremely easy to do but many people are not aware of how it is done, so I created this simple tutorial to show you how to do it. Adding a drop shadow really brings your images to stand out and gives a very professional finish.

Firstly open the image or select [...]

Create a web 2.0 button with Gimp

August 25, 2007

Web 2.0 design lifts sites into a new league of elegance, and one of the main features is web 2.0 buttons, they look hard to make but in actual fact, they are really simple.
Just follow this tutorial to create this:

Create a new canvas with the dimensions 100px by 27px
We are going to make our button [...]