Smoothie of the month, April 2008

May 6th, 2008

This month the prize goes to Karinne! She created Karinne.net, a weblog about her day-to-day-things. She did a great job on the styling of the site, and the design is lovely. With 50% of the votes, there was no question about it. Karinne got the Smoothie of the month badge for her site. Well done, K!

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Smoothie of the month, March 2008

March 30th, 2008

This month’s winner is a solid one. With 52.94% of the votes Rainerijewelers.com won the first Websqueeze Smoothie of the month competition. A deserved one. It looks good and works good.

Well done Rich!

Smoothie of the month, March 2008

Tutorial: Creating a frame (PS, CS3)

March 18th, 2008

How to create a nice frame around your images? Rounded edges, custom edges? You just want your portfolio-images to stand out a little, rather than being just square thumbnails. Here’s a little trick to create a sweet frame around your images.
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Tutorial: History brush tool (PS, CS3)

March 10th, 2008

History brush toolI got the question “What does the History brush tool do?”. I decided to do a tutorial on it, since it’s pretty simple to explain, and this is my first tutorial. In short: When you have a colour-photo which you want in black and white, sepia or want to use any other filter on the background and make 1 object stand out in colour. Here it goes.

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Designersblock? This might help…

March 9th, 2008

This blog is also to get around a designers-block. You have that one project to be finished, you want your own website renewed, your client wants “something different” or you want inspiration to make a new template. The following sites might just get you passed that annoying block.

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My way of designing a new website

March 4th, 2008

Got lost in how to start a website, or do you just need a new way to kick off new projects? No clue of where to start? There are probably tons of ways to “git ‘r done”, but I’m always feeling comfortable with the following process. It might not be the fastest way, but it usually gets me where I want to be: a finished project.

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10 Tips for freelance web designers

February 20th, 2008

There are a lot of reasons why you would like to be a freelancer. I.E. you can pick your own clients, you can work whenever you want, you can charge whatever is comfortable for you and, the thing I like most about freelancing: It’s just fun!
There are a few things you might want to keep in mind. That’s why I’ve made a little list of tips for freelance web designers.
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New stuff going on.

February 18th, 2008

CSS3, HTML5 And IE8Of course webdesign is a business that’s always in motion, but lately there’s a lot going on. First I found out HTML 5 is coming, after that I got the news they’re almost done developing Internet Explorer 8 and on top of it all I read this article about CSS3.

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There’s a new kid in town…

February 14th, 2008

… and it’s called Websqueeze.

Websqueeze

Like the banner says, it squeezes everything out of the net. If you’re a web designer and in need of help, there are some great experts offering help on the forums. Don’t hasitate to ask for help. There are tutorials and interesting articles available.
Join them (us) and become part of the soon to be biggest web design resource of the net!

Top10 Sweet design

February 12th, 2008

I’ve created this top10 out of my own taste. The sites in this list are in there because of their looks. I didn’t take a look at the code or useability.

I’m sure there are a lot of websites I haven’t seen yet. So if you think there are better sites then I’ve posted here, please comment here or drop an email.

The list starts when you press “more canvas”.

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