I know for many people this is a really really simple task, but I constantly find myself looking this up online and it usually takes me 5-10 minutes before I find a useful result. With this in mind, please enjoy the following snippet. Read more…

After posting a scathing review of the American Airlines website, Dustin Curtis received a personal response from one of the user experience architects who works on the AA design team. The response letter, titled “Dear Dustin Curtis“, tries to explain why the American Airlines website is so bad. The designer essentially blames the problems on the massive corporate infrastructure surrounding any design choices, and laments about the reviews and revisions that accompany all their work. Read more…

Today we will be working with the offset filter in Photoshop to help create a seamless textured pattern. If you ever find yourself trying to make repeatable patterns for the web, then you’ll definitely want to follow this quick tutorial. Read more…

Nothing to see here folks, just another entry in the wooden texture department. As always, please use these textures for anything you want, commercial or otherwise. They were taken in my home with my girlfriends Rebel and a sweet German tripod. Read more…

Today we will be talking about CSS image buttons, something that every web developer needs to know and understand. It’s really amazing how much of a difference a simple button can make on your conversion rate. In fact, I came across this comprehensive post that deals with that particular subject, check it out. This post won’t focus so much on the particulars of a high-converting button, but it will teach you how to slap together a quick CSS button that uses an image as a background. Read more…

This quick tutorial will run through the basic task of creating a custom twitter background. It’s really easy to do and makes your twitter page stand out from crowd. Whether you’re a business or an individual, if you use twitter at all it’s probably worth your time to make a custom background. Read more…

There is a neat little trick that most good web designers know and love, and it has to do with background textures and noise. I remember when I first started designing for the web, I would never use textures in my designs and was always left feeling like something was missing. Read more…

Today’s offering is a nice little glassy green button. As usual, they are in vector format so you can resize them to your hearts content. Use these in any project you want – no restrictions (commercial use is fine). They were created using Photoshop CS3 and use the Century Gothic font.

Click here or on the image to download the source PSD file.

Here is a quick way to produce a neat halftone effect in Photoshop that can be used to give your compositions a little more complexity. Read more…

Todays topic will deal with the wonderfully painful world of animated GIFs. Specifically, how to make animated GIFs inside of Photoshop. For this tutorial I’ll be using Photoshop CS3 on a Mac, but I suspect that CS4 probably uses almost the same process. Alright, lets get started! Read more…