I've been a bit absent from Crankberry because 1. I've taken on a bit of design work and 2. I've been redoing my portfolio – JerryLow.com. This was not one of those reskin design its a full on rebuild from scratch. I thought it was going to be small but ended up taking a few weeks. A lot of focus on making a smooth and fluid experience. Well if you need a designer or programming check out the hire me button.
Between a good design a good development there's a path in between that we all must cross which is converting your design into a functional website. An aspect to really consider now a days is loading time of the website. There are many variables that contribute to a site's load time which includes server and client aspects and everything in between. Today we will focus specifically on loading the images on the site and how you can optimize them for best performance.
Its been overdone but a friend of mine asked me to show him how to draw a realistic coffee cup in Photoshop, he said he's not using it for web design so I guess I'll show him here. This is what the final result looks like:
Learning Photoshop and all the wonderful things it can do can be a hassle if all you want to focus on is web design/development. Here's some great photoshop tutorials that will hasten your pace into learning all the essentials to make great web designs. I've include UI Photoshop tutorials and text manipulation tutorials. Go and try them out, make some glamorous websites.
Its not like it hasn't been done before, but here it is again, my take on the Online Favicon Generator/Converter. It was just a fun project I was working on myself. Here's a free tool for you to create, edit and save your favicon. Supporting image formats such as PNG, GIF, BMP, JPG, and ICO files. There's also some simple tools for you to make some quick edits without firing up the Ol'Photoshop. Go ahead and try it out, create your own favicon.
For web owners, overtime you'll notice a thing, which is not new called the favicon. You may have came across it and lightly discussed about it but have never drilled any further on it. Well I'm about to explain to you what the favicon is used for in modern web design. If you still have no clue what the favicon is, it is the little image show below.
I was looking at ways in which I could have built my websites differently today and came across the question. How can I guarantee my CSS rounded corners to be closer to 100% cross browser compatible. I came across a few sites with scripts and generators simplifying the tasks but most of them failed the browser test. I came up with a simple script that was simple and light. I'm not going to share the code. Now don't flame me yet. Instead I've made it easier for everybody. I've created the simple CSS rounded corners generator.
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