Have you ever imagined using those cool looking sparks you see from fireworks or welding in your next poster? If you have this tutorial will help you out tremendously. In this tutorial I will teach you how to recreate that sparkler effect on Photosh
Interpreting Web Analytics for Beginners
Web analytics tools are abundant, but in order to use such tools effectively, you need to decide what information you need and how to interpret it correctly. After that you then need to make the necessary changes to your web site in order to attract more visitors and improve your search engine rankings.
Marketing Your Website Beyond Social Media
The first thing most businesses do today is create profiles on Twitter, Facebook, and several other websites to start promoting themselves and you can’t really blame them either. For one thing it is free, and it is also the buzzword in town these days. However, what any businessman should remember is that we’re still in the age where old school marketing works — and works well!
The History and Present State of Domain Names [Infographic]
It is hard to believe that only 20 years ago there were less than 500 .com domain names registered. What is even harder to believe is the number of registered .coms has grown close to 100,000,000. If only I could go back in time and register some high value domain names…but with my luck the this whole Internet thing would have never taken off. Any way, enjoy this infographic that displays some pretty fascinating information about domain names.
RAID for Small Business
Last week, the website manager at Tech King, Andy Crofford and I were discussing about technology that could help self-employed professionals or owners of small businesses — in case you haven’t noticed it before, that’s usually what my blog posts are about — and the topic of RAID came up.
10 Excellent Search Engine Optimization Tips
When you optimize your website for the search engines, you are making their “job” easier – their spiders will crawl most of your pages, every new page that you add will quickly appear on the search result lists, and you will receive more search engine traffic. You could enlist the services of a professional SEO company and pay thousands of dollars, but you can do some basic optimization on your own as well.
Fontularity: Most Popular Fonts by Operating System [Infographic]
Designers love fonts and a good thing for them is there are 1000’s to choose from. But what are the most popular fonts? In today’s Infographic we take a look a the most popular fonts by operating system. This will be a great resource for deciding on fall-back fonts in your CSS. Enjoy.
Create a Joyous Christmas Greeting in Photoshop
With Christmas right around the corner we thought it would be a good time to do a Christmas themed Photoshop tutorial. Today we will complete a project with a Christmas Season theme by using text effects and layers special effects to create a snowy inspired Christmas greeting. Note that this tutorial was made in Photoshop CS5.
Top Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube You Need to Watch
We know how much are readers love great Photoshop tutorials. In this list we thought we would switch it up a bit and list some awesome Photoshop tutorials on video. While I prefer text and images when doing tutorials I know there are many people out there that would rather watch a video tutorial. Ladies and gentleman, without further delay I present to you the best Photoshop tutorials on YouTube.
The Power of WordPress [Infographic]
There is no doubt that we love WordPress on this site, and it is obvious a lot of you do too based on the popularity of last week’s posts and contests. We were curious just how popular WordPress was so we put together gathered the information and put together this infographic to show it. Please enjoy it and feel free to share with others.
Fun with Filters in Photoshop
We will run through different Filters in Photoshop and it different parameters and effects. In this tutorial, we will have a fundamental overview of the functions and effects if we use the certain filters in Photoshop. But first, we will need to locate the Filters. On the main menus, just find the Filters tab and it will bring down the list of filters availabl
Win an unlimited access pass to Elegant Themes for one year!
We are very excited to announce that our first giveaway for WordPress week is a one year unlimited access pass to Elegant Themes. If you are not familiar with the work of Elegant Themes then please go check them out now. If you are familiar then you know how awesome the WordPress themes they offer are.
What Operating System is Right for You?
Even today, the vast majority of users have one or other version of Windows installed on their computers and this is the only operating system that they know, but Mac OS X and Linux are two other great operating systems that come with their loyal supporters as well.
Web Browser Shuffle: How User’s Preferences have Changed Over the Years [Infographic]
It doesn’t seem like that long ago when Netscape Navigator was my browser of choice and I thought you couldn’t get any better than a resolution of 1024×768. Google Chrome is now my preferred Web Browser and 1680×1050 is my current resolution. It will be interesting to see what we are using 10 or 20 years from now.
Introduction to Making Your Web Site Accessible by Everyone
When designing a Web site there are many things to take into consideration. These things include decisions on design, back end coding, and many other things. Unfortunately more often then not web accessibility is not taken into consideration.