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Using Humour Effectively in Design

We went on a short trip to amsterdam, and stayed in, probably the worst hotel in Europe. (that anchor text is adding to their advertising, trust me!) It wasn’t an exaggeration to suggest that our room resembled a prison in every way, except for the bars. However, the budget hotel embraced it’s flaws instead of trying to cover them up - using humour in their advertisments, they successfuly turned what should have been the worst aspect of any hotel, into its biggest selling points.… Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on September 17, 2008 at 3:29am — No Comments

Sepia Effect Photoshop Tutorial

To quickly create a simple sepia effect in Photoshop, do the following.... Sepia Photoshop tutorial Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on September 7, 2008 at 5:28pm — No Comments

Photoshop Adjustment Layer and Retouching Tutorial with Video

This tutorial should hopefully have you adjusting and touching up all your photos at an intermediate level in no time. the techniques and principles can ten be applied in doing other things within photoshop. Read Article Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on September 7, 2008 at 8:23am — No Comments

10 Resources For The Starting Freelance Graphic Designer

A List of 10 Websites, Articles, Podcasts and Resources for those just starting as freelancers. With answers to age old questions like 'how much should I charge' and 'am I cut out for this?'. Read More Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on August 12, 2008 at 7:24pm — No Comments

Flash Animated Rollover Button Video Tutorial

A 5 minute video tutorial showing how to create an animated rollover button in Adobe Flash CS3. This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge of flash and understand your way around it. Read More Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on August 12, 2008 at 4:33am — No Comments

Google Analytics Explained... Almost... Sort Of

As I continue my transition from flash to html, SEO/Web Stats has become a topic of increasing interest, and one that ha the rare ability to at times dumbfound me. Installing Google Analytics on our site, has for the most part just been used to count our visitors and look at our traffic, so over the past week i thought I'd find out what some of the other lovely little percentages and numbers mean....… Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on August 2, 2008 at 2:39pm — No Comments

A Good Work Environment

I personally have never paid attention in detail to the space that I use to design in and how it can have an impact negatively or positively on the work i produce and how much of I produce...Read More Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on July 31, 2008 at 8:13pm — No Comments

Speed Up Adobe Photoshop

Soo, Photoshop is the topic of this post and the infinite amount of time it can take to load up on the average spec PC. In the past suffered hard, often clicking photoshop, going and making coffee and coming back to it finally loaded up. Thus, over the years, I've found various ways to speed up Photoshop...Read More

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Added by Mel Ndiweni on July 26, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Free Online SEO Tools

Great basic to intermediate SEO Tools

Hey guys. In my efforts to search engine optimise website for myself and various clients i've compiled a little list of free SEO analysing tools that I use. Hope you find them useful.
SEO Quake
Seoquake is a Mozilla Firefox extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows t

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Added by Mel Ndiweni on July 21, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Free Sketching/Drawing Photoshop Brush

As avid illustrators were always looking for new ways to transfer our styles from paper to screen. Drawing on paper and scanning in has become a tedious task, and lack of cash has prevented us from investing in a decent scanner, so we created graphite pencil brushes that we could use with our pen tablet's. Furthermore, we save time and get great sketching effects in Photoshop. Have a looksee.!
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Added by Mel Ndiweni on July 20, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

Image Replacemnt Techniques

Image Replacement Techniques When designing its often hard to get straight text by itself to look appealing and to fitthe way you wish into your design. So, off reasearching I went and I found a great blog by Ang Zhuu Ming which details Image Replacement techniques so that, you can have your fancy little graphics, but still keep accesibility to screen readers and search engine spiders at the same time... Image Re… Continue

Added by Mel Ndiweni on July 19, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

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