Best Of The Web October For Web/Graphic Design
- October 29th, 2009
- News
The ultimate monthly design roundup for October featuring the best articles, tutorials an design resources. A great monthly round up of everything featured from the design community a must read for all designers and webdesigners.
Photoshop Tutorials
Reader Tutorial: Extinction by Chanito
Chanito from Panama, in this tutorial he will show you how to create a good 3D type explosion with Adobe Illustrator, Cinema 4D and Adobe Photoshop. We will use basic tools to make this artwork. Good Luck!!! 
Design a Realistic 3D Baseball Cap in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, It will show you how to create a realistic 3D Baseball cap in Adobe Photoshop using the Pen tool, brushes and some nifty tricks.
Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment – Part I
Whether or not you’re a Steampunk fan, this two part tutorial is sure to test your knowledge on Illustrator, Cinema 4D and Photoshop. In the first half, we’re going to customize a Blackletter font and create 3D text with vector shapes. There’s lots to do, so let’s start with the first part of this two-part series!
Design a Vintage Radio Icon in Photoshop
In this Photoshop Tutorial, you’ll learn how to design an old vintage radio using simple shapes, gradients, patterns and textures.
Illustrator Tutorials
Create a Happy Sun Character
This intermediate tutorial is great for logos, children illustrations, and other projects relating to climate change. Moreover, you can easily apply this tutorial to other illustrations, logos, and projects!
Create a Cute Baby Seal with Illustrator
Thus recites Frank Zappa’s “Nanook Rubs It” from the album Apostrophe (’). Inspired by that line I put together a simple tutorial to teach you how to create a super cute baby seal.It will then be your job to protect it from the evil fur trapper!
Create a Seamless, Textured, Spade Pattern Using Illustrator and Photoshop
There are a lot of tutorials out there describing how to create seamless patterns in Illustrator and Photoshop but today we are going to demonstrate how to use both programs to create a spade pattern in Illustrator, and then add some texture with Photoshop.
Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice – Part I
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a fun, vector icon of a people symbol, frozen in an ice cube, from scratch. We’ll explore the usefulness of Adobe Illustrator’s 3D tools. The whole creation can be divided into two different parts
Web design Photoshop Tutorials
How to Make a Creative Blog Layout
In this tutorial, we’ll make a creative blog layout using mostly simple shapes, a few brush techniques, some images, and a dose of Photoshop ingenuity. Creating web design layouts is easier than you may think. You can learn to build attractive designs rapidly.
Design a colorful theme for wordpress
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a simple website for your portfolio.
1st Photoshop Web Design Professional Layout Tutorial
An awesome Photoshop web design layout using simple colours with the final outcome a really slick design.
Web Design Articles
Google: A Web Browser Is Not A Computer, Not A Search Engine, And Not A Ham Sandwich
Beautiful and Simple CSS Button Styling
You feel the buttons are not beautiful in form and display on different browsers. CSS buttons are much more efficient than image-based buttons because they’re entirely text-based.
10 Important Tips to Optimize WordPress for Search Engines
There is a wide concept in publisher’s mind that using wordpress means getting maximum traffic from search engines because wordpress is a very good CMS which hardly requires Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
7 things i whish i knew about jquery
If you don’t know anything about how to use jQuery you should read this. This is not meant to be an introduction to jQuery. This is meant for people who have tried jQuery and may have been frustrated because they weren’t sure how to do something correctly.
How To Persuade Your Users, Boss or Clients
Whether you are getting a client to sign off on a website’s design or persuade a user to complete a call to action, we all need to know how to be convincing. Like many in the Web design industry, I have a strange job. I am part salesperson, part consultant and part user experience designer.
How To Persuade Your Users, Boss or Clients
Many of us freelancers run blogs, and with good reason. Creating a blog is one of the best ways to prove your expertise, build a strong following, and get more clients. Making it easy for your readers to subscribe is a key factor in building this following and growing your blog, and it is a fact — not all of your readers know how to use RSS.
10 Steps to Becoming a Great Web Developer
For those of us who are already web developers it may seem obvious but when you just getting started and don’t know what to do, it is nice to have guide where to start.
20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Design
Below are twenty do’s and don’ts of effective web design. Study, read, (re)read and print this page. It will help either make or break your website.
