True story: This last week was the week from technology hell.Why?Because I’m in the middle of moving 1200 miles, so not only have I fought missing cables and NAS storage crashes, I’ve also battled dial-up slow “high speed” internet connections…

Many of us already use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to produce content for iPhones, iPads and Android tablets. As of next month, Adobe changes everything with its new Creative Cloud, including new ways to share content, add interactivity and deploy…

Growing up, I was often taken by my grandparents to the playground at the nearby school.
At some point, I developed a love of playing on the seesaws. These were made of old, creaky boards covered in peeling, dark green…

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While fine art is a subjective field, graphic design is more formulaic in its fundamentals. An effective design should make people feel a certain way and take a certain action. In this article I’d like to share Gravity Switch’s web…

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Navigation menu is a very important component in web design. creative navigation bars not only add beauty but it gives a clear direction to the user and in the same time prominent enough to gain user attention. It makes navigating…

PREMIUMThis is volume seven of our tab bars icons for iPhone and iPad. They can also be used in web apps and other……

Web graphics and stock photos are some of the more popular solutions to building a sense of credibility. Visitors may overlook stock photos at a first glance, but the aesthetics are still present within the content. This will leave a…

Advertise here with BSAThe open source jQuery library has penetrated fields of the old methods for coding JavaScript. New frontend developers have a larger toolbase to start building with, and so we can see loads of new plugins being released…

Most sites have too much information; users are overwhelmed as CEOs wax lyrical on everything from their favorite charity to the dimensions of their first office. In today’s increasingly information-saturated world, what studies find users often prefer is a simple,…

“Ignorance is your best weapon because you’ll be armed with fewer excuses.” — Adam Brault
Brault writes about diffusing the excuse mechanism by embracing ignorance. We often see notable creatives say their success happened because they had no idea what…

Editor’s Note:… Becoming a jack-of-all-trades may seem unfocused, but it may actually be beneficial to your career in the digital creative industry. In fact, the key to future-proofing your career as a digital creative is to be flexible and become

Just a quick reminder: Registration on LearnWebDevelopment.com’s WordPress Bootcamp is ending this week – May 23, 2013 at midnight.
If you want to learn WordPress – and create your first website in just a few days – this is the…

As long-time readers may have picked up, we’re pretty big Google Drive fans here at Freelance Advisor. Anywhere access, collaborative editing and good multi-device support make it a fairly indispensable part of our freelancing toolkit. Today the Android version of…

In addition to directing the “Get Your Masters with the Masters” MFA program at Marywood University in Scranton, I also teach graphic design at the undergrad junior level. While the grad program is low-residency independent study, the undergrad is hands-on.…

The latest business trend on the Internet is single-page websites. Sure they’ve been around for a while, but only recently have they been embraced on a larger scale. And why shouldn’t they?
A single-page site means less confusion for the…

Trends start everyday: an idea is adopted, passed on and before you know it it’s being discussed on design blogs. However, most trends vanish as quickly as they appeared. To paraphrase Andy Warhol, everything will be trendy for 15 minutes. …

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Last weeks jQuery Hotshot giveaway ended on Friday and it is now time to announce the winners. Here they are:
Congratulations to our winners. Packt will be in touch with you over the next few days with your prize.

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by LinYee Yuan With a tepid spring and uncertain weather, summer travel seems like a distant dream for many of us in NYC. But during Design Week, the exhibition “Here & There”—from the designers behind…
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This great collection of street art is by the British artist…

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Studio Muti recently designed and illustrated a cover for British Airways’ inflight magazine, Highlife SA. The design was inspired by things to see in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, and includes a series of hand-lettered drop caps. Get a closer look right…