Effective Tour Pages: Trends and Showcase
Aug 23, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
I was recently working on the tour page for Vandelay Premier and doing some research on other tour pages to gather inspiration. I decided to put this post together because it is a topic that can have a great deal of impact on the success of a web app or web business. Looking at the analytics data shortly after launching Vandelay Premier it was obvious that the tour page will have an incredibly significant impact on the success of the site. When visitors arrive at a site that they are not familiar with the tour page is very inviting since it promises to help them get acquainted with the site very quickly.
Tags: basecamp, bidsketch, Inspiration, pages, Photoshop Tutorials, Resources, tour, Tutorials, visitor
Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 2
Aug 16, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
This is the second part of this tutorial series about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee." In this final part of the two part series, you’ll learn to create a ready to print booklet on InDesign, work with master pages, text, tabs, paragraph and character styles, import external files and actually print the booklet. Let’s move on! What You Should Get Now In the Part 1 of this tutorial series, I showed you how to design a background for both the cover and internal pages, besides two additional graphics that we will use later. Before starting with this part of the tutorial you should have all the following PSD files on hand. Psd Premium members can find those files in the source folder of the Premium download.
Tags: articles, background, character, image, layout, master, pages, swatches, tutorial, Tutorials
Writing Effectively in InDesign Using Book
Jul 15, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
InDesign allows you to collect all documents in a Book. Using Book, you can easily synchronize styles in every document and maintain a consistent layout throughout your project. In this tutorial, we will create a book made from 3 chapters, complete with Table of Content, Introduction, and a Cover. You will learn the concepts of InDesign, from applying styles, adding page numbers, warping text, using variables and master pages.
Tags: book, chapter, Designing, document, master-page, pages, Style, tools-amp-tips, tutorial
Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 1: Document Basics & Master Pages
Jun 23, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
InDesign is a powerful software application created by Adobe, the same creators of Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and various other creative applications. It is one of the industry standard applications used to create (or more likely “ put together “) print documents, such as magazines and books. It can be used to produce print products from scratch, but is actually designed to import your already created graphics from other software such as Photoshop and Illustrator. As well as multipage documents, it can also be used to create one-page documents, such as flyers and posters, however it isn’t used much for this purpose as both Photoshop and Illustrator are capable of this without having to export and import your graphics.
Tags: Design, footer, indesign, Inspiration, master, master-pages, pages, Photoshop, Resources, tutorial
Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way
Mar 17, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning . Sometimes called information architecture, or IA planning, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But rushing on to programming and pushing pixels makes for content that looks shoehorned rather than fully integrated and will only require late-game revisions.
Tags: architecture, client, content, css, development, icons, pages, Photos, planning, project, Resources, Tutorials, wallpaper, workflow
Website Accessibility and Usability: Ten Tips On How To Make Your Website More Viewer-friendly!
Oct 20, 2009 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Most websites are developed with the sole purpose of spreading information about a product or service in mind. However the different viewer scenarios are not normally envisioned and it is assumed that all the site’s visitors have perfect physical or cognitive ability and fast computers with broadband connections to the internet. Statistics show that on average most internet users have some form of disability or disadvantage that hinders them from accessing web content as it was intended. In 1997, the World Wide Web Consortium, the non-profit organization in charge of the internet, established the Web Accessibility Initiative that set guidelines for web developers to adhere to so as to ensure accessibility to all users.
Tags: accessibility, articles, Design, Inspiration, pages, Tips, usability, Web Design
