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I had a break from school and apparently from blogging. I did set unrealistic goals for this blog with my job and full time school; I was posting daily but I am going to change that and set something more realistic. Such as once a week, twice a week or 1 every other [...]

There are many tutorials and “how-to’s” that deal with websites.  Many of them are related to designing the website in Photoshop, Illustrator and even Fireworks.  These are great tutorials and some even include taking the Photoshop file, slicing and converting to html.  This can then be placed in an html editor, most commonly, Dreamweaver.  I [...]

Community Builder suite (CB) extends the Joomla! user management system. Key features: extra fields in profile, enhanced registration workflows, user lists, connection paths between users, admin defined tabs and user profiles, image upload, front-end workflow management, integration with other components, like PMS, Newsletter, Forum, and Galleries. CB has many plugins from its Team and [...]

Picture this scenario.  You have just labored the past couple of days to create, what you feel is, a great website. You have contacted your stakeholder and feel you are ready to implement the design.  Flash forward to four weeks later, and you are now scratching your head as to why the intended audience [...]

You may ask why I am writing this, as I just started my blog.  However, my answer is simple. When starting a blog, it is considered (by some prominent bloggers) to be a good habit to have several posts ready in advance, and to know what you are going to write, in the immediate future. [...]

Let me apologize first as I will be posting a short video tutorial on using action scripts to create brush sets and batch work on your latest photos taken from your adventures.  I am currently pretty sick and the video would sound awful. So, if your a photographer and your tired of correcting single images [...]

Well another set of classes is over and the next ones are rolling in the very next day. I am excited this time around as I will be taking language composition and learning how to build wire frames and design around the user experience. I will get to use both classes for this blog as [...]

In a field laden with tutorials about how to make the latest 2.0 web layout we are going to back track and determine what does the user want.  We will answer two questions:
What do the users want from the site?
What do our stakeholders want from the site?
Businesses have come to recognize that providing a quality [...]

Successful designs use these steps and these steps work for web design as well as other pieces of design such as art and graphic design.  Even professionals can come to a block and unable to work and may forget these basics; as a result let us learn these for the first time or be reminded [...]

WOW! I just came to this resource from a link in my writing class at AiPO. (Art Institute Pittsburgh Online) Just sharing it as it was great info for me and an eye opener on how to gather your thoughts and start writing. I will post here for your convenience and will provide the original [...]