This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of web design colleges. She invites your questions, comments and freelancing job inquiries at her email address: sarah.scrafford25@gmail.com.
Adobe Photoshop and Corel PhotoPaint are useful tools, no doubt, but there’s more to image editors than determined by [...]

Recently I’ve been developing websites using the Bluprint CSS framework. Blueprint itself is not new (it’s a little over a year old), but I hadn’t really committed to using it as a standard for my business until about a month ago.
So What’s the Advantage?
The main advantage to using a css framework is speed. [...]

I’ve been kind of a dick lately ranting in the last few posts so decided I should be nicer. Here are some free smilies for your wordpress blogs (or what ever you want to use them for). These are fun to make! Learn how to make and install them here.
Download SquareSmilies in [...]

I was in need of doing some browser testing tonight and I thought I’d share the free sites that can be used for checking your web designs across multiple browsers and platforms.
browsershots.org
This is definitely the coolest free browser testing tool. There are lots of browsers and platforms (mostly Unix based) to choose from and [...]

After IE 7 came out with 24 bit PNG support, I really wanted to figure out how to use PNGs better in my designs. However, the 50-60% of people still using IE 6 just didn’t seem to justify going in new directions with PNGs. I knew you could make PNGs work in [...]

Designus Fixedwithidus: A web design that has a standard and measurable width, where the content is laid out in a fixed state, and does not change orientation when resizing the browser window.
Designus Fluidious: Sometimes called a 100% width design, full width design, variable width design, etc, this web design does not have a standard measurable [...]

This is a video tutorial I created to showcase an online css formatter and optimizer. I’ll apologize in advance for the poor audio quality towards the end of the video (I’m still learning how to do this), but I don’t think it detracts from the overall message of the video. I’ll see if I [...]

I recently had to create resizeable Flash animation that would play full screen. Here are the steps to creating a full screen flash animation:

First of all, the most important aspect of this is to create a flash animation with vectors only. If you create one with bitmap images, when you resize the animation [...]

I found this free tool today to convert FLV to MOV for a rush project: “Can you download this youtube video and convert it to something i can play in powerpoint???” Some searching on the web led me to SUPER: http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html (scroll to the bottom of the page for a link to the setup [...]

This is the coolest guitar site I’ve seen in a long time. Just goes to show that flash can do some really cool stuff if you’ve got some mega time on your hands. This site is truly amazing:

http://www.guitarshredshow.com/