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50+ Excellent Tutorials for Creating Website Layouts in Photoshop - Vandelay Design. If you’re looking to learn more about web design or to improve your skills, following along with detailed, step-by-step tutorials can be a great use of your time.

50+ Excellent Tutorials for Creating Website Layouts in Photoshop - Vandelay Design

While there are a lot of resources and courses where you can pay to learn design, there are also plenty of quality tutorials available for free. In this post we’ll showcase 50 different tutorials that we feel are the best at showing you how to design and layout a simple website in Photoshop. You’ll find tutorials that teach how to design all different kinds of sites, and in a wide variety of design styles. Find a few that you like, work through them, and you’re sure to learn at least a few new things that you can put into practice in your own design work. #1GAM: How to Succeed at Making One Game a Month.

You can make a dozen games this year.

#1GAM: How to Succeed at Making One Game a Month

Sound impossible? It's not. Try this simple game development methodology from someone who has pulled it off and see for yourself that 12-in-12 is a reasonable goal. The McFunkypants Method I'm going to share with you my personal game development methodology. You see, in 2012 I achieved the lofty goal of creating 12 games in 12 months. So what was the difference? I'd like to share some of my tricks and tips with you here. Join us! Try using these tips in your next game project. Reach the Finish Line More Often 90% of game projects never see the light of day. Why? Make Your Code Delicious - From the Front, Italy 2014.

Free Web & Mobile (iOS, Android) Prototyping and UI Mockup Tool. Home - Pencil Project. 10 Free Wireframing Tools for Designers. This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe, Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks.

10 Free Wireframing Tools for Designers

Learn more about it here. Wireframing is a crucial step in web design and development as it allows for rapid prototyping and helps to pinpoint potential problems early in the process. It can be invaluable to have a visual representation of content, hierarchy and layout. Wireframes make it easier to communicate ideas, reduce scope creep, cut down on project costs (due to fewer design revisions later), and enable greater upfront usability and functionality testing. This post highlights 10 of the best free wireframing tools available, including standalone applications, web-based tools and browser add-ons.

If you're partial to a particular wireframing tool available for free download, let us know in the comments. 1. Mockingbird is a web-based beta software based on the Cappuccino framework to create, link together, preview and share wireframes of your website or application. CSS Tools: Reset CSS. The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on.

CSS Tools: Reset CSS

The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you're interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original "meyerweb reset" found its way into Blueprint, among others. The reset styles given here are intentionally very generic. There isn't any default color or background set for the body element, for example. I don't particularly recommend that you just use this in its unaltered state in your own projects. In other words, this is a starting point, not a self-contained black box of no-touchiness. If you want to use my reset styles, then feel free!

Previous Versions v1.0 (200802) Acknowledgments Thanks to Paul Chaplin for the blockquote / q rules. PhoneGap. Your perfect framework is just a click away. Free Web & Mobile (iOS, Android) Prototyping and UI Mockup Tool. 8 Twitter Bootstrap Alternatives. By Alex Ivanovs You’ve probably heard a lot about Bootstrap.

8 Twitter Bootstrap Alternatives

Put simply, it is a front-end framework that helps speed up and improve building functional websites.r. The original Bootstrap (also known as Twitter Bootstrap) was the project of two Twitter employees, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton. Twitter Bootstrap is great, for developers. It allows us to put things together easily, without having to put nearly as much time into some of the design aspects of development.It does lack support for legacy browsers, but, for many applications, this is not an issue, though it’s worth taking note of. However, when choosing a front-end framework, it comes down to what you need and want from it, and that is one of the big reasons why there are so many alternatives available to the Bootstrap. In this article I will discuss a handful of alternatives to Bootstrap – hopefully some that may be new to you while others you may aleady be familar with.

Foundation Zimit InK HTML KickStart Kickstrap Pure Related. OriDomi - origami for the web. Web Components Catalog - Component Kitchen. WebComponents.org. Web Developer Checklist. Your perfect framework is just a click away.