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Optimize Your Web Design Workflow. I’m not sure about you, but I still favour using Photoshop to create my designs for the web. I agree that this application, even with its never-ending feature set, is not the perfect environment to design websites in. The ideal application doesn’t exist yet, however, so until it does it’s maybe not such a bad idea to investigate ways to optimize our workflow. Why use Photoshop? It will probably not come as a surprise if I say that Photoshop and Illustrator are the applications that I know best and feel most comfortable and creative in. Why not start in the browser? These days, with CSS3 styling emerging, there are people who find it more efficient to design in the browser. As a designer I need to be able to create and experiment with shapes on the fly, draw things, move them around, change colours, gradients, effects, and so on.

Optimize your Photoshop workspace I have the layers palette open, and I keep the other palettes collapsed. Set up a grid Use Shape Layers Use Smart Objects. Encrypt mailto-email links.

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Slideshow at Slideroll - Flash Slideshow Creator, Photo Slideshows for Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Everywhere! Web-Empowered Church: Home. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. Bots.htm: How to search the web, by fravia+ (¯`·.¸(¯`·.¸ Bots ¸.·´¯)¸.·´¯) Webdesign | MakeUseOf.com. Urban Legend Combat Kit at NetSquirrel.com. Interested in learning how to debunk Internet urban legends on your own? One of the best urban-legend-squishing tools available is a "bookmarklet" that automatically searches Barbara and David Mikkelson's Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com. Bookmarklets are amazing Web browser links that let you use a search engine's database without actually visiting that search engine's Web site.

The best example of a bookmarklet is Google's free browser buttons. What most people don't know is that you can easily create your own bookmarklets for practically ANY search engine you can think of ... including snopes.com. Creating an Urban Legend Search Bookmarklet If you use Internet Explorer go to View > Toolbars and make sure that there is a checkmark next to "Links. " Then, point your browser to Sort of in the middle of this page you'll see a blue "Make Search Bookmarklet" link. Dragging and Dropping the Make Search Bookmarklet Link in IE That's it. No, really.

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