Lets face it having proper backup storage when your a designer/developer is extremely important. How many times now have you lost or flattened a .psd that a client has requested. Or how many times now have you had a hard drive disc completely fail on you and the files are totally un-recoverable!

As an avid gamer and hardware enthusiast I have had the chance to experience many different hardware items.  It is my pleasure to bring my experiences to you and review the latest hardware that I get my hands on.  I will break these reviews down into a few categories which will develop over time as I write more reviews.

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Yes another Photoshop tutorial! What can I say I am on a roll. I was starting to feel bad I guess, promising to post some and I never got around to it. This tutorial would range in the intermediate skill level so everyone should be able to keep up without any issues. Really the only tricky thing to make here is the ribbon.

In today's tutorial I will be teaching you how to create a clean, simple, and professional looking login box design. This type of login box could be used for many different things such as: websites, software, web applications, etc. It is very easy to change the colors and so on, which makes it very customizable for whatever you need it to work with.

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After posting my Over The Top Shadows Photoshop Tutorial, and it being really rather easy. I thought I would post another one that required a little more skill, but not enough to scare anyone away. Last year I made a Template in Photoshop named Softblue. I had a number of people ask how to make it, or something similar so I thought I would post this so keep reading to find out how it's made!

Softblue was originally made as a personal portfolio website, with a blog/small community. You can use it for something like this, or modify it and use it for whatever you want. modifying it is rather easy, even changing the colors. But it you run into any problems post them in the comments and I will help you out.

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Back in February I posted a article with 5 Unfair Facts About Web Design. Guess what? Nothing has changed *shocker*. This time I am going to focus more on clients, and what you should expect (if not already). Now don't get me wrong. Not all clients will have some of the tendencies that I am going to list. The good will out-weigh the bad I promise!

Most of my clients are new, or small business owners from the States and Canada. Some of them have an idea of what they are looking for their website to do, and some don't. 99.9% of them don't know anything about designing a website. Which is fine, this is why they came to you! Before I go any further keep in mind I am not trying to bash anyone or anything here. I am simply trying to give you an idea of what you should prepare your business for.

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This is a rather easy Adobe Photoshop tutorial that produces a nice overhead perspective shadow effect. One of the best features is it's very customizable, easy to change the angle and depth of the shadow. To get started you will need to find an image that you would want to apply the effect too. Remember that this image must be taken with a overhead perspective view. It also must be rendered off it's original background perfectly, no white edges!

Ok, so if you are reading this tutorial you must be somewhat new to Photoshop. With that said if you don't know how to render a image you can use this one I used for the tutorial. But for the future you should polish up on your Pen tools, the Pen tool is great for cutting out images.

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Hello everyone! First off I am really sorry for the major lack of article posting in the last 2-3 months. Sean and I have been extremely busy with freelance work (which is a good thing I'm thinking!). I will be working on changing this problem by setting aside more time for this website. Also if you would like to write for us please check this out for more info.

In this article, as the title suggests I will be talking about the major mistakes that can be easily made with web design and development for clients. I became very inspired after reading a article about this over at boagworld and wanted to take the idea a little bit further. I think sharing our mistakes is a great way to become a much better web developer, why? Well we all learn from our mistakes and can share what we learned from that mistake with others so they do not make it themselves.

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