Learn how to design and create a stunning and unique logo for your business or website, using the gradient tool and texturizer features in Photoshop. Bert shows you everything you need to make a unique logo without Illustrator and just Photoshop.
This video shows you how to change the appearance of form fields using CSS. You create a new class for the form labels then apply the style to labels in your form using the Property inspector. You create another style to affect the look and feel of the form elements. Style for ...more
This Photoshop CS3 tutorial shows you how to create a wedding photography advertisement for a magazine. Using album design techniques in Photoshop, we create a collage-style ad for a bridal magazine. This tutorial is geared towards people who already use Photoshop and have a b ...more
This video shows you how to use Spry widgets in Dreamweaver CS3. See how to add a Spry Accordion widget to a web page, and edit it in Design view. The video also goes over how to change the styling of the widget, and test your web page in a browser. Use Spry widgets in Dreamwe ...more
Of course your website will be continually undergoing edits, adjustments and revisions. You can use PHP scripts to edit your already existing pages using the Dreamweaver software. This tutorial also covers a few extra tricks you can use when editing your pages.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 gives you several tools that you can use to manage your website without having to know the PHP or MySQL programming languages. This is a great way to keep track of and manage your website without having to learn how to code!
Check out this tutorial video from Sessions Online Schools of Art & Design's "Dreamweaver I" course. This is part of Sessions' Web Design certificate programs. This video covers Dreamweaver basics, specifically editing table width. Selecting and sizing tables is important to ...more
Mike Lively shows you how to use Dreamweaver to FTP. It's one thing to build a website in Dreamweaver, but you still need to get it on your site! The tutorial shows how to upload content to the web via FTP using Dreamweaver.
This After Effects tutorial from Andrew Kramer shows you how to create a 3D title plate with growing elements. You'll be using Evolution to enhance this simple design and control the growth effects. Create a fancy title plate in After Effects CS3. Click through to watch this v ...more
An image fade or other transition can give a slide show or other graphic display on your website an extra level of attractiveness and professionalism. This effect is easy to code using ActionScript, and this tutorial shows you how to set up a fade transition for your Flash-bas ...more
Dave Cross demonstrates how to create a contact sheet for your Illustrator artwork using InDesign. Having a good contact sheet is important for any company or artist, especially artists. Learn how to create your own stylized contact sheet in this InDesign and Illustrator tutor ...more
This video shows you how to slice a button for a website using 9-slice scaling and then using 3-slice scaling. Scaling is done the same way in Fireworks and in Illustrator CS3, so the concepts done here in Fireworks, are the same in Illustrator. Knowing how to use these tools ...more
A liquid layout will change size as the browser also changes size. It's a good layout to use if you're trying to design a website that can be read on many different size screens and browsers. Here's how you can implement a liquid layout in three minutes.
This Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial takes you on a step by step process for installing an automated comment box system for your website. The system is a great way for communicating and interacting with your website users. It has a great feature that automatically sends you an email ...more
In this web development software tutorial Layers TV Host RC shows you how to create rollovers in Photoshop and Dreamweaver CS3. Since ImageReady is gone in CS3, you may be feeling lost as to how to create your rollovers. Don't worry, this tutorial will show you how to design r ...more
This clip presents a general overview of how to utilize content tags when writing a website using HTML5, the new HTML standard. Whether you're using a fancy WYSIWYG (or what-you-see-is-what-you-get) page editor like Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 or a barebones text editor like Notepad ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create a FTP from a local computer to a website. In this video, viewers are shown (once you've chosen a web host) how to perform FTP file transfers from your local computer to your website. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a process ...more
Learning how to use Flash can be beneficial for you if you are looking to add something to your website. In this video tutorial you get to see how to make toggle buttons using the Flash CS4 program. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create toggle buttons in Flash CS4. ...more
Rich Brooks of the web design and internet marketing company Flyte New Media shows you how to add a Facebook Fan Box to your website or blog. This video briefly explains the importance of using Facebook Fan Box as a social networking tool to help build your business and increa ...more
This Photoshop CS3 tutorial covers the benefits of designing your albums with smart objects. Learn how to use Photoshop smart objects in a flush mount album design scenario. Using smart objects makes it easy to replace images with other images without ruining the layers and la ...more
In this software tutorial you will learn how to create printer-friendly web pages using Dreamweaver and External Style Sheets. Geoff Blake shows you how to set up your external style sheets to print pages effectively with your web style sheets within Dreamweaver CS3. Create Pr ...more
In this software tutorial you will learn how to make a simple website using Photoshop. You may think it's too difficult to create your own site and that you need to use a template, but this tutorial will change all that! See how easy it is to design your own web page without a ...more
This software tutorial shows you how to set up your FTP server using Dreamweaver. FTP servers are a great way to share and transfer data, especially when it is too large for email. So if you have a website, make it easy on yourself and set up an FTP server with Dreamweaver and ...more
Adobe has navigated competition for decades. Since the company's founding in a Silicon Valley garage in 1982, Adobe has led the way in design software. Pivoting to Adobe Creative Cloud in 2011, they've remained ahead of the game with an incredible suite of products. Adobe rem ...more
In this web design tutorial you will learn how to manage web design layers efficiently by using solo mode, hiding layers and locking layers. This Xara Web Designer tutorial will show you the importance of using these features to manage your website design. Video: .
This Professional Website design Tutorial will show you how to place text on a curve using the line tool. However you can put text on the outline of shapes and other objects. Video: .
This HTML web design tutorial will explain what HTML is and how it can benefit you rather you are looking to build a website from the ground up or you are planning on using a combination of automated software and HTML Design and need the flexibility to still make fine tune edi ...more
In this web design tutorial learn how to embed a YouTube video for your website design. This Xara Tutorial takes you step by step through the process and understanding of embedding a video for your Xara Web Designer website. Video: .
This web design tutorial will teach you how to add titles and descriptions that are relevant to your web page. Also you will learn how to add keywords for your website by using the website properties panel to add relevant keywords and phrases to your document in Xara Web Desig ...more
Django is a powerful Python-based framework that makes creating complex, database-driven websites easy to build and maintain. The free, open-source platform emphasizes reusability, the "pluggability" of components through APIs, rapid development, and less coding. All of these ...more
I don't know about you, but visions of pumpkin pie and cornbread stuffing and big, juicy turkeys are constantly dancing through my head right now. I'm sorry, healthy eating habits, but it's Thanksgiving week, and all I can do is think about food. Although I can't wait to fill ...more
Welcome back my fellow army of hackers! Today we'll be hacking a website. Hacking is technically not the right word used here. It should be defacing! So we are going to deface a website... What's Defacing? Website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual ...more
The fill tool will allow you to alter the appearance of objects in your web design document and can be very useful for marketing purposes. The fill tool can be used to give objects one solid color for simple designs. The bitmap fill can be used to apply things like textures a ...more
You've seen it in action before, but now it's finally got a solid release date, well... release month. The newest version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY was unveiled at MWC 2011 today and will be available for purchase globally in March 2011 (in selected markets), which is ...more
Recently, buyout talks between Google and Groupon ended with Groupon turning down Google's $6 million offer. But with Amazon backing LivingSocial, should they have? Your guess is as good as mine, but one thing's for sure— Groupon has a great voice, and they're sharing it with ...more
First off, don't be frustrated. YOU CAN DO IT! Contrary to the message in the image above, it's NOT over. It's just beginning. And when it comes to solving the New York Times crossword puzzle, the old cliche does apply: practice makes perfect. I've read quite a few books and ...more
AJAX (Asyncronous Java and XML) is one of the most important parts of web design, allowing web designers to create much more dyanmic and interactive websites then they could in the past. This video for beginners will show you how to get started using AJAX with jQuery, an easy- ...more
This clip presents a guide on using Soundbooth to access Resource Central and purchase audio files to use in video projects. Accessing and Editing Adobe Sound documents with Adobe media applications. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazi ...more
Photoshop is the photo-editing software of choice for just about everyone these days. It is very complex; but you're in luck! We have many videos here on site dealing with how to use Photoshop's many functions. This video will teach you how to display a picture inside of text ...more
This tutorial experiments with a current design trend of creating cyber punk backgrounds using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator in tandem. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video software tutorial. For more Adobe software tuto ...more
There are a number of patterns built into Illustrator which can be brought over to Photoshop to use as design elements. Learn how to use them with this free video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Illustrato ...more
If you’re a photographer who's using WordPress to your blog, more often than not, you are making compromises on what pictures to put on your post. You don't want to overrun the space on the browser with images and have the user sift for the content, but you want to post more t ...more
This clip shares some tips and tricks for using Adobe InDesign’s drag and drop text options. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started capitalizing on this oft-overlooked InDesign feature yourself, watch this free video software tu ...more
In this two-part tutorial, Tom Green opens up a picture of the Swiss Alps, re-sizes the image in Fireworks, and creates a rain simulation in After Effects. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this fun effect in your own ...more
In this clip, InDesign writer Jeff Witchel shares some of his popular tips for working with guides in InDesign. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using guides for greater control in your own InDesign projects, watch this free video software tutorial. ...more
Learn how to create a drop shadow that runs along your site, and, if your site expands, expands with it! Start in Photoshop to create a nice little drop shadow graphic and then head to Dreamweaver for some fun with CSS and divs. Looking for an easy way to create 3D shapes? Hav ...more
If you don't have CS3 and have an older one, you should still be able to follow along with this tutorial. Watch this Illustrator video tutorial to create vectored swooshes and swirls. Learn how to create vector swirls and swooshes which can be easily re-used by using these fai ...more
This is all about vector, swirling rainbows. Have you ever seen those looping, swooshing, swirling rainbow graphics used in all kinds of graphics ranging from logos, and sketches, to grungy and retro illustrations? Well, you are going to create one of them in Illustrator. Watc ...more
Ribbons are really kind of a hot commodity, believe it or not, because they're actually quite trick to make. But knowing how to make some ribbons could make you very valuable and you could implement them into your own designs. Watch this Illustrator video tutorial to work with ...more
Take a look at some vectored hearts… it's fully vectored. Older versions of Illustrator should be able to handle this project just fine. Watch this Illustrator video tutorial to learn this heart-shape design. A vector heart is great for Valentine's Day. No source files are nee ...more
Increasing the contrast in Photoshop could help when performing this Illustrator technique. This subject: the eyeball. Watch this Illustrator video tutorial to learn how to vector an eyeball in CS3. Vector an aye of a model of your choice using simple techniques that will be u ...more
Today, see how to use GoLive CS2 to create pure CSS layouts. That's using CSS to lay your website out, which is a really nice way to layout your webpages. It's laying it out without tables, and allows the site to change based on the users resolution. In this video tutorial, se ...more
This is a two part video tutorial. Be sure to click on Chapters 2 as well to get the full tutorial. Taking a look at the popular technique of designing lower thirds and the process it takes to design these using Photoshop. Photoshop is the perfect solution for this task with ...more
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to add a blog to your website in iWeb '09. iLife '09, the software suite from Apple, is the easiest way to organize, view and publish digital content, like pictures, movies, music, and webpages. iPhoto makes managing ...more
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to add a photo album in iWeb '09. iLife '09, the software suite from Apple, is the easiest way to organize, view and publish digital content, like pictures, movies, music, and webpages. iPhoto makes managing your pho ...more
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to add a movie to your website in iWeb '09. iLife '09, the software suite from Apple, is the easiest way to organize, view and publish digital content, like pictures, movies, music, and webpages. iPhoto makes managin ...more
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to add a countdown clock in iWeb '09. iLife '09, the software suite from Apple, is the easiest way to organize, view and publish digital content, like pictures, movies, music, and webpages. iPhoto makes managing your ...more
Tom Green demonstrates this floating text technique by cutting the text out of the an image using Fireworks and then animating the text floating using Flash. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all ...more
There is an option in Flash that allows users to capture the data coming from a web cam attached to the computer and broadcast it using Flash. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazin ...more
Tom Green shows how to easily take an effect created in After Effects and bring it over Flash using the XML format. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazine tutorials for Illustrator ...more