News & Tutorials

• Designing with GuiMags

  1st September 2008 | 1 comment

  GuiMags are a new concept, taking the idea of designing on paper down an innovative route. They comprise a set of magnets, created to stick to a whiteboard, made of material which allows you to write on them with dry-wipe markers.

  I have been trying out a sample of these for a few days and am going to share the aspects I feel that work well, and the areas that still need improvement.

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• Free Gloss CSS Menu

  16th August 2008 | 2 comments

  

  Our partner site, 13 Styles have just launched a new addition to their range of free CSS menus. It comes pre-built in red, orange and grey, working in all major browsers. Best of all, it’s completely free for you to download and use!

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• Integrating Flickr with WordPress

  22nd July 2008 | 5 comments

  

  WordPress is undoubtedly one of the most popular blogging platforms, so it’s no surprise that there are a huge variety of different plugins to allow you to integrate Flickr with your blog posts.

  This article includes a review of iFlickr, but we’ll also be looking at other plugins available to mix these two online platforms together.

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• Becks Label Design Winners

  16th July 2008 | 10 comments

  The well known international beer, Becks, have recently run a contest in the UK to find a set of new artistic designs for their beer bottles. We’ve got an exclusive preview of the winning bottle designs, which you can pass your eye over as a designer to let us know what you think.

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• Interview with John Griffin of Cutcaster

  15th July 2008 | 3 comments

  

  This is a short interview with one of the minds behind the new stock photography startup – Cutcaster. It’s a great insight into some of the thinking behind a site such as this, as both a business concept and a well designed web application.

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