Design. How do you design something that apeals to the person looking at it and achieves the goal you are trying to achieve? Well, lets look at the goal of a good design, the main goal would be to communicate to the viewer the idea you want to communicate. This may be indirect, very direct, or even hidden. Take the Google home page for example, what are they trying to communicate with the design? Well each person who saw it might tell you what they get, but what I get is “simplicity” the design communicates that to me and I myself like a search engine that is simple so I use Google like so many others. Google Search (Entire page): Yahoo Search (Entire page): If you wanted to communicate that your website has many different services and show that on your homepage, you might get a design like Yahoo where the home page is so loaded that to me it overwhelms me. Someone else who might like lots of links might really enjoy the design. Thats the point, you want to communicate your...

In this Flash CS4 tutorial you will learn the basics of Flash CS4 animation. You will familiarize yourself with the Flash CS4 workspace and learn how to use the various tools in order to create a Flash animation. Flash has many applications in the web world. Flash can be used for advanced motion graphics and animation. Flash can be seen used for interactive ad banners, portfolio sites and advanced online programs. Learning the basics through these tutorials is a great start to becoming pro. Flash CS4 Tutorials Flash CS4 Tutorial Introduction to flash CS4 authoring environment Panels and Panel workspace in flash CS4 Drawing in flash CS4 Use of polystar tool in flash CS4 Object drawing Mode in Flash CS4 How the Line tool, Pencil tool, brush tool and pen tool work in in Flash CS4 How to use Ink bottle and paint bucket tool in flash CS4 How to manage layers in Flash CS4 How to make an image big on rollover in flash CS4 Creating Mask in Flash CS4 Moving Ball Animation in Flash CS4 How to create...

In this Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial you will learn how to create a basic website using Dreamweaver CS4. You will learn how to Define a site, Create a template, Design your template page, Design your css style sheet, Insert Editable Regions , Create the pages of your site using the template, Link all the pages together, Create a form, Check your site in the browser and, Upload your site and make it live. Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorials Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial Define a New Site in Dreamweaver CS4 Create a template in Dreamweaver CS4 Design your template in Dreamweaver CS4 Design the CSS Style Sheet in Dreamweaver CS4 Insert Images in Dreamweaver CS4 Creating the Menu in Dreamweaver CS4 Content in Dreamweaver CS4 Insert Editable Regions in the Dreamweaver Template Dreamweaver CS4 Template Based Web Pages Formatting Headings in Dreamweaver CS4 Formatting Images in Dreamweaver CS4 Linking pages in Dreamweaver CS4 Forms in Dreamweaver CS4 Dreamweaver CS4 Form Validation Tutorial Tables in Dreamweaver...

This Adobe Fireworks CS4 Tutorial will help you familiarize yourself with this image editing software and help you create a layout for a website. This tutorial will take you through the making of a website design using fireworks including how to do a logo design in Fireworks. View the tutorial here.

 Have you ever wanted to create vector or bitmap graphics but did’t have all of the expensive programs to work in? Well I got wind of this website/project called Aviary which allows you to do just that.  Aviary has created applications mimicking all of the popular graphics programs out there today. I will list the different programs, what they do and some examples of work created by people. I find it quite amazing what you can do with these programs — and they are all free.  Aviary uses names of bird species for each of their programs. Image Editor (Similar to Photoshop, Paint Shop, Gimp, etc.) which is called Pheonix and is depicted by a very nice Peonix icon. Pheonix has all of the basic things you need to edit an image which include: clone tool, magic wand, filters, selection tools, smudge, layers and image resizing. To Give Pheonix (image editor) a try click here. Here are some of the popular images that I really like. These were created in Pheonix by regular users:   Apple...