Articles by: Barbara Holbrook
Target Your Marketing Campaign with Facebook Ads
November 4, 2009 by Barbara Holbrook
Facebook ads are quickly becoming the top choice for targeted online ad campaigns. Whether your goal is lead generation, sales, or improving brand recognition, a targeted campaign will always have better results. Google Adwords used to be the king of online ad campaigns because they can target users based on their current search priorities. Facebook ads are the next generation of targeted text ads. Learn how to get started and why you should create a Facebook ad. [Continue reading this tutorial] Read More →
Free Photoshop Shapes: Download Custom Shapes Sets
October 22, 2009 by Barbara Holbrook
Photoshop shapes are different than Photoshop brushes, although some people use the terms interchangeably, they refer to completely different tools. Both tools will allow you to easily add custom elements that be stamped out over and over again, used to create patterns, transferred from one design to another, and stored in your Photoshop library for use on your next project. The big difference between custom brushes and custom shapes is that brushes create a bitmapped element that is permanently... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Choosing the Best RSS Feed Plugin for Wordpress
October 9, 2009 by Barbara Holbrook
Using RSS feeds with Wordpress for fun and for profit. At one point or another most bloggers will want to display articles from another website. You may be sharing articles with a syndicated author, setting up a news ticker, or simply listing the current headlines from news sources in your niche. Whatever your reason, RSS feeds are usually the best way to pull in content from another source. Today we’ll discuss how to import an RSS feed and display the feed items in a WordPress blog. There... [Continue reading this tutorial]
5 More Places to Buy Joomla Templates
August 19, 2009 by Barbara Holbrook
Last week we posted an article about where to find joomla templates. After being roundly smacked about by our readers for leaving out some of the larger (and popular) Joomla template design websites, we’ve decided to try and redeem ourselves with yet another article about finding quality Joomla Templates. Like we said earlier, a well-made template is the foundation for a good website. If the template doesn’t include the right code for proper SEO, then it’s going to make life difficult... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Get Listed in TutorialBlog.org’s Designers Link Directory
May 27, 2009 by Barbara Holbrook
Looking to showcase your awesome new design software? Want to promote your stock photography site to TutorialBlog’s 10,000 daily readers? Or, maybe you’re a designer that wants to share your portfolio with the world. Whatever the reason, you should be in the new Designers Link Directory on TutorialBlog.org. The link directory is brand new. And, that means that is your chance to get in on the ground floor of what is sure to become a massive resource for design professionals and other... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Remove Moiré Patterns in Photoshop
May 7, 2009 by Barbara Holbrook
A TutorialBlog.org reader writes us today with a question about how to remove a moiré pattern using photoshop. Are there any plugins for photoshop to reduce/eliminate moire patterns? — William For those of you that don’t know, a moiré is an unsightly pattern that emerges when “two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes.” (Thanks, wikipedia.) [Continue reading this tutorial] Read More →
