Articles by: chriscoyier

Keep Your Design On Away From The Computer

Like it or not, our lives often take us away from the computer. Out of our homes, and into the great outdoors. But just because the Eyedropper tool isn’t within reach, doesn’t mean that you need to turn your inner-designer off. Here are some ways you can keep your design on while you are away from the computer. Bring a notepad and pencil. Nothing is worse than having an amazing idea and then losing it to a flood of other thoughts before you can get it down. If you are at the computer,... [Continue reading this tutorial]

Create Glowing Underlines for Web Links

You know what they say… design is in the details. When you are designing a website, there are opportunities abound to focus on little details to visually enhance the experience. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create links with underlines that “glow”. [Continue reading this tutorial]  Read More →

Three Simple Uses For The ‘Clouds’ Filter in Photoshop

The “clouds” filter (Filter > Render > Clouds) does just about what you would suspect. Using both the foreground and background color, it creates a misty/cloudy fill. This simple filter can be used for all kind of interesting things, especially when combined with other filters, layer effects, and layer modes. Here are three simple uses: [Continue reading this tutorial]  Read More →

Photoshopping a Unique Contact Form

There some nice looking contact forms out there on the web, but by and large web forms are a quagmire of default-style web ugliness. This has to do, in part, because of cross-browser quirks and the difficulty of styling some form elements in certain browsers. But in truth, it’s not that difficult to style forms and it is more about designer/developer laziness than anything else. It’s sad really, because forms are such essential parts of websites. It is on forms that you are asking for... [Continue reading this tutorial]

How To Make a Unique Website For Your Twitter Updates

Twitter offers an API which you can use to pull information from twitter for your own uses. Even easier, they offer a little javascript widget which automatically uses this API and returns simple HTML of your recent tweets. Let’s design a unique website for our Twitter updates utilizing this widget. VIEW LIVE DEMO [Continue reading this tutorial]  Read More →

Different Techniques for Grabbing Color from Anywhere on the Screen

Designers of all breeds get color inspiration from anywhere, and often times it is right from the screen you are looking at. So how do we grab those colors from our screen for use in our projects? Let us count the ways: [Continue reading this tutorial]  Read More →

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