This isn’t going to be your typical tutorial in the sense that it’s not so much about technology as it is about design itself. It really doesn’t matter if you know how to use Photoshop or Illustrator if you are doing the wrong things with them. Tools are just tools, and they only ever obey their master’s bidding.
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Welcome, in this tutorial il teach you how to convert my “creative design layout” into a working CSS/HTML valid website.
Today I am proud to introduce another full time member of the HV-Team, Justin Lowery, who will be writing photoshop and illustrator tutorials for us. Justin has a new tutorial for us coming this next week but I wanted to start off letting our readers get to know him a little bit with this interview. Read on, ask questions, and enjoy!
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Hey guys, we are finally back up and running. After almost a month of being down and having issues with our database/plugins we are finally back and ready to start running full speed again! I had this puppy ready for Friday Freebies (which was also down) but decided that I was going to release this as our back online surprise to celebrate coming back.
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Yep, another new tutorial author has joined the team here at HV-Designs and his first tutorial is awesome! Josh will be walking you through some simple Adobe Illustrator techniques on creating vector shapes and bringing them to photoshop and then applying some photoshop techniques to bring it all together. Let’s get started!
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Hey guys, I know its been awhile since we have released a new tutorial. That is partly my fault as I have been super busy lately but I did get an awesome freebie to release for your guys today. Thanks to our friend Dominic Wood we have this amazing Milk UI Kit for you to download. Several pieces of this UI Kit have been featured on the popular page of Dribbble, admired by other designers, so Dom and I decided we would release them to you guys. Anyway, feel free to download.
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When I started up Friday Freebies as part of the HV-Network I was worried that there are too many freebie areas out there and that we would just be jumping on the bandwagon. After two months and eight freebies (Nine today!) I figured out that though we have jumped on the bandwagon you guys are still supporting us and downloading our freebies. That’s why, as a thank you, we decided to release our first three packaged freebie sets on FF absolutely free.
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Today I am proud to bring you guys Pt. II of the HV-Tumblr Theme Series. This episode in the series is the PSD file for our last tutorial, but it also includes the layout for “Single Post Page” and the Modal Window for the images on single post page. If you are going to continue to follow the series be sure to download this PSD as we will begin coding up the HTML version of our pages in PT. III.
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Before 2006, it was not possible to make transitions, animations and other decent web stuff quickly within seconds. You will find a lot of plugins for menus, banners, etc. for the jQuery.
With the same purpose, my today’s tutorial is about a menu which has all the decent and stylish animated functionality, what you may be looking for. I’ll not go into details of HTML and CSS, I’m assuming you know about that or you can copy the HTML and CSS from below.
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Over the last few weeks I have been saving the various awesome freebies I come across on the web. Today I have finally gathered enough awesome freebies to make it worth a release for you guys. This freebie post will consist of awesome UI and Icon resources.
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I know you guys have waited forever for this tutorial but it’s finally here. In today’s tutorial I will walk you through the first step of creating a Tumblr Theme, designing up the bad boy. Because I want you guys to grasp all the aspects of creating a Tumblr theme from scratch our theme will be using every available call for a Tumblr home page. This is Stage 1 of a 5 stage tutorial that will walk you through creating your custom Tumblr theme. So, let’s get started shall we?
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Alright guys, we have been thinking about things a lot lately and what direction we want to take the site. Thanks to you guys for helping us get to a point where we can take the time out to make these decisions. As we started talking about different things that we want to do with the site we got on the topic of the HV-Shop and what we want to do with it. The shop is doing great, but we were thinking of giving our users something a little bit better.
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