Design

Grunge effect Photo Tutorial in Adobe Fireworks

9 Feb 2010

I was playing with a nice photo I’ve found in Flickr and while editing to make it look nice in a light background I came up with a very simple but sleek grunge effect. Here’s the result (c…
How to Create an astonishing Online Reputation as a Web Designer/Developer

12 Dec 2009

Here are some useful tips I would like to share about my experience in the jobseeking world and what I have learned to create an online reputation as a front-end web developer and designer and to plac…
Real Ipsum – Human dummy text generator

3 Dec 2009

There are several tools in the Internet to generate Lorem Ipsum dummy text for web site design or for other media development. But once you get the real content in, the look and feel of the website is…
Fireworks Template for Thematic WordPress Theme Framework

10 Nov 2009

Having a look at the great Thematic WordPress Theme I thought it would be useful to even have a little “framework” for the design in Fireworks. Most designers still use Photoshop to create…
Blueprint CSS Watermark GIF for Pixel-Perfect Web Design

7 Nov 2009

Here’s a GIF image that will help you get pixel-perfect results when designing the template of a website. It has been designed for the Blueprint CSS framework and it is based in: 24 columns of 3…

Xavi Esteve is a passionate Freelance Front-end Web Developer from Barcelona living in London. Read more...

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