studiowhiz ramblings

I thought it was high time that I got back into some photoshop work.

Now I’m not a photoshop guru like some of my mates, but I can tinker around in it. I’m leaning on www.psdtuts.com right now to bring my skills back up.

Here is an image I created for Studiowhiz.com and I’ve thrown it up on flickr.

Check out the Studiowhiz Wallpaper here and if you want it in a larger size (I’ve made it at 1600×1200) sing out in the comments.

I used to develop full time, that is designing, programming and full development of websites. Of course that was a number of years ago, and my job now, while requiring a growing understanding of the internet, doesn’t see me coding or developing.

I’m starting to set up a small website in the evenings, just a small site I hope people will enjoy. It should be the sort of site I can set up and only touch once in a while. Read the rest of this entry »

how to make an icon, how to draw a car, how to create a flash website? These are all questions sitting in my traffic logs. Obviously Google thinks studiowhiz.com is a site that can help - and in the past that would have been true, back when Studiowhiz was well known in the Flash Community. I even wrote the book Build your first website with Flash MX a few years back.

Now however Studiowhiz is my personal blog - still why can’t it provide a resource for these things? So this post will answer these 3 questions:

• How to make an icon
• How to draw a car
• How to create a flash website

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Vandelay Design have a great post today showcasing 25 beautiful website designs.

I enjoy Vandelay’s blog as they have some great tips and tricks for WordPress and general website design. Today’s post is a great one for stirring up the inspiration.

» 25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 2 on Vandelay Design

CSS (cascading style sheets) is the defining layer of any website. For those not sure, CSS is the bit of a web page, that tells your browser where to put things when rendering (drawing) the page.

CSS is fantastic, however with little to no Web Standards between the many browsers out there you can’t be gauranteed that your layout will always work. For example a default paragraph may have more margins in one browser over another.

Darren Wood is someone I would class as a CSS Guru (although I’m not sure he’ll agree with that). He spoke at the recent BarCamp mini-conference in Auckland specifically about this. He has some tricks to help level the playing feild & he’s kind enough to share his files for you to learn and work from.

I’m adding this to my ‘Must Recommend’ list for any web designer, hobbiest or professional. Starting your web project with Darrens framework, means you will have less headaches.

» Darren Wood » DIY CSS Frameworks

Tags: CSS, frameworks, develpment, web, barcamp

So you want some inspiration? You really can’t go past Design Inspiration Gallery - FAVEUP probably the best resource for fantastic & inspirational design, web, CSS, Flash and logos.

Brilliant resource!

» Design Inspiration Gallery - FAVEUP

Tags: flash, css, web, inspiration, design, logos