a nest of bees in graphic design

tutorials and tips for webdesign

Hey there..Long time, no talk. I was realy busy, still am but i wanted to show you what i’ve been doing. I started working on a blog for the firm i’m working and i want your advice and feedback…it’s in romanian but i hope this will not stop you to take a look.

We’ve [...]

I made a site for some friends and i needed to put external images. Because they were too big i wanted to use a preloader. How did i make it? Follow this post and see.
1. First save all the images on a folder (for example /images - on the root of the site—see the previous [...]

I found a funny chart on the net. I thought it’s nice to share this with you so you can understand why web designers are always working and learning.

hello!
i just discovered how to use a little icon to show before my adress in the browsers
it’s really nice.
so! you need to put this line in between head tag in your html file
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico” />
you have to create an icon and put it where your site is
you can create an icon with [...]

hello again. Long time no see
if you are looking for inspiration here are my favorite sites with great ideas
logo , websites , advertising
i hope you will find great ideas

a list apart, one of the most popular webdesign portals and, frankly, a place for real webdesigners has unleashed for sometime now their latest project:
first annual a listapart survey, aimed to increase knowledge of webdesign and webdesigners.
it covers questions related to:
- demographic data (geographical, age, gender of webdesigners, etc)
- career data (career status, profession, job [...]

did you ever want some fancier buttons? or controls?
did you ever wonder how you can create some regular (or non-regular) 3d objects?
here’s how!
first of all you have to create a 2d object that you want to convert to 3d object. for example, you need a circle to create a sphere. or a square to create [...]

have you had trouble chosing fonts for your site?
have you ever lived too see your site go like this?

here’s the fonts that are most safe to use are:
1. Arial / Helvetica
2. Times New Roman / Times
3. Courier New / Courier
other options that usually work cross-platform are:
1. Palatino
2. Garamond
3. Bookman
4. Avant Garde
fonts that work on Windows [...]

here’s another great webdesign insight from my 2nd bee:
i’ve got a new project this week. i’m to create a new site for a software development company.
in this post, i want to share to you my first steps for creating this new website.
1. i’m gathering all the information about the company the people, the ideeas of [...]

If you are making a web site most probably you will find yourself in the position to resize lots of images…if time is short or if you just want to finish working and go playing use actions.
So at the begining you want to put all the images that you want to resize in two [...]