Original publish date: 8 January, 2010
I wrote this tutorial to state that you don’t have to use Photoshop to create a graphically rich web layout. Photoshop obviously is a great, multi-purpose design tool, but you can create just as good designs with the free Gimp as well. The main purpose of the tutorial is to teach it’s readers how to create a nice looking, WordPress specific, web layout in Gimp. Read More…
Original published date: 16, May 2010
This tutorial is the third in a series. To see the first sections, use these links below:
Creating a Fancy Website Layout in Gimp 2.6, and How To Slice Up Graphics for XHTML and CSS.
This tutorial is now outdated. To get the latest tutorial, see the page Blue Green Blast is Now Updated for WordPress 3.0.
In this section, we are going to convert our static site into a stand alone WordPress theme. Read More…
As many people may know by now, Squidoo has made recent changes to it’s content policies. More information can be found on the policy update page. Because of the new changes, some of my lenses have been locked, including the follow-ups to the Fancy Web Layout Gimp tutorial. Read More…
Original published date: 13, January 2010
In this tutorial, we will learn how to slice up and save graphics to be used as CSS background images in an XHTML page. This tutorial is part of a series. I would advise readers to follow the previous tutorial in this series, Creating a Fancy Web Layout in Gimp 2.6. Read More…
Just yesterday, I installed Adobe’s ICC Profiles on my Ubuntu computer. If you look in the folder usr/share/color/icc, you will see the preinstalled color profiles that come with Ubuntu. These profiles control how color is displayed on your monitor Read More…
This tutorial will give an example of how to create a print-ready business card using Inkscape, a popular open source vector art application. The term “print-ready” is relative here Read More…