eBooks the Smart Way

ebooks-the-smart-way

This weeks’s Thing of Interest is an eBook about eBooks, how deliciously meta. Writing an eBook is something I’ve been interested in doing for a looooong time, and I’m a compulsive newsletter-signer-upper, so signing up to this one to get a free eBook on how to write an eBook just seemed to make sense. eBooks [...]

Creating a review site with Drupal and Fivestar

fivestar

Thinking about ideas for future blog topics, I realised this place is in danger of getting a bit overly “WordPressified”. Therefore this week’s installment of Things of Interest! is dedicated to that poor misunderstood creature, Drupal. I recently had cause to build a review site where reviews were a separate node rather than a comment [...]

Fireworks Pro Series from Webdesigntuts+

fireworks-pro

For the first installment of Things of Interest! since adopting a regular blog schedule, I bring you this series of articles on the awesomeness that is Fireworks and a swashbuckling tale of how I came to use Fireworks in the first place.

Selling through Envato – Pt 1

Selling through Envato pt1

Envato is a pretty well-known company among us webby types. Among their 8 million blogs and other sites, they also run a number of marketplaces where authors can sell their templates, graphics, videos, code snippets, etc etc to a huge pool of buyers for a certain amount of commission. After optimistically signing up to Theme [...]

Illustrator gears tutorial

gear-tut

You know how it is. Some days you just wake up and want to try something new. I’ve used Photoshop and the more unfashionable (yet tons better for designing websites) Fireworks but the only experience I’d really had of Illustrator was once upon a time when I downloaded some free vector art and opened it [...]