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<title>30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Cheat sheets and reference guides are useful for both beginners and advanced web professionals.

They can be used to help you remember syntax or as a tool to aid in memorization.

In this post, we aim to cover the reference guides for all of the most commonly used platforms, software and coding languages.

Below you'll find a compilation of the 30 most useful and well-organized cheat sheets, checklists and reference guides.

If you know of a useful cheat sheet that we haven't covered here, please share the link in the comments’ section at the end of the article. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:55:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Take a moment and think about creating a multi-column grid in a Photoshop comp. Have your palms started to sweat? Yes, creating grids in Photoshop is a pain indeed. Some designers just estimate and drag guides arbitrarily onto the stage. Others draw vector shapes, duplicate them to represent columns, then stretch them to fit their design. The hardy few who don't say things like, "I'm a designer, not a mathematician," generally use a little math and logic to calculate their grid. If you were to boil that math down, it probably ends up looking something like this:

(siteWidth - (gutterWidth × (numberOfColumns - 1) ) ÷ numberOfColumns = columnWidth

I was sitting at my desk one day doing this exact equation when I thought, "Man, this looks just like code. I wish someone would make a plugin that would do this for me." Several months and many grids later, it occurred to me that I could probably build the plugin myself. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:05:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>40 Excellent Illustrator Tutorials That'll Polish Your Skills</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The most popular vector drawing program nowadays is Adobe Illustrator. Vectors are great for logos, illustrations and pretty much anything where you'd like to have the chance to scale your work up and down in size without any loss of quality. Getting good at it is quite a task. Becoming familiar with the software doesn't have to be extremely difficult, but to master it you will have to prepare for many hours practicing.

In this article we've picked out many great tutorials that will help you polish your skills if you know the basics but need an inspiring way of taking it a step further.

These tutorials will be very helpful and we hope you’ll learn some new techniques. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:30:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>How to Maintain Consistency in Branding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ With more businesses expanding their online presence through company Websites, sub-sites, blogs, and social-media portals, it is becoming more important to identify a successful branding strategy and staying true to it. The visual marketing campaign is probably the most important aspect of a company’s brand. Logos, fonts, tag lines, slogans, mottos, avatars, and more should all have strong visual appeal, should properly convey the tone and image that the company wants to portray, and should be used consistently. Therefore, if your company has profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, customers should be able to instantly recognize your brand through the use of the same logos, tag lines, and other visual information. There should never be a question that this is a different company that just happens to bear the same name. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:42:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Create 3 Retro MP3 Players in Photoshop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create 3 retro MP3 players in Photoshop. Each design will include a different type of media, a CD, record, and tape. Let’s get started! ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:46:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Christmas Greeting Card</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today's Adobe Illustrator tutorial will walk you through creating a nice greeting card for the upcoming Christmas holiday. In order to create nice, colorful presents to stuff a Christmas sock we will combine different kinds of tools, such as; the Pen Tool, Mesh Tool, Ellipse Tool and the Rectangle Tool.

Besides that we will have the opportunity to mix and match some vivid colors and gradients in order to create a catchy illustration to suit our needs. We will have a great fun exploring some nice techniques during the creation process. So, get ready to create a nice Christmas illustration. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:46:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>50 Amazing and Impressive Smartphone PSD Files</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Nowadays, we are witnesses at how fast the industry is developing in all domains and how our life is changing alongside with it. A result of this growth are smartphones, mobile phones that are more than just a mobile phone. They offer more advanced computing ability and connectivity than normal phones and are built on operating systems. We all know about them and is just a matter of time till all of them will have one. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:55:02 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>Designed QR codes: the next level</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Say what you will about QR (Quick Response) codes: they are just a fad, they will be forgotten once augmented reality takes hold or they’re just an extra step in inputting a URL but they are here and people are enjoying using them, so make the most of them! ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:56:27 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>50 Excellent Circular Logos</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A graphic symbol is often used as part of logo design in order to convey a particular idea or concept in an effective and eye catching way.

The shapes of these graphic symbols vary a lot, but one of the most commonly used shapes is the circle. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:54:47 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>Download Colorful Wallpapers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ First Pack of Colorful Wallpapers for your desktop. Wallpapers created with smoke, glow lines, feathers, sparks, lights, grunge elements and bokeh. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:41:40 -0600</pubDate>
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