3D typography using Photoshop CS5

This tutorial shows you how to create abstract new year illustration with 3D typography using new 3D tools that Adobe has included in Photoshop CS5 Extended.

3D Love text

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a stunning 3D text effect using different textures to give it a unique look with Xsara3D & Photoshop.

Retro Typography Design

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro typography design, you will learn the basics of typography and shape making in photoshop CS3

Colorful Plexi Text Effect using Photoshop

Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a cool looking colorful Plexi text effect.

Awesome Text Effect

This Awesome Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create cool text effect using a basic distortion filter. This is an 12 step easy to follow tutorial

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It’s not often you find articles related to WordPress search on the web for some reason. I don’t know why is this the case, but I’ll try to fill that gap here. Read below to find useful information on how and why it is important to add a good WordPress search box for your blog.

Why is a Good Search Box Important For Your Blog?

There are 3 reasons:

1. More repeated readers. If your users are searching for something, type their query and receive no results, they usually leave.
2. Better user experience. Important for getting more loyal visitors.
3. You’ll know what they search for and learn a ton from that data. I will later share with you one example where I’ve learned one surprising thing about my visitors from just tracking what they searched for on my blog.

WordPress Standard Search – Avoid It

Using the WordPress Standard search box is the worst option. In my experience the WordPress standard search returns very few relevant results. It can decently handle 1-word queries (if you type ‘people’ for example) but for more complex queries it’s terrible.

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After the huge success of Web 2.0 applications like social networking, rich media, blogs etc, many people are wondering about the Web 3.0 applications. People are thinking about the potential of Web 3.0 to revolutionize the web.

Internet experts believe that Mobile applications are expected to play a big role in Web 3.0 as many companies are building upon apps allowing consumers to locate friends through their mobiles in their local area.

They believe that Web 3.0 browser will act like a personal assistant and will perform tasks like search for movies and food faster and easier.
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It’s a known fact that lots of companies that are into website design abound everywhere on the internet; but I highly recommend that you opt for the service of an effective web design consultant. This will enable you understand the process involved and what elements are used.

The consultant will first of all, inspect your website; carefully checking which areas need to be worked on or not; depending on the role they serve. He will also judge the function of the site and check for loopholes or backdoors. Most time, the most important pages have been pushed down under making a site difficult to come up in search engines.

What’s the end result? You will have powerfully designed pages on your website but they will fail to serve their purpose. Some search engines only put website that contain not more than three pages on their results list. Therefore, broken links will tell on your site.

Another major facet of a website is the content; which is the mainstay. Only relevant material should be contained in the site. The types of fonts used in the process and the length should also be considered.
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Creative logo designers are professional logo designers/artists that will give you befitting logos for your business. The fact that their services are usually slightly high makes many small business owners to want to design their company logos by themselves. It is a sin against your business to take your company logo design for granted. This logo is the gateway to your business and should not be toyed with. It creates an instant effect to anyone who is coming in contact with your business for the first time. The impression these would-be customers or clients get from the onset will go a long way in determining how they are going to be relating with your business. A very poorly designed logo may out rightly put some customers off and make them see your company as inferior.

Do not make the mistake of having a cheap and poorly designed logo for your business. Even if you can not afford to hire a creative logo developer to do a professional job for you, you can still have your logo carefully and professionally designed by you with the aid of some specific software.

It is not uncommon for company logo designers to make logo designs appear like rocket science thereby scaring you away from trying your hands on it. If you can afford it, hire a creative logo designer to do it for you but if not you can get not too expensive ‘do it your self’ logo design software that will place a good logo in your hands. This software, unlike what the company logo designer will give, avails you with logo templates and gives you a guide on how to create the logo by your self using the software. It is even more interesting to note that since you are the owner of the business and knows your entire business all round. You are in a better position to design a much befitting logo than the one a company logo designer will do for you. Though he will take instructions from you before starting the design, cases of logos themed strangely from the business concepts abound.
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The truth that the logo of any company represents its brand is widely accepted. Therefore, it is important to make critical decisions before embarking on getting a new stationary design. It is essential to change logos in order to follow the ever-changing tastes of your customers. This does not involve any magical spells or whatsoever; the use of suppositions can be rewarding.

It is not an easy task to establish a business and drive it to success. What is more? It is even harder to maintain the path of success. This is why most successful businessmen change their logos often. Anticipating the behavior of people is a prerequisite to watching the changing desires of your customers. This is why a logo represents a company’s image and the first thing that should be change if ever you want to subject your company to some modifications.

Getting a new stationary design involves meticulous probes on you part. There are certain issues that you should bear in mind before you decide to get a new custom logo. It is highly recommended that you take care not to modify the image of your company.
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Nothing is as potent in identifying your company as a professionally designed company logo. It is not just a mere identity for your company but also shows the class, strength and uniqueness of what your business represents. Many customers and clients will associate your business with the way your company logo makes them feel. So this tells you that how your clients perceive your company logo is vital to your business in terms of sales and branding.

The well thought out logo you designed for your company today will be used for many years to identify your business. The logo may in future be used on T-shirts, prints, websites, emails, banner e.t.c in creating more awareness for your business. This is one good reason you should not think just cheap in your company logo development. The cheap logo may not properly relay all your company’s strength and uniqueness thus the need to look beyond where you are now and think of the when your business must have grown. Whatever you spend on hiring a logo developer today will benefit your business in many folds.

The awareness creation effect your company logo will have on your business can be unquantifiable. The long term benefits of towing the route of professional company logo development include but not limited to.
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Logo designs for your company should be very simple and straight to the point. It makes those who see it once to remember it even later. The simpler your custom company logo design is the easier it will be for the eyes to grab the message you are sending with it. Using a very simple logo design saves you money too when you want to print your logo because it may be just one color or a single letter design like that of Nike. Having a fanciful custom company logo design may end up beclouding the mind of those that see it while the message the logo should be spreading is lost in the design.

Your custom company logo design should be visible to the eye. There are many cases where some make the mistake of using unrelated initials in designing company logos. This is a sin against your brand. No one who does not know you earlier will easily recognize the initials you are projecting. It is much better to use a simple letter and follow it up boldly with whatever term the company is known for.
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Most of the small to medium business make a great mistake concerning branding through corporate identity. Many small to medium business owners are not focus when it comes to branding. For example, most of these businesses have multiple logos, multiple versions of the same logo and multiple color combinations that do not correlate. Also, these companies have no sense of thinking for a well developed and very unique corporate identity. In fact, some do not have any logo at all.

Every small business should starts with a unique corporate identity, if it wants to succeed. Such a small business which includes logo, color and identify should have a feel concerning her identity. It is these feel and logo that show and sell her to the market. This is the type of business that grows in America. The way you present your company to your market depends on things like, a successful branding with a unique logo that is very easy for people to recognize and your company’s identity. So, your corporate identify should be able to provide or put interest in customers or clients concerning your products or services.

So, your company’s corporate id is the same thing as your companies packaging. So, your corporate identity is just about how you package your company and your services. In fact, your corporate identity package determines how your company appears to the market. It shows how clients or customers see your services or products.
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The main reason you would have set up a Web site would be to generate hits. This holds true for company web sites, blogs, ecommerce sites, etc. and it is particularly important for a small business. Maybe you are getting hits, but it does not translate to the kind of traffic you need for your business. So, what do you do next?

You can check out your Web site statistics, and maybe you will see a pattern emerging. Do all your visitors exit the site immediately after viewing the home page? If they do, something is radically wrong with your Web design. A developer with insufficient experience can make a lot of mistakes that can result in chasing visitors away from your site. This would make building the Web site an exercise in futility. You will be glad to know that there are others who share this problem with you. You will be even gladder to know that this problem can be solved – fairly economically and easily.

Here are some of the key problem areas in the Web design of Web sites built by inexperienced developers:

1. Abuse of Multimedia

Multimedia undoubtedly enhances a web site and makes it that much more attractive for site viewers than using plain text and images. However, using audio, video or animation can create obstacles for visitors to a web site if the Web design has not been properly implemented.

The other problem is that all visitors to your site will not have the same kind of connection speed, plug-ins, screen resolution or browser as you have. In other words, you need to take all these factors into account. The navigation on your web site should ideally not be in Flash (animation) and you should stick to images or text. Nothing is more discouraging than to visit a web site and being faced by a lot of X’s with no navigation options. Even if you let your audience download Flash, they just might find it easier to visit your competitors site. So another prospective customer bites the dust due to ineffective Web design.
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