Quick tips of the week for designers is now here, I will be posting five great tips that I discover during the week and share them with you! This week learn how to vertically and horizontally center using css, quickly grab hex codes, find those mysterious fonts, a great Photoshop blending mode tip and a fantastic jQuery content slider. »

These days more and more social networking services such as Twitter are making it possible for you to give your profile its own design, this is key to getting your site know, logos, themes, header etc.. are things that people remember your site by, so its key to spread you design across the web. Here is a step by step tutorial on how to let your websites design flow straight into Twitter. »

So you have registered a new site and it’s no where near developed yet, however you want to promote the new site to your current blog readers or friends. What you need is a temporary landing page for visitors to go. These typically display a logo, some kind of design and some useful links. This tutorial will take you step by step from creating your PSD landing page to a XHTML & CSS web page You will also learn some basic jQuery effects. »

Recently I have registered a new domain, “TheDesignersYard.com” and with this I have been developing the site over the past weeks. To date I haven’t had time to focus on the creation of a logo due to my concentration on the general site design and coding, however this morning I decided to sit down and create one – as you can see the final product is below, I have gone for a ‘grass & soil’ design with some nice texture within the logo. Here I have created a step by step tutorial on how I managed to get the end result. »

As many web designers will tell you pricing their first website or any web design work for a client was tricky and may have felt a little awkward. In todays world the internet is where everything happens, everyone wants there own website which is great for designers as it gives us work however the common downfall is that everyone wants a great website done and are not prepared to pay for it. Well here I have put together a list of solid tips to go by when pricing web design. »

Nowadays any designer serious about their work will most probably have a pen tablet and to any upcoming designer should really think about investing in one. Pen tablets were once thought after as commercial piece of equipment, however companies such as Wacom have made them very affordable for ‘personal’ use. Here I have Wacoms’ Intuos4 Large model sent out for to me to review. »