Ah, the web designer’s dilemma: when to declare a site is finished and ready to go live! With a straight HTML site, this is easy…you move the files to the live server (from your testing server) and your site is live. With a WordPress site, it’s a bit more complicated to transfer files from a [...]
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I’ve been experimenting lately with creating textures directly in Illustrator rather than moving the vector art to Photoshop for that step. Thought I’d share the resources I found that helped me become more comfortable with this process. RDesign (a creative studio in St. Petersburg, FL): Easy Vector Textures in Illustrator part one Thoughts: This technique [...]
I recently started experimenting with using Illustrator to create vector patterns to use in my artwork. Creating perfect seamless patterns is not the easiest task to do…it can be quite frustrating. After many hours and attempts to figure it out on my own, I found the following excellent tips and techniques. Vector Tuts+: How to [...]
In my day job as a graphic designer/website designer, I’ve been quite busy the last year or so developing a website for a local private school, Seattle Country Day School, that finally launched last month! Check it out!