Photoshop Tutorial: Get Smart with Smart Objects

January 31, 2010 By admin | 3 Comments » | Stumble it!

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Smart Objects to save out individual images from a layout that you have created. If you are designing and developing websites and/or interfaces this is perhaps the most powerful tool that Photoshop has to offer.
Photoshop Help defines a Smart Object as a layer that contains [...]

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JungleJar Interviews Christopher Muniz of DesignGive.com

October 5, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | 1 Comment » | Stumble it!

After my constant bothersome attempts to contact them, the Design Give team finally cracked and made time to finish up our interview.

To give you a general idea of what Design Give.com is all about, and why this interview was so important to me, I’ll offer up to you this beautifully written statement by the team..

“As artists we were given a talent to create, it’s up to you to use those talents to try and make a difference in the world.”

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A Closer Look at CSS Tab Designer

September 25, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | No Comments » | Stumble it!

Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn’t remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor?

Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas.

And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don’t always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.

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CommentLuv Plugin Functional With Comments

September 3, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | 4 Comments » | Stumble it!

The infamous CommentLuv Wordpress plugin now runs on JungleJar.com. We did this to encourage people to comment, as the plugin displays a prominent link back to the last posting on their website..

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Portfolio – The Awesome Version — A DeviantArt Launch

July 25, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | 3 Comments » | Stumble it!

DeviantArt.com has recently launched its very own online web-application based portfolio creation service, and they even host it for you as well. Users have the choice of either signing up for a free account or a premium account.

In this article I’m going to cover the free account portfolio service they offer, show you a few images of the user interface and give my honest opinion on its worth — for better or worse.

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SitePoint Announces The Launch of Flippa.com

June 10, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | 8 Comments » | Stumble it!

For better or worse, SitePoint has decided to separate its extremely popular and successful website auction tendril from the SitePoint.com umbrella and allow it to expand and flex out a bit on its on at Flippa.com.

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“The Observer” – Another Premium Wordpress Template

June 9, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | 11 Comments » | Stumble it!

We’ve released another free and high quality Wordpress Template for all of you guys to download and hopefully enjoy.

All of the features from our previous Wordpress Themes are in this one of course, and I’ve also included an extra here and there.

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6 Great Web Browser Addons / Bookmarklets For Web Developers

June 9, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | No Comments » | Stumble it!

This article covers some of the more helpful and useful web browser addons, bookmarklets and favelets available today to assist the web designer / web developer with their tasks.

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Submitting Your Website’s News

May 17, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | No Comments » | Stumble it!

Don’t forget you guys that you can now submit your website or someone elses website via the form on our news page. I’m relatively lenient as far as what I’m willing to promote for you.
Here is a list of acceptable submission types..

An article that you wrote that is related somehow to web design, web [...]

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All Wordpress Templates Updated

May 14, 2009 By Christopher Hennis | 2 Comments » | Stumble it!

Once again I have painstakingly updated every single Wordpress template on JungleJar for you. ..All for you.

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