DUI is a design blog filled with articles and information. Despite the name, this is not your local AA.
With so many logo designers out there, all offering the same sort of thing, it’s often had to decide who to use. For the most part, we base our choice on the quality / talents of the designer as a result of extensive viewing of their portfolio(s) but many individuals simply hire designers because of [...]
I am obviously a big Photoshop fan but one thing I constantly find challenging is cutting out selections from existing photos / pictures. In the past, I’ve used the usual / standard photoshop selection tools and literally cut out the selection I require - or, in the case of a more detailed area, manually traced [...]
There are many companies and individuals, particularly online offering web design services. All of them have different skill sets, levels of skill and overall creativity standards. It is often difficult to know exactly who to hire for your project. For me personally, I always choose to hire a local designer. I prefer to explain what [...]
Selling a site can be one of the easiest things you’ve ever done or one of the hardest - it all depends on what kind of site you’re selling, whether or not it makes any money, and how you go about presenting the sale. If you’ve never sold an established site before, this guide is [...]
How important are PSD’s these days? To me, they’ve lost a lot of there luster and importance. If only clients could see things the same way. Is it possible to design without having that key PSD layout completed before you start coding? You bet.
The Dying Art Form
A couple years ago I would never believe these [...]
There are a couple issues with Wordpress 2.6 that I am not very found of. First and foremost there is the additional code added when you insert images into the post. A class is added, along with the height and width of the image. All of this is not needed, and all a designer, you [...]
If you’ve ever been on the road, chances are you know a bit or too about reading traffic patterns. Whether you know it or not, just by watching the cars around you, you can anticipate when people are going to make stupid moves. You see that person in the left lane riding the car right [...]
Oh damn, I missed a day! Yesterday a few thunderstorms (alright, not really a few, more like a few hours worth) knocked around my internet connection and computer quite a bit, preventing me from getting online long enough to write the DUI daily for the day. As you can probably tell, I haven’t taken up [...]
Can the popularity of a site be determined by a well written list? It sure seems that way. These days, more and more people are attracted to lists - both long and short - on just about any topic.
Visit a site like Smashingmagazine daily and you are bound to find at least one long list [...]
Wordpress custom fields have been talked about many times on many different sites, but for some odd reason people to continue to ignore the abilities custom fields can provide to a blog. Using custom fields you can truly do some advanced customization of your site, and it is not as difficult as you may think. [...]
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