CategoryTime Savers

January 18, 2011 — Find a list of useful resources, tools, and services for the Web design community! Improve your workflow with some of these educational resources and time-savers. Read more…

December 16, 2010 — Compositing is a skill and process that spans the entire spectrum of creative industries. At the high end, compositing boasts its own specialized profession in film and television post production and visual effects. Dedicated software such as NUKE and Shake have taken the craft to powerful levels of its own, leaving behind the relatively basic compositing toolset of Adobe Photoshop. However, for many graphics practitioners compositing is a vital everyday process — and as with all pixel-pushing endeavors, Photoshop remains the entry point and hub to learning and ultimately mastering the fundamentals of this important skill. Read more…

June 28, 2010 — Small time-savers are useful. Be it a handy checklist, batch installer, image generator or converter from Excel spreadsheet to HTML — all these things can save us a couple of minutes every day, making our work easier and more efficient. Read more…

January 20, 2010 — This article is all about time savers that are essential to our daily workflow. As you’ll see, you’ll be sure to stumble upon a shortcut you’d wish you’d learned years ago. Read more…

September 29, 2009 — What would you do if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, with only a USB drive, a dial-up internet connection, and a barebones computer with no software outside the operating system installed? Of course, you’d use the internet connection to call for help first, but what about after that? How would you keep your design business going? Read more…

July 13, 2007 — Well-documented and readable source code is essential for every collaborative project. Logically structured, well organized and nicely formatted, the code can speed up the bug hunting and help to keep the code clean, minimal and still functional. These facts are particularly important if the code is being developed by a group of developers: in this context a common scheme for source code presentation is necessary. You don’t have to do everything by hand; in fact, there are many tools which can save a lot of time - for you and your co-workers. Read more…