True web geeks must go beyond the computer screen to express their love for web design, or more specifically — typography. Here are a bunch of t-shirts to get any typography-addicted designer headed toward true expression.

As freelancers, we can only handle so many clients, therefore our income is limited. For a more positive outcome of our future finances, let’s take a closer look at how to build passive income, and make money while we sleep.

Creating vector graphics is great for logos, characters, and other website elements that may need to be reused and resized many times. Here is a small list of 15 great tutorials for Illustrator — whether you’re a beginner, or looking for new techniques to tone your skills.

Many new designers only focus on Photoshop and learning the coding stuff, but Illustrator has so much to offer that beginners should not hesitate to learn it. The 15 tutorials below have probably been seen around by experienced designers. For those who haven’t seen them though, they are great for gaining some experience in the Illustrator interface.

Wordpress is easily the best and most robust blogging platform available today. Part of the reason for the success and “staple” status of Wordpress is due to the availability of thousands of plugins that can take your blogging experience from novice to pro overnight.

Thanks to the Wordpress community, there has probably been a plugin (or 6) developed for nearly every problem/situation/need that has ever arisen when it comes to using Wordpress.

When working with clients, it can be hard to keep focus during a long project — or just when things aren’t going your way. Here are some top strategies to finding the motivation you had at the beginning of the project once again.

Creativity is something that has a mind of its own, which is why being a designer can absolutely suck sometimes. Being forced to work can be a huge creativity killer, and we can forget why we got into the profession in the first place. Let’s look over just a few of the methods for regaining motivation and inspiration.

In the last several years, Google really has <i>become</i> search. It has over an 85% market share in the UK alone and getting to the first page or two of chosen search results can really help a business achieve bigger sales and more targeted marketing not to mention increased visiting statistics.

It can however be daunting, not to mention expensive, for website owners to achieve effective SEO and obtain those much sought after page 1 and 2 results.

In this article you’ll find some great little tips on how to help your website rank more effectively for your chosen keywords.

Learning to manipulate photos, either for an abstract outcome or just to enhance something real is a great way to expand one’s own Photoshop skills. Here is a massive list of 108 tutorials just for those who would like to do more photo manipulations.

Continuing from Part 1, this tutorial will go over some security issues for our sign up form. When dealing with databases, it is important to make sure the client’s information is secure. The tutorial will also go over some ways to make sure the user enters in correct data.