One feature that was always leaking in Gimp was building a web template. Photoshop has a great tool for doing this. Making a web template in Gimp is a little bit different. There are many plugins for Gimp that do this job like webotine, py-slice, unfortunately if you don’t have them installed it’s sometimes very hard to install them. In theory to install it you need to:
How to slice images using Gimp
Creating Web 2.0 stripes with Gimp
Gimp is a very good graphic editor i suggest everyone to use it especially because it’s free (by free i don’t mean just free of charge). It has almost every thing like photoshop and there are new versions frequently.
When the web 2.0 becamed popular it was not only cause of ajax it’s because of new designs. Now there are many trends in design and one of them are stripes. They can be easily be done in gimp, just follow these steps:
Lorem ipsum for Ubuntu and Firefox
You have seen lorem ipsum dummy text. When you make a template for something and you need to see how will text look in that template it’s always good to use Lorem ipsum generator. Lorem ipsum is text was used to test typography by the typetesters and it’s still in use but in much easier way.
How to write a good article/post
When you look at popular blogs you can see that the way they write is different from other blogs. There are trends in design, in way webmasters present content and also in writing. The design serves us to held visitors as much as we can, but it will not make visitors come again to your blog. The only thing that can make visitors come again are post/articles. There are some things you need to keep in mind when you write. Here are things i suggest you:
Need to design your site? Read this ….
If you are a designer or you just need to redesign your own site, it’s always good to catch some trends right now. The guys from Smashing magazine have done a very good job, they have made a list of trends in design 2009. All the trends covered are good explained and have a lot of screenshots of websites following trends.
Read it
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
