It has been a long time since I have posted an update so I thought I would do that. I haven’t been ignoring the site (or clients for that matter), but have been hard at work. When not dealing with clients (you guys come first always), I have been working on some tools to help web developers make their job a little easier.

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Useful LESS Parametric Mixins

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Unless you are a web developer who has been hiding under a rock, you might have heard of LESS. LESS is for dynamic style sheets. In other words, its really cool. You can learn more about LESS by visiting their webpage http://lesscss.org/

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Purpose of Design

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I have been a designer for about 8 years now. I have seen a lot of trends come and go. The latest one I have noticed has me concerned. New designers lack a fundamental knowledge of design principles. What are those principles? Things like color theory, typography, symmetry, rhythm, proportion, dominance, unity, and many others.

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Adobe Distiller

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Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a very powerful program that few designers seem to take advantage of. In this tutorial I will show you some reasons to use Distiller and some useful features. Before you can learn how to use it, you must learn what it is. Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a tool that turns postscript files into PDF files. Now why use Distiller instead of just exporting a PDF from Adobe InDesign or another Adobe program? Many reasons. Lets get into it.

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Realistic Box Shadows

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With all the cool things you can do with CSS3, probably the most used would have to be the box-shadow property. No longer do you have to use images to put a simple shadow on an element. Most don’t go beyond the simple drop shadow for things like containers and pictures. In today’s tutorial we are going to use some more CSS3 properties to create a more advanced shadow. To set the record right, I know that the shadow being used isn’t a likely shadow to occur in nature, but for tutorial purposes we are going to create both.

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