PSD to HTML Reviews & Tutorials

It is always a pleasure experimenting out different things, same is the case with Adobe Photoshop. This takes you to the new avenues, exploring out something and incorporating that new thing into your work. Here we have given a collection of high quality .PSD files to offer you different techniques to carry out in your next photoshop. Read the rest of this entry »

HTML Newsletters and e-mailers are some of the most common mediums of communication which every small and large organizations use, either to share information with its audiences or promoting their services. Publishers can easily track rates for email opens, forwards, and clickthroughs, and thus can easily measure reader interest in e-mailer or newsletter’s material; readers are also presented with the information in the form of a web page that is more visually appealing, and much easier to scan and navigate, than plain text email.

So there is no doubt that html emails are much better than plain text emails. But the main problem starts once we start coding our email design into HTML email template. As there are so many desktop email tools like Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora etc and online email services like Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail etc that are used to read an email and each of the desktop tools and online email services render your HTML email in vastly different ways because CSS support across various desktop email tools and email clients varies. So it becomes a challenge to code your design into HTML email template in a way that it should be 100% compatible across various desktop email tools and major online email marketing platforms.

Whether you choose to convert your design into HTML email template by hand or you use an existing template, there are few fundamental tips to keep in mind:

• The most important thing is to keep your email simple, focus more on message rather than design.
• Never upload images in password protected server, security server or free hosting server that is extremely slow. Use codes that point exactly to the location of the images.
• Any code written within DOCTYPE, BODY, and HEAD tags will be stripped. The webmail servers such as Gmail, Yahoo!Mail do not want your codes to override their and hence they strip any threat.
• To introduce some specific effects Divs and Spans are to be used, while tables should be used for layout.
• Control background colours and fonts by using inline CSS.
• Use individual properties instead of using short hands.
• You cannot use loads of images and less content else you will be caught into spam filter. Also while writing codes you should be aware of avoiding sloppy codes otherwise it will be another reason for your spam arrest.
• CSS won’t work in browser servers: The browser server email clients such as Gmail, Yahoo!Mail, do not support CSS included in your HTML email. This is because the CSS will likely override the CSS included in rest of the page, so they disable it.
• Test your HTML email in different desktop email tools and online email services on different browsers before sending it.

Some quality service providers who can help you code your HTML email template 100% compatible for all major email clients:

If you are a self coder than converting your own PSD into HTML email template would not take much from you, except time. But if you are some one who does not have any idea about HTML conversion and do not want to use software to keep the sanity of your email alive then below are some of the fine service providers who can convert your PSD into HTML email template:

PixelCrayons:

XHTMLCandy:

PSDSlicing:

PSDGator:

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Time for some more learning!!! Photo manipulation is a technique of editing the images so as to produce a kind of illusion or deception. Its amazing usage and ethical concerns made it a marvelous subject of interest for everybody. It has opened doors to unlimited creativity and innovation. There can be a great combination of two opposites in a single image. You can modify the image in any way you want. So, BestPSDtoHTML decided to give its readers a collection of cool Photo manipulation tutorials. Read the rest of this entry »

Mootools are one of the very famous Javascript Framework. With this we can write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API. It is designed for both Intermediate to Advanced Javascript Developer. But as jQuery is going to takeover MooTool, jQuery is becoming increasingly important than MooTools. Read the rest of this entry »

We all love Javascript. With jQuery, it is now so easy to write really nice JavaScript effects. jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. There is incredible flexibility that makes you create varied plug-ins meant for various applications. Like sliding and switching effects, drop down menu, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Again it’s time for photoshop tutorials. The tutorials are good as an inspiration for creative ideas. You have to learn how to combine photos and add special effects to turn a normal photograph into a stunning artwork. So, keeping this in mind we are providing you with a collection of photoshop tutorials which would help you discovering new ideas or making innovations. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks. Always remember “Practice makes man perfect”.So, keep moving to achieve perfection. Read the rest of this entry »

Decorating home or work lab is obvious thing to do on Christmas, but how many really decorate their websites or blogs. The pretty thing about decorating your online store, website, blog or whatever you are attached with is it does not need much from you, but only time.

This very occasion gives you a reason to bring some light changes in your website/blog, and giving it a frosty Christmas look can really give a warm feeling to your visitors. You might have seen various businesses of all domains running Christmas oriented sales schemes, just to close their sales figures on high note. But how many of them really make any changes on their website, or at least release a Christmas post on their blog. Not many we bet.

01. Santa Card

02. Snowman Card

03. Abstract Christmas Wallpaper

04. Christmas Themed Web Layout

05. Christmas Snowflakes Blue

06. Christmas Snowflakes Red

07. Christmas Hanging Tree Ornament

08. Santa-Ball Ornament

09. Glass Ornaments

10. Christmas Ornament Balls

11. Christmas Tree Design

12. Christmas Tree in Photoshop

13. Christmas Illustration

14. Christmas Tree Tutorial

15. Christmas Tree in Red

16. Christmas Wallpaper

17. Night Before Christmas

18. Christmas Ornament Wallpaper

19. Christmas Light Balls

20. Fresh Christmas Tree

Please comment on what you think about these “Christmas Lessons”. Also please do share if you have some more similar lessons on Christmas.

As any successful business will tell you; planning is key to success. It’s never too early to start thinking about your future strategies, and what better time to put some new ideas into practice than over the Christmas/New Year period?

Many companies and individuals suffer from a lack of appropriate planning and decision making. This leads to an anti-climax in success and in turn, a big drop in enthusiasm for what was once a thriving project.

If you run an online business, set yourself some achievable goals for the New Year:

• Get more targeted traffic – explain how you intend to do this and stick to it. For example, you may want to obtain one new backlink from an authority domain every month for the first six months. Just putting this on paper makes it seem a little more within your reach.
• Improve areas of weakness – ask for customer feedback, ask the opinion of a designer or simply view your stats. Is your delivery policy a little confusing? Maybe that’s putting people off – write a new, more reassuring one!
• Looking to expand your operations? Look at hiring salespeople on a basic fee + commission basis and offer structured bonuses. Alternatively, look into affiliate programs and expand your reach this way.
• Trouble keeping hold of your customers? As long as you’ve captured their data, you can win them back with a nice offer and an intelligent email marketing campaign.
• If you simply need more sales, look at offline avenues such as networking events and cold calling. Whilst these methods are more long winded, they help build relationships, which is a crucial factor in success.

These are just a few ideas that transcend various website purposes. Be specific to your own business and even if your growth plan is relatively small, it’s a step in the right direction.

This article was written by Matt Saunders, owner of Leeds web design agency Northern Web which specializes in intelligent and responsible web design and marketing solutions.

Writing life long codes can only be interesting when you are doing it rarely or trying something new. But what for those fellow designers and developers who keep on writing CSS codes for every new project they work on. Using some quickly used and time saving CSS reference which can help you understand CSS in a really easy understandable format can be a help for designers and developers community. So find your favorite cheat sheet below and register your interest by making a comment:

01. GoSquared Css Help Sheet

02. Code Sucks

03. CSS Cheat Sheet V1

04. CSS Cheat Sheet V2

05. BlueprintCSS

06. Chest-as-my-only-js-helper

07. HTML Cheat Code

08. CSS Cheat Sheet

09. CSS Guide

10. Core CSS

11. Quick Reference Cascading

12. HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet

13. CSS Reference

14. Cheat Guide

15. Dynamic Drive

16. JavaScript Cheat Sheet

17. Javascript Kit

18. Floele.Flyspray

19. Killersites

20. RGB Cheat Sheet

21. Leigeber

22. Wait-till-i.com

23. Lesliefranke

24. Cheat Sheets

25. Blooberry

With the passage of time, the versions of HTML start becoming obsolete. The daily up-gradation in the formats of creating a website gradually pushed the boundaries of HTML 4. The last decade owes heavily to HTML 4, but now, it was time to revolutionize. Several publishers wished to improve the functionality and raise the bar of the current applications. In 2004, the two major conglomerate working groups realized the need of an upgraded version of HTML. The compatibility of the browsers with HTML 5 is still under scanner. This news bought a new tide of arguments among the specialists.

However, HTML 5 would finally evolve as an advanced and latest version of its ancestor HTML 4. HTML 5 proposes to introduce all the features with a new look and feel. The features are being worked upon under the supervision of the individuals from different browser vendors. The deficiencies of HTML 4 would be no longer there in the newer version of its successor.

The popularity of the video and audio publishing sites like YouTube, Viddler, MySpace, Revver saw a rise in people using plug-ins. The functionality of HTML 4 lacked in embedding the videos on such websites as the multimedia controls were restricted and the only plug-in deployed was Flash for cross browser compatibility. HTML 5 provides the source element which can identify the media type or codec support for specifying the video/audio file for the browser. An additional media feature will help you to specify a media query for selection on the device limitation or type attribute for specifying the media type and codec.

The earlier versions of HTML like HTML and XHTML were always defined on syntax but HTML 5 would be defined based on DOM (Document Object model). This is a tree representation which is used internally by browsers to represent the document.
So, with DOM in place, the language is not dependent on the syntax.

HTML documents can be represented with the help of two syntaxes:

1. HTML serialisation (HTML 5)
2. XML serialisation (XHTML 5)

HTML serialisation is considered to be more compatible with the manner the browsers handle HTML, this syntax is inspired by the SGML syntax.

The progress on the work of HTML 5 is fast and it will continue in the following years. Evaluating the requirements and implementations, it is estimated that the work would finish in more than a decade.