16 Super Pretty Free Floral Backgrounds

Looking for free floral backgrounds? When I’m looking for images my first stop is always the free image site www.sxc.hu. Their stock is huge which is a good thing, but sometimes there’s a lot of free images to sift through before you find the best of the bunch.
My search for free, pretty floral background yielded [...]

5 Free Web Tools That Kick Butt

Is there anything sweeter than finding a new app or design tool that’s useful and free? Nope, I don’t think so either.
Here’s my top 5 favourites, the ones I use again and again.
1. Pick a New Colour Scheme @ www.colorschemedesigner.com
Picks simple colour schemes for you for websites, brochures etc. This is a recent find and [...]

10 Things I Hate About Your Website

Ok, don’t get grumpy about the title here, I’m just using a bit of creative license to lure you in to read this post
So, let’s go. Here they are folks, my top 10 annoying things online …
1.    Intro Pages, especially Flash ( see #6)
Didn’t we move on from intro pages years ago?
2.    The [...]

How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Graphic

Ok, so I know what you’re thinking … how often will I need one of those? But this is so cool you’ve got to try it out.
I’m no photoshop wizard (actually Photoshop minus 101 is about my level) but I just had to try to make this pencil when I found it here: http://psd.tutsplus.com/drawing/how-to-create-a-super-shiny-pencil-icon/
The tutsplus.com [...]