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kulturbanause.de is the private blog of Janas Hellwig. In his blog you can view online portfolio and read articles and tutorials about design.

Design Analysis and Review

The impact of design, the expressed creativity and the quality of images used are very impressive but we focused our attention on layout structure, where header and footer results good merged between them thanks to the use of a repetetive backround image in the page’s body.

Another smart idea is the main menu at the top of layout. It is composed of 6 elements and every element is carefully studied in its layout and colors resulting a well organized menu. The element structure looks like: Descriptive Icon, Title of Link, Description (see picture below).

Another important feature is background. In fact, The Author has chosen to apply a fade out to dark color on the right and left side of website. This feature allows to see website in various resolutions up to a wide resolution of 1900×1200 px.

Valutation

Design: 9/10
Structure: 8/10
Creativity: 8/10
Browser Compatibility: 9/10

How Can I Protect Designer Copyright in WordPress ...

Today I would talk about a serious problem that strikes all web designers. During my lasts researches, I’ve found thousands of posts discriminating against all web designer that choose of encrypt footer in their themes. Before you proceed reading this post, you must know that actually not exist a really working solution to protect our name into the footer of a web page.

A valid sample is provided by many wordpress theme designers that encrypt footer.php in their theme. In most cases, footer.php contains only simple HTML code, some DIV tag and the Designer Link.

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3 Photoshop Tutorials to transform your photos int...

In this set of tutorials, we have collected some photoshop effects tu turn simply and quickly your photos into extraordinary pictures. If you aren’t a good photographer you can try these photoshop tutorials to make more interesting your photos. As rapresentative image of this article we have used a portrait modified with one of the tutorials listed below. I hope that these tutorials are interesting for you.

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Sexy Alert Box – Alert your visitors with St...

New generation of websites uses many JScript using various libraries. One of the most famous library is surely Mootools. With Mootools, we have seen many websites change their look and introducing various effects without the use of Flash.
Sexy Alert Box is a clone of the classic Alert Message written in JavaScript that requires Mootools libraries.

To know better how it works you can see some samples.

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Free Professional Fonts for your ArtWorks and Desi...

Every good designer spends a lot of time to search new amazing fonts for their graphic creations. There are a lot of fonts over internet, but sometimes is very difficult to find a good font. Often some designers think that to make a great design is only necessary a wonderful photoshop effect. There are also some designers that make impressive illustration using only text. In this last case, we can see how important is the utilization of a font.

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The Easiest way to make Snews Themes...

Introduction

Snews is a popular PHP CMS for its lightweight and simple themes designing. It looks like a blog system such as wordpress but it looks simpler .

You can design your theme using Adobe Dreamweaver Layout System or using a CSS based structure using DIV Tags.

A CSS based layout is better than a table based layout, because it looks more compatible with all major browser. There are many reasons that suggest you to use a CSS based layout, but this tutorial will explain to only how make Snews Themes.

Snews Theme making don’t require knowledge of PHP also if you will use PHP Tags in your theme. You will see how simple is making Snews Themes and how convert your actual HTML Layouts into it.

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