http://valendesigns.com Build Market Empower Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:57:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I have been very busy these last few months and completely neglected this blog, so in the spirit of trying to get back on the horse I’m gonna start things off with some good news. Collis Ta’eed, Chris Moyer and I successfully launched the new PSDTUTS web site today! Wow what ... http://valendesigns.com/psdtuts-v4-launch/ And another version is born! Well, Vesper Dark is pretty much exactly the same as the original theme named Vesper. The only real differences are in the header colors. A lot of what I am about to say is copied from the original post but here goes again anyhow. Just like the ... http://valendesigns.com/vesper-dark-a-new-theme-variation/ Looking for a professional, clean layout? Vesper is your answer. We love giving back to the open source community and thought what a better way than to build a beautiful template. Vesper is a free widget ready 2 column fixed width template written in valid standards based code for the Wordpress ... http://valendesigns.com/free-vesper-theme-for-wordpress/ Content is probably your single most important assets on the web. So maybe you should consider keeping it protected. If you are like the many others out there using Wordpress to manage your precious content, than you probably should do a few things to help make it more secure from ... http://valendesigns.com/8-ways-to-secure-your-wordpress-weblog/ There are tons of tutorials on the web these days about how to develop a horizontal navigation menu, but few of them are very reliable across browsers when it comes to their CSS. Undoubtedly you have come across a tutorial that works great in Firefox and the most recent versions ... http://valendesigns.com/css-sliding-doors-gone-wild/ Recently Valen Designs had upgraded to a newer version of Wordpress and discovered that the wp-version for the meta generator in the head of our template was being added without any call to it. Previously you would add a line in you header.php file that would show what version of ... http://valendesigns.com/remove-my-version-wordpress-plugin/ The SpaceTime browser has taken 3D browsing to a level than its predecessors couldn’t quite reach. It actually looks and works mostly like it should with relatively few bugs for a fist version 3D browser of this caliber. Kind of what I expected it to be, but beta version ... http://valendesigns.com/browse-3d-in-space-time/ I read articles all the time about how to improve your business or manage time etc. and thought, hey! What about the clients, they need to learn a thing or two about how this industry works. I want to start of by saying that this is in no way a ... http://valendesigns.com/3-ways-to-be-a-better-client/ This Adobe Photoshop tutorial demonstrates how to convert a simple, flyer-style 2D image into an impressive 3D e-book cover. This is a very easy process and will take approximately 5-20 minutes depending on your cover art and how intricate you want to make it look. 1) Start with the artwork ... http://valendesigns.com/e-book-cover-tutorial/ Well, it’s time to kick this bird out of the nest and release it into the wild, here goes nothing. This is the first post of many new articles that will be appearing here in the notebook section. Let’s see, tutorials on design, CSS and such should be manifesting themselves ... http://valendesigns.com/gonna-make-this-baby-fly/