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Bookmarked: This tutorial will give you a general workflow overview of how to create traditional illustrations on paper and then refining it further in Photoshop. We will use Indian ink, paintbrushes and a brush pen to ink our pencil sketch, and then watercolor to fill in the illustration. Then we will place the illustration into Photoshop to perform some fine-tuning and image corrections.

Source: How to Develop a Handmade Illustration with Photoshop

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Bookmarked: Even with a relatively limited set of options in CSS, typography can vary tremendously using pure CSS syntax. Serif or sans-serif? Large or small font? Line height, spacing, font size and padding… The list goes on and on.

Source: Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine

Bookmarked: No one likes bloated CSS. Simply drag and drop your CSS files onto this page, and watch as they’re compressed on the fly.

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Bookmarked: The Developer.com Network is the network for software development professionals. Comprised of premier sites and vibrant forum communities, The Developer.com Network is the go-to resource for technical information written by developers for developers across the spectrum of development roles, platforms, programming languages, and methodologies.

The industry-renowned Developer.com Network sites include Developer.com, DevX, CodeGuru and HTMLGoodies. All the sites are organized into four content channels — Microsoft and C/C++ technologies, Java and open source development, Web development, and enterprise application development. Within its core subject focus, every channel also covers the most impactful technologies in the software industry today such as mobile, cloud and HTML5.

Source: HTML Goodies: The Ultimate HTML Resource

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Bookmarked: If you want to design websites or modify your existing website design, then you need to have at least a basic knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Thankfully, CSS is a very easy language to get to a grip on, however you may find it takes a little more time to master it.

Today we would like to share with you 40 resources that will help you on your CSS journey. We have listed great CSS references and CSS blogs for learning more about the language; not to mention compatibility tables to help you remember how certain browsers handle certain CSS elements. We have also included services that help you generate code and cheat sheets for easy reference of selectors, properties and pseudo-classes. So let’s get to it, shall we?

Source: 40 CSS Reference Websites and Resources

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Bookmarked: In the Web world, hearing businesses and freelancers alike complain about low-budget projects is not too uncommon. Let’s say that a local coffee shop needs to update its Web presence and contacts you for a redesign. It also requires a blog so that it can announce new coffees, events and so on. However, during the course of the first meeting, the client mentions that they don’t have a budget.

Source: Turning Small Projects Into Big Profit, A Case Study – Smashing Magazine