Creative and Unique Poster Design Inspiration

It’s been a too long since I’ve put together an inspirational list of any kind, with that in mind, I’ve assembled this list. It will showcase some of the most creative, beautiful and unique poster designs I’ve found. It’s truly amazing how many talented and gifted designers there are! I hope that you enjoy their work.

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Coding – Website Header & Navigation

This is part 3 of 3 on my website header and navigation tutorial. In this final part of the series we will take our design and code it up using HTML and CSS.

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An Interview with Chris Spooner

Many thanks to Chris Spooner of blog.spoongraphics for taking the time to answer some of my questions. Chris is the creative and unique mind behind blog.spoongraphics. His site is renowned in the design community for having high quality tutorials, freebies and articles.

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Preparing Images – Website Header & Navigation

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on designing and coding a website header and navigation. In this tutorial, we will take the graphic we created in part 1 and save the images so we can use them when we code the site in part 3.

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Header and Navigation Part I Rewrite

I’ve re-written portions of the Design a Website Header and Navigation tutorial. My apologies to anyone who finished the tutorial and would like to use it for part II. You’ll find that this version isn’t much different, but I feel it’s a little easier to step through and will work better for the coding portion.

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MyInkBlog Now on Twitter

Whether you love ‘em or hate ‘em social media sites are only getting stronger, and they are not going anywhere. The shear volume of them can be a tad overwhelming. That being said, they are vital to your success as a blogger.

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Site Tweaks and News

The basic look is still the same, but the site has taken on a bit of a different header. The logo was made a little bigger and the splatter was turned. I also changed my slogan and make it look handwritten.

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Create a Spectacular Graffiti Effect

Since I’m not about to go out and spray paint my website on the side of a city wall, I figured I could at least simulate the look in Photoshop. With the help of some awesome brushes from Bittbox and Deviant Art and a cool font I found at Dafont. The effect is rather easy to create, here’s how.

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FreshBooks – New Site Sponsor

FreshBooks is the newest sponsor for MyInkBlog. They provide an awesome online invoicing and time tracking service. If you are a freelancer like me, getting on board with them can really help you organize things and save you much needed time to get back to designing!

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Design a Website Header & Navigation

This is the first of a three part series on the basics of how to create a website header and navigation using Photoshop and Dreamweaver. In this part we will be designing our fictional company’s header in Photoshop.

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I Hate My Hosting Company

MyInkBlog was down again today for about 2 or 3 hours. That’s not all that bad in the big scheme of things, but it’s happened at least 5 times in the last two months. I don’t want to go out of my way to bash my hosting company, but I can’t help but be annoyed.

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Trendy Music Wallpaper

It’s been a long time since I’ve added a freebie to the site. This wallpaper is the result of the Create a Trendy Music Style Background tutorial I wrote last week. The wallpaper is available in two sizes. 1920×1200 and 1600×1200. I hope you enjoy it!

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