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Category Archives: Tutorials
Tutorial: How to Get Good Feedback from Website Users
All too often, we think we know what our users want. But the only way of truly knowing is by listening to them directly. You may not think it’s representative of your primary target audience, but it is still valuable nonetheless.
In the previous post we talked about what users can do to make their feedback [...]
Tutorial: How to Give Good Feedback to Website Administrators
User feedback is like gold to web designers and administrators. But from the user perspective, it often seems like feedback isn’t being taken into account. Perhaps that’s because users don’t know how to give good feedback.
Before we begin, let’s set one thing straight. If your feedback is nothing but all-caps rage, it will probably be [...]
Tutorial: Turn Your Sketches Into Clean, Sharp Vector Art
When you scan a sketch into your computer, the lines are often light and have fuzzy edges. Resizing the scan blurs or pixelates the image. You can use Photoshop to darken the lines, but they’re still not going to be as clean and sharp as if you vectored the sketch.
Vectoring your scanned sketches is great [...]
Tutorial: Building Your Ultimate Social Networking Console
With hundreds of social networking websites in a constant cycle of death and rebirth, it’s fairly common for one person to have multiple accounts. Here is how you can use your iGoogle page to view and update all your social networks from a single console. For the more advanced users, I’ve included some extra tips.
Tutorial: How to Start a Blog & Get Posts Written