Ticksy: A Support Story
May 18th, 2012 
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When I started designing and developing themes and templates for the ThemeForest marketplace five years ago, customer support was easy. I’d get an email or two a day, answer them, and move on.
But as sales picked up, things became complicated. One or two emails turned into five, which turned into ten, which turned into twenty! I’d respond to a question, and get another question in response. Emails were lost. Customers were frustrated. It was all a big mess.
Email was no longer a tenable support Read more [...]
Introduction to the New Oil Paint Filter in Photoshop CS6
May 18th, 2012 shadowtek
Filters are a powerful tool in Photoshop to help you apply quick effects to your images. The Oil Paint filter in Photoshop CS6 will give any image a painted look. In this tutorial, we will introduce you to this new filter. Let’s get started!
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Web Design Workshop #10: Resumonk
May 18th, 2012 shadowtek
Web Design Workshop is our weekly community project where we ask readers to submit their work for your friendly, constructive criticism. It’s the perfect way to learn, offer opinions and have your own work critiqued! This week, the landing page for an online app to help you pull your resume together..
Rules of Engagement
Play nice! We deliberately select work which will benefit from advice and pointers. If you can’t be constructive in your comments, don’t. Other than that, offer Read more [...]
How to Create an RSS Syndicator Site Using WordPress
May 18th, 2012 shadowtek
In this tutorial, I will share on how to create a syndicator, or ping site, using WordPress functionality. This function can be useful for owners who want to create an article directory which will allow their users to submit articles to their website using RSS. To give some overview on how such a site may look, I’ve setup a Demo RSS Site for this tutorial. Now let’s begin.
Step 1 Setting Up A Feed Placeholder
First we need to setup a place where users can add their RSS feeds. At first Read more [...]
Diving Into CSS Regions
May 18th, 2012 shadowtek
This tutorial will cover the basics of CSS regions, which allow us to flow content within various sections of the page. Confused? You probably are; read on!
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CSS Region Support
At the time of this writing, the CSS Regions specification is a working draft and things may change! Techniques mentioned in this tutorial might change in implementation. The aim of this tutorial is to give a basic understanding of CSS Regions and what might be coming to a browser near you.
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