LinkedIn website re-design review

Hey guys, after a little hiatus re-designing for Cheb 2.0's 6-month anniversary, I'm back with a review of LinkedIn's brand new re-design!

Our good friends over at LinkedIn have re-designed their website! Over the last couple of years, what started out as an experiment …

Photoshop tutorial: Creating a wicked cinema billboard scene

Today, we will be creating a wicked cinema/theatre billboard effect that you may have seen before - either in print advertising or online work.The effect incorporates many cool techniques such as creating a star-burst, working with multiple layers, positioning, and …

Cheb 2.0.1 - A taste of things to come?

When I launched Cheb 2.0 Web design blog back in October 2007, I had no idea it would become this popular this quick!

I was happy with the design outcome - I think it met what I was trying to achieve and made connecting with the audience so much easier. You guys let me …

Web design inspiration: 30 Tab-based website designs

It's no secret that I love designing with tabs. tabs in web design just 'work' for me. They are structural, nearly always aligned, easy to navigate, and even easier to implement. So here goes another design inspiration post.

Below are some sites I have either worked on, …

Cloverfield text effect photoshop tutorial

Hey guys, I just watched Cloverfield and thought it was a great, action-packed movie. I also noticed the cool text effect that the creators decided to go with to represent the movie. So obviously I decided to play around in Photoshop and see if I can come up with …

Sydney web design career guide

Web design in Sydney, Australia is something of an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse. You respond to a client's Request for Proposal (RFP); in essence a formal request to a vendor(s) to submit a proposal to provide a product or service. You estimate however long you think …

What is Web 2.0? An Introduction

It's something that has become somewhat of a cliche around the water-cooler these days - and not just in the web industry, believe me! Web 2.0 has definitely gone down as one of the buzzwords of our century - yet some people still do not know what the whole 'Web 22 …

Design mistakes 101: What happened to Paypal's logo?

In an industry where design is a key differentiator as well as the all-encompassing key to online legitimacy, you'd think companies, and big companies at that, would get re-designs/re-branding right, yes? Well, not exactly!

It's not exactly today's news, but I felt …

What you ought to know about the web design survey by A List Apart

Six months ago, A List Apart, decided to garner as much information as possible about the Web industry - in particular, the who, what, when, where and why of web design. What started as a simple survey slowly became possibly some of the most accurate (and current) …

Flat input buttons or fields in Apple's Safari? Here's a workaround!

Whilst cross-brower checking my blog design in Apple's pretty wicked Safari browser, I realised that there were going to be some issues.

Whether or not it's considered a feature of the highly usable browser, if you set a style of 'background-color' on an form input, the …

Five reasons why I love tabbed navigation

There are many ways to build navigation on a website - and as most of us would know, depending on the size, scope and target audience of a website, our choices are nearly limitless. However, there is something about tabbed navigation that just does it for me. If done …

Facebook: 'Is' set to become history!?

Just when you think the online revolution has come to stand-still, rumors are abuzz online and in print media that Facebook is set to remove the mandatory "is" from status messages!

An article in today's Telegraph suggests that Facebook may secretly be testing the …

Making Wordpress faster with Apache and PHP

Wordpress is one of the most popular (and my favourite) publishing solutions/blogging platforms/CMS systems online. It's fast, reliable and best of all, free!

There are however many ways to make sure you get the best out of Wordpress and what it has to offer you in …

WOW! Activision caught in a Blizzard: Warcraft and Guitar Hero, label mates under new gaming giant!

WOW! Yikes. As if online RPG World of Warcraft; affectionately known as Warcraft, and Guitar Hero weren't big enough as it is! Gaming giants Activision, makers of the ever-popular Call Of Duty series of games, alongside Blizzard; the now 'mega-rich' makers of World of …

Google Trends: Search trends updated daily - What you need to know Part 1

Our good friend Google just keeps making our search experience richer, more fulfilling, and above all more and more accurate. In the joy of celebrating the holiday season with online goodies, Google loves to deliver applications such as Google Trends 'fresh out the …

5 Wordpress plugins to boost your search engine ranking and help with SEO

Wordpress has rewritten the rules for what can be achieved online with a blogging application. Not only is Wordpress these days used as more than just a blogging engine, the popularity of the software package as can be seen by the Google Trends chart below.

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How to build a website in six easy steps

For most web designers/web developers, building a website comes naturally. You design it, code it, and launch it. Right? Wrong! The practice of building a website may have got justifiably shorter (or longer) depending on how you see things working online - but the …

Google knols best: Wikipedia killer or just seven years too late?

In what seems to be another 'idea' that Google hopes to sell as 'changing the way people look for information online', the California-based search giant is testing a "free tool" that they're calling "knol", which apparently stands for a unit of knowledge. Pardonthe pun, …