There are certain types of clients I just flat out won’t work with. For these categories of projects, it’s not a question of whether the client will be easy to work with or whether they’ll pay on time. Instead, it’s a question of what I feel comfortable working on — which projects seem ethical to me. If something feels wrong to me, I’m willing to walk away from the money.

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Hi guys I am running this little thing for New Years this year.

I am going to make (publish) a small pdf booklet listing the top 10 New Year’s resolutions. If anyone would like to participate all you have to do is respond with your New Year’s resolution to me via twitter with @SantilloDesign or place a comment on the Santillo Design facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Santillo-Design/56037614288 .

Your comment or tweet will have a chance to be included in the book. The booklet will be free to everyone and anyone who wants to download it and share it with their friends.

No profit is to made from this small project except for some good old fun.

As freelancers, we tend to get in a rush. We get busy. We’ve got deadlines facing us. We don’t have time to waste… but we end up getting stuck in an efficiency rut.

The ‹pre› tag is used to display preformatted text or code snippet to a web page. Some web design related blogs would use simple plugin that easily post syntax-highlighted code with its complete functionality (ie: view source, copy to clipboard, print). However, you can style this ‹pre› element to appear neat, stylish and usable by having deep understanding of how this web element works especially in different browsers. Here are some tutorials and resources about ‹pre› Tags Styling to get you start with. (more…)

With all the hype of the new iPhone coming out I thought that I would temporarily hop on the bandwagon to help designers learn how to design apps and web apps for the phone. We owe this article to @nickfrancis .

According to AdMob, the iPhone operating system makes up 50% of the worldwide smartphone market, with the next-highest OS being Android at 24%. Sales projections for the Apple iPad run anywhere from one to four million units in the first year. Like it or not, the iPhone OS, and Safari in particular, have become a force to be reckoned with for Web developers. If you haven’t already, it’s time to dive in and familiarize yourself with the tools required to optimize websites and Web applications for this OS. (more…)

These are lists of my old favorite tutorials to create button in quick steps. You can learn both in Photoshop or Illustrator

I’m curious finding quick techniques to create buttons. You can find wide range of button type tutorial such as, rounded corner to glossy button, iconic to nice aqua button and many more. If I find something interesting, I will update this post for sure…

Stay tune and Enjoy !!!
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This week we have  gathered some of the better tutorials for designing logos. While they’re certainly not complete, these just sort of stood out from the rest. I almost NEVER advocate using Photoshop for designing logos, but it does work. For the best design work of this sort, use Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign! These tutorials will help you develop your own design processes for designing logos. (more…)

WordPress plugins are a great way to enhance and optimize your blog. In addition to adding more features to your actual blog, there are also a lot of plugins that can give you more control and power over the wordpress admin area.

Using these plugins you can do everything from hiding unnecessary elements to customizing the look of your admin area. (more…)