Design Development Magazine

Hello ladies and gentlemen, I would like to go through a few introductions of what is to be expected in the next month here at the Design Development Magazine.

First of all, we’ve hooked up with a developer friend called Raphyy, which he introduced to me, an really cool idea. We will be having video tutorials, based on PHP. There will be 1 video tutorial posted each week, starting from basic and beyond. This is really something to be looking forward to, as this will be great for new or existing developers wanting to get into PHP.

Secondly, at the side of the PHP video tutorials, I will be posting one or two video tutorials for web design, which the main tool will be Adobe Photoshop. So be prepared, because I will teach you how to create a design layout from a blank canvas, I will show you different techniques and most importantly, organisation of the layers palette.

And last but not least, most of you will know that the DDM theme is the second one already, but we’re still 100% happy, and I’m sure not many of you are either. Therefore, I have decided to create a brand new theme, something more exiting!

Sorry about the lack of updates this week, we’ve all been really busy, but expect to get back on track shortly.

With thousands of designers in the world, we all differ in the way we subject our meaning of digital art. Graphic Designers, Website Designs, GUI Designers, Modelling Designers, Illustrators, we all have our talents and we all have our own place to showcase our work.

There are a few designers that don’t do there very personal best work for the portfolio itself, they rather keep there portfolios simple, and focus more on the message they want to say, and focus more on the work they’ve done.

First of all I’d like to wish everyone a late Merry Christmas and an early Happy New Year. In which to celebrate both we have released a new theme for the DDM.

There are a couple of things however that are still on its rough edges, but we’re working on smoothing those out in the next couple of days.

Also the reason for no updates in the last week is mainly because we’ve been busy with this theme, as well as Christmas going on as well. But we hope you enjoyed yours, and we sure hope you enjoy the next few articles that will be coming shortly.

Happy New Year to all!

Ever read an article on a website and find that it is one of the best that you have ever read, you probably immediately want to show to it other people that you know. You hit the button on your printer to turn it on, hit print and wait for it to print. But instead you end up getting a mess of HTML, adverts or half the text missed off the edge of the page.

Perhaps you hope the visitor turns their page to landscape and then print it but with the length web pages usually turn out like it is not likely that they will. Save them the trouble and get some free advertisement from them by keeping them from having to print selection or copy and paste it into a word processing program by making your pages printer friendly for them to print straight from.

What is typography and why is it so vital to graphic designers? As long as you spell everything correctly and make sure the message is what the client wants to see, why does the font style really matter?

Everything you touch, see and create gets impacted by the use of writing techniques and styles. There are many reasons why designers need to have a rock solid foundation when it comes to the use of typography.

By understanding the underlying message that your choice of text contains, you will become more effective as you design and layout projects containing words and phrases. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but you have to know a thousand words to replace it.

Typography is the art and process of arranging type for a variety of media purposes and is made up of several parts.