Some of the best design inspiration can be found all around us.   Looking through magazines, newspapers and periodicals at your local bookstore can help you find some great ideas for your next project. Today, in a competitive world, companies are going to great lengths to get your attention in order to buy their products. Therefore [...]

// When it comes to adding quick loading, easy to edit functionality to a website, jQuery is perhaps the undisputed champ and solution of choice for web designers and developers everywhere. Combining ease of use with an quickly expanding choice of pre-built plugins, there is little need to look elsewhere. These days they cover just [...]

As the old saying goes, take a picture, it lasts longer…The right picture that tells the story better than the best copywriters around.  Sometimes the best inspiration can be taken from the world around us and capture and beauty we are looking for.  Underwater photography is very unique and offers a glimpse into a world [...]

In a never ending voyage to reach a larger audience and expand the community around DesignTutorials4u I have decided to embark, all be it a tad late, on a Facebook page.  Towards that direction, you may have also recently noticed the Facebook “Share” and “Like” buttons to assist in spreading the word. Be sure to [...]

One of the biggest problems of any small company or freelancer is keeping track of records, bills and other accounting related issues.  These sorts of stumbling blocks are a major concern and sometimes the cause of us not succeeding.  You can have all the talent in the world, all the best ideas and most innovative [...]

ExpressionEngine by EllisLab is an extremely powerful and flexible content management system (CMS) that is loved by just about every web designer who has used it… as well as their clients.  Expression Engine can be considered as more than just a CMS, perhaps its own framework structure, with plug-ins, modules, add-ons and customizations allowing you [...]

HTML5 is the new and emerging (and still evolving) version of  HTML.  It has been over ten years since the previous version was released, so you can be sure that HTML5 has tons of new features, styles, elements and techniques that we have not seen before.  All of these enhancements will allow designers and developers [...]

A popular trend over the past year or so has been using cityscapes,  landscapes and skylines in website design. It can take many forms, either being in the header or footer and sometimes its silhouetted in the background or right in the middle of all the action.  Usually these scenes are more illustrated than actual [...]

Designtutorial4u is proud to announce our first newsletter.  “Blogging From the Ground Up” I have gotten many requests to go through the steps I took to create a successful and well trafficked site.  That is why today I have just finished and launched my first e-newsletter free of charge.  It is packed with highly valuable [...]