Creating a Chrome Effect in GIMP 2.6
Originally Dated: 25 July, 2009
This tutorial teaches users of GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) how to create an object with a chrome look, similar to what has been done in Photoshop many times. Read More…
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Replacing Image Ads with Text Ads on Mobile Devices
In the course of redesigning this website, I decided that I did not want to display large image ads designed for a traditional sidebar on mobile devices. Often times, too many images and videos will slow down loading Read More…
The New Theme Has Arrived
I’m proud to announce that the new look has been finished and you are seeing it now. I’ve met most of the objectives that I set out for in the redesign. Some of the differences from the Gimp rendering include… Read More…
Jason G. Designs New Look Preview
As everyone in web design knows, times change and so does technology. The more I looked at my existing theme against current web design trends, the more outdated my original theme looked. For example, the current design uses background images to section off sidebar and content backgrounds. It is also fixed width. This was fine for a website destined for only the desktop, but nowadays Read More…
Converting a Static HTML Site into a WordPress Theme- Part 2
Original publish date: 2010
Introduction
This tutorial will be the fourth and final tutorial in a series. It follows three previous tutorials: Creating a Fancy Website Layout in Gimp 2.6, How To Slice Up Graphics for XHTML and CSS and Converting a Static HTML Site into a WordPress Theme- Part 1. In the last tutorial, we left off with a website that can be ran from the WordPress content management system. Now, we will make it blog specific. Read More…
Creating a Fancy Website Layout in Gimp 2.6
Original publish date: 8 January, 2010
I wrote this tutorial to state that you don’t have to use Photoshop to create a graphically rich web layout. Photoshop obviously is a great, multi-purpose design tool, but you can create just as good designs with the free Gimp as well. The main purpose of the tutorial is to teach it’s readers how to create a nice looking, WordPress specific, web layout in Gimp. Read More…