I watched tutorials on Layer Masks and Smart Filters in Photoshop, and I thought it would be helpful to share what I learned about them. Both allow you to control the amount of visibility of a certain aspect of a layer, but the difference lies in what aspect they allow you to control. First off, the reason why you would...
WordPress is a very popular content management system (CMS). It is now estimated that 17% of the websites online use WordPress. I am personally really passionate about WordPress theme development, so my CMS of choice would be WordPress. However, WordPress is not the only option when it comes to CMS. Some of the other major CMSs are Joomla and Drupal....
Adobe is rolling out some brand new, highly requested updates for their Creative Cloud users. One software that is really benefitting from the update is Photoshop CS6. It seems that Adobe has heard the voices of its many users and has finally given us what we want! With the coming changes, it is important to familiarize ourselves with the new...
Saving things to the cloud just got a whole lot easier- and bigger. Google has just announced that they are unifying the storage spaces of Drive, Gmail and Google Plus. Before, you received 10 GB of free storage for your Gmail account and 5 GB for your Drive account and your images on Google+. Now you will have 15GB shared...
At Blueprint, I work on a variety of front-end development projects. Recently, I had the pleasure of working with 3DCart, an e-commerce software. Fellow Blueprint employees have written some reviews before on things such as Bing and the Adobe Creative Cloud, and I thought it would be a nice change to do one myself. This is my review of the...
There are two core elements in a website, your domain name and your hosting. In order to have a website “live” on the internet, you need both. Domain Registration A domain name (eclipsewebmedia.com) is how your website can be located, its an address, much like the physical address to your home or business (3700 Crestwood Parkway #320 Duluth GA, 30096)....
If you were hoping for some good news, this is not it, but its close. Every informed individual in the PPC world knows that Google’s new enhanced campaign slated to roll out in June is the worst thing that could happen to them. So what are enhanced campaigns? Well, in a nutshell, it is more control and revenue for google,...
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 will be remembered as a sad day for the Internet. Yesterday, Google announced that they are no longer are going to use WebKit as their rendering engine for Chrome. WebKit is an open-source web browser engine that Apple originally developed for Safari. This versatile rendering-engine powers Apple’s iOS devices, but has also been incorporated into other...
Google Places Dashboard Gets A Much Needed Update. On April 2nd. Google announced that they will slowly begin implementing new changes and updates the their Google Places Dashboard. They say the new changes will decrease the time before changes go live and will help the integration of Local with other products and services that Google provides. The new dashboard is...
What is Negative Space? Negative space is areas within your design that are not being used. Some may refer to it as “white space” but that is misleading because it doesn’t necessarily have to be white. Negative space is open, unused territory that allows your design to breathe. Why have Negative Space? In web design (and most other forms of...
