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Handy CSS Tips for Responsive Design

June 9, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

Responsive design seems to be everywhere these days. I previously shared some responsive design tricks as well as some other useful tips on responsive design. Today, I am going to offer some more CSS tips that will be especially handy for responsive web development. CSS Media Queries for Retina Displays Retina displays have a higher pixel ratio than regular screens....

Blueprint Produces a Hard Hitting Reality Show Drama

June 7, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

  Blueprint produced a reality show for KO Kings Boxing Promotions called Rivalry: The Blood Sweat & Fears of Professional Boxing. Adrian Patrick, an Atlanta Attorney and Boxing Promoter of KO KINGS BOXING PROMOTIONS, signed a TV Deal with Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) to televise the Boxing Reality Show. “We would like to thank CSS for giving us this great...

Front-End vs. Back-End Development

June 1, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

There has been a lot of discussion on this topic: Back-End vs. Front-End. As a front end developer at Blueprint, who is trying to make the transition to back end, I realize that there are not a lot of good explanation on this topic. Lets start with front end. Front-End Front end development consists of visual presentation and interaction by...

The Basics of Logo Design

May 31, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

Step 1: Gathering Information Your very first step in designing a logo for a client is getting some direction about what they want and how they want to brand their business. Some clients will be extremely specific about what they see for their logo, and some will hand over all creative control to you. Even if your client does not...

Design Language for Your Business

May 28, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

This week I re-designed a business card for a restaurant. Before I tell you more, take a look at their original card. Now, think about what information you get from this card. What is the restaurant called? What kind of restaurant is it? Did you even think it was for a restaurant at first glance? Where is the restaurant located....

Looking into Drupal theme .info files

May 26, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

Last week, I wrote about getting familiar with Drupal themes and how they are set up. This week’s post is going to be all about the .info files in Drupal themes. The .info files are a crucial part of Drupal themes. The .info file in a Drupal theme configures the theme. Let’s look at an example of what you might...

Layer Masks and Smart Filters: How, When, and Why?

May 20, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

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...

Getting familiar with Drupal themes

May 19, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

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....

Photoshop’s New Creative Cloud Updates

May 15, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

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...

Google Upgrades to Shared Storage between Drive, Gmail & Google+

May 14, 2013 By Blueprint Digital

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...