After years of having to live with the very monochromatic website that I created for a class project The Bride’s Store finally got a bit of a refresh over the weekend. While this isn’t the complete overhaul that I have been working on (off and on) for over a year, it does encompass two very important features for the store. First is the Events list—this is what was the driving motivation behind the hasty update—the store hosts various events, sales, and promotions throughout the year and their original site didn’t have a good way to display this information. So, when considering a new design, I decided to bring this information front and center. Secondly is the obligatory Hours & Location section, with this came the addition of the Google Map. The map is vital simply because the store gets customers from all over the state, and sadly not everyone is familiar with the Columbus area.

After years of having to live with the very monochromatic website that I created for a class project The Bride’s Store finally got a bit of a refresh over the weekend. While this isn’t the complete overhaul that I have been working on (off and on) for over a year, it does encompass two very important features for the store. First is the Events list—this is what was the driving motivation behind the hasty update—the store hosts various events, sales, and promotions throughout the year and their original site didn’t have a good way to display this information. So, when considering a new design, I decided to bring this information front and center. Secondly is the obligatory Hours & Location section, with this came the addition of the Google Map. The map is vital simply because the store gets customers from all over the state, and sadly not everyone is familiar with the Columbus area.

I really didn’t think that I would be all that impressed with the newest version of Photoshop. Alas I was wrong, the enhanced image correction tools in CS4 look super-sweet.

Check out some more of Adobe CS4’s new features at Adobe TV.

In an act of redundancy, Adobe announced that they will be announcing the release of yet another version of their ubiquitous design software. Adobe will be unveiling CS4 on September 23 via a series of webcasts. You can sign up for one of the webcasts here. The announcement of a new creative suit is a double edged sword for those companies who just upgraded to CS3 and are just now getting the handle on it. Still, I am rather excited to see what they’ve come up with this time around.
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Snarky venom-filled bloggers around the world have been waiting patiently for the W3C to approve the <sarcasm> tag for a long time. Since it has yet to—and likely will never—happen, it’s up to us to do it ourselves. So, today I took two minutes and created my very own sarcasm CSS rule that I can slap onto any bit of text that needs to seethe. Since I’m such a generous guy I thought I’d share this bit of code with you.


.sarcasm{
font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", fantasy;
font-style: italic;
}


As you can see it’s just a class rule that you can drop into pretty much any text element. While checking this out you might ask, “Why Comic Sans?” Well, that is a two-point answer.

1. I was inspired by Andrew Faulkner’s post on Fadtastic from last May.
2. Comic Sans is the most bastardly font ever created, hacks love it, (most) pros loathe it. What better way to invoke a gut churning reaction than to use the Boy Wonder of typography, Comic Sans.

Snarky venom-filled bloggers around the world have been waiting patiently for the W3C to approve the <sarcasm> tag for a long time. Since it has yet to—and likely will never—happen, it’s up to us to do it ourselves. So, today I took two minutes and created my very own sarcasm CSS rule that I can slap onto any bit of text that needs to seethe. Since I’m such a generous guy I thought I’d share this bit of code with you.


.sarcasm{
font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", fantasy;
font-style: italic;
}


As you can see it’s just a class rule that you can drop into pretty much any text element. While checking this out you might ask, “Why Comic Sans?” Well, that is a two-point answer.

1. I was inspired by Andrew Faulkner’s post on Fadtastic from last May.
2. Comic Sans is the most bastardly font ever created, hacks love it, (most) pros loathe it. What better way to invoke a gut churning reaction than to use the Boy Wonder of typography, Comic Sans.

I love seeing examples of great Photoshop work, and designfeedr is providing the goods today with samples from some of the top PS Artists/Designers in the biz, check it out. Be sure to skim all the way down to the bottom of the post to see some resources to up your game.

Speaking of upping your game, PSDTUTS just posted a list of their Favorite Photoshop Tutorial Sites.