When browsing on Google Buzz today I found out a great website with a lot of Photoshop tutorials and websites. I never heard about this one before. The website features some cool tutorials about how to create a nice looking website with the help of Photoshop. You can find those here!

Another great feature of this site is an index of resources you can download freely! Think about it, free Stock Photo’s, Vector files and a lot more! This one I’m going to bookmark.

Check out www.psdvibe.com for more tutorials and resources.

Every decent web designer knows how to set up a website with HTML and CSS. When designing an email however a lot of things work differently. For example, when coding a website I always use divs, but with a HTML email it doesn’t work that great. It’s better to use tables for the layout!

CSS styles need to be inline to work at best, so creating a separate file for all CSS won’t get the job done when creating that cool email you want. And you guys know that browsers are rendering the code different. Well, email clients are even worse! Support for even some simple CSS varies considerably between mail clients, and even different versions of the same client.

On Campaignmonitor there’s a great list available where you can find out what each mail client supports for CSS. If you get it right in those 10 email clients, than you shouldn’t get into any problems at all and your mail will probably be handled correctly!

I found some cool examples of multiplicity photography. That made me wonder, how do they create those cool photo’s. I managed to find a good and clear tutorial on YouTube. Check it out and if you managed to create a cool one, let me know!

A fellow buzzer recently mentioned Justin Maller on one of his Buzzes. Justin Maller is a designer with a style of his own. He creates beautiful compositions and did work for some great companies already, so it might be possible you saw his artwork already. I just couldn’t let you guys miss this. I think illustrators like him are one of a kind. Enough said. Just enjoy his work @ justinmaller.com.

The past few weeks I’ve been very busy figuring out the possibilities jQuery gives us.  I know that there are a lot of things possible with it, but I really like all the small things it can do for a designer. I’ve made a selection from all the jQuery related website I visited last week and here You have the overview.

jQuery Tutorials for Designers

This website gives us designers a really neat list of tutorials You can use on your design. It explains in a nutshell what jQuery is and gives some simple examples with it, like a disappear animation on your content or a nice transition which can be used on buttons for example. Read the whole tutorial at:

• jQuery tutorials for designers

Best Animated Jquery Slideshows

When building websites I’m always using one part to show products or portfolio items. With jQuery You can easily create a clean and professional looking slideshow. On the website below you’ll find a selection of five different slideshows.

• Best animated jQuery slideshows

7 ‘Scroll to Top’ jQuery Solutions

The last website gives seven (oh really?) solutions to implement a go to top button on your website. This will give the user the ability to go straight to the top of the page and presents them a nice slide or animation through jQuery. And there’s a WordPress plugin provided too! Solutions like this are one of my favorites. They are easy to integrate and pretty user friendly. It just adds that little extra!

• 7 scroll to top jQuery solutions

This morning I found out that Google Calendar had a new look. Now it looks similar to other services Google provides like Google Docs and Reader. The way how Calendar works didn’t change however. It’s still fast and easy to use, it just got a new look and feel. In my opinion it got a more professional look today. Curious? Go to www.google.com/calendar and find out for yourself!

The old look:

And the new look: