Monty Tuts - Your Ultimate Web Design Resource

So far Monty Tuts has been concentrating on web development so I thought I’d adjust the balance and you a nice little Photoshop tutorial. It should take between 30 minutes and a hour depending on your speed navigating Photoshop.

As you can see from the sample image the end product is a cool looking puzzle effect that you can you on your own pictures and images. You can of course make slight changes to the which will result in a different outcome.

• Is thinking he should get some sleep now. Step away from the laptop!!! #
• Is thinking to lunch or not to lunch! #
• Is sick to death of the term email problem today. #

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Since being launched in 2003 Wordpress’s popularity has soared and as the user base has grown Wordpress has also evolved from being just another blogging platform tool. Portfolio sites, e-commerce sites , job posting sites can all be run buy Wordpress these days.

Jaded Pixel has just launched the much anticipated Shopify, a complete e-commerce package that allows you to build a complete online store in just minutes. I’ve had first hand experience setting up and using the product and was very impressed with the simple interface and how fast it was to get my store up and running. If you have been wanting to setup an online store to sell your products, Shopify may be the easiest solution out there. The real prize winner for many will be the fact that you do not have to touch one line of code.

I found this fantastic free web developer tool the other day, which allows you to add up a quick estimate.

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

To use, simply enter the title of the project and your default hourly rate. Then adjust your anticipated hours accordingly to generate your total project estimate. When finished, you can view your finalized estimate in a print-ready format in case you’d like to save a PDF or print a copy for your records.

Take a look here.

As we all know Twitter is taking over the world at a rapid pace. People from all walks of life are posting their every day movements etc on the social networking site.

In my opinion the key to the success is just how simple it is. From signing up to writing your first post takes a matter of minutes. I also find that the information I gain such as cool websites or web design tools is truly amazing.

So to the point of the post… Join me on twitter.

• sat playing with twitter after finally having time to sign up. good times!! #
• Is wondering what to have for lunch. Roasties with soming maybe Mr Boag!!! #

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High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.

In this article I present 20 free and premium WordPress themes. All themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

Hope you find this section useful and find a theme to your taste.

I am asked frequently by clients, friends and anyone else interested “how easy is it to set you a blog?” Well if that’s a question you have to. You will be pleased to know the answers no, in fact once your set up it’s as easy. So in this step by step tutorial I’m going to walk you through setting up your own blog using a very powerful blogging platform called Wordpress. Then in future blogging tutorials I’m going to cover other questions I get asked such as “how can I design my own wordpress theme?” or  “can I make money blogging? The answer to the later by the way is yes, as long as the blog is well run and full of quality content. Lets face it with the current finacial climate as bleak as the news keeps telling us it’s nice to have a nice little second income coming in. Money aside for your blog to work you really need to enjoy blogging so finding the right topic is vital.

Ok lets make a start and get you up and running with your very own blog.