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Build your Flash Website

Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/ycademy/build-your-flash-website/.
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1 Build your Flash Website
1.1 Background Images
1.2 Background Dimensions
1.3 How to format background images as per above?

Build your Flash Website
Build your Flash Website at the March Online Seminar by Ycademy and get prepared for a smashing wow effect. In a small …

Creating a Static Background on a blog

By Zo NicholasDaily Online Training Call
Tuesday 6th October
Creating a Static Background on a blog
A whole training call focused on resizing a large background image in order to use it as a static background on a blog. An image was provided for this purpose, a photo of the ‘Marble Stadium in Athens’.
Training Call Workshop
The workshop gave [...]

Web Design Workshop 17 Resizing Large Background Image

By Yorgo Nestoridis
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1 Web Design Workshop 17 – Resizing Large Background Image
1.1 Large Background Image Marble Stadium
1.2 Edit the image in Gimp or Photoshop
1.3 Apply the Background to the Site
1.4 Ycademy Web Design Workshop

Web Design Workshop 17 – Resizing Large Background Image
Web Design Workshop 17 follows Workshop 16 where we discussed [...]

Web Design Workshop 16 – Scroll over Background

By Yorgo Nestoridis
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1 How to let your Content Scroll over the Background
1.1 Background CSS
1.2 CSS Background Properties
1.3 Background Attachment
1.4 CSS Fixed Background Example with Semiomantics XO
1.5 Web Design Workshop by Ycademy

How to let your Content Scroll over the Background
Scr5olling over a background image may save resources, namely if you use a [...]

Transparent WordPress Theme Design

Transparent WordPress with Semiomantics XO
Developing a transparent WordPress Based Photo Blog, I got inspired to use some elements in a Grunge environment. It’s creative, it’s fun, it’s the Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress.
Grunge Background
The first step is to create a grunge background:
This background is 1680 x 1250 pixels big and has a weight of 130 [...]

Transparent WordPress Semiomantics XO

Transparent WordPress with Semiomantics XO
Developing a transparent WordPress Based Photo Blog, I got inspired to use some elements in a Grunge environment. It’s creative, it’s fun, it’s the Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress.
Grunge Background
The first step is to create a grunge background:
This background is 1680 x 1250 pixels big and has a weight of 130 [...]

Design Graphic Background

Design Graphic Background
While I prefer to keep my backgrounds white, I have added a background to this site for the purpose of the Web design Workshop.
The Background needs to be in harmony with the color scheme which is based on black-blue #000125 and red #B3000.
Background based on an image
This is what I did:
1. Take a [...]

Colour white

By Zo NicholasColour White
In the western culture white symbolises cleanliness, innocence, purity and peace.  White is associated with brides, christenings babies and the dove of peace. In the eastern cultures white is used for funerals and mourning.
White is for…
As white is a cool colour it also signifies calmness, thus often used as a website background in web design. It also contrasts well [...]

Dali Transformation Tiles

by Yorgo NestoridisDali Transformation Tiles
This is just for fun, but a nice way to create never seen before designs:
The technique used is just based on splitting and mirroring an image. I will use a design from Bianca Gubalke. I am sure good old Salvador would have loved this and he would have added some distortions…:-).
Dali:
Dali [...]

Grunge Textures Old Paper

by Yorgo NestoridisGrunge Textures Old Paper
An easy way to start your grunge design is to load an old paper background (texture). Here are 5 old paper backgrounds which can be used to start your chef d’oeuvre. We will use them in our Web design Workshop.
The 16 MB Download is available from HERE.Please download before this [...]