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3DS Max Vray Tutorials : Fast Render Time, Wireframe Render

Drake — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:56:07 +0000

It’s 2 tutorials for the price of one ! Nah kidding there free In these tutorials I’ll show you how to make a good quality render image with a fast render time and I’ll show you how to render out in wireframe sorta …

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3DS Max Vray Tutorial : Studio Render

Drake — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:06:01 +0000

In this tutorial I will show you how to render out a studio scene in 3D Studio Max using Vray ! I hope you like the tutorial !

Click here to watch it in HD !

Top 10 icon websites

Drake — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:21:03 +0000

Every good designer needs icons. These little images are things that you cannot make a cool website. In this top 10 I will display only the top icon websites. I’m sure there are alot of them out there but I will display only 10.

1. IconArchive

2. IconFinder

3. IconsPedia

4. IconDock

5. dryicons

6. FreeIconsWeb

7. FreeIconsDownload

8. VistaIcons

9. iconPot

10. iconbuffet

Effectively track your site’s usability with Clixpy

Stefan Mitev — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:08:26 +0000

Do you want to know what your users think? Do you want to see how they interact with your new design? Do you want a full scale usability test on your page? If the answer to these questions is “Hell yeah!”, then Clixpy is for you! Wanna see how it will help you? Jump after the link for a review of Clixpy’s features.

Clixpy is a brand new web tool for solving usability issues. Started just today, the system is fully working and ready to test your sites. Installing it is easy – just paste a javascript code in the end of your tag and it’ll start monitoring your users right away! Let’s have a look.

That’s the initial screen where your sessions are saved. Signing up gives you 10 credits for testing it. One session = one user and his interactions with the site. More credits can be bought via PayPal from the “Buy Captures” button. Prices are very tempting with packages for $10, $20 and $30 respectively for 100, 300 and 500 credits.

Of course it starts to be interesting when you get some recorded sessions. Clixpy records mouse movements, clicks, scrolls and form interactions. Watching a saved session is like waching a movie of the user’s screen! Knowing where your users click in a defined moment is very helpful and is worth the money! When you choose a session it opens it just like a movie player. A play button, a pause button at the top and a pageview navigation. You hit the play button and watch the magic happening right in front of your eyes!

Clixpy can help you find where is the logical thinking leading the masses of users, so you can improve your site in that direction. The right direction

Check out the demo now of this revolutionary usability tracking system!

Cross browser testing for web deisgners

Ivan Pidov — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:56:53 +0000

One of the hardest tasks for every single web designer and developer is making their site to look a certain way in all web browsers and operating systems. It’s hard because every single browser uses its own different render engine.

You should remember that not everybody is using the latest Firefox version. Even if your code is clean and semantic and the site looks good in Firefox it could be total mess in Safari, Google Chrome, Opera or Internet Explorer (especially in Internet Explorer)

It’s a must that every web designer and developer has all the major web browsers ( Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox) installed on their computer . If you have them all don’t start to celebrate yet, you still have a problem. You are probably asking your self “A problem , what problem?!? “ Internet Explorer (IE) of course . It’s the inbuilt Microsoft browser and there are still lots of people who use IE version 7, 6 and even 5.5 (yes I have visitors with Internet Explorer 5.5 on my blog). The IE Tester is the perfect software for you know, because it supports versions 5.5, 6,7 and 8 at the same time.

On the other hand why the hell you should support 8 years old browser or even the older Internet Explorer 5. Changing the CSS because of these browsers is just waste of time. Microsoft finally included Auto Update in IE7 and the market share of IE 7 will go down fast .

Ultimately you should know your audience extremely well and you should decide which browsers to be supported in the current project.

There are web solutions for cross browser testing which you can use if you don’t want to install 5, 10, 50 browsers on your PC. The one I am using is the site Browsershots .

Note: Your site should look well in all the major browsers, no one said that it should look exactly the same

Hello Universe

Stefan Mitev — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:20:38 +0000

Hello and welcome to Designers Lust, your new source for free and premium themes and templates, weekly inspiration, handy tricks of the trade and random beautiful and useful stuff. Now, let’s meet!

Who are we?

Designers Lust was an idea of a Bulgarian PHP developer Nikola Sivkov (the Admin, woo!) and was created in a matter of days. He gathered a starting crew of three more people – me (Stefan Mitev), Ivan Pidov and Yordan Yalamov. With the motivation to develop Designers Lust as a successful site, useful to the lots of peeps who’ll visit it we’ll build upon the current newbie state. We also seek guest writers, who share our idea and would like to contribute to it.

What will you see here?

We’ll update the site often, so It’ll stay fresh to all you hungry for knowledge and tips & tricks people. We’ll have it all! I’m talking about collections of fonts, free icons, Wordpress themes, inspiring photos, resources and premium content!

Are we bugless?

No. We are still in a bit of beta here, so if you find any buggers somewhere, please write us here and we’ll fix them as fast as possible!

See you soon!