In the following tutorial you will learn how to create your own web buttons set. First, using the Rectangle Tool along with some Pathfinder and Offset options plus a Rounded Corners effect you will create the three starting shapes. Next, a linear gradient plus some Film Grain and Drop Shadow effects will complete the overall button. Finally, some text and a new Drop Shadow effect will help you finish the work. Let’s get started!
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In this Quick Tip, you will learn how to create a scalable web button with the Appearance Panel and Adobe Illustrator’s 9 Slice Scaling. This technique is especially useful for web designers that need to use the same style button with various lengths of text. Let’s get started!
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A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Jonathan was first published on November 4th 2008.
This tutorial is perfect for the beginning to intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist. We’ll cover how to layout a website and prepare it for use on the web. Also, we’ll use the recently released Website Elements Freebie to mock up the design as well.
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In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a clean download button in Adobe Illustrator. By first using the Rectangle Tool and some simple effects you will create the overall button shape. Next, using some other basic tools and effect along with some nice colors and patterns you will create the arrow shape. Finally, for the text you will use a bold font along with some simple effects.
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Get started with Adobe Illustrator and Indesign with this handy collection of beginner tutorials from the archives at Vectortuts+. We’re adding to our Basix category all the time, so be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay upto date with all the news, articles and tutorials as we publish them.
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In this Quick Tip tutorial you will learn how to use Illustrator to make a simple web form design. By following a few easy techniques you will have clean and modern register form in no time!
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In the following tutorial you will learn to create a nice navigation menu. This is particularly useful for people who want to make perfectly aligned rollover states for websites and applications.
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Wireframing is a useful part of the website design process. It’s great to separate out this planning stage and have your page positioning, spacing, layout, and other elements like text size and tone works out before you jump into Photoshop to add color, texture, images, and effects to polish off your design.
Fireworks is a great tool for creating a wireframe and while it doesn’t work perfect with Photoshop, you can export over there and then build off your wireframe. We’ll cover the design process of creating a wireframe for an iPhone application website in Fireworks. For those of you not familiar with this program, it will be a good jumping off point for using it to wireframe your web design projects. This is a first part of a multi-part series and will be fun!
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In this tutorial, we’ll review a professional workflow for illustrating website header images in comic style, which are destined to integrate into WordPress themes. This is a great way to make your blog stand out and get promoted on the top web design galleries. Let’s get started!
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