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Even if you only designed the website for your client, chances are you’ll still get a call if the site goes down. There are a number monitoring services that can help you or your client get a jump on the situation, alerting you if the website is unreachable. But what then, you know the website is down, but why and how can you get it back up and running as fast as possible.

After the jump you’ll find a list of the common reasons that a website might be or appear to be down.

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I came across this wonderful minimal blog design recently and managed to talk the designer into writing a tutorial on how he created it. You can also download the PSD file at the end of the tutorial.

You can see the final result here (click to enlarge):

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Over the next few weeks, families all over the United States will come together to celebrate the holidays. However, during the busy and rushed nature of the season, it might be difficult for one to adequately invite people to a party or get together. This tutorial aims to create a seasonal and eye catching layout for a holiday party invitation.

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To truly make an animation the best it can be, the understanding and implementation of Filters and Color Effects is essential. These techniques range from the commonly used Alpha Color Effect, to the image enhancing Bevel Filters. However, these aspects of Flash can be overused and unnecessarily incorporated into a project, so it is worthwhile to know when and how to use these techniques, so as to best target their effectiveness.

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Introduction
One of the most common uses of Photoshop is to extract images from their backgrounds, so that they can be introduced into various other projects. There are many ways to accomplish this task, whether through use of the pen tool, magic wand or magic lasso, however there is a tool that is both effective and easy to use which will erase  This tutorial aims to educate the reader about the Background Eraser Tool, as well as how to manipulate colors and lighting in Photoshop.

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Introduction
The Motion Tween is the newest upgrade to Adobe Flash, and arguably the most confusing. This tutorial aims to solve common issues related to the process, and to go step-by-step through many of the primary elements, such as rotation, scaling, easing, 3D movement, and combining them together to make even greater animations.

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Introduction

Using Adobe Flash can be a bit of a daunting task, especially with no prior experience to animation. This tutorial aims to create a basic understanding with the three tweening animation techniques (motion, shape, and classic) in Flash.

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Introduction
Learn how to lay out a comic book cover, as well as create a hybrid photograph and comic book inspired image. This style is designed to blur the lines between comic book fiction and reality, creating an image which could feasibly exist in the modern world. In this tutorial, the iconic Superman #75 cover, which begins the Death of Superman story arc, will be used as inspiration (seen below).

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This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more.

Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well.