NuBlue go to Glastonbury 2009
In which we discover just how many songs Bruce Springsteen has recorded....
Thanks to a special invite for yours truly from Carlsberg (other beers are available, just not at Glastonbury)...
Dragon Boat Taming
May 31st 2009, 10am, Halton Army Training Camp, Somewhere near the River Lune....
The day has been exactly one month in the planning. Corporate hounding, public sponsorship, borrowing...
Pixel Art
Recently i decided to have a dabble in Pixel art. I was very pleasantly surprised!...
It's a really accessible form of skilled art because anyone with a basic paint program can have...
NuBlue at Mage::Camp
We're not long back from attending the Internet World Exhibition at Earls Court in London, and have to say that it was a worthwhile (if tiring!) couple of days - particularly...
Magento One Click Install Guide
Magento One Click Install Goes Live!
We love Magento. It's powerful and it's free and you can use it to take over the world (this may be a lie). However...
New Motion Tweening in FlashCS4
Despite being a systems administrator for NuBlue, I've been a keen user of the Adobe Flash package since its Macromedia days. Flash has always provided a simple method for...
The New Guy
Starting a new job is always a scary thing, new people, new challenges, new parking space, thankfully my first two week with NuBlue were as fun as they were challenging. My...
Create a newspaper clipping for an article page
A client recently requested a customised article page that would highlight particular articles as actual newspaper articles.
What I thought would be a nightmare to produce was actually very simple.
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Create glossy coloured text in Photoshop
Whilst designing a simple email template, the use of this glossy coloured text gave my design the visual boost it needed.
To create the effect firstly add your text to your document...
Using the internet to help survive the recession
Banks are failing, stocks are falling and Governments around the world are finally admitting we are heading for a recession! So with all the doom and gloom in the...
