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Create A Stunning Flash Website With Wix In Minutes

Building a stunning flash website never get easier with Wix. Anyone can now quickly create a Flash website online in minutes. The Wix offers an online editing interface where users can simply drag and drop audio, images, video, text and animation to their site.
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FRESHLY SQUEEZED Web Design Challenge

Cut&Paste is hosting an online web design contest with a grand prize of $5,000. You will be designing a website for J.U.i.C.E., a nonprofit after-school program that allows the underprivileged youth of Los Angeles to express themselves through dance, music, visual arts, and MC skills workshops. Read the rest of this entry »

Illustrator Tutorial: Warp Text Inside A Heart Shape

In this tutorial, we will see how we can warp the text around a shape or a object. This technique will show you how to combine the text wrap and heart shape together to achieve the text wrap effect. This tutorial will concentrate on how to use Envelope Distort feature in Illustrator to achieve this effect. You will also learn some new techniques along the way. For this to work effectively, first we have to decide on a suitable shape. Secondly, we will need to decide what word to warp inside the shape. Normally a short phrase works best. And finally, we need a thick and fancy font to pull the trick.
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Illustrator Tip #13: Cropping Images

This is what happens when you try to export your vector art from illustrator.  You realise the image exported out isn’t the same as the artboard or there are ugly white spacing around the image. So why does this happen? When you export an image, illustrator will calculate the bounding box of the whole area taken up by your image including the clipping mask and set that as the image area. This normally leaves a lot of white spacing around the image.
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