Blog theme designers have all kind of options when it comes to things they can do with the theme. There are a lot of helpful tutorials out there that can help you to improve your theme, and in this post we will feature 10 of them. These tutorials will show a variety of different things you can do to improve your theme in one way or another.

Create Fancy Share Box with CSS and jQuery

Today we’ll be going through the process of designing the homepage for premium theme marketplace using Photoshop. There are new theme sellers popping up every day, so this type of site should be relevant for many people. Throughout the tutorial, most of the screenshots of the design in progress can be seen in full-size by clicking on the image.

Here is a look at the end result of what we will be designing (click to see in full-size).

Graphic designers who want to improve their digital painting techniques can often learn a lot from watching the work of others. There are tutorials that you can follow for the process of digital painting, but watching a speed painting video can also be an interesting and insightful experience. With a speed painting video you can quickly learn a lot about the approach a particular designer uses to accomplish the end result.

Rihanna – see the painting on deviantA

MooTools is one of the more popular JavaScript frameworks. In this post we’ll feature 25 helpful tutorials that will show you how to accomplish a variety of different things with MooTools. Here you’ll find tutorials for working with image galleries, sliders, navigation menus, and much more.

How to Auto Caption Images Using MooTools

In this tutorial we will be creating a homepage layout for a fictional non-profit organization. Many non-profits and charitable organizations share similar needs for a website, including information about the organization’s history, purpose, and what they do, as well as a way to stay in contact with supporters and donors, and to provide the organization with a face to new visitors.

Here is the end result of what we will be creating (click the image to see it full size)

Today we’ll be looking at the process of creating a basic, clean blog layout in Photoshop. The process and steps are very simple and should be easy to follow for anyone who has a little bit of experience with Photoshop.

What We Will Be Creating:

Here is the finished blog design (click on the image to see it full sized).

An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery. Although there are many great plugins already, this tutorial will help you understand how the image rotator works and helps you create your own from scratch.

View Demo of Image Rotator

The effective use of brushes is an essential skill for anyone who wants to be a skilled Photoshop designer. There are countless brush packs that you can download for free, and other that you can buy, but sometimes you will want to use a brush that doesn’t yet exist. In these situations you may want to make your own brushes.

Whether you want to learn more about creating brushes for your own use or for distribution, the tutorials featured in this post will give you the skills you need.

How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes

Veerle shows us a different approach to creating her grunge brushes. She first experiments on paper and then scans her work and creates the brush from there.

There are currently two posts on this blog showcasing excellent work from various designers in the area of digital painting (40 Incredible Digital Painting Portraits and 40 Amazing Digital Painting Portraits – Part 2). If you have been inspired or intrigued by these images, today I’d like to feature 25 tutorials that will help to show how you can do this yourself.

Because of the detail and the amount of time that it can take to create on of these pieces, most of the tutorials are not step-by-step, showing you how to accomplish each little detail. Instead, they break down the process into a number of steps that is more attainable to follow in a tutorial.

Making of Yuka

Today, I would like to go over a quick and simple way to allow your users to switch page layouts by using CSS and jQuery.

Today’s web users expect web pages to be increasingly more interactive. To this end, the ability to change page layouts provides your users with a more immersive experience and allows them to consume information more easily, either with a quick gallery view, or a detailed summary view.

View Demo of Display Switch