Today we share a very comprehensive round-up of Cinema 4D Tutorials. Cinema 4D is a modeling, animation and rendering application that is noted for its flexible interface and ease of use. It is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modeling, animating, lighting, texturing and rendering. Movies like Monster House, Spiderman 3, Chronicles of Narnia, Beowulf and [...]

2009 was a very successful year for Smashing Magazine. It was a year of ambitious goals and an intense time schedule, which brought many changes over the past year. In 2009 we published more posts than ever (on average, 8 posts per week). We broadened our areas of interest: for instance, we explored [...]

Photoshop is a magical tool for digital artists and photographers, and it rules the digital imaging world. It is not just a tool, though; Photoshop is a blank canvas that invites you to perform magic with your creativity. It gives you room to creatively manipulate photos and explore the artist in yourself.
To celebrate [...]

Back in July, “Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers” presented 8 basic techniques for adding popular features to the front end of a WordPress-powered website. The premise was that WordPress has become an elegant, lightweight content management solution that offers the fundamentals out of the box, atop a modular core that offers [...]

Yesterday I facilitated a discussion with school principals / heads in Hong Kong in which they brainstormed “School Administrator Questions about 21 Century Learning.” I created this as a Google Moderator Series, and invite you to virtually “vote” for previously submitted questions as well as submit questions of your own. You will need to sign [...]

Tracking a blog’s progress is a good way to get an idea of the direction that you need to take your blog. Whether or not your traffic is growing, whether you are seeing an increase in readership, and how to properly maximize your exposure to advertisers are some of the main reasons you should begin [...]

Although The Smashing Book won’t be published until late September, you can secure your copy today. Now, why would you do that? For one reason, you will get the huge discount: 20% off the regular price. If you pre-order now, you’ll pay [...]

When I started blogging back in early 2006, blogging was something I just did for fun.   I found it was a good way to interact with others on ideas and topics that were important to me.  Unfortunately, after a year of spending money out of my own pocket to cover hosting and other blog expenses, [...]

This is the first article in the four-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress“. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
There are some technical stuff we have to get out of [...]

Great challenges rise as your blog grows. You are first faced with rising email, comments, and in turn, spam. Next, you are dealing with lost time dealing with trivial tasks on the management end that eat away at the minimal amount of time that we all have to carry out our blog each day.
In the [...]