Creating a vector image of yourself or drawing a cartoonish character isn’t very easy.
In this post I focused on collecting some of best tutorials on creating and drawing vector images including human faces, animals and cartoonish characters.
In the first part there are 13 tutorials on vectorizing photos and the other part is related to character drawing tutorials. If you would like to create a vector image from your photo, you’ll need to read these tutorials carefully...

Socialbrowse, the Firefox plugin that lets you surf the Web in a link-sharing social manner, has just re-released its service with a couple of major new features. The Y Combinator-backed startup as been in private beta for some time, and will remain in private beta for a little while longer, but those users testing the service will be able to access and utilize its new features (get your invite below).

When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. NETTUTS has published a tutorial (Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP) for creating a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation...

Spacegallery is a very simple but nice image gallery built with jQuery.
It is a static gallery where images are hardcoded in the HTML and presented with a beautiful grow - fade out effect...

How to Build Your Online Brand

There are only so many hours in a day, and you’ve got to determine which social media tools drive business, which ones build community, and where you can learn the most in the process. Maybe you’ve built a blog or a home page or some other starting point for your online presence. How do you manage the rest of your online presence, and how do you keep track of everything? I have some ideas for you. Let’s start by building the following:...

Guess what? I have 20 excellent Photoshop tutorials for this week that will simply keep you in the program like a mummy in its sarcophagus so pay attention to them...

One of the biggest mistakes I see from web designers is making accessibility more complicated than it actually is. Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing and hot keys for every minute function of a site, and writing over-descriptive metadata, so most people just give up and don’t even bother. However, by using some simple techniques and following some basic guidelines, you can make your website accessible to a wide audience of users without spending too much time and energy...

It may sound like a threat, but the internet is not quite everywhere, yet. So what do you do when there’s no internet available to you? First, take a deep breath!...

This brief will take you through the steps required to install WordPress - and all of its dependencies (Apache, PHP and MySQL) - in Windows Vista, using the fantastic open source software BitNami WordPress Stack...

When we announced an AudioJungle wallpaper contest last month, I was not at all prepared for the barrage of jungle visual goodness that instantly began flooding our Flickr pool. With over 180 entries to select just three winners from, judging was always going to be very difficult...