PM Design - Web Design Tutorials

Installing Symfony on Mac OSX with MAMP, PEAR and PDO

Pawel — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:13:42 +0000

How to install and configure Symfony on your Mac? The answer to this question is not obvious and various people suggest different approach. I recently have installed Symfony on my machine and decided to share a few tips how to achieve it. Things are not that complicated once you know what you are doing.

Free Directories and Search Engines you should submit your website to

Pawel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:39:36 +0000

Directory submission not only gives you a free link back to your website, but makes you rank better in search engine organic listing. This post contain a list of free submission directories, with no reciprocal link required and a list of search engines you should consider to submit your website to.

Collection of the best Intel commercials

Pawel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:54:12 +0000

The selection of the most interesting Intel commercials to possibly inspire you or simply to have a bit of fun watching them. Intel creates very interesting commercials that inspired me, so I decided to share some of the commercials with you. Enjoy watching them!

Fix the z-index bug under the Internet Explorer

Pawel — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:48:33 +0000

Positioning the HTML elements using relative or absolute positioning, can bring a problem with z-index positioning especially under the Internet Explorer (beloved browser lol). This can be extremely frustrating problem, but easy to fix.

Go global – Essential tips for an internationally accessible website

Pawel — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:38:40 +0000

When you’re putting the time and effort into building a cutting-edge new website to promote yourself or your brand, you want to make sure that as many people can see and use it as possible, right? However, so often when businesses move into the online realm, they think only about their local market, and ignore the possibilities that the web provides as a truly global medium.

Where do the clients that give you the most pleasure and profit come from?

Pawel — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:59:26 +0000

When asked this question, most businesses will answer “recommendations” or “someone referred them to me”. Referrals and Recommendations tend to be the most effective and least expensive form of developing new business – yet many companies don’t have a strategy in place to maximize their potential.

Things we can do when creativity just isn’t flowing right

Pawel — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:04:35 +0000

What do you do when creativity just isn’t flowing right? Here is some of the answers I got. Hopefully this post will provide the solution to everyone´s creative block the next time they are having one.

Generate random string of characters in PHP

Pawel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:54:04 +0000

In this very short tutorial, I am going to show you how to ceate a flexible php function. This function will allow you to generate random string of your choosen characters and your choosen length. Let's create the php function!

Interview with Chris Godby about Online Web Design Tools!

Pawel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:43:08 +0000

Exclusively for PM Design Blog readers, an interview with Chris Godby - owner of CG Inspired. What started out as a one man show, has now become an elite group of freelance designers and developers providing top quality work to all types of companies and individuals. Chris will be asked about his work, passion and Web Design Tools Online!

New Apple iPad Review

Pawel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:02:11 +0000

New Apple iPad is something we have been waiting for a long time to be released. Finally this remarkable peace of technology is out. However, does it really meet our expectations? Is it something we have been expecting from Apple? Finally, is it worth getting a new iPad at all? Let's have a closer look at the videos about this product first. iPad Advertisement and Steve Jobs demo presentation.

Ways to promote your website – Social Media

Pawel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:54:51 +0000

A very officiant way to promote your website is to make a good use of social media options available. We can define 4 main social media types: blogs, social networking sites, forums and social bookmaking sites. Social Media sites helps to get direct traffic to your website and helps to build awareness about your website.

Create custom wordpress navigation with active state using wp_list_pages(); and wp_list_categories();

Pawel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:30:58 +0000

Wordpress navigation can be tricky to create and sometimes we are not able to create it as we want. Problems starts if our website structure forces us to display categories, pages and home buttons and keep the active status even if deep into the category strucutre. This tutorial will explain how to acomplish just that.

Applying style to an element only if multi-class union exist

Pawel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:48:28 +0000

Using CSS, you can apply multiple styles to one HTML element. This is obvious and helps to keep our HTML and CSS clean and redundant. What happens if we want to style the element differently ONLY if two different classes applied?

Create Custom Shape from multiple elements in Photoshop

Pawel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:17:50 +0000

Creating custom shape in photoshop is relatively easy task, but what if you want to create it using multiple elements? This tutorial explains very easy technique to accomplish this task. We could use Illustrator to create such a thing, but I thought it would be interesting to make it in photoshop.

C.R.A.P. Website Design principles, are they really so crap?

Pawel — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:39:49 +0000

If someone is telling you that your design is crap, they’re actually giving you a positive reinforcement! What that actually means? C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity. Good web design practice is to consider and rate your design in terms of ´crap´ before we do any coding and things get more complicated to apply any aditional major changes.

Never fully answered and constantly asked questions about SEO

Pawel — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:44:23 +0000

I have noticed a few questions that never seem to stop being asked or even fully answered, so I thought I would try to clear a few things up for anyone who has ever asked a question about SEO.

23 Funny and Real Reasons why you should date a Geek

Pawel — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:07:48 +0000

When you say the term ´geek´ to a woman they immediately get a terrible image. They begin to imagine a skinny man wearing a horrible shirt, with shorts going up to his chest... etc. (which for the average woman could not be more boring) The thought of dating a geek is just one big nightmare. Is it?

Create pattern backgrounds for you website in Photoshop

Pawel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:27:49 +0000

This tutorial shows how to create background for your website in Photoshop and how to crop the images and prepare them for your website. Next we will style our html file and display our headers in browser. We are going to create 4 different header elements using patterns and filters.

Wordpress Cheat Sheet v 1.1

Pawel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:41:46 +0000

Great Wordpress Cheat Sheet for Wordpress Developers. Especially for Pawel Martuszewski Design Readers! Please do not make it available to download on your website! That´s the policy. I hope you´ll like it. Enjoy!

100+ Free Font Collection for Web Designers

Pawel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:40:50 +0000

This great font collection for web designers is free to use for personal as well as for commercial projects. You can share this collection with others. Please do not make it available to download on your website and do not state it´s yours! That´s the policy. I hope you´ll like it. Enjoy!