Design an E-Commerce Website in Photoshop

Since we're focusing on e-commerce websites this week, I thought it would be good to do a tutorial for designing a layout for an online shop in Photoshop. At the end of the post you will be able to download the original PSD file in case it would be helpful. Throughout the post, the screenshots of the design in progress can be seen in full size by clicking on the image.

Here's what we will be designing (click to see in full size):



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MyInkTrail: Best of the Design Community, July 2009

This month's roundup focuses a lot on HTML 5 and CSS 3 techniques. Along the way I also found some quality write ups on logos, spec work, Wordpress and much more.

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How To Correctly Use Bevels & Drop Shadows in Photoshop

You read the advice on virtually every design blog populating the cyberspace landscape, and if you haven�t, you don�t read enough design blogs. Kidding, but seriously, people say it all the time, �If you want to be taken seriously as a designer, you cannot use the Bevel or Drop Shadow tools in Photoshop�.

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15 Coolest Minimalist WebDesigns Using Photograph as Background

This collection aims to showcase just fifteen beautifully designed minimalist website designs using photograph as background. As always, feel free to leave your comments and mention your favorites.
















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Go Blog Yourself Step 2: Know What They Want To See

by Stoney deGeyter
In Step 1 of the Go Blog Yourself series I discussed the need to know more about your audience. If you want to get someone’s attention you have to know more about those that will be looking. It does you no good to bring dinner to a dessert social!
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Top 500 Search Engine Keywords Of The Week - June 10, 2009

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Although this list is filtered, adult terms might
still appear. Should you see any below, then we
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These are the top 300 queries from the last 48 hours, which
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How many search keywords can I target per page?

by Mike Moran
I’m sometimes asked this question, usually by someone savvy in search marketing. After all, it’s expensive to create and optimize pages for search, so you’d want to amortize that investment over as many keywords as possible right? Actually, no. The number of organic search keywords I recommend you target per page is one.
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