Useful tutorials are limitless, so we therefore feel responsible for keeping our eyes open for only the very best, and have found these new tutorials, which certainly help us to enhance our creativity…

ILLUSTRATOR TUTORIAL OF SIMPLE NINJAS AND CREATING A SLEEK WEBSITE CONTENT BOX
Sometimes, less is more. As shown in Spoon Graphics, creating vector ninjas can be so fun when so little is needed to make them look cool!

It can be quite tricky getting the hang of Adobe Illustrator, but if you take a step back and concentrate on the basics there’s a range of options for creating great looking images that you can create and have fun with!

There are numerous Photoshop tutorials on the web to help you get that perfect effect for website designs. Here we have Photoshop & You showing us the ropes on a sleek content box.

This effect could be put to good use on business websites, such as hosting sites, product sales pages, portfolios, and more.

 

DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE 960 CSS FRAMEWORK, CREATING A CUSTOM WORDPRESS PLUGIN, AWESOME TWITTER INTEGRATION AND RUNNING PERSONAL TINYURL SERVICES WITH PHURL.
We came across a fantastic site called Nettuts Plus; which boasts and impressive set of tutorials for designers of all levels. We have compiled a few of its awesome collection for your reference.

A Detailed Look At The 960 CSS Framework
Once you take the opportunity to spend some time with 960, you’ll be amazed at how much time can potentially be saved when developing your web applications. At the very least, take ten minutes to review the framework.

Creating A Custom Wordpress Plugin From Scratch
Knowing something from scratch is always helpful and time saving. This amazing tutorial in Nettuts Plus shows us exactly how to get it right with detailed easy steps to follow.

10 Awesome Ways To Integrate Twitter With Your Website
Nettuts Plus featured an article that shows you a few ways of integrating a website with Twitter (An online service for communities to stay connected through exchange of quick, frequent answers to that question of what you’re doing). This in turn will help enhance the website’s popularity.

1. Twitter Widgets
2. Twitter Buttons
3. Twitter Tools
4. TwitThis
5. TweetSuite
6. Chirrup
7. Tweet This
8. IntenseDebate
9. Aweber
10.Twitterfeed

Running Your Own TinyURL Service With Phurl
For microblogging services to work smoothly, URL shortening services are a must, Nettuts Plus gives a tutorial on ways to run your own TinyURL service with Phurl.

In 140 characters, you don’t want the URL you’re linking to eating up 100 of them. Or worse, it might not even fit. Enter TinyURL, and a bunch of other services that give you a shorter custom URL pointing to the target site.

 

27 OF THE BEST PHOTOSHOP WEB LAYOUT DESIGN TUTORIALS
Photoshop is the preferred choice for web-design, and to have detailed tutorials that show you just how simple design can be is a useful thing to have. Dzine Blog made a compilation of some of the best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials that will blow you away!

 

 

 

 

 

 

CREATING A COLOURFUL SITEMAP WITH JQUERY
Smashing Magazine featured a simple tutorial on how to create an attractive Sitemap using jQuery.

Content-heavy websites with a deep navigational structure can benefit from sitemaps . A sitemap contains links to every important page on a website, often visually organized in a hierarchy. They generally should not have opening and closing mechanisms to display the hierarchy.

 

CREATING AN ASTONISHING ICAL-LIKE CALENDAR WITH JQUERY
Calendars are interesting when designed with style. In this tutorial featured in Stefanoverna, it teaches you how to create astonishing iCal-like calendars using jQuery.

One of the most common requests from clients when it comes to Wordpress personalization, is to add a basic event calendar to their website. Finding a good place to position a big table like a calendar within your Wordpress template is always a taught work.

 

 

CREATING AN APPLE STYLE MENU AND IMPROVING IT VIA JQUERY
The Apple-flavoured Leopard-text-indent style is currently one of the most favoured menu styles. In this tutorial featured in Kriesi, you will learn how to create that particular style and improve upon it via jQuery.

 

 

 

CREATING A MENU LIST USING EITHER CSS BORDER STYLE OR BACKGROUND IMAGE
Creating menu lists for a website can be challenging. Sometimes all it needs is simplicity. In this tutorial featured in Web Designer Wall, it teaches you how to create a menu list using either CSS border styles or by using a background image.