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Web professionals have to master many skills and technologies to create the modern, effective web applications that clients demand these days. It can be hard to stay at the top in the web field – it’s a never-ending task!

If you’re a web designer or developer, welcome to tripwire magazine – a weblog that aims to offer you useful information, tools, tips and tutorials to make your life easier. Explore this site for articles about everything from fonts to Photoshop, CSS, jQuery, web design, graphics, typography, advertising, SEO and much much more.

So long as we think it’s useful, you’ll find it here: everything from detailed tutorials on creating web designs from scratch to tools that will speed up your work and inspire you to approach challenges in new ways.

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Guest Writers on tripwire magazine

Lots of great guest writers have contributed to tripwire magazine – see the list below. Click on any writer’s name to see a list of his/her articles that we’ve published.

Albert Lie

Albert Lie is a 24 years old graphic designer from Indonesia, and also owner & main writer of AlbertLie.com. Currently specializing in graphic design and adobe photoshop. Follow Albert Lie’s twitter (Twitter, etc.) http://twitter.com/abudzz

Alex Galasso

Alex Galasso is a search engine optimization consultant at NVI, a full service digital marketing agency based in Montreal, Canada. In his spare time, Alex also writes about independent video games and manages a portfolio of websites. Feel free to contact Alex for any inquiries at agalasso [at] nvisolutions [dot] com.

Alex Iszatt

Digital Journalist at Creative Jar; working with a whole bunch of creative, technical and intelligent people… a big, happy team with the same goal – to make the client happy!

Follow CreativeJar on Twitter to get my daily ramblings

Andrew Paul

Andrew Paul, BDM with WordPressintegration.com, company with a team of experts specialized in PSD to WordPress conversion and integration.

Ann Davlin

Ann Davlin is an inspired copywriter and blogger working at MotoCMS – progressive Flash CMS and Flash templates provider. Web design, Flash and photography are my lively interests and if you are like-minders then follow me on StumbleUpon .

Wally

I´m a girl from Denmark working with decorations and shop-in-shop solutions for a paint company. You can find a lot of inspiration on my blog http://wallyspaper.blogspot.com

Anum

Anum is Web and Graphic designer. She is also an active blogger, providing valuable information in her own witty style. You can check out her Design blog Websoulz or you can follow her on Twitter @websoulz

Ben

Ben is studying graphic design at college. His main interests include graphic design, web design and believe it or not, blogging. Ben has designed and developed a number of websites and graphics for a number of people and companies and is also the founder of Pixel Clouds
Follow Ben on twitter: http://twitter.com/pixlclouds – email me at: pixelcloudsblog@gmail.com – visit my blog: http://pixelclouds.com/

Andy Boyd

Submitted by Andy Boyd at Money Choices, an Australian comparison website that independently reviews top performing high yield saving accounts among other products.

Brady Nord

I help run MOJO-Themes.com and am constantly looking for new business opportunities and ventures to grow the community. Oh, and I do a little writing from time to time. If you want to chat, don’t be shy, hit me up on twitter @bradynord.

Brian Flores

Brian Flores is a SEO and copywriter for InMotion Hosting, one of the top dedicated server providers in the country. He works with a team of awesome writers to post useful tutorials on WebHostingHelpGuy. You can follow him on Twitter @WHHG_InMotion or @BrianAFlores.

Phong Thai

Phong Thai is a Web Developer, Web Coder for 5+ years with PHP, JavaScript, CSS. He is the creator of JavaScriptBank.com & 9BlogTips.com – provide thousands of free JavaScript code examples, web development tips and tricks, helpful blogging guides. Follow him on twitter@js_bank or connect with him on facebook@jsbank if you want.

Carsten Stenvang

I’m a part-time blogger who likes to write about everything of interest like photography, philosophy, blogging, new tech stuff, web design, gadgets, gaming, books etc.

Christian Arno

Christian Arno is the founder and Managing Director of global translations company Lingo24. Launched in 2001, Lingo24 employs some 4,000 professional freelance translators covering a hundred different language combinations. Follow Lingo24 on Twitter: @Lingo24.

Elias Cortez

About the Author: Elias Cortez, from Dallas, TX and is currently a freelance writer specializes in writing on education and career information articles. View his latest articles on the University of Phoenix Birmingham and how to obtain a graphic design degree here.

Damon Bauer

Damon works as a web developer based in Toledo, Ohio. While he’s not creating websites, he enjoys riding motorcycles, camping and sports. You can follow his blog at Trust Your Technologist.

Davy Kestens

Davy Kestens is a motivated young lunatic from Belgium with a highly entrepreneurial vision on his life. Currently working as a freelance creative director and continuously starting up online projects when he’s not out trying to take over the world. His latest published tool for world domination is RunAddicts.net – A professional blog about running. He also launched a marketplace where you can Buy or sell unique content. Want to keep up with him? Go ahead and visit his website or follow Davy on twitter!

Daniela Baker

Daniela blogs at the small business credit cards comparison website CreditDonkey.com. Curious about small business finance? Read her blog.

Denise Keller

Denise Keller is a small business marketing expert, blogger, and COO of Benchmark Email, one of the world’s leading, global email marketing services.

Dona Collins

Dona Collins is an infographic artist, a financial writer for Creditloan.com and a part time teacher. You can visit CreditLoan financial infographic section to find more of her work.

Dustin Betonio

Dustin Betonio is a Translation Management graduate at University of Mindanao. His earlier career was devoted on customer service outside the information highway. Currently studying Law in the same University.

Elise Redlin-Cook

Elise Redlin-Cook (AKA @redlincook) is the Content & Marketing Manager at Vertical Measures a website marketing company in sunny Arizona providing services ranging from link building services, to social media marketing, content development, and advanced SEO. She’s fully immersed herself into the world of content and willingly admits she’s now an addict.

Jason Angus Angus

Like most writers Jason Angus leads a double life.  During the day he is an IT Manager for a college.  In the evenings, he writes technology articles and runs a consulting business.  He often writes for Wix.com, the free website builder that lets you create customized websites with ease.

Emily Pass

Emily Pass is the creative mind behind MLeWallpapers.com. She and her husband travel around the world to see the most beautiful places on earth and take pictures along the way.

Jade Evans

Jade Evans is a freelance writer who works occasionally with Twiends, a company all about twitter how to get followers, and social media engagement. She thrives in the digital world and drinks way too much coffee. 

Daniel Design

Gagandeep Singh is working for Go-gulf.com, a Dubai based web design company that provides web design solution in Kuwait, Bahrain, Sharjah and Middle East.

Hannah Milan

Hannah Milan is the founder and curator of MOObileFrames, a collection of wireframes, sketches and user interface drawings that focuses on mobile applications. She is also a co-founder of WebdesignerAid, a resource blog for web designers. She’s managing also the HTML5beauty, a showcase of HTML5 websites and SubmitQuickly, an online service for bloggers and creative people. You can follow her via Twitter as @humbleuidesigns.

Jennifer Ray

Jennifer R is a banking student who love to work with Php, WordPress blog and Css design… She is the chief editor of Intenseblog website.
Want to keep up with her? Follow Jennifer R on Twitter!

Indu Kandasamy

Indu Kandasamy is the Marketing Maven at Creately.com, a collaborative diagramming software for teams. When she’s not working on marketing strategies for web start-ups, she paints and loves to create designs for printed textiles. You can read more of her writing on the Creately Blog or follow her on Twitter: @creately @induja

James Adams

James is a designer and writer who works with a UK based online shop specialising in Epson printer ink, toner, paper and other printing accessories. You can read more of his writing on their blog.

Jared Thompson

Jared Thompson is a keen product and graphics designer. He has a great eye for detail and understands how an image should be presented in its best quality. He has a passion for the works and designers of the Bauhaus movement and strongly believes that ‘less is more.’ Jared is currently studying Product Design at the Northern School of Design.”
My personal site ‘Design Juices’ http://www.designjuices.co.uk and my twitter feed is http://www.twitter.com/jthompsondesign.

Jason D. Page

Light painting artist Jason D. Page has been a photographer for sixteen years. He has been light painting since 2004. Jason first discovered light painting photography when he used light from the moon to create designs in the sky. His first light painting series are known as “Moonlight Drawings”. He has received parking tickets, trespass warnings, and been chased out of the woods by a possible Bigfoot all in the name of light painting photography. Jason prefers to shoot alone at night deep into the woods, he says the fear that he sometimes feels allows his imagination to run wild and under these circumstances Jason can create his best work. Find out more about Jason at his website.

Jonathan Brealey

Jonathan Brealey is the director and co-founder of Heart Internet web hosting, one of the UK’s biggest web hosting companies.

John Michael

SEO Semantic XHTML, a specialized division of Ipraxa, is a PSD to HTML firm that specializes in PSD to HTML, XHTML and CSS conversion, eCommerce, open source integration and custom CMS Solutions.

Jon Norwood

Jon T. Norwood is a managing partner at High Speed Internet, a site dedicated to providing information on Mobile Broadband News. Jon can be reached at jon@velocityguide.com.

Matt Payne

This post was written by Matt Payne the owner of Oomph, a creative and passionate plastic cards printer like no other. You can visit them online at http://www.madebyoomph.co.uk or follow them on Twitter @madebyoomph.

June Nelson

June Nelson has contributed to blogs and websites since 1999. She has been researching and writing about credit card processing, SEO and social media for six years.

Kalim Fleet

Kalim Fleet is a professional web designer and design blog writer with over 6 years experience. The web is his passion as he splits his time between blog writing, software development and social media. He loves using and developing new applications for the web, mobile, and desktop.

Katia Daniels

Katia Daniels is a tech blogger and social media addict that covers the latest events and news in the IT and Internet Marketing industry.

Kavin Paulson

Kavin Paulson, an Internet marketer associated with SeoSemanticXhtml, a specialized division of ipraxa – a full service web agency, offering services like PSD to HTML conversion, PSD to FBML, iPad testing and integration with software applications like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and many more. You can connect with us at Facebook

Kay Ross

Kay Ross is a Hong Kong-based Australian marketing consultant, copywriter and editor who helps her clients craft compelling marketing messages that attract more of the right kind of clients. She’s also a stand-up comedian and comedy improvisation performer, and she’s passionate about personal and spiritual development. Visit her website at http://www.kayross.com, check out her blog (“Spotlight on Marketing”) at http://www.kayross.com/blog/ and tweet her nicely at http://twitter.com/kayross.

Kevin

Kevin is a 21 years old design addict from Belgium. He’s also interested in football and games. You can contact Kevin on Twitter.

sanjay khemlani

Sanjay is a Web Designer from Philippines, he is dedicated to clean coding and effective design. He also writes tutorials about Web IU and Web Design on his blog.

KMahesh

Mahesh Kad, owner of howtouse-photoshop.com. This website is for those people who want to learn to present their creativity digitally by learning Photoshop completely.
On his website, you will learn all the main aspects of Photoshop with impressive tutorials and resources. So attain free course on his website to become master in Photoshop.

Lauren Bailey

This guest post is contributed by Lauren Bailey, who regularly writes for top online universities. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: blauren99 @gmail.com.

Siva Kumar

Photography and design lover i like these two essential things more than my job(Web developer). So only i have launched
Pokkisam and a Photography,design inspiration blog too Photography and design inspiration blog Follow me in twitter to get interesting things in photography and design >>pokkisam

Lars

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development, SEO, social media and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for tripwire magazine readers.

Mariana Ashley

Mariana Ashley writes on the topics of online colleges. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: mariana.ashley031@gmail.com.

Maria Rainier

Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education where she’s been researching both the highest paying jobs and the lowest paying jobs on the market. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.

Matt Denos

Filled with passionate vigor about technology, health and fitness, Matthew Denos is a trusted resource to many. He offers advice and guidance on weight loss programs, diet and exercise and blogs about Medifast deals and coupons for Nutrisystem diet.

Melanie Reyes

Melanie Reyes is an aspiring graphic designer who loves to learn new stuff. She is currently learning adobe illustrator, offering her finished vector work free for the public to download. Melanie runs designermelanie.com, a site dedicated to free vector downloads, tutorials and of course, her online portfolio.

Nahid

Nahid is founder of AntsMagazine, a design blog that focuses on getting better resources for designers and developers. You can also check out his blog for free PSD resources created by him. You can follow him at @antsmagazine.

Nathan Rohler

Nathan Rohler, who works as the lead developer for DWUser.com, is passionate about creating beautiful and moving web experiences. DWUser.com offers software tools for developers and designers, including an easy and free jQuery slider builder, EasyRotator.

Nicky

Nicky is a business blogger for Prink Express UK , a printing and business card creation company based in London, UK. Working in Ecommerce, Nicky has been a marketer, writer and blogger for 2 years. She specializes in content creation, brand consulting and SEO. Contact her on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/printexpressuk)

Oliver Archibald

This article was written by Oliver Archibald on behalf of PrinterInks. Since being founded in 1983, PrinterInks has grown to become the leading supplier of ink and toner cartridges, as well as many other stationary services for the creative and corporate market throughout the UK and Europe.

Peter Olexa

Peter Olexa is a freelance graphic designer born in Bratislava, Slovakia.
He has over 15 years of experience in corporate identity and web site design.

Resources:
http://www.fonts2u.com

Follow Fonts2u at Twitter:
http://twitter.com/fonts2u

Fonts2u at Facebook.

Jeff Rainey

Jeff Rainey
Jeff Rainey is an art lover, WordPress junkie and the creator of Theme Spectrum

Lars Agarwal

Rishabh is a Passionate Photographer, a Musician and a Web Designer. He writes about technology on his blog TechyLabs, and Photography on ShutterSkills You can say hello to him on twitter ==> @rish404

Rohitha Perera

Rohitha Perera is an Online Marketer at Creately.com, a collaborative diagramming software for teams. When he’s not working on marketing strategies for web start-ups, he spends time reading, watching movies, jogging, gardening and cooking. You can read more of his writing on the Creately Blog or follow him on Twitter:@creately @ForzaRP

Roldan O. Roldan

Roldan O.Roldan, a Graduate of Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Agro Industrial Foundation College of the Philippines in the former and University of Mindanao of the latter. My early career was a lecturer in Pre-Employment Program of the City Government of Davao. Now, I,m currently at my senior year in Law School of the University of Mindanao.

Ronalea Talaboc

Rona is just a simple girl often lost in her daydreams in the days past. Now, she has found herself and discovered that she loves social media, gadgets, graphic design and anything creative. During her free time, you can find her taking pictures of cats and some surreal landscapes.

Sally Marshall

I am a blogger to the core. I love to write. I love to contribute, trade and participate in conversation. I have several different areas of expertise. In my free time I am addicted to social media and fitness. I truly believe that there is not better feeling in the world than waking up early and getting a good sweat in before the rest of the world wakes up!

Sonny Day

Sonny M. Day is a passionate SEO and web design enthusiast who loves photography, mountain climbing, snorkeling and dirt bike riding.

Olga Sorokina

Olga is a marketing specialist with a primary emphasis on web based startups. She writes for TeamLab corporate blog, manages the project’s promotion in social media.

Steven Gliebe

Steven Gliebe is a web developer and the creator of ThemeSorter, a website that makes it easy for people to search for premium WordPress themes from multiple sellers. He recently launched CouponWP to help people find deals on WordPress themes, plugins and hosting. Steven has been on the web development and design scene since 1997.

Taavi

Taavi is WordPress enthusiast and developer/editor of WordPress Theme Gallery http://bestplaceon.net/.
Bestplaceon.net is WordPress Theme Gallery. Where you can find all the best WP themes. It makes your theme hunt much easier. With comfortable jquery search there is NO page reloades.

Tara Hornor

Tara Hornor has a degree in English and writes about marketing, advertising, branding, graphic design, and desktop publishing. She works for PrintPlace.com, an online printing company that offers brochures, posters, postcard printing, business cards and more printed marketing media. In addition to her writing career, Tara also enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.

Tara Miller

This guest contribution was submitted by Tara Miller, who regularly writes for psychology degree. She especially loves hearing back from her readers. Questions or comments can be sent to: miller.tara23@gmail.com.

Tina Zennand

Tina Zennand is a copywriter, content manager and blogger. Her interests are web/graphic design, flash, photography, SEO, internet marketing and many more. Works for MotoCMS.com – an innovative Flash CMS and Flash CMS Templates provider that allows its users to create really stunning Flash websites. @Tina_Zennand

Tom O’Doherty

I’m an Irish Web designer, based in Berlin, Germany. Take a look at some things I’ve done or follow me on Twitter.

Lars

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for his readers.

Kavin Paulson

TwitterThemePark.com, a specialized division of IPraxa, a Web Development Company, is a Custom Twitter Background design specialist offering highly professional, personalized Twitter themes to individuals and enterprise customers. Our custom Twitter themes and backgrounds designed to enhance the tweeting experience of the users.

Vail

Vail is a long-time writer, designer and copy editor with a vibrant background in corporate business writing, music journalism and internet media design. Since 1996, her articles and photography have been published in various music magazines, poetry compilations, and business publications. When she is not hard at work designing something, she loves writing for Wix.com, which has recently launched their mobile website builder.

Vera Mosley

Vera Mosley is an expert at web development hosting having worked closely with many companies to help build their presence on the web. She frequently writes on topics surrounding business and technology.

Tom Walker

Tom works at CartridgeSave.co.uk, a supplier of printer cartridges based in the UK. Click here to read more of his work.

Leo Widrich

I am a Social Media enthusiast with an extra large addiction to Twitter. You might noticed already ;) . I am constantly on the lookout for the best Twitter Tips and Tools to share. I blog about it here every week.

Adam Parker

Adam Parker is working as an E-marketing Executive at HTMLFirm. HTMLFirm is specialized in providing PSD to HTML, PSD to WordPress, PSD to Magento Conversion services.

Bradley Zarich

Bradley Zarich blogs for NewSat, the largest independent satellite broadband operator in Australia. As a manager for eServe BPO’s web services accounts, he keeps the online community updated with the latest developments in wireless communications, Internet technology, SEO, and mobile backhaul technology.

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jan rosenmeier October 10, 2010 at 12:51 pm

Cool site – lots of helpful informations – thanks !

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Jan Rosenmeier

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