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PHP can be a beautiful thing and that is definitely the case with these awesome tutorials. In this roundup, you will find 30 of the best PHP tutorials on the web today. Find one you like, learn something, and start making cool stuff. Enjoy!

The web design world is growing very fast. A lot of new tutorials are created these days. If you want to stay updated this post will be really useful. In this roundup you will find only the newest and most professional web design tutorials from late 2010. All of them will be useful for you if you want to update your Photoshop skills and learn some new and trending techniques. Also doing these tutorials you will gain a lot of valuable experience. “Practice Makes Perfect,” as they say.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a classy video player in Photoshop. Our video player looks quite simple but very clean and professional. For creating this we will use breath-taking winter landscape, some beautiful minimalistic icons and various blending options to achieve pixel perfect and attractive media player interface.

Hope you will find this tutorial useful and you’ll learn something new. Please share your thoughts about this tutorial and the final result in comments section below.

Call to action buttons are very important design elements for websites who offers products or services. The main purpose of call to action button is to attract visitor’s eye with important information that leads to the useful result (most popular buttons are “Sign Up Now”, “Download Now”, “Buy This Now” etc.) that requires user to take an action. Call to action button should be very attractive and grab a visitor’s attention very quickly. When designing effective call to action buttons you should consider choosing right color, location, size and free space around the button. Effective button must be outstanding and captivating to attract your potential clients.

Here you will see 30 well designed and effective call to action buttons examples and quick tutorial on how to create your own call to action button. Hope you will find this showcase useful and inspirational.

In today’s tutorial I would like to show you how to design a clean and solid fictional business layout. Following the steps in this tutorial you will learn how to use guides, how to create a detailed background using patterns and filters, how to create transparent buttons, 3D elements and how to stylize web typography.

Tis the Christmas season, and we have just thing for you, our readers!!

In this tutorial we will learn how to create an herbal frame in a simple and understandable way. Having studied the technique described here, you can fill with herbs objects of any shape. Herbal frame is an interesting and popular designing element. We will use it today to create a Christmas wreath! Let’s get started!

Happy Holidays!

This is a tutorial for a script that I find indispensable. Gradients are a necessary and simple tool of web design, providing the perfect transition from color to color. The problem that I often find is the limitations the use of images puts on dynamic templates. I am a huge fan of dynamic templates – allowing color customization to match user preference as opposed to designer preference. Green may be the designer’s favorite color, but blue is mine, and purple is a friend of mine’s. So why should we have to look at your overly green website?

Starting at the basics, this tutorial is going to show you how to create dynamic gradients for your templates. Not only will this save you time in gradient creation (since you won’t have open PhotoShop just to create a gradient anymore), but this will allow you to use a much greater variety of template choices for your users. Limiting template choice due to the cost, time, or effort of image creation is a thing of the past – at least when it comes to gradients.

You’ve got a great spot on your web page where you want the username and password fields to be. It’s absolutely perfect, except, it’s too small. No matter what you try, you cannot get the fields to fit along with the necessary labels. The fields fit just fine without the labels, but there’s just no room for the labels. You may have had a stroke of genius, thinking to yourself “I can use the fields themselves as lables.”

Now, as the superb interface designer that you are, you know that the label text that appears within those fields should readily disappear when a user focuses on each element. Well, this is fairly trivial for the username field, but it becomes a bit more complex for the password field.

In this tutorial I would like to show you how to design a stylish business card in Photoshop. This business card is  quite simple but looks clean and attractive. You will learn how to create vibrant background with popular light effects, also you will see how to create attractive button for your business or website name. Hope you will learn [...]

For those of you late to the party, I would recommend you read the first two ever-so-interesting parts of this tutorial: Minimizing File Size and Minimizing Server Calls. The first part, especially, will introduce you to the importance of web page optimization. This part of the tutorial is written under the impression that you have either read the first two parts or found this page via Google in an attempt to answer one question in particular, in which case you don’t need and probably aren’t reading the introduction.

That said, part 3 deals with minimizing your web page’s parse time – that is, the time it takes for the browser to convert your document from markup to visual elements. Thus concluding the sequential steps of web page creation: creating the files in a manner to reduce their size, retrieving the files in a manner to reduce server stress, and finally loading and displaying the files in a manner that occurs swiftly.