Adobe PhotoShop Tips
Design a nice layout with Rainbow UI Kit
Published recently on our partnership Hongkiat website, The Rainbow UI Kit is an incredible tool for web designers. It includes all items needed for the creation of web site, and there are ready to use. Easy roll and drop them to create an amazing Template. As a proof, follow the present Photoshop tutorial to create a Template taking only 30 minutes.
See below the final Template.
STEP 1 Create your document
Open Photoshop software, then go to menu File>New to create your document. Enter values: Name, width and height and press the OK key.
Your document opens automatically.
STEP 2 Create the menu
To create the menu, nothing easier than this process, open the Rainbow-UI-Kit-pro.psd file and roll/drop the document regarding the Black menu. Use the Move Tool to move it to the left top of your layout.
In case the menu is too short, increase the width using de free transform tool on the menu shape. Add one or several links to your social networks, keeping the styles used on the Twitter icon.
STEP 3 Create the carousel
Regarding the carousel, create first a new group and name it the carousel (menu Layer> New> Group). Create a rectangle (1000x290px) using the Rectangle tool (U) with filling colour #f2f6f7. Use the Photoshop Info window to get help. Use the Move tool (V) to place the rectangle under the menu.
Use now the Text tool (T) to add your website title. I used for it, the Helvetica Bold font with a size of 61px. Find this type of text in the Rainbow UI Kit.
From this same kit, make a roll/drop of the text description. You can easy edit them to be adapted to your project.
Use now the rounded rectangle tool (U) with a radius of 3px. Create a new rectangle (200px X 50px). Use the filling colour #2a6db4. Create a second rectangle with the colour #a2a6ab. Use now the Text tool (T) to add the label of the two buttons. Use the move tool to place these buttons in the middle of your document.
Go now to the Rainbow kit and after, go to the part regarding the buttons. Copy and paste the button styles as well as the text styles to apply on your own buttons.
To create the arrows on the left and on the right of the carousel, create first a new group and name it “Arrowleft”. Use the Ellipse tool (U) to create a round (50x50px) with the black colour.
Import the « Left» arrow available from the Rainbow kit. Reduce its size if needed.
Select now the Arrow Left document and reduce its opacity to 10%.
Duplicate the document, rename the copy Arrow Right. Then, go to menu Edit>Transform>Horizontal Flip. Use the move tool to place the arrow on the right side of the carousel.
STEP 4 Create the services block
This block will be used to give values to some services of your agency. You are going to see, that it is really easy to create it using the Rainbow kit.
Start creating a new group and name it the Services. Use now the rounded rectangle tool (U) to create grey rectangle #d6dde1 with a size of 770px X 300px.
Import the ribbon available form the Kit, then increase its width to be equal to your grey rectangle size.
Create three new groups and name them box1, box2 and box3, using the Ellipse tool (U). Use the Move tool to place them all along the grey rectangle width.
Add an icon into each round (you can download some of them from the iconfinder.com website) and apply under each round, the services description using the Text tool (T).
STEP 5 Create the gallery
With the gallery, you can display a selection of your best works. I think, this step is the easier of this tutorial, because this gallery is already ready to use from the Rainbow kit. Also, import the tab group and easy change the blocks sizes to be equal to you Template size.
STEP 6 Create the footer
You are now arrived at the final step of this Photoshop tutorial. To create the footer, easy go one more time to the Rainbow Kit and import the footer document.
Then import on the right the newsletter form available too (on dark background) in the Rainbow UI Kit.
Now, work is done, you have created a design portfolio taking only around 10 minutes, only using all wonderful element from the Rainbow Kit ;) If you like it, do not hesitate to share this page with your friends, on Twitter or Facebook.
Click on the blue button to download the .psd file and the professional version of the Rainbow UI Kit.
And thank to Pixar Studio for the pictures.
Backing Up Your WordPress Files Manually
Your WordPress directory contains sub-folders e.g. wp-content, wp-includes etc and files e.g. wp-config.php, theme and plugin files etc required by your WordPress site. The wp-content folder contains all your themes, plugins, cache and uploads among other things. You cannot afford to lose this data. The wp-admin carries all the files required by your WordPress admin area, so you can’t afford to lose this as well. The wp-includes folder contains WordPress core files. This is the folder where all the major WordPress code lives. You definitely don’t want to lose this code.
To create a copy of your WordPress files, you just need to download your entire WordPress directory. How? You can login to your server via cPanel or using a FTP program such File Zilla or Transmit.
Backup Your WordPress Site via cPanel
This is so easy you can do it in the time it takes to brew a mug of coffee. Here’s the procedure:
- Login to your web host and navigate to cPanel. For most web hosts, the cPanel is usually the first page you encounter when you login
- Navigate to the File Manager, which should lead you to your public_html or Home directory
- From here, just locate your WordPress directory. This is the folder you want to backup
- Unfortunately, you can’t download the WordPress folder in File Manager without first compressing it. Worry not though, compressing a folder needn’t be challenging
- Click on your WordPress directory, and select Compress from the menu bar. Alternatively, right-click on the folder and choose Compress from the drop-down options menu that appears
- Choose the compression type e.g. ZIP, Tar, GZIP etc from the dialog box that opens. I always go with a ZIP archive
- Then just hit the Compress File(s) button and wait for the process to run its course. Your server will save your compressed WordPress folder
- Click on the archive you just created and choose Download from the menu. Alternatively, right-click on the archive and choose Download.
- Choose a secure location on your hard disk and save your backup
- And that’s it!
Tip: Upload the backup to your Dropbox account, Google Drive, burn it to a DVD/CD, email it etc – just make sure you have several copies to ensure you don’t lose your site should one of the backup dies.
If your web host uses a different control panel e.g. vDeck, Plesk, etc, you just need to locate your File Manager, and just follow the process i.e. Locate File Manager -> Locate your WordPress directory -> Compress -> Download. Repeat regularly.
How to Backup Your WordPress Site
Before we get to the juicier details, I used to be confused about this backup business not long ago. I had no idea what in the world backing up a site was all about. Heck, I had no idea how to create full backups of my WordPress site until circumstances forced my hand. I had to learn after getting hacked, and learn I did.
As a newbie, you’re prolly as confused as I was. So what the hell are backups? The answer is fairly simple. A backup is simply a copy of your site that you can reinstall (restore) should something go wrong. It’s a failsafe, precautionary measure that saves you a lot of undue stress. It’s like an insurance policy that protects all the effort, time and money you’ve invested in your WordPress site.
Now, to give you a clearer picture, I will delve further into what constitutes a full WordPress backup. Your WordPress site is made of two components, the first being files i.e. theme/plugin files, scripts, media etc that make up the structure of your site, and provide functionality. Then we have a MySQL database that stores your blog posts, comments and the options you set in your WordPress admin area.
A majority of cheap web hosts will talk of offering backups, but all they do is backup your MySQL database only, if they backup anything at all. They don’t backup your files, which means you can’t recover changes you make to your theme for example, if it’s corrupted. It’s also quite the hassle requesting a copy of your website from their backups, so its just best to backup your site on your own. You know, just to ensure everything is safe.
The full backup we are helping you build here will take care of your files as well as your database. This means should you lose your site, you just need to reinstall the backup and your work is done. That out of the way, let’s create full backups of your WordPress site.
How to Backup Your WordPress Site (Plus Helpful Plugins)
Have you ever lost your WordPress site? Or have you just lost your WordPress site? Perhaps you fell victim to a malicious hacker. Perhaps your website just broke after installing a faulty plugin, theme or add-on. Perhaps your hosting failed – the bad dog ate the server. It’s scary, right? No, not the dog; losing your site. And you can go batsh*t crazy if you don’t know what to do to restore your beloved WordPress site to its former glory.
Well, guess what: You don’t have to sweat one bit with a reliable backup solution in place. All you have to is hit the restore button, and Viola! – you’re back up and running. See what I did there?
In this post, you learn that backing up your WordPress site is extremely easy. You learn to create full backups of your WordPress-based business, so that you can rest easy especially when the nasty happens. Take out a pen and some paper, and get ready to own WordPress backups like a boss. Ready? Great, let’s get the ball rolling.
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