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About Ben Mayes

Welcome to the Arcane Graphics Design Blog! This is a new development for Arcane Graphics, which I hope will give some insight into many different design and industry news topics from around the Web, as well as shedding some light on any current projects I have going on here which might be interesting to mention.

The Blog is planned to regularly be updated with new posts or content every Monday unless stated otherwise, so please check back often for some interesting stuff!


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    • Theme Tumblr Like a Pro: Upcoming Rockable Book September 8, 2010
      I’m pleased to announce the upcoming release of the book I’ve been sporadically referencing on Twitter for the last month or so: “Theme Tumblr Like a Pro.” There’s a reason why Tumblr’s popularity has sky-rocketed in the last few years: it’s amazingly intuitive, and allows you to rapidly build dynamic websites in a m […]
      Jeffrey Way
    • CodeIgniter from Scratch: Displaying & Sorting Tabular Data September 7, 2010
      In today’s video tutorial, we are going to use CodeIgniter to pull information from a database and display it in a sortable table structure. This is a quite common task, especially inside admin areas, for displaying database records. We’ll be utilizing a few different utilities, such as the active records library and pagination. Catch Up [...]
      Burak Guzel
    • 10 Terminal Commands That Will Boost Your Productivity September 6, 2010
      Back in May, Nettuts+ ran a great article entitled ”7 Simple and Useful Command-Line Tips”; this was a great article for getting started with using the command line. But there’s a lot more you can learn about using a shell, and I’ll take you to the next level in this tutorial! Getting Started If you’re [...]
      Andrew Burgess
    • Build a Custom HTML5 Video Player: Free Premium Tutorial September 4, 2010
      Much like the other various Envato marketplaces, our newly launched Tuts+ marketplace will offer a free file each month. For September, that free file/tutorial just so happens to mine! I’ll show you how to build a custom HTML5 video player with Flash fallback support. Be sure to grab this one for free for the entire [...]
      Jeffrey Way
    • An Analysis of Typography on the Web September 3, 2010
      Typography is one of the most—if not the most—important aspects of web design. Some would argue that it takes up to 95% of web design, so why do we often neglect its importance? The readers who come to your site will often decide whether or not to stay according to your typographic choices. After all, [...]
      Toni Kukurin