Without checking our calendars, we ALWAYS know the Holiday season is approaching by the increased demand of ecommerce projects.

It makes sense, more shoppers - more people online - more convenient for shoppers. We get it. That’s why we have become so familiar with Magento Commerce.

If you haven’t heard of Magento by now, then that should be the first thing on your ‘To-do’ list. Magento is an open source ecommerce solution that will make operating your online store easier than ever. The software is FREE to use (excluding the newly launched Enterprise Edition) and comes with thousands of features to polish your customer’s shopping experience.

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Personally, I think the phrase “Web 2.0″ is extremely overused and has probably lost its a great portion of its original meaning, but I have commonly heard it used as describing a specific style of design.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create one of the many examples of Web 2.0 text.

Photoshop Tutorial: Creating Web 2.0 Text in Photoshop

In my simplest summary, Web 2.0 is a design technique using very subtle gradients and effects to make simple graphics look shiny, 3D, and vibrant rather than painfully flat and monotone.

Ready to learn a bit more? Let’s open up Photoshop and create a custom graphic design.

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