OC Music Awards: www.ocmusicawards.com

We just recently launched the Official website of the OC Music Awards held annually in Anaheim, CA at The Grove.

Orange County is rapidly becoming the nation’s new vibrant music scene and the OC Music Awards is committed to connecting the community and supporting the scene! The OC Music Awards strives to give Orange County’s up and coming musicians the exposure they need to advance their careers while giving back to local music programs and community charities.

For this project, we were responsible for the XHTML/CSS conversion and Wordpress integration/customization of the top-notch design they provided.

Be sure to check out their new website at http://www.ocmusicawards.com and more importantly come visit their main event on April 4, 2009 at The Grove in Anaheim, CA.

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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