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	<title>Professional Web Design</title>
	<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz</link>
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		<title>Changing Photos that Are Part of the Template Layout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you will find photos in a template that are integrated into the design:

Perhaps you would like to keep the background, but change one of the photos of the women, and you find that the portion of the above image that’s in the html web page looks like this:

…where the woman cannot be separated from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/changing-photos-that-are-part-of-the-template-layout/</link>
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		<title>Adjusting the Color of a Photo or Graphic Element</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Photoshop has many ways to alter the colors of a photo or graphic. One method is to choose a command from the (top menu) Image &#62; Adjustments submenu. Adjustment options include hue/saturation, and brightness/contrast. This method permanently alters the color of the image in the Photoshop document.
Another method is to use an adjustment layer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/adjusting-the-color-of-a-photo-or-graphic-element/</link>
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		<title>Using Guidelines as an Alternative to Slice Lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Adobe Photoshop, guides appear as lines that float over the entire document. Slices, selections, and other tools will snap to a guideline, ensuring accuracy.
You may place new guides or reposition existing guides around any items in the document and create slices.
Slices may then be saved as individual .jpg or .gif files to be inserted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/using-guidelines-as-an-alternative-to-slice-lines/</link>
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		<title>Using the Slice Lines in a Template or Producing New Slice Lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Photoshop documents (.psd) that come with your template package consist of large number of layers that are embedded into a design giving the look of a single image. This design is cut up into individual .jpg or .gif images which are put back together again using HTML coding to create your web pages. Using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/using-the-slice-lines-in-a-template-or-producing-new-slice-lines/</link>
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		<title>Optimizing Website Template File Size when Saving for Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When saving graphics to be placed in your web pages, it is recommended that you use Photoshop’s Save for Web option. This will ensure the best quality and smallest download time for each of your images.
Save individual graphics from your Photoshop document (.psd) as either .jpg or .gif. These are the two web-friendly image formats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/optimizing-website-template-file-size-when-saving-for-web/</link>
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		<title>How Do I Center a Left Justified Website Template Design?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Centering your page in the HTML code:
Open the html web page in a text editor or an html editor (in an html editor go to the view that shows the source code).




Near the top of the code, locate the tag for the main table







Type align=”center” within the table tag.File &#62; Save to save your changes.



Centering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/how-do-i-center-a-left-justified-website-template-design/</link>
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		<title>How Do I Remove a Stretched Background Image from a Website Template?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some templates may have an “expandable background” that appears to stretch across the screen. The reason for this is that so all of the white space is filled in any size browser resolution:

You may decide that a particular website template design would be more suited to your tastes without this effect. In such instances, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/how-do-i-remove-a-stretched-background-image-from-a-website-template/</link>
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		<title>How to Add a Repeating, Solid, or Stretched Background to a Template</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some cases you may decide that a template would look better with a background image or color to fill in the white space behind the web template design regardless of the viewer’s monitor size or resolution. There are 3 common types of backgrounds, repeating patterns, solid colors, and stretched background images, which is essentially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/how-to-add-a-repeating-solid-or-stretched-background-to-a-template/</link>
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		<title>Appropriate Naming Conventions for Saving Your Sliced Template</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Naming your slices is important because the names you give your slices will be the names of the .jpg or .gif images that will go into your web pages.
Double-click on a user slice’s number to open the Slice Options window:



 Fig.1

The Slice Options window (Fig. 1) allows you to name the slice, give it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/appropriate-naming-conventions-for-saving-your-sliced-template/</link>
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		<title>Save for Web Produces Different File Names than Expected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saved the PSD file for the web, and the new images are not appearing in the template…
Check the slice names in your .psd   See: Appropriate Naming Conventions for Saving Your Sliced Template
Make sure the file type for your new image matches the template’s original – gif needs to replace gif and jpg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.professionalwebdesign.co.nz/save-for-web-produces-different-file-names-than-expected/</link>
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