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10 Fresh jQuery Tutorials to Enhance Navigation Menus

2010-02-05T23:54:00.000-08:00

A few years ago, when designers wanted to add cool effects to the navigation of a website they used Flash. We all know the types of problems that caused. Now with the growing popularity of javascript frameworks like jQuery, those same types of “Flash-like” effects can be achieved without Flash. Here are 10 jQuery tutorials and techniques to enhance your website’s navigation and menus.

Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery Tutorial

BBC Radio 1 Zoom Tabs

Spritemenu

Outside the Box Navigation with jQuery

Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

A Simple and Beautiful jQuery Accordion Tutorial

Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery

jQuery look: Tim Van Damme

jQuery Feed Menus

Create a Good Looking Floating Menu with jQuery Easing

Here's some other articles that you will definitely find useful.

14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development

12 Useful jQuery Plugins for Working with Tables

12 Excellent jQuery Plugins for Enhancing Forms

14 jQuery Plugins for Enhanced Content Viewing

13 Super Useful jQuery Content Slider Scripts and Tutorials

Five Favorite Web Applications of Designers

2009-10-30T21:00:00.000-07:00

Webapps–compared to their desktop counterparts–have the distinct advantage of being flexible in terms of the environment they have to run in; if you have a web browser and an internet connection, you’re good to go. This allows designers who work in a variety of locations, from office cubicles to the neighborhood coffee shop, to do what they need to do without being bound to a single spot.
Last week, we asked readers what they thought the best web application for designers is, and here we share the top five favorites that gained the most votes. The web applications you’ll see here aren’t all specifically for designers but, as you’ll soon see, it’s not surprising why designers love them.

5. FreshBooks

FreshBooks (coincidentally Six Revisions’ longest standing site sponsor) is a time-tracking and invoicing tool targeted towards freelancers. It’s perfect for project-based work, with the ability to keep your time logs, keep track of your expenses, create repeating invoices, and much, much more. FreshBooks comes in many flavors, and for those wanting to try before buying, the free version gives you all the features of the webapp (but is limited to only three clients). As a FreshBooker myself, I can’t say enough good things about this web application, only that it’s crucial for people who work on contractual jobs.

4. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free web application that tracks site statistics. This is a favorite tool amongst web designers for seeing how effective their web user interface designs are. It lets you create custom reports that you can PDF and ship off to your clients (you can use it to show the effectiveness of that recent redesign you did for them). I use Google Analytics on Six Revisions for traffic reporting, and it’s, without a doubt, the best web analytics out there – free or otherwise.

3. Basecamp

Basecamp is a project collaboration tool aimed mainly towards small-to-medium sized organizations. You can share and upload project files, create to-do lists, set milestones, participate in real-time collaboration (with Writeboard), and a lot more. I’ve been using Basecamp for roughly six months, and it’s made teamwork with co-workers and communication with clients a breeze.

2. DropBox

DropBox is a file syncing tool that’s fast, reliable, and very easy to set up. DropBox also has a web interface that allows you to manage, upload, delete, and organize your synced files. DropBox is free, allowing you to store 2GB of files (and you can get up to 5GB for referring people to join) – if you need more storage space, the $100/year is more than worth it, especially if you’re using it for work. DropBox is my personal favorite: it’s become an essential component to my work.

1. Kuler

Five Favorite Web Applications of Designers

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5. FreshBooks

FreshBooks (coincidentally Six Revisions’ longest standing site sponsor) is a time-tracking and invoicing tool targeted towards freelancers. It’s perfect for project-based work, with the ability to keep your time logs, keep track of your expenses, create repeating invoices, and much, much more. FreshBooks comes in many flavors, and for those wanting to try before buying, the free version gives you all the features of the webapp (but is limited to only three clients). As a FreshBooker myself, I can’t say enough good things about this web application, only that it’s crucial for people who work on contractual jobs.

4. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free web application that tracks site statistics. This is a favorite tool amongst web designers for seeing how effective their web user interface designs are. It lets you create custom reports that you can PDF and ship off to your clients (you can use it to show the effectiveness of that recent redesign you did for them). I use Google Analytics on Six Revisions for traffic reporting, and it’s, without a doubt, the best web analytics out there – free or otherwise.

3. Basecamp

Basecamp is a project collaboration tool aimed mainly towards small-to-medium sized organizations. You can share and upload project files, create to-do lists, set milestones, participate in real-time collaboration (with Writeboard), and a lot more. I’ve been using Basecamp for roughly six months, and it’s made teamwork with co-workers and communication with clients a breeze.

2. DropBox

DropBox is a file syncing tool that’s fast, reliable, and very easy to set up. DropBox also has a web interface that allows you to manage, upload, delete, and organize your synced files. DropBox is free, allowing you to store 2GB of files (and you can get up to 5GB for referring people to join) – if you need more storage space, the $100/year is more than worth it, especially if you’re using it for work. DropBox is my personal favorite: it’s become an essential component to my work.

1. Kuler

Coming in at numero uno: Kuler, managing to garner nearly a third of the total votes, is a web application that lets you make, store, and share color schemes. It’s wonderful for remembering your favorite color combinations and getting color scheme inspiration for your design projects.

Lynda.com Search Engine Optimization

2009-10-30T10:18:00.000-07:00

Table of contents:
1. Getting Started
2. Black Hat SEO/White Hat SEO
3. The Search Magician’s Three Linking Rings
4. The First Linking Ring: Know Your Searchers
5. The Second Linking Ring: Know the Search Engines & Directories
6. SEO Tools: Browser Bars
7. SEO Tools: Keyword Research/Project Management
8. SEO Tools: Links, KDA, and Rank Checkers
9. SEO Tools: Code Checkers, & Web Site Analytics
10. Keywords: The Golden Key to Outstanding SEO
11. The Third Linking Ring: Creating Search Friendly Web Sites
12. Before We Begin: Site Setup the Wrong Way
13. SEO Hands-On: Site Setup in a Search Friendly Way
14. Optimized Web Pages: Submitting and Monitoring Page Rank
15. Santa Monica Carousel Fan Web Site
16. Link Building: The Company You Keep
17. Top Ten SEO Lists
18. Errata, Corrections, & Updates

40 Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

2009-10-29T22:41:00.001-07:00

No matter you want to design a banner or logo, text effect is very important. Why? It is because a beautiful text effect on the banner or logo will attracts the visitor and also delivers a better message.
There are tons of Photoshop text tutorials around us, but today we are going to pick the most 40 beautiful Photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers.
You may or may not seen them before, but believe me, they are really useful, cool, beautiful and easy to follow tutorials.
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1. How to Create a Gorgeous Glassy Text Effect

2. Wooden text effect in Photoshop

A very nice wooden text effect tutorial in Photoshop presented by 10steps.sg.

3. How to Make Patch on Clothes

4. How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop.

5. Golden Flame Text Effect with Soft Smoke

In this tutorial, the author shows you the process involved in creating this golden flame text effect with soft smoke texture in Photoshop.

6. A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

This tutorial will create a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel.

7. Design a God of War III Inspired Cracked Text Effect

8. How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect

This is a strong and eye-catching text effect, though relatively simple to create.

9. Super Sleek Text Effect with Water Drop Texture

This effect is simple but effective, and would be suitable for any water/rainy/ocean themed designs you’re creating.

10. Colored Chrome Text Effect

11. Smooth and Fresh Text Effect with Leaves and Stone Texture

This is a soft, smooth and fresh feeling text effect with leaves and stone texture in Photoshop.

12. Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial

13. Snowy Rock Text Effect

14. Suspended Text Effect

15. Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

This tutorial shows you how to mix some vectors with letters to create a really nice design.

16. Clear Plastic Text

This tutorial shows how to create a nice plastic feel text.

17. Aqua Text Photoshop Tutorial

How to make a cool aqua text.

18. Chained Text Photoshop Tutorial

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create text wrapped in chains.

19. Photoshop Tutorial: How To Create Killer Metallic Text

This tutorial guides user on how to create a killer metallic text that toss in a cool background.

20. Smoking bullet holes into a piece of wood

This is a three in one tutorial which shows user how to make an awesome wood emboss effect, put bullet holes into the wood, and finally smoke ‘em up to a gnarly Wyatt-Earp-just-walked-past look.

21. Reflective Liquid type photshop tutorial

22. Translucent Text Effect with Sky and Cloud

This tutorial shows how to make shining and refreshing transparent text effect with sky and cloud textures.

23. Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

This tutorial is very simple and just involve very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects.

24. Awesome Grunge Text Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create an awesome grungy text effect.

25. Icey Styles in Photoshop

The authors shows how to create an icey-cold effect using layer styles and that you can apply to different objects.

26. Create A Gold Text

27. Create a Spectacular Graffiti Effect

28. Moon Shine Text Effect

This tutorial shows you how to easily create a soft glowing moon-like text.

29. Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

30. Indiana Jones Movie Logo/Text Effect

The author shows how to remake the awesome Indiana Jones text.

31. Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

32. Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

Within 30 minutes, you can have a stunning 3d text effects.

33. Transformers Text Effect

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to make the Transformers movie text effect while learning to create 3D text and apply a series of layer styles.

34. Smooth Glass Type

Quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type.

35. Bubble Text

36. Paint Splodge Text

This will show you how to simply create a paint splodge looking text using blending options and the pen tool.

37. Cartoon/Comic-Style Text Effect

38. Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop

39. Vanity License Plate

This tutorial shows you how to create a custom vanity license plate using a few basic Photoshop tools, a piece of reference material and some creative layer styling.

40. 3D text effect – 2009

In this tutorial you’ll gonna learn how to create a Colorful 3D Text effect in Photoshop.

Create a photorealistic web layout

2009-10-28T08:09:00.000-07:00

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple photo realistic website in just a few steps.
I know it is hard to believe that a website like this can be converted into a real website.
VIP members will be able to download the PSD layout and also the css/xhtml code.

Preview full size layout

For this tutorial we will need a nice texture. Click on the following thumbnail, and download this texture to your computer.

Open the image inside Photoshop and then go to Edit > Define pattern. Choose a name for this pattern and click OK.
Create a new document with the following size: 960 width and 900 pixels height
Select Paint Bucket Tool, and in the option bar choose the pattern you just created

Click over your layout with Paint Bucket Tool. You will have something like this

Set the foreground color to #49290a and with Rounded Rectangle Tool create a shape, and place it in the middle of the layout

Add the following layer styles

You will have to add other shape over this brown shape. This time please use white color

Please use the same layer styles you have used a few seconds ago.

This is the result

On the bottom right side of the layout I will add some stock images with a flower pot and a sofa.

Under the layer with the sofa I will create a round shape with Ellipse Tool

I will go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur and I will use the following settings

In this way you will have a real shadow under the sofa

On the left side of the layout I will create some boxes with Rectangle Tool

All shapes have the following layer styles

I will add some text and the images

On the right side I will add some banners

I will create a dashed line between the posts.

To create the dashed line you need to use Horizontal Type Tool and use the following font and settings

My last step is to create a logo and some text buttons.

This is my final layout. I hope you like it. As you can see it was done very easy, and requires only some good stock images.

Lynda.com Adobe ColdFusion 9 Essential Training

2009-10-07T18:47:00.000-07:00

Lynda.com Adobe ColdFusion 9 New Features | 216 MB
Released on: 10/5/2009

In ColdFusion 9 New Features, author and developer Dan Short has gathered together the important updates and improvements in this dynamic web application. Dan showcases the new ColdFusion Builder application throughout the course, using it to work through the new language and CFScript enhancements in this release. He shows how to use the new Server Manager to compare servers and create server groups, as well as monitor server health through notifications. He also explains the new integration with Office applications, building Excel, Word, and even PowerPoint files on the fly from ColdFusion. Finally, he covers the important new Object Relational Mapping feature and how to use the built-in Flash Player. Exercise files accompany this course.

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Creating a First Web Site with Dreamweaver CS4

2009-10-04T04:57:00.000-07:00

Lynda.com Creating a First Web Site with Dreamweaver CS4 | 367 MB

Creating a First Web Site with Dreamweaver CS4 shows the basics of doing just that—building a first web site. Adobe Certified Instructor Paul Trani walks through the important steps of creating a web site from concept to publishing, using Dreamweaver CS4. He teaches how to create basic web pages, add text and image content, use Cascading Style Sheets for design and layout, create a photo gallery, and even check the final site for browser compatibility. He also demonstrates how to create a contact form to encourage viewer feedback on the site. Exercise files accompany the course.

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30 Free Premium Blogger Templates

2009-10-02T15:15:00.000-07:00

Today some of our fellow bloggers decided to stay with Blogger platform, so really nice wordpress themes are converted to Blogger Templates. Some are so nicely done, you won’t be able to tell if it’s a Blogger or Wordpress.

If you are looking for free premium blogger templates for your valued blog, There are some cool new templates that have been created in 2009, most of them are enriched with more advanced features. If you are going to start a new blog or you want to give a new look to your blog, I am sure you will like these templates. Enjoy and have a nice Blogger blog with a beautiful template!

1. BloggerTube | Demo | Download

2. Creative by Nature | Demo | Download

3. Photoplus | Demo | Download

4. Zitizen | Demo | Download

5. Mainstream | Demo | Download

6. Bcute | Demo | Download

7. Conservative | Demo | Download

8. Gamezine | Demo | Download

9. Gallery | Demo | Download

10. Magazine1.2 | Demo | Download

11. Letter Frame | Demo | Download

12. Comfy | Demo | Download

13. Freshbrown | Demo | Download

14. Bmagazine | Demo | Download

15. Acosmintech | Demo | Download

16. Community | Demo | Download

17. Chucky | Demo | Download

18. Dreamy | Demo | Download

19. Driftwood | Demo | Download

20. Mahusay | Demo | Download

21. Paper Wall | Demo | Download

22. Magasin Tres | Demo | Download

23. Plantilla | Demo | Download

24. SchemerMag | Demo | Download

25. Woody | Demo | Download

26. Showcase | Demo | Download

27. Showcase Light | Demo | Download

28. The Latest | Demo | Download

29. MiniBlog | Demo | Download

30. One Room | Demo | Download

10 Top-Notch CSS Editors

2009-09-21T16:20:00.000-07:00

CSS editors are editors that focus solely on generating Cascading Style Sheets. Though you could scrape by using a fully-featured IDE or source code editor – CSS editors may offer specialized functions and features to help you write better CSS, quicker.

In this article, you’ll find some of the more popular CSS editors available on the market.

Stylizer

Stylizer is a visual CSS code editor. It has real-time preview that renders changes on your web browser on the fly as you make them. It also has a point-and-click interface (called "Bullseye") which allows you to target page elements by clicking on them, making CSS editing a cinch. Stylizer is available only for Windows and Mac OS.

Style Master

Style Master is a cross-platform CSS development application that comes with a robust set of features such as auto-completion, on the fly code editing and rendering of dynamically-generated pages (such as PHP, .NET, and Ruby on Rails), and a hierarchic display of CSS fields. It also has a feature called Support Watcher which warns you of potential CSS bugs for certain browsers.

RapidCSS

RapidCSS is ideal for writing CSS code; it is lightweight and offers a wide range of features like code auto complete, syntax highlighting, built-in CSS references and various shortcuts for CSS tags.

Free CSS Toolbox

Free CSS toolbox is a simple text editor for CSS. It’s very lightweight and simple to use. It has a syntax highlighter feature, code auto-complete, CSS checker, CSS validator and compressor.

CoffeeCup StyleSheet Maker

CoffeeCup StyleSheet Maker is another CSS editor which offers many functionalities to edit CSS, but still not very flexible to increase productivity to its highest level. It has support for shortcut keys for tags, classes, and margins to reduce the amount of typing you need to do. It also comes jam-packed with premade code snippets for common CSS styles.

EnginSite CSS Editor

EnginSite CSS Editor is a good CSS editor with "instant" preview. This editor is ideal for beginning designers focused on simple tasks and designs.

CSSEdit

CSSEdit stands in the middle between sophisticated web development editors and basic ones. CSS Edit is sleek and clean. It’s best suited for first time and casual CSS coders.

JellyFish-CSS

JellyFish CSS is a smart and simple CSS editor. It helps edit CSS code easily and quickly. It will also help you steer clear of CSS syntax errors with its Code-sense feature.

SnapCSS

SnapCSS is a windows-only CSS editor that is extremely lightweight, featuring a super simple text-editor interface. It has a beautify code function that automatically formats and standardizes your CSS.

SimpleCSS

SimpleCSS is a Mac OS application for easily creating stylesheets from scratch. It has an import feature which allows you to pool together several stylesheets into one file. SimpleCSS also features drag-and-drop capabilities for reordering your style rules, so that you may organize them in the manner you need.

25 Tutorials for Creating Stunning 3D Text Effects

2009-09-18T16:10:00.000-07:00

Unique 3D Text – Xara 3D + Photoshop Tutorial

This is tutorial is a good start as it shows you how to work in Xara 3D and give letters a 3d effect. Then it show you how to export from Xara 3D and get the text into Photoshop to do the final retouching.

Fresh Typographic Effect

New Way to Create 3D Text

Valentines Day Photoshop Style

Stunning 3D Effect

Kaboom Exploding Text

Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

3D Textured Text Effect

Create a 3D Text Scene Using Photoshop

Retro Pop Style

3D Text Effect 2

3D Text on Fire

Design Soft Stylized 3D Type

3D Clif Text Effect

Glowing and Sparkling Intense Light 3D Logo

Stunning Neon Light 3D Typography

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Creating a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Create a Spectacular Style Text Effect

Hell of Tutorial in Photoshop

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Papercraft Text Effect

Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

How to Create a Realistic 3D Stone Text Effect

Create 3D Text with Some Extreme Lighting

3D Text Effect in Photoshop (video)

Transformers Effect

3D Text Effect

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect

3D Text effect

3D Text

Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials

2009-09-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing. This is just the third article in this series , the forth part will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!

You can also take a look at other 2 articles in this series :

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Styling Lists

The Amazing

- With a little CSS, the

becomes one of the most powerful and versatile tags in a web designer's arsenal. This article is a tutorial and a tribute to the amazing

So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed to keep track on our next post in this series.
Better Ordered Lists (Using Simple PHP and CSS)- Here is an example where you ditch the traditional ordered list and create your own!

Style Your Ordered List- Here is a quick CSS tutorial on how you can use the ordered list

Live DemoView it Here
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List Based Calendar

Live DemoView it Here

Forms and Form Elements

Datasheet-style form using HTML and CSS

Styling File Inputs with CSS and the Dom

Live DemoView it Here
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Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration

Uni-Form

Live Demoview it Here
Download codefrom Here

Digg-like navigation bar using CSS

Menu circular en CSS

Live Demoview it Here

CSS Image Galleries

CSS Image Gallery

Not so simple photograph gallery

A sliding list click gallery

Drop Caps

Nice Drop caps with CSS

Live DemoView it Here

Drop Caps

Download codefrom Here

Rounded Corners in a simple New approach

3 Simple Steps in Coding a Rounded Corners Layout

Live DemoView it Here
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One pixel notched corners

Live DemoView it Here

Auto-Cropping Rounded Corners

Download Examplefrom Here

Blockquotes

Simple Double Quotes

Live DemoView it Here
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Blockquotes with Image Quotes

Worth Checking

Pure CSS Animated Progress Bar

Live DemoView it Here
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Add a “loading” icon to your larger images

The CSS Text Wrapper

Live DemoView it Here

Adding a magnifier to images with CSS and JavaScript

SAC Simple Accessible Charts

Cross-browser transparent columns

Live DemoView it Here
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A Cool CSS Effect – Dashboard [Updated x2]

Text-Shadow Exposed

CSS Speech Bubbles

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Design a Retro Style Ribbon

2009-09-17T13:13:00.000-07:00

Are you interesting in retro style? I have one interesting tutorial for you how to make a retro style ribbon by yourself.

Start by making a new document in Photoshop – around 500×500 pixels in size, or, you know, whatever you prefer and fill it with color of #dac8aa.

Now, find some appropriate texture to put it on the canvas. You can find a lot of interesting textures or feel free to use mine. Open this texture and copy to the canvas. Then desaturate it with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate:

After that change layer mode to Overlay and change opacity to 60%. Merge two of layers in one.

Ok, now I would like to sharpen of background. Use the Sharpen Tool to do this.

Ok, now we start to create the ribbon. First of all, get out the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create selection as on my picture below and fill in with green (#95b900) color on the new layer.

Add two more lines in the same way using yellow (#e9db03) and red (#b94a00) colors.

Remove the selection with Ctrl+D and duplicate layer using Ctrl+J, then use Ctrl+T to rotate copied layer as you can see below.

Also move to the original layer and rotate it to.

Now, select this layer with Select > Load Selection and drag with black to transparent gradient. It will be the shadow from upper part of the ribbon.

Remove the selection with Ctrl+D and merge two of these layers in one. After that get out the Polygonal Lasso Tool and select some part of ribbon in the bottom. Press Delete to clear selected part of image and remove the selection again.

I think, time to add the text our ribbon, give it some life, right? Get the Horizontal Type Tool out and write some text onto your ribbon. In the bottom image I’ve used a_MonumentoTitul for my font, if you don’t have this font just find a good another one. I also used the color of #efe6e0. After that rotate the text with Edit > Free Transform on the ribbon and duplicate four more times.

Then merge all text layers and ribbon layer in one and apply the Outer Glow layer style for this layer.

Now you should have something like this:

Apply Filter > Texture > Texturizer for this layer:

Now, we have a relief like this:

Then, move to the next step. To bring our ribbon three-dimensional effect use Dodge Tool with moderate settings (Brush: 125 px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 20%) and do a little bit of dodge-work on it. We should have an image like below:

Select Burn Tool (Brush: 80 px, Range: Shadows, Exposure: 30%) to make some burn-work.

Move to the next step. We need to add the grid to ribbon. Create a new document with size of 3×3 pixels and draw the pattern by using Pencil Tool as on picture below.

Then go to Edit > Define Pattern and save it as pattern. After that go back to our main document, use Select > Load Selection to select ribbon area, then create a new layer, get out the Paint Bucket Tool and fill selected area with new pattern.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and mess a little bit with layer mode and opacity. I tried Overlay and 40%.

Now, it will be better to add a shadow to the places where the arrows indicates.

Create a new layer under the layer with ribbon. Get out the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection as on my picture below and fill it with black to transparent gradient.

Remove selection using Select > Deselect and blur the shadow a little bit with the Blur Tool.

Add more shadow to other two places in he same way.

Looking quite good now. To finish off this tutorial, I think, we need to add some shadow to the background. Go to the background layer, select the Burn Tool (Brush: 300 px, Range: Shadows, Exposure: 30%) and make darker some parts of the background.

That is it for now! Our tutorial is done!

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

2009-09-17T08:32:00.000-07:00

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide By David Flanagan
Publisher: O’Reilly 1998-07-15 | 784 Pages | ISBN: 1565923928 | PDF (OCR from html) | 1.9 MB

JavaScript is a powerful scripting language that can be embedded directly in HTML; it allows you to create dynamic, interactive Web-based applications that run completely within a Web browser.JavaScript: The Definitive Guide provides a thorough description of the core JavaScript language and its client-side framework, complete with sophisticated examples that show you how to handle common tasks. The book also contains a definitive, in-depth reference section that covers every core and client-side JavaScript function, object, method, property, constructor, and event handler. This third edition of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide describes the latest version of the language, JavaScript 1.2, as supported by Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4. The book also covers JavaScript 1.1, which is the first industry-standard version known as ECMAScript.
Since the earliest days of Internet scripting, Web developers have considered JavaScript: The Definitive Guide an essential resource. David Flanagan’s approach, which combines tutorials and examples with easy-to-use syntax guides and object references, suits the typical programmer’s requirements nicely. The brand-new fourth edition of Flanagan’s “Rhino Book” includes coverage of JavaScript 1.5, JScript 5.5, ECMAScript 3, and the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Interestingly, the author has shifted away from specifying–as he did in earlier editions–what browsers support each bit of the language. Rather than say Netscape 3.0 supports the Image object while Internet Explorer 3.0 does not, he specifies that JavaScript 1.1 and JScript 3.0 support Image. More usefully, he specifies the contents of independent standards like ECMAScript, which encourages scripters to write applications for these standards and browser vendors to support them. As Flanagan says, JavaScript and its related subjects are very complex in their pure forms. It’s impossible to keep track of the differences among half a dozen vendors’ generally similar implementations. Nonetheless, a lot of examples make reference to specific browsers’ capabilities.
Though he does not cover server-side APIs, Flanagan has chosen to separate coverage of core JavaScript (all the keywords, general syntax, and utility objects like Array) from coverage of client-side JavaScript (which includes objects, like History and Event, that have to do with Web browsers and users’ interactions with them. This approach makes this book useful to people using JavaScript for applications other than Web pages. By the way, the other classic JavaScript text–Danny Goodman’s JavaScript Bible–isn’t as current as this book, but it’s still a fantastic (and perhaps somewhat more novice-friendly) guide to the JavaScript language and its capabilities. –David Wall
Topics covered: The JavaScript language (version 1.0 through version 1.5) and its relatives, JScript and ECMAScript, as well as the W3C DOM standards they’re often used to manipulate. Tutorial sections show how to program in JavaScript, while reference sections summarize syntax and options while providing copious code examples.

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Search Engine Optimization 101

2009-09-17T05:11:00.000-07:00

What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization is the process of increasing the number of visitors by achieving a high position within search results when relevant keywords are searched for. It is common knowledge that people rarely look passed the second or third page of the search results. Optimally you'll want a first page position or even the first result in the first page. However, to accomplish this, you'll need to optimize and code accordingly

Choose the Right Keywords

Choosing the right keywords can be painless or extremely tricky depending upon the scenario. You'd want to avoid the generic ones since it is going to be extremely difficult to optimize for them. Try to pick keywords that are just as specific as they need to be. For example if you are a freelancer based in Melbourne, your optimal keywords would be freelancer Melbourne or web development services Melbourne. Going for the generic freelancer or web development keywords isn't going to do you any good.
Research your keywords. Know which ones are probably going to be searched for most and go from there.

Focus on the Content

Content always comes first. It doesn't matter if you perform some dark voodoo to get your site the top place in the results. You'll still need solid content to back that up since the visitors are going to be leaving pretty quickly if they don't find what they are looking for.
Having good, relevant content is the most important aspect of SEO. Your content needs to be suitably useful for the people who you'd want to find your site. You need the content to make sense to the reader. The content needs to appeal to people and make them come back for more.
Having original content is very important. Don't expect to just copy-paste some text from another site, throw in some keywords and call it a day. You need lots and lots of original content with the keywords in the content itself. If people searching for jQuery come to your page, they expect something related to jQuery to be found on your page. Throw in relevant keywords within the content of the page. But don't just spam them sporadically like with tweeting. Your keywords need to be in the appropriate position and of appropriate density. Throw too much keywords around in the content and you are going to be flagged for spam.
Just as important as having original content is having regularly updated content. Fresh content will bring in people and bots alike which in turn will let you get your site indexed with much more frequency which will in turn return fresher results to the search results. But don't update just for the sake of updating. Bots have little incentive to come back if all the updates you perform are only marginally incremental. Just try to have something fresh for the visitors and you should be alright.

Get a Proper Domain Name

This is a hard to obtain part. If at all possible, get a domain name with the keywords in the domain name itself. www.webdevelopmentaustralia.com is going to have a lot more weight with search engines than www.somecompany.com. Obtaining a domain with the proper keywords should be difficult though.
Domains with the keyword as part of it do look ugly but keep in mind that keywords in the domain name carry very great weight.

Create Pretty URLs

Using a URL scheme where parameters are passed as a query string through the URL make it difficult for search engine spiders to look through your site. More importantly, when you are passing the session ID as part of the URL you are essentially creating a separate URLs for each session with almost the same content. This is probably going to get you penalized for duplicate content. We'll talk about that later on.
Human readable, bot parsable URLs are generally preferred over traditional parameter filled URLs. www.somecompany.com/games/2009/callofduty6 is generally preferred to www.somecompany.com/index.php?cat=game&year=2009&name=callofduty6. When crafting pretty URLs try to avoid days, months and years. www.somecompany.com/blog/seobasics is preferred to www.somecompany.com/blog/2009/09/09/seobasics

Dish out Relevant Page Titles

The text within the title tags: the text that is displayed on your browser's title bar is amongst the most important elements of a page. Actually I'd venture so far as to say it's the most important part of your page after the actual content itself.
Make sure the title is unique for each page and contains relevant keywords. With regards to the title's structure itself Page Title -> Site Name is vastly preferred to Site Name -> Page Title. There are no reasons for you to feel the title needs to be as terse as possible but on the other hand don't try to make it too long. 60 characters is the accepted limit.
Also whilst using keywords in your title text, please don't try to spin it too much. If the search bot sees too many keywords, you are going to be flagged for spam. Remember, the title text is what appears on the search engine result page. You need to convey as much information as possible without sounding too spammy.

Tweak the Meta Elements

The meta elements used to matter eons ago when search engine bots were less sophisticated and relied on the meta description and keyword attributes to help them. When this was taken advantage of by spammers, search bots started giving less importance to meta elements.
Having said that, it doesn't hurt to include the meta description element. This is the text used in the description of your site. Try to limit yourselves to 200 characters, keep it simple, grammatically correct and include relevant keywords. Keep the descriptions unique for each page.

Optimize the Page Structure

Layouts vary. Positions of your sidebar or navigation vary too. But with respect to the core markup itself, it's best to put your main content as close to the body tag as possible. If your other elements have to be placed before the content, use CSS to position it before the content instead of moving the markup itself before the content.
Footers are wonderful places to link to other content on your site. Don't just ignore your footer. Place links to recent posts or popular posts in the footer. Having said that, try to not make it look like a link farm.

Use Appropriate Tags

Use the appropriate tags when developing a site. The heading tags are widely under used. People are instead using generic div tags to encapsulate important information. This is wrong. Strictly looking at the markup alone, the heading tags lets us see the informational hierarchy of the page and this applies for the bots too. Use h1 for the title of the post, h2 for each section's heading and so on.
If you are including some code, use the pre tag. If you think some information is important feel free to make it bold. Bots tend to place value on bolded text just like we immediately see what the bolded text. As always, use it sparingly. You don't want to be flagged for spam.

Craft Proper Links

When creating links, try to stay away from the generic read me text. It's not very SEO friendly. Try to include a part of the child link's title to the anchor text itself. This is not as hard as it sounds. For example, instead of using read more, use read more about seo. It doesn't take that much time to change but yields a lot of SEO benefits.
While linking to page on your site, try to make the anchor text as focused as possible. Portfolio is a better candidate than What I've Done. The latter sounds more catchy but the former represents better SEO.

Link Internally

Courtesy of Opera

Don't be scared to interlink the pages in your site. If the number of pages is small, putting it all up on the navigation bar is the way to go. If yours is a big site with a ton of pages, just put all the main category pages on the navigation bar. One way or the other, make sure your pages can be found through links on your site.
Thinking outside the box, you could just as easily include a popular post section on each page. This way you get the interlinking SEO needs and at the same time your visitors can get to see some of the popular posts on your site. It's a win-win situation.

Make your site Accessible

Remember, search engines are meant to bring people to your site. Which means your site is primarily for human parsing. Design with them in mind.
Include alt attributes for all images on your site. This is not only good practice but also a necessity if you want valid markup. If it's appropriate include relevant keywords in the alt text. Remember, search bots can't really look at a picture and decide whether it's relevant or not. Appropriate keywords lets it make that decision. As always don't go overboard on the text. Keep it simple and to the point.
Please don't hide your content behind obnoxious JavaScript or Flash. Spiders can't go through those to get to your content. And without content, the entire point of your site fails. Miserably. Avoid this unless you absolutely have to.

Avoid Duplicate Content

Google is very strict about duplicate content and severely penalizes sites which do so. This is regardless of whether the content is on different domains. If the same, exact content appears on different pages, the page last indexed is going to be penalized.
This is mostly common sense: don't have the same content on each page. The footer text can be repeated with no penalties but not if your footer text is big enough to qualify as an article.
Also, your site may dish out alternative print capable pages which might be seen by the search engine as duplicate content. In this case, use robotx.txt to disallow indexing on these pages.

Use robots.txt

Create a robots.txt file to allow/disallow spiders from certain parts of your site. You just create a file named robots.txt and place it at the root of your web site and all co-operating spiders will respect the rules you've mentioned in the file.
You can do everything from disallowing all bots from accessing a specific folder to disallowing bots from a specific search engine. Read up more about it here.

Create a Site Map

Courtesy of Opera

A site map lets the search engine know about the existence of pages it might not have discovered through spidering through your site normally. Ideally, you should create a normal HTML site map for your users and an XML site map for the search bots. If at all possible, link both.

Avoid Frames

I can't say this enough: frames are bad. Both from a web developer perspective and a seo perspective. Content inside frames are virtually invisible to search engines.
More disturbingly, even if one frame of the page gets indexed and is returned as result the result would take you to just the frame without all of its supporting frames inside the parent document. Frames cause undue confusion to people and virtually stop spiders from crawling through your site. Unless you absolutely have to, don't use frames.

Reduce Code Bloat

And by this I mean 2 things:
Move your JavaScript and CSS to their own separate files. Spiders have no business with them and it is best practice to remove them from the core markup. Create separate files and include them later.
No presentational markup. This is not only SEO friendly but also best practice. Your HTML markup is no place to define how the content should look and similarly the bots have no reason to know how your site is programmed to look. Format the document to your heart's content in your CSS and leave the markup pristine and clean.

Avoid using a Flash Only Navigation

This is common sense but a lot of designers and developers tend to overlook this. Bots can't crawl through flash based content and if the only navigation is flash based, the bot has nothing to crawl through.
If your entire site is flash based, it makes sense to create a text only version for spiders and bots to crawl through and find your content. It'll take extra time to create that but without a text version to fall back on your site will be virtually invisible to search engines.

Use a Common Domain Naming Scheme

Decide on a common naming scheme and stick to it. Personally I prefer www.somename.com but others may like http://somename.com. Decide on a format and stick to it. Use URLs of this format while linking other pages on your site.
Also decide on a whether trailing slashes are required or not. Search engines considers www.somename.com/seo and www.somename.com/seo/ to be different URLs and there is a possibility you are going to be penalized for duplicate content. To get around this, modify your .htaccess file to redirect to the format you like with a 301 redirect. This tells the bot that the page has been moved permanently.

Submit your Site

If your site is newly hatched and hasn't been indexed yet, it's a good idea to get the ball rolling by submitting it to search engines and inspiration galleries. This not only let the search engines get to your site early but also brings in a ton of new traffic and back links.
Do not resort to link submitters unless you absolutely trust it. A lot of these submit your links to a number of link farms, an activity which might get you penalized. Just stick to the big search engines and galleries.

Check for Broken Links

Nothing stops spiders dead in their tracks quicker than broken links specially in the home page. Check thoroughly for broken links to ensure the bots have something to start crawling through your site.
Create a proper 404 page in case the search engine leads the visitor to an old URL. Include appropriate links in the error page.

Get Linked by Peer Sites

This is the massive step that is going to take you a lot of time to get right. Ideally, you'd want a lot of sites linking to your site and your posts . Each link to your site is considered as a vote to your site by the linking site. Getting inbound links from sites catering to the same user base is extremely vital since the current way of ranking relies on the fact that if a lot of sites link back to you then the site must contain relevant information.
Unfortunately, this is a long, arduous and never ending task and only one thing can assure you this: good content. Provide good content and sites will automatically start linking to your content. The more sites link to you, the higher your rank is going to be.
Do not resort to illegal means to get back links. This includes link farms and so. Doing anything like this is going to get you kicked out pretty quickly. Accepted means of getting back links includes reciprocal linking where a site places a link to another site in exchange for that site linking back to the original site.
The way I prefer is to write for Net Tuts. Each article I write nets me a back link and Net Tuts being as large as it is, these contribute heavily to my rankings. Plus it brings in a ton of interested new visitors. :)

Use Appropriate Tools

Tools like Google Analytics helps you analyze and track a number of data including from where your traffic comes from, which pages visitors look at, how much time they spend at each page, how many pages and so on. Use this data to fine tune your site.
Don't forget Google WebMaster tools. It lets you look at the search queries which bring visitors to your page, whether the spider encountered any error while trying to crawl through your site, which sites link to you and more. Invaluable when you are trying to optimize.

Avoid Black Hat Techniques

I can't say this enough: don't try to cheat. Sooner or later, most probably sooner than you think, you are going to be caught and kicked out with no chance of getting listed again. This includes legit sounding techniques like link farms or cross linking to keyword stuffing and keyword dilution.
Just don't do it.

Wait for the Results

At this point, you've hopefully done everything right. The only thing you need to do is sit back, generate some quality content and wait for the rankings to increase. Be patient, this doesn't happen over night but it definitely happens once you have the basics nailed down.

ASP.NET MVC in Action

2009-09-16T07:57:00.000-07:00

Jeffrey Palermo,Ben Scheirman,Jimmy Bogard “ASP.NET MVC in Action”
Manning Publications | 2009 | ISBN: 1933988622 | 275 pages | PDF | 12,9 MB

ASP.NET MVC in Action
The Model-View-Controller pattern is widely accepted as a best practice for UI development. With Microsoft’s first release of an MVC framework for ASP.NET development, web development on the .NET framework is both simplified and more flexible. ASP.NET MVC in Action is an advanced guide to developing long-lived applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework. It moves past simple introductions and dives deep into architectural techniques that lead to maintainable web applications with the MVC pattern.

ASP.NET MVC in Action lays a flexible foundation based on Domain-driven design, the S.O.L.I.D. principles, TDD, and interface-based development. With best-practices woven into every chapter, the authors present the new ASP.NET MVC framework in a manner that leads to more maintainable .NET web applications.

This book assumes that readers are already experienced with ASP.NET development and C#. Numerous popular open-source libraries, such as MvcContrib, are referenced throughout, and the book comes with the full source to CodeCampServer, a user group conference organizing application.

About the Author
All three authors are popular bloggers and Alt.Net developers. From Houston and Austin, TX, Jeffrey, Ben, and Jimmy are frequent user group and conference speakers. They are also committers to the open-source projects MvcContrib and CodeCampServer.

Jeffrey Palermo is the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, Texas. Jeffrey is an MCSD.NET, Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP, Agile Coach, Austin .Net User Group leader, and an INETA speaker. He is an ASP.NET expert and a co-founder of the MvcContrib project. His website, PartyWithPalermo.com was the first ASP.NET MVC application in production.

Ben Scheirman is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti in Houston, Texas. He studied computer science at the University of Houston and is a Certified ScrumMaster and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. He enjoys speaking and blogging about Agile development topics in .NET.

Jimmy Bogard is a senior consultant with Headspring Systems in Austin, Texas. His focus is using .NET technologies together with Agile methodologies.

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The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript

2009-09-15T06:09:00.000-07:00

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript | 32.2 MB
For any professional designer or developer working in the world of web technologies or multimedia, Flash is the must-have application, and knowing how to use it effectively is vital. Add in ActionScript 3.0, and Flash becomes an even more powerful tool for the development of high-performance web applications.
The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript introduces and explores the possibilities available to you through using Flash CS4. You will learn the aspects basics of Flash’s working environment and, using a step-by-step approach, work through the features of Flash and ActionScript needed to quickly achieve results. From navigating the interface to using graphic tools to write scripts and troubleshoot, you’ll master all of the of deploying highly interactive applications with rich audio, video, and animation.
Written for the beginning-to-intermediate Flash user, this book uses complete examples that highlight best practices that you can apply to your daily work as a developer or designer in today’s rich media world.
Learn to create and manage assets in Flash using the graphics tools and the library.
Acquire a comprehensive understanding of animation using the new Motion Editor and inverse kinematics tools.
Discover the dynamic world of ActionScript development including classes, events, and XML.
Learn to use and customize Flash’s UI components.
Become familiar with audio and video assets including preparation and integration.
Debug, publish, and deploy Flash applications for the Web with Flash Player and the desktop using the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

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Apress Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional

2009-09-15T05:56:00.000-07:00

Apress Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional | 16.12 MB
With the latest incarnations of ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2008, programming dynamic data–driven web sites with Microsoft technologies has become easier and much more efficient than ever before. Fewer mouse clicks and fewer lines of code can now enable more powerful features and the tools you need—Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2008 Express Edition—are free. In Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional, you’ll learn how to best use the free development tools offered by Microsoft to build an online product catalog. You will gain an intimate understanding of every piece of code you write. This understanding will enable you to build your own powerful and flexible web sites efficiently and rapidly with ASP.NET 3.5.
Build a complete site, including a shopping cart, checkout, product searching, product recommendations, control panel, customer accounts, order processing, and much, much more.
Explore new challenges and theoretical concepts, which are carefully analyzed and explained throughout the book, with each feature you add to the web site.
Learn to handle payments by integrating PayPal and DataCash into your site.
What you’ll learn
Use Microsoft’s Express products to build an online product catalog.
Add payment processing with PayPal and DataCash.
Expand your site’s product listing through web services.
Implement an order pipeline.
Take advantage of SEO techniques to publicize your site.

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Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites

2009-09-15T05:51:00.000-07:00

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites

Product Description

If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You’ll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You’ll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites.

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You’ll practice what you’ve learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.
This book will help you:

Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming
Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
Use libraries and packages, including the Smarty web template system, PEAR program repository, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library
Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly dynamic environment
Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications

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Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 Bible

2009-09-15T05:46:00.000-07:00

James McGovern, Rahim Adatia, Yakov Fain, Jason Gordon, Ethan Henry, Walter Hurst, Ashish Jain, Mark Little, Vaidyanathan Nagarajan, Harshad Oak, Lee Anne Phillips, «Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 Bible»
John Wiley & Sons | ISBN: 0764539663 | 2003 | PDF | 1008 pages | 12.88 MB

That Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 makes your enterprise services more cost-effective, more adaptable, more versatile, and more responsive to the needs of your customers. To get you up to speed on J2EE 1.4, a crack team of experts has packed this comprehensive volume with clear instructions and vendor-neutral, real-world solutions you can use in your enterprise. Everything you need to turn on J2EE power is right here.

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Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Application

2009-09-14T18:48:00.000-07:00

AJAX: fast mastery for experienced Web developers!
Already an experienced Web developer? Apply your skills in today�s fastest-growing area of Web development: AJAX!
Building on what you already know, this fast-paced guide will show you exactly how to create rich, usable Internet applications. Joshua Eichorn teaches through sophisticated code examples, including extensive server-side PHP code.
You won�t just learn how to code AJAX applications: Eichorn covers the entire development lifecycle, from use cases and design through debugging. He also presents detailed application case studies, including a start-to-finish update of a non-AJAX application that addresses everything from feature improvements to changing usage patterns. Coverage includes:
� How AJAX changes the conventional Web development cycle
� Problems created by the AJAX paradigm — and how to avoid them
� Adding AJAX to existing Web applications: key considerations
� Using core AJAX technologies, including the XMLHttpRequest object
� Consuming data returned to an AJAX application using both XSLT and JSON
� Building more usable AJAX applications: guidelines and downloadable resources
� Use cases: solving real-world problems in the AJAX environment
� Libraries and toolkits for simplifying AJAX development, including Sarissa, scriptaculous, and HTML_AJAX
� A complete guide to AJAX debugging
� Supporting browsers without XMLHttpRequest by using IFrames or cookies
� JSON data encoding debugging guide, which covers tools for Firefox and Internet Explorer
� A list of libraries, which includes PHP, .NET, Java, and other libraries that can be used with any server language
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PHP Programming Solutions 1st Edition (With Source Code)

2009-09-14T18:45:00.000-07:00

PHP Programming Solutions 1st Edition (With Source Code)
Vikram Vaswani
07 2007 | English | ISBN: 9780071487 | 577 Pages | PDF | 6.2 MBPHP Programming Solutions is a full-fledged developer guide with two primary goals: to deliver solutions to commonly encountered problems, and to educate developers about the wide array of built-in functions and ready-made PHP widgets available to them. Task-based categorization makes it easy to locate solutions, and each section comes with working code, a detailed explanation, and applicable usage tips and guidelines. The solutions described use both PHP’s native functions and off-the-shelf PEAR classes.
PHP Programming Solutions includes coverage of a wide variety of categories, including string and number manipulation, input validation and security, authentication, caching, XML parsing, database abstraction, and more.
The solutions are intended to :
(1) simplify and shorten the application development cycle;
(2) reduce test time;
(3) improve quality;
and (4) provide you, the developer, with the tools you need to quickly solve real PHP problems with minimal time and fuss.
Simplify and shorten the PHP application development cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide. PHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage tips.
Inside, you’ll learn to manipulate strings and arrays, work with HTML and Web pages, accept and validate user input, parse XML code, and resolve programming problems using PEAR and PECL widgets and extensions. Plus, you’ll get detailed coverage of PHP security issues, SQL database interaction, debugging techniques, and error processing.
* Work with numbers, strings, dates, times, files, and directories
* Build complex data structures using PHP’s array manipulation API
* Use functions and classes to build modular, reusable code
* Create, update, and cache HTML documents and Web content
* Obtain and process user input submitted via online forms
* Protect, log, and debug PHP script actions
* Authenticate and track users with sessions and cookies
* Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents
* Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases
* Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents
* Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases
* Interface with different server types, network protocols, and file formats
* Perform efficient exception handling and error processing
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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

2009-09-14T18:38:00.000-07:00

Publisher: friends of ED
Author: David Powers
Format: PDF
Pages: 940
Dreamweaver CS4 is a massive step forward in terms of integration with the rest of the CS4 suite (Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.), and also includes a whole host of exciting new features of its own. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP concentrates on getting the best out of Dreamweaver CS4, rather than going into every menu item and toolbar icon. The emphasis is on developing websites compliant with the latest web standards, using CSS, JavaScript libraries (with particular emphasis on Spry, Adobe�s implementation of Ajax), and PHP.
The book covers all aspects of the new user interface, including workspace layouts, iconic panels, the related documents feature, Live View, Code Navigator, and Live Code. It also shows how to use the improved CSS editing features, and JavaScript code introspection. There is also coverage of other new features, such as version control through Subversion integration, and the improved support for Photoshop integration through the use of Smart Objects.
* Takes you through your development environment set up
* Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sites, and dynamic web applications
* Teaches real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials
What you’ll learn:
* Streamline your workflow with the Related Files toolbar, Live view, and the Code Navigator
* Bring your pages alive with Ajax widgets from Spry, jQuery, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library
* Use server-side includes, ********s, and Adobe’s InContext Editing online service
* Create dynamic web applications using Dreamweaver’s PHP server behaviors
* Build real world web site functions, such as form validation, random quote generator, search function, user management/login pages, dynamic Ajax gallery, and much more
* Consume RSS feeds and create Spry data sets
* How to publish your site after you’ve created it
Who is this book for?
This book is for both beginners who want a solid grounding in Dreamweaver CS4, and intermediate web designers and developers with previous Dreamweaver experience, who want to get up to speed with the new features.

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Free Icons sets for Free and open

2009-09-13T23:59:00.000-07:00

Icons are everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 40 most beautiful icon sets that were freshly created.

Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!

Kung Fu Panda

4 icons of funny creatures.

Hello Kitty

Super-cute icons based the mega hit from Japan. This collection contains 9 individual icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard.

Star Trek

Official icons for the new Star Trek film from J.J. Abrams. This collection contains 15 individual icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard.

15 Free Origami Icons

Origami Free Set is a set of 15 icons. The icons are available in 5 different sizes (16px, 32px, 48px, 128px, and 256px) and come as Windows ICO and 32-bit transparent PNG files.

Function App Icon Set

A beautiful free set of social media icons by WeFunction.

Coquette Part 4 Icons

This playful free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection and playfulness to your projects. “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.

20 Free Blockie Icons

Here is a set of 80 icons (available in four different colors). The icons can be used for Windows desktop softwares and general web applications such as blog themes, forums, and eCommerce sites.

The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources

2009-09-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. The great thing about Joomla is the extensions (components, modules and plugins), that can be added to your Joomla website. This allows the average user to add more functionality and dynamic content to their website without being a developer or programmer.

In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Joomla-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Joomla.

This post covers essential resources related to Joomla— Themes, Extensions, Tutorials, Forums, Cheat Sheets and Useful Documents.

Joomla’s current version is 1.5, however, some people are still using 1.0. Some of the extensions are only compatible with 1.0, we tried to mix between both version while prioritizing 1.5.

Beautiful Free Joomla Themes

MyPortfolio

Xtreme Sports

Manuscript

Ditystyle

Business

Fashion and Style

Decayed

Sublime

Siteground

ManiFolio

Happiness

Red Evo Aphelion

JW Getty

Beautiful Day

Rainbow

Anemone Colourful

Transparent Bliss

Color Paper

Xblog

Contaminated

Must Have Joomla Extensions

JoomlaPack

Backup is the most important thing for any bloggers. JoomlaPack is an open-source backup component for the Joomla. It allows to create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server.

sh404SEF

sh404SEF is really useful and essentianl Joomla extensions. sh404SEF creates Joomla SEF URL, and turn them to a more user-friendly format for your site visitors, as well as for search engines.

JoomSEO

It is necessary to have correct metadata and keyword get discovered by Search Engines. JoomSEO adds heading tags to content titles and descriptions relevant for the search engines, improving ranking and accessibility.

JoomlaComment

This is a useful comment extension which has features such a threaded comments, CAPTCHA Protection and more.

Avatar/Gravatar Plugin

Avatar/ Gravter is widely used in website. This extension add the gravter functionality to your site.

JoomlaStats

No matter what CMS you are using, Knowing your site stats such as hits, pageviews, search engines & keywords are improtant. JoomlaStats is the great tool to be aware of what users/bots are doing with your site .

Community Builder

Community Builder suite (CB) extends the Joomla! user management system such as : extra fields in profile, enhanced registration workflows, user lists, admin defined tabs and user profiles, image upload, front-end workflow management, Forum, Galleries.

Page Peel Banner

This module is developed based on a wonderful Pageear Script, which shows a Page Peel effect on the site

AllVideos

If you have media site or want to add videos is AllVideo is a must have extension . You can use the plugin to easily embed videos hosted on popular services like YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo (and many more) inside your Joomla! articles (content items). or playback almost any video/audio filetype directly from your server or a remote server.

JoomGallery

JoomGallery is a gallery component completely integrated into Joomla, with support for Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 native. Easyto configure with fullscreen animated JavaScript view (Lightbox, Slimbox or Thickbox3).

The Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin

Blogger all over the world knows how important it is to have a good social network. This plugin will adds social bookmarking buttons to your content, making it easy for your visitors to submit your articles and build traffic to your website.

Joomla! AddThis

Another useful module that intergrates AddThis on your site on specified position.his module only works with Joomla 1.5.x. You can customize any AddThis Parameter easily within the module it self.

Joomulus

A Flash based tag cloud that works with Joomla 1.5

Jumi

If you are web designer or web developer this is a must have plugin. This plugin allows you can include php, html, javascript scripts into the modules position, articles, category or section descriptions, or into your own custom made component pages.

Slick RSS

This is a really cool plugin . It parse and display RSS Feed News with DHTML Teaser Tooltip

AJAX Shoutbox

This Joomla module adds live chat functionality to your Joomla site. Your visitors can chat with each other right in your website without refreshing their browsers.

Contact Enhanced

Getting feedback or allowing your readers to communicate is vital for any kind of website. Contacts Enhanced is a contact component allows to have contact form with CAPTCHA and custom fields.

Mini FrontPage

MiniFrontPage module provides you with a lightweight but powerful news headline style of your most recent content items.

AdSense Module

A really simple handy solution for implementing Google AdSense ads in Joomla.

PixSearch Ajax Search module

Another cool module that mimics search like the one on apple.com. It shows result as you type.

Setting up Google Analytics for your Joomla Site.

2009-09-12T04:01:00.000-07:00

In This Tutorial We will be learning install Google analytics Code for your Joomla site.
First of all... there are several different ways to get Google Analytics up to work with your joomla site via modules, plugins, components. But we don't trust third parties that much.So, in this tutorial we will be just editing the html of our site template and inserting the code directly into it!

1. Navigate to Extensions >> Template Manager.

2. On this page you will see a list of templates installed in your joomla site. Select the template you want to edit.

3. Hit the Edit button on the top right of the page.

4. Some Templates have Parameters which you can change. This can include Color variations, Width and other template properties.

5. The other things you can do here is Edit the index file of the template. Every template is based on a main index.php file which can be edited here... Click the Edit HTML button to view the code of the index.php file and make changes to it.

6. After you click on Edit HTML you can see all the code of the Template here. You are free to edit it and make changes to it.

7. Now go to the end of this code and you will see the two lines.

Put your Google Analytics code right before the tag and you are done!

How to change your Joomla Site Default WYSIWYG editor?

2009-09-12T03:52:00.000-07:00

The Tiny-Mice Editor Which comes with joomla really Sucks, most of the people want to either switch it off or change it. Here is a Small Tutorial to change the Default editor for your joomla site.

1. Begin and Navigate to Site >> Global Configuration.

2. From here you can Select or Change the Default WYSIWYG editor for your joomla site.

3. All right Now you are good to go… Hit the Save button.

interactive clean Free PSD layout give away just for u

2009-09-11T11:59:00.000-07:00

A free give away PSD template for your website, basically this PSD is done with well standard and also additionally the layers are named in a standard.

Download here

Try it and add your valuable comments, if you guys, also if you need any support just drop me a mail.

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30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials

2009-09-09T04:55:00.000-07:00

This article provides 30 Impressive Flash and Actionscript 3.0 tutorials which can enrich your design skills and may serve as an inspiration for your Flash-projects.

Create an Impressive Magnifying Effect with ActionScript 3.0

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a magnifying glass effect, demonstrating use of the displacementMapFilter. The effect can be achieved in a relatively short space of time and with very little code.

- Creating Gradients in Flash

Creating gradients is an important skill to have when designing in Flash.

- Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript 3

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to control buttons using ActionScript 3 while creating a guide for selecting perennials.

- 3D Menu on a Cube with Perspective

In this tutorial, they provide several custom classes which make building 3D menus like the cube menu below easy.

- Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

In this screencast we will learn how to create a dynamic slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and how to grab the images from an xml file.

- Create a 3D Sliding Puzzle Game in Flex with ActionScript 3.0 and Away3D

In this tutorial you are going to build up a simple sliding puzzle. Puzzle images are dynamically loaded and sliced so you can easily use your own images if you like.

Check out the demo

- Expanding the Flash AS3 Videoplayer

In this tutorial you will learn how to add the following features: Playlist support, Fullscreen support, Save volume, Clickable progress/volume bar.

Check out the demo

- Infinite Gallery / Menu

In this Flash and ActionScript 3 tutorial you will learn how to create an infinite gallery. This will also work perfectly for menus and so on.

Check out the demo

- Create an iPhone-like Flip Effect in Flash Using ActionScript 3.0

In this tutorial, we’ll recreate the Flip Effect used in the iPhone’s UI using Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0.

Check out the demo

- Using the Timer Class to animate rotation

The timer class is quite a powerful class in Actionscript, in this article you will see a very simple implementation of a Timer. We will create a simple shape, and we’ll use the Timer class to make it rotate.

Check out the demo

- Flash Mouse Trailer with Stars

This Flash and ActionScript 3 tutorial shows you how to create a cool mouse trail effect with stars.

Check out the demo

- Customizing Flash Context Menu Using AS3

This tutorial will teach you how to customize the context menu by removing the default items and adding your own items instead.

Check out the demo

- Create a poll and chart component in Flash CS3

Collect your website visitors’ views and opinions via a Flash poll, and display the results on a Flash bar chart

- Trendy Custom Cursor Using the Action Script 3

This lesson, explained in extreme detail, will teach you how to create trendy custom cursor using a little action script code. You can use this lesson, when you like to hide a standard cursor and use a custom cursor.

Check out the demo

- Implement the basic Flash CS3 drag-and-drop technique

Add that little bit of extra dynamism to your website by introducing drag-and-drop to the user experience.

- Modern Preloader with ActionScript 3

How to create a modern preloader with ActionScript 3. It is really easy to change the look of the preloader to fit for your needs.

Check out the demo

- AS3 Guide Colour Tints

How to create a modern preloader with ActionScript 3. It is really easy to change the look of the preloader to fit for your needs.

Check out the demo

- Rotation Movie text presentation

Using this thoroughly explained, detailed lesson, you will see how to create very attractive movie text effect.

Check out the demo

- Vertical 3D Carousel with ActionScript 3

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a vertical 3D carousel with the help of ActionScript 3. We will determine the rotation speed according to mouse movement.

Check out the demo

- Cool particle effects in Flash

Creating a particle system in Flash may sound difficult, but as Seb Lee-Delisle shows you, it’s not rocket science

- Flash CS3 Particle Effect Tutorial

Another tutorial to show you how create an effect with random particles flying out from the center of the stage in random directions, with random sizes and opacities.

Check out the demo

- Basics of Papervision3D

This tutorial goes over the basics how to use the Papervision3D library.

- Design a Flash-based videogame

Luke Feldman reveals how to create an exciting Flash-based computer game that will bring your audience back time and time again.

- Mp3 player with volume slider using Actionscript 3

Learn how to create a mp3 player with a volume slider.

- Creating a 3D Tunnel Effect in Flash

This tutorial will teach you how to create this very cool 3D tunnel effect in Flash using some simple 2D animation techniques.

Check out the demo

- AS3 Guide Drawing Curves

Drawing curves in ActionScript 3.0 is simple using the curveTo().

Check out the demo

- Circle Collisions

- Building flash video player

- ColorPicker Component in Flash CS3

In this simple Flash movie, the user can draw with the mouse on a board. The user can choose the color and the thickness of the stroke. For choosing color, we use the new ActionScript 3 component, ColorPicker.

Check out the demo

40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques

2009-09-09T04:50:00.000-07:00

Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.
In this post you will see how web designers carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.

Illustrative & Sketchy Backgrounds

Camellie

ScaryGirl

CreativeJoomlaDesign

Deanoakley

Fritz-quadrata

HugsForMonsters

Hutchhouse

CarrerasConFuturo

Chucku

Photoshoped Backgrounds

Littlebigplanetoid

Gruny

Cpeople

Dreamerlines

Matt Mullenweg

Koodoz

Lebloe

Using Textures and Brushes

Beakable

Ftdesigner

Loukotka

Ryanmcmaster

Brownblogfilms

Snopp

Subvert

Jameslaicreative

MarkupAndStyle

Repeating Pattern

ThingsThatAreBrown

Soyuzno

Go on Web

Simple and Elegant

Envato

CSS Tutorial - 2 - Basic Structure and Syntax

2009-09-06T16:30:00.000-07:00

com if you need any help or have any questions. I will answer them all there! ... css tutorials tutorial html xhtml how to howto learn basic 101 advanced style sheets website

Firebug just monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live

2009-09-06T06:00:00.000-07:00

Firebug 1.4.2 just monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTM

L, and JavaScript live in any web page...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Firebug 1.4 requires Firefox 3.0 or higher.

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Visit the Firebug website for documentation, screen shots, and discussion forums: http://getfirebug.com

Support

Support for this add-on is provided by the developer at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug/topics

Developer Comments

If you have any problems, please read the FireBug FAQ.

http://getfirebug.com/faq.html

15 wonderful set of icons for web design make your design

2009-09-05T21:13:00.000-07:00

Icons are the road signs of the Internet, they let you know at a glance what action to take. When building your own website or web application, you may need some icons, if you don’t have the time to create your own, why don’t you take a look at the ones in this list?

Before you use any of these sets, make sure that you read the license. Some are not free for commercial use.

1. bwpx icons

Beautiful icons with a clean design by Paul Armstrong.

2. Tango icons

Gorgeous set of icons to use for your web application or website.

3. Mini Pixel

Full set of icons for all kind of uses: filetypes, design, CMS, eCommerce (see image under),…

4. Icojoy’s free web development icons

Icons to use in your web projects with symbols for most commons website actions.

5. Function icons

Web icons set for all kind of uses with a glossy look, great work.

6. BrandSpankingNew icons

Tiny but useful set of icons by Brand Spanking New, a special gift for Christmas 2006.

7. Famfamfam mini icons

The great and famous famfamfam mini icons.

8. Flavours Icon set

Wonderful work by Smashing Magazine as usual, they even managed to put an iMac with a Blue Screen of Death.

9. WooThemes icons

Cute icons provided by the fine WooThemes people, you can get original illustrator files if you are a paid member.

10. Glossy eCommerce icons

Prettify your web commerce with these icons.

11. Dead Simple

Simple 16×16 px social media icons, ideal if you don’t want the social media icons to take too much space.

12. Country flags

Mentionning countries on your website? These country flag icons could be handy…

13. Splashy icons

464 icons and growing, a huge set for all web design situations.

14. Morcha browser icons

Webmasters don’t do this much anymore, but you could use these browser icons if you want to emphasis on your site’s cross-browser compatibility.

15. Social media mini icons

Some more lovely, well-designed social media icons.

Seven Beautiful JQuery Scripts For free

2009-09-05T18:29:00.000-07:00

JQuery has been taking the web by storm since early 2006. It has allowed developers to life, sites they could only dream about before. JQuery allows a degree of interaction which before would have to be done via a CGI. Here are seven scripts which demonstrate the beauty of JQuery.

LavaLamp

LavaLamp takes rollovers to a new level. Unlike the tradition roll over, LavaLamp simulates the rollover moving from one element to the next, similar to the motion of a lava lamp. If you are using rollovers on your site right now, this is a great script to think about adding to your site.

Site | Demo

InnerFade with JQuery

Flash is very popular due to it’s animations and the ability to do transitions. InnerFade with Jquery provides a nice, smooth, Flash like fade for your site without the need for Flash. This feature would be very nice if you have a site which needs to transition between multiple images.

Site | Demo

JQuery Calendar

Coding calendars can be a developer’s nightmare. There are so many variables to take into consideration, such as is the year a leap year, how many days are in the month. Jquery is here to help make those a little easier. JQuery Calendar will not only take the pain out of coding a calendar, but also make the calendar more interactive.

Site | Demo

Slider Gallery

Gallery’s are very popular, but most of them are boring, generic and take up a lot of “room”. Slider Gallery gives you a way to make your gallery a more interactive, flashy, and best of all it doesn’t take up a lot of room. It would be very simple to add this script to any current website that has a gallery.

Site | Demo

SlideDown Menu with Animation

Toggling elements can be done with JavaScript, but it is not very attractive. SlideDown menu adds a very nice animation which makes the toggling of an element more sophisticated rather than just appearing.

Site | Demo

JQuery UI Slider

Sliders give your site more interactive elements, but they replace what users are familiar with. JQuery UI Slider provides an interactive slider, and still gives users something, a drop down menu, to fall back to if they don’t know how to use the slider, and do it in a professional design.

Site | Demo

Horizontal Accordion

JQuery gives developers ways to envision their sites completely different than what they could have in the past. Horizontal Accordion is one of those scripts. It gives the developer the option incorporate what could have been multiple pages into one page with a professional look.

Site | Demo

Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial -- For Beginners (Step by Step)

2009-09-05T16:05:00.000-07:00

css. We have put this video in a step by step format so that it would be very easy for you to understand and follow. You should be able to grasp the basics behind html ...

Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial -- For Beginners (Step by Step) @ Yahoo! Video

45 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper

2009-09-04T05:42:00.000-07:00

One of the best ways to experiment and try new things with Photoshop is to create wallpaper. The huge canvas size will give you plenty of room to try anything you want, and there really is no limit to what you can create. Here are 45 tutorials that can help you to learn new tricks while designing wallpaper.

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper

Using Some Free Stuff to Create a Wallpaper

2008 Wallpaper

Butterfly Wallpaper

The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

Diving Wallpaper

Design a Cool Music Wallpaper

The Joomp Wallpaper

Fantastic Wallpapers

Feed Your iPhone Tutorial

Favorite Bands Tutorial

Summer Camp Wallpaper

Animated Rainbow Wallpaper

Fantastic Sunset Wallpaper Effects

Abstract Art Wallpaper

Anime Girl Wallpaper

Autumn Wallpaper

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

Design an Extreme Grunge Wallpaper in Photoshop

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Christmas Ornaments Wallpaper

Celeb Wallpaper

Marine Wallpaper

Aquawave Wallpaper Effects

Summer Party Wallpaper

Vista Wallpaper

Abstract Christmas Wallpaper

Abstract Christmas Wallpaper 2

Abstract Wallpaper

Love Wallpaper

Summer Night Wallpaper

Star Wars Wallpaper

On Seacoast Wallpaper

Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop

Splashy Leaf Wallpaper in Photoshop

Kung Fu Panda Wallpaper

Splash My Heart Wallpaper

Wallpaper with Glass Dragon

Design a Cool Football Wallpaper

Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper

Summer Breeze Wallpaper

Harley Davidson Motorcycle Wallpaper

Wallpaper from Photos

Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. Howto make website from scratch

2009-09-03T17:11:00.001-07:00

25+ Photoshop Tutorials for Poster Design

2009-09-03T10:27:00.000-07:00

For Photoshop users who are interested in experimenting and learning something new, poster design is an excellent way to practice. With a large canvas area and unlimited possibilities, there is plenty of room for creativity. Last year I published a collection of tutorials for designing posters in Photoshop. Since other outstanding tutorials have been published since then, today we’ll feature another 28 tutorials.

Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster

Create and Then Shatter a Grid, While Making a Typographic Poster

Designing a Typographic Concept Poster

Designing a Portable Gaming Device Poster

Make a 3D Colour Explosion

Creating a Retro Grunge Poster

How to Draw an Electronic Angel Working Up an Image of a Girl

How to Design a Rockin’ 80’s Party Poster

Giving a Mafia Look to a Business Photo

Create a Mock-Retro Poster Concept

Poster from the Words

Make a Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster

Awesome Snowboard Poster

Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

Create an Impactful Child Welfare Poster

Design a High Impact Gig Poster Suitable for Screen Printing

Retro Movie Poster Art

Create Sci-Fi Poster Art in Photoshop

How to Create an Ice-Cold Poster with 3D Text

Creating a Grunge Rock Poster

Never Forget

Create a Poster Illustration with Floating Floral Elements

Sweet Radio Station Advert Design

Orange – Design Your Life

Make a Cut and Paste Rock Club Flyer

Create an Awesome Music Poster

Making an Anti-Terrorism Poster

Gig Poster Art in Photoshop

Top Free beautiful Blogger Blogger templates

2009-09-02T07:01:00.000-07:00

Design Blog

Design Blog is new Blogger Template for bloggers that care about design. Designed in CSS by BFT I converted it in Blogger.

Features: 2 columns, right sidebar, simple, clear, top menu links, RSS botton, dark background.

Live Demo

Download it

Auto Blog

Auto blog its an unique Blogger template for your auto related blogs. I created this template for blogger based on CSS by Chocotemplates.

Features: 2 columns, left sidebar, dark, yellow, highway colors, auto, top menu links, search box.

Live Demo

Download it

Mephisto

Mephisto is a float width Blogger template, which I like too much. Based on Mephistoblog design I created this template for blogger.

Features: 2 columns, right sidebar, fluid width, top menu links, cool true colors, simple, minimal.

Live Demo

Download it

Anther

Anther is a colorful Blogger template, designed in CSS by FreeCssTemplates and brought in Blogger by me. I recommend this template for photo blogs.

Features: 2 columns, left sidebar, photoblog, flower, top menu links, minimal, simple.

Live Demo

Download it

Arrasblog

Arrasblog is a new tech Blogger template. I created this templates based on Arrastheme. This blogger template requested by zuhe

Features: 2 columns, right sidebar, tech, news, dark, top menu links, search box, RSS buttons.

Live Demo

Download it

http://www.box.net/shared/7n4p6guvmp

50 Essential Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

2009-09-02T06:41:00.000-07:00

Last month I published a collection of 45 Photoshop Tutorials for Better Navigation, which quickly became one of the most popular posts on this blog. Due to the response, I spent some time finding more great Photoshop tutorials. Here are 50 of the best tutorials for working with text.

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:
40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects
45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop
45 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Smooth Glass Type

Slow Shutter Text Effect

Placing Multiple Images Inside Text

Stylish Text

Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

Grunge Rubber Stamp

Graffiti with Photoshop

Faking Text Wrap in Photoshop

Kaboom! Exploding Text

Recreate the “Bee Movie” Text Effect

Freezing Ice Text Effect

Color Reflection Special Effects

How to Create a Gold Text Effect

Old School Type – Line Gradients

Cartoon/Comic-Style Text Effect

3D Typographic Effects

Matrix Text Effect

Metallic Spiderman 3 Text

Text Explosion Effect

Colorful Light Burst Text

3D Text

Reflective Liquid Type

Swirl Text Logo

Stylish 3D Text

Dreamy Text

Text on Turf

Zoom Text

Snow on Text

Aqua Text

Simple 3D Text

Electric Text

Reflective Metallic Text

Futuristic Text

Glowing Text

Plasma Text

A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

Radioactive Text

Glow Letter with Perspective

Text on a Path

Metal Text Effect

Web 2.0 Style Text

Mosaic Text

Taco Bell Text Effect

3D Styled Text

3D Bulge Text Effect

Black Glass Reflection

Striped Text

Cool Breeze Text Effect

Top 35 Best Wordpress Themes For Free

2009-09-01T17:54:00.000-07:00

free high-quality WordPress themes. We have listed many examples of magazine style themes and a demo link has been provided with each theme.

Artistic Themes

1] Outdoorsy

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

2] Portfolio Wordpress Theme

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

3] Creative Art Theme

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

4] Wild Dreams

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

5] Notepad Chaos

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

6] Clear View Wordpress Theme

7] Aggregado

8] Curious

9] Silver Sleek

10] Dilecto

11] Bus Full Of Hippies

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

12] Dark Mess

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

13] Dark Forest

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

14] Professionally Done

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

15] Sea Breeze

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

16] Aspire

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

17] Wordpress Fun

18] Japan Style

19] Biz Theme

20] Scruffy

21] Pixeled

22] WP Coda

23] Vikiworks V5

24] My Wall

25] Firebug

26] Illacrimo

27] iTheme

28] Mahiwaga

29] Photo Clip

30] Dilectio

31] Yoghurt

32] Simple Balance 2.0

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

33] Skinpress

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

34] Small Magazine

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35] Vistalicious

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

1000+ high resolution free Photoshop brushes

2009-09-01T05:20:00.000-07:00

Brushes serve an incredible role in defining art, with these brushes you can create thousands of effects. There are many such brushes available free over the web. I list out few must have high resolution photoshop brushes for you to download.

Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.

Grunge set

[DOWNLOAD]

Splatter brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

Torn News paper brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

Paper Edges Brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

Masking Tape Brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

Broken Arrow Brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

Valentine Brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

Fusion Brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

Zone Brushes

[DOWNLOAD]

23] Female Dancing [DOWNLOAD]

24] Cloud Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

25] Free 5 Planet Brush [DOWNLOAD]

26] Watercolor Reload [DOWNLOAD]

27] Grunge Brush Set [DOWNLOAD]

28] Grunge 2 [DOWNLOAD]

29] June Brush [DOWNLOAD]

30] Grunge Angel Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

31] Retro Grunge Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

32] Anime Eyes Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

33] Texture brushes [DOWNLOAD]

34] 130 Urban Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

35] HQ Ornament Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

36] Crack Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

37] Wound Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

38] Music Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

39] Vector Pack Brush Set [DOWNLOAD]

40] 240 Retro Dynamic Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

41] 1000+ Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

42] Vector Meets Typo Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

43] Moon Stars Sparkle Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

44] Glow brushes [DOWNLOAD]

45] 23 Chinese Character Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

46] Versatile Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

47] Rock Star Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

48] Smoke Brushes Set 1 [DOWNLOAD]

49] Hair Brushes [DOWNLOAD]

50] Hair brushes Set 1 [DOWNLOAD]

Advanced WordPress Training Videos to GEt start

2009-09-01T04:58:00.000-07:00

Advanced WordPress Training Videos
10 Videos 106 Mb RAR Rapidshare

10 Advanced WordPress Videos That Will Help Drive More Traffic, Make You More Money and Have a Better Looking Site.

Video 1 Changing a header graphic Sample
Video 2 Playing with CSS Style Sheets
Video 3 Inserting code and scripts
Video 4 Content Management CMS
Video 5 Auto Blogging and Content
Video 6 Graphics and logins
Video 7 Desktop Blogging
Video 8 RSS uses and stats
Video 9 404 pages Customize your error pages
Video 10 Widgets
Play Time 1hr 40 mins

Download:
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6. A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

7. Design a God of War III Inspired Cracked Text Effect

8. How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect

9. Super Sleek Text Effect with Water Drop Texture

10. Colored Chrome Text Effect

11. Smooth and Fresh Text Effect with Leaves and Stone Texture

12. Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial

13. Snowy Rock Text Effect

14. Suspended Text Effect

15. Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

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17. Aqua Text Photoshop Tutorial

18. Chained Text Photoshop Tutorial

19. Photoshop Tutorial: How To Create Killer Metallic Text

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21. Reflective Liquid type photshop tutorial

22. Translucent Text Effect with Sky and Cloud

23. Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

24. Awesome Grunge Text Effect

25. Icey Styles in Photoshop

26. Create A Gold Text

27. Create a Spectacular Graffiti Effect

28. Moon Shine Text Effect

29. Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

30. Indiana Jones Movie Logo/Text Effect

31. Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

32. Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

33. Transformers Text Effect

34. Smooth Glass Type

35. Bubble Text

36. Paint Splodge Text

37. Cartoon/Comic-Style Text Effect

38. Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop

39. Vanity License Plate

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