Posts tagged tutorials
Great Useful Apache Rewrite Techniques and Tricks
0Apache HTTP Server (usually just Apache) has been the most popular web server in the Internet for more than a decade, with millions of installations serving up a huge portion of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. As of july 2009[update] Apache served over 47% of all websites and over 66% of the million busiest. Knowing that Apache is this popular makes it worth spending a some time learning the basics. If you’re an IT professional working with web development it is almost certain that you will need, if not now then later.
Great HTML5 Resources to Get You Start coding
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20+ Great Slider Techniques collection for Web Developers
0Animated sliding effects can if not used wrong or to much add excellent dynamics and uniqueness to websites. They are often seen as components that give access to multiple featured articles in an elegant and very space optimized way. Generally sliding effects are created using CSS and Javascript and typically javascript frameworks like jQuery and mootools are used to make the code more robust and compatible.
Excellent Resources, Tutorials and Cheat Sheets for Flash and Action Script
0Adobe Flash goes back several years and have turned into an excellent development platform. It allows developers to push the boundaries for what is possible to achieve with a web page. Flash even have allowed companies to create great online games running in web browsers. Even though they are not so common as earlier some websites rely completely on Flash. In my opinion Flash should be used wisely and only where it adds value. Avoid being tempted to having different kinds of images and text flying in from all sides just because it is possible. Also it is important not to build too large Flash animations as visitors may press back if the “loading…†messages is shown for more than a few seconds.
Photoshop Tutorial | Textures and Blend modes
0Today I’m going to begin a Photoshop tutorial on textures and blend modes. This technique is one I use often when designing web graphics. I’m going to focus a lot on what’s happening rather than just re-tracing the steps and mouse clicks I used to create a single image. Hopefully, this will allow you to understand the process to the extent you can create your own images and not just an identical copy of mine.
All images used are either photographs taken by me or creations I generated from within Photoshop, so they are yours to use as you wish.
First, let me give you a hopefully painless definition of the two main ingredients that are used to create these images:
Digital texture:
When you work with digital images, texture refers to the illusion of raised and lowered surfaces caused by combinations of dark and light areas. More >
Great Tutorials on Creating WordPress Themes from Scratch
0There are countless designers developers using wordpress for blogging and as a CMS for their website. Some of them use to go for paid themes, some like to customize free themes according to their need and some love to create a new wordpress theme from scratch. To help desingers entering into the wordpress world I would like to share some tutorials which can help creating a new worpdress theme from scratch. The list includes some great theme tutorials, tutorials to understand the wordpress files structure and wordpress codex for stepping into templates.
So here is a list of 12 great tutorials on creating a new WordPress Theme. Hope you like them all.
How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch
Delightful Graphic Design Books
0I have probed the web for the mosthighly recommended and best-selling graphic design related books thatcan inspire and help you as a graphic designer. These books cover manyareas of design, including typography, color theory, layout, designtheory, web design, business and even search engine optimization andmarketing for designers.
These delightful graphic design books will make a great addition to any graphic designer’s library!
1. Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical GuidelinesThis is a book you should not do without. It touches on every topic youneed to know about how to be successful as a graphic artist. If youwant experienced and practical advice on anything from setting pricesfor your work on the Internet to how to best manage your clientrelations – this is the book for you.