Archive for Tutorials

  • Bad Website Ideas - What Makes a Bad Website Bad Website Ideas – What Makes a Bad Website

    If you consider yourself to be a creative individual, or you simply want to express your passion for a certain subject, then creating a website could be for you. Many new websites enter the internet every day, and that is hardly likely to change anytime soon. Unfortunately, many of these ...

  • Captcha For Joomla 1.5.x and integration with Sobi2

    OK so we finally managed to crack this bad boy for Joomla 1.5.9 . This script allows users to add a Captcha form to there Sobi2 contact page, helping the prevention of spam.  Snake was kind enough to modify and donate this script to us. This Captcha script can be used for any component in Joomla 1....

  • Posting twitter posts with Curl using PHP, Sobi2 and Joomla

    Being experimenting with the API of Twitter. I started out playing with curl to send updates from a joomla directory, once a user added a listing. The concept was to have followers follow the updates live via twitter. Tools used: Joomla , Sobi2 and some basic PHP. Firstly make sure your server su...

  • Amazing Photoshop Light Effects Amazing Photoshop Light Effects

    With a quick stumble i came across these Amazing Photoshop Light Effects. Being such a big fan of photoshop, i decided to blog review it quick. These tutorials can be viewed at designerside. They feature top lighting methods that can be reproduced in your everyday web designing techniques. ...

  • How to Run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine

    This is for those Linux lovers and website developers!, This tutorial that i stumbled on will show you how you can run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine. I would imagen that this will apply for all the CS3 packages. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 Edgy Eft for this, so change these commands to match up w...

  • How to implement a Captcha system to your website

    Today we look at very simple feature to which is a very important one. A Captcha Security device, to help prevent that unwanted spam. This script generates images (known as "Captcha's") which contain security codes used for protecting a form from spam bots. By encoding a 'password' inside an ima...

  • Make fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique Make fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique

    This article will show you how to create fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique. It is much better to use this technique than to use image buttons because you can apply the style to any link and at the same time you don't have to create an image for each button. The ultimate Css for your we...

  • Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Part 2 of 5 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Part 2 of 5

    Create shape and duplicate First you create a triangular shape. You can select a triangle from the Custom Shape palette and flip it upside down (Edit > Transform > Flip Vertically). Duplicate this shape layer using command/control + J. Now hit command/control + T (Edit > Free Transform) ...

  • CSS tricks and tips

    I have compiled a list of articles that better explain valid CSS and xHTML code. It's becoming more commonly to use valid CSS. And we all know how much time we are spending in all those hacks and fixes for various browsers. I will keep adding to this list, so stay tuned. 1. Rounded corners without...

  • Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Part 1 of 5 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Part 1 of 5

    In this 5 part series we will be covering different styles and technique's that can be used in Adobe Photoshop. From light motion trails to glowing sparks. Here you will learn to create beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows, and other lighting effects, giving your images ambiance and depth. Creat...