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Creating Energy Spheres in Photoshop

ducani — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:44:48 +0000

This tutorial shows you how to create a pretty cool energy beam effect using Photoshop.

5 Tips for Photoshop Efficiency

ducani — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:31:01 +0000

Are you on your way to becoming a Photoshop expert, wizard, or guru? Here are five tips for working more efficiently with Photoshop that will make you a faster expert, wizard, or guru.

Photoshop Inferno Typography Design

ducani — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:30:01 +0000

Create cool inferno style typography with the techniques from this Photoshop tutorial.

Photoshop Indiana Jones Tutorial

ducani — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:47:40 +0000

Well if you're a movie buff of any bearing you would be aware of the looming release of ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’. You would also definitely have seen some of legendary poster artist Drew Struzan's work (bow). His art for this latest movie is classic Jones, classic action adventure, it's brilliant. Hell, everyone should have their own Indy Poster. In homage to Struzan, let's do it.

Designing a Black Zune 2 in Photoshop

ducani — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:00:02 +0000

This Photoshop tutorial guides you through the process of creating your very own Black Zune 2.

Design a Cool Old Book with Photoshop

ducani — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:00:05 +0000

This Photoshop tutorial walks you through the steps involved in creating an old book from scratch.

Making a Cool Anime Header in Photoshop

ducani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:30:01 +0000

This tutorial walks you through the steps to making an anime header using Adobe Photoshop.

GWT Basics: AJAX Programming with JavaScript

ducani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:30:02 +0000

Prior to JavaScript and other client-side languages, Web browsers operated as if they were HTML dumb terminals, merely presenting Web pages generated on a server. For such pages, every user action requires a full page refresh, with a round-trip over the Internet, which degrades performance and thus user satisfaction. It may be fine for a great many Web sites, but it is completely inadequate for high-performance dynamic Web applications.

Installing PHP on Windows

ducani — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:30:05 +0000

A brochure-style Web site may be sufficient for a business that simply wants a basic Web presence — some static pages to inform the visitor of the company's off-line contact information. But most organizations want a Web site that can interact with the visitor, delivering custom content in dynamically-generated pages, and storing visitor information in a database.

Making Your Own Watermark with Photoshop

ducani — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:50:33 +0000

This Photoshop tutorial walks you through the process of creating a simple watermark for use with all the images you would like to protect.

Installing MySQL on Windows

ducani — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:00:05 +0000

As Web sites and Web-based applications become more important to commercial firms and other organizations, so too does the methods used for storing data online, such as customer contact information, system login details, product data, and much more.

Easy PDG Generation in PHP

ducani — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:30:01 +0000

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to generate PDF files in pure PHP and distribute your content in a single, consistent format.

Enrich Your Web Applications

ducani — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:30:01 +0000

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to enrich your web applications with the technologies and approaches that worked.

Photoshop Reflective Eye

ducani — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:33:23 +0000

In this tutorial you'll learn how to simply and quickly add the reflection of a scene to your subjects eyeball. I've also included the actual Photoshop session in with notes so you can see for yourself how this is done.

Candy Coated Text

ducani — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:32:11 +0000

In this tutorial I'll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it'll give your website a cavity. Then I'll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself.

Opening PDFs in a New Window with JavaScript

ducani — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:30:02 +0000

Opening documents such as PDFs in a new window should be automated using JavaScript for the following reasons. Users will often close the web browser when a PDF is opened, mistakenly believing the document has been opened in Adobe Reader, the attribute historically used to open a new window, target, has been removed from the HTML 4.01 Strict specification (it's now deprecated), opening a new window is a behaviour and should be moved to the behavioural layer.

Installing Apache on Windows

ducani — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:30:01 +0000

Even though it is possible to do Web development and testing on a remote server, it is better to fully develop a new Web site on a local Web server, and then upload everything when it is finished, for many reasons...

Striped Tables Using JavaScript

ducani — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:00:02 +0000

JavaScript can be incredibly useful when you need to automate repetitive tasks. In this article we'll implement a simple JavaScript function that will apply alternate striped rows to a table. We'll implement this technique using unobtrusive JavaScript.

Flash Momentum Tutorial

ducani — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:27:29 +0000

This tutorial will show you how to make items in Flash "throwable" using Actionscript. So if you like throwing things around, this is the tutorial for you.

Flash Race Car Tutorial

ducani — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:24:11 +0000

This tutorial will teach you the basics of making a keyboard controlled racecar in Flash. You could apply this to a spaceship, a gorilla or whatever else you want to control with your keyboard.