The difference between a good web designer and a great one is the ability to know how to take short cuts and save time without compromising the quality of work. Pixelsurgeon
’s Jason Arber has put together 20 top tips and tricks you should be using to give your work that all-important professional edge
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Google’s commitment to “green” means that the company sources carpet and sofas made with PVC, paints without volatile organic compounds, and cafeteria food from local growers. It’s not surprising, then, that they would roll out the largest commercial solar deployment in the US
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Printed magazines are all well and good but they cant deliver up to the minute information and articles like an online magazine can. Here we round up the best online resources for web designers…
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Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html and widgets that you can use on on your website or blog (Part 2) …..
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a one-page tutorial that demystifies the cryptic and cranky rules of CSS.
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“A list of rules I’ve come up with lately, based on my experience in programming.”
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Both YouTube and MetaCafe have a lot of photoshop video tutorials and while not all are the best quality video, the ability to see techniques in action with video is great for quick learning.
Here are just a few of the video Photoshop tutorials unearthed in You Tube and a few from MetaCafe as well.
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This disgruntled designer puts the God’s honest truth down for all to read.
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First, you got to create good content. Second, you ought to make your content accessible. And third, you should tell others about your content.
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“It is interesting to ask: What do we expect when we enter a term into a search box? Ideally, we’d like to get the perfect answer right away. Often, we have an idea what that perfect answer should be, and when computer does not get it for us we are disappointed. But are we being reasonable? Can we expect the “perfect” answer all the time?”
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More and more companies restrict your access to certain websites. Usually it’s for a good reason, however if you’re pretty tech savvy and not worried about having the website “steamysingles.com” in the log file associated with your system, then this little tip site is for you.
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“…Many people have asked me about which text type it
’s better for a magazine, or a newspaper, or a poster, or a newsletter, or a publication, etc… In general, I give them the solution immediately. But I know that this is not the best answer, because they don’t learn to do this by themselves.”
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This is a description of how to set up a secure tunnel between your MySQL Server and a locally running MySQL Administrator using PuTTY. By creating a secure tunnel to your MySQL server using PuTTY, you can grant localhost access to powerful applications like MySQL Administrator while making your server appear as if it isn’t even there.
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Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.
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Plus it looks super cool. GM and Ford better step up their game, fast.
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Take a look on the net and you’ll see endless pages of AJAX Frameworks: libraries which promise to do all the trivial and dirty AJAX work for you, leaving you free to code without actually understanding how the application you’re writing really works. So lets pull back the smoke and mirrors and see what AJAX is and why it’s just a simple evolution
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How much greenhouse gas does one single cheeseburger emit into the atmosphere? According to this article, about 6.5 pounds per burger; considering that Americans eat an average of three burgers per week, it adds up to be the same carbon contribution as 75,000 to 15,000 SUVs each year — that’s a lot! Can you say Carbon McCredits?
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This web site has hundreds of links to web design tools sorted by category and popularity. The site stores your favorites so you can reference them later. The categories on the site are: color, css, fonts, html, icons, images, inspiration, tutorials, and widgets. You can even add your own links.
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The near overnight success of companies such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Digg has motivated a slew of us into believing that we too can create the next big thing on the Internet. But does your idea truly have the potential to attract millions of monthly unique visitors in less than two years time?
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Color theory may sound like a subject for the Art Department, not for developers. But we’ve all had the experience of choosing a color scheme using the property grid to select named colors and ending up with a really garish color scheme.
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Matt Cutts a google employee and head of the web Spam team at Google. Explains how Google handles Hacked Sites using a real example site that got hacked recently.
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Php And Mysql Related Site Very Helpful For Pros And Newbies Check it
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One of the most important steps in optimizing and tuning mysql is to identify the queries that are causing problems. How can we find out what queries are taking a long time to complete? How can we see what queries are slowing down the mysql server? Mysql has the answer for us and we only need to know where to look for it…
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good tip for getting relevant ad’s from google adsense
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“You’ve got to find what you love,” Jobs says. “Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.” The first story is about connecting the dots. My second story is about love and loss. My third story is about death. Jobs concludes the three stories with this precious gem, “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
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Simply put, for a 1080i/p game the console has 55% less time per pixel to render any special effects, anti-aliasing, illumination, etc. than for a 720p game.
Is it really harder for a developer to make a game for 1080p as opposed to 1080i? No.
Read on for more information
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There are a ton of fonts out there, but how to separate the wheat from the chaff? Web designer Vitaly Friedman tackled this dilemma and decided to make his own list of the top best free quality fonts.
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With old-school table layout methods, vertical positioning is a piece of cake. With CSS layout, it
’s a piece of something else. This article shows how to regain control of footers and other vertically positioned layout elements via CSS, JavaScript, and the DOM.
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Clobbered by Wall Street. Fierce competition from Google. Meg Whitman’s had a rough couple years. Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky finds out how she’s trying to turn eBay from ultra-hot to built-to-last.
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“Google has created a search site without any Google branding to test new features. The site, SearchMash, has a simple blue and white interface with a search bar and an option to click on “popular searches.” Once keywords are entered, the results page features links to results running down the left side of the page….”
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# 1 – “Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.” – No reputable business person would first give away their work and time or merchandise on the hope of making it up later. Can you imagine what a plumber would say if you said “come in, provide and install the sink for free and next time we’ll make it up when we need a sink.
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This pdf doc shows you how to design logos using letters. It deals with various techniques like stroking, angling, altering, reversing, crossing, bridging etc.
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Great paper from Google: ‘A Large-Scale Study in the Orkut Social Network’.
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Rounded Corners with CSS are a hot topic in web design: I think that there are hundreds of articles on them. This page is intended to present the solution I came up, that doesn’t requires images, extra markup nor CSS.
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This very interesting article talks about a lot of behind the scene stuff of the Steve Jobs Keynotes for Apple. Even though they always look so easy and simple, they require huge preparations to becalm Steve’s perfectionism. Very interesting read!
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In the spirit of the Internet, I want to share my experience as a photographer so every month I post a collection of my most interesting images shot in the previous 28 days as well as a detailed description of how some of the images were shot. Some great photography tips and techniques here, apparently from portrait photographer Neil Turner.
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A list of linux commands for common operations including: file searching, networking, directory navagation, etc.
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“Ever see a video on YouTube and wish you could take it with you? TubeSock does it.
Just click to download, convert and copy to your iPod.”
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The following is a list of the best 25 extensions for Firefox. They have been classified into three board categories: those that add additional enhancements to the browser and improve a user’s experience, those that add additional enhancements to certain web sites, and …
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Congnitive Refletion Test (CRT) formed 3 simple and easy questions below, and it has been conducted with 3428 undergraduate students during a 26-month period starting in January 2003. CRT asked respondents to answer the following quesitions within a minute. Tell me your answers, honey!
(1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
____ cents
(2) If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100
machines to make 100 widgets?
____ minutes
(3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?
____ days
