One of the challenges a web designer faces is creating a site without any tools or resources, and this can be helped by using wireframe and mockup software. UXPin is a wireframing toolkit created by UX designers for designers. It is a quick, easy, and collaborative creation of wireframes, with drag-and-drop library for UI elements, [...]
David Walsh is web developer and blogger who loves to share his knowledge and ideas on MooTools through easy-to-follow tutorials, one of which will be featured today. In this particular tutorial, you’ll be creating three sliders with a Facebook-inspired design that you’ll use to control the height, width, and opacity of an image. Below is [...]
This tutorial shows how to add a water reflection to any photo using Photoshop, although it tends to work best with images that don’t already contain water in them. One of the tools you need to use is the Mask Layer on your image. You will also apply a Gradient tool afterwards. You can see [...]
Today’s PHP trick will allow us to do something that a site administrator would usually do whenever a member misbehaves in the forum (e.g. violates site rules or Internet etiquette): prevent the user from visiting the site by blocking their IP address. This trick was shared by Monu Alagh over at TricksForYou and it involves [...]
MooRainbow is a Javascript color picker that lets you select colors as a useful application. Created by web developer Djamil Legato, it is made with Motools Javascript Framework which can be attached to any elements of DOM. It provides two events: onChange and onComplete that both allow you to easily manage what to do [...]
In this Text Effects tutorial, you will learn how to place an image inside text with Photoshop. Once you have your image open in Photoshop, create a New Document (File>New). Make sure that the new document has the same dimensions as the photo you are going to use to fill the text. Then use a Text Tool [...]
To date, AMC’s Breaking bad is arguably one of the best television drama series of all time. It centers around the life of Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), a middle-aged high school chemistry teacher whose pedestrian existence shatters after he discovers that he’s dying of lung cancer, which propels him to enter the drug [...]
Meteor is an open-source platform for creating high-quality apps in less time. It is a real-time JavaScript framework created on top of Node.js. Features: Pure JavaScript. You can write your entire app in pure JavaScript. Live page updates. As you write your template, they update automatically when the data in the database changes. It also [...]
Here’s a nice PHP snippet from Hal Gatewood that I’m sure YouTube account holders might be interested in. It’s a single line of PHP code that will get all of your YouTube uploaded video views (that’s right, just ONE!). $youtube_view_count = json_decode(file_get_contents(‘http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/YOUR_CHANNEL?v=2&alt=json’))->entry->{‘yt$statistics’}->totalUploadViews; But if you prefer using a function, sure! Hal’s got one for you [...]
VidEmbed is a powerful video plugin that embeds videos straight to your WordPress. It supports different sources like Youtube, Vimeo, Amazon S3 hosted videos and even self-hosted video files so you can quickly add video content from them. You can also customize the player styles and video embeds. Key features: VidEmbed shortcode button. This makes [...]
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