Here are a couple of PHP snippets that you might want to incorporate in to your WordPress search file to improve your site’s search results page. The first one will display the number of results found, whereas the second will basically highlight the search terms used within the contents of the results. Image source To [...]
Italian digital artist Alberto Seveso’s TUTORIAL will show you how to achieve a similar effect to the above image using Adobe Photoshop CS6 with mask and Layer Effects. In this tutorial, you will be creating different brushes of different sizes to make your image more dynamic. Apply the Layer Mask to edit the areas of [...]
Our featured tutorial for today comes from Ruby on Rails developer Gavin Morgan via Natasha Murashev’s blog “Natasha the Robot.” In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to download and configure PostgreSQL with your Rails application on a Mac platform. Simply follow the instructions below: Visit postgresapp.com & download the app. Install & run the app. [...]
Got creative block? Here’s a cool way to relax: the Shape Type typography game. This online game is for you type fans and according to Scott Gilbertson of Webmonkey.com, to play it, you have to drag the curve adjustment tools to perfect the letterforms in different fonts. The game also helps you to be more [...]
Photographers record a greater range of tonal detail than a camera could capture in a single photo through HDR (high dynamic range) images because sometimes cameras, by their basic-machine-nature, are very good at capturing images, lines, shadows, shapes but they are not good at capturing a scene the way the mind remembers and maps it. [...]
In this post, you will be amazed by a Brazilian designer who creates awesome art using coffee as ink. Coffee is a remarkable substance and an interesting visual medium. Paintings using coffee as ink produce intense warm brown tones. What is the difference between using coffee and normal watercolor paint? Coffee has more flexible properties [...]
Testing the functionality of a CSV file uploader may seem to be simple and straightforward at first but as it turns out – not quite as explained in Ruby Quicktips. Say if you have a form for uploading CSV files like the one below: <%= form_tag csv_import_path, :multipart => true do %> <%= file_field_tag :file, [...]
Nowadays, designing web layouts for different resolutions has become easier because of media queries. One of the useful tools available is ReView.js, which is a dynamic viewport system that provides efficient responsive web design viewing choices. It has an Opt-In and Opt-Out responsive design states and developed in pure JavaScript. It also allows users on [...]
The Filament Group has created a technique to send an appropriately-sized image based on screen resolution. The goal is to deliver the optimized images in responsive layouts. With the responsive images, developers can start with mobile-optimized images in their HTML and specify a larger size for users who are using larger screen resolutions that don’t [...]
Here’s a great PHP snippet that scans text and then searches for strings with an “@” symbol attached to it (i.e. Twitter handles like “@name”) and then converts them into linked text format. So basically it’s emulating what Twitter does with “@” symbols and “#” hashtags. <?php /** parseTwitterNicks * * convert text with format [...]
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