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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Getting a client’s IP address can be quite simple as using $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’], but the only thing is once the client uses a Proxy Server to connect to the Internet, it won’t return its real IP address anymore. Instead, it will return the IP address of the proxy server and not the client’s machine itself. So [...]
One of today’s fastest growing and most popular social network sites is Pinterest. Pinterest, which was launched as a closed beta in March 2010, is a pinboard-style photo-sharing site that lets you manage theme-based interests, events, etc. Many people have started using this since its release and it is one way to increase your audience [...]
It is often common for websites to display how many RSS subscribers and followers from various social sites they have. You could say that it’s a way for them to show how popular their site is, and to encourage more visitors to stay. That’s why today, I’d like to feature a tutorial from Alex of [...]
What you’re about to see is made by the simple action of moving a transparent sheet across another printed sheet. First, start off with an image. Next, create a striped pattern with black bars and small white lines in between. One white space is equivalent to one sixth of the black space. This is important [...]
In this tutorial, you will learn about creating a modern shopping brochures using Adobe Photoshop. It’s helpful especially for most designers who are looking for efficient ways of creating their own brochure designs. Before we start designing a brochure, there are various things we need to consider first. These are the size, shape, and folding [...]
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