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How to build a jQuery Lightbox!

I want to show you how to build a jQuery Lightbox. I also want to point out the road blocks and work arounds any normal developer runs into when building a Lightbox. Works in IE6+ and all other browsers!

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2011-03-28

Backtracing with PHP

If you need to debug a PHP script but do not have debugging tools at hand in your IDE or similar, an easy way to try to see what's happening and what functions are being called is to use PHP's backtracing tools. It can be useful also to include a backtrace when sending or logging errors that have occured on a production website.

2011-03-28

Turn a sketch into a Crazy Santa illustration

We’re only one week away from catching Santa Claus in our houses. This tutorial will show you how to create a Crazy Santa illustration from sketch that I’ve made for it. This is also a complex guide for creating character from sketches. Intermediate knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is advised.

2011-03-28

Create Realistic War Medal in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create realistic war medal in photoshop The Following Skilled will be covered. Paths, Layers, Groups, Layer Masks, Shading, Filters, Transformations, Lighting and Modeling. Free Psd and all the Resource Files are Available for Download

2011-03-28

jQuery Photo Slide Show with Slick Caption Tutorial Revisited

A revisit from my previous famous Image slide show with semi-transparent caption jQuery tutorial. I have fixed bugs and enhanced this image slide show to be more efficient, w3c compliant and more semantic. Quick! Learn how to create a slide show with cool sliding caption effect using jQuery.

2011-03-28

Create a Filterable Portfolio Page in WordPress with jQuery

Learn how to make your WordPress portfolio page filterable using a free handy jQuery plugin released by New Media Campaigns.

2011-03-28

The $_FILES Global Variable in PHP

Learn all about the $_FILES global variable and how to use it when it comes down to uploading files.

2011-03-28

Create a Print Job in Flash using ActionScript

learn to compose pages and print them from Flash using ActionScript. Comes with LIVE demo. Is possible to download the tutorial with tested source FLA file

2011-03-28

Falling Snow Christmas Card with AS3

This tutorial covers how you can create falling snow with actionscript 3 over an image to create an animated Christmas Card.

2011-03-28

Build A Full-Width Centered Navigation Bar

This horizontal navigation bar stretches the full width of the screen but centers the navigation over your content. It's easy, clean, and CSS-only.

2011-03-28

Better HDR in Photoshop

If you're not a fan of high-dynamic range images pushed to unrealistic extremes, try this two-part vide series on the softer side of HDR.

2011-03-28

Get the number of days in a month with Javascript

This post shows how to get the number of days in a month using Javascript by passing the month and year to a function.

2011-03-28

"Tweet This" and URL shortening API

Create a "Tweet This" button using Twitter API and to.ly API. It will allow you to add "Tweet This" buttons on your website with a pre-written message and a link.

2011-03-28

How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

CodeIgniter is an open source PHP web application framework with a lot of features. Recently, thanks to the latest update, a new feature was added to this framework, called the Cart Class. In this tutorial, we're going to take advantage of this new class, and write a shopping cart system, with a touch of jQuery added in.

2011-03-28

Make an entire table row clickable with jQuery

If an HTML table row contains only one link it can be useful to make the entire row clickable and make it activate that link. This post shows how to make the entire row clickable with jQuery so that clicking anywhere in the row is the same as clicking that link.

2011-03-28

Sick Fitty Cent Album Cover - Face/Texture Mapping

Uses displacement maps and textures to create 50 Cent's newest album cover. It's Gangsta!

2011-03-28

Magical Christmas Tree Scene

For this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’re going to create a glowing sky aurora behind a Christmas tree with shimmers and heavenly beams.

2011-03-28

Slicing and Coding a PSD into XHTML and CSS

Learn how to take a free PSD template and code it into valid, semantic XHTML and CSS! Part One of Two.

2011-03-28

Decoding CAPTCHA's

An introductory guide to breaking CAPTCHA's with source code. Walks through identifying weaknesses in a CAPTCHA using them to extract the text and then identifying them.

2011-03-28

Create Pop Art Style Circle Pixels in Photoshop

Learn how to create a unique, awesome pop art style photo by creating circle pixels. It's very simple and only takes a minute!

2011-03-28

You Don’t Know Anything About Regular Expressions: A Complete Guide

Regular expressions can be scary...really scary. Fortunately, once you memorize what each symbol represents, the fear quickly subsides. If you fit the title of this article, there's much to learn! Let's get started.

2011-03-28

Bit.ly API and adding URLs to your MySQL database

A tutorial on using bit.ly API and implementing it into your website. Also, a tutorial that explains how to add that shortened link into your MySQL database so that it works.

2011-03-28

Modeling Meat Grinder in Maya

In this tutorial I will explane you how to make meat grinder.

2011-03-28

Christmas Wishes With Facebook Connect

Today, we will develop a webapp which will allow users to add christmas wishes using facebook connect and share them with their friends. We are using CSS, jQuery, PHP, AJAX and MySQL for data storage.

2011-03-28

How to create a fairy from a few photos

In this tutorial, we show you how to create a fairy using a few royalty free photos.

2011-03-28

Design a Stylish and Creative Advertising Campaign for Jaguar

you will be able to design advertising campaign for any product after reading this tutorial. Following Skills will be covered: Paths, Layers, Groups, Layer Masks, Shading, Filters, Transformations, Lighting, Motion Effects

2011-03-28

Lenses for your new Canon DSLR

Explanation of good budget starter lenses to get you going with your new Canon DSLR. Using these lenses you can work out what focal lengths you like best for any future lens purchases.

2011-03-28

Removing Dust & Speckles from Old Photos

I've got lots of old photos from family members, and they're all plagued with some of the same problems. One of them is those tiny little dust specs and scratches all over the place. In this video we'll use a not-so-common filter in Photoshop to help take care of them in no time flat.

2011-03-28

Faking a Panorama in Photoshop

Even if you don't shoot a pano in the camera, you can still have a panoramic photo with Photoshop. In this video we'll look at how to fake a panorama and how to build a template that not only allows us to really get a feeling for what the pano will look like, but also let us replace the photo with another one in just a few clicks.

2011-03-28

sRGB vs. Adobe RGB

If you're a photographer you've probably seen that your camera, Photoshop, Lightroom, and even Camera Raw all have places to set your color mode (sRGB or Adobe RGB). In this video I'll help you figure out what the difference is, where you'll see that difference, and what mode is best to keep your photos in.

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