It doesn't always have to be "all work and no play makes webmasters a dull person". Here are some comics that can maybe lighten up the day.
It doesn't always have to be "all work and no play makes webmasters a dull person". Here are some comics that can maybe lighten up the day.
As I'm recoding my portfolio right now, I thought to myself – how great would it be to have a thumbnail maker tool. Some PHP or Javascript solution to crop images dynamically without the use of Photoshop. I would hate to fire up Photoshop every time I want to upload something. I'm sure you've all been there before. Anyways I landed upon a script that suited my need exactly. The Rectangle Marquee Tool. The tool looks great but was a bit confusing for me to get working and based on the comment for a few others too. Now I've also done some slight PHP modification to get the script working to my needs and generating the correct thumbnails.
See what I'm mumbling on about right here:
Demonstration of Marquee Tool
If you operate a user registration script on your website you may want to ensure users are protected. There are certain aspects of this you cannot control such as the user's self selected password. Here I have a script that will detect the user's password strength and base on that you could reject the password or just make notice to the user their password's strength.
Between a good design a good development there's a path in between that we all must cross which is converting your design into a functional website. An aspect to really consider now a days is loading time of the website. There are many variables that contribute to a site's load time which includes server and client aspects and everything in between. Today we will focus specifically on loading the images on the site and how you can optimize them for best performance.
Well, the Google Wave has been out for a couple months now and I'm still not sure what's so crazy about this thing. Either way, I've got some invites sitting here, if you're interested in joining the crazy crowd and seeing what this new Google product is all about just leave me a line. Try it out and then let me know how it has worked or not worked for you!
Its been overdone but a friend of mine asked me to show him how to draw a realistic coffee cup in Photoshop, he said he's not using it for web design so I guess I'll show him here. This is what the final result looks like:
Making a website or a blog now-a-days is not easy, given all the tools we have today compared to the early 90's means its not only easier for us but easier for others too. The competitive playground is just so big now a days. This is why your website not only has to be unique but has to cover a few basic things first. Here are some stats and guidelines to help you get started. As well as a look into the business aspect of making a website.
For some reason modern designers and developers love to use tabs. Maybe they keep things organize and clean all in one page. Here's a incredibly simple cross browser compatible Javasript tabs script. The final result will look like the one below.
Learning Photoshop and all the wonderful things it can do can be a hassle if all you want to focus on is web design/development. Here's some great photoshop tutorials that will hasten your pace into learning all the essentials to make great web designs. I've include UI Photoshop tutorials and text manipulation tutorials. Go and try them out, make some glamorous websites.
Developer or designer, when you're working on websites sometimes you just need a boost in inpiration to work, I know I do! Here's some great abstract artwork that I came across in the past two weeks that helped me gain that inspiration.
