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Create your Own Propaganda Inspired Gig Poster – Photoshop tutorial

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This photoshop tutorial is on how to design a gig poster with a propaganda theme. I’m sure you’ve seen this technique somewhere and have wondered how it’s done. These posters are actually fairly common, combining a mix of grunge, abstract style and a little bit of outside the box creativity to achieve a great looking poster worthy of print.

 

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Change WordPress default mail sender

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While installing a new WordPress blog it creates a default email address (wordpress@yourblogname.com) and from name (WordPress). So receivers from your blog will get email from wordpress@yourblogname.com with WordPress as name. To keep it professional, it is highly recommend to change it to your own blog email address and name. Follow the instructions below to change default name and email address. Read more…

Socialize Your WordPress Blog without Using Plug-ins

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There is a plug-in for each requirement for WordPress. However, it does not worth always to add a plug-in? For example, Google Inc. launched Google Translation and you have a plug-in for it from a third-party developer. This has limited functionality unlike Google API. Take another scenario – Facebook provides Facebook Connect for Websites and it’s easy to integrate to your blogs. However, there are paid plug-ins available for this work. Read more…

Design a website layout in photoshop – PORTFOLIA

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In this photoshop tutorial we will learn to design a clean website layout. 960 grid system is what we are going to use in this tutorial and lots of photoshop techniques will be dealt as we go through. Before starting, here is final preview of the photoshop layout. Read more…

Everything a Web Designer Should Know About Google Fonts API

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Typography is the most valuable asset of your blog. It doesn’t matter if you have a colorful design blog, an awesome web magazine or a plain simple blog. The main focus always stays on the content and the readability of your text. And that’s where the importance of good typography comes. Well, in this article, I’m not going to give you tips upon good typography (as we already have some good tips on that thing) but, I’m going to explain and implement a rather new and innovative concept from Google that aims at providing a helping hand to all web designers and web masters out there. Read more…

How to add Floating share box to your website

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After spending couple of hours searching for floating share box plugin for WordPress, I  finally decided not to use plugins. Those plugins were not good enough to produce what I thought of  like menus on Mashable or Hongkiat. Then I came across this article Scroll/Follow Sidebar, Multiple Techniques by Chris Coyier.

In this tutorial, I will use same jQuery code from Chris Coyier’s article and will add some bits and pieces to build a floating share box. Keep in mind this is not a plugin, but can be integrated with static as well as dynamic sites. Read more…

Tips to work from home with the perfect motivating environment

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If the layout of your workspace is not in your control and you are looking to have the liberty to create your own schedule then you are in a hedge to follow and move towards your own workplace with the exact kind of ambiance you desire. Working environment is that space where you bring out the best you have and cherish through the input that you can give to work. Motivation and efficiency are the very important aspect to get desired result. No matter how hard you work if the output is haywire you can’t value yourself. So if you are a person not ready to chain yourself with a table and desk ,and thinking about working from work here are certain tricks to make it more effective and up to mark. Read more…

Introduction to PHP – Part10

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Classes and Objects:

The programming paradigm we have learned so far is called Procedural Paradigm. In Procedural programming paradigm, programmer writes a program as collections of independently behaving procedures and makes use of procedure call to access those procedures. As we already discussed in Part8, how procedural programming is a better choice than a simple unstructured programming. It has been a long time, programmers have started thinking about new paradigm called Object oriented paradigm (OOP) which provides a better way to develop big and complex system than procedural programming. We don’t want to confuse readers by putting too complex terms and advantages of OOP at this stage, we will discuss when required. Read more…

Introduction to PHP – Part9

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Forms:

A form is an area where user can input data. The place in the form where user input data is called form element. A form element can be a text field, text area field, drop-down list, radio buttons and checkbox. In this tutorial we will apply the knowledge we have gained so far and use it with HTML forms. The best thing to use PHP with HTML is that any elements in HTML forms are directly available in PHP scripts. That means the data entered in HTML forms can be manipulated using PHP scripts. Read more…

Introduction to PHP – Part8

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Function:

A function is a subprogram that performs a specific task when called by the main program. It is always a good practice to divide a huge program into a number of subprograms until elementary functions are reached. More clearly, a huge program should be divided into number of functions, and a function precisely should do one job. Suppose, we have a big program that reads data from user at the beginning, save data to a database and displays the saved data at the end. Read more…