Almost everyone out there who runs a website has toyed with the idea of selling ads on their website. So many options are available. Dozens of ad and affiliate networks exist, and you have different ad formats to consider. Should you sell text ads or banner ads? Should you allow Flash ads? What about ads with sound, pop-ups or floating ads? People have so many decisions to make that they often just end up slapping on some AdSense code and calling it a day. And that’s fine.
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Web dev, Wordpress
Ad Management, Plug-Ins, Tutorials, website
Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of paper into lively and colorful digital images.
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Graphics
Adobe, Illustrator, Tutorials
Social networking websites play a big part in most peoples lives these days. They play an even bigger part in the lives of web designers/developers. So these websites are a good place to get inspiration.
As an amateur developer this may become a problem, if you see a site like Facebook with a nieve view of javascript it would be very hard to mimic the effects going on there. Some of them are really quite amazing. However with the fairly recent surge in popularity of javascript libraries it has become very easy for us to pull of brilliant effects.
So here’s a short list of a few tutorials on how to mimic the effects seen on social networking websites using libraries such as jQuery, Mootools and Prototype.
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Web dev
FBML, JavaScript, Social Networking, Tutorials
We all know Photoshop is a very powerful tool to create spectacular effects, however, the software requires you spend much time to grasp. Maybe one of the ways mastering Photoshop is to read tutorials on the web. So, this article presents you some of the best Photoshop tutorials for Effect we have founded so far. Most of them are step-by-step tutorials and show you how to use common tools in Photoshop for best results.
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Graphics
Best, Effect, photoshop, Tutorials
Retouching is a big part of Photoshop and commonly used in magazines, books, advertisements. It is not too exaggerated when saying that you see this kind of work every day even if you are not a graphic designer. Various methods can be used to achieve stunning effects, sky is the only limitation. However, it is definitely hard to master and requires you to have strong understanding about layers, color and brightness, sometimes filter effects as well. So this article wishes to bring you some of the best tutorials for retouching, most of them are step-by-step tutorials, very comprehensive with great results and thus can save you a lot of time
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Graphics
Best, photoshop, Tutorials
Coding or designing a page, it's always nice to have some basic templates you can quickly modify or adapt to your needs. However, at least once you have to know, how to create this “universal” template. In this case tutorials prove to be an ultimate solution, particularly if you just want to get an idea how something works and where to start from. In fact, you don't have to re-invent the wheel all the time – you can use existing solutions, modify and improve them and publish them as well – just the way other people did it for you.
In this post we've covered over 200 Ajax, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML as well as ASP, C++, Perl, Python and Java tutorials. Links checked: June/09 2008.
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Computers, Graphics, Web dev
AJAX, css, PHP, Tutorials
AJAX provides Web developers with plenty of opportunities to enhance the user experience and improve the performance of their websites. There are countless ways that AJAX can be used, and fortunately there are plenty of good and useful AJAX tutorials out there to help you with your own implementation.
This post serves as a collection of useful tutorials on working with AJAX in a wide variety of ways. You'll find tutorials on working with forms, building shopping carts, creating chat features, working with log-ins and usernames and much more.
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Web dev
AJAX, Excellent, Tutorials
When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For instance, the concepts are not always intuitive and it's not always clear when to use what tool and how to use it effectively. In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes pretty much time to achieve something you have never done before.
However, you don't need to muddle through numerous Photoshop features and extensions for every design problem. You can use professional suggestions instead, e.g. professional step-by-step tutorials which provide excellent results and thus can save you a lot of time.
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Graphics
Adobe Photoshop, Best, Tutorials
Description: Micro buttons are quite popular on the internet, this tutorial will show you how to create a micro button that is crisp and clean to use for your website navigation.
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Graphics
Micro Buttons, photoshop, Tutorials
Your website navigation plays an integral role in keeping your site easy to use and navigate. Button tutorials are useful because you can take the techniques you like from a tutorial and use them to make your own custom buttons to match the site your working on.
I have filtered through the millions of results to highlight the 39 button tutorials you should have in your arsenal.
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Graphics
Button, photoshop, Tutorials
