Some time back when I was looking for some tutorials to create a website from scratch i.e. the process from designing the PSD to slice it and CSS/XHTML it, then not many quality results appeared. But that was like almost an year back and a lot of water has flown down the river Thanes since then. In this list I will give you links to some wonderful tutorials teaching you in a step by step way to design a website. These tutorials are ideal for someone who is learning web designing and has grasp of basic CSS, XHTML and little designing on Photoshop.
How to Design and Code Web 2.0 Style Web Design
Designing and Coding a Grunge Web Design from Scratch
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This tutorial will take you to the installation steps required to install Sweetcron in the XAMPP. I am taking the liberty to assume that you have already installed XAMPP. I
First of all download sweetcron and copy the extracted “sweetcron” folder inside the htdocs folder in the XAMPP directory.
You have to get few things in place before installing sweetcron:
1. Create a sweetcron database using Mysql. You can just put a name “sweetcron” and leave all the other settings such as Mysql connection collation as it is.
Now that you have the database ready you can configure few settings before making sweetcron to work on XAMPP.
2. Open the config-sample PHP file with your text editor (something like Notepad++ or Komodo Edit is recommended) which is located in Sweetcron/system/application/config. You have to make few changes in it.
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It’s been quite a long time since we showcased the recent free WordPress themes on JustSkins.Some cool WordPress themes have been made in recent times that you may use for your photo portfolio blog. The following list contains both free and the premium WordPress themes. If you happen to be a professional photographer or just one by hobbyist you can expect something in here for you.
Amplify is a paid theme with some amazing features and nice image manipulation. It uses javascript image transition at the main page which supports an unlimited number of images.
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There are a lot of online generators which are of no use to any designers, however some can help designers to an extent. Some example of online generators are favicon generators, background generators, button generators, and badge generators. Some of the useful kinds are the ones that solve one purpose with quick and easy steps, especially useful for new designers, following is a list of some useful CSS grid layout generators.
Grid Layout Generator By PageColumn:
Blueprint Grid CSS Generator:
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It is very important to do backup of your MySql database, you will probably realize it when it is too late. A lot of web applications use MySql for storing the content. This can be blogs, and a lot of other things. When you have all your content as html files on your web server it is very easy to keep them safe from crashes, you just have a copy of them on your own PC and then upload them again after the web server is restored after the crash.
All the content in the MySql database must also be backed up. If you have spent a lot of time making the content and it is only stored in the Mysql server, you will feel very bad if it gets lost for ever. Backing it up once every month or so makes sure you never loose too much of your work in case of a server crash, and it will make you sleep better at night. It is easy and fast, so there is no reason for not doing it.
Step 1: Log into phpMyAdmin on your server.
Step2: You can select the database that you would like to backup from the drop-down menu called Database.
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In this article free applications useful and effective for the development and creation of websites with your Mac computer. Without further ado, here are 5 Excellent Mac Application for Web and Graphic Design.
Fotoflexer : Fotoflexer claims to be “The world’s most advanced online image editor”. It offers completely free access to numerous features such as photo effects, graphics, shapes, morphing, and the creation of collages. You can also integrate and share your art with social sites like MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, and more. This can be an important app if the site you are creating is going to use applications.
Simple CSS : With Simple CSS you can create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch or edit them right from the comfort of your desktop. Update styles on multiple pages all at once and reduce the data transfer usage on your page for faster loads.
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A site’s navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. There are many ways to design a navigation menu and since almost all websites have some form of navigation designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding. In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.
Tennessee Vacation:
Alpine Meadows:
White House:
The Hole In Our Gospel:
Navigant Consulting:
The Lippincott:
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Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program and proper custom integration with Wordpress can help to increase Adsense earnings. Now on this post we have describe 5 useful wordpress plugin for google adsense. Few weeks ago we did a "10 Wordpress Plugins For Google Adsense ". Wordpress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins.
Adsense Integrator : The Adsense Integrator plugin supports lot of programs other then adsense like AdBrite, AffiliateBOT, SHAREASALE, LinkShare, ClickBank, Oxado, Adpinion, AdGridWork, Adroll, Commission Junction, CrispAds, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN so this can be used when you are looking to have adsense as well as other alternatives. The rest of the features of the plugin are same where you give your adsense code into options field and it get inserted into blog posts.
All In One Adsense And YPN : This is one of the most powerful adsense plugin for wordpress. Jut like other plugins, you can use this to insert your ads in the post but the plugin has some really good features like randomness which shows ad at random location in your blog which reduces ad blindness for viewers. You can also stop ads being shown on some pages using tags.
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CSS is a technology that web designers use everyday, but yet it is something that most struggle with as well. Whether it’s keeping stylesheets for large sites manageable or creating image effects that are cross browser compatible, there are plenty of things to cause frustration. This article is an attempt to provide you with a few resources that might help you with your CSS or introduce you to a few tricks you didn’t know about.
Organizing Your Stylesheet Using CSS Edit:
Rob Soule of Viget Labs shows you how to organize your style sheets using CSS Edit, a powerful CSS editor built exclusively for the mac.
Tips For Organizing Your CSS:
A set of practical tips for organizing your style sheets.
Write A Well Structured CSS File:
A detailed and well written post about how to write a well structured CSS file.
Expandable CSS Tabs Tutorials:
A tutorial on creating expandable CSS tabs.
Simple Round CSS Buttons:
Learn how to create rounded corner buttons with only One Image and One CSS file.
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