As the WordPress community slowly upgrades to the new 3.1 version of WordPress they will immediately notice the WordPress.com style user bar known as the “Admin Bar”. The Admin Bar contains quick links such as Profile (“Edit My Profile”, “Dashboard”, & “Log Out”), My Sites (if the WordPress is set up for Network or Multi-sites), Add New (“Post” & “Page”), Comments (depending on level), Appearance (depending on level; Contains: “Menus”, “Widgets”).
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Mostly everything in this section is directed away from my site. This includes Stock Photography, Audio & Video, inspirations photos, as well as web sites that display an understanding of great design.
PHP Date()
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Full list of all the values of Date(). I’m going to be writing a few tutorial on using Date() in functions and you’ll need this as a Reference. So read up.
Continue Reading »JPEG vs RAW
Sunday, April 26th, 2009A growing tread for none professional photographers is to use the RAW image file format. RAW format has been used by professional photographers since the arrival of Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) in the early nineties. RAW format is an uncompressed unaltered version of the image that is created in the fraction of a second after the lens is closed. Consisted of pure 1′s & 0′s for each pixel in the sensor, the common nickname for the RAW format is a digital negative. RAW file format has the ability to update the color profile post photo.
Continue Reading »Point-and-Shoot, Advance Single Lens and DSLRs
Saturday, April 25th, 2009There are three types of digital cameras (Point-and-Shoot, Advance Single Lens, and DSLRs). Each one suited for different events an skill levels. Included in this entry is a basic over view of each camera type and how they differ.
Continue Reading »Flash Case Studies
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009If your a flash designer who can do introductory AS2 and/or AS3 and you feel you are ready to take on a mix of different animation styles at an array of difficulties, then I suggest taking on other designer’s proof of concepts, case studies and finished works of flash. FFiles.com has a sizable inventory of Flash files ranging from MX to CS4. Mostly all examples are downloadable with a free user account.
Continue Reading »Fixed, Elastic and Infinite: Webpage Widths in (x)HTML
Friday, March 6th, 2009Third question I ask clients about their potential website is content orientation. Content orientation is how the content of the page is laid out and how it will interact with the browser. I’ve been able to group all the possible designs into two main categories with one sub category that is very widely used that it should be mention. The two main categories are Fixed Width and Elastic Width websites.
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009Unlike blogs, forums have many subjects and many points of input. Forums tend to be an open public website where user can post and comment with other users all unrelated to the website’s owner. There are three types of users: Posters (general public), Moderator (special members), Admin (owner).
Posters
The posters to the forum are considered the driving force behind the community. On some forums, a poster may edit or delete his or her own posts, although sometimes these rights are reserved.
Western-style forums often allow an avatar and signature. The avatar is generally a small image often limited to 80×80 pixels (other common dimensions include 100×100 and 90×90 pixels) and limited to a certain filesize (6 kilobytes and 50 kilobytes are common) displayed below a user’s username[...]
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