How to Create a Quick Photo Flash Gallery in Photoshop

In Photoshop its possible to easily create interactive photo albums or presentations; be it, Html tables to flash picture galleries for the web. A useful feature for creating online portfolios for personal websites or simple products showcase. Step 1 First off, create a new folder for where all your images will be stored in and name it ‘Web Gallery.’ You could also use Adobe Bridge within Photoshop to source your images. But we’ll be sticking with the first method right now.

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Case-Study: Make Web, Not War

Internet is the most important scientific and technological discovery since mankind conquered the Moon in 1969. No discovery over the last years had such a great influence on our civilization. Since the 90’s a new step in human evolution was written, the new “Homo digitalis” makes room for a new era, driven by technological and scientific development, filling it furthermore with an essence of life. All the main discoveries in the post Internet period were helped by it due to its capability of showing everyone, everything at anytime.

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10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks

    Security has always been a hot topic. Offline, people buy wired homes, car alarms and gadgets to bring their security to the max. Online, security is important, too, especially for people who make a living from websites and blogs. In this article, we’ll show you some useful tweaks to protect your WordPress-powered blog.

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What Tool Do You Use to Debug CSS Code?

Bugs within your CSS can at times be as difficult to locate and fix, as finding a needle in a hay-stack, especially when they are located within a very large and complex page. There are various tools and techniques for debugging your CSS, what do you use? Whats your favorite debugging tool? As we do every week, we like to offer a question to our readers that has been previously asked on Answers , this weeks question is: What Tool Do You Use to Debug CSS Code?

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Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

    Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few. The problem with Web security is that, as important as it is, it is also very complex. I am quite sure that some of you reading this are already part of an network of attack computers and that your servers are sending out spam messages without you even knowing it.

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How to Create a Dark Car Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are going to create a dark and atmospheric car scene. The result of it, is something in semblance of Batman’s dark ‘bat mobile.’ The effect attempted, is to give the car image more solidity or weight visually wise. Step 1 First off, load this picture of the Peoguet Parna. It was downloaded from rocketdock.com .

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Useful Resources for CSS and HTML

With the speed that the internet and its development are constantly changing, web designers need to keep up by with all these new techniques, technologies and standards. It can be difficult. In todays post we have collected some fresh resources and tutorials around web development, focusing on CSS and HTML. Coding Clean and Semantic Templates If you are the guy who uses tag for everything, this post is for you.

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Size Really Does Matter

Whether you’re talking about weight, height, or the code for a website , the truth is that size really does matter. It isn’t a question of whether or not size matters — in one way or another, our experiences have shown that it does. The real question is how much does size matter? And how much does it matter when it comes to your code?

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10 Ways for Designers to Boost Productivity

All designers who wish to succeed at one point or another aim for ways to boost their productivity levels. Many of us spend a great deal of time searching for the right tools, and a lot of these end up setting you back one way or another. Part of being a designer also means you’ll have to deal with criticism. And as you begin to gain more experience you’ll soon realize that you’re your best critic.

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Essential Firefox Extensions, Addons and Hacks

Firefox is a very popular browser, especially with designers and developers. It is not only compliance with CSS, that makes it great, it is also because of its versatility and customization options. With the proper addons, extensions and hacks you can create your own unique browser tailored to your every requirement. In todays news we have collected the best resources for customizing Firefox to meet your every need.

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