Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category


Creating Simple Animations With Javascript

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

This is a basic JavaScript tutorial. I will describe how to move an element around the page using a simple animation script. The element you move around the page can be anything from an image to a paragraph.

Below is a working example:

Basketball

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Initial preferences for Photoshop

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

This is a quick post about some of the things I have found to be most important when you initially set up your Photoshop preferfences.

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Using Multiple Loops in Wordpress with query_posts() and get_categories()

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

This is a tutorial to demonstrate how to show entire posts from multiple categories in Wordpress. This would be especially useful for blogs that contain very short posts like a photo with a short description. This is a very simple problem and solution, but I didn’t find many posts describing how to do it, so I thought it may help a few people out.

In some blogs, it can be useful to show entire posts from multiple categories on one page. For instance for a recipe blog you may want to list the name of each of your recipe categories and the recipes in each of those categories. This would look something like:

  • Breakfast Recipes
    • [Eggs Benedicts Recipe Post]
    • [Pancakes Recipe Post]
  • Lunch Recipes
    • [Grilled Cheese Sandwish Recipe Post]
  • Dinner Recipes
    • [Fettucini Alfredo Recipe Post]
    • [Lasagna Recipe Post]

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The Vanishing Point Filter in Photoshop

Friday, May 1st, 2009

In this Photoshop tutuorial I’ll discuss the many uses of the vanishing point filter. You can use this tool to place labels on bottles and jars, to add or remove windows and doors from buildings, and in general, to transform the perspective of an object to fit into your photo.

As an example I’ll show you how to end up with a photo like this:

vanishing-point-pic

Starting with this:

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How to SEO header meta keywords and descriptions with Wordpress

Friday, April 24th, 2009

The default Wordpress installation does not produce either a description or keywords meta tag in the header. There are plugins you can use to solve this problem, but why use a plugin when you can solve the problem with a few lines of code? Writing the code yourself with teach you about Wordpress, PHP, and XHTML. This will enable you to solve  future web site problems easier. Additionally, you’ll have one less plugin to keep track of, giving you a leaner, meaner, Wordpress installation.

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Creating perspective and a mirror image in Photoshop

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create the look of perspective and reflection in your images.

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