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The making of: Marijuana Man

With this tutorial you will learn how to create Marijuana Man in just 10 minutes.
Open up your Photoshop and copy this image:

Then create a new document and it will have the dimensions of the image you copied, paste the image. Now we will need an image of a marijuana plant (it’s a fake plant so [...]

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Keyword Benchmarking with Google Adwords

First, let’s define benchmarking: the process where you compare something of yours against something better and try to improve the standard of your something to improve the quality.
Before we start I just want to tell you that I did this with an ad campaign in Google Adwords and the effect was amazing, I got my [...]

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XHTML and CSS standards

These web standards are established by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), so you should consider having a link to validate the XHTML and CSS of your website (for each page). The advantage of having the links -so people can click em- and of course to have both XHTML and CSS validated it’s like if [...]

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WAMP - Work faster

WAMP stands for Windows version (also available for Mac, Linux and Solaris families) of Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl or Python) all in one!
Having this installed will let you have your own server (offline) on your computer, so you wont need to keep uploading those files in order to see the changes that you’ve [...]

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Black and white vector with highlights

In this tutorial you will learn how to easily create a black and white vector with highlights from a photograph. Let’s start!
Open up the image from what you want to make a vector. I will use this one i took some weeks ago:

Next, duplicate (Control + J) Background layer and save the PSD with a [...]

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Page title changer

Have you ever wondered how sites (like this one) have a different page title for each page?
Here is how you do it:
Lets say you have 3 pages: index.php, about.php and contact.php. You need to have the page include system working so we can use the same variable for the page title changer.

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC [...]

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Page include system for newbies

This system pretends to have one file (index.php) and run the others (about.php, contact.php, ect.) inside of it
I read a lot of tutorials but later on, when my site had months running, i found about the PHP Switch Statement and this is the easiest way to have your PHP Navigation.
Copy and paste the code, you [...]

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Mail form for newbies

When i started my site i read a lot of tutorials looking for the best email form, but my problem was that i was a PHP newbie, in other words, i didnt know ANYTHING about PHP so it was really hard to understand the tutorials even if they tried to explain it.
So let me explain [...]

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Browser detection

Some days ago I finished a site but it was only coded (CSS) for a perfect view in Firefox 3 and IE 6. I’ve neer had a CSS file for IE 7 since I dont use it but when viewing the site on a computer that had IE 7, it had some minor problems…so I [...]

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Alexa rank updated/changed

Today I noticed that Alexa rank was updated/changed. So congratulations if your Alexa rank was lowered or keep pushing your site traffic if didnt move or got higher.
What is Alexa rank?
Is a rank that measures mainly your site traffic. If you have a low rank, lets say 350,000 then you receive like 1,000 unique visits [...]

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