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Simple & Professional Typographical Design

Simple & Professional Typographical Design from PSDFAN.com As it is stated by PSDFAN, the tutorial is simple to do and it is well written so you won’t have any problem doing it. I encountered two problems, if they can be named like that, first: on Step 2, when inserting the background text, the tutorial author says that [...]
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Concept Web Logo in Photoshop

Concept Web Logo in Photoshop from Netcades.com Today I found this tutorial which I liked because of the outcome and how simple it was to follow it. The process is quite simple, almost entirely worked with Blending Options. I decided to go with the letter G -even if the tutorial is for a shapelogo- but I just had [...]
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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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