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Developing a Responsive Website: The Homepage Portfolio Slider

unuzero — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:45:22 +0000

We are going to continue on with our designing a responsive website tutorial where we have already learned about the background images, the site’s navigation and the content.This week we’re going to work on adding a little more content to our homepage.

Responsive Widgets

unuzero — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:57:41 +0000

Responsive design is a hot topic of web development these days, and with a simple (and now well supported) way of handling the ‘one site for all clients’ model (and I mean clients as in browsers/platforms/devices, not the people that give you money in return for a web site) it should well be.

Developing a Responsive Website Part 2: Navigation and Content

unuzero — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:52:10 +0000

Now that we’ve got our background images squared away and set to break themselves down nicely across various devices and screen resolutions we can look in to populating our home page with some content. Let’s begin with our header. I always like using a separate file for all the things that will stay uniform throughout my site, header, logo, navigation, etc.

SEO for Web Developers Part 2

unuzero — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:58:39 +0000

Some experts say search only drives 30 percent of a website’s traffic.While that may seem insignificant, that 30 percent often makes up visitors who are looking for the products, services or information specific to your company so losing them could have a significant impact on how well an organization performs.

35 Professional Photoshop Retouching Tutorials

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:20:26 +0000

In this article we’ll share some of the best Photoshop retouching tutorials that will improve your skills just by following the step-by-step guidelines or by watching the in depth video tutorials.

Excellent Digital Art Tutorials

loswl — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:09 +0000

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art.

XML Schema (XSD): Using Compositors

unuzero — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:14:37 +0000

In XML, you can use XSDs to define markup structures in varying levels of detail. Compositors are among the many XSD structures you can choose from when specifying your XML content models.

Make Legacy VB 6 Components Work With .NET Applications

unuzero — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:28:49 +0000

Many of us have to make older applications and components work with newer technologies. I found myself in this predicament last year when I was required to make a new ASP.NET (3.5) web application work with a ten year old VB6.0 COM Plus Component.

Building a PHP Ad Tracker: Creating the Database Tables

unuzero — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:46:57 +0000

Banner ads for services related to the web site owner’s industry allow customers to view products that tie into the site owner’s core business. In exchange, the web site owner can charge the banner ad owner for every impression (banner ad appearance) or click-through (when a user clicks the banner ad).

Designing a Clean Website Part 4: The Secondary Page

unuzero — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:58:56 +0000

This week we’re going to finish up our series on how to develop a clean website by laying out a secondary page.We’re going to include a secondary navigation bar along the top of our design, as well as include all of our text for the section on one page. This will eliminate the unnecessary loading of other pages when all that’s changing is the text. It will allow the visitor to browse your site quicker and be less work for you to develop.