Painted Highlights Tutorial... This tutorial was written by the wonderful and talented Naimah. Once you’ve read it through, you should be able to apply this technique to different pictures and use different colors! Painted Highlights Tutorial by Naimah - Begin by downloading the fireworks image: http://icecaves.net/photography/download.php?id=1246846489. Open it in Photoshop (I’m using CS4). I resized the image to 500 x 667. - Go to Image...

Membership System #1... Introduction The idea of a membership system strikes hard to create by many people. If, like me, at some point you have stopped at a website and wondered how a system like one works; look no further. I originally learnt PHP and MySQL through Day Dream Graphics, and learnt how to make my very first membership systemby following the original tutorial by Snow White. However, the original tutorial has been deleted, and I...

Designing With Scrolling DIVs... Question: “Why are design structures always so similar?”… What I mean by this is, the elements of most designs are almost always placed the same. Each design has 3 key elements: Banner, Navigation, and Content. These elements can be put anywhere in reality, but banners are always at the top of the page it seems. Navigation is generally within the content area, in its own little space. And content is...

The basics to MySQL... Introduction If you’re not familiar to what MySQL is, it simply means “My Structured Query Language”. It’s a database system commonly used for storing information, which can then be retrieved, manipulated or deleted at any given time. MySQL is used by a large amount of main-stream systems, and you will find that most websites are powered by MySQL (there are other database systems, but this one...