June

Optimize your wordpress blog for search engines

Tags: SEO, wordpress
Posted in SEO, wordpress |

Wordpress is, of course, one of the best CMS and blogging platform that your can find actually.

The reasons why use wordpress are a lots : semplicity, easy install, a lots of plugins, big commmunity and , naturally, is free.

Another advantage of this fabulous CMS is that is loved by Google and the other search engines, and , with some modifications and the use of the rights plugins, your blog will be really good indexed in the various search engines, bringing you more users and traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

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June

3

Detect the user’s browser with javascript

Tags: browsers, javascript
Posted in javascript |

A big and boring problem for the designers is the cross-browser compatibility, expecially with the Microsoft explorer, because, as everyone knows, Microsoft is still living in his own world and not in the w3c standard world … Anyway this is one of the most frustrating situation that we must resolve when we are working on a new layout.
The solution used by the designer are : hacks, workaround and different stylesheet for the different browser(usually only the Microsoft browsers). Read the rest of this entry »

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June

31

How to send a mail with php ajax and jquery in facebook style

Tags: ajax, javascript, Jquery, PhP, web 2.0
Posted in Jquery, PhP, ajax, javascript |

One of the website that I love is facebook. I’m not talking about the social network, well I like this social network, but I prefer twitter and linkedin for “professional use”, but this is another question, because I’m talking about the design.:)

The use of web 2.0 effects and Ajax make this web site on of my favourites.

With this tutorial I will explain you how to create a message mail system like Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

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June

7

Php Beginner guide : The comments

Tags: comments php, guide php, PhP
Posted in PhP, beginner guide |

The comments in php are a really important phase of the programming, because they will help you, or other programmer, when you’ll come back to write on the same code after a long time.

An important thing to know is that their use does not weigh the execution of the script (the PHP interpreter jumps all parties recognizing that comment), or the transfer of the page to the browser (in fact the comments, as contained within the PHP code, are part of what is not sent to the browser). Read the rest of this entry »

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June

10

Simple animated menu with jquery

Tags: CSS, downloads, Jquery, menu, tutorial
Posted in Jquery, Tutorials |

Jquery is, of course, one the best( or the best) JavaScript framework actually.

With jquery we can create amazing effects on the web pages, writing some few lines of codes, and you don’t need to be an experienced web programmer.

In this post I will show you how to create a nice and simple vertical menu with css and jquery, writing few lines of code. Read the rest of this entry »

8

June

1

php beginner guide: introduction to php

Tags: PhP, php guide
Posted in PhP, beginner guide |

Well.. Here we are with this first chapter of a simple guide to php for beginner. Before start I think is good if you know something about the history of this script languages.
Php was “born” in 1994 from Rasmus Lerdor, was composed of a set of macro whose task was to simplify the websites management.

The first step was the expansion of the macro with a packet called form interpreter. From here Php was in continue expansion and now is a one of the most used langues in the websites with a bigger community and over 10.000.000 of server that support php now. The reason of this big expansion are lots. Php is open source, is free, is simple and works perfectly with Apache, the most used web server in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

3

June

3

Myths, legends and mysteries of the absolute paths and urls

Tags: absolute path, html, img, SEO, server
Posted in SEO, Web Design, Xhtml |

During the last few years, Internet City has been under a constant threat, totally unbalanced between the forces of good and evil… Okay, this would be a great start a novel or story of science (not fiction), but today we’re going to talk about other things (the legends, myths, and other herbs will remain for some possible future or past edition).

Anyway, today in ¨Myths, legends, mysteries, and other herbs¨…. we will only be talking about the differences between absolute paths and absolute URLs.

The term ‘absolute path’ refers to the main folder or document with the domain’s name.

An absolute URL is one that starts with the protocol of transference and refers to a document on our site.

Read the rest of this entry »

26

May

0

Text reflection with photoshop

Tags: Photoshop, photoshop tutorials, web 2.0
Posted in Photoshop, Tutorials |

Another amazing effect used today in the web 2.0 is the text reflected, another classical sign of a 2.0 web graphic. Usually is used in the logos design, but not only.

I will show you how to do this effect in few simple steps with photoshop. First of all, after opened the program, create a new document 500*300 of dimension and blank background. Choose the Type toll and write your text, for this example I’ve used Georgia like font and a dimension of 48pixels, but you can do this in the way that you prefer. The image now is something like this : Read the rest of this entry »

23

May

3

Create a badge 2.0 with Photoshop

Tags: Photoshop, photoshop tutorials, tutorial, web 2.0
Posted in Photoshop, Tutorials |

Well … after the tutorial to make fire text with photoshop, In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a badge with Photoshop.

The are is a tipical graphic elements of the web 2.0, a lots of site use the badge. Usually I see that are used a lots in the Header of the pages, some in the logos, with reflection text, anyway, this give to your website a little touch of 2.0.

If you don’t want to make your own badge but you want something like “download and use”, you can download a fantastic badge sets, psd source included, from Dezinerfolio, a great blog with a lots of free resource, one of my favorite blog. Read the rest of this entry »

23

May

5

Create a fire text with Photoshop

Tags: Photoshop, photoshop tutorials, tutorial, web 2.0
Posted in Photoshop, Tutorials |

With this tutorial I want to show you how to create a text on fire using photoshop. First of all open your photoshop and create a new document 400 *400 pixel. with a black background and white text on. I’ve used the fonts Impact and a font size of 36px , but you can use another fonts or dimension. ok let’s go now and create the fire text!

Write your text using white color for the text. Read the rest of this entry »

22

May

2

Last Mac editors collection.

Tags: CSS, editor, html, mac, software
Posted in Web Design, software |

These days we have a great choice of software for web designers, free or not free , we can choose between a lots of editor for our works and projects. Macs offers a greats solution, most are not free, but not too much expensive. So I made a list of the best software that I’ve tried and used on my macbook pro, to edit code or image authoring.
For the moment I will make you a list of editors for Mac, the next time I will make the same list, but for windows (I’ve never used linux, but if someone want to help me to make the linux list I will be very glad to publish here). Remember , this list is created form the software that I’ve used working on a Mac operating system, not from all mac software.I f you have suggest or know other software feel free to let us know using the comments below
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April

7

Rain effect with photoshop in 6 steps

Tags: effect, Photoshop, tutorial
Posted in Photoshop, Tutorials |

Here we are! This is my first post on my blog!

I want to start with a simple tutorial for Photoshop, how to manipulate the weather and add rain to a sunny day on the beach.
So… Let’s start with my first post on lastwebdesigner.com.
This is a simple tutorial on how to make a rain effect on a photo, in 6 simple step, using Photoshop. Read the rest of this entry »