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.

How to make this? Changing something in your blog’s settings and adding some plugin.

First of all you need to change the URL Structure of your blog, when you install wordpress the blog URL structure is this :

http://www.myblog.com/?p=1

This is a good structure but you can improve and use a structure “SEO-friendly”.

Go in the Admin panel of your blog in Settings- permalink and change the permalinks, in my Blogs I use this :

/%category%/%postname%.html

Another good solution may be to add the ID or the date of the post, so you ‘ll give to the search engine an order, and this is better :

/%category%/%post_id%/%postname%.html

One important thing that you must consider when you change your permalink structure is that the search engine will index this pages and is better to not change more this structure, so choose what structure you want to use and never change this.

Although a recent article by Google says that the don’t care about the URL structure and the new algorithm can index without problem all the kind of URL, I’m still conviced that this is still important and improve your posistion in the search engine, and of course you will put keywords in the URL, and this is important for Google and others.

That’s all? No, sure, but from the panel control of wordpress there’s no more to do, wordpress is SEO -ready and the semantic code is loved by Google et company.

Of course there’s another important thing to consider that is important for the positioning : the title of your post.

The title is really important for improve your blog in google (or other search engine) so always, before to write a post, take some minutes to think in the title , how to put (with sense)  keywords in the title, and how to capture the attention of the users with few words.

One good solution may be this : go in google and make a search for the arguments that you’re going to write and  take a look at the first page, look the titles and the keywords used, this is a good way for inspire your title-post.

Of course remember to things : inspire doesn’t means copy-paste, and when you search don’t make the mistake that a lots of users do, don’t think as a SEO when you’re searching, but think like a user that doens’t know nothing about SEO or html.

Other step to improve your index in search engine : the categories. Use alwways the correct categories, if is necessary add a new category, don’t worry if you have a lots of categories, the important is that everty post is in the right category, I can’t put this post in javascript is has no sense, and i can’t use other categories, the only category where this post must be is SEO.

If you have planned, or have ready, articles to publish in your blog, better that starting writing all the post in the same categories, not jumping form on to another. I had my photoshop tutorials and other articles, wrote in my italian blog, so I translated this in english and starting posting here, i’ve started with the photoshop tutorials, how you can see.

I can write this article before, or the jquery sections, but, IMHO, is better start writing all the articles of the same categories and after pass to another category.

This must be considered if you have articles ready to be posted, if your are writing now your articles, there’s no problem but remeber is always a good idea give a sense and a order to your blog.

When you’r writing articles, try always(try no force) to link the previous articles of your blog, like I’ve done in the previous chapter, linking the photoshop section and jquery section, make this in a naturally way, and not force this.

All the links must be naturally, how the SEO says : content is the king. Never force links or text or keywords, everything must be naturally, is the best way to Google and company likes your blog.

If you are familiar with html and wordpress theme, take a look at the theme of your blog, some templates use to put the title in a h2 tag, change this to h1, this is not really important, but h1 is more important than a h2. take a look to the title attribute in the link of the titles post, usually there’s something like this:

permalink to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>

delete the “permalink to” and leave only the php code.

When you upload an images in your posts , remember always to give it a description, this will be the alt of your images. this is important for usability too.

When you add an external link to your post, put the rel=”nofollow” to the html tag, so the crawler will not follow the link, and don’t leave your blog.

Now, is time to “extend” our blog with some great wordpress plugins for SEO.

1. All in one seo pack.

king of the SEO plugin for wordpress. There’s no words for this plugin, simply download and install, it will add for every word a custom fields for title and the other meta tags, remember for SEO and positioning the tag title is, of course, the most important of the meta tags, be sure always to write a good title tag and put the keywords in this( not like keywords tag, but explain what your  post is about and don’t use more than 60 words).

2. Wordpress Related post.

This is another great plugin, because permit you to add some related post at the end of a post. How I said link the posts in your blog is a good way to make the crawler index the pages and , of course, this will be util for your users that maybe want to read more about hte same arguments of the post.

3.Yoast breadcrumb

This plugin is to create the breadcrumb in your navigation, important for the users and for the crawlers to let they know where they are.

4. Pingpress

This is a great plugin. With this plugin you can ping and actualize your profile in a lots of social networks, like facebook or linkedin, automated. Simply sign in in the web site and configure the plugin, everytime you will write a post this will be automatically add in your status in the various social network that you have configured.

5. Social Bookmarking reloaded

This plugin is for add the share buttons in at the end of every post, you know how the social networks are important to drive traffic to your blog, but remember that the best way to drive traffic is write good post, not only to share in all the networks sites in the world.

6. Google Sitemap generator

Plugin for create a google sitemap in xml format, for the google webmaster tools. THis will not improve your position in google, but make faster the index of your site.

7. Sitemap generator

For generate a sitemap in your blog, is not the google sitemap, but a page , like my sitemap in the menu, take a look to understand how it works, I suggest to use this plugin is very useful.

Well… this is all? Not, but for your blog this may be good for improve it in the search engines. Of course if you want to learn and study SEO, this is only a start point and nothing more.

Anyway the most important thing that make the difference in SEO and make a website loved by Google and receive backlinks from other sites, is only one: write great cotnent and posts, this is the oly and best way to make your blog known.

Remember the first rule of SEO is : Content is the king! this phrase is not casually.

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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).
This last is the solution that I prefer for my works. I’m not a lover of the hacks, because they usually invalidate the code, and for this reason I prefer to use a different stylesheet for the explorer. If you write a good and clean code, you don’t need to change all the styles.
One of the most used solution, that I’ve used too, of course, are the conditional comments, to load the correct stylesheet relative to the user browser.
Another solution, is use a Javascript to detect the browser user and load the correct stylesheet. This is the solution that I want to talk in this post.

The idea is simple, and of course you can do teh same with the most afmous frameworks, but in this case I’m using only and pure Javascipt, anyway the idea is : create a variable that contains tha browser and write in the document the html code to load the stylesheet correspondent to the user browser:

var ievs = (/MSIE (\d+\.\d+);/.test(navigator.userAgent));

// IF BROWSER IS IE 6 LOAD IE6 STYLE

if (ievs){

var iev=new Number(RegExp.$1);

if (iev==6) {

document.write(’<link rel=”stylesheet”  href=”css/ie7style.css” type=”text/css” />’);

}

}

// ID BROWSER IS IE 7 LOAD IE7 STYLE

if (ievs){

var iev=new Number(RegExp.$1);

if (iev==7) {

document.write(’<link rel=”stylesheet”  href=”css/ie7style.css” type=”text/css” />’);

}
}

That’s all! You can try this creating a new page and visit the page using a browser Microsoft , IE 6 or 7, and look how it load the style,or , only for try, you can put and alert to see how it works:

if (iev==6) {

alert(“you are using explorer 6″);

}

Of course the conditional comments are a good solution, I usually use too, but sometimes I prefer this way, but you need to consider that if the javascript is disabled from the browser this script doesn’t works. of course there are very few uers with the javascript disabled today.

And hope that the Explorer 8 is better than the previous and Microsoft one day will understand how is important are the standard and , especially, understand that they are not a standard …..

Bye!

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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.

For make this we need to create some files.

1. The index file with the mail form.

2.The mail.php file that process the form and send the mail, using the simple function mail() of php.

3.A css file .

4.Jquery, naturally.

5.An other Javascript, called Ajax.js, to interact with ajax, php and jquery.

Surely you can put all in one file, but, for a better understanding and to have a clean code, I prefer to use different files for each one.

Well first of all you can see a demo of this page here, for logical reason I’ve deleted my mail from the source code, / you can use your mail to test the script) this is the only thing that you need to change before use the source code, the rest is ready for use.

OK, start with this tutorial.  First we need to create the form page and link to this page the jquery and ajax,js script, so this is the code :

<div>
<div id=”response”>

</div>
<form id=”formail” action=”" method =”post”>
<label>Name : </label>
<input type=”text” name=”name” id=”name” />
<label>Your mail :</label>
<input type=”text” name=”mail” id=”mail” />
<label>Subject : </label>
<input type=”text” name=”subject” id=”subject” />
<label>Text :</label>
<textarea name=”text” id=”text” cols=”40″ rows=”10″></textarea>
<input type=”submit” value=”send mail” id=”sendmail” name=”sendmail” />
</form>
</div>

</div>

The div called response, will be util for the validation and the text message after send the mail( or to get the error if the mail script doesn’t work), this div is really important don’t forget this.

Now we need to style this, you can style the form as you want, but the only important thing is that the div response must be in display none :

#response{display:none;}

Is better if you style this and the form, it will look more pretty this is the complete css that I’ve used :

body{
background: #E7E7DC;
font-size: 13px;
font-family: arial;
}
#wrap{
width: 800px;
background: white;
margin: auto;
padding: 10px;
}
#wrap h1{
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background: #f8f8f8;
}
.mail{
width:500px;
margin:auto;
}
#formail{
width: 500px;
margin: auto;
}
#formail label{
display: block;
margin: 10px 0;
}
#text{
background: #f8f8f8;
}
#sendmail{
margin-top: 20px;
display: block;
}
#response{
display: none;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background: #FFFFA0;
padding: 10px;
width: 450px;
}

This is the style of the page, now it comes the nice part, the php and the ajax, this will be funny! Let’s go and create the mail.php page, with this code :

<?php
$mail = $_POST['mail'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$text = $_POST['text'];

$to = “yourmail@domain.com”;
$message =” You received  a mail from “.$mail;
$message .=” Text of the message : “.$text;

if(mail($to, $subject,$message)){
echo “mail successful send”;
}
else{
echo “there’s some errors to send the mail, verify your server options”;
}
?>

Ok, let me explain this:

Firs I create the variables that will contain the froms data values :

$mail = $_POST['mail'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$text = $_POST['text'];

With the variable $to, I store the mail where I want that the mail will be sended( my mail), this is the only thing that you must change to make works the script.

The $message variable get  the mail and the text of the sender, and put in the body of the mail message.

Finally , with tha mail() function from php I send the mail. I’ve used an if because, if the mail doesn’t work you will know.

The mail function is really simple and accept some parameters, the mail where send, the subject and the message of the mail.

You can read all from the official page of php.

Now is the time of the ajax.js. This is the complete code :

$(document).ready(function(){
$(“#sendmail”).click(function(){
var valid = ”;
var isr = ‘ is required.’;
var name = $(“#name”).val();
var mail = $(“#mail”).val();
var subject = $(“#subject”).val();
var text = $(“#text”).val();
if (name.length<1) {
valid += ‘<br />Name’+isr;
}
if (!mail.match(/^([a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$)/i)) {
valid += ‘<br />A valid Email’+isr;
}
if (subject.length<1) {
valid += ‘<br />Subject’+isr;
}
if (text.length<1) {
valid += ‘<br />Text’+isr;
}
if (valid!=”) {
$(“#response”).fadeIn(“slow”);
$(“#response”).html(“Error:”+valid);
}
else {
var datastr =’name=’ + name + ‘&mail=’ + mail + ‘&subject=’ + subject + ‘&text=’ + text;
$(“#response”).css(“display”, “block”);
$(“#response”).html(“Sending message …. “);
$(“#response”).fadeIn(“slow”);
setTimeout(“send(‘”+datastr+”‘)”,2000);
}
return false;
});
});
function send(datastr){
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: “mail.php”,
data: datastr,
cache: false,
success: function(html){
$(“#response”).fadeIn(“slow”);
$(“#response”).html(html);
setTimeout(‘$(“#response”).fadeOut(“slow”)’,2000);
}
});
}

What i’ve done? let me explain :

I suppose that you know the $(document).ready function of jquery, I’ve explained in the previous tutorial, create an animated menu with jquery.

When #sendmail, the submit button of the form,  is clicked will start the validation of the form, this is important try always to validate your forms, expecially for the breakballs(usually called spammer…), so the first part of the script validate the form and if on of the input value is under 0 this will stop the script and return an error like in this image

the text that appears is stored in the #response div, for this reason I said that is important and not only for this.

var valid = ”;
var isr = ‘ is required.’;
var name = $(“#name”).val();
var mail = $(“#mail”).val();
var subject = $(“#subject”).val();
var text = $(“#text”).val();
if (name.length<1) {
valid += ‘<br />Name’+isr;
}
if (!mail.match(/^([a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$)/i)) {
valid += ‘<br />A valid Email’+isr;
}
if (subject.length<1) {
valid += ‘<br />Subject’+isr;
}
if (text.length<1) {
valid += ‘<br />Text’+isr;
}

To validate the mail, I’ve used a regular expression( thanks to Juan Carlos )

if (!mail.match(/^([a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$)/i))

if you try to write 2 mail addres, this will not works, or if you use white space in the mail field the validation will stop the script. You can try simply leaving white the various fields to understand how it works. All of the error in the validation will appears in the response div, that will appear with a fadeIn effect.

if (valid!=”) {
$(“#response”).fadeIn(“slow”);
$(“#response”).html(“Error:”+valid);
}

The second part of the script is for create the datastr variable, that will store the value from the form and send in the ajax request, and make appear again the #response div, yes how I said is important ejejeje, like the facebook style, that say that the message is sending.

else {
var datastr =’name=’ + name + ‘&mail=’ + mail + ‘&subject=’ + subject + ‘&text=’ + text;
$(“#response”).css(“display”, “block”);
$(“#response”).html(“Sending message …. “);
$(“#response”).fadeIn(“slow”);
setTimeout(“send(‘”+datastr+”‘)”,2000);
}

In the final  part I’ve used a “return false“, so when you click on the submit button this doesn’t do nothing, well it seems that the button doesn’t do nothing, but the reason ts that the rest of the work is done by ajax and the function send :

function send(datastr){
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: “mail.php”,
data: datastr,
cache: false,
success: function(html){
$(“#response”).fadeIn(“slow”);
$(“#response”).html(html);
setTimeout(‘$(“#response”).fadeOut(“slow”)’,4000);
}
});
}

This is the “core” of the script, this will call the $.ajax function of Jquery, give it the parameters and call the mail.php file, finally get the response of the mail.php, and return this in the response div, and after 4 seconds the text fade out.

This script is inspired ,how I said, from facebook message system and it works at the same way, you can use on your own and change or modify the source code.

Here is the demo of the script

Here you can download directly the script.
I hope is useful , you can use the comments and let me know what do you thing.

If you know something to improve the script, let me know pls.

Bye !!

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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).

In php we have the same comments use in the major programming languages, like c++ or python, here some examples :

<?php

// comment style c++

?>

<?php

# comment style python

?>

This kind of comments are only on one line, when the PHP interpreter found this comments jump this part and go directly to the source php code.

But we can also use comments on more than one lines, like this :

<?php

/* this is a comment

on multilines

*/

?>

Be sure that don’t make error when you write a comment, or this will affect your code.

<?php

*/ this is a erroneus comment

*/

?>

<?php

/* this is the correct

way to comment on mutlilines

*/

?>

Simply not? The next time i will start writing code for php, stay tuned!

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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.

You can see the final result at this page, and you can download the complete source code with example from here.
First, download jquery from the official site, and after link it to your document. I’ve chooses to put the source code, for the css style and the javascript-jquery, in another file, you can put all in one if you want, IMHO I think is always better to separate it, it’s your choose.
Create the page and links the javascript file it’s really easy, how I suppose you know :

<link href=”style.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”/>
<script src=”js/jquery.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”js/menu.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

After I’ve created a simple page structure, with the menu,like the “semantic” want,  is  in a  list, in this case unordered :

<div id=”navigation”>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>Home</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Freebies</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Downloads</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Now  style the menu :

#navigation{
width: 200px;
}
#navigation ul{
list-style: none;
}
#navigation ul li{
height: 30px;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;
}
#navigation ul li a{
text-indent: 20px;
padding: 5px 0;
display: block;
height: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #434343;
background-image: url(bull.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 5px 6px ;
}
#navigation ul li a:hover{
background-color: #8E8963;
background-image: url(bull.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 15px 6px ;
color: white;
}

What I’ve done here? Simply :

give to a menu a fixed with, styling the li and the link , give to a link a background image (background-image: url(bull.png); ) and when the mouse is over  (a:hover) , change the background color (not the image) and the link color.

Another thing to note is that I’ve used the backround-position property for the image, so with this I can move the image around  changing the values of the position (X and Y axis) and make this appear aligned with the text.

With Jquery I will “move” and animate the link on the right when the mouse is over, so I need to move the image too, and for the reason that I’ve used the image like background and no like image in the html code, I need to move that when the link will animated, maybe using directly the image in the code the effect will come better, you can try at your own.

Ok now we can go to our javascript and write the jquery-code . Create a new js file and call “menu.js”, write this simple code :

$(document).ready(function(){
var Duration = 150; //time in milliseconds

$(‘#navigation ul li a’).hover(function() {
$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: ‘20px’ }, Duration);
}, function() {
$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: ‘0px’ }, Duration);
});

});

OK  let me explain this code:

The first thing is to tell to jquery that, when the DOM is loaded ( this is rally important)  :

$(document).ready(function(){
});

This is the first thing that you must learn about Jquery, with this piece of code, you will tell to Jquery this :  “do the instruction only when the entire document is loaded”.

This is great and really usefull because  you don’t have to put any “behavioral” markup in the HTML, and this is the reason why you can separate every Javascript from the document.

After I’ve created the function that must be executed when the DOM is ready :

var Duration = 150; //time in milliseconds

$(‘#navigation ul li a’).hover(function() {
$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: ‘20px’ }, Duration);
}, function() {
$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: ‘0px’ }, Duration);
});

And it’s all! What it means this? I will try to explain in a simple words :

With the $(), you can get every element of the DOM, an it is like the documentGetElement in the normal javascript.

So I Want that ,when the mouse is over the tag li inside the navigation div, start the animation effect, so I’ll “take” this element with the dollar function

$(‘#navigation ul li a’)

This is the second important thing you must learn on Jquery.

And finally, I’ve used the animation on the menu, using the animate function of jquery, really simple to use, in this case I gave 20px at padding-left css property to make that the text “move” on the right side .

$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: ‘20px’ }, Duration);

The $(this) refer to the element that we are using, animate is the jquery function (following the link you can learn more about this function) and Duration is the duration of the time, I’ve used a starting variable to give a value (var Duration = 150; ).

The rest of the code is another function to  ensure that the link returns at the original position.

,function() {
$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: ‘0px’ }, Duration);
});

Conclusion : Jquery is the best framework that I’ve ever used, is simple, easy to learn and make the web designer’s life really easy, although you are not a experienced programmer.

Here the link relativies to jquery and maybe utils for this simple tutorial :

Download Jquery

Learn Jquery

The animate function of jquery

Well you can see the final results here :

Simple menu with Jquery.

Download jquery simple menu with example :

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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.

The important thing that you must remember about php, is that this language is server side.

What it means that php is a server side languages?

It means that the language is interpreted from the server, namely the server, through an interpreter, received the php code from the page and returns the html code. indeed if you look at the source code of a php page you will never see php code, but only the html that the server interpreter returns.

This is the difference between php and javascript, for example, that is a client side language, so it depend on the browser user and not from the server.

Php is perfect to work with database like mysql, to create e-commerce sites, administration systems and other more, one of a great example is Wordpress, the CMS blogging platform that runs this website.

How to recognize php code? Here an example:

<?php echo “Hello World!”; ?>

This is an example, if you will try this code the page will results this :

Hello World!.

A php tag start always with the “<?php” and end with “?>” you can omit the “php” in the start tag.

Other important thing of the php syntax is the “;” at the end, this means the end of the instruction(never forget, is important!) , this was inherited from the most used languages, like c, java and similar.

Finally the most simple instruction in php, the “echo” that say to the server this : write what is wrote between the ” “.

How I said if you will look at the source code you don’t see the php code, but only the html that the server returns.
Well for the moment I think is good, now you know what is php, how it works and how to start writing code, I think is a good begin.

This is only the first chapter of this php guide for beginner, so … stay tuned for the other chapters.

Hasta Luego!

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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.

Let’s suppose that in the root directory we create a document index.html, this document is the absolute path: http://www.lastwebdesigner.com/.

To clarify a little, the true absolute path for each domain in all of the Internet is always, always ”/” (and try to debate and convince me otherwise, but I doubt it will work).

Some people tend to confuse what a relative path is with an absolute path, and even more so if they mix up the cables and confuse ”URL” (links) with ”Path” (folders), which is to say, an ”absolute path” is not the same as an ”absolute URL.”

The absolute URLs always start with the protocol of transference (http,htpps,etc.), followed by the name of the domain (or IP), plus the document we are searching for (whether this is an image, an html document, or whichever other document).

The Absolute Paths always start with the root of the domain where they can be found (without protocols, without ports) and point directly to the document that we select, for example, an image that is saved in the folder ”img” that was previously created in the race of the site and whose name (that of the image, of course), is ”image.jpg”. Alright, now we have an archive with the name ”index.html” that we’ve created in another folder ”htmls” also from the race from the Website. The norm is that when we open the image with some editor WYSIWYG (I’m not going to name a specific product… since they don’t pay me for advertising), in our code, we notice that what we have written our unbelievable, never well-pondered and often one of the reasons for poorly-treated editors… leaving us with something like:

<img src=”../img/image.jpg” alt=”image” />

What does the superior code tell us? Well, that we have inscribed a new image with its relative path, that which, if we never move the HTML archive of a site or do not use anything to rewrite our pages, will always be available and will be perfectly visible. But, what happens if we move the page and we create it in another subfolder, for example: ”/htmls/subfolder/index.html’‘?

In this case, we can say “bye” to our supply of milk (but don’t worry, because new cows are born each day and will surely produce more), knowing we will not see the precious image, even if we see a beautiful “image not found” error (depending on the navigator this can appear in various forms). Although with security we will always see the alternative text (image tagged with ”alt”) Firefox furthermore needs you to create the tag ”title” that will function equal to the tag ”alt” (one can see that they have forgotten about this and I don’t see that they’ve done anything to fix it), but that is another issue and our topic today is links and absolute paths.

To conclude (thanks to this hot and cold time), remember the differences between an absolute Web ”URL” address an absolute Path.

The absolute URLS are always those that begin with the protocol of transference and refer to some document from our site.

The absolute paths make reference only and exclusively to our Website and it is recommended to eliminate the ”disappearance” of links or images on our site (with the great advantage that if we move our server site, or apply rewrite technology, we won’t have to touch our code at all).

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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 :

text reflection with photoshop

Duplicate the text level, you can do this from the level menu – duplicate layer or directly from the layers windows, right click on the layer and choose duplicate. With the new duplicated layer selected go to the edit menu and choose – transform -flip vertical, and drag down the level (with the move tool ) until the down limit of the first level, like this image :

duplicat level and drag down

Add a layer mask to the duplicated level , clicking on the 3º button from the left, down in the layers window.

add a layer mask

Now choose the gradient tool, and in the palette color choose black to white and trace a vertical line that start from the lower point of the duplicated level until the start of the text of the original level, look the image to understand what I want to say :

gradient tool

The results will be this

And finally low the opacity of the layer to 30% and that’s all!

The text reflection is ready. This effect is applied to the photoshop fire text tutorial, in the final part to make the reflection.
Hasta Luego!

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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.

Open Photoshop and create a a new document 300*300 px with blank background.

From the Tools Palette, choose the Polygon tool, and use these settings :

badge 2.0

Now draw the badge usig #dc0b0b like first color now you have this :

badge

Now go to blending options (right click on the layer in the layers window) and use these settings :

Drop shadow opacity 50% , distance 5 spread 0 size 15

Bevel and emboss size 2 soften 0 direction up

stroke size 5 position inside color #FFFFFF

And this should the result :

badge settings

Now we need to create the blur on the top of the badge. With the elliptical marquee tool, make a selection in the top left corner of the badge and create a new layer from the layer menu :

Switch the main color to white and select the gradient tools and from the gradient color menu choose foreground to transparent and trace a line from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of the badge, after deselect all, ctrl +d and apple+d in mac, go to the layers window and low the opacity to 35% and fill to 75%, this should be the results :

badge

Finally you can personalize the badge on your way :

badge 2.0 with photoshop

Enjoy!

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Write your text using white color for the text.

text on fire

Now duplicate the text layer from the menu layer – duplicate layer. Now go on the level window and deselect the original layer, so we can see only the new duplicated layer, like this :

hide original text layer

Now go on layer menu and select : merge visible, so we will have only two layers, the original text and another layer from the background and the copied layer, this last is the layer were we will work on.

merge visible layer

Now rotate the canvas using the menu : Image – image rotation – 90 º CCW.

rotate canvas

Now is time to use the Photoshop filters. Go to Filter -Stylize – Wind and apply this settings :

wind filter photoshop

Reapply the filter another 2 times, with ctrl+f or command +f if you are using a Mac, until you will have an image like this :

the wind filter

Now rotate again the image, on 90º CW to reput the text on original position and apply the Filter blur – Gaussian blur with a radius of 1.5, or more it depend how do you want the fire effect), here the settings of the blur filter :

blur filter settings

Apply this filter another time and we have this image :

blur filter photoshop

Now it’s coming the more personalized part .. So we’re going to use the liquify Filter, the results depend on your “hands” , this effect is to make the Flames, so use the filter at better, you can learn something about this filter at this links. This is my image with the flames.

flames

Now go to the menu : image – Hue/Saturation and apply this settings (remember to click on colorize):

hue settings

The results will be something like this :

text fire hue settings

Now duplicate the level and , in the new level, reapply the HUE/SATURATION but this time without click on colorize and use these settings :

hue/saturation

Now with this new level selected go in the window levels and choose , from the select menu,Color Dodge (always with the background copy selected).

merge levels

You will have an images like this

fire

Now show the original text layer, and go to blending options ( right click directly form the layer window and choose blending options), and apply a gradient (I’ve used grey to black) and outer glow and inner glow, better if you use yellow like color for this last inner and outglow. Finally you will have something like this :

fire text photoshop

And this is the fire text!

But we can do something better now. We can make this text more web 2.0, adding some nice effect used today in web 2.0.

For example a reflection and create something like this :

fire text 2.0

On the next tutorial I will explain how to create this reflection effects.

Hasta Luego!

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