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Photoshop

Create a Knitted Argyle Text Effect Using Filter Forge

Photoshop plugins are great tools to help you save time and improve the quality of your work. In this tutorial, Rose will use Filter Forge to help create a knitted argyle text effect in Photoshop that you can use in your holiday illustrations. Let’s get started!

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JavaScript

Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player

The <audio> elements have events, methods and properties, which means it can be manipulated using JavaScript. Experimenting is nice, but all of this would be worthless without practical use. Despite the fact that video is the most popular type of media on the Internet, there are also situations when audio is important or even the major content, think podcasts or websites of musicians.

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WordPress

Inserting Widgets With Shortcodes

The shortcode ability of WordPress is extremely underrated. It enables the end user to create intricate elements with a few keystrokes while also modularizing editing tasks. In a new theme, Daniel Pataki decided to look into adding widgets anywhere with shortcodes, and it turns out that it isn’t that difficult. He will be looking at the widgets object and shortcodes without delving into too much detail about how and why they work.

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Design

Design a Textured App Icon with Fireworks

App icons are often the first thing you see before making a purchase. In this tutorial James Parker is going to use Fireworks to create an app icon for a fictional basketball game. Because realistic textures can really enhance icons, he’ll show you a quick and simple way to replicate a brushed metal effect, along with some simple lighting techniques that will really make your icons stand out from the herd.

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JavaScript

Ajax - Beyond the Four Lettering

In this article we are going to discuss what is AJAX, how it works, what you can do with it, what are the advantages and the fall backs. The goal here is to try and explain how the Ajax works, by giving you a detailed explanation of the whole process along with some graphics and live examples. So lets get started.

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Manuals

DMXzone Ajax Form Manual

In this article we you will find useful information about the DMXzone Ajax Form Dreamweaver extension. We covered everything from basic to advanced usage, well presented in detailed tutorials and videos. Also we included the features packed in this helpful tool and many more.

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Design

Forge Your Own Evil Sword of Evilness in Illustrator

One to rule them all… Wait, that’s not the story. But, of course, every Lord of Darkness needs some dark, evil weapon that will make their enemies cry in fear just looking at it. Today Monika Zagrobelna will create an Evil Sword of Evilness in Adobe Illustrator, perfect for the vector warrior! So, let’s forge one!

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CSS

Simple Effects for Drop-Down Lists

Today Mary Lou wants to share some simple drop-down list effects with you. The idea is to transform a normal select input into something more appealing with a jQuery plugin. The expanding of the options will happen with a transition and parameters can be configured in a way to achieve unique effects.

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JavaScript

Best Practices When Working With JavaScript Templates

Maybe you don't need them for simple web apps, but it doesn't take too much complexity before embracing JavaScript templates becomes a good decision. Like any other tool or technique, there are a few best practices that you should keep in mind, when using templates. Andrew Burgess will take a look at a handful of these practices in this tutorial.

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Design

How Fluid Grids Work in Responsive Web Design

Responsive design is the process of arranging the layout in a way that all the important information is presented in a user readable way in any kind of device or screen size. Most designers will choose a grid based layout since it’s easier to handle grid based layouts in different kind of devices. It’s your decision to choose between a fixed or fluid grid to design the layout. Throughout this tutorial Rakhitha Nimesh is going to focus on fluid grids and their importance in responsive design.

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