Why Freelancing is Awesome

If you know a lot about freelancing, then you know that there are a lot of things that can make freelancing really hard. But that isn’t the whole story — freelancing is one of the best things on earth, despite any of the difficulties there may be.
Why is freelancing so awesome?

Control over [...]

7 Useful Apps For OSX Web Designers

Because of various requests I received lately and the irrefutable fact, that there are plenty of useful yet sometimes rather unknown applications available for OSX, I’d like to share some of my most vital pieces of software with you ordered by function below.
Image Editing – Photoshop CS3 / CS4
Even though there are some really promising [...]

Happy Birthday Drupal, you are eight

Eight years ago today Drupal 1.0.0 was released. It’s been a big year for Drupal, another big release with Drupal 6, a lot of awards, and a lot of recognition. The project has had some notable departures, promotions, and the addition of many great contributors and users. Happy Birthday to the Drupal project and its [...]

Flash Tutorial on keyboard listeners

So, here is your Flash CS3 Tutorial on how to make an object move using the Arrow Keys. All code is in ActionScript 3.0.

When working in Flash the key board is just as important as the mouse. However, many web sites over look keyboard intractability. If you want your site to stand out, use keyboard controls. If [...]

A Collection of 60+ Free Textures from Stock.xchng

You can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available. One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng. Designm.ag  has shared us “60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu“, you’ll find more than 60 textures from Stock.xchng. Each image links to the page [...]

Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework

 
Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework does not only separate HTML from CSS, but even CSS definitions are categorized into structural and thematic types. Thus creating a new drop-down means creating only a new theme since structure is permanent.
Your unordered List can be transformed by changing class name only. Available transformations including horizontal, vertical left-to-right, vertical right-to-left, [...]

How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?

Photoshop is a powerful tool for almost everything you need in graphic and web design. This article explains how to use Photoshop to create product boxes.

How many times you wanted to create cool product box for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new Photoshop you have even more options to [...]

Displaying Time in Flash using Actionscript

The Date class in Actionscript along with its various methods helps us to retrieve date and time values (Local / GMT).
Create three Dynamic Textboxes for displaying the hours, minutes, seconds and name their variables as ch, cm, cs respectively.
Write the following Actionscript code in the Actions window (F9) as given below:
var dt, timeint;
dt = new [...]

Flex VS AJAX

The mindset you need to employ is that Flex is used for Rich Internet Applications, not Rich Web Applications. There isn’t a clear line between RIAs and RWAs, but Flex is definitely on the RIA side of things in that you are building applications that are desktop like but use the internet for deployment ease [...]

Managing multimedia production with Director

This advice about managing a multimedia project comes from James Khazar, multimedia producer for Macromedia’s instructional media department. James has worked in multimedia for 14 years, starting before it was called multimedia.
Managing multimedia production
This advice about managing a multimedia project comes from James Khazar, multimedia producer for Macromedia’s instructional media department. James has worked [...]