Tutorials

The Making of Mystic

An amazing tutorial by Nik Ainley. The process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You’ll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images.

Category: PhotoshopLearn It Now

Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial

A good tutorial which combining Photoshop and Illustrator work. Showing you how to create brushes in Illustrator. Simple but yet effective.

Category: Photoshop, IllustratorLearn It Now

Digitally Paint a Fantasy Tree Scene

Learn how to make a fantasy scene using only standard photoshop brushes. In this tutorial, you can learn the basic concept in choosinf colors. Digital painting tutorial is always something really hard to explain and learn. I prefer to watch it in video. But this is also a nice one to foloow.

Category: PhotoshopLearn It Now

Create a Simple, Intelligent Accordion Effect Using Prototype and Scriptaculous

In this tutorial, they are showingshowing hwo to use the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries to create a lightweight, intelligent accordion. here is the live example of output.

Category: javascript, AjaxLearn It Now

Freebies

Free Watercolor Brushes and Tutorial

A good tutorial and free download by RYPE. Recently, I am following his tutorial in learning Illustrator. I found that it is useful, easy to understand and effective. Sometimes I just shock with the usage of Illustrator can be this far!

Category: Illustrator, VectorDownload

Free Vector Pack - Safari and Zoo Animals

A free collection of vector animal silhouettes, featuring a range of land based mammals alongside some aquatic life. As always, feel free to download and use in your personal or commercial projects.

Category: VectorDownload

Articles

Building and managing virtual teams

Chris Nagele is giving some guides in how to build and manage virtual teams. I like the way he did it. His first point is already take my heart, skip the resume! I don’t think this can happen in Malaysia. Well, still a good article to go for.

Category: Team ManagementRead more

Want to know how to design? Learn The Basics

“Want to know how to design? Then you should learn the basics of design. The basic elements of design include colour, line, shape, scale, space, texture …”

Category: DesignRead more

How to Get a Lot Done – 7 Tips to Achieve More

Have you ever written out a list of goals you’d like to achieve and thought, ‘How can I get all this done’? Or seen an opportunity that you’ve had to pass by because you are just flat out? An interview with Collis, I am one of his biggest fans. So, I strongly recommend this!

Category: Management, IdeaRead more

Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future

For me, I prefer fixed. Because of easier management due to huge of dynamic content in blogging, especially when using image. But, my boss prefer flexible. actually, I’m still ok with that. But, how to use flexible in blog, with a lot of shading in layout, different sizes of images in post and he said” flexible layout is web 2.0. what you say?

Category: Web StandardRead more

2008 Design Trends

Want to know what is the design trend now? Better check this out. You may find the answer. I think all of them are good. “right thing on the right place”. It make sense.

Category: DesignRead more

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Web Design News

After that, play a round with css style. Done. The funny thing is, just right after I finished the modification. I notice there is a new entry by Collis in Nettus about this trick. However, I sticked to what I had did. I am using a page for it but they are using a post. But according to Collis, they will ask Joshua Blount to work out a complete wordpress plugin for this feature. So, wait and see…

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Comments

Finally, I decided to separate the comments and trackbacks. It is now look better and clean. I think it is good for the readers who enjoy reading other’s comments and feedbacks. Besides, I also add in a math protection plugin for the spam battling purpose. I use Math Comment Spam Protection by Michael Woehrer..

Conclusion

After the update was done. I feel that it is nothing impossible, even thought when you are using wordpress. You can actually so whatever you want. Just think about what you want in your site/blog, then look for the wordpress plug-ins directory or just google it. You may find a dozen of solutions out there. Because, someone already think of it before you did. This is also the beauty of internet. You will keep motivated by those talented people out there. It is good IF one day, I can be the first who create something new for the community. Well, that’s all about it.

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The Event And Venue

Webmaster Malaysia Gathering is brought to you by Webmaster Malaysia and sponsored by Exabytes.
Last time, the venue isn’t good enough. Most of the time the audience can’t listen to the speech given. This time, the pick a better location for the event. They manage to book The Apartment at The Curve.

The Members And Guests

Last time, we were glad to have Hanson Toh (Google Malaysia), Najib (Drupal) and Gobala for the presentation session. For the coming gathering, we’ve even have members like LiewCF and Alang, and few other great webmasters to speak in this event.

The Fee And Registration

The admission is still the same - FREE. There are only 40 seats for members. To participate, simply reply to this email (limcs@webmastermalaysia.com) with your name and phone number. I did it already. How about you? See you there!

My little Thought

Well, it is good to have such event. Webmaster can gather and share their experiences. I hope that 1 day I will be able to give a talk there to share some of my thoughts and knowledge in wordpress and css as well. Cheers!

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Random Featured sites

LoonDesign featured in site galleries

After a year managing this site. Finally, it get some rewards. Evn tough it is small. But still a little achievement for myself. I had updated the showcase sites in my about page. Feel free to check them out. Well, thats all. Have a nice day!

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Memories

The Best Of LoonDesign

Flexible Glossy Orb

I write this tutorial based on the glossy trend last year to get some traffics. I also wish that I can provide an easier and more flexible way to create a glossy orb. It has been featured by NI-Limits. I get some confident here and continue to write more.

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Illustrate Image Into Vector

This tutorial explain how to turn an image into vector using illustrator. I used the one of my favorite anime’s character as an example to work on. This tutorial also featured in Top Ten Tutorials For June 2007 by NI-Limits.

check this out

Water Color Effect

One of my favorite effect in photo editing. I have seen these effect before I learn Photoshop. You can probably find it on the cover of Chinese novels. Last time, I thought they really draw and paint it using water color. But now, I can make it using Photoshop. Featured in The PhoshopRoadMap.

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Drawing A Rat for Chinese New Year 2008’s Zodiac

I did this for my company Chinese New Year Newsletters. I like it, it is cute. So, I write a tutorial about it. I was a bit surprise when I get mostly positive feedbacks. Thanks guys.

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A Gorgeous Dark Web Layout

My first try to write a tutorial about creating a web layout. I noticed that it is some different when I was writing a web layout tutorial. I need to practice more on this since I found that my readers enjoy it so much.

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The First Free Wordpress Theme

Blue Blog

Wow, my first ever free wordpress theme. I published this firstly on my new site - themetation.com. I wish to use that as a medium to release more high quality wordpress themes. Share some tips and recourses with the readers. I love WordPress. That’s why I do this.

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Achievements

Grunge Web Layout

I am so proud of this. It was published on psdtuts. It is a good success for me in my web design career. Tell you a secret, I just can’t sleep that night after I get their confirmation email. Wow…
check this out

Future

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This is how the site look alike before this.

Update - some history

Thanks to my reader - Dybcio again. Well, I just found that CSSVault sold by BloggyNetwork to HostGator Web Hosting for $100,000 on March.

According to them, this isn’t a simple purchase - it’s an investment. So, we all just wait and see what will happen next and also waiting for the site revamp soon. Cheers!

But the thing is, the purchase was on March of 2007 and now is middle of 2008. Anyone else can provide more recent update to us? Thanks!

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Web Design Inspiration

CSSVault

CSSVault is always my first choice to get some design inspiration. There is a huge collection of high quality web sites both in coding and designing. I am lucky enough to get featured on their site. Besides, you can also find some resources there under the resources section.

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CSSBeauty

“CSSBeauty is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world. Its purpose is to showcase designers’ work and to act as a small portal to the CSS design community.” So, do I need to explain more?

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Best Web Gallery

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). They provide a very useful category system for your to browse through. Besides, you can also choose to view in in 3 different ways. Head over and get some inspiration.

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CSS Mania Natural Feeling

CSS Mania has over 10,000+ websites in its collection which is css-based. Not all of them are up to level but you really can find something special there.

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The Best Designs

The Best Designs is a great place to view high-quality XHTML and Flash designs. Their tagging system allow you to easily narrow down your searching. Besides, you can also meet some popular web designers there in their featured designers and designers’ directory section.

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The Best Resources

PSDtuts - Spoonfed photoshop

No doubt, this is my first choice. I have been following them since their launching. They make me feel like I need them to feed me everyday. There are some amazing tutorials there, kind of different from what you see elsewhere.

Category: PhotoshopVisit Site

Nettuts - Spoonfed web skills

I write about this site before, so, I will not list down all the details here. It is always good when you find a site that provide skills only for a specific field. It is more focus and lead to higher quality of content.

Category: Web SkillsVisit Site

Vectips

Vectips is a site for Adobe Illustrator’s tips, tricks, and tutorials, designed and maintained by Ryan Putnam. A dedicated site that provide resources only for Illustrator. This is my favorite site for illustrator tips and resources.

Category: IllustratorVisit Site

Good Tutorials

A tutorials portal that provide various type of tutorials. Ajax, CSS, Photoshop, JavaScript, MAya etc..This is also the second resources I used to learn my photoshop skills when I just started in web design field. Besides, I also submitted some of my tutorials there as a return of contribution for the community.

Category: Tutorials PortalVisit Site

Pixel2Life

My first resources site to start my web design journey. Every time I browse over this site, I remember the moment I learn photoshop, illustrator and css during my internship. I never think that my tutorials also can be included there one day. And, I made it happen. Thanks god.

Category: Tutorials PortalVisit Site

How about you?

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Where to go?

As you can see, I am getting some freelance job recently and I also post them up in my portfolio page (some are still under development). You may notice that. I am doing stuff more related to blog design using WordPress. Is this a good sign? If you have read about my previous post about “who am I ?”. You may find out whether I am a WordPress Designer or just a Web Designer.

All Rounded Freelancer, CanYou Name One Here?

I also don’t know why? All the clients are using a blog. Funny right? Or, can we say that everyone like to be a blogger nowadays? I got no idea. Faith? they all using wordpress too … I think this is not good for a freelancer because this may limited his source of clients.

I think if you want to be a freelancer, you need to be all rounded. Flash, Photoshop, After Effects, CSS, JavaScript etc. He/she need to have good design sense, color sense and also well organized coding style. Besides, he/she also need to be able to build a system on his/her own. Lastly, he/she need to have good imagination to create high quality motion graphic and video/animation. Wow…sound like our local vacancy’s requirements, right?

My concern

For me, I never meet a person like this. I only meet who have good design skill and sense or someone who good in coding. It is nearly impossible to find someone like that and further, they only offer not more than RM 5,000 for a person who have those kind of god skills. Can you believe it? This is also one of the reason why I am not so eager to learn something new now. I prefer to focus more on what I am doing now. which is blog and design.

I just worry that if I get started something new now, I will forget what I know now. Or, I may lost interest in what I am doing now. So, Web Designer? Blog Designer or Freelancer? I will go for Web Designer which focus on wordpress. I am not saying the other two are wrong. You have the right to choose where to go. Each of us have our own destiny.

Real Life

Dream is still a dream. Sometimes, we just can’t avoid from it. I may be one of the local full time freelancer soon. Our maid is going back to her country soon. She is helping my mum to take care of my sister all the while. We are looking for new maid but it take minimum 3 months to get a new one. So, I got no choice but to quit my current job and work on something that I can work from home. So, freelancer will be my first option now. If I can choose, I still prefer to work under a company, in a group.

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Tutorials

Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs

It gives a retro feeling to the design, but at the same time he uses a modern approach. This inspired me a lot. I like the effect. It is simple and effective! You can easily feel it!

Category: PhotoshopLearn It Now

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

This is another amazing tutorial from Collis. The result is great. He always give us surprise in ordinary way. I like it!

Category: PhotoshopLearn It Now

CSS Decorative Gallery

Another simple technique applied but come out with something amazing from Nick La. A simple span tag to settle it. You must not miss this one.

Category: CSS, Web DevelopmentLearn It Now

Create Non-Raster Drop Shadows

This is my new resource site to learn something interesting about Illustrator. I learn a lot of important basic and advance skills from them.

Category: IllustratorLearn It Now

Articles

SEO Guide for Designers

This is a must read araticle for a web designer. If you still don’t know how important SEO is for web development. I suggest that you better head over and read it on. Then, apply to all the works in the future for your clients.

Category: Web Development, SEORead more

10 Steps to a Successful Design Project

Want have a successful design project? Wonder how to do it? Read this, don’t miss those comments from other readers too.

Category: Web DesignRead more

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The Image

Concept

HTML

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<ul class="blue">
    <li><a href="#" title="home">home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="products">products</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="blog">blog</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="contact">contact</a></li>
</ul>

This is a normal code to create a list. I assign a class for the <ul> (unorder-list) so that I can easily reuse the whole thing with different style but same structure.

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<ul class="blue">
    <li><a href="#" title="home" class="current"><span></span>home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="products"><span></span>products</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="blog"><span></span>blog</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="contact"><span></span>contact</a></li>
</ul>

Now, I add in a <span> for each of the link to hold the left hand side of the background image.

CSS

1. <ul> - Unorder-List

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ul.blue {
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 10px 0;
	list-style: none;
	float: left;
}

We need to make list-style as none because no image for any list within it. I use a float left here because I am going to use float left for the <span> and also <li>. I am not going to define a width for it because this is just a sample.

For your information, you need to define a width for the container which you had float it.

2. <li> - List

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ul.blue li {
	float: left;
}
 
ul.blue li a {
	float: left;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #ccc;
	padding: 4px 15px 0 0;
	margin-right: 8px;
	font: 900 14px "Arial", Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

Like what mentioned just now, there is a float for the list. padding right for 15px is for the space between the edge of the image and the link text. The margin here is for the space between the list.

3. <span> - span within the link

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ul.blue li a span {
	float: left;
	padding-right: 15px;
	display: block;
	margin-top: -4px;
	height: 24px;
}

For the span, we use padding right for the same purpose. However, I add a -4px margin-top because I I have a 4px padding top for the link.

4. <Hover> - mouse over action

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ul.blue li a:hover, ul.blue li a.current {
 	color: #0d5f83;
	background: url("images/blue.png") no-repeat top right;
}
 
ul.blue li a:hover span, ul.blue li a.current span {
	background: url("images/blue.png") no-repeat top left;
}

Since we are going to have the same effect for the mouse over and active link. I combine the codes.
Here is another example with 4 colors.

Conclusion and Download

This is a very useful technique which you can re-use in page with only 1 image. It is easy to use and I hope that you guys can understand my poor English explanation. Any question, just send me an email or drop me a comment here.

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The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Quote from the publisher

It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a site recently, you need download this book.

I read the ebook already. Frankly, nothing very special or amazing. But, the basic is there. I think most of us are self taught. We learn from tutorials, articles or some other resources that we can easily get from internet. I found that, what we really need is the basic. Taken from a Chinese Phrase ” Don’t try to fly before you can walk”. Our parents also gave us such advise when we are young.

Overall, this is still a useful source for the web designer especially me who lack of basic in using photoshop. It give example on how to save images for web and something about transparency images. Well, get one and read more. Cheers!

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Introduction

W3 Markup, based on the name you can expect it is a site that provide something related to web development. Yes, they provide service which help you to convert your web design in PSD to HTML. beside, they also offer “Re-slicing” of existing sites (bring old code up-to-date). Well, this is also what I offer to my clients. Besides, they also provide the client intranet as a tool to facilitate easy management of multiple projects.

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Conclusion

This is a good site and they provide some excellent services. Nowadays, it is hard to get a web site which is cross browser (especially I.E6), SEO friendly and with valid CSS/XHTML. Personally, I always make sure my coding is up to this standard. I will try my best and maintained my concept and principle in my future tasks!

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1. Structuring

I found that this is even more important than what kind design you are going to use. To get this done, I need to do some analysis and research about the site I am going to build. For example, target users, functions, Colors and always see from the users’ side. After I gather all the information, then I can only start drawing out the layout and decided what to focus and what isn’t important.

2. Sketching

So we all know, we do our job in Photoshop or other softwares. But, before that, I recommend that we start by using a pencil and papers. I prefer to sketch out the layout and write down the important notes we need. This will always save me a lot of times to try in Photoshop directly.

3. Concept

I prefer to use the concept based on the logo. It is because, the first thing people will see when browsing a site is the logo, top left or even center. Then only he will continue to navigate the site. So, the logo concept will easily go into their mind and influence the rest of the reading. For example, If the logo is something smooth, soft or light. I will choose something relevant and use some different style on the important section to attract attention. The elements you can used based on the logo are the colors, style and perspective.

4. Web Usability

Is kind of how you judge whether it is a good web design or not. A fantastic web design but users find no where to navigate it and a normal, clean web design interface and users can easily understand the message and navigate. Which will your client go for? Combination of both advantages? Here is an interesting comic to explain it. And you also can refer to what Jakob Nielsen talk about usability.

make it short, even thought your web interface is very nice and creative. People can’t navigate it and leave, then your works and efforts will be wasted. means useless!

5. Consistency

6. Right technology at the right time

I can find this mostly in the portfolio sites from the web designer who wish to show to their clients that they are capable on doing this kind of cool stuffs. Sometimes, we only need something simple and well organized to gain the confident of the clients.

7. Spacing and Padding

This is very important to make sure that your site will not look like a spam site or “rojak site”. It also help users to read your content more easily. More white space can make your interface look more clean and well organized. What we need to do is make sure there is some padding for the content with the edge of the container or frame. For example:

Conclusion

Forgive me if anything I said is wrong and you may find that I am not inserting those sites with the problems I mentioned above. I don’t want to hurt anyone and this is just my opinions and tips about web design that I learn from my experiences. Hope this article and help you. My purpose here is to share and also try to educate those clients to listen more from the web designer they hired.

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I will release some high quality free wordpress themes here after this. Feel free to drop me some comments and suggestions after you used it.thanks! You can find the demo here.

Features

• Special space for blogger awesome photo
• 2 widget-ready sidebar with different style
• custom templates:
  • archives
  • links
  • author
• integrated plugins:
  • Recent-Comments
  • Most-Commented
• Special Function:
  • Tabbing System
  • A 468 x 60 banner after the 1st post of the main page
• Formatting:
  • Special format for subtitle
  • Alternative formatting for comment fields.

Compatibles

• Up to WordPress version 2.5.1
• FireFox
• Internet Explorer 6
• Internet Explorer 7
• Opera
• Safari

Validation

• CSS Validated
• XHTML Validated

Terms

Every themes you get will including with a details readme file that guide you step by step on the usage for the themes. A link will be included in the footer, if you dislike it, you can remove it from the footer.php. For any support or questions, feel free to drop me an email.

Update

For everyone who have problem using the tab feature please check weither you are loading other jquery.js for your own script or via plugins. Any script will only need one jquery to work because when you load another jquery the previous function defined/loading will be overwrite by the second jquery.js.

I have update another version which is using another javascript library. If you find any problem with the tabbing system. Please download again and re-upload all the files.

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Tutorials

Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power. Even though it may look like a difficult tutorial, it’s really not that hard.

Category: PhotoshopLearn It Now

Enhance Your Ad Designs with 3D Splashes

This tutorial will show you a creative process that gets you using your crazy brain. The workflow for creating the splashes involves taking photographs of thrown paint. Through photography you can capture amazing 3D images without the need for 3D software. Learn to make a splash in your next design.

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Parallax Gallery

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a Flash parallax scrolling gallery from scratch. Parallax scrolling is frequently used in most 2D animation and games, where the background images and foreground images scroll at different rate of speed.

Category: FlashLearn It Now

Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop

Tutorial will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.

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Freebies

Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes: Messy Spraypaint

A very high res and useful brush for those how like grunge design.

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Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures

Perfect wooden Texture.

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Actually, there is over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

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Who Are They?

Collis is the founder for psdtuts who also maintaining Freelanceswitch and FlashDen. He also published a book called RockStar Freelancer. I just saw this book being featured in the Web Design Magazine. I also submit my tutorial there and luckily being accepted and published in their web.

Take As References but Not Copy Forever

When you cannot find a good design or style for yourself, why not try something else? Maybe not something new but at least something you never try. Who know they can give you some inspiration and you can come out with something amazing?

A Good Resources For Web Developer

At NETTUTS they will be tackling pretty much any subject to do with building websites including:

• Complete step by step website builds
• HTML and CSS techniques
• Flash effects and techniques
• Javascript and AJAX
• Dreamweaver and other tools
• general web development skills

So, don’t wait, head over there and read for their first tutorial in how to create a paypal payment form. This is a useful tutorial for those who wish to sell somethings online with paypal.

That’s all for today. Have a nice day!

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She Is Ordinary But Unique

For me, she looks ordinary and maybe this is also the reason why we can feel that she is close to us. Not like the other superstar, like you can only “see” them but cannot “reach”. She is like the girl next door. Get what I mean? So friendly, kind and like a normal person in our community. Below is the song I most like which name “stupid for you”. This is the incomplete version where she will stop awhile because of the dog :). However, this just make the clip ,more natural and real.

Lyrics:
It’s not everday
that i find a person quite like you
perfect every way
i finally found the nerve to confess that it’s you - that i want
i don’t care if i act a fool
i would damn near beg for you !
put aside, all my pride
so don’t keep me hanging here
cause this girl is falling stupid for you..
stupid for you..

the proper thing to do
is for me to act like a lady and wait
for you to make the first move
but i don’t think you’re getting the point
that it’s you - that i want
i don’t care if i act a fool
i would damn near beg for you
put aside, all my pride
so don’t keep me waiting here
cause this girl is falling stupid for you!
oh, oh stupid for you

why’s it always feel like i am
chasing love when nothing’s there
and here i go just making the same mistake…

i’ve fallen stupid for you..

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