In this Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a stylish grid through the use of just a few filters. We’ll start as usual with a new blank document, any size, with a white background. With Black set as your foreground color, go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Next go to Filter > Pixelate […]
Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy
Advertising Your New Forums
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Starting up your forum doesn’t have to be as hard as most people think it is, but don’t think its something that will happen easily and over night. You will have to put in your share of work to build up your community and get people posting and visiting. First off understand that […]
Proper Use of Heading, ALT & Title Tags
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Improve web design and search engine performance all in one easy step! Believe it or not, it is possible, easy, and really straightforward. There are 3 extremely useful tags and attributes that most people overlook, or do not take advantage of properly. These are the alt tags, title attributes in links and heading […]
DomainTools Estimates 100 Million .Com Domains Active
According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by Verising has surpassed 100 million domains: 100 million actively registered domains is an
$15 Off at WebHostingPad
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]WebHostingPad was formed in 2005 with a team of very successful and proven industry veterans intent on delivering the best value in web hosting. With the growing need for affordable hosting, the company set out to deliver the best web hosting at a price where everyone can afford to have their piece of […]
$29 Off at crowdSPRING
[frame align=”right”] [/frame]As we start to settle into the new year, more and more entrepreneurs may begin to start their own business, decide on a creative refresh for their site, or look to rebrand their business. crowdSPRING is the perfect fit for anyone looking to create a new feel for their brand as they have […]
New Tools Launched
I know it has been rather quiet around here with updates lately – with the holidays and the new year kicking off business has really been booming and I have just found myself swamped with new projects for the time being. However amidst all of this I didn’t want to leave everyone here completely empty […]
New Dedicated Server Offers at ServerPronto
[frame align=”left”] [/frame] ServerPronto has launched a new series of dedicated server options – giving them the industry’s best Price/Value ratio for dedicated servers. The new X3 servers offer a Triple Core AMD 8400+ or a AMD X3 450 CPU; 8GB of DDR2 RAM; 500GB of space; 10TB of bandwidth – and all on a […]
Create Strong Passwords!
Following a recent issue I had with my Xbox account – I decided to write up a quick article touching upon creating secure and strong passwords for yourself. Let’s face it – most of you create passwords that are easy and simple to remember – which means that the password is just that much easier […]
Display Page Loading Time
Have you ever noticed that lots of websites feature some text towards the very bottom of a page saying “Page took x.xxx seconds to load”? It’s a pretty simple thing to make and gives your site something that we all love … stats! So today we’ll take a look at how to accomplish this through […]
50 Best Twitter Chats for Business & Marketing Students
The staff writers over at Best Colleges Online have put together a great list of 50 Twitter hash chats that are beneficial to business, as well as marketing students. The chats are categorized into several sections: Business Technology Marketing & PR Young Professionals Management & Leadership Entrepreneurship For the full list head on over to http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/50-best-twitter-chats-for-business-students.
Downtime For The Holidays
I know it’s been quiet around here lately – and I apologize for that. We have had quiet the stream of new projects lately – and combined with the holidays there is simply not enough time out for to make updates as frequently as I used to. Don’t fret though – everything will be back […]
Ready For Black Friday?
Experts expect a record-breaking holiday season for ecommerce sales, with estimates reaching upward of $36.5 billion. Of course, the official kickoff to this critical selling period comes with the Thanksgiving holiday, quickly followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. To make the most of these events, check out this whitepaper from ecommerce provider, […]
Bing Webmaster Tools Updated
This past week a slew of new features have been coming out for Bing Webmaster Tools – and today seemed a great day to showcase some of those changes. For starters Bing Webmaster Tools will now be showing you all inbound links to a given URL regardless of the heading. So anything listed under the 300, 400 […]
Connecting to a MySQL Database
None of our previous PHP tutorials have dealt with a database yet, and that is for the sole reason that not everyone has access to a database, however for those who do this tutorial will teach you the basics on how you can connect to your database. We wont be covering SQL queries and the […]
ConstantContact Launches Small Business Saturday Resource Center
The 2nd annual Small Business Saturday is November 26th! ConstantContact is working with American Express to help small businesses make the most of it with free expert Know-how, tools …
New Tool: .htaccess Generator
As I was writing up this mornings .htaccess tutorials I realized how much easier working with an .htaccess file would be if you could simply use some form of tool to generate all the code you need. I got together with Hideyo Ryoken & Masato Mannen, the team behind www.htaccesseditor.com – and setup a customized .htaccess generator here. Combined with our […]
Using Custom Extensions
Ever wondered how Google makes some of their pages have the extension .g? This is a fairly easy procedure really, and htaccess does a great deal in helping us accomplish this. First decide what you want the new extension to be, for our purposes we will use the extension of .purple (simply because it makes sense – what […]
Selecting Default Index Files
Most web hosts setup your account to use a specific file as the index file. In most cases this is either index.html, index.php, index.htm or defualt.html, but what happens if you don’t want to use any of those names for your index file? What if you want your index file to be called thestart.php (for […]
jQuery 1.7 Released
One of the internet’s most popular Javascript libraries has been updated last week, bringing jQuery up to version 1.7. jQuery 1.7 can now be downloaded from docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery. Alternatively, if you prefer a CDN, use any of the following URLs …