A common task in Photoshop is the need to change a specific color in a photo, may it be a person’s hair or eye color. In this tutorial I will go over two different methods you can use to change the colors within a photo. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages – so […]
Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy
Triangles
Continuing on with shapes and Photoshop I wanted to touch base upon triangles. Photoshop doesn’t have a built in triangle tool, so drawing a triangle takes a bit more work than the circles and squares took. Here we will use Photoshop’s line and arrowhead feature to create various triangles. We’ll start off by double clicking the line […]
Circles and Squares
Shapes are probably the simplest and most common starting point for Photoshop users – and one of the most common beginner questions I get asked is “how do I draw a perfect circle?”. In this tutorial I attempt to answer that question – along with the usual follow-up of “and what about a perfect square?”. […]
Webmaster Central Hangout on Google Plus
Google has been quietly hosting weekly hangouts for webmasters allowing them to ask Google engineers various questions related to a specific topic chosen for each hangout. The next hangout is scheduled for Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 at 11:30am PDT for 1 hour, announced by Jenny Murphy earlier this morning. The topic for this hangout will be […]
Sherweb Offers 30 Day Trial of Hosted Exchange Plans
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]When it comes to Microsoft Exchange servers, Sherweb is one of the top names that immediately comes to mind. Over 20,000 organizations have successfully moved their emails, contacts, calendars, notes, and folders from a variety of platforms to SherWeb’s Exchange servers; and more are coming on a daily basis. What differentiates SherWeb from other providers beside […]
Square CSS Badges
[frame align=”left”][/frame]I was playing around with CSS earlier today and came up with something rather interesting, I call them CSS badges since I’m really not sure what else to call them.The code behind these buttons is actually extremely simple and I have commented it along the way so you could easily see what controls what. […]
Rapid Purple Link Exchange Launched
Every now and then I get a request for a link exchange from a fellow blogger or webmaster – and with the exception of trackbacks I really didn’t have anything in place to accommodate these requests, however I knew that in-time I would have to put up some sort of a link partnership/exchange program. After-all Next Designs […]
GoDaddy Integration With Google Tools Broken
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]A post by mcarter88 on the Google Webmaster Forums has brought to light an issue with the integration of Google Webmaster Tools and GoDaddy Hosting. Back in 2007 Google and GoDaddy formed an integration deal where Go Daddy users will see the Google Webmaster Tools link right in their hosting control center, and can […]
CoolHandle Upgrades Servers & Offers 10% Off Coupon
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]For a while the CoolHandle dedicated server offering has been of a Intel 3.0GHz Core2 Duo with 1GB of RAM and a 180GB HD for $59.95/month. Really not a bad deal at all – but it has now become even better. The servers have been upgraded with 4GB of ram and 2 160GB HD replacing […]
Google Adds Inline Friend Annotations to the Plus Button
Many of you who are using the Google +1 buttons on your site may have noticed that as of last week you can now see faces and names of friends and contacts who have +1’d you’re page. Their new addition to the code now allows these annotations to be displayed inline rather than in a […]
Learn About Business With Google!
Whether you are just starting your own business, taking over the management of one, or have been running a business for many years – there is always something new out there to learn about, and often times the biggest challenge is to find all that new information in a place comfortable enough to read through. […]
How Do I Get Listed By Ask.com
[frame align=”left”][/frame]We often focus on Google, Bing and Yahoo and forget about some of the other great search engines out there – like Ask.com – the Q&A search engine. However while the ‘Big 3’ have their own set of webmaster tools which allow you to easily submit your website and manage it – Ask.com doesn’t […]
Introducing HTML11
That’s right ladies and gentleman – if you thought HTML5 was the latest and greatest – Say hello to the <taste> tag, the <religion>, <touch>, <xray> and a whole set of new tags being introduced with HTML11. The mission of the HTML11 is to fulfill the promise of XML for applying HTML11 to a wide variety of […]
Internet Explorer 9 Becomes The Most Secure Browser
To be honest I had to read the report twice before I could believe it. Internet Explorer has always had it’s share of security flaws (amongst many others) – and this is what made room for Firefox, Opera and Chrome to step in and give browser security the attention that IE wasn’t. The recent study […]
Adobe Muse Available As Free Public Beta
Yesterday Adobe moved Muse from the private beta and launched it as a free public beta. The new app (built by InDesign veterans) promises to let graphic designers “create websites as easily as you create layouts for print.” Key features for Muse include: Planning — Use easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and flexible, site-wide tools. Design — Combine imagery, graphics and text […]
Using The Right Words On Your Website = More Traffic
[frame align=”left”][/frame]There’s no doubt that having a website for your brick and mortar business is crucial, and even necessary these days. However it’s not enough just to have any old website. You need a website that will draw traffic, aka visitors, who are surfing the web. These are visitors you wouldn’t otherwise have and they can […]
Online Marketing – What’s This Lingo?!
[frame align=”left”][/frame]So you’ve purchased hosting, built and got your website up and running, and now you have started looking into online marketing methods and ways to increase the exposure your site gets. Adwords, Adsense, Analytics, Buying Cycle, Contextual Advertising, Monetize, Long Tails, Squeeze Pages – what does this all mean?! I agree jumping into online […]
Network Solutions Offers $5.99/mo Hosting
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]The $5.99/month hosting coupon for Network Solutions is back! I originally spotted this coupon back in June however it had expired on July 31st. Network Solutions emailed me yesterday stating that the coupon is back and will be active until 9/30/2011. It’s been in high demand, after-all it’s not that easy to find 300gb of […]
Hello Heello!
[frame align=”left”][/frame]No, it’s not a typo. I really am saying hello to a ‘brand-new’ social network launched today called Heello (pronounced he-low), created by Noah Everett, the founder of TwitPic. Interestingly enough the launch of Heello came the day after Twitter launched it’s own photo-sharing service as a direct competitor to TwitPic – which ofcourse brings up […]
Rapid Purple Now On Foursquare!
Small business owners are using technology and social media more and more these days, and not just to advertise their business, but to learn about their competition and keep up to date on the latest trends. In my ever-growing effort to help Rapid Purple has now officially joined Foursquare! You’d be surprised how many business […]