You’ve been depressed for like a year now, I know. All the hardcore Objective-C developers have been having a hay-day writing apps for the iPhone. You might have even tried reading a tutorial or two about developing for the iPhone, but its C—or a form of it—and it’s really hard to learn. I don’t want to say that you should give up on the objective: you can get it eventually. But in the meantime, there [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this quick tip tutorial, we will learn how to create a realistic paper texture from scratch in just 5 minutes. To do this we will use some simple filters and effects. Let’s get started!

PHP Include Without understanding much about the details of PHP, you can save yourself a great deal of time with the use of the PHP include command. include takes a file name and simply inserts that file’s contents into the script that issued the include command. Why is this a cool thing? Well, first of all, this means that you can type up a common header or menu file that you want all your web [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating First impressions do count! Stunning our viewers with a visually compelling portfolio is one of the most important things that a designer can do to court a new client. Today we will demonstrate how to use photos, brushes, and textures, and 3D objects to design a creative multimedia website layout in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

Resources The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial. Stained Concrete Concrete Texture Step 1 Create a new document that is 1200×750 px and download the Caribbean font. Then, type out the title of the game as shown. Once you are done, rasterize both layers and duplicate them. Take those two layers and merge them together. Finally, duplicate that layer, send it to the back and add a 24 px stroke to [...]

Tutorial Details Technology: CSS3, HTML 5 Difficulty: Intermediate Completion Time: 1-2 hours Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along. [...]