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In this tutorial I am going to teach you an awesome way of making a cool green logo.Step 1To start off with create a new document (500 by 400 pixels - File > New) and using the Linear Gradient Tool make a green gradient from the top left to the bottom right. The colours that I have chosen are #445e00 for the dark green and #688a02 for the light green colour.Step 2 Now we are going to be making the basic shape for the logo so create a...

You’ve probably noticed that a lot of websites lately have a featured area with content that slides or changes in some way. This is a great technique to show several pieces of content in a limited amount of space and a good way to engage the user. If you’ve been wondering how this is accomplished, here are 13 very useful tutorials and scripts that will help you create these types of effects using jQuery.jQuery Tools Scrollable AnythingSlider...

Web designers are a special breed – we’re one of a small group of professionals that actively seeks out to improve ourselves and our craft through any means possible. This generally means on our own, from each other, and through an awful lot of ‘guess, test and revise.’ Web design isn’t for the faint of heart or those with any fear of failure.The most daunting ‘learning experience’ for developing developers is to make the jump from the...

Mod_rewrite is an Apache-based rewrite engine for dynamically rewriting URLs. It’s built into Apache servers natively, though not enabled by default. It’s capable of functions beyond simple rewrites, though, some of which are included below.Turn Mod_Rewrite On Mod_rewrite is used through your .htaccess file. Place the following code at the beginning of your .htaccess file to turn mod_rewrite on:RewriteEngine on (Don’t forget that .htaccess...