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Display your RSS feed count in plain text

This tutorial will show you how to display your Feedburner feed count as a plain text. A good example is shown by Smashing Magazine’s feed count.

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Create a CSS drop-down menu

The #menu div is our “container” and it’s 100% wide, so we could leave it as it is because it would default to this. However to properly contain the floated child lists if we also float the #menu div is will stretch to contain its floated children.
We then need to set the required dropdown width [...]

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Redirect without using PHP

This tutorial will show you to redirect users to another webpage without using header and other PHP methods. It’s actually very simple, just one line of HTML code.

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Windows Media player button

To begin this tutorial, I simply created a few rectangles with different shades of blue.

Now select the “Elipse Tool” and draw a circle as I have done below with 121212 as your foreground color. Hold in the shift key to draw a perfect circle.

Now that you have your circle, you can now right click on [...]

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Create a vectorial camera with photo icon

This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to create a cool, web 2.0 vectorial camera with a photo icon in Adobe Illustrator.

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You suck at Photoshop #3 - Using the Clone Stamp and Manual Cloning

Tutorial by Donnie Hoyle on how to use the clone stamp and manual cloning.

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You suck at Photoshop #2 - Remove a foreground object

This is another great Photoshop tutorial by Donnie. This tutorial will explain how to remove a foreground object of its background and make it look like the object disappeared.

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You suck at Photoshop #1 - Distort and Warp tutorial

Some of you may already know these video tutorial series by Donnie Hoyle. They became well known via Youtube. The great combination of acid comments and superb Photoshop skills made these video series hugely popular.

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Basic CSS Tutorial

Styles defines how to display the HTML elements. Both Netscape 4.0 and IE 4.0 version support CSS.
Initially the presentation layout is handled by the browser. But it let to so many problems. The solve the problems “World Wide Web Consortium” (w3c) - the non profit, standard setting consortium responsible for standardizing html, created styles in [...]

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Basic MySQL Tutorial

MySQL is the most popular open source SQL database management system, is developed, distributed, and supported by MySQL AB. MySQL AB is a commercial company, founded by the MySQL developers.