Website Panel
Its difficult to describe what this is. I’ve called it a panel. Whatever you call it, its the sort of thing you would use in a website perhaps to contain your navigation controls.
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Psychedelic Effect
This is a layer style that is ideal for adding a psychedelic effect to an object.
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Disco Bubbles
Another really simple beginners tutorial. Start off with several bubble shapes. You can create these using several circle vectors or load in a custom shape. combine all of your layers to one layer.
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Really simple 3D Emblem
This is an extremely simple tutorial suitable for a beginner. Draw out a shape with your pen, load a custom shape or use a ding bat graphic.
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Wavy Shapes
This tutorial will show you how to create interesting effects on some wavy shapes. Start off by drawing a vector shape with your pen or use a custom shape provided by Photoshop.
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Gel Button
This tutorial will show you a simple way to create a gel button.
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Protecting sensitive personal data with encryption
It is a common situation to want to store data about a person in a database. For example their name, address, phone number etc. In many countries it is illegal to store this data without some form of protection but even without such a law it is common courtesy to look after this data to the best of your ability. You don’t know how well your hosting company looks after this data so why take the risk. This data should be encrypted.
This tutorial will show you a simple example of a user registration system. It hasn’t been designed as a class you can plug in to your application. Instead it is a tutorial to show you how to use the mcrypt functions within your application.
This is not a complete solution to your security worries! You will almost certainly need to consider other factors to build a secure application but this is a good start. So if your hosting company (or government department!) puts your database on a couple of cds and puts them in the post (mail) you can sleep better at night knowing your data is safe.
htaccess: Stopping “page not found” errors
Stop Page not found errors when you restructure or move your site
Its a problem I come across often. Someone does a complete site redesign and all the filenames and paths have changed. They are really pleased with their new site. It looks good and works well. But what they don’t realise is their users aren’t so happy. Why? Well perhaps they have bookmarked one of your old pages. Or perhaps they type a search phrase into a search engine and it returns a link to your old pages. In both cases they will get “Page not found”.
