Vectordiary.com has a nice Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Drawing a Piano Keyboard.
This step by step tutorial demonstrates drawing a keyboard illustration using rectangles, grids, move and transform effects.
Access the Illustrator tutorial here.
Using Illustrator’s Live Trace function, bitmap and rasterized images can quickly and easily be converted to highly malleable vector objects. Matthew Hendershot demonstrates the Live Trace workflow, outlining all of the options available for creating traces.
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A layer mask allows manipulation of the viewable areas of a layer nondestructively, allowing for complex affecting and adjustment control for images. In this Quicktip, Zoom In Online Pro’s Matthew Hendershot demonstrates the process of setting up a simple layer mask, along with some of its common controls and editing options.
Access the tutorial here.
Nice free template from www.webpagedesign.com.au As usual it is free to download and use without any strings attached. Below is the preview and the links to the zip file and PSD.
Click on the thumbnail to see a preview or click here to download this template in a zip file.
Click here to download the Photoshop PSD file.
The second UK Joomla! Day is set to take place over Friday, 13th and Saturday, 14th March 2009, at the Oakwood House Conference Centre, Maidstone, Kent. This is a community event and accordingly is not split into separate business and community days
For the very latest details be sure to check out http://joomladay.org.uk as often as possible.
JFusion is a new universal integration framework for Joomla 1.5. It’s a “universal bridge” that can synchronize user accounts, user sessions and even visually integrate many different applications into Joomla. This is done by extending the Joomla 1.5 user authentication framework without any core hacks. Now you can turn your Joomla installation into a powerful portal system that manages your user base across all your online applications. JFusion is just another example on why Joomla is the future of Content Management Systems.
More details here.
xinco DMS™ is a powerful Web-Service based Information and Document Management System (DMS) for files, text, URLs and contacts, featuring ACLs, version control, full text search and an FTP-like client.
More details can be found here.
FreeWebTemplates.com has a collection of 4635 free templates available for download created by designers from around the globe. Check them out here.
Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library. The plugin does not use color as a primary indicator of a change in state for the slider. Instead, the “back” and “next” navigation is either visible or hidden. There is also an indicator that communicates the total number of news items.
If the user chooses to resize the text via the browser file menu, the slider will flex vertically to accommodate the larger text, and still function. This is primarily a function of the CSS, and it is suggested you maintain a variable font size in order to take advantage of this capability.
The following ZIP download contains all of the necessary files, including a packed version of jQuery v.1.2.6. The plugin file is not packed, but there are several free utilities available for compressing JavaScript source code.
campaignmonitor.com offers 30 free email templates. Tested in all the major email clients (Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Apple Mail, Lotus Notes, .Mac Mail, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, AOL) these templates need just the content. So start emailing.
