Journal
Cool photoshop typographic trick
It has been awhile since I wrote a tutorial entry and it is time to make up for it here. In this article, I'd like to show you a cool typographic trick in Photoshop. I am sure you have seen this style before where the fonts are invisible and it has shadow glow around it. I have seen this technique in many movie poster designs. See the sample way bottom of this page to see what we are about to create. Read on. >>
Multiple Rick Birthday Contest
I just entered a contest being held by Ellislab. Basically, the contestants must manipulate the photos of Ellislab's CEO, Rick Ellis. The each 3 chosen winners will win a copy of the new Expression Engine's 1.6 Multiple Site Manager. Check out my entry below and let me know what you all think? Also, check out the rest of the entries at http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/54250/. Good luck to all the participants and have fun all!! Read on. >>
My “LOST” TV show theory
This journal entry will be totally useless and worthless. Ok, I never watch TV. But I do go out of my way to see "LOST" TV series on ABC. As the season 3 is close to finish, the series is getting awfully good. I am sure there are tons of theories about the show by many viewers. Here is my theory of what I think LOST is about. Read on. >>
Add Feedburner to Expression Engine
This is how I incorporated Feedburner with Expression Engine. I feel very confident in using Feedburner as my main feed distributor due to their growth in popularity and they keeping adding new great features like subscribe by email. I don't see Feedburner going under anytime soon.
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In search of a perfect hosting company
I have been in search of a home in the cyberspace to reside my web files for about a good 10 years now. During the .com burst, I so wanted to be part of it. So I quickly signed up with the first hosting company I saw. Read on. >>
Pretty cool Photoshop shortcut tip
I discovered this awesome Photoshop shortcut trick totally by accident in which you can select, jump to layers or move layers up/down of your layers using only keyboard without using your mouse or a Wacom pen. For us power users, anything that helps us gets the job done a little faster is a plus! So let's get started. Read on. >>
My new music project
I started writing some songs with my good buddy Yann Le Du, and formed a band called FREETAG ALLEY. We are at the moment a duo. We uploaded 1 song so far and it is called "The Many, The Money, The Honey, the Bunny." We will be uploading another song next week called "One Buck". I still need to add 1 more guitar track and mix it. If you would like to download our song for free, go to Amie Street while it lasts. I welcome your feedback of our song. Read on. >>
Style with CSS turned off using the “hr” tag
Did you know that the "hr" tag is quite a useful tag? Let's say the user views your web site with the CSS styling off or they are viewing through a mobile device, by adding the code "hr" tag will help better visually organize your contents on your web page by having line dividers between each sections. However, you need to hide the the tag with CSS so that the line is hidden when the CSS is on and the line shows up when the CSS is off. See example below. Read on. >>
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