Journal
Servint Hosting keeps getting better
This post is a follow-up post from the article I wrote way back in March of 2007, about finding the perfect hosting company for my needs. I had mentioned in that post that I switched to Servint's VPS hosting service after experiencing number of other hosting companies. I have to say, with Servint, I have had no problems that I can recall. Their uptime has simply been incredible and the page loading speed is always lighting fast! My website is based on database driven contents and I am never ceased to be amazed at the speed performance of my server. Zippy-dee-zip! They have been so great in letting us know about the downtime due to server upgrades or maintenance, etc. Read on. >
Read an article written about my website
Patrick McNeil over at Design Meltdown wrote an interesting article about Grid Alignments in web design. In the article, Patrick mentions my website as an fine example of alignment. He also mentions few other websites as great example of grid designs that work. Go and read that article!! Read on. >
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. >
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