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No Cost AJAX Online Training Course

July 23, 2006 by theMaab 2 Comments

I have found a really cool and excellent resource for anyone wanting to fully understand AJAX. A man by the name of Sing Sang, who is a technology architect and consultant for Sun Microsystems, has created a 10 week long AJAX training course.  Best yet, it's cost nothing to register and take the course. I've read …
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Filed Under: AJAX, Guides & Tutorials

Looking to Start Bloggin?

July 23, 2006 by theMaab Leave a Comment

It's been a few years now that I've had this site and started blogging. I feel pretty lucky because when I started, I started off with WordPress. At the time there were several options available to me, and I think it was the name, 'WordPress', that drew me to using it for my blogging system. Once I found out about …
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Filed Under: Guides & Tutorials, WordPress

How To Create an RSS Aggregator with PHP and AJAX

July 15, 2006 by theMaab Leave a Comment

Over on Informit.com is a great article I found that shows step-by-step how to create an RSS Aggregator with PHP and AJAX. This seems like a great tutorial to get you started on AJAX, since it covers GET and POST to PHP via JavaScript, which is what's required for AJAX. It follows with a section on parsing the data returned. How …
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Filed Under: AJAX, Guides & Tutorials, PHP, RSS

PSD to HTML/CSS Template

July 8, 2006 by theMaab Leave a Comment

If you ever created a site layout in Photoshop or purchased a PSD template file from one of the template sites, getting your PSD to a nice XHTML/CSS Template can sometimes seem impossible. I recently found this article that should help you learn how to analyze either a new template, or even your current layout to find …
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Filed Under: CSS, Graphic Design, Guides & Tutorials, HTML, Photoshop

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2

May 30, 2006 by theMaab Leave a Comment

Recently I have been working with some Photoshop tutorials so that I can produce better graphics for my websites. Graphics have always been my weak area. In the past I've tried to use as much CSS as possible to cover that up. I have learned the combination of some farily simple graphics and css can produce some fantastic …
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Filed Under: Graphic Design, Guides & Tutorials, Photography, Photoshop
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