As part of the shake up that I’ve been promising, I decided to look fear in the eye and find out exactly what you think of the SitePoint Forums . On Tuesday I sent out an email to anyone that had been an active forum poster in the last 5 years and asked them to drop in and deliver some good honest feedback and this is what they told me . There is some really great encouragement as well as some suggestions as to what we could do better... 

Mozilla Labs has a new goal — saving your contacts list from the chaos of the web. If you’re like most of us, your contacts are probably spread out all over the place — in your webmail provider, on social networks like Twitter or Facebook, on your mobile and maybe even hiding in a desktop address book app. In short, your contacts are a …  Read More →

If you’re showcasing a product on your website or in a print ad, you can make it look more professional by giving it a decent background and by adding a few special effects. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to make a background which  Read More →

SnackTools , a suite of rich internet applications for creating web content, has a Facebook quiz that tests your knowledge of Photoshop. By taking the quiz, you could be awarded with licenses for up to 10 months depending on how well you score! How It Works SnackTools is giving away 10,000 BannerSnack licenses . You can win licenses for up to 10 months depending on how well you score on the ” Are you a true Photoshoper?” quiz . The... 

SnackTools , a suite of rich internet applications for creating web content, has a Facebook quiz that tests your knowledge of Photoshop. By taking the quiz, you could be awarded with licenses for up to 10 months depending on how well you score! How It Works SnackTools is giving away 10,000 BannerSnack licenses . You can win licenses for up to 10 months depending on how well you score on the ” Are you a true Photoshoper?” quiz . The... 

In the world of print advertising , there’s a small window to grab the audience’s attention. Being restricted to a still image means the message must be very strong and catchy. Ad agencies often rely on humor to achieve this. A humorous print ad campaign starts with a funny idea, but must be brought to life with clever art direction and great visuals. For this post, we’ve rounded up 30 funny print ads that’ll make you... 

PDFs may well be the best format for distributing documents on the web. In today’s tutorial and screencast, I’ll show you how you can generated PDFs with PHP. Help give back to Nettuts+ by becoming a Premium member! Example PDF Created with PHP! By subscribing and becoming a Premium member, you’ll gain access to the best tutorial, screencasts, and freebies that every Tuts sites has to offer – all for a measly $9 a month.... 

For security reasons, we cannot make cross-domain AJAX requests with jQuery. For example, I can’t call the load() method, and pass in ‘cnn.com’. As we’d be loading in scripts and such, as well as our desired content, this would present a significant security risk. Nonetheless, there may be times when this is specifically what you require. Thanks to YQL , we can allow for this functionality rather easily! Subscribe to our... 

Writing and design have always been two passions of mine. When someone first approached me with a writing opportunity for their blog, I was shocked. It hadn’t crossed my mind for a moment that the two could be brought together harmoniously. I still remember writing that article and building my first brainstorm of topics. I found myself asking, “What makes a good article?” But, to hell with good articles. Anyone can write a... 

In this tutorial, we’re going to build a PHP/MySQL powered forum from scratch. This tutorial is perfect for getting used to basic PHP and database usage. Let’s dive right in! Step 1 : Creating Database Tables It’s always a good idea to start with creating a good data model when building an application. Let’s describe our application in one sentence: We are going to make a forum which has users who create topics in various... 

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