Entries for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Copying and Pasting in CKEditor

Having Problems Copy/Pasting to CKEditor?
First, what is CKEditor? CKEditor, formerly FCKeditor, is an open source WYSIWYG text editor (WYSIWYG, pronounced [wiz-ee-wig], is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get) from CKSource that can be used in web pages. It aims to be lightweight and requires no client-side installation. The first version [...]

Creating a Facebook style menu (The BAM Menu)

One of the questions we get most often about our website is, “How did you do your primary navigation menu?” (actually it’s normally worded more like, “I really like that menu thingy at the bottom of you web page. It’s like facebook! How’d you do that?”) You can see the navigation on our main site [...]

Keyboard shortcuts in CS4

Adobe has, for a very long time, been at the forefront of the design community as the software of choice for web and print design. When Adobe starting buying out Macromedia, they took great care in turning their individual pieces of software into a suite; all programs are supposed to work harmoniously with each other [...]

Creating an HTML Email for Blasts and Newsletters

Creating an HTML email for newsletter and email blasts can actually be a lot trickier than you’d think. First, a few points to always remember:
1. Email Clients are dumb
When creating an HTML email always remember that you’re basically creating a web page for someone in 1996. This means that you should be using the simplest [...]

iCal Invitations are an hour off

So, for the last month or so every iCal invitation I got has been an hour off. Meaning if there was a meeting scheduled for 1pm, it would show up in my iCal as being at 12pm.
OBVIOUSLY this was a huge frustration; everyone was blaming everyone else for their timezone being wrong, there was rioting [...]

Vector Paths Between Pixels in Photoshop CS4

If you’re at all familiar or have any experience in Photoshop using vector paths and shapes than you’ve probably noticed sometimes when you’re making a rectangle that sometimes the lines just don’t quite seem very sharp. If you’ve got a keen eye, you’ll see exactly what I mean.
What’s really going on here?
For whatever reason, Adobe [...]