Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

Utilizing Envelope Distort for Typographical Effects

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 by John Furrow

I’d like to share a method for creating unique typographical effects on the outside of the letters using Adobe Illustrator. See what I mean in the example below. Then read on and find out how to do it yourself!

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WordPress MU Quick Links

Monday, April 13th, 2009 by Rafael Corral

Today I made a small module for one of our clients. This module looks something like this:

WordPress MU Quick Links
I added a few IF statements. It will only show the “View Your Blog” and “Manage Your Blog” links if the user has a blog. Additionally, the “Start a Blog” only shows up if the user doesn’t own a blog.

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Customizing your Joomla! 1.5 quick links

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 by Steven Pignataro

Joomla! 1.5 Quick Links

Here’s a question I’ve heard a lot: “How can you work faster within the Joomla! 1.5 backend?”

The answer is, use your quick icon or Cpanel. All you have to do is edit the main core file to achieve this. It’s a simple process – just follow the steps below on how to get the ‘corePHP’ WordPress button your quick links.

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.htaccess Security

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 by Rafael Corral

htaccess jungle

Here is most of our .htaccess file. This is what I like to call the forefront of our site. It works just like a firewall. We have been using our .htaccess for a few months now and we love the results. I know it can occasionally be hard to find the right command to do the job, so I’d like to show you all of the lines, not just the ones that are security related. If you are not using Joomla! you will have to strip about ten lines from this.
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Hidden gem in Developers Toolbar

Friday, July 7th, 2006 by Jonathan Shroyer

I found this little gem while surfing for some new CSS information. Did you know that if you press Control + Alt + F (Mac: Apple + Alt + F), a more advanced CSS viewer will show up as a pop-up in Firefox’s Web Developer Extension from Chris Pederick? I still love it and will always use Xyle Scope for most of my CSS information digging, but this is a major tool for finding elements quickly.

Kudos to Content with Style for the tip!