CSS Dock Menu
May 08, 2007 17,799 Comments
If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu. It is using Jquery library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock position: top and bottom. This CSS dock menu is perfect to add on to my iTheme. Here I will show you how to implement it to your web page.
CSS dock menu screenshot
Update: I no longer support the questons regard this dock menu. If you like the HiGloss icons used in the demos, you can get them as stock icons at IconDock. more
Design Process of The Phoenix Illustration
Mar 23, 2007 6,956 Comments
Numbers of people have asked me how to do the phoenix illustration on my site. Was it vector? Did I use Illustrator or Photoshop? Well, here I will tell you my design process from concept sketch to final illustration. Hope you will find this useful. more
Photoshop CS3 New Features
Dec 28, 2006 43 Comments
After a long wait, Adobe has finally released a beta version of Photoshop CS3. There are numbers of changes and new features. CS3 is now available as a Universal Binary for Intel-based Mac computers and Windows computers. Get a beta version of Photoshop CS3 and have fun with the following tips: more
Photoshop Tips: Tan Skin Tone
Oct 30, 2006 36 Comments
Someone emailed me and asked how to make the golden/tan skin tone as seen in many movie posters and magazine advertisements. Believe it or not, the effect can be achieved by just couple mouse clicks. Here is a quick Photoshop tutorial to show you how to make a tan skin tone effect and apply makeups on the model. Let’s take a look at the image below, the left image is original photo and the right is final image. more
Best WordPress Sites
Oct 14, 2006 13,930 Comments
Most of you should know that this site is powered by WordPress, as a blogging and CMS tool. If you are looking for a CMS or a new web tool for your projects, I strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is free! Here I have collected some of the best WordPress sites that I’ve found. Some have good implementation of plugins, yet others have good design theme. Hopefully, these sites will give you better understanding of WordPress’s capabilities and inspiration for your site.
Also: don’t forget to check out my WordPress Themes at Themify.
301 .htaccess Redirect
Sep 15, 2006 16,679 Comments
After the implementation of WordPress, some of the URLs and paths on this site have changed. To prevent getting 404 File Not Found error (traffic coming from links, bookmarks and search engines), I use .htaccess 301 redirect. Htaccess redirect is better than the meta refresh or redirect tag because there is no delay as the browser reads the .htaccess file first. Here is how it works.
Go to your site’s root folder, download the .htaccess file to your local computer and edit it with a plain-text editor (ie. Notepad). If you are using FTP Client software and you don’t see any .htaccess file on your server, double check your setting and make sure you have turn on invisible / system files.
To Redirect Certain Page(s):
Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.yoursite.com/newpage.html
Redirect 301 /oldpage2.html http://www.yoursite.com/folder/To Redirect Entire Site:
Redirect 301 / http://www.new-site.com/
