Orange Power Icon.

Step 1:

Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 230×200 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with white color shade. Now make a new layer and draw an orange circle with #FD8F00 color shade and 121 px 121 px dimensions.

Step 2:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, and Gradient Overlay blending options to your orange circle layer.

Result:

Step 3:

Select the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Webdings, 80 pt, smooth and white color shade. In a new text layer type ‘+’ which should be a unique power illustration, position it on the center and rotate it through Edit > Transform.

Step 4:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Drop Shadow, Inner Glow and Gradient Overlay blending options to the unique power illustration text layer. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Soft Light.

Result:

Results:

Orange Power Icon.

Robot Mascot.

Step 1:

Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 500×360 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a black color. Now make a new layer set called ‘Head Design’.

Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool, above your screen under the options palette choose Fill Pixels, set the radius to 20px and check anti-aliased. Now create a new layer then draw a small rounded rectangle with #0070AA color shade and 42×52 px dimensions.

Step 2:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Gradient Overlay and Stroke blending options to your small rounded rectangle layer.

Result:

Step 3:

Select the Poly Tool, above your screen under the options palette select Fill Pixels, sides 3 and check anti-aliased. Then under the Polygon Options palette select Smooth Corners. Now in a new layer draw a polygon with 62 x 61 px dimensions and #0070AAcolor shade.

Step 4:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Glow and Gradient Overlay blending options to your polygon layer.

Result:

Step 5:

Create a new layer then draw a small black polygon with 36 x 34 px dimensions.

Step 6:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay and Stroke blending options to your small black polygon layer. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Lighten.

Result:

Step 7:

In a new layer draw a small black circle on the bottom end of the polygon design.

Step 8:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay blending option to your small black circle layer. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Soft Light.

Result:

Step 9:

Duplicate the small circle design layer twice and position it as shown below. That should complete the head structure, now highlight the ‘Head Design’ layer set on your Layers window then go to Layer > Merge Layer Set.

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay blending option to your Head Design layer.

Result:

Step 10:

Now add the eyes, in a new layer draw two white ellipse using the Ellipse Tool. Then set the layer’s opacity level to 21%.

Step 11:

Create a new layer then draw two small black circles on the eye parts and draw a small white circle for the nose. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Soft Light.

Step 12:

Create a new layer then draw gray rounded rectangle with #707070 color shade and 50 x 91 px dimensions.

Step 13:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Satin and Gradient Overlay blending options to your gray rounded rectangle layer.

Result:

Step 14:

Create a new layer then draw gray rounded rectangle with #707070 color shade and 50 x 91 px dimensions. Now set the layer’s blending mode to Soft Light and set the opacity level to 35%.

Step 15:

Create a new layer then draw a small white circle with 26 x 26px dimensions, make sure the layer is under the body design layers.

Step 16:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Glow blending option to your small white circle layer. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Darken.

Result:

Step 17:

Now duplicate the circle design from step 15-16 twice and position them as shown below.

Step 18:

Create a new layer and draw a black ellipse on the center of the head.

Step 19:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Outer Glow and Inner Glow blending options to your black ellipse layer. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Lighten.

Result:

Results:

Robot Mascot.

Sleek Header Design.

Step 1:

Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 1000×365 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a white color. Now select the Rounded Rectangle Tool, above your screen under the options palette choose Fill Pixels, set the radius to 20px and check anti-aliased. Then create a new layer and draw a large rounded rectangle with #0090FF color shade and 880×190 px dimensions.

Step 2:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Gradient Overlay and Stroke blending options to your light blue rounded rectangle layer.

Result:

Step 3:

In a new layer draw a rounded rectangle with 90 x 36 px dimensions with #0079D7 color shade. Then cut the bottom corners as shown below.

Step 4:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay blending option to your button rounded rectangle layer.

Result:

Step 5:

Select the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Arial, bold, 12 pt, crisp and white color shade. In a new text layer type the title of your first navigation interface.

Step 6:

In a new layer draw another half rounded tectangle tab but with a #E0E0E0 color shade.

Step 7:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay blending option to your gray rounded rectangle tab layer.

Result:

Step 8:

Add the rest of your tabs for the rest of your navigation links.

Step 9:

Add a blue tab on the right end of your header design, you can add your rss feed link here.

Step 10:

Select the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Arial, italic, 36 pt, smooth. In a new text layer type out your website name above the navigation interface using #9DD2FF and #DADADA color shades. Then under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay blending option.

Result:

Step 11:

Now set the font family to Wingdings, 60 pt, smooth and #DADADA color shade. In a new text layer type “!” which should be a Pencil illustration, position it next to your name and add the same gradient overlay blending option from step ten. Then finish it off with a light shadow as shown below.

Results:

Sleek Header Design.

Winter Theme Template Design.

Step 1:

Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 1000×1000 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a white color. Now grab the Stock Photo used on the background and insert it into your canvas.

Step 2:

Now make a new layer set titled ‘Navigation Interface’. Then in a new layer draw a white rectangle with 93 x 50 px dimensions by the mountain on the stock photo.

Step 3:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Shadow and Gradient Overlay blending options to your white rectangle layer.

Result:

Step 4:

In a new layer draw long black rectangle with 907 x 50 px dimensions

Step 5:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow and Gradient Overlay blending options to your long black rectangle layer. Then set the layer’s opacity level to 50%.

Result:

Step 6:

Select the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Arial, regular, 14 pt, crisp and white color shade. In a new text layer type Home on the white rectangle design then in a seperate text layer add the rest of your navigation on long rectangle design.

Step 7:

On the right end of your navigation interface add your RSS Feed link and search box.

Step 8:

Now make a new layer set titled ‘Content Box’. Then in a new layer draw a long black rectangle with 623 x 29 px dimensions just below your header design. Then set the layer’s opacity level to 43%.

Step 9:

In a new text layer type out the title of your content box using font Verdana, bold, 12 pt, none and #B20000 color shade.

Step 10:

Create a new layer. Below your content title draw a large rectangle with #E6E6E6 color shade and 623 x 250 px dimensions.

Step 11:

Now draw a lighter gray rectangle right below the content title box. Then add the post details using font arial, regular, 11 pt, none and black color shade for text and #FF0000 color shade for links.

Step 12:

If you want more content box just duplicate the ‘Content Box’ layer set.

Step 13:

For the sidebar use a large font with #B00000 color shade for the title of each section.

Step 14:

Right below the body add your footer, in a new layer draw a red rectangle with #B00000 color shade across the bottom of your canvas.

Step 15:

Now draw two 1px lines with #D80000 color shade right by the top edge of the red footer design then another right below.

Step 16:

Finish the footer section with your navigation links on the left side and the copyright info on the right.

Step 17:

Back on the header design add your website name using font Arial, bold, 24 pt, strong and black color shade. Then set the text layer’s opacity level to 21%.

Results:

Winter Theme Template Design.

CPanel is an easy user-interface site that lets you control your host account environment. The main peculiarity of this operating system is that it so simple to use that your below average computer user can’t mess it up. It’s got great features embedded into its panel and some of the features are listed below but you might want to consider checking out some cpanel videos too.

Site Tools

There are such tools available for your use, which are Web Protect (.htaccess editor), Custom error pages, Redirects, Ability to edit MIME types, Ability to edit Apache handlers, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Search engine tool submitting and File Manager.

Email

The email program provides you with the possibility to add, remove, and change passwords while managing email accounts. CPanel is also provided by Webmail for the accounts, Auto responders, Forwarders, Mailing Lists, Spam filtering and some more.

Backup

Backup allows you to create copies of account files and databases. The backup menu also allows you to download any automatic backups that were downloaded by your CPanel administrator.

Stats

Here are different tools to survey your site popularity and efficiency. Those are Webalizer web stats, Webalizer FTP stats, Analog stats, AWStats, View latest visitors, View bandwidth usage and View error log modules.

FTP

There is a module that controls FTP accounts (add, remove, change password for its access), Anonymous FTP controls; Ability to change FTP login message and Ability to kill FTP sessions.

Advanced Stuff

You have an ability to add or remove subdomains, Subdomain Redirects and its Stats.

Advanced Tools

You are provided with tools of SSH access tools, Manage GPG keys and Cron jobs.

There are also Pre-Installed CGI Scripts. Those are Interchange Cart, Agora Cart, Bulletin Board, Java Chat, HTML Chat, phpMyChat, CGI Wrapper (for non-suexec installs), Random HTML generator, Advanced Guestbook, Counter Generator, Java Clock Generator, Java Countdown Generator, Secure FormMail clone, CGIEmail, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner. Network Tools are DNS Lookup and Traceroute. Database Management tools includes Managing MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin access.

For beginners, CPanel has a lot of options that are easy to use. However even to a regular computer user some of the vast array of cpanel features can seem very daunting.

So if you are having problems or if you are still a bit stuck then you might want to follow the following link which has a whole range of how to cpanel video and other internet video stuff. These can take your cpanel expertize to a whole new level.

Up until Microsoft introduced Windows, not a lot of people had home computers, and computers used by businesses were not that commonplace except for the larger companies that had the big IBM’s and the like.

I recall when I purchased my first computer in about 1993, it had Windows For Workgroups installed on it, and it was a lot different from the modern computer and current versions of Windows. It also cost me about three times what a much more powerful machine costs today.

The Internet and email were just getting started good, and were not even very popular or very much used by most people. I recall telling one of my golfing buddies, who was a very successful business man, about my encounters with the internet, and he assured me that it was just a fad and would never amount anything worth while.

When I first got the computer, I was so uneducated on using a computer that I didn’t even know how to turn the dang thing on and off correctly. Every night, I would push the on-off switch and turn it off, and next day when I pushed the same switch to turn it back on, it would rudely inform me that it was having to run scandisk because I failed to shut Windows down properly. I thought to myself, you stupid machine, how else to turn you off and on except with the on-off switch?

Well, as time passed I began to learn a few things about how to use a computer, including how to turn it off and on, and also about how to use Windows and a lot of its features. I didn’t really use it all that much though, more just a toy than anything else.

I upgraded to Windows 95, and found it to be much improved over the
older version. A couple of years later, I purchased a new Pentium computer with
Windows 98. At the same time, I really started to get serious about using the computer, as well as email and the Internet. I found out I could do my banking online, I
could find and order products over the Internet, I could search for information over the Internet, and from that point on I was hooked.

I started to think about actually learning how to build my own web site, just to see if I could. I purchased some books approximately 4 inches thick and began to study HTML, and after several weeks of trying to figure out what looked like Greek to me, I managed to create a really bad looking web page. Boy, was I proud of myself!

I thought there must be an easier way to learn computer skills, and started purchasing those hot new “eBooks” that everyone was selling like hotcakes. Some of them were pure junk, but a few were worth the price, and made learning somewhat easier.

I kept thinking, though, that there must be a better and easier way to
learn some of those highly technical skills that I wanted to learn. I needed
someone that knew the skills already to give me some “one on one” training, and I
needed it to be visual, something I could see, and not just reading out of a book or eBook.

And then I discovered how to tutorials, where someone with knowledge of the subject actually sat down at a computer and recorded screen shots showing exactly what steps they used to accomplish a specific task, and I could sit at my computer and watch them do it. Now we’re on to something. This is a better way of learning!

I began to buy video tutorials and after several years of learning from them, I think that I have become fairly accomplished in many computer and Internet skills that would never have been possible if I had tried to do it reading dull boring 4 inch thick books.

I now can easily create web sites using HTML, or with Wordpress or Joomla. I have created several ecommerce sites, several blogs, and all because of video training versus written word training.

A person can purchase video tutorials on a wide variety of subjects. When I bought my how-to tutorials, it was a matter of paying for them, downloading them, and storing them on my hard drive. In a lot of instances I would be finished with the tutorial in a few days or weeks, and never really need it after that. In some instances though I would go back and watch the video again every few months.

A person can still buy video tutorials, download them, and store them on their hard drive, if they wish, or they can simply “rent”video tutorials, use them for a set period of time, and not actually own them. It is usually at a much lower price to “rent” video tutorials than if they purchased them. The choice is entirely up to the customer.

There are many, many video tutorials available on the Internet, covering a very
wide variety of subjects, and I recommend them highly for anyone wanting to learn new or specialized computer and Internet skills.

To see a short sample of a video tutorial, check out the video below.

Metallic Header Design.

Step 1:

Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 950×400 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a black color. Now make a new layer set titled ‘Metallic Design’.

Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool, above your screen under the options palette choose Fill Pixels, set the radius to 20px and check anti-aliased. Then create a new layer and draw a gray rounded rectangle with #6F6F6F color shade and 200×210 px dimensions.

Step 2:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Inner Glow, Satin and Gradient Overlay blending options to your gray rounded rectangle layer.

Result:

Step 3:

In a new layer draw a smaller rounded rectangle with 186 x 22 px dimensions, position it as shown below.

Step 4:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Shadow, Gradient Overlay and Stroke blending options to your smaller rounded rectangle layer.

Result:

Step 5:

Now duplicate the smaller metallic rounded rectangle layer 3 times and stack them as shown below.

Step 6:

Duplicate your ‘Metallic Design’ layer set then go to Layer > Merge Layer Set. The duplicate should turn into a regular layer, cut the right corners off and stretch it to your right canvas. Now position the longer metallic design next to the smaller design.

Step 7:

Make a rectangle marquee selection on your metallic design layer then go to Edit > Copy and back to Edit > Paste, you should now have a new layer with the metallic rectangle shape. Now go to Edit > Transform > Perspective, drag the top right transform points on the metalic rectangle shape up so the shape transform as shown below.

Step 8:

Duplicate the metallic shape from step seven and flip it horizontal through Edit > Transform.

Step 9:

In a new layer draw a thin black rounded rectangle with 8 x 212 px dimensions.

Step 10:

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Satin blending option to your black rounded rectangle layer. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Soft Light.

Result:

Step 11:

Select the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Arial, bold, 15 pt, none and white color shade. In a new text layer type out your navigation links on the stretched metallic design.

Step 12:

Now add shadows to the whole design, first add a marquee selection around your entire metallic header design then go to Edit > Copy Merged then Paste. You should now have a new layer with the whole metallic header design, set the layer’s blending mode to Lighten and flip it Vertical through Edit > Transform. Then move the design down as shown below.

Step 13:

Grab the eraser tool and set the brush setting to a large soft brush. Now erase the bottom half of the shadow design then apply a motion blur through Filter > Blur > Motion Blur, use 90 degree angle with 37 pixels distance.

Results:

Metallic Header Design.

In the example(database name is tutorial) we created a table name “student_info”.
This Table includes “Two Columns” These are “Name” and
“Address”.

To create a database and table open PHP MYADMIN.

::: Step 1:::

To create a database, give the name of database in the text box as we’ve(tutorial)
given on this text box. And click on create button.

::: Step 2:::

When you click on the create button you will see a new window.

::: Step 3:::

Now click on my SQL button to create a table on this database.

::: Step 4:::

Now write the query to create the table..

create table student_info(name varchar(80),address varchar(80));

Like this and click go…..

when you click on go button it will appear this window…

Now we return to PHP Code

The INSERT INTO statement is used to insert records in any table.

INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME (column1, column2,...)
  VALUES (value1, value2,...)

How to INSERT a record in a table through a HTML Form.

::: Step 1 ::: Take a Simple HTML Form

<html>
<body>
<form action="save.php" method="post">

Your Name: <input type="text" name="name" />
Your Address: <input type="text" name="address" />

<input type="submit"  Value= “Save My Information”>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Action is used to give the name of the next page. With the help of action we can
retrieve the values from current page to next page.

The Action of this Form is save.php when the user click the submit button then
all the values of the form will go on save.php.

The Coding of save.php is given below…….

::: Step 2 ::: save.php

<?php
$link= mysql_connect("localhost","root","");

if (!$link) die (DB_ERR_DOC);

mysql_select_db("tutorial")
	or die("Could not select database");

$name=& $_POST[‘name’];
$address=& $_POST[‘address’];

$result=mysql_query("INSERT INTO student_info (name, address)
VALUES ('$name', '$address ',)");

If($result)
{
echo “Information Saved”;
}
else
{
echo “Information Not Saved”;
}
?>

This is coding for database connectivity.

<?php
$link= mysql_connect("localhost","root","");

if (!$link) die (DB_ERR_DOC);

mysql_select_db("tutorial")
	or die("Could not select database");

Explanation:-

1. localhost:- localhost is machine/computer name which the user used for creating
projects.
2. Database Name:- At this place you can use give your project name.

This is coding to get the last page values to this page.

$name = & $_POST[‘name’];
$address = & $_POST[‘address’];

Explanation:-

1. Variables:- These are the variables. That stores the values from the last
page.
2. Functions:- With the help of POST function we retrieve the values of text
boxes from previous page.
3. Name of Text Boxes:- These are the name of text boxes of HTML page which
we need to retrieve in this page.

This is syntax and in this syntax we can run all queries of Mysql.

$result=mysql_query("INSERT INTO student_info (name, address)
VALUES ('$name', '$address ',)");

1. Syntax:- This is syntax under which we can run any query of mysql.
2. Query:- It is INSERT INTO query. this used insert any record in database.

This coding is used here for confirmation that whether the records has been
saved or not.

If($result)
{
echo “Information Saved”;
}
else
{
echo “Information Not Saved”;
}

Which means if the record saved then give

Output= Information Saved.

Else

Output= Not Saved.

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In a nutshell, CSS provides a means for web authors to separate the appearance of web pages from the content of web pages.

Cascading Style Sheets [CSS] is a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (the W3C)
The W3C consortium of web stakeholders: universities, companies such as Netscape Communications, Microsoft and other experts in many web related fields

• The W3C has published two major CSS recommendations: CSS1 and CSS2
• CSS1 first became a recommendation in late 1996
• CSS2 became a recommendation in May 1998
• Support was almost nonexistent in Netscape Navigator 4.x and very limited in Internet Explorer 4.5, 5 and 5.5

There are 3 ways of doing CSS
Actually there are 4 - but we will ignore the fourth ‘cause its like the 3rd
In-line
Embedded
Linked
They are all useful in their own way.

1. In-Line

<html><head>...
<body>
<h3 style="color:green”>This
is a green, H3 header.</h3>

<h3>This is an H3 header,
but it's not green.</h3>
</body>
</html>

1. Multiple

<html>……
<body>
<h3 style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;
color: green”>This is a green, italic, Arial H3 header.</h3>

<h3>This is an H3 header, but it's not green, italic, or Arial.</h3>
</body>
</html>

1. Embedded Style

<html>
	<head><title>Green Header</title>
	<style type="text/css">
	h3 { font-family: arial;
       font-style: italic;
       color: green }
	</style>
	</head>
	<body>
	<h3>A green, italic, Arial H3 header.</h3>
	<p>	<h3>So is this.</h3></p>
	</body>
	</html>

Understanding CSS Rules

Amazingly simple to set up
A CSS rule defines what HTML should look like and how it should behave in the browser window
Rules can be set up to tell a specific HTML tag how to display it’s content or create generic rules which can be applied to tags at your discretion
All rules have three parts:
Selectors, Properties and Values

Selectors, Properties and Values
Format of a style sheet rule:

selector {property:values}

selector {property:values;
            property:values}

HTML SELECTOR

Style rule applies to all of a specific kind of tag on the page

p {color: red}

All text inside

tags will be red

Class Selector
Might want to be more specific, only have red text for some paragraphs
Use a class selector

p.redstuff {color: red}

Will only be applied if…

<p class=“redstuff”>Some text or other</p>

Can define a class for use with any tag…

.greenstuff {color: green}

Advantages of linked style
Use one style sheet for whole site
Easily change site look and feel
Define several classes for use in different pages, but all in one page
ALSO separates style from content
Use meaningful classes - relating to the nature of the content

I won’t provide you with a direct link to the avagoo site, basically because you would be wasting your time!

The problems started when I could no longer upload any files to any of my sites. I checked the server status in my WHM and found that the main hard-drive was 99% full! I contacted avagoo and within 2 days they said they would fix the problem. They never did.

Then, all my sites started to run extremely slow…this time it was the CPU load. I emailed multiple times, no response at all. I called the PREMIUM rate phone number and was told that I was number 1 in the queue…I waited, and waited, and waited, for 40 minutes! They never answered.

Next, I noticed that ‘live support’ was online. Great I thought. NO! I opened a conversation window which stated that someone would accept the call in a few moments. I left the window open on my PC for two hours…no-one ever accepted the support chat.

Finally, I gave up. The entire server was down for another 4days….as soon as it came back up I grabbed all my files from all my sites and exported all the MySQL databases.

We are now back up! No thanks to avagoo.com!

I have moved hosting and have 100% faith that this site will now be up atleast 99% of the time!

We’ll have new tutorials for you very soon!

James - QuickTutorials