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QuickTip: Create a dotted/dashed line in Photoshop

Posted by Tom on 13/07/10

More and more often nowadays I am finding the need to create dotted or dashed lines in my Photoshop mockups, but what is a ten second job in CSS, could turn out to be a ten minute job in Photoshop if you don't know how to do so easily. Before I came across the trick...

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Screencast #4 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 2

Posted by Tom on 26/06/10

In part two of this tutorial I show you how to finish off creating a basic WordPress theme, demonstrating the creation of a single post page as well as looking at how the commenting system works. Also in the video is how to create custom page templates and then apply them to different pages, as...

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Screencast #3 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 1

Posted by Tom on 19/06/10

In part one of this tutorial I show you how to get started creating a WordPress theme, explaining all about the core files and how WordPress works. I'll show you how to install WordPress and how to convert existing markup into a theme. In the tutorial I develop a theme named "Curiosity" - the markup...

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Using absolute and relative positioning

Posted by Tom on 17/06/10

Now to many people this might be a really simple concept, that is the concept of using absolute and relative positioning; but I remember when I started web design I wasn't really sure what either meant. So this article is aimed at explaining why you might want to use the two properties in conjunction with...

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