22
October
2009
Author: Zeeshan

If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a Wordpress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for that.
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12
October
2009
Author: Zeeshan

WordPress is more than just a blogging tool. It can be used as a Content Management System (CMS) for many different purposes. It has a built in system for most things you would have to code yourself, or pay for an expensive custom application. With a little creativity, you can use basic features to power almost anything you want.
One of the most important things to a website with any hopes of establishing a user connection is having user accounts.
Now, blogs get by here by having comments tied to emails, which is similar in a way. But you’re most likely looking to have unique accounts for your site. This was every user can login, logout, edit their profile and have special privileges. WordPress also allows you (as an admin) to control the level and permissions of all other users.
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07
October
2009
Author: Zeeshan
Introduction
I got this tutorial request from a reader, if you have any request at all, please contact me, give me some suggestions for the upcoming tutorial!
Apparently, I have seen this kind of menu before, in Dragon Interactive . During the implementation, I was having a bit of problem, I thought it’s just a simple fadein and fadeout effect, but it actually required a lot of CSS works and the right images.
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31
August
2009
Author: Zeeshan
The Basic Idea
All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through.
Confused? Cue the helpful diagram -
From this basic idea we can play around with animations of the sliding element to either show or cover up the viewing area, thus creating the sliding effect.
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30
August
2009
Author: Zeeshan
I saw someone using windows media player on vista the other day and it inspired me to make a website menu. So here are the steps I went through to make my media player style menu.

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Start off with a canvas with the size of 800X200px and make the background color black (#000000).
Next I want to put a few guides in to make the menu. I am going to use the rulers to make my guides. If you have never used the ruler to put guides on your canvas, you should try it because it helps out more than you would think.
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