Vision4Web Blog » Development http://blog.vision4web.net IT Reviews, Downloads and more... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:18:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Using Illustrator CS5 Tools to Create a Painted House – Vector Premium Tutorial http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/using-illustrator-cs5-tools-to-create-a-painted-house-%e2%80%93-vector-premium-tutorial/ http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/using-illustrator-cs5-tools-to-create-a-painted-house-%e2%80%93-vector-premium-tutorial/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:04:59 +0000 John Doe http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/using-illustrator-cs5-tools-to-create-a-painted-house-%e2%80%93-vector-premium-tutorial/ We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to use a combination of the new Illustrator CS5 features – including the Perspective Grid and Natural Media Brushes – to create a 100% vector illustration with a painted finish, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques You will learn how to create a scene with perspective and paint all its elements with the Natural Media brushes that create an excellent painting simulation with brush strokes that can be freely edited.

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]]> http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/using-illustrator-cs5-tools-to-create-a-painted-house-%e2%80%93-vector-premium-tutorial/feed/ 0 New eBook From Smashing Magazine: Mastering Photoshop For Web Design http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/new-ebook-from-smashing-magazine-mastering-photoshop-for-web-design/ http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/new-ebook-from-smashing-magazine-mastering-photoshop-for-web-design/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:11:01 +0000 John Doe http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/new-ebook-from-smashing-magazine-mastering-photoshop-for-web-design/     Mastering Photoshop for Web Design is the third book in our eBook series, and it’s definitely the best eBook we’ve published so far. It was written from scratch by our regular writer Thomas Giannattasio, exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. We are very proud of the result, in particular because of the high quality of tips, ideas and techniques that Thomas — who is a deep expert in Adobe Photoshop — presents in his book. Mastering Photoshop is written for advanced and intermediate designers who want to brush up on their workflow and improve their Photoshop skills

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]]> http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/new-ebook-from-smashing-magazine-mastering-photoshop-for-web-design/feed/ 0 Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/seven-must-see-videos-and-presentations-for-web-app-developers/ http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/seven-must-see-videos-and-presentations-for-web-app-developers/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:49:18 +0000 John Doe http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/seven-must-see-videos-and-presentations-for-web-app-developers/     In previous video roundups, we’ve collected together some interesting videos and presentations from a variety of speakers discussing topics covering usability, graphic design, CSS frameworks, web standards, and more. In this small roundup, we’ve included seven videos that we think would be of great interest to web app developers in particular, with less focus on design and standards. These presentations are a little more technically heavy than ones we’ve featured in the past, but we think they’re worth every minute. Check them out, and be sure to comment to include links to any related videos that you feel are worth mentioning.

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]]> http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/critical-mistakes-freelancers-make/feed/ 0 Are Vampires Losing Their Geeky Edge? http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/are-vampires-losing-their-geeky-edge/ http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/are-vampires-losing-their-geeky-edge/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:35:14 +0000 John Doe http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/are-vampires-losing-their-geeky-edge/ From Black Holes to Blood Suckers I couldn’t help but notice some trends in yesterday’s post about black holes in our geek lives . Not only did we see some interesting omissions in people’s geeky educations, but there were also quite a few confessions. (Really, people, not reading The Lord of the Rings

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]]> http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/are-vampires-losing-their-geeky-edge/feed/ 0 How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/how-to-use-css3-media-queries-to-create-a-mobile-version-of-your-website/ http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/how-to-use-css3-media-queries-to-create-a-mobile-version-of-your-website/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:35:05 +0000 John Doe http://blog.vision4web.net/2010/07/how-to-use-css3-media-queries-to-create-a-mobile-version-of-your-website/     CSS3 continues to both excite and frustrate web designers and developers. We are excited about the possibilities that CSS3 brings, and the problems it will solve, but also frustrated by the lack of support in Internet Explorer 8.

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WordPress 2.7

I just upgraded to the latest version (2.7) of WordPress and I noticed that the admin dashboard has new look. Until I’m playing with it, check the official post on this here:

WordPress › Blog » The Visual Design of 2.7.

]]> http://blog.vision4web.net/2008/12/the-new-visual-design-of-wordpress-27/feed/ 30 Change Collation On All Tables And Columns In MySQL with Phoca Changing Collation Utility http://blog.vision4web.net/2008/11/change-collation-on-all-tables-and-columns-in-mysql/ http://blog.vision4web.net/2008/11/change-collation-on-all-tables-and-columns-in-mysql/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:47:34 +0000 John Doe http://blog.vision4web.net/?p=8 I was working with lot of databases collated in latin1_swedish_ci lately. I needed to convert the structure to utf8 collation, but it was very time-consuming to convert all the tables and all the columns manually.

After some googling, I managed to find a PHP utility, called Phoca Changing Collation, which does all the dirty work in a few seconds.

Important: The utility doesn’t convert data, it only changes the collation of the tables and the columns, so if your database is full of non-latin characters, it will probably corrupt them.

Note: You may need to change the collation to utf8_unicode_ci in order to get the cyrilic characters displayed propertly.

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