An Introduction to Views & Templating in CodeIgniter
Views are a key ingredient in any MVC application, and CodeIgniter applications aren’t any different. Today, we’re going to learn what a view is, and discover how they can be used to create a...
View ArticleCreate a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series App From Scratch Create a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop This tutorial is part of a three-part series explaining how to design UI elements for mobile applications...
View ArticleStyling Dark Select Dropdown With Dropkick.js
HTML select elements with their option tags cannot be completely customized using CSS, but what if we want to style a dropdown just as easily as <div>, <a>, <ul>, and <li>...
View ArticleModeling A Futuristic Bolt Gun In 3D Studio Max
Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we are going to model a futuristic bolt gun using different poly modeling techniques and tools inside 3D Studio Max. You’ll learn how to avoid...
View ArticleElement 3D & Live Action Footage
Here is another fun example using Element 3D with live action footage and 3D Camera tracking. I’ll be posting a 3D tracking tutorial soon but for the explosion, I used some Action Essentials 2along...
View ArticlePassword-Protect Folders in Seconds
In this lesson, I’ll demonstrate how easy it is to password protect folders with Apache. There will often be situations when you don’t need to build a full authentication system from scratch. Download...
View ArticleBuild Web Apps From Scratch With Laravel: Filters, Validations, and Files
In this Nettuts+ mini-series, we’ll build a web application from scratch, while diving into a great new PHP framework that’s rapidly picking up steam, called Laravel. In this lesson, we’ll be learning...
View Article10 Reasons Why Your Projects Should Use the Dojo Toolkit
The most powerful and underutilized JavaScript utility is one and the same: the Dojo Toolkit. While nearly every JavaScript framework or toolkit promises to do everything you need, the Dojo Toolkit...
View ArticleQuick Tip: 7 Super-Handy PHP Functions for Beginners
Have you ever taken a look at the list of functions available in PHP? I just counted 5025 on the PHP quick reference page. Granted, it depends on what extensions you have enabled, but still: that’s one...
View ArticleCreate an Evil Queen in Photoshop
Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we will create the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves using digital painting techniques in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial...
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