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Databases

Understanding MySQL for PHP


MySQL is one of the most popular Relational Database Management Systems and there are many web designers / developers who want to enter the world of the databases because majority of the websites these days stores the content of their pages as well as many other things like logins etc. inside of them. From this series you will learn what databases are and how to use and interact with MySQL Database Management System using phpMyAdmin as well as SQL statements via any sort of interface.

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Server Side

Display records in multi column format with PHP


This two videos explain how to populate records from the MySQL database and display them on the page in the multi column format. Each column follows the ascending order of the records from the previous column. In this example we are using Table, but you can use any HTML element to display records in multi column format.

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Dreamweaver

How to back up Dreamweaver's snippets on Mac and Windows


In my previous video tutorial I've explained how to use Dreamweaver's Snippets. This time I'm showing you how to back them up - in case you need to reinstall your system or any other occasion to ensure you won't loose your valuable library of code.
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Dreamweaver

Templates and Snippets in Dreamweaver CS4

This video will give you an overview of the templates and snippets in Dreamweaver CS4. You will learn how to create new site using Frame templates as well as CSS based template layouts. Then we will have a look at creation of the new, custom snippets to simplify and speed up your work flow while working with websites.

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Tips & Tricks

Join, trim and add watermark to the video using Quick Time Pro


Video editing can be easy or more complex - in general it's not an easy topic, however there are some applications which make some of the tasks really simple.
This video tutorial reveals some of the features of QuickTime Pro to allow you Quickly edit your footage.

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Tips & Tricks

A Guide to Creating Email Newsletters

They’re a great extension to your business’ communication toolkit and offer you and your clients an excellent channel by which you can reach potential and existing customers.

In this article, we’ll explore common design patterns of email newsletters and learn which approaches work well, so that you’ll be prepared to create one for yourself and your clients.

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Tips & Tricks

Quickie CSS3 Tricks with Fallbacks

CSS3 can do some seriously neat stuff. But as we all know, we need to be careful with what we choose to do with it. The most cutting edge techniques are fun to play with, but since since only a sliver of browsers support them fully, we can only use them in circumstances where they fall back to otherwise perfectly acceptable styling. Let’s look at a couple of quick, simple, cheezy examples.

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Usability

What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like

It’s like if you had x-ray glasses that allowed you to see any person you ever saw in their underwear at will. How could you not? It’s just so tempting to see if a beautiful website is built with beautiful code as well, or if its beauty if only skin-deep. Code? Beautiful? Sure. After all, Code is Poetry. This is just HTML, so it can’t be quite as intricate and elegant as a dynamic language, but it still bears the brush strokes of its creator.

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Tips & Tricks

Designing “Coming Soon” Pages

Deciding what to do once you’ve purchased a domain but haven’t yet launched the website is always a bit of a conundrum. Leaving up your domain registrar or Web host’s generic page seems unprofessional, especially if you’re trying to drum up advance press for your new project. At the same time, you don’t want to spend too much time on a temporary page when you really should be working on the website itself.

The best thing to do is create a simple “Coming soon” page to notify visitors of what will eventually be there.

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Manuals

Animated Thumbnail Gallery Manual

Create an amazing thumbnail wall from your images, photos and portfolio or decorate the existing thumbnails on your pages with the Animated Thumbnail Gallery. Add great looking borders, shadows and predefined styles - all Live in Dreamweaver! When clicked on a thumbnail, it explodes with amazing animation effects to full size image shown in the build-in Lightbox. When used as wall the thumbnails float automatically in all available space - so the gallery always looks great!

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