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The Ultimate CSS Reference

July 6, 2008 23:42 by anjel

A comprehensive reference written by two of the world’s most renowned CSS experts. This is the most detailed and up to date CSS reference available. All the CSS knowledge you will ever need is here.

Online edition is fully searchable and allows you to add and read comments to clarify ambiguities, correct errors, and keep the reference fully up to date.

You will find:

  • What Is CSS?
  • General Syntax and Nomenclature
  • At-rules Reference
  • Selector Reference
  • The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance
  • CSS Layout and Formatting
  • Box Properties
  • Layout Properties
  • List Properties
  • Table Properties
  • Color and Backgrounds
  • Typographical Properties
  • Generated Content
  • User Interface Properties
  • Paged Media Properties
  • Vendor-specific Properties
  • Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks
  • Differences Between HTML and XHTML
  • Alphabetic Property Index
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/

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Button to Music Swith ON/OFF

June 22, 2008 21:54 by anjel

Create new clip for sounds:

  1. Create 3 main frames
  2. Add action stop() in every frame
  3. Insert music in the first frame
  4. Insert gotoAndStop(1);  in the second frame
  5. Insert gotoAndPlay(1);  in the third frame

Create Button:

  1. Create 2 main frames
  2. Add action stop() in every frame
  3. Insert OFF button in the first frame
  4. Insert actions in the OFF button:
  • on (release) {
    tellTarget ("../music") {
    stopAllSounds();
    }
    }
    on (release) {
    nextFrame();
    }

Insert ON button in the first frame and the action script:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("../music") {
nextFrame();
}
}
on (release) {
prevFrame();
}

Now place clip with music on the first scene and name it music in instance panel. 

Place the button on the main scene.

Press Ctrl+Enter


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3D Ball Photoshop Tutorial

June 15, 2008 20:35 by anjel

Create new file, size of 100х100 pixels. And create new layer Layer >> New >> Layer. Now with selection tool "circle" draw  a circle pressing SHIFT. You should get:

 

In Brushes window window select a brush and put a dot in upper part of our ball.

 

 

Now do Layer >> Effects >> Drop Shadow:

 


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Delay by Mouse Click

June 2, 2008 20:14 by anjel

This tutorial will show you the basis of deceleration. Your object will be moved to that place where you have clicked. You can download .fla file here slide2mouse_partial.fla (24.50 kb)

1. Create a new file. The size of scene is not so important.

2. On the main scene draw a circle and make a movie clip.

3. To do this press F8 and select Movie clip, then name it on your choice.

4. Now click over the clip by right mouse and select Actions. Insert the following code into Action's window:

onClipEvent (load) {
_x = 0;
_y = 0;
speed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
endX = _root._xmouse;
endY = _root._ymouse;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_x += (endX-_x)/speed;
_y += (endY-_y)/speed;
}

Now you can run the clip by pressing CTRL+Enter.  That's it.

 

 


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Random Movement In Flash - Flash Tutorial

May 26, 2008 21:49 by anjel

Create a new file of 550x100 size and make Frame rate 30 frames per second. Draw vertical line the same as vertical size of our clip.

 



Now select that linke and press F8 to get it into movie clip.  The name of the clip is not is not important. Now we have  a movie clip containing our line.



Now select the movie clip and press F9, now you are inside ActionScript. Please make sure that the selection is on movie clip exactly! Now insert the following code:

 

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_x = random(551);
_alpha = random(101);
}

 

That is it! Now go to Control > Test Movie or simply press Ctrl+Enter.  

You should get a saltatory line over image like this one:

   


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Cartoon Eye Photoshop Tutorial

May 19, 2008 02:02 by anjel

Create a new layer and name it Eyeball. Select Elliptical Marquee Tooland pressing SHIFT draw a circle. Inside Layer Effects make shadows as shown below:

 

 

 


Now create one more layer and name it Eye. Draw another circle inside and fill it with blue layer. Then apply Inner Glow filter. See the picture below:

 


Now create a new layer once again and name it Pupil. Draw one more circe inside (less radious). Now do one more layer called Reflection.  Select Elliptical Marquee Tool and draw ellipse? fill it with white:

 

Then you can add shapes of heads and etc.

 


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Aqua Text Effect

May 12, 2008 02:28 by anjel

Create a new image, size 393х393 pixels, background is white and using #00A3E2 color write any letter you want.

 

 

Now Rasterize layer this layer, duplicate it and inside options select Screen.

 


 
 
Rotate it as shown below and set the Opacity: 30%.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Holding CTRL select our original layer with "O". Now we have to do inverse our selected area. Then select the main layer and press DEL. To glue this 2 layers press Ctrl + E. Now let's add water effect to our "O" by selecting Dodge tool and light the selected areas as shown below:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Now hold CTRL and select the main layer again. And sav it Select > Save selection. Then create a new layer and stroke Edit > Stroke.
 
 
 
 
 
Now create one more layer and do stroke again with parametres Edit > Stroke :
 
 
Using Polygon selection tool select the area as shown on image and press DEL:
 
 
 
 
 
And move our white scheme to the right:
 
 
Use eraser to make more light:
 
 
 
 
Now you can dark som spots to contrast all image on your choice:
 
 
 
Now create a new layer again, load our selection and fill it with white. Decrise opacity to 15% and move it a little bit to the right:
 
 
 
Load our Selection one more time and fill it with dark blue:
 
 
 
And in the end apply  Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur with parameter 4:
 
 

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Hot Metal Photoshop Tutorial

May 6, 2008 21:25 by anjel

Ok, let's start:

Create a new image of 267х154 pixels size (background color is black). And with Text Tool write any text you like using Carbon Block type if you don't have one please download it HERE carbonblock.rar (15.31 kb) 

 

 

Click right mouse and choose Blending Options. Then select 1) Outer Glow 2) Inner Glow 3) Bevel and Emboss 4) Contour 5) Color Overlay with parametres as shown below:

 











You can add a sword and get the following :)

 


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Golden Egg Photoshop Tutorial

April 27, 2008 21:13 by anjel

Fir the first select Pen Tool and draw a figure of our future egg:

 


Select Blending Options and then put parametres as shown below 1) Inner Shadow 2) Gradient Overlay The result should be as shown on the last image:

 

 

 

 

Now create a new layer and apply Filter > Render > Clouds and then aplly one more filter Filter > Noise > Add Noise:

 

 

Holding CTRL  click on the layer with our Egg to invert selection, Press Del and change Blending mode to Overlay, then decrease Fill to 17%

 


Click over our layer with right button of our mouse and select Blending Options - > Inner Shadow Parametres are shown on the image below:

 

 


Now select Brush Tool 40 px size, creat a new layer and light a middle part of our egg. Change Blending mode to Color Dodge and decrease Fill to 48%

 

Now use Pen Tool and draw a figure like the following:

 

And in the end apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur:

 

 


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Tele Image Photoshop Tutorial

April 21, 2008 02:29 by anjel

Create a new layer of 10х2 size. use instrument select 1 pixel size spot and fill it with and black color. For your convenience zoom image to 1600%

 

 

 

Now Delete backgroun and remember this layer as pattern  Edit  >> Define Pattern.

 

Now open your image to apply tele image effect:

 
 

And do Layer >> New >> Layer then Edit >> Fill and set parametres Use: Pattern, Mode: Overlay

 

You should get the following effect:

 


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