8 Ways to Secure Your Wordpress Weblog 15th July 2008

Wordpress Security
Content is probably your single most important assets on the web. So maybe you should consider keeping it protected. If you are like the many others out there using Wordpress to manage your precious content, than you probably should do a few things to help make it more secure from the admin side. Image you were hacked and lost everything, how devastating would that be? Take some simple measure now that will save you tons of heartache in the future.

We can all agree that having a secure web site is very important but what people forget is that you need to actually do a little work to make it that way. Yes, Wordpress does a … Continue Reading

CSS Sliding Doors Gone Wild 9th July 2008

CSS Cross-Browser Horizontal Navigation
There are tons of tutorials on the web these days about how to develop a horizontal navigation menu, but few of them are very reliable across browsers when it comes to their CSS. Undoubtedly you have come across a tutorial that works great in Firefox and the most recent versions of Internet Explorer but if you look at IE6 and below things start to get weird. This tutorial will show you how to create a CSS cross-browser horizontal menu navigation very quickly and easily.

In this tutorial I am going to explain some of the pitfalls and offer you a solution for tabbed navigation that has been tested and will render exactly the same … Continue Reading

E-Book Cover Tutorial 21st February 2008

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial demonstrates how to convert a simple, flyer-style 2D image into an impressive 3D e-book cover. This is a very easy process and will take approximately 5-20 minutes depending on your cover art and how intricate you want to make it look.

E-Book Example

1) Start with the artwork for the cover. Open a new file and set the image size in Adobe Photoshop to 510×592 pixels and design a beautiful cover for your book. Don’t worry, we will be going from the flyer to the e-book in a few quick and painless steps.

Note: the spine should be roughly 75-80 pixels wide. Once you have finished your e-book cover art, move on to … Continue Reading