Recently Popular Tutorials for July 12th, 2006
Jul 12
9rules “Community” style links
A useful way to style your links with favicons, similar to the way the 9rules community link page looks at: http://9rules.com/en/browse
Jul 12
Pure White Backgrounds on Photos
This tutorial goes over how to get a pure white background out of any home made lightbox or by simply hanging a white sheet behind the item you’re photographing. Useful for creating professional looking product photos for ebay items, & other ecommerce type situations.
Jul 12
Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced requests and responses in...
For many Web developers, making simple requests and receiving simple responses is all they’ll ever need, but for developers who want to master Ajax, a complete understanding of HTTP status codes, ready states, and the XMLHttpRequest object is required.
Jul 12
Mastering Ajax, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with...
Most Web applications use a request/response model that gets an entire HTML page from the server. The result is a back-and-forth that usually involves clicking a button, waiting for the server, clicking another button, and then waiting some more.
Jul 12
Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax
Ajax, which consists of HTML, JavaScript™ technology, DHTML, and DOM, is an outstanding approach that helps you transform clunky Web interfaces into interactive Ajax applications.
Jul 12
Ron Scott's Tutorial - Glassy Spheres
Here is one way to make glass spheres that contain diffuse glows, highlights, halos and specular reflections of the surrounding environment. An interesting feature is the extensive use of selection feathering and cutting.
Jul 12
The Scott Effect
The effect is useful for realistic rendering of irregular and corrupted surfaces. It is based on the observation that rust and corrosion, for example, begin at random “nucleation” sites and propagate in a random fashion.
