Looking deeper into Adobe Photoshop

September 10th, 2010 | Posted under Graphic Design, Software, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

Looking deeper into Adobe Photoshop

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP is software from the company ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED, which is an American company, based at San Jose, California. It was founded in December 1982. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP is an image editor.  In the year, 2003 Adobe went for rebranding of Photoshop and named it Photoshop CS where CS stands for “Creative Suite”. It is used widely by the Professionals whose domain of work is graphics designing. They use this software for designing purposes even for website designing.

History

In the year 1987, a PhD student from University Of Michigan named THOMAS KNOLL was working on some kind of project, which would display on a monochrome display some grayscale images. He was using a program DISPLAY. Here came into the picture his brother JOHN KNOLL. He was an employee at INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC (ILM). He advised Thomas to convert this program into full fledged graphics software. This was when Thomas took leave from his studies and helped his brother to develop graphics software named IMAGE PRO in the year 1988. But this software was renamed as PHOTOSHOP.

Later that year John travelled to Silicon Valley to promote his software. He presented his software in front of the engineers at APPLE and then to Russel Brown of ADOBE. Russel was an art director at ADOBE. Finally, ADOBE bought the software in September 1988. John took up the job of Plug-ins in California and Thomas stayed at ANN ARBOR doing the program code. It was in 1990 that PHOTOSHOP 1.0 was released exclusively for Macintosh.

Features

Adobe Photoshop has a wide variety of application in the field of graphics editing. It links up with other adobe software for the purpose of animation, media editing, and authoring. Adobe Photoshop produces file in the format .PSD, which is its native file format. It has a lot of imaging options available with it, which includes layers with masks, ICC profile. It also has features like colour spaces, spot colours, transparency, text, duotones and many more.

Now let us talk about some of its features, which came after rebranding it with the name CREATIVE SUITE in the year 2003. We will be talking about few of its CS.

CS 3

CS 3 came as a market strategy to improve Photoshop’s sales. It came with new features which had better co-ordination with the software ADOBE BRIDGE. Its new features included streamlined interface, it also had better print control features and moreover it worked quite well with ADOBE READER i.e. with .PDF format files.

CS 4

Now CS 4 came up with a new feature perhaps first of its own kind and that was 3D engine. It provided the user with an opportunity to work in 3D. It also included wrapping up of 2D images or objects around 3D.

CS 5

CS 5 the latest version of the Photoshop was to be launched on 12 April 2010. It is assumed to use strong CUDA technologies.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP comes in two versions: BASIC & EXTENDED. The EXTENDED version has extra features added to it. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP is undoubted the most Graphics software being used by the professionals.

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XML simplified – understanding the structure

September 10th, 2010 | Posted under The Internet, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

XML simplified – understanding the

structure

XML is actually an”Extensible Markup Language” which follows a set of certain rules to encode documents in machine language. The main goals of XML language are easy usability, generality and simplicity while working on internet. It is mainly used for transportations and storage of data rather than displaying it unlike HTML. This concept is defined in XML 1 specification marketed by W3C. All the tags used are user defined. The most popular XML language so far developed includes Atom, Soap, and XHTML, ms office, apple’s iWork, open office and RSS. All the information required by the user is written on the tags. One can also design his software for receiving, sending and displaying information.

General format of XML document

Key Terminologies

Key terminologies are basically XML Specifications, which are very essential while writing XML documents. They are as follows:

Unicode Character

XML documents are basically a collection of characters in the form of strings. Almost every Unicode character happens to appear in every XML documents.

Grouping of characters

Characters of XML documents are subdivided into group’s content and markup. These content and markup characters are easily distinguished by simple application of syntactic rules. Those strings which begin with ‘<’ character or end with’>’ character or those beginning with ‘&’ and ending with ‘;’ character are considered as markup language. Rest all strings with are not markup are known as content.

Processor and its application

Processor simply analyses the markup text and delivers to the application this structured information. Specifications actually places the requirement to the XML processor, thus coordination the work of the processor by directing it what to do and what not to do. The application is outside the scope of the specifications but is coordinated by processor. Thus due to this feature of the XML processor it is considered as XML parser.

Tag

Markup construction begins with ‘<’ character and ends with ‘>’character. Tagging within this markup text have three types that is start tags coded as <text>, end tag coded as</text> and at last the empty tag coded as <text/>.

Element

The element is the most logical component. It begins with start tags, and then finally ends with matched end-tags. It may consist of only empty element tags. The characters in between start tags and the end-tags, are called element’s content. It may contain the markup and other elements, collectively known as child elements.

Attribute

In XML, attributes are a part of element which helps in providing additional regarding that element. Thus attributes can be imagined as adjectives defining the elements present with it. Attributes as two fields name and value, which always occurs simultaneously. The name field declares the object and value field defines the nature of the object.  They are two types of attributes one is mandatory and the other is optional.

XML Declaration

Every XML document begins with XML Declaration, thus helping us in knowing the version name of the document.

USES

XML can be used to store data inside html document, and this keeps data separated from html document and hence is helpful in using the html for formatting and display

It can create data that can be read by different application and hence reduce complexity.

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Designing your website with content management systems

September 7th, 2010 | Posted under Content Management Systems, Internet Trends, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

Designing your website with content management systems

Web designing is a certain skill, which allows a person to design pages, which will run over World Wide Web. The one skillful in this profession is called a web-designer. Web content management system (WCMS) is a specific type of Content management System (CMS) that deals with all web issues such as web-design, web page management, development of the web schedule on the website, etc. It is particular software that is implemented for this very purpose. It allows you to manage and create HTML documents. WCMS total control on the management, creation, editing, and all other necessary web maintenance functions. The latest versions of content management system (CMS) are a bloom for every web designer. It provides complete flexibility and allows you to apply your innovative ideas. Those who create a profitable website, by application and usage of proper web design tools then the content management system is just the right tools.

Content management system provided several features to its users

Bring your innovations to life

CMS provides all special, unique, and essential features, which allow you to create and imply your own ideas. It is completely flexible and gives you all freedom to go on and create your own webpage. You have complete control on your design as all the requirements are at your finger touch distance. You enjoy all the features to create manage measure deliver develop optimize extend and modify you work.

Caters to the increasing demand

For those who are professional web-designer. It allows them to design and manage the websites with full efficiency. Its features like automated billing help to build up your business with proper care.

Easy management of workflow

Workflow means creating and accomplishing some predefined jobs by setting them in a certain sequence or by parallel arrangement. So you can note down your target, workload and manpower and design a proper page which will allow you to sketch you progress and measure your companies efficiency easily.

Easy to use

CMS is pretty easy to use and simple to learn. One can learn using CMS in no time. You can easily design and edit.

Multilingual

You can design your webpage content in multiple languages, thus the total views of your page will easily multiply along with it your revenue will also multiply.

Most WCMS’s are open source software system and they do have the capability to support features like add-ons, these provide extended usage, i.e. you can include applications like forum, blog, photo galleries, etc. They are also called as extensions. They ease your overall work. As these are easy to use software, it helps to learn and get a good grip on the working. With stylish templates and beautiful eye catching layouts these will surely cater to all your requirements. It also has automated features help it enhances working. Thus in layman’s language you can say that it is a simple yet powerful software.

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The Logic Behind Digital Certificates

August 19th, 2010 | Posted under The Internet, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

The Logic Behind Digital Certificates

A digital certificate is commonly referred to as a public key certificate. It is an electronic document or attachment, which makes use of a digital signature to confirm the identity of a person. It contains information related to the user such as the name of his organization, his address, Personal account number and other relevant details. The signature, either of the user himself or other users bears a testimony to the fact that the concerned documents and the public key belong to the same individual.

A typical digital certificate consists of the following details:

Serial Number

Serial Number is used to uniquely identify the certificate.

Subject

Subject bears the name of the person or entity identified.

Signature

It is an algorithm used to create the signature.

Issuer

Issuer declares the name of the entity that verified the information and issued the certificate.

Valid-From

It contains the date the certificate is first valid from.

Valid-To

It depicts the expiration date.

Key-Usage

This declares the purpose of the public key

With the advent of advanced software it is now very easy to forge printed documents. Therefore it is not enough to place our trust in these documents while dealing with important issues.

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Best Social Networking Sites of today

July 8th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, Miscellaneous, The Internet, Web Design Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Best Social Networking Sites

In today’s world, when everything has experienced the intrusion of computers and the internet, why should it be different for relationships as well? Taking the concept of social networking to a whole new level are the social networking websites. Ask the average teenager about friends and he will give you a list of cyber-relations conjured up with the help of these increasingly popular websites. Here is a look at a few of them:

Orkut

This website has been found to be most popular in Brazil and India, boasting of more than a hundred million active users worldwide. Users can add videos, integrate Gtalk , upload photos and also apply themes to make their profile page attractive.

Facebook

Facebook currently boasts of more than four hundred million active users worldwide. One can not only poke his friends with a message or two, but also remain engaged by addictive games and other free applications.

Myspace

Myspace has more than 200 million users worldwide with unique features like the use of HTML tags to customize one’s profile page, apart from having the common applications.

Twitter

With around fifty million monthly visits Twitter is fast gaining popularity , more because of it being used by celebrities to voice their thoughts.

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Web Standards that are followed today

July 8th, 2010 | Posted under Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting | 2 Comments »

Web Standards that are followed today

With the internet and World Wide Web playing a role in virtually every aspect of our lives, it is important that every website created conform to a set of accepted standards and technical specifications collectively referred to as Web Standards. These set of standards affect the development and administration of websites either directly or indirectly, and govern various aspects of the internet like interpretability, accessibility and usability of web pages. The following are the parameters considered while assessing web standards:

XML

Extensible mark up Language is a set of tools designed for emphasizing on simplicity, generality and usability over the internet in a textual data format. It focuses mainly on documents and is widely used to represent arbitrary data structures in web services.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets, used to describe the presentation semantics is enables the separation of document content from document presentation including elements like layouts, colours and fonts.

DOM

Document Object Model is instrumental in representation and interaction of objects associated with HTML, XHTML and XML documents. It has the unique features of being fast, memory efficient and being language independent.

ECMA script

This is one of the most widely used scripting languages, which has distinguishing features like class module system, bug fixing and backwards compatibility.

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Open Source Imaging Tools

June 28th, 2010 | Posted under BounceWeb Company, Software, Web Design Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Open Source Imaging Tools

In today’s world where everything comes at a cost the concept of freeware or open source software comes as a major boon considering the fact that it comes free of cost and most importantly it allows the user to experiment by means  of studying, changing and improving the software.  With improved cameras being easily available at affordable rates photography as a hobby is rising in popularity among the common masses. Therefore, it is natural that imaging software that helps edit, resize, and add effects to images are becoming increasingly popular. Let us look at some very useful open source imaging tools:

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is a high-end graphics application that can give a run to Adobe Photoshop on any application concerning cropping, editing, resizing and converting between image formats.

Inkscape

A vector graphics application, which is compatible with almost all operating systems in addition to having multi-lingual support, particularly for complex scripts.

Imagemagik

Another freeware, which provides a wide range of format conversion, image identification, with all popular features apart from the fact that it can be manipulated by programs in any programming language.

Photoscape

This is another powerful tool, which apart from providing a wide array of features is very easy to use.

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Creating web applications with Adobe Flex

June 24th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, Web Design Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Creating web applications with Adobe Flex

Adobe flex is the most preferred software development kit when it comes to creating web applications. Applications developed using Adobe Flex can be run on the platform of Adobe Flash Player. Being open source software, it provides the user the luxury of altering, bettering and experimenting with it. While the first version of flex was released in 2004, an advanced version Flex 4.0 has been launched in 2010. Here, we discuss some of the features which make Flex so much popular among web designers.

Bridges the gap between design and content

Adobe flex offers a convenient method to design the layout of a dynamic graphic interface by bridging the gap between the unorthodox animation metaphor and the conventional mark up languages.

Large base of predefined tools

Applications can be developed by defining an interface with the help of predefined tools, followed by which a theme and style can be chosen in addition to building up a dynamic behavior. With the help of the new horizontal platform tools and accelerated development features it has now become easy to convert a conception into reality very quickly.

Integration with Adobe Flash

Its integration with Adobe flash catalyst and the concept of customised templates has proved to be of major help. It harnesses full support for Adobe flash players of version 10 and above apart from providing improved compiler performance, language enhancements and advanced text layout frameworks.

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Browser pecularities of CSS

June 20th, 2010 | Posted under Graphic Design, Web Design Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Scaffolding with Ruby on Rails

June 16th, 2010 | Posted under Software, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

Scaffolding with Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails (ROR) is famous with web developers for a million reasons – one of the biggest being the scaffolding feature, which lets you to create web applications based on the database within minutes! Here, we see how ROR and MySQL combine to create fast, clean and efficient web applications!

1. Create a ROR Application

An empty application has to be created first using the following command:

rails application_name

2. Create a database for the application

A database on which the scaffolding application will be based has to be created using MySQL basic commands:

create database db_name;

grant all priviledges on db_name.* to ‘user@localhost’ identified by ‘password’

3. Change the database settings of ROR

The database.yml file needs to be updated with the new database name so that the application can connect to the database.

4. Create the tables, model and controller

The table has to be created with the CREATE TABLE command of MySQL, and the ROR model and controller has to be also created by the following commands:

ruby script\generate model application_name

ruby script\generate controller application_name

5. Change the controller file to begin scaffolding

The application_name_controller.rb file could be located from the path app/controller and has to modified by adding the following line

class Application_nameController < ApplicationController

scaffold:application_name

end

This will lead to the automatic creation of the following interfaces: creating new entries, editing new entries, viewing existing entries and deleting existing entries!

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