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10 Youtube Channels For Learning PHP+MySQL For Beginners

Tom — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:03:49 +0000

PHP and MySQL is a popular language for web development and there are ton of video tutorials on Youtube, some are good and some are not so good.

Learning from video tutorials is the fast way to learn how to write PHP code. If you want to learn PHP and MySQL, this is the list of good quality of PHP and MySQL video tutorials from Youtube for beginners.

You’ll learn from setting up PHP and MySQL on your computer, first simple application, if-else condition, how to create MySQL database, phpMyAdmin, php security and more.

1. Basics PHP

This is a good channel to get you started with PHP. The tutorials are in high quality and the instructor is awesome. (By phpacademy)

2. MySQL Tutorials

Learn MySQL basics, and how to set up, connect to and integrate with PHP. The fundamentals of most PHP websites. (By phpacademy)

3. Beginner PHP Tutorials

You’ll learn PHP form the basic steps with the very good instructor, thenewboston is a goods instructor and he has tons of tutorial on Youtube. (By thenewboston)

4. PHP Scripting Tutorials For Beginners

This channel is also a good one, PHP Scripting tutorials for beginners. (By TeachMeComputer)

5. PHP Basics

A series of tutorials that discusses basic PHP functions, syntax, language constructs and tips. For beginner coders, or people who need a reference point. There are no actual projects in this playlist, it is all informative tutorials.

6. PHP Programming

60+ PHP and MySQL videos tutorials in this channel, you may want to check it out. (By mikenku)

7. PHP Beginner Tutorials

This is also a PHP tutorial channel that teach you form the basic steps. (By JREAM Tutorials)

8. MySQL Tutorials

MySQL Tutorials (By JREAM Tutorials)

9. PHP OOP Tutorials

Object Oriented Programming Tutorials, PHP OOP. After you finished the basic steps of PHP you should learn OOP, it’s powerful for PHP coder. (By JREAM Tutorials)

10. Security

A collection of videos relating to PHP security. Essential information to help you secure your code. (By phpacademy)

Free Notepapers, Papers & Sticky Notes PSD Files

Tom — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:17:52 +0000

I see many sites were designed by using stick notes, papers, old papers, ripped paper and sticky tape, they are look great. I found many sites give away the PDF files of these resources for free.

If you’re a web designer who looking for some free resources, this is a list of nice design and high quality PDF files of notepapers, sticky notes, sticky tape, ripped papers, notepad, old paper and more…

1. Notepaper & Sticky Tape

Nice design note and sticky tape.

2. Notepaper Blog Comments

Notepaper and sticky tape combo to house a single comment. The comment includes the authors thumbnail, the time stamp and a pretty little reply button.

3. Notepaper Graphics Free PSD file

Download Notepaper Graphics Free PSD file. The notepaper set released here is high resolution, and can easily be used as background for your creative needs. Further, these graphics come in fully layered Photoshop files for the purpose of any required tweaks.

4. 6 Free PSD Paper Notes

Free PSD pack of 6 different paper notes. Useful graphics both for web and print projects. All layers are separated and grouped properly. Available in high resolution (2200x2200px)

5. 5 Ripped Paper Notes

Free PSD set of 5 different ripped paper notes. All layers are properly grouped and named so editing the text, shapes and colors can be done in a few clicks.

6. Client Testimonial Boxes Free PSD

8 attractive testimonial box designs, all downloaded in .PSD format. These 8 .PSD files are fully layered and are editable including the titles, body text, and graphics.

7. 4 Free Sticky Notes

8. 6 Free Tileable Paper Patterns

9. 2 Free PSD Notepad Templates

10. Layered Spiral Bound Notebook

Free PSD spiral bound notebook with curled pages. It can be applied to web design projects, business cards, posters, icons, etc. Totally layered PSD file – you can edit every shadow, paper curl, texture and color.

11. Thank You Sticky Note

Yellow paper message, thank you note. Editable Photoshop template – yellow paper with shadow on a bright background, with a red thumbtack. Download PSD file, put text and make your custom paper message.

12. Sticky Notes

Close up of a post-it note. Two graphic design elements, white and yellow sticky notes. Blank background paper templates, add your text on it. Isolated on white, with a soft shadow.

13. Wooden Panel With a Paper Message

Photoshop template, wooden panel with a paper message and old yellow paper.

14. PSD Curled Paper, Page Corner

Blank paper with curled corner in red, white and black colors. Blank paper sheets with space for text. Created in Photoshop with Rectangle Tool and a soft Brush Tool for shadows and gradients. Editable PSD template is available for download.

15. Notepaper – Sticky Note

Pretty notepaper / Sticky Note with nail head. Can be use in design as pop up note, sidebar note, quick tips or highlight a particular feature of you website, service, event or any other content.

16. Paper Notes Template

Blank paper notes, office supply template, blue, yellow and green sticky notes stack. Empty post it notes ready for your message.

17. Free PSD Blueprint

Free PSD blueprint piece of paper with realistic effects. It`s a fully layered file. Can also be used in icon design, website design or mapping architectural drawing, etc.

18. Lined Paper Template

19. Free Old Paper Set

5 Free old papers in high resolution for an instant retro look. Use this free psd file to make your work look like it was printed half a century ago. You can use this excellently simulated 5 pieces of old paper for a website background, collages, publications, business cards and many more.

20. Lined Paper Free PSD

Free PSD lined paper and highly detailed pen illustration on top. Stunning graphic file that will fit perfectly any web design project, poster, flyer, business card, powerpoint presentation, etc. All layers are fully editable and well organized.

30+ PHP Video Tutorials on How to Create Forum, Login, Contact Form, Upload, Shopping Cart, Captcha & Ect.

Tom — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:40:53 +0000

PHP is a popular language for creating websites and also MySQL is a popular database for online database. PHP+MySQL are widely use for creating dynamic websites, blogs and web applications all around the world.

There’re so many websites, small, medium or big that use PHP+MySQL for building their sites. If you want to learn to create web applications using PHP+MySQL, here is the video tutorials of the popular web applications.

The video tutorials on the list are all video tutorials which easy to follow and you can learn fast. The hi-light tutorials such as creating PHP login, shopping cart, forum, guestbook, email contact form, file upload, shout box, captcha and more…

1. Register & Login

A collection of tutorials that’ll help you incorporate a register/login system into your website.

2. PHP Search Engine

Creating a search engine for database content. Produces a list of results based on keywords of your data.

3. Hit Counters

This tutorial shows you how to create hit counters for general use. For example, counting visitors. counting how many people read you article. Both unique and non-unique.

4. Auto-complete Style Search

An auto-complete style search engine, based on database data. You can see this technique on Google’s search.

5. Guestbook

Creating a simple guestbook with PHP and a MySQL database. This one you should learn if you are the beginner.

6. Mailing List

In this tutorial learn to create an email subscribe form and learn to create your own mailing list with PHP.

7. Pagination

Easy pagination with PHP, by splitting results from a database into separate pages.

8. Shoutbox

Many sites have a little shout box on their sites and this is the tutorial on how to create a shoutbox style application.

9. File Uploading

Uploading files system is all around the web. This one is a tutorial set guiding you through file uploading in PHP.

10. URL Shortener

A complete guide to creating a URL shortener website from the start. This url shorten is very popular on Twitter.

11. Mini Shopping Cart

This is a simple shopping cart for you to learn, a mini, highly integratable shopping cart. Fast, easy to use and works with PayPal cart checkout.

12. PayPal IPN

Accept and process payments to charge your visitors for premium membership.

13. Blog

Creating a blog, from start to finish, with a MySQL database. It’s recommended you watch the MySQL tutorial series before attempting this tutorial, unless you’re confident in MySQL.

14. Non-database Photo Album

With this tutorial, you’ll learn to create a simple photo album, a non-database photo album. Simple add pictures to each folder to build the album up. Includes displaying each image with Lightbox.

15. Rating System

A rating system is one of the popular web application. it allowing people to vote and total up an overall rating.

16. PHP & MySQL Register User Login

Learn to create a membership system, the tutorial tech you from create a signup form to login system.

17. Send Email, Quickly and Easily (HTML format)

The video tutorial on how to create a PHP contact form that send mail in HTML format.

18. Create a Spellchecker

Creating a fast, effective, function based spellchecker based on a large dictionary file.

19. Watermark an Image on Upload

Image manipulation using the PHP GD Library. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to upload image and watermark it on the fly.

20. Image Upload Website

Create an image upload website in this easy to follow series. Includes user registration/login, creating, renaming and deleting albums, uploading images with thumbnail generation and deleting images.

21. Advert Rotation System

An easy, effective solution to advert rotation on your website. Tracks impressions and clicks, as well as holding an expiry date to set for each advert.

22. Forum Tutorials

Creating forum is a big project and need more skills. If you want to improve your PHP skills, this is a must learn.

23. PHP BBCode Tutorial

Step by step instructions on how to create a BBCode system using preg_replace within PHP.

24. Bidding Application

Nice tutorial on how to creating bidding application.

25. Send Mail

This tutorial teaches you how to use the mail function in PHP with an HTML form.

26. Multi-Site Search

In this tutorial series we develop a search that performs different types of searching on multiple search engine sites.

27. PHP Chat/ Shoutbox

Another tutorial on how to create a PHP Chat/ Shoutbox.

28. Creating Captcha Image Security

There’re too many spam on the internet. We fight it with Captcha and you can learn how to create Captcha in this tutorial.

29. Word Censoring

Some users may post some inappropriate words on your comment box. This word censoring system can filter them.

30. Creating Cookies with PHP

PHP cookie is widely used but you can’t see it. This videos tutorial will show you how to create cookies with PHP

31. Deleting Cookies with PHP

After you create cookie with PHP, in this tutorial shows you how to delete it.

32. Scaling Down Images to Thumbnails

The images that you or users uploaded may be too big, don’t worry, this system can resize all the images to the size that fit your need.

33. RSS Feed Generator

Learn to create a RSS Feed for your blog.

30 Free Useful Tools for Web Developers and Designers

Tom — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:41:11 +0000

There’re many useful tools for creating websites, guide you to design web layout in awesome colors, collect web statics, help you get the better rank in search engine, monitor your website in 24/7, upload files to server.

This is the list of useful tools for both web designers and developers that I often use and all the tools are available for free.

PortableApp that you should have it on your flash drive, IEtester for testing website in multiple versions of Internet explorer, Uptime Robot – I signed up for this service for monitor my site 24/7, CSS3 Generator is also a handy CSS generator, 365 PSD for download cool web design stuffs, WooRank for analyse my website for better rank on Google and more useful tools.

If you have your favorite tools that don’t on the list, you can share it on the comment box.

1. PortableApps.com – Useful Portable App

All the tools you need on the go. PortableApps.com offers varieties of tools in version portable that you can save it on your usb thumb drive. My favorite tools are Notepad++, Xampp, Gimp, Irfanview, filezilla, Google Chrome, Firefox, Skype, Pidgin, uTorrent, VLC, Foxit Reader and more…

2. WooRank – Website Analysis Tool

WooRank is a very useful tool for analyzing how good SEO on your website. With 5 top priorities on your website. 1. Improve the Meta Description 2. Write a Wikipedia article 3. Add more content with more keywords 4. Declare the language used 5. DMOZ

3. Histats – Free Real Time Web Stats

Free real time web statistics which has all the useful tools for tracking your site visitors. From small sites to big sites, Histats can track up to 10 millions hits/day and you can have 300 sites per account which is huge.

4. Adobe Browser Lab – Test Your Web Design

Test your web design online on multiple browsers with official tool from Adobe. Adobe BrowserLab allows you to easily conduct browser compatibility testing and preview web pages across popular browsers.

5. IETester – Test You Web on OLd Version of IE

If you’re a web designer, this tool is really useful. IETester is a browser compatibility check for Internet Explorer versions from 5.5 to 10. IETester is a free download.

6. Uptime Robot – Monitor Your Websites

Uptime robot is a free service that help you monitor your websites every 5 minutes and get alert when your websites down.

7. COLOURlovers – Cool Colour Themes

COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world createand share colors, palettes and patterns.

8. kuler – Explore, Create and Share Color Themes

Nice color tool from Adobe, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

9. Filezilla – Free FTP Client

Filezilla is one of the most popular FTP client, open source, free and available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

10. Cyberduck – Free FTP

Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows. Cyberduck is a popular FTP tool for Mac user and now, they released for Windows users tool.

11. Gtmetrix – Grade Your Site’s Performance

GTmetrix uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow to grade your site’s performance and provides actionable recommendations to fix these issues.

12. Down just Me or Everyone?

Is down for everyone or just me? A very simple tool, but really useful. When your site went down but you’re not sure that the problem was your internet connection or the server.

13. Snippely – Code Snippets Tool

Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize snippets in one convenient location. Snippely is available for both Windows and Mac.

14. Notepad++ – Popular Text Editor

Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

15. TextWrangler – Free Text Editor For Mac

If you’re a Mac user, TextWranger is a free text editor for you.

16. Komodo Edit – Free Editor, Cross Platform

Komodo Edit is a free and open source editor for dynamic languages. This tool supports PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML 5 and CSS3. Komodo Edit available for Windows, Mac and Linux at no cost.

17. ShiftEdit – Code Online

ShiftEdit is an online IDE for developing PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript through FTP, SFTP and Dropbox.

18. Paint.NET – Free Photo Editor

Paint.NET is my favorite free image and photo editing software. It’s fast and easy to use.

19. Photoscape – Full Features Photo Editing

Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

20. Pedule – Handy Web Developer Tool

If you’re a web developer and use Google Chrome as your browser, don’t miss this cool plugin. Pendule is a useful web developer tools for Google Chrome.

21. CSS3 Generator

All the thing you need for generating CSS3 code. You can generate CSS3 code for border radius, box shadow, text shadow, RGBA, @font face, multiple columns, box resize, box sizing, outline, transitions, transform, selectors and gradients.

22. 365psd – Download PSD Files

Good resources for all designers. If you’re web designer or graphic designer you’ll love this site. At 365psd, you can download PSD file for icons, web layout, iPhone UI, buttons, web graphics and so much more. You also can share your own work, sell or buy PSD files, but almost files at 365psd are free and you can use for both personal and commercial.

23. Designmoo – Discover and Share Design Resources

Designmoo is like 365PSD. Designmoo is a community for discovering and sharing free PSDs, vectors, textures, patterns, fonts, and more.

24. SEO Doctor – SEO Tool

SEO Doctor is a simple SEO tool that made SEO work easier. SEO Doctor is an extension for firefox that will give you all the info of back link, rank, Alexa and more.

25. LastPass – Password Manager

If you have too much password, this tool can help you. LastPass is an online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing easier and more secure. LastPass is available for Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari.

26. Web Developer Toolbar

This one is a very popular developer tool. The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome.

27. favicon – .ico Favicon Generator

Favicon is an online tool for generating favicon icon online. You can draw your icon on their canvas or just upload you own image to their server and the tool will generate the favicon for you.

28. dafont.com – Download Free Font

dafont is my favorite place for download free font.

29. Snipplr – Explorer and Share Code Snippets

Snipplr is a great place to save your code snippets online, share your own code snippets and explore other user’s code snippets.

30. w3schools – Code References

I started learning to create website from w3school. You can learn all major web language such as HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, ASP, PHP, SQL, jQuery and more… Also if you forget the code w3school provides the code reference too.

31. W3Clove – Site-wide Markup Validation

This tool is really useful. You just enter your web URL in the text box of W3Clove, then click validate button. W3Clove will validate the HTML markup of your whole website.

50+ Handy Plugins For Google Chrome

Tom — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:33:06 +0000

Google Chrome or Chrome is a really great web browser, it fast, it has tons of useful plugins available and the new version roll out fast. Personally, I use Safari, Chrome and Firefox, but I prefer Chrome the most and I use Chrome as my main browser, I use Firefox and Safari occasionally.

Chrome is the fastest growing web browser, more and more plugins available on the Chrome Web Store.

If you’re using Google Chrome, I found some plugins that will enhance Google Chrome and the list below is the list of 50+ handy plugins for Google Chrome.

1. Image Properties Context Menu

Google chrome lacks the image properties menu, but this little plugin will bring it to you.

2. History Calendar

History Calendar adds a page of history handy calendar. By making just a couple of clicks you can move in any day and easily find the link.

3. Chrome Tips

Tips & Tricks about how to use Google Chrome. If you’re using chrome, this is a very useful plugin for you.

4. TooManyTabs for Chrome

TooManyTabs for Chrome – Manage your tabs, improve your browsing, and maintain your sanity when you have many tabs open.

5. Remember The Milk

Task management goodness used by millions worldwide. Makes managing your to-do list fun!

6. Sticky Board

Create and share sticky notes online.

7. Hours Worked

Calculate hours worked rounded to the nearest tenth.

8. Tab Manager

Tab Manager

9. PageArchiver

Save web page for offline reading easily

10. Notepad

Notepad

11. theTabs

Tab previewer

12. Bookolio

Gives instant acces to bookmarks, the users’ most visited sites and over 20 search engines.

13. Bookmark Buttons Startpage

Bookmark Buttons Startpage

14. TabsPlus

TabsPlus – Manage your tabs

15. Browser QuickLinks

Click a single button to quickly jump to a number of useful, but often hidden features in chrome.

16. ruul. Screen Ruler

A fantastically simple on-screen ruler for lining up and measuring type, line height, strokes and just about anything on the web.

17. Flickr Right Click

Flickr Right Click

18. AddThis – Share & Bookmark

Share to Facebook, Twitter and over 300 other services with the most popular sharing tool in the world.

19. Webpage Screenshot

Webpage Screenshot

20. Account Switcher for Google Gmail

Account Switcher for Google Gmail

21. Magic Actions for YouTube

Magic Actions for YouTube

22. History Eraser

History Eraser

23. myHomework

Teachers not letting you use your phone in class? Parents on you for missing assignments? Show them you’re organized with myHomework.

24. The Deck

Collect and share your favorite web videos and watch them anywhere.

25. Go Invisible

Browse in private. One-click switching of tabs or windows between incognito and normal modes.

26. MiniNotes

Adds a button in the toolbar to open a popup to take notes.

27. QuIP

QuIP is a Chrome Extension that gets you your IP address really quick!

28. Google +1

Google +1

29. Offline Google Mail

Gmail Offline beta is a Gmail app built to support offline access, allowing mail to be read, responded to, searched and archived.

30. Google Mail Checker

Google Mail Checker

31. Google Dictionary

Google Dictionary (by Google)

32. Quick Note

The quickest way to take notes in Chrome, as quick and slick as the best desktop note-app.

33. Read Later Fast

Save pages to read later — online or offline, and fast! Avoid too many tabs and make your browsing a blast!

34. SEO & Website Analysis

SEO & Website Analysis

35. FlashControl

Add extra control features to Adobe Flash players. Use FlashControl to turn Flash players on and off, or toggle their visibility.

36. Fast Speed Dial 2

Speed dial 2 is fast and clean extension for your favorite pages and quick access to your apps, bookmarks and browsing history.

37. Click&Clean

Deletes your browsing history, typed URLs, Flash cookies, all traces of your online activity to protect your privacy.

38. FastestChrome

Browse Faster – Save time and enhance your productivity! Get quick definitions, auto-load next pages, search faster, and more.

39. feedly

A news reader for creative minds. A fast and stylish way to enjoy and share the content of your favorite websites. Integrates with Google Reader, Google+, Twitter and Facebook.

40. Alarm clock radio

Alarm clock radio with themes including Dark Lightning, Digital, Doctor Who, The Matrix, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Commodore 64.

41. FB Photo Zoom

The best way to view photos on Facebook!

42. Tab Split

Splits off tabs into a new window

43. Simple Facebook

This extension make your Facebook very simple (without sidebars and additional panels)

44. Trasir

IP Address and Domain Lookup.

45. Handcraft

Create interactive HTML prototypes using HTML, CSS and Javascript.

46. iReader

View news stories and other articles in a very easy to read, clutter-free, scrollable display.

47. Clear History

Quickly clears the browsing session history and cookies. Can be configured to delete history for the last 1 or 2 hours, last day or week, or everything.

48. Google+ Notification

View notifications of Google+ activity when signed in, anywhere you go on the web.

49. Astrid Tasks

Astrid is a to-do list / task manager that helps individuals and groups stay organized, get more done, and have fun in the process.

50. Similar Sites

Instant access to the best sites related to the one you are browsing!

51. Quick Markup

Capture webpage freely or open your local image, mark up with shape, text, icon and mind mapping information, one-click upload.

52. TweetDeck

TweetDeck is your personal browser connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Google Buzz.

53. Todo.ly

Todo.ly is an intuitive and easy to use online Todo list, and Task Manager. It helps you to get organized, and to get things done.

54. Kippt

Kippt makes it easy to save, organize, search and read information you find on the web.

100+ Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Tom — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:04:06 +0000

Creating the fancy text effect was the first thing I did back when learned how to use Photoshop. There’re many Photoshop tutorials on how to create cool text effects that use simple tools and easy to follow and the final results are stunning.

This is the list of cool Photoshop text effect tutorials such as metal text, wooden text, fire text, aqua text, candy text, grunge text, 3D text and more text effects or you can learn the techniques on how they create stunning text effect on movie posters.

Whoever you’re, the Photoshop professional or beginners, you can learn the new techniques from create stunning text effects in Photoshop to improve you skills.