Monty Tuts - Your Ultimate Web Design Resource

Building an entire membership system can be a tedious, and time-consuming task. Tim Cooper is going to show us how to build the ENTIRE thing in roughly thirty minutes. Rather than using MYSQL as our database, Tim will instead demonstrate an alternate approach: using an XML file. We’ll be reviewing PHP, .htaccess files, sessions, and more!

Web Standards are so so important, and i appreciate the beauty and power of CSS, in fact my shropshire based web design studio - Project Thirteen Design is built on the aim of producing beautiful, accessible websites. The love and respect for web standards is continually growing in the online community and the push to create more and more unique web designs and layouts means the use and functionality of CSS is more keenly discussed.

Here we have 84, yes 84 amazing css tips, resources and tutorials. They should keep you occupied for some time.

Here’s another fantatic tutorial from Net Tuts….

The Progress Bar is one of the latest components to be added to the excellent library of UI widgets and interaction helpers built on top of jQuery. It was introduced in the latest version of the library, which at the time of writing is 1.7.

So far Monty Tuts has been concentrating on web development so I thought I’d adjust the balance and you a nice little Photoshop tutorial. It should take between 30 minutes and a hour depending on your speed navigating Photoshop.

As you can see from the sample image the end product is a cool looking puzzle effect that you can you on your own pictures and images. You can of course make slight changes to the which will result in a different outcome.

I am asked frequently by clients, friends and anyone else interested “how easy is it to set you a blog?” Well if that’s a question you have to. You will be pleased to know the answers no, in fact once your set up it’s as easy. So in this step by step tutorial I’m going to walk you through setting up your own blog using a very powerful blogging platform called Wordpress. Then in future blogging tutorials I’m going to cover other questions I get asked such as “how can I design my own wordpress theme?” or  “can I make money blogging? The answer to the later by the way is yes, as long as the blog is well run and full of quality content. Lets face it with the current finacial climate as bleak as the news keeps telling us it’s nice to have a nice little second income coming in. Money aside for your blog to work you really need to enjoy blogging so finding the right topic is vital.

Ok lets make a start and get you up and running with your very own blog.