Archive - Feb 2, 2010

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Buying Your First Website: A Case Study

Buying your first website property can certainly be daunting, especially if you’re unsure how to go about investigating your potential purchase.

Step One: Get Your Foot in the Door

Foot-in-the-door technique (FITD) is a method of persuasion that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first having them agree to a smaller request. The philosophy behind this technique is that once you get buy-in on a small level, you have begun to create a bond with the other person and are more likely to get buy-in for a larger issue.

Move Prospects to Purchase Using Decision Theory

Selling your services to people can seem like a hit-and-miss proposition, but if you understand the purchase decision-making process, you’ll have a better grasp on the factors that affect your ability to sell.

Introducing Gordon: the Flash Player Written in JavaScript

JavaScript has been used for a number of unusual projects in the past few years. We’ve had NES emulators, Spectrum emulators, and even Amiga emulators. But a Flash player?… What’s the point of emulating a browser plugin within a browser?

Joomla MVC Classes

Package:
Joomla MVC Classes
Summary:
Base MVC classes for developing Joomla extension
Groups:
Content management, Design Patterns, Libraries, PHP 5
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jQuery tabs

Package:
jQuery tabs
Summary:
Generate HTML to display tabs using jQuery.
Groups:
HTML
Author:
kobinski_
Description:
This is a simple class that can be used to generate HTML to display tabs using jQuery.

Create A Better, More Realistic Drop Shadow In Photoshop

You can add a simple drop shadow to any object on its own layer in Photoshop by clicking on the “Add a layer style” button at the bottom of the palette and choose Drop Shadow from the drop down menu. This opens up the Layer Style dialog box and you can choose your drop shadow settings from there. Simple. The drop shadow adds a little extra dimension to objects but it doesn’t always look particularly realistic. Most objects such as paper or photographs do not always lie completely flat so let’s take a look at how you can create a more realistic drop shadow with of a hint of a curl.