Well, I installed a new video card in the PC — an ASUS GeForce 6600LE.
Its difficult to know exactly how well it stacks up re: benchmarks
Interesting thoughts:
1) it required a separate power jack — without pluging power INTO the video card, the whole PC emits a high pitched squeal loud enough to penetrate through several [...]
Background is is all mucked up.
Not centered — with stuff all shifted to the right.
Interesting … not done so on laptop.
Or now, on MSIE
** CORRECTION: It doesn’t render with Firefox 1.0.4 … Interesting … why is that?? Also; can’t get MSIE to run, so difficult to tell; should I use that VISTA renderer?
In what I think is a major feat for me — I have (with the help of Anita) installed some new RAM.
I used the PC GAmer BIBLE to help, as well as crucial FAQs from “crucial.com”
Through that website, I was able to tell what kind of RAM I already had, and what I had to [...]
Previous problem: apparently thought couldn’t nest DIVs — well you can.
The problem was trying to nest divs with no content.
When you actually thrown in content there is apparently no problem at all.
Thank god there is a simple solution! :)
Ended up using Andy Budd’s simple box method:
Create a gif for the background, the top, and the bottom of the box.
Then create the box thusly:
<div id=”box”>
<h2>Header</h2>
<p class=”content”>CONTENT GOES HERE</p>
</div>
#box — background is a y-repeating background (the main background)
#box h2 — background is the “TOP” background
p.content — background is bottom background
PROBLEM:
Nexting DIVS inside the “Content” area [...]
A List of Photoshop Tutorials:
How to create good knockouts or Masks: http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/knockout.asp?knockout=intro
Elegant Studio Shots: highlighting, mirroring, etc http://www.photoshoplab.com/tutorial_The-Elegant-Studio-Shot.html
Stencil-like image: http://tutorialseeker.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=865
Andy-Warhol effect on Images: http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-warholphoto1.html
Creating a 3D Box: Using “3D Transform” http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=26
Cutout Images and Transparent Backgrounds — actually, a neat trick with magic wand to select “selectable” black areas, and then PASTE an image into those [...]
Requires a bunch of programs/ skill sets:
A background graphic — need to use Photoshop
A header/logo graphics — ditto
A navigation scheme — Photoshop or CSS, your pick
And CSS to wrap it all together.
To create that header graphic, we use Photoshop.
There are excellent tutorials on how to create, like the one at Zymic.
Basically:
Create a rectangle
Create a layer [...]