Property Maintenance Launceston Website Launched

Today we launched our first client website. Although it is still in process of being submitted to various groups to improve its SEO over the next few days feel free to head on over and check it out.

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Adobe ASE: Adding more than 5 colours to an ASE File Tip

Is it possible to create more than five colors in an Adobe ASE file? Yes it is. Today we will quickly run you through how to do this in Fireworks and Photoshop. (more…)

Joomla: Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7

In this tutorial we will show you how to prepare your Joomla website for upgrading from 1.5 or 1.6 to 1.7, the latest version of Joomla. Once you have conducted your pre-checks we will then show you how to go about upgrading your Joomla install using a copy of your backup to test it for any complications before proceeding to going live with your upgraded site. (more…)

Dreamweaver CS5.5: Setting up Android SDK for Mobile Development

In this tutorial we will show you how to set up the Android SDK inside of Dreamweaver CS5.5 so that we can develop mobile applications for Android.

Many many people have problems setting this up, yet other have it work first time round. There is not a lot of information out there and even I hit a lot of brick walls getting it set up. The good news is you can do it, it just may take a little fiddling.

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Mobile Development: Designing Buttons for Mobile Applications

In this tutorial we will cover some of the things you need to seriously consider when designing button for a mobile app or website.These buttons are naturally going to be the core of any mobile application yet many designers over look the obvious ways in which these buttons must differ from our more traditional navigational elements.

With the increasing presence of mobile devices on the web and with more and more people accessing the web on more and more mobile devices every day this has gone from being an optional exercise for a web developer to a necessity.

Due to the restricted space on a mobiles screen we are faced with major challenges in how do we redesign our site to be more mobile friendly. To further complicate things every week, even daily new screen sizes are added particularly in android. So how do we deal with them. Lets start in this series of tutorials by breaking down and looking at the common elements, the things that regardless of screen size we need to look at as a designer to make the switch to mobile. (more…)

Photoshop CS5.5: Turning off Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction

So you have opened a TIFF or in some cases a JPEG file and gotten a message telling you to turn off Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction to view or edit an image properly.

This is more of a tip than an actual tutorial but we will quickly show you how to switch off Pixel aspect Ratio Correction In Photoshop. While I am using Photoshop CS5.5 the procedure for doing this hasn’t changed since at least CS3.

There isn’t much out there telling you how to go about fixing this and it is quite a common problem, however the fix is a lot simpler than it sounds.

Simply go to the menu at the top of your Photoshop and select View >> Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction

Once you have selected this you will notice your image instantly change in size to the size it is meant to be.

Finding this can be quite hard but still fairly obvious when you actually manage to find it.

Hope you found this helpful and see again next time.

Moodle 2.1: Changing the Default Moodle Icons in your Custom Theme

In this tutorial we will show you how to change the default Moodle icons when creating your own theme. While the default icons that come with Moodle are good enough for a lot of basic installs when we are creating our own themes it is not unusual to come across situation where the default icons do not fit with the rest of your design. We will show you how to override the default icons rather than replacing them in the core. This way when we upload our theme to our website or someone else’s website our icons will automatically go with the theme so that we do not have to muck around modifying the core of Moodle to achieve the look and feel we are looking for.

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Moodle 2.1: Making Changes to the Header of Your Moodle Theme

In this tutorial we will show you how to make changes to the header of your Moodle 2.1 custom theme using Dreamweaver CS5.5. We will concentrate on changing the background of our header and the text contained within it. If you wish to change the logo or add one I have already done a tutorial on this so I won’t be covering that in this article.

To add a Logo to your header see this tutorial:

Moodle 2.1: Adding a Logo to Your Custom Moodle Theme Method 2 (more…)

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