Writing a script is easy, but writing a script that the Hollywood elite would actually like to pick up is a totally different story. Any aspiring screenwriter will find this information about action in scripts helpful.
A quick tutorial by Facebook engineers on how to create a Comments Box social widget quickly and easily for iframe applications and websites.
Lear how to replace your bike's inner tube! Remove wheel from bike. Quick release on front is easier. If you have wheel nuts you'll need some tools. Shift derailler to slack chain, then it's easy. Use a tire lever to take the outer tire. Feel along the tire to locate the puncture site.
Project 4 of the Popular Science 5 Minute Projects with Craftsmen Tools is a Nut-and-Bolt Keychain. Downsize your pocket cargo with a custom-fit keychain. Editor Sean Captain ditches the ring and uses more tool than necessary to trim a small bolt to just the right size for his set of keys. (For a slightly different take on the project, see the site that inspired us: carlitoscontraptions.blogspot.com).
With the advent of Web 2.0 sites and tools, building your own small business marketing website has never been easier. This video SEO tutorial demonstrates a WordPress plugin called SEO Friendly Images. Once installed, all the images on your blog are automatically optimized to be gulped up by search engines. For more, and to get started using SEO Friendly Images for yourself, watch this helpful video guide.
In this episode of Web Design TV Paul Wyatt tackles page layout in Dreamweaver. In this web development software tutorial we cover basic CSS layout, working with Divs to create a simple site template. This episode follows on from last week’s Dreamweaver primer on formatting text with CSS.
In this episode Paul Wyatt shows you how to use rollover effects in Fireworks, and create a menu bar for your sites. In this Fireworks project you’ll get to grips with slicing images, using frames, and mastering behaviors
This CoffeeCup Web Form Builder software tutorial shows how to create a MySQL database to be used in CoffeeCup Form Builder to build web forms. Mike Lively shows you how to do this using cPanel and the Site Ground server for hosting since it allows an unlimited number of MySQL databases. Start by creating your database in cPanel and then upload the results to CoffeeCup Form Builder.
By creating a blog, you can publish an online journal about anything you want. This iLife tutorial shows you how to create a blog to put on your website. iWeb makes it easy to add a blog to your site by providing templates. Learn how to create, add and delete blog entries in this iWeb tutorial.
This motorcycle modification tutorial shows you how to install a doohickey (bouncer level tensioner) upgrade on a Kawasaki KLR650 motorcycle. Watch and see how to do each step of this KLR650 bouncer level tensioner upgrade and if you get lost, the creator site has written instructions to follow as well.
Own a Playstation portable? With a PSPTUBE, you can watch and download videos from YouTube and other video sites. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to install the PSPTube. Keep in mind that your PSP requires a custom firmware of at least 3.71m33 or higher and 8MB of free space on your memory stick.
Use this freeware program from Bill Myers to prevent bandwidth theft of your videos - any format and stored on any site - including Camtasia videos stored on Amazon S3.
Join Patrick Hynds as he demonstrates how to set up the SQL Membership Provider to add Forms authentication to your ASP.NET 2.0 Web site, in this video tutorial. There are a few tips and tricks involved, such as using the aspnet_regsql.exe utility, which are covered in the video.
Papa Tom teaches viewers how to build a realistic looking diorama replicating an American Indian home site from early American history.
SEO specialist Aaron Wall talks about webpage titles for search engine optimization. Learn how to write page titles that will rank well in Google and make people click through to your site.
Give your website a truly professional look by designing your own favicon. Your favicon will appear in the address bar and when your site is bookmared. Using a simple software like MS Paint and following the instructions of this video for editing HTML, you can make your custom favicon appear.
Visit this site and download all of the necessary files, then check out this videos helpful instructions for install the More Creeps and Weirdos mod to Minecraft. Your modded Minecraft world will have more Creeps and Weirdos in it than you'll know what to do with.
Mods can let you change around the way your game looks, and you can download quite a lot of mods for free off Minecraft fan sites. This tutorial shows you where to find the best ones and how to download and install them.
Edit your video footage like a pro with Windows Live Movie Maker. This informative video from Vimeo's excellent Video 101 series of tutorials reviews the steps involved in using the software to create a basic 5x5—that is, a video composed of five clips of five seconds each. The different steps highlighted include importing your video clips, trimming the footage, editing audio, adding transitions, adding text & titles, and uploading to video sharing sites.
If you're looking to shave a few milliseconds off the Zend Engine's work load, check out this tutorial for some PHP programming speed tips. This efficency will pay off when you have tons of traffic to your site and save you valuable server resources.
Use the AutoFill feature in Safari to quickly fill in web forms for sites that you visit again and again and save time when logging in. Form entry data is stored in your address book contacts, and from information you have filled out in web forms before. You can see the passwords used by AutoFill in the OS X keychain, and you can also specify and limit general access to those passwords.
Sometimes server space can be an issue, especially when you're talking about costly actions such as iteration, file scanning, and numerous queries. In those instances it's often best to cache! This tutorial gives you a simple example which can help your site load faster and take less abuse.
This tutorial shows you how to set up an interactive chat box on your website, so you can allow members to communicate with each other in real time. It can be a bit tricky to master, but will definitely be worth it for your site in the long run.
First, make sure that your image is hosted on a secure place online (such as your own Photobucket account). Then go to ImageMaps.com and use this free site to create your own image map that can now be added to your website.
Want to play a treasure hunter in the new World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclsym? You'll want both the archaeology and survey skills in order to locate dig sites and then unearth fragments of artifacts and turn them into something new.
Want to personalize your Minecraft game? This tutorial shows you how you can find custom skins and texture packs on Minecraft fan sites, and then import them to your game. This method will only work for machines running either Windows Vista or 7.
There are seven different snowglobes scattered throughout the various maps in Fallout: New Vegas. This video shows you precisely where you can find each of the seven snow globes - the Goodsprings cemetery, Mormon fort, Mt Charleston, test site, the Strip, Nellis AFB and Hoover Dam.
MetaRL is a site you can sign up with that will let you accrue points that you can cash in for free online currency in your favorite online game. It's a very secure and perfectly legal way to get game currency without having to hack your games.
Circumvent your school's Internet filter with a proxy. This hacker's how-to will show you how it's done. For all of the details, and to get started learning how to acess MySpace and other blocked sites like YouTube and Facebook when on a computer at your own school, take a look.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use special search parameters like "site:" to improve the quality and specificity of your Google search results. For more information, and to get started using these handy search tricks yourself, watch this hacker's how-to from CNET.
Funfetti cakes are a common site at children's birthday parties, but most of the busy parents who make those happen go with the boxed cake mix version. It's really not too hard to make from scratch for extra flavor! Watch this video to find out how.
In this clip, you'll learn how to define a site when working in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular WYSIWYG HTML editor or a seasoned web development professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the CS5 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, include detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
In this clip, you'll learn how to block a site on an Apple Mac OS X computer by altering your DNS settings. With a little know-how, it's easy. So easy, in fact, that this video guide can offer a complete overview of the process in a matter of a few minutes. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-computing how-to from MacMost.
In this clip, you'll learn how to make a call to an external website from within a Silverlight app. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular web application framework or a seasoned web developer merely looking to improve your chops, you're sure to find benefit in this free MS Silverlight programming lesson. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Change the appearance of the user interface for your Dungeons & Dragons Online game. This is a completely free tutorial. This site shows you where you can get the code for custom skins, and then demonstrates how to install it to customize your DDO gameplay experience.
This tutorial demonstrates how you can use ActionScript and Adobe Flash CS3 to set up links on your website to allow users to download various files, such as making .pdfs, .docs or .mp3s available for download. You're also shown how to link to an external website, or set up an email-to link.
Designate a back end or administrator sector of the website, a place you can use to manage the content on the rest of the site. This tutorial shows you how to use Dreamweaver to set up this area of your website and cordon it off from the rest of your website.
Favicons are cute little icons which appear in the browser bar when your website is open. Having this icon adds a little extra branding to your website. You can create your own favicon in Photoshop using the right plugin, and then save it into the root of your site.
Protect your privacy by editing or completely erasing your Amazon search history. It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing your own web pages with Google Sites, take a look.
Want to get started using the free Nook eReader app to read digital books on your Google Android smartphone? It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing your own web pages with Google Sites, take a look.
