Creating a SimpleViewer 1.9 Gallery With Photoshop

March 12th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

Photoshop fun! Yes, today we’ll be going over a very quick tutorial on SimpleViewer (Image Gallery).

If you’ve been looking for the easiest HTML web gallery script that works flawlessly with Photoshop, here it is!

Few things first:
(you will need this to run the script from photoshop to export pictures and create  a gallery)

  • Download the Photoshop SimpleViewer 1.9 script here for Version CS2 here
  • Download the Photoshop SimpleViewer 1.9 script here for Version CS3 here
  • Download the Photoshop SimpleViewer 1.9 script here for Version CS4 here

Assuming you have a folder on your desktop called “Images” or whatever you prefer, download the version needed from the URL’s above to your Photoshop version.

  1. Unzip the downloaded file to your Desktop.
  2. Copy the entire folder into your photoshop presets\Scripts folder.
  3. If Photoshop is open, quit and restart it.
  4. In Photoshop, do File> Scripts > SimpleViewer to run the scrip.

Easy right? After running the script, you will be presented with a few fields to fill out, select your source (point this to your images folder), then where you want to save these.

Then hit OK and run the script.

Notice, the folder you had selected for the web gallery to be dumped into now contains HTML files and an XML file which runs the thumbnails for you.

Your all set, upload to your website and your ready to roll!

WebMasterPunk Daily Deals Store- Now Active!

March 10th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

I’ve decided to open a mini-shop on my blog. Here, you will find everything and anything related to computers, electronics, deals, software and more. Pretty much the same stuff on Amazon, but you get it at a cheaper price.
Take a look, the shop updates itself daily based off of the most popular products sold.

You can find the link at the top of this site, 2nd tab, called “Daily Deals”.

2009 Tax Season is here, Hurry and e-File your W2 today with TurboTax!

March 10th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

Sick and tired of paying $120 for someone to file your taxes? Well, Amazon has some great products, such as TurboTax, TaxCut, HR Block and what not.

Maximize your deductions, maximize your return! Take a look at the products below, I use it, takes less than 30 minutes to get everything all ready to go.

Click here to get started on your 2009 Taxes

Publish RSS news feeds on your website quickly with RSS Include

March 7th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

RSS is a great method for quick posting, syncing, and displaying feeds onto your website. If you’ve ever wondered how you can take RSS feeds from Google, Craigslist, Yahoo or any other service that provides a feed, take a look at http://www.rssinclude.com

They offer a totally FREE service to create neat little fancy boxes or simple output RSS into HTML without any issues. Of course, they’ll have to throw in a footer advertisement at the end of your feed. If you upgrade your account, only around $30 a year, it’ll remove the powered by line at the bottom, still a bargain, unless you want to code some JavaScript that’ll spit out HTML via RSS for you.

Take a look, its FREE, easy to use and I’m sure you can put it to use.

The CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business

February 9th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

If you own a business/mailing list, or provide any type of communication to your subscribers, YOU MUST ABIDE all CAN-SPAM laws and regulations. Yes, we all hate spammers. The FTC receive millions and millions of Cyber Crime reports regarding users who violate CAN-SPAM laws and regulations, PLEASE DON’T become one of them.

If you own an internet marketing group, agency, or internet marketing software/mailing list, please abide these rules.

  1. Don’t use false or misleading header information. Your “From,” “To,” “Reply-To,” and routing information – including the originating domain name and email address – must be accurate and identify the person or business who initiated the message.
  2. Don’t use deceptive subject lines. The subject line must accurately reflect the content of the message.
  3. Identify the message as an ad. The law gives you a lot of leeway in how to do this, but you must disclose clearly and conspicuously that your message is an advertisement.
  4. Tell recipients where you’re located. Your message must include your valid physical postal address. This can be your current street address, a post office box you’ve registered with the U.S. Postal Service, or a private mailbox you’ve registered with a commercial mail receiving agency established under Postal Service regulations.
  5. Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future email from you. Your message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the recipient can opt out of getting email from you in the future. Craft the notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all commercial messages from you. Make sure your spam filter doesn’t block these opt-out requests.
  6. Honor opt-out requests promptly. Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your message. You must honor a recipient’s opt-out request within 10 business days. You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request. Once people have told you they don’t want to receive more messages from you, you can’t sell or transfer their email addresses, even in the form of a mailing list. The only exception is that you may transfer the addresses to a company you’ve hired to help you comply with the CAN-SPAM Act.
  7. Monitor what others are doing on your behalf. The law makes clear that even if you hire another company to handle your email marketing, you can’t contract away your legal responsibility to comply with the law. Both the company whose product is promoted in the message and the company that actually sends the message may be held legally responsible.

Source: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/ecommerce/bus61.shtm ; Sept 2009

HTML Ceritifcation by Expert Rating

February 3rd, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

So you want to obtain a HTML certificate? Why not right? There are online classes you can take that are over $1,000 to receive a certification. Why would you pay that much? I don’t have much spare time on my hands so I’ve hovered over to ExpertRating.

Take a look, they offer many courses for just about anything related to technology. Obviously this isn’t a Degree from Harvard Univserity, but it’s better than nothing!

Expertrating Info:

ExpertRating’s online HTML 4.01 Test. ExpertRating is an ISO 9001:2000 company that offers hundreds of popular certifications suitable for students, professionals, job seekers and companies.

http://www.expertrating.com/html-test.asp

GoDaddy Coupon Codes! Yep, heres a secret that you might/not know..

January 27th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

We all love saving money, yes, If I could save up all the money I used with coupon codes, I’d have a nice stack of bills.  So why not save a few bucks and use the coupons below? Their great to save money on domains, hosting, FREE Private Registrations and more. Take a look.

I’ll also teach you a few tricks to look for the most recent coupon codes and one website that is constantly updating its source for more discounts. Yes, Thank you Mr. FatWallet, we appreciate your discounts!

Quick tips:

  1. Navigate to Google.com
  2. Search for (with quotes) “godaddy coupon codes”
  3. Notice, the first link will be FatWallet.com
  4. Click it and browse to the last page of the forum thread
  5. [ http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/725207/?start=940 ]
    or
  6. [ http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/725207 ]

There you will find a list of coupon codes as below- Pretty neat don’t you say?

cjc749fat – $7.49 .COMs (exp 2/28/10)

cjcfat30 – $5 Off w/ $30 Purchase (exp 2/28/10)

cjcfat50 – $10 Off w/ $50 Purchase (exp 2/28/10)

cjcfat75 – 15% Off w/ $75 Purchase (exp 2/28/10)

cjcfat10 – 10% off any purchase (exp 2/28/10)

cjcfat20h – 20% off Shared Hosting (exp 1/31/10)

OYH7 – $2.50 off / $7.49 any .COM

BTPS101 – 20% any order of $50 or more

BTPS111 – 10% off anything

BTPS255 – 25% off $100 or more

OYH5 – 10% off whatever

OYH6 – $5 off a $30 purchase

OYH20H – 20% off hosting

chill5 – 10% off

chill6 - $5 off $30

chill7 – $7.49 .coms

hash5 – 10% off

hash6 – $5 off $30

hash7 – $7.49 .com registration

gdd1101c – 10% off any order of $40 or more

New Theme, New Year!

January 26th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

Well it was time for a new theme..this one looks pretty modern. I had to modify sidebar.php a bit, but thanks to WordPress.com for this beautifull theme, it was simple.

PHPFormGenerator Tutorial – Create forms in a jiffy!

January 25th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/ – PHPFormGenerator is one of the greatest tools I’ve ever used. I don’t really like to sit there and create a form in PHP, can take awhile; specially if you need specific functions or to link it to a MySQL database. Who needs that right?  (just kidding for all you hard-core techies) Anyways, back to my point.

PHPFormGenerator is also availble in Fantastico De Luxe, a cPanel automated script installer (The big blue smiley face). With a few quicks, you can setup your form and it will spit out HTML/PHP for you to plop right into your website. You can choose custom colors, specific fields, uploaders, to create a MySQL backup or store info to a MySQL backup, the possibilities are endless. This is a quick and dirty way to get your form up and running ERROR FREE!.

So take a look, the best part is, it’s FREE! (I love freebies!)

To view a tutorial on how to use PHPFormGenerator, please click here.

Fancy Box + JQUERY (Great LightBox Gallery)

January 17th, 2010 by Webmaster Punk No comments »

FancyBox..Lightbox..Yea dont know how they come up with those names …moving on…

http://fancybox.net/ – the latest and greatest! Version 1.26 (They came out with 1.3 RC2 with flash and a bunch more of new supported features).

I’ve been using this script all over my websites – check out a live working version at http://urartucoffee.com/menu.php (a local coffee shop website that I’ve built with open source scripts and code).

FancyBox utilizes JQUERY, a simple quick lightbox javascript popup to display your images via overlay. Simple as adding a <class tag> to your link. <A class=”zoom1″> – take a look at my code on that website, its pretty neat. You can also group multiple images together to create categories and albums. I do apologize for the quick block about this neat script, but I have not had time lately. I promise I will come back with a tutorial to help you guys out. Again, if anything is ever needed, feel free to leave a comment and I will reply back!