This tip is specific for Visual Studio 2008.
You can easily find the samples that have been installed for Visual Studio by going to Help-Samples. Then in the browser, click on the local Samples folder link.
This is a good video that demonstrates how ASP.NET MasterPages are a key part of building agile web applications. This video demonstrates the basics of using MasterPages and nested MasterPages in ASP.NET applications. It’s presented by Joe Stager and is only 16 minutes and 2 seconds long.
Here is my second Photoshop tutorial. We are going to take an existing color photo and use the correct method to turn it into a black and white photo, and then add a single color element back into the photograph, in this case her eyes.
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Here is the photograph we are going to start with:
Keyboard Shortcuts that can save you time:
Here’s a list of keyboard shortcuts that some people might not know about. Most of these can be discovered simply by hovering over any particular tool icon in Photoshop, but for reference here are the ones I use most.
Basically, any tool that has multiple types (e.g. the Lasso, the Eraser, the Pencil) has a shortcut key assigned to it, and using Shift + that key will alternate between the types.
This is something I’ve been meaning to post for a while now, just havent felt like puting the time in to go through step by step and produce a quality tutorial. Creating a Master Page from an HTML design is one of the first, and definitely one of the most important, steps to turning a good design into a functional website. This tutorial will outline creating the Master Page from an original HTML file, and then recreating the index page using the master page.
If you want to cheat, you can skip to the bottom and download the final version HERE.
You can create a Master Page from any HTML file, as long as you have the CSS and images to go with it. I
downloaded “Shades of Gray” by Arcsin @ FreeLayouts.com. You can download the .zip file from my site HERE.
Open Visual Studio, using the file menu choose “New Website”. (Shift+Alt+N) You can save the project anywhere you like and name it whatever you want, but I saved mine to the desktop and named it “MasterPageTutorial”. This will create a new project for you and add some default files.
