09.06.2007 Build your first application with VB Express 2005

Build your first application with VB Express 2005

Unfamiliar with Visual Basic 2005? This tutorial will walk you through making a very simple application. You will learn how to build the application for deployment and how to use it after you are completed.

Posted in Programming Tutorials,Visual Basic 2005/2008 by Mike Maguire
08.23.2007 Clean Portfolio Layout Tutorial

Clean Portfolio Layout Tutorial

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a clean looking layout for your personal portfolio website. The effects use here are very simple and novice Photoshop users should be able to follow this tutorial fine. I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2 for this tutorial. I plan to upgrade to CS3 later this week, so look for more CS3 tutorial in the future.

Posted in Photoshop Tutorials,Web Layouts by John Ward
08.08.2007 Replace WordPress Search With Google Search Box

Replace WordPress Search With Google Search Box

This tutorial will show you how to replace the default search built into Wordpress with a Google Search box through Google Adsense. Adding the Google Search box will help you make money from your website by showing advertisements in the search results. You are paid if a users clicks on an advertisement. The downside to Google Search is that when a user clicks an advertisement they will leave your site.

Posted in Money Making Tutorials,Web Development Tutorials,WordPress Tutorials by John Ward
08.07.2007 Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.2

Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.2

We have upgraded to WordPress 2.2.2. Please let me know if you see any glitches.

Posted in Site News and Updates by John Ward
08.07.2007 How to Access a MySQL Database Using PHP

How to Access a MySQL Database Using PHP

In this tutorial I will show you how to display data from a MySQL database on a web page using PHP. This is part two in our MySQL database tutorial. If you haven’t completed the first part of this tutorial you need to do that first. Part 1 is located here: Create a MySQL Database with cPanel and PhpAdmin. When you finish that tutorial, make sure you populate the database with a few entries.

Posted in PHP Tutorials,Web Development Tutorials by John Ward
08.01.2007 Poll: What Kind of Tutorials Do You Want

Poll: What Kind of Tutorials Do You Want

It was a nice long break through July, but I am ready to get back to writing some tutorials. What kind of tutorials do you guys want to see on this site? Let us know by taking part in the poll on the sidebar. You can select up to three options. I will let this [...]

Posted in Site News and Updates by John Ward
08.01.2007 Get Free Answers from Experts-Exchange

Get Free Answers from Experts-Exchange

This tutorial will show you how to get free access to the paid support website Experts-Exchange. I will show you how to accomplish this using Firefox and the UserAgent switcher plug-in. I will give you a few examples of how to get free answers from this paid site. This solution has been known for a while, but as far as I know no one has writing a good step by step tutorial on how to implement it. I took it upon myself to do that. This may also work for other paid sites.

Posted in Other Tutorials by John Ward
07.30.2007 Back to cPanel 10

Back to cPanel 10

Apparently my host (SurpassHosting) has been having some issues with the recent upgrade to cPanel 11. I was happy that they finally upgraded, but they have decide to roll back to cPanel 10.

Posted in Site News and Updates by John Ward
07.26.2007 Team Tutorials – Famous Blog of the Day

Team Tutorials – Famous Blog of the Day

Team tutorials has been selected as the famous blog of the day. I doubt it is really a prestigious award considering they give away 365 a year. The site also has been leaving so many comments that I was forced to block them as spam. I got your backlink right here!

Posted in Site News and Updates by John Ward
07.25.2007 Team Tutorials Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.1

Team Tutorials Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.1

Well, I logged into my cPanel account with my host to find that they have finally upgraded to cPanel 11. It looks pretty nice, but I haven’t noticed many new features.

I figured this would be a good time to upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.1 (which I should have done a while ago). Since I am lazy I used Fantastico to upgrade for me.

Posted in Site News and Updates by John Ward
06.25.2007 Blue and Chrome Text

Blue and Chrome Text

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create blue text with a chrome background. For this tutorial I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2. However, this effect can be achieved with most newer versions of Adobe Photoshop.

Posted in Logo Tutorials,Photoshop Tutorials by John Ward
06.18.2007 How to Mount an Image to a Virtual Drive

How to Mount an Image to a Virtual Drive

This tutorial will show you how to mount a cd image file to a virtual drive. Most programs that you will download will be in a disk image format (ISO, BIN/CUE, etc.). In most cases you will have to burn the images to a CD or DVD so that you can install the program. It is a waste of a CD to burn the program and then install it.

Posted in Software Tutorials by John Ward