My first attempt at turning my text to gold

Well I had a go at the tutorial for making your text look like gold and here are the results:


What do you think?

Making your text look like gold

Someone has asked me to build them a website, now I tried very hard to convince them that this was a terrible idea as a) I am useless at designing websites and b) see number 1. However they insisted, obviously this because they are either mad or more likely that I'm not charging (yet!).

I decided that it would be nice to have the heading in gold writing on a black background but I wanted it to look like gold rather than just be coloured gold. A little bit special, in the end I found a few sites, the first 2 sites are colour chart sites which helped with getting the colours I was looking for although in the end I didn't require them:

http://halflife.ukrpack.net/csfiles/help/colors.shtml
http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

The next 2 sites were more helpful as in they showed how to make your text look like gold. The latter of the 2 sites being the best of the 2. However it is a long winded process but does look good at the end.

http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_guides/gold_text/
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshoptutorialstextfx/Creating_Text_Effects_with_Photoshop.htm

http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2007/09/photoshop-text-effect-tutorial/

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/gold/

I did follow the instructions on the last site and although it did look good it took a while and it didn't look exactly the same as the sites example but I think that it because I didn't shape the text correctly at the beginning as the sites example seemed thicker. However it did look good. I will be giving this a go with a different font later but that I feel will be a little more difficult.

Free photo resource site

Came across this excellent free photo resource site. If you need any photo's for your blogs or web sites then take a look at http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml

Web Resources

I've amassed loads of links to some excellent sites while learning to create always24-7 and the forums. I started listing them on my site but I kept forgetting to update the list. Hopefully this will not happen with this blog.

If you have any useful links then please post them and I will add them to this list when I next update it.

All the best.
Michael.

Books:

Dreamweaver for Dummies
Excellent book, highly recommended by me
PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites
Another book I highly recommend. Also Larry Ullman has a website where he updates the scripts and will give you full help and support personally. I know his helped me a few times :).

Webmaster Tools:

http://www.isapirewrite.com/
Apache-style URL Rewriting for IIS
http://www.w3schools.com/
I use this a lot, not only because you can find out everything about coding but because you can also test your scripts here.
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm
http://livepr.raketforskning.com/
http://www.iwebtool.com/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
Great introduction into using .htaccess
http://oy-oy.eu/page/jscode/
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/
http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/showthread.php?t=22675
List of SEO tools on Statcounter forum - well worth a look
http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp
Sitemap Generator
http://gsitecrawler.com/
Free Google and Yahoo sitemap generator software.
http://www.copyscape.com/
Check if anyone is copying your site.
http://uitest.com/en/check/

ALL Programming: PHP, Javascript - the lot:
Some sites cater for everything so there here.
http://www.devarticles.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/
I use this a lot, not only because you can find out everything about coding but because you can also test your scripts here.
http://www.pageresource.com/
http://www.kirupa.com/
PHP, .NET, Flash, Photoshop

HTML / CSS:

http://www.html.net/
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
http://stilleye.com/temp/marginfix.html
http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/saila_layout.html
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery.html#nogo
Shows what can be achieved with CSS
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/magnify.html#nogo
http://www.w3schools.com/
I use this a lot, not only because you can find out everything about coding but because you can also test your scripts here.
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.fulloffacts.com/lessons/css/
http://www.tizag.com/

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
http://www.php.net/
http://www.phphacks.com/
http://www.tizag.com/
http://www.phpjunkyard.com/
Unfortunately found this far to late as I could have used some of these PHP scripts but who knows I might in the future.

Javascript:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_examples.asp
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/4320/index.htm
http://oy-oy.eu/page/jscode/
http://247mgf.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=32
Come on I had to include the 2 scripts I wrote!

Flash:
http://www.learnflash.com/
http://www.cartoonsmart.com/
http://www.webwasp.co.uk/
http://www.flashkit.com/
http://www.actionscript.org/resources/categories/Tutorials/
Flash and Actionscript
http://www.webado.net/tutorials-embedding-flash.php
Embedding Flash etc with valid code.

Photoshop:
http://www.watchandlearnphotoshop.com/
http://www.dwphotoshop.com/photoshop/
http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop/basics
http://chami.com/
Not really photoshop but does help you create favicon's for your website.

Colour Schemes:
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html
http://websitetips.com/color/
http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/

Clipart etc:
http://www.flamingtext.com/

Dreamweaver:
http://www.learnthat.com/computers/learn-362-dreamweaver_mx_2004.htm

Fireworks:
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/swap_images.asp
Creating swap images in fireworks.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/rollover_images.asp#fireworks
Creating rollover images in fireworks or Dreamweaver.

Desktop Publishing:
http://desktoppublishing.com/

Free and Open Source Software:
http://www.nonags.com/
http://www.littlebitsmultimedia.com/
http://www.freeware-guide.com/index.html
http://www.context.cx/
Free programmers editor as used by yours truly, excellent
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
Allows you to Convert, Edit, and Compose Images from a command line. Can be used on a server to automate the procedure using many programming languages including PHP.
http://gsitecrawler.com/
Free Google and Yahoo sitemap generator software.

Forums:
http://www.forum-software.org/
A good site for showing details of all or most forum packages. However there are some inaccuracies but a good starting point.
http://www.phpbb.com/
The home of the excellent phpBB Forum package as used by always24-7.co.uk

Earning Resources for your website can be found here:
http://247mgf/forum/viewtopic.php?t=204
These can now be found at http://247mgf.co.uk/index.php/webmasters/

Web Promotion / Advertising Resources can be found here:
http://247mgf/forum/viewtopic.php?t=203
These can now be found at http://247mgf.co.uk/index.php/webmasters/

Miscellenous:
http://www.auditmypc.com/
Tools for web security, port scanning, viruses, internet speed tests etc etc