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Learn how to create a fully working Content Management System with Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL. This video covers site definition and database connection.

In this short video, I’ll take you step by step through a cool way of creating a realistic looking chrome effect that looks great on script fonts.

If, like me you use Google Analytics on a regular basis to monitor yours and clients web sites, you’re going to love this Adobe AIR based desktop application. Offering most of the Google Analytics site monitoring tool in a handy desktop interface.

For those of you who can’t or won’t be downloading the Dreamweaver CS4 beta and feel that you may be missing out then take a look at the following videos from Adobe showing you some of the new features on offer in this soon to be released version of the industry standard visual HTML editor.

Dreamweaver is 10 years old, and what a decade it’s been. When version 1.0 was released in November 1997, the challenge was to provide a better visual experience for web designers regardless of how they coded their pages. DHTML was the buzzword at the time, and by 2000 everyone was expected to be coding interactive HTML experiences with JavaScript. And CSS, having recently been implemented in Internet Explorer 4.0, was the new emerging paradigm for visual design.

Part 2 of this series runs for over 25 minutes and covers a large array of topics, including: Adding data to the database, creating the database connection within Dreamweaver, adding the NeXTensio form element, dynamic menu driven elements, advanced form validation, file uploading and more.

Bright! is a crisp, sharp and beautiful set of 148 hand-crafted icons in vector format, ideally for both web and print work. You can use Bright! for personal and commercial projects at free of charge.

onOne Software has released a new software plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements - FocalPoint 1.0. onOne Software’s FocalPoint is a selective focus and vignetting plug-in designed to help photographers easily blur and/or vignette areas of an image.

Part 1 of the ‘creating an online image gallery’ series covers the basic database setup ready to start creating your online database driven web gallery. The tutorial uses phpmyadmin and MySQL in the process.

If you’re a web designer you may feel that SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is something best left to others. However, as a designer you have the ability to develop your sites in an SEO friendly manner; playing an important role in the potential effectiveness of the sites future.