It WORKS ! I couldn’t believe what I’ve seen while I tried this script . Now You can use CSS3 and you can make it working in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 .
CSS3 in IE 6, 7 and 8 !!
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Category Archives: Web Design
Me at New Work
So This is my First Day at work .. I mean a full-time job .. The last time I had a full-time job was like 2 years old when I worked on Some Educational Project online for High School Students & I was really enjoying the time I spend .
2009 – A Year of Success and Failure
This Year is a year of Success and Failure for everyone. Nobody would get a completely failure year or a complete successful year . Every Year We try to put our resolutions for the new year, We always dream of a better year, a better life which it would or wouldn’t happen but It doesn’t hurt because at last, It’s still a dream.
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How to : Start Developing Websites in Ubuntu
I got a comment before that I don’t explain to users to give them a full experience .. Again I’m not doing that .. Nobody can do a full guide to help people in a single post .
In this post I’ll show how to start developing and design your projects on Ubuntu If you’re moving from Windows ..
Installing LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
I previously mentioned in a post how to install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Linux with easy steps to do that .
Also there’s an easy way to do that by installing all the package at once (Thanks to Shady) using tasksel . Open a Terminal and type the following command :
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
Then you can go to your localhost url (http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1)
Tools to use
Same like all designers used to do on a windows, You need applications to design, develop, code and preview your projects .
Editors
There are many editors to edit project files, so you can use your default GNOME Text Editor (gedit) and do some enhancement like enable highlighting, line numbers and Installing Extra Plugins using the following command :
sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins
Aptana Studio is a great editor to develop most of programming languages projects like php, Ruby on Rails, python, Ajax, Jaxer, html, css . This Gudie would help you downloading and Installing Aptana Studio in few easy steps . It would allow you also to connect to FTP Server, Edit files online which I think is a great tool .
Aptana Also provides a set of Plugins that would help more to get your projects more exciting and offer you other features with simple steps like ASP.NET Ajax, Prototype Framework, Mootools. You would fine other external plugins by developers for Drupal, Joomla or WordPress .
Browsers
It’s one of the most important developer tools, You will need to preview your projects on most browsers available. Thanks to Open Source and freeware projects, We can preview our projects on Ubuntu using Firefox, Chrmoium (Google Chrome), Opera and You can also view your website on IE inside Ubuntu Thanks to Wine, Check this guide on How to get IE7 on Wine and you can also get a windows inside Ubuntu using VirtualBox, Check this out
Graphic Editors
Adobe Photoshop is the leading Graphic and Photo editor in the world and It’s just available on Windows and Mac, But there are other alternatives to do your graphic designs on Ubuntu . One of them is Using GIMP, an open-source photo and graphic editor for Linux/Unix which is installed by default in known linux distributions and Ubuntu for sure .
If you got used to Adobe Photoshop, You would try Installing Photoshop on Wine . New Versions of Photoshop Like CS4 or CS3 is very hard to be installed on Wine So You might try doing that with CS or CS2 , or You can try finding a cracked portable version of Photoshop CS or CS2 which will work perfectly just like what you see on Windows or Mac .
KDE Users
I never ever used KDE Interface before to develop a project, I don’t say KDE is a bad choice but I prefer having GNOME on my computer or laptop . For KDE users, You can use Aptana Studio like what I said before, and also You may try using NetBeans which is another open-source java based IDE and works with Windows, Mac and Linux just like Aptana Studio. And you can use KWriter to do your simple edits .
Note
As I’m an Arab and I work on Multilingual Projects for Clients, I’ve chosen all the previous recommendations which is working for any language perfectly and you won’t get annoyed with getting an application which doesn’t support a specific characters like Arabic or Chinese.
That was just a starter guide, you would discover much more than what I wrote here .. but sometimes newbies need a simple guide .
Resources
Never Lie about what you do
As Full-time Web Designers, We are kinda have to always be in time with achieving work for clients in time, We have to be clear (Although we have to lie sometimes) .
But when you try to lie, you should be very good to be able to lie .. especially if you’re going to lie on another one in the same field you work on ..
In the Arab world, you will find the most jealous web designers in the world .. They even be jealous because you’re not that successful one at work .. One of the main reasons to force them trying to lie or being jealous is that they do not follow the latest .. They don’t understand what it means to be a very good freelance web designer .. They always work with old techniques, They have the oldest strategies to follow up their work ..
Some of them pretend that they are working on very great projects while they don’t know how it is running or who owns those projects .. Why to lie when you can develop yourself, Being better than what you are doing now will help you a lot to have great experience and who knows , You may create one of those great projects in the future ..
It’s like a club over here, There are all kinds of people with all kinds of experience but Not all of them care about Quality and The Long Term of his futuristic plan that he didn’t even put ..
It should be the time to start looking forward to develop, to create better quality of work, to not be jealous because someone is better than what you do .. Forgetting all the jealous inside, and Never Lie about what you do
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