DeDestruct - Tutorials and Easy to Use Tips for Web Developers and Web Designers

I was wondering how to save files for the web using Adobe Photoshop.

Asked by Brian Purkiss, a freelance designer in San Antonio Texas.

When you do the standard “save a jpg/gif/etc” it’s saved as an Adobe Photoshop jpg/gif/etc - and the file size is fairly large. How do you avoid that?

See the Solution, using ’save for web

We want to protect our photography from ripoffs.

Asked by Debra a Student from San Diego

how can we put photos on our website so that others will not be able to copy them?
We want to protect our photography from ripoffs.

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Found on the digitalpoint forums

From: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=6489113
I want to give link to another domain but i dont want web site owners to see my domain as a referer.

See the Solution using Re-Direct Services

I want to auto-magically change the color of a URL in the middle

Found on the digitalpoint forums at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=687808

I want to auto-magically change the color of a URL in the middle, like this

domain_name.com

There is no www so the period can be used as delimiter. The URL is generated by PHP so I can not simply use HTML.

See the Solution using Regular Expressions

The Problem with .PNG

What do you think of when you read or hear the term “transparency” in a web related conversations?

.png might be some peoples answer. “UGH!”, could be a common answer also. If you go to my website you’ll notice some ink splatter headers that sit throughout the design. I had quite a hard time getting those to display correctly thanks to Internet Explorers lack of native png transparency support. It is one of THE most complained about topics on the web (and I have done my fair share of it). People have been asking for the support since BEFORE version 5.0 but today, there are still a lot of hacks and “fixes”, it shouldn’t be that hard to use transparency.

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In just 10 mins you can change your ugly provider assigned OpenID URL from http://yourusername.pip.verisignlabs.com to yourwebsite.com
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Is there A PHP5 optimized Class for accessing databases

Asked by Frank, a student from New York

Do you know of a PHP Class for accessing databases that is optimized for PHP5 (mysqli_ functions) and that isnt part of PEAR?

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Is there a way to get Dreamweaver to update all the images in Design view?

asked by Nick a student from New Jersey

I have a page with several images and none of the images have the width and height set, so I have to click on each one and click the refresh icon next to width and height for each one. Which is a pain, surely there is a faster way to do this? Hopefully it will work in Dreamweaver 8.

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