Maxx Kremer Designs

Removing Bad Bots .htaccess

Maxx — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:59:26 +0000

If you need to stop bad bots from scrapping your site, the best way to achieve this is to use .htaccess directives. Everyone, whether human or robot, must go through the .htaccess file. Some users use the robots.txt file to do this, but some bots just ignore it, even Google has been known to ignore the robots.txt file.

WordPress Madness

Maxx — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:59:35 +0000

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress has recently had a rather nasty public discourse with Chris Pearson, a WordPress Theme developer. If you don't know about it, you can see it here. But basically it is about Pearson's alleged violation of the GPL for WordPress. A lot of windy discussions have prevailed from both sides of the camp.

Why Learn Photoshop?

Maxx — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:18:58 +0000

Why are people so motivated to learn Photoshop?

Photoshop is an art to put it in the simplest form. It is a way for an artist to express him or herself as it can allow for the creation of an image which could never really happen or take place. Photoshop is a difficult program to learn. A novice user cannot just sit down and instantly be able to master the program in one night and create some stunning images. It takes years of practice and honing of skills in order to create a fantastic Photoshop image.

Bad Html Habits

Maxx — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:03:50 +0000

Using HTML is the quite easy because of the structure of this language. But even after that the best HTML programmers can commit mistakes in the coding if they develop some bad HTML habits. In this article we will discuss some of the bad HTML habits which keep even some of the best HTML jockeys from gaining proper accessibility. Let’s discuss and try to understand some of the bad HTML habits developed by many of us.

Hone your Photoshop Skills

Maxx — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:59:45 +0000

Photoshop skills relates to the knowledge of using the tools and techniques of Photoshop to get maximum benefits and achieve best output. Once we master the techniques of using the daily use tools of Photoshop we can get started and gradually learn other high end Photoshop skills which can result in optimizing our output quality. Photoshop is such a powerful application that even very expert and continuous users tend to find more and more new techniques to improve their photography.

Css & Dreamweaver

Maxx — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:58:17 +0000

Cascading Style Sheets is something every webmaster should learn to use, however it can be complicated to code by hand. Fortunately, the built in Dreamweaver CSS tools make it simple as pie as you'll see in this introductory lesson.

Great Features of Adobe Photoshop

Maxx — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:30:37 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is an image editing software. You can edit and manipulate images in a breeze with this powerful software. Whether you are a graphic artist, web developer or a photographer, this is a tool, which can surely help you do the job with less time and effort.

Photoshop Quick Mask Mode

Maxx — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:12:21 +0000

Quick Mask Mode is a widely used image background removal technique in Adobe Photoshop software ever used in corporate graphic design platform. This image editing tool can answer to most complex graphic designing endeavor. The selection tool of Quick Mask Mode available in Adobe Photoshop can do all possible complex image editing job. It can mask a desired portion of a digital image. It is mostly used for minute and accurate selections. It is a better choice compared to the Magic Lasso Tool.

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Hack Attack

Maxx — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:44:34 +0000

People with Internet and web experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers. However, the hackers practice an old baseball saying which goes, "If you want to be a success you have to hit 'em where they ain't."

Infusing Web Pages

Maxx — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:52:52 +0000

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a language used to describe the style and presentation of a document written in a special language called the markup language. Web pages written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and Extensible HTML (XHTML) are examples of markup languages commonly used. A markup language is concerned with formatting the content of a webpage whereas the style sheet language pertains to the presentation and design of the page. The CSS specifications are maintained by a standards body known as the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C. Due to this fact, CSS is sometimes also referred to as W3C CSS.