OK. Many blogs do this very well. I'm going to show you a quick technique to add lighting effects to your images. This works well against darker backgrounds, but for this tutorial, I'll show you this technique using a photo from iStockphoto.com. First, you open up your file in Photoshop. Now, in your layers palette, add a new blank layer. Using the pen tool, draw a curvy line around a particular part of the photo. Right click on the path, and select Stroke Path. (To ensure a big enough line, be sure to go to your brush palette and select a pixel size of around 8. Also make sure you increase the hardness to 100 percent.) When the dialog box pops up, select brush from the drop down menu, and ...
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One of the biggest questions most people have when switching from the old-school tables way of coding a website, to the more-progressive CSS way of doing things is this: how do I center my website, using just CSS? The answer is actually quite easy. Simply add the following code to the main BODY class in your css document. An example would look like this: BODY  { 900px; margin: 0 auto; } In the above example, you are defining the width of your live area by stating 900px. This width is whatever the width you want your content to be. The margin: 0 auto clause centers the content wrapper in the browser, centering all your content within it, yet still allow ...
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