Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Tutorials

Free Tutorials

  • How Odd Numbers are out & Even Numbers are in for Web Designer & Icon Designer or even for any designer

    While I was designing Icons for my client, I realised that it is true in website design as it is in Icon Design: you can work in odd numbers,

    When you have even numbers like 14px Square or 16px Square, you can easily fit a round box inside it, but in a 15px Square Icon, it’s tough to manage…

    Here is The example…

    Odd Numbers of Pixels:

    Odd Pixels with 15px by 15px

    15pxicon

    Even Numbers of Pixels:

    10px by 10px, with 1px of rounded corners, it fails to generate an illusion of circular when viewed at actual size or maximum size

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  • Setting Spell Checker & Writing Language of Mac OSX from US English to British English to avoid Spelling Error Suggestions like from Scrutinise to Scrutinize

    It really sometime annoying to received spelling mistake error from Mac OSX Operating system that it shows & underlines with red ‘Scrutinise’ to change as ‘Scrutinize’

    Here is method to fix that,

    Go to System Preferances,

    Choose ‘Language & text’

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  • After creating WordPress subdomain multisite blog Adsense ads on subdomain blog doesn’t get registered & Data in Analytics & Adsense doesn’t match…

    I have been using WordPress CMS for the last year or two & integrated Adsense ads & analytics without any errors or problems.

    But just after creating a WordPress Multi-Blog System with Subdomain, I started facing problems because my pages were not getting registered or Adsense ads clicks were not getting registered, so I was losing money and analytics data count.

    But after a few months, I found the solution; I got my analytics code rectified & all Adsense ads clicks started getting registered & my analytics code started working again,

    A few suggestions before starting: don’t follow idiot blogs that don’t follow Google’s Rules.

    So here are the steps to integrate the WordPress Multi Blog System with Google Analytics & Adsense.

    Step 01
    Check analytics code
    Go to: All Accounts > Account List > Admin > (Your Preferred Account) > Properties > (Your Preferred Website) > Tracking Code > Section Called ‘Website Tracking’ > Go to Advance Tab > Choose ‘One Domain with Multiple Subdomains’

    Now copy that underneath code & paste it to your WordPress theme…

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  • Useful Free Services for Web Designers

    This is real useful service for Web Designers who is moving his or her server to new location or moving hosting service from one service provider to another.

    Service’s Name is ‘Open DNS’

    It’s related to DNS (Domain Name System)

    As WikiPedia Explains what is DNS:

    The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. A Domain Name Service resolves queries for domain names (which are easier to understand and utilize when accessing the internet) into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide.

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  • Integrating Social & Professional Networking Badges & Google Adsense Ads in WordPress Blog using Dynamic Sidebar

    Following method will work with both Social & Professional Networking Badges i.e. Scripts you get from Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Likedin & Google Adesense Ads scripts to integrate it with your wordpress website blog’s dynamic sidebar.

    Few Important things that I considered here that you are ready with
    You have sign in to & have administrative access of wordpress blog
    You have badge code that you got from Facebook or Twitter or Flickr or Linkedin.
    You are ready with Adsense’s Ad code & Your account is active.

    Steps to integrate with Dynamic Sidebar with Theme Widget Support
    First if not integrate Dynamic Sidebar within your plugin
    here is the link to do that

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  • How to remove dash, hyphen from half word or stop word cutting in illustrator, indesign, photoshop

    Here is small Tutorial about how to remove dash, hyphen from half word or How to stop word cutting in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop & Adobe inDesign.

    Answer is as simple as single step: ( I am using Mac OSX but it shouldn’t be different on Windows)

    You have to navigate to your Text’s “Paragraph Palette” in your respective application.

    In Adobe Photoshop: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

    In Adobe Illustrator: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Type > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

    In Adobe inDesign: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

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