PSDTUTS Author - Connor Zwick

Author: Connor Zwick

I am a freelance web designer. I am currently renovating my personal site, which will be up within the month hopefully. I know HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, Flash, and Ruby on Rails. I am also doing several website for pay currently. As well as designing a web site for a robotics team for free. This website will feature a lot of what I will cover in this tutorial. I have also coded a media management site and blog in Ruby on Rails. I also have extensive Photoshop experience.


Posts by Connor Zwick

Ruby On Rails Week 4

Ruby On Rails - Week 4

Oct 27th in Screencasts by Connor Zwick
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Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 4! This week we’re going to talk about ruby syntax. After this tutorial, I believe that you’ll have a much better understanding of the framework and feel much more comfortable doing things by yourself. Oh yeah, and there’s a surprise this week - a screencast! So without further ado, here is week 4!

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Ruby On Rails: Week 3

Ruby on Rails from Scratch Week 3

Sep 26th in Ruby by Connor Zwick
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Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 3! This week, we’ll focus on specific things that you need to know about the framework. For example, we’re going to talk about manipulating the structure of the project in two ways (rendering & redirecting). We’ll also talk about how you add links in rails, and how to comment code. Let’s get started already!

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Ruby On Rails From Scratch: Week 2

Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 2

Sep 8th in Ruby by Connor Zwick
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Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 2. Hopefully this sequel to week 1 will help to further your education in Rails. This week, we’ll do a little bit more with getting an actual page up and running. We’ll also work on adding more interactivity by embedding ruby in HTML and learning a little about variables. After that, we’ll learn more about Ruby’s beautiful URL structure and how to manipulate it, plus other things as well. This is definitely going to be a packed week!

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jQuery Text Slider

Use the jQuery UI to Control the Size of Your Text

Sep 4th in Javascript & AJAX by Connor Zwick
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JQuery’s UI can add so much to a web page. There are many different widgets that the UI provides. One up and coming star, is the slider. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a slider to control the text size of an article on a page. This lets the user control exactly the size that suits them, and is also a pretty impressive feature to have on a site!

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Ruby On Rails

Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 1

Aug 28th in Ruby by Connor Zwick
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Ruby on Rails. . .by now most people have heard the hype about it. It promises more effective code, total object orientation, and true MVC architecture to say the least. As far as my own personal experience, it has been all that and more. The code is beautiful, easy to maintain, and edit. In a recent project I was working on, it took me less than 10 hours to do the application, as compared to at least double that if I was writing in PHP.

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Top Panel With jQuery

Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery

Aug 19th in Javascript & AJAX by Connor Zwick
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One struggle that still remains today in web design is displaying all of the redundant information on every page. For example, a login form. What if there was a way to easily make the content accessible on every page, but keep it hidden until needed? Well you can, by making a top panel that when clicked, will reveal its self and its content. But we need to make this look nice, so we'll also animate it.

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Insert Flash The Correct Way

Evening Tip: Insert Flash The Correct Way

Aug 11th in HTML & CSS by Connor Zwick
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You create your site the right way. You follow all of the rules, so that in the end, you can proudly have a link to w3’s validator, confirming your site’s perfection. There’s just one problem: if you embed any flash into your page, you’ll get several errors. That’s because the embed tag is not a valid tag. You need to insert your flash the correct way!

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