Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr

Location, location, location! Just as location is king in real estate, search plus location awareness can yield significant dividends in helping users effectively and efficiently find information. For instance, if you are a business-directory provider (such as a "Yellow Pages" site), when a user searches for a plumber, the site should return results for plumbers near the user's home. If you run a tourism site, you might want to allow travelers to search for places of interest near their...

Create a Code-Style T-Shirt Design for Website Promotion

Promotions play a vital role in marketing your product. High quality design gives a noticeable impact to your product awareness among the target audience. In this tutorial, we will design a promotional T-shirt for a website that is exclusively created for PHP enthusiasts. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS (Studio or Publisher) Illustrator plugins. Our aim is to show a common programmer who is very...

Rusted Text

Go to the bottom of the Layers palette and hit the -button, choose Drop Shadow... from the menu. Keep the default setting and move on to Inner Glow Use these settings: Move on to Bevel and Emboss using this setting: Back to the Layers palette and hit the -button to make another layer. Hit D on your keyboard to reset your foreground- and background colors to black and white. Go first to Filter > Render > Clouds and ...

Creating more complex page layouts using nested tables

When you move on from creating basic pages you'll need to understand how to create those layouts. There is always the Layers option, but they offer some limitations (we'll look at Layers in a future tutorial). The beauty of using nested tables is that they are very browser compatible. Unlike Layers that are only usable on version 5x browsers and above. If you want an example of nested tables, then simply look at this site (the page you are viewing even), and that uses nested...

Create a Title Slide

Create a Title Slide Open PowerPoint. Choose Blank Presentation on the Task pane. You will be presented with a Title slide. Enter the information shown here. Type College Scholarships and Financial Aid in the Click to Add Title text box. Type Paying for College in the Click to Add Subtitle text box. Insert a New Slide Click the New Slide icon . Click the Title and Text icon. Enter the information shown here. Type Here is what to...

Insert a New Slide

Create a Title Slide Open PowerPoint. Choose Blank Presentation on the Task pane. You will be presented with a Title slide. Enter the information shown here. Type College Scholarships and Financial Aid in the Click to Add Title text box. Type Paying for College in the Click to Add Subtitle text box. Insert a New Slide Click the New Slide icon . Click the Title and Text icon. Enter the information shown here. Type Here is what to...

Create a Hierarchy

Create a Title Slide Open PowerPoint. Choose Blank Presentation on the Task pane. You will be presented with a Title slide. Enter the information shown here. Type College Scholarships and Financial Aid in the Click to Add Title text box. Type Paying for College in the Click to Add Subtitle text box. Insert a New Slide Click the New Slide icon . Click the Title and Text icon. Enter the information shown here. Type Here is what to...

Use Two-Column Text

Create a Title Slide Open PowerPoint. Choose Blank Presentation on the Task pane. You will be presented with a Title slide. Enter the information shown here. Type College Scholarships and Financial Aid in the Click to Add Title text box. Type Paying for College in the Click to Add Subtitle text box. Insert a New Slide Click the New Slide icon . Click the Title and Text icon. Enter the information shown here. Type Here is what to...

Apply a Design Template

Create a Title Slide Open PowerPoint. Choose Blank Presentation on the Task pane. You will be presented with a Title slide. Enter the information shown here. Type College Scholarships and Financial Aid in the Click to Add Title text box. Type Paying for College in the Click to Add Subtitle text box. Insert a New Slide Click the New Slide icon . Click the Title and Text icon. Enter the information shown here. Type Here is what to...

Outline and Slides Tab

Create a Title Slide Open PowerPoint. Choose Blank Presentation on the Task pane. You will be presented with a Title slide. Enter the information shown here. Type College Scholarships and Financial Aid in the Click to Add Title text box. Type Paying for College in the Click to Add Subtitle text box. Insert a New Slide Click the New Slide icon . Click the Title and Text icon. Enter the information shown here. Type Here is what to...