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2.  At any time you can switch between two shapes, selecting the blended one with a new one. Go to “Objects / Blend” and chose replace spine.

3. Now, after some training with blend tool and splines, make 3 splines using circles blended like in following image.

4. Some guides prepare the result for future use of Rotate Tool. Is important to find an appropriate point for rotate (center) to can achieve something to start.

5. Rotate  (Alt+D) and then Ctrl+D till the shape meet the original starting place. The result will be close to what you see bellow. Not looking quite rite at this moment.

Open your function.php file from theme folder, and:

Add this code to set to “none” the links for images:

update_option('image_default_link_type' , '');

Add this code to make like default option, link of images to the post:

update_option('image_default_link_type' , 'post');

Start with a basic square shape, copy  / paste / duplicate 3 times and apply for each a different isometric rotation (top, left, right). Those will be the faces of your cube.

Now, select all your faces and go to Objects / Expand Appearance to can manipulate them more easy. Align them in shape of a cube like you saw in the first screenshot of this tutorial. Let’s assume you want to make a multicolor vector cube icon. Using few basic perspective rules, duplicate your cube. Is easy, because you just need to follow the cubes lines. In center of your cubes is formed a star shape what is like a control shape, to assure yourself that the cubes are aligned properly.

Use 3 color tints for cube faces. One for most exposed faces (light), two for shadow / dark faces.

Another beauty of this fantastic tool, is that you can create so easy patterns for your website backgrounds, wallpapers etc. Using same steps describes above (square / isometric effect / cube) you can create a seamless cubes pattern. Align each cube close to next one on vertical and horizontal, add a clipping mask for a certain portion like in next screen and you got the pattern.

Here is an example of pattern  just created.

What about a vector logo? Nothing more easy after you understand the idea of isometric tool. You can apply a lot of effects for cube faces. Light lines can give a more sharp  / contrast visual effect of your cubes.

Feel free to explore the endless possibilities of 3D rotate tool from Adobe Illustrator with its isometric effect.

Once you have your logo, put it on these promotional products to promote your brand.

This solution was updated for WordPress 3.0+

Starting with WordPress 2.9 is no longer need to use custom fields and hacks to have thumbnails in your blog articles or even on widgets area, sidebars, footers etc. For instance, to make a thumbnails area for random latest 12 recent posts, use the following code:

	<?php

		$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=12&amp;amp;amp;orderby=rand');
		if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {

		while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); 

	?>

	<?php

		$attachments = get_posts( array(
		'post_type' => 'attachment',
		'number_posts' => 1,
		'post_status' => null,
		'post_parent' => $my_query->post->ID,
		) );
		if ($attachments) {

	?>

	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">

	<?php

		$thumbnail_id = $attachments[0]->ID;
		echo wp_get_attachment_image( $thumbnail_id );
		}
		endwhile;
		}
		wp_reset_query();

	?>

</a>

You need to keep in mind the thumbnails will have the sizes from your function.php call action settings, and that will not look ok in your sidebar. You can use a CSS style to make them to look how you wish. Example:

.attachment-thumbnail {
height:50px;
width:50px;
padding:5px;
background:#fff;
margin:5px 5px 0 0;
}

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On this example, the static html code for menu use a dotted border on right for each menu item. The last menu item will have a special “li” class where the border is set to “none”, to can have the dotted separator just between two menu items.

<ul>
<li><a href="about.html">who we are<</a></li>
<li><a href="what-we-do.html">what we do</a></li>
<li><a href="partners">partners.html</a></li>
<li><a href="news-events.html">news &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; events</a></li>
<li class="last"><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
</ul>

Ok, but this part of your code will look different when you are integrating it in WordPress for instance. Example:

<ul id="menu">
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&amp;amp;title_li=&amp;amp;depth=3&amp;amp;hide_empty=0'); ?>
</ul>

Now, the last menu item will have also the separator. If with “li” tag you can defines each item in the list, the “ul” tag defines the list. On WordPress, in this case, you cannot style a single item list without a small jQuery code inserted in your header.php

$(document).ready(function() {
$("#menu li:last").addClass("last");
});

Now the menu look ok and on WordPress. You can apply in same way and a class for “first” list item.

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Is easy to apply any blending option for texts to gain shadows, to overlay effects over a background etc, but in many cases you need to make another alterations to the text with already done blending options.

For instance, if you want to delete a part of you object with its blending options, you will discover that the blending options will follow the new shape. Can you delete / alter the shadows, the bevels, strokes and whatever blending options you need to use? Yes, you can. Follow this short Adobe Photoshop tutorial to learn how to do it.

1. I am starting with a editable text what have few blending options  available. Is nice to can have such nice effects into an editable text field.

2. But, for more deep effects we need to do few steps. Click right on text layer from your layers panel, and click on “Group into New Smart Object”. This is one of most great addition starting with CS2. With smart objects, you can make multiple copies of a single object and all copies will be updated when one of the copies is edited (you can still apply layer styles and adjustment layers to the individual smart objects without affecting all copies). Pixel-based smart objects also remember their original size and can be transformed multiple times without loss.

3. Repeat the step, but click on  ”Rasterize layer” instead (you cannot fully handle a smart object which in our case)

4. Now, all your text blending effects can be changed in any way you need, using tools or filters, without to follow the original object / text shape, because now is no more effects there. Everything now become a single object at your wish.

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function onMouseMove(e) {

Before to any variables, paste this code to make it to work and on IE browsers:

if (e == null)
e = window.event;

Otherwise, your javascript code will be stoped by IE.

Even isn’t a big deal at first sight, following a recent list with javascript animantions, i saw that many was not working on Internet Explorer. We like or not, over 35% from internet users (over 45% according to other statistics) use IE browsers – 10% are just for IE6!?!

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The problem is screen printed above. The css background attachment property loaded like default in IE6-7 is “scroll”. For IE6 you can make the background attachment “fixed” and no more scrolling. Not so with IE7.

Since Microsoft “corrected” the background attachment issues with IE7 and now is no way of having an overflow of text in a input or textarea element and not having the background scroll with the text, and if you try “background-attachment: fixed;” the background doesn’t even display.

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Because is no really css hack what fix the problem, you need to think out of css. Instead to style just the textarea element, make a supplementary div like container for textarea and apply the background image to the div, instead to textarea. Let the textarea without border and background to make a proper overlay.

#contactForm textarea {
border:none;
background:none;
width:200px;
height:85px;
color:#c8c8c8;
padding:10px 0 0 10px;
overflow:hidden;
}

#contactForm .textarea {
width:215px;
height:100px;
background: url(../images/input-text.png) no-repeat;
}