Freelance Projects, Design and Programming Tutorials
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I need to replicate all the functionality of http://www.firstclassmodels.com. This will be done using Expression Engine CMS.
See the attached document for model’s profile page requirements.
1. May require a Flash slideshow on main page.
2. CMS must allow models to create profile pages with photos AND allow administrator to update / upload text, images & video.
3. CMS will allow the admin. to add section pages (see attached)
3. Will use Expression Engine CMS only.
4. Replicate existing graphic design & colors.
5. Clients will be promotions, events and publicity companies, so the design must attract
them.
6. A programmer will be chosen strictly on price, so your very best bids please!
Need a programmer than can commit to 4 months and various programming projects in c or c++ dealing with parallel programming models.
please let me know if you can do this, by sending email to hdosary2_gmail.com and I will send you the project for quote.
thanks,
Jack
I need an exact clone of this site http://alturl.com/hoa8x . I dont know how it is done, i dont want a crap response, i want professionals to talk to me about it and how you’re gonna achieve it. I want an exact time frame for delivery as well.
I have been looking for a programmer to help me create a classified sit like http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=13. I have been thru several programmers that just want to get there money and do little to nothing. I am wanting to purchace already made PHP Script and modify it to my needs. if you know of a open source script please advice me. I am looking for someone who is well aware of these type of scripts. please review the ksl classified site and know what it is about and advise me of what you believe the best way to go. Please provide me with some of you past work. you must be able to provide me with support, after it is done. one of the script I am looking at is http://www.scriptsearch.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=7528
Services Required:
1.One-on-One Tutoring
a.White board
b.Chat
c.Voice chat
d.File Share
2.Homework Assistance
a.File submission under category and subcategory.
b.Submit bid with project and estimated time for completion
c.Access to chat/audio/whiteboard services
3.Selection of tutors
a.Rating system implementation to sort through and invite selected tutors, based on rating, earnings, reviews, etc.
4.Storage of submission and answers
5.Payment through PayPal to us, with a wiring to the tutor afterwards
6.Login and account creation for both students and tutors
7.Tutor profile with different options of categories of expertise.
a.Option to receive automatic emails for posting of certain categories/subcategories and/or price.
Sample Websites:
Elance.com
Tutor2help.com
Transtutors.com
Globalscholar.com
www.tutor.com
smartthinking.com
www.eaalim.com
Hello, I need an expert that can correct one issue on one form.
I have the div highlighted onfocus, however I do not want the div highlighted around my submit button.
I also need the error message on contact2.html to be on the right side of the fields.
I need this done ASAP. If you can not complete this NOW do not bid because I will give you a bad review for not completeing it ASAP.
These are the forms needing repair.
https://www.scriptlance.com/f/?128605069332690631
I need 10 articles about health. my main keyword is health.
Each article needs to be 400 words. It can be about mens health, womens health. Any health subject as long as it makes senses.
My budget is $20.
I have an application for windows.
It uses SQLite as database.
I need a small portable application (exe) that can browse/select a database file in local system, read and export it to ideally XLS but CSV will be fine.
No dotnet whenever possible.
Please do not provide me with your portfolio (I could read it by myself in your profile page).
Please type “SQLite” in your bidding notes to indicate that you are human.
Happy bidding.
I need an advise on how to send about 500 thousand email list (bulk mail) per month from a server without being considered as spam? Can any body advise on a server which tolerates mass mailing? Will you also be able to manage the mass mailing system?
We need some help speeding up our website, all of the pages are created dynamicly and we are using a cdn.
We would like to get our page load speeds as low as possible.
We have already compressed all of our .js and .css files we have optimized our images and removed things that were not needed.
Now we are looking for a professional that is good at hacking and chopping and moving.
This person should be able to appropriately chop down files and move and such as necessary and still allow our site to retain all of its functionality.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us. Thank you and happy bidding.
Today we continue our investigation into photography filters, following on from our previous look at a selection of special effect filters. We’ll be introducing you to the second batch of wacky and wonderful filters today – star, fog and center spot to name a few! Join us after the break to spice up your photography.
Star filters are simply designed to produce stars on your images. A series of thin lines are etched into the flat optical surface of a clear filter. These lines diffract the light coming into the lens into long thin lines. If the lines are positioned horizontally then you will get vertically oriented star lines. The line spacing also matters; the closer the gaps the brighter and more intense the stars will be.
In order to get a really sharp star, you have to use the lowest aperture you can – you might find a 50mm prime lens is the best to use. Only the strongest light can produce star shapes, for example the image below only has one star due to the sun being the strongest light source.
Now like most filters, star filters come in many different shapes and sizes. You can also purchase filters designed to produce 2, 4 and 8 stars.
The effect can be recreated inside of Photoshop but if you want a quick and easy way to create stars then simply purchase a filter!
Recommendations:
Tiffen appears to have the best range with many more filters producing different styles of stars.
Image courtesy of jonnyfixedgear
When shooting real fog you will notice that the fog blurs the light source(s) in your image. The fog filter attempts to recreate that same effect. A fog filter will add a soft glow/flare to the image as well as lowering the contrast and the sharpness of the image. One good use of fog filter would be when you are attempting to show the user how humid any area is.
The disadvantages are that fog filters cannot recreate the effects of strong fog because the image becomes too fuzzy. Instead you would need to buy a double fog filter, which have a milder flare and softening characteristics that the standard fog filter doesn’t produce.
Recommendations:
Image courtesy of Lowell_Mariannika
The idea of a center spot filter is that the center of the image will stay nice and sharp while the rest of the image is diffused and the detail in the background is blurred. This effect is created by the center of the filter containing either a hole or simply a piece of clear glass.
In my opinion, they are a really poor type of filter to use. You would be better off spending more money and purchasing a lens with a really high aperture such as a 50mm F1.4 in order to shoot images with a shallow DOF. Although don’t be put off by my opinion! Try one yourself at a local camera store and see for yourself!
If you own Photoshop, Alien Skin sell a nice plugin designed to create the same effect for about the same price as the filter. For more information have alook at their website.
Image courtesy of lone photowolf
Want to shoot at night but would rather shoot in the day? Then a day for night filter is for you. Hollywood blockbusters use to use them all the time before CGI improved to today’s standard. There are many tips to try and get a fake looking twilight effect using a SLR camera, mostly involving tricking the white balance into thinking white is orange, which will give you a tinted blue coloured image.
The filter is designed to underexpose the shot by about two stops but also at the same time create a slightly blue overcast. Post production is still often needed (adding lights for example) but it is a useful filter for those planning to fake lots of shots. Disadvantages of the filter include the fact light sources don’t appear as natural as in twilight as their colour is effected.
Currently the only brand I could find producing DFN filters was Tiffin. Other brands only offered ND filters which would reduce the stops but would not tint the image at the same time.
Enhancing filters, also known as Intensifying and Didymium filters, are designed to increase the intensity and saturation of red objects. They are all designed to provide better colour saturation and contrast on the red, brown and orange colours without effecting the cooler range of colours. They are perfect for use when shooting landscapes containing natural objects such as trees and bushes, perfect for use in the autumn with dead trees etc.
Do you need one? If you live in an almost season-less location such as California, I wouldn’t bother. Personally I shoot RAW and edit the colours afterwards – its easier and cheaper. If you shoot JPEG then you will be glad to know that Photoshop contains a handy warming (and cooling) filter built into the program.
Recommendations:
Image courtesy of Szeke
If you have followed the series so far you will have seen us cover a huge range of filters including ND, UV, Polarizers and more. I hope you have enjoyed learning about them and I hope they help you improve your photography.
You also might want to think about purchasing a filter wrench! These help get those filters off your lenses which you have put on too tightly!
Thanks for reading, and let us know if you have any other suggestions in the comments!
Bottom line: Justin Bieber = traffic. I fully intend to use this to my advantage, and none of you can do anything about it. The purpose of today’s video tutorial is to demonstrate how to use a scary set of words, “asynchronous recursion” to continuously display updated tweets about the great Biebster. And then finally, we’ll hijack these tweets to make them look as if they’re referring to Nettuts+ instead.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>The Biebster</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2> Latest Biebster Tweets </h2>
<ul id="tweets"> </ul>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
(function() {
var UpdatePanel = {
init : function(options) {
this.options = $.extend({
interval : 5000,
number : 3,
hijackTweet : false
}, options);
this.options.url += '&callback=?';
this.updater();
},
updater : function() {
(function updateBox() {
this.timer = setTimeout(function() {
updateIt();
updateBox();
}, UpdatePanel.options.interval);
})();
// get the ball rolling
updateIt();
function updateIt() {
$.ajax({
type : 'GET',
url : UpdatePanel.options.url,
dataType : 'json',
error : function() {},
success : function(results) {
var theTweets = '',
elem = UpdatePanel.options.elem.empty();
$.each(results.results, function(index, tweet) {
if ( UpdatePanel.options.hijackTweet ) {
tweet.text = tweet.text.replace(/(Justin )?Bieber/ig, 'Nettuts');
}
if ( index === UpdatePanel.options.number ) {
return false;
}
else {
theTweets += '<li>' + tweet.text + '</li>';
}
});
elem.append(theTweets);
}
});
}
},
clearUpdater : function() {
clearTimeout(this.timer);
}
};
window.UpdatePanel = UpdatePanel;
})();
UpdatePanel.init({
interval : 5000,
number : 5,
url : "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=bieber",
elem : $('#tweets'),
hijackTweet : true
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Thanks for watching; I hope you enjoyed it! Stay tuned to Nettuts+ for more news and gossip on Justin Bieber!
Adriaan Pienaar of Woo Themes fame recently wrote a book, Rockstar Business, about his experiences and insight as an entrepreneur. Pienaar is an example of a successful netsetter, and there’s a lot for budding netsetters to learn from him.
We’re proud to announce that Rockstar Business is being sold on the Tuts+ Marketplace, Envato’s marketplace for educational materials from tutorials through screencasts to books. It’s just $9 and is available right now.
You can head over to the book’s page on the marketplace to find out more and read excerpts using the “Live Preview” button, or you can read the blurb below the jump.
Rockstar Business is a special collection of inspirational stories, thought-provoking reflections, and take-it-from-me advice from author and self-described “rockstar,” Adriaan Pienaar.
For the first time since launching several popular entrepreneurial ventures based in his home country of South Africa, Adii Rockstar opens up to share his principles for living a happier life and reveals rare business insight with readers – many of whom will certainly be customers of the 25-year-old Pienaar’s popular online design companies, WooThemes and Radiiate.
Readers will be thrust into the world of a self-described Rockstar, learning how to embody a similar style of business intuitiveness, trust of the self and of others, and cunning ambition. Adii divulges the latest techniques toward successfully creating a personal brand around one’s name and image while remaining grounded and altruistic in everyday life.
Analytical and inspirational, Rockstar Business not only spans many innovative and cutting-edge pieces of insight that modern entrepreneurs and business leaders are harnessing amid the age of the Internet, but further lays out a comprehensive philosophy through which readers will live a more fulfilling and happy life.
What are the key success factors for entrepreneurs?
The “Making of a Successful Entrepreneur” report, published by the Kauffman Foundation (November 2009), sheds light on this interesting question. The study explored the opinions of 549 successful company founders in the US on the crucial factors that led to the failure or success of their businesses.
Companies surveyed were from industries as diverse as aerospace and defense, to computer services, software and programming. Only companies that had made it past the start up stage were surveyed for the report.
The top three factors that had a major influence on whether an entrepreneur was successful were experience, management and luck, according to the company founders.
Statistics from the Kauffman Report revealed the following:
Interestingly enough, the majority of company founders surveyed in the report were serial entrepreneurs – i.e. those who had successfully launched two or more businesses.
As a budding entrepreneur, it is vital to learn from projects that have failed or not been as successful as hoped for. It is also important to take incremental steps that will help you progress towards your business goals.
The Report alluded to “good fortune” being an “important” success factor. If this is the case, then a question that comes to mind is whether we create our own good fortune or wait until luck comes our way?
I have always been a firm believer that it is important to take action rather than sit around and wait for good fortune to arrive. If the law of attraction via action appeals to you, it might be time to welcome some “good fortune” your way and get moving on your next business steps.
The Report revealed some of the most common barriers that prevented people from starting their own business. These barriers included the following:
Risk Taking
The factor most commonly ranked as “important” by 98% of respondees was the lack of willingness or lack of ability to take risks. In addition, 50% believed this to be an “extremely important” barrier to entrepreneurship.
Time and Effort
93% of respondees surveyed felt that the amount of time and effort required to launch a successful business was an “important” barrier to being a successful entrepreneur.
Funding
Entrepreneurs tended to use their own personal savings to fund their first business. 70% of respondents had used their personal savings as a main source of funding for their first business.
It was usually not till after their first business succeeded that entrepreneurs considered securing venture capital. On a related matter, venture capital became easier to secure for subsequent projects once the company founder had an existing successful business in operation.
Education
Only 20% of entrepreneurs ranked university education as “extremely important”.
Key Takeaways
The report has been an excellent resource in providing readers with a lowdown on the key factors of successful entrepreneurs. My key takeaways from this report were as follows:
Learn from your failures. Even better, learn from someone else’s failures.
The report suggests that experience is a key factor to success. However, if you were just starting out on your first business venture, you may not necessarily have much experience. A useful strategy to implement is to find a successful entrepreneur who would be willing to mentor you and help you avoid making the same mistakes he or she made.
Be willing to put in considerable time and effort into your business venture.
Be willing to take risks.
Save hard from your own personal finances to raise money for your first successful business venture.
The report has identified savings to be the most common method by which successful entrepreneurs have funded their own businesses, especially first time businesses.
The report identifies a good management team to be a prerequisite to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
Consider developing your own management skills to run your business effectively. Each of us is equipped with a unique set of skills, so it is a good idea to identify your current skill set and any gaps that exist. That way, you have the necessary information to take action to develop necessary new skills.
Another good strategy to adopt is to hire people who can contribute good management or specialized skills to your team. As an owner of a start up, you will find out sooner or later that it’s not feasible to do everything yourself.
Don’t get hung up on whether you have an Ivy League university education.
Only 20% of entrepreneurs in the survey felt that a university education was an “extremely important” factor. Looks like coming from an Ivy League school will not guarantee your success as an entrepreneur.
Armed with some useful evidence from this report on what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur, its time to remove your own personal barriers to success and get cracking with your own business venture.
If you are already part way through your business venture, continue refining and improving upon those systems and procedures that will help your business achieve success. Taking intelligent risks, learning from your failures and getting a good management team in place will help you achieve success even faster.