My experience working with proffessional 2D and 3D animation software, like After Effects and Maya, has been enjoyable and cool. The things you can do as far as effects and animation with these programs are incredible, and it’s thanks to them that we see so many awesome things in movies these days. But even so, being able to use them can come...
If you find yourself writing the same few lines of code more than twice, convert those lines into a PHP function. In order to minimize the amount of code for websites and web applications, call functions within functions. The most effective functions are ones that are reusable. Naming Functions The names you choose for your functions should provide a good...
It is not surprising that Google decided to relax its tight rules on match types recently. This move was not only relieving for internet marketing firms and companies, but also for local business owners as well. If you have no clue what match types are, you are in luck, I would be writing a full blog about it next week,...
Editing techniques are mostly based on the editing programs. Each program is different, but they are all very similar in a way. Software The major questions I asked, during my video production internship at Blueprint, were mostly about learning completely new editing software. In college, we learned on Adobe software (version CS3) and all of our editing was completed in...
Do you want to know the secret four steps to pre-production planning? In the fall of 2011, I started working at Blueprint as a video production intern. I immediately began doing some work for clientele that required full productions. The projects covered everything from the video shoot to the postproduction editing. Most interns at other companies do not get hands on...
Last week, I wrote about the basics on responsive design. The topic of responsive design is a relatively new one that started with the emergence of different mobile devices. Developing for mobile devices could be hard because of all the factors to consider, such as handling clickable phone numbers. Today I will share some tips and tricks to make the...
There are always people who don’t care if their code is clean, for them what really matters is the code to work. But why you should bother to have or to clean your code? As a web developer at Blueprint I try to keep my code clean and simple because messy code is waste of time. There will be web...
One of the things I enjoy doing is hanging out with small business owners. I say “hanging out” because our gatherings are never formal and we do not have an agenda whenever we meet. All of us seem to like this format as we’ve been doing it at least a couple of times per week for the last five years...
Along with logos, layout, and content, color can tell you a lot about the tone of the website. Choosing a color palette is important because you want to convey the right feeling to the user when they enter the site. An obvious example is the use of dark and light colors. Dark colors can emote intensity and toughness whereas lightness...
Improving and Increasing Adrank So you set up your google ad campaign and after sometime, your ads are not showing or have very low ad positions. There are a few things you can do to change this situation. Eventually, these steps can help increase your Quality Score too, which would boost your ad positions or ad rank. Keywords to Ad...
