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Creating PDF Files with PHP

December 15, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

FPDF is a PHP class which allows web developers to generate PDF files with pure PHP code. The class can be downloaded for free and modified to suit one’s needs. FPDF contains several practical features including: Page header and footer management Automatic page break, line break, and text justification Image support (JPEG, PNG and GIF) Color & font flexibility Links...

Designing Websites for Mobile Devices

December 12, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

With the arrival of the Smartphone has come a change in the way we use the internet. Searching the web from a mobile device is now an every day activity. With these changes, websites must adapt and be usable on a variety of devices. It looks terrible for a website to just shrink way down in order to fit on...

Video Productions in Warehouses

December 11, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

So you have to do a video shoot in a warehouse… When you hear you have a video shoot scheduled in a warehouse, do you prepare yourself?  Video is never an easy project.  Furthermore, on location in a warehouse is certainly not an easy project. Warehouse projects may come up often.  Several companies want to show off their equipment, laboratories, and...

Designing for Mobile Devices: Phone Numbers

December 9, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

Mobile web development is very important these days. The numbers vary, but about 50 percent of mobile phone owners in the United States are estimated to have smartphones now. Responsive design comes in handy when making websites because of the website could adapt to the screen sizes of various devices. I have written two posts before sharing some basic tips...

Complex Conditional Statements

December 8, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

“If I had won the lottery, I would have bought a boat.” In this sentence, it is impossible for the condition to be fulfilled, because it refers to an event in the past. I neither won the lottery, nor bought a boat. Like the English language, programming languages make extensive use of conditional statements. When writing programming functions, conditional clauses...

Free Software: Competent and Cool

December 6, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

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...

A Guide to Writing Functions

December 1, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

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...

Broad Modified Match Types – The Pros and Cons

November 28, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

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

November 27, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

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...

The Four Steps to Pre-Production Planning for Video Film and Multimedia

November 20, 2012 By Blueprint Digital

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...