Archived entries for Tutorials

Primitive “Similar Articles” Feature for WP

Recently I wrote a PHP snippet for one of my WordPress projects, which suggests readers to find more articles on the same topic. It is sort of primitive “similar articles” plug-in which you have to control manually by specifying a keyword. It is useful when you don’t need a list of similar article titles under every post, in fact, those could be not so similar, but when you want to indicate within key pages that there is more important information on the same subject in your blog. Specifying the keyword allows you to display precisely those articles that you would like to be read by visitors. Continue reading…

Gradient Transparency in Illustrator

Gradient Transparency in Illustrator

Video Tutorial: How to Make a Gradient Transparency in Illustrator
This video shows three methods of creating a gradient to “nothing” in Adobe Illustrator (the methods are; blending modes, “Fade to Black” which is a function implemented in CS4, and using opacity masks). There is another way of creating transparent gradients by blends (different from blending modes), but I’ve decided to not include it in this video. It will be a separate one.
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