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on the Linux GTK (Gimp Toolkit) system, and that makes its interface look very un-Windows-like, since it is broken down into small, separate components. This approach does come with advantages, however, such as the Gimp's useful ability to let you 'rip' menus and sub-menus away from where they usually appear and use them as toolbars instead. If you haven't had time to get used to Photoshop, you might even find that you prefer the Gimp's interface. In some areas, the Gimp outshines Photoshop by a long way. For example, Photoshop comes with a rather limited selection of filters, and there are plenty of companies who make a business out of selling extra ones at a premium. The Gimp includes every filter that the open source community has ever found useful, which is quite a few, and they all come for free. Essentially, if you're willing to take a small hit in ease of use, the Gimp provides you with thousands of dollars worth of functionality at no cost whatsoever. If you want to download the Gimp, go to gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ to get the Windows installer version. Paint.NET. Paint.NET is a recent arrival in the open source graphics world, but has gained a lot of followers in the year or so it's been around. It offers a powerful graphics editing program with a deliberately simple interface, based on the 'Paint' program that comes with Windows – the fact that people already know how to use that interface has been an important factor in its popularity. The program's development is taking place at Washington University, and is supported by Microsoft, making it likely that it might be included in future Windows releases. Paint.NET can currently be downloaded for free from http://www.getpaint.net/. SodiPodi. SodiPodi isn't really an alternative to Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro – it's more like a free version of programs like Adobe Illustrator that graphics designers wouldn't usually use often enough to justify purchasing. It lets you The Web Design Guide for Newbies |92
draw using vector graphics, giving you the useful ability to create your own artwork instead of sticking with stock symbols. This is mainly worth mentioning here because it makes a great complement to tools like the Gimp and Paint.NET, letting you make something of your own to apply all your fancy effects and filters to when you're making a logo or a design. Picasa. Finally, if all you want to do is organize photos simply and get them ready for display on the web, you could do worse than Picasa. Recently bought by Google and made available for free at www.picasa.com, Picasa makes it simple to organize your photographs and apply simple effects like red-eye removal to them. How to Install and Configure a Forum. Once you've built your website, you might like to offer your visitors an opportunity to interact with it, and to talk to you and each other without having to use email. Forums are absolutely ideal for this purpose. Choosing a Forum. Before you can install a forum, you need to decide which forum software you want to use. In most cases, this decision will depend on what your server can run and whether or not you want to pay. Here are some of the options: vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com). vBulletin is the most popular of the commercial forums. It costs either $85 per year or $160 plus $30 per year of updates. Despite its high cost, vBulletin has a large community who produce add-on functions for it that you can download for free. Many of the web's largest forums run on vBulletin, including the Something Awful forums. It uses PHP and MySQL. Invision (http://www.invisionpower.com). Another commercial forum with a devoted community releasing add-ons, but not as large as vBulletin. Again, PHP and MySQL. Its pricing structure is also broadly similar to vBulletin's, but slightly more expensive. Really, you might as well use vBulletin instead of this. The Web Design Guide for Newbies |93
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ABOUT WEB DESIGNER PAD Web Designer
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Chapter 1: Why You Need a Website?
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Chapter 2: How the Web Works. Many
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Resource Location) while hosting is
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POP3 accounts. POP stands for 'Post
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website to do. What kind of thing d
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professionals, have you? Well, the
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While Mozilla is a web browser itse
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hire a professional web designer, o
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Now, when users hover over the prin
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The Reader Often Crashes. As a fina
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