Title: Text Over Image
Author: Sazzad Hossain & 2-Job.
Language: PHP
Demo: http://2-job.com/email/
Summary: In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a script that will place text on an image (kind of like a watermark). In this tutorial, we will be using a form which we will use to submit our text. This technique is often used for adding copyright to images and or creating cool image based signatures. To make it easier for us to understand, I will be focusing this tutorial on creating a script that will help us generate a e-mail signature.

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Guide to Writing Good Tutorials
By: Sazzad Hossain & Shrud Studios

What is a tutorial?
We all know that the computer presents new concepts and skills through interactive text, illustrations, descriptions, questions and problems. Information is sequenced to build on previously learned concepts, and often provides feedback and guidance. So to keep others upto par and help them understand “how to do” something is what a tutorial is. In short terms, tutorial is a set of ordered instruction that teaches someone something new. Tutorials can be on almost any subject. It can be on how to create a new solar powered motor, write a research paper, to build a robot, or how to survive your wife. But for the sake of “keeping the flow,” on this forum we will keep it relating to the WEB and PROGRAMMING in general.

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Title: Counter Script
Skill Level: Intermediate
Author: Sazzad Hossain
Demo: http://jorsek.info/tcounter/
Authors Note: In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a very simplified counter script. Unlike the general counter scripts, here we will also have a general page view counter, unique view counter, total users online and users viewing current page.

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Title: qTip Effect
Language: Javascript, CSS, XHTML
Author: Craig Erskine, Sazzad Hossain
Demo: http://solardreamstudios.com/_img/learn/css/qtip/qTip.html
Authors Note: This effect will allow you to have a very cool hover effect using javascript and css. The javascript is the core file that causes the hover effect while the css file controls the layout of it. The credit goes out mostly to Craig Erskine, who explained the steps/procedures very clearly. Without his help I wouldn’t be able to post this tutorial. You can also do this in CSS. I will work on the CSS tutorial for the same effect later.

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Finally, I’m a third year. There’s no more looking down, just looking up. I remember as a freshmen, I went to my first Career Fair here at the Rochester Institute of Technology wearing jeans and a baggy white 1990’s shirt with blue stripes surfing down. That was one awkward day. After checking in (and getting couple of strange looks from the staff for being under-dressed), I made my way down to the field house where over a hundred companies gathered. I didn’t know where to start. While entering area that feld like the bazaars* from back home I grabbed a set of maps. Using it I made my schedule to visit few companies. First was of course Gleason Works, a manufacturing company that I have been eyeing for a while. Followed by Toyota, Fisher Price, Atlantic Testing Lab, and few more. While going around and speaking to the representatives, I was also hoping to get an interview. However, I had no luck and left the fair within 2 hour period.

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