Photoshop CS5 Menu for Websites

This tutorial helps you to make or design a horizontal navigation bar with your desired color combinations. In this tutorial I have used the color combination Blue background with Gray buttons as it provides a decent and good gradient effect to observe.

 Our Tutorials Begins From Here:

This is a preview of the result that we are going to get after completing the tutorial.



Step 1: At first we are going to create a new document and fill some colors in it.

• Open Photoshop go to ‘File’ click ‘New’ add your desired name and size like I choose a size of 600 by 250 pixels.


• After creating the document fill the background color with your desired color (which I have choose blue).


• To fill the desired color, go to Edit > Fill > Use (or just press Shift+F5). Select a color from the use tab as I choose “Blue” and click it in the background area.

You would get result like this,



Step 2: Now we are going to make the background for the navigation bar inside which the buttons or tabs are placed.

• To create a new layer, go to Layer > New > Layer (or press Ctrl+ Shift+ N).


• Select the layer and select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (or press U twice).


• Adjust the size of the rectangle by selecting the “Fixed Size” from the Geometric Options’ button in the Rectangle Panel appeared under Menu Panel.


• Select the size you desire, like I choose 500 by 60 pixels.


• You can adjust the radius of the corners too in the same panel.


• After setting the sizes click at the desired area you want to draw the navigation bar.

You would get result like this,

• Select the navigation layer from the layers list and click on the button at the bottom which has a circle in a rectangular box showing “Add Mask Layer”.

This will divide the layer into mask objects so that you can fill a particular color into the navigation bar only without tempering the background layer.

• Fill the navigation bar with a single color or add a gradient effect using linear effect with multiple colors.


• Rasterizing the layer of the navigation layer you would get the single form layer to add other layer options to it.

After completing the above step you would get a result like this,



Step 3: Now we are going to add some layer styles to the navigation bar on its background.

• To open layer styles go to Layer > Layer Style (or select the layer, right click on it and select “Blending Options” in it) and select Outer Glow from it.


• Make glowing changes accordingly to your desired design (or just follow the given below picture details).


• To add some more layers select any options and add your desired changes to the navigation bar.

Step 4: Now we are going to make buttons in the navigation bar.

• Create a new layer by following Step 2.


• Select the rounded rectangle tool and set your desired size like 150 by 50 pixels and draw maximum no. of buttons which can be drawn.


• Use the ‘Add Mask Layer’ and select the first layer add you’re desired layer option from the list in blending options.


• You can add changes in color and change gradient effects by clicking the gradient tab in the “Gradient Overlay” tool and get the below result.

You will get the result as,



Step 5: Now we are going to add text to the buttons.

• To add text to the buttons create a new document for every new button, it helps in adjusting the position of the text in the button later.


• Select the desired font, size and style from the text bar under the Menu bar.


• Select the color from the color window on the right side of the desktop.


• Write your text in the button like “Home” and then adjust the position of the text using ‘Move’ tool.

Your result should look similar to this,



Step 6: Now in the last we are going to highlight the button to shown it is in selection or the mouse is on it.

• Select any button to highlight it, so that we a mouse comes on it or when it is in selection then the color of the button change to shown it is distinguished from other.


• Select the color from the color window for the button and fill the color in the button with the Fill (or Paint Bucket) tool.


• Add some outer glow from the Blending option form Step 3 and center the glow on the highlighted button. You can use the following setting in the picture,

After applying the above changes your final result should look like this,

This is the final result you would get after completing this tutorial.

How to get your drupal questions answered in an IRC Channel

Would you like your drupal questions answered by community experts? Then read this post - it'll tell you the best way to get answers.

Firstly, if you really want good answers, learn how to ask good questions. I thought I knew how to ask good tech-related questions until I read this: http://bit.ly/s7o0mw Then I realised that I did know how to ask good questions, and now I knew how to ask much better questions. That's helped me on irc and on support forums. You basically want to ask your question like this:

"I'm trying to achieve [A]. I thought the best way to do this was to [B]. I read the documentation and it said to do [X]. I did it, I expected to see [Y] but actually saw [Z]. What am I doing wrong?"

Out there some drupal genius (like me! lol) reads this question. And immediately knows a few things:

The outcome that you're trying to achieve. Knowing this, we may have a better suggestion instead of [B] and thereby solve your problem.

You're already thinking - because of [B]. Whohoo! We know that you're someone who is thinking how to do something which will achieve your outcome. Tech geniuses would rather answer questions from people who are willing to do their own thinking.

You read documentation - double points. It means you're not asking someone else to do all the hard work. Plus you're learning new stuff. Both good pointers, and you're more likely to get helped.

When you did [X] you've told us what you expected to see when you tried [X]. That means you're thinking. Then you say that instead of [Y] you saw something else - [Z]. Awesome - that's valuable information.

Questions like, "Help, my website is broken!" or "Views isn't working" or "Taxonomy isn't linking properly" will get you ignored almost 100% of the time.

Read the documentation. Yes, RTFM applies - always. There's a reason documentation is written - and if it's out of date, update it yourself!

Maybe someone else has already asked your question. Search drupal.org via google (go to google.com and type "site:drupal.org terms related to your problem"). If nothing shows up, search the internet. If nothing shows up, time to ask your question!

Ask your question in the right channels, those would be the forums on drupal.org or the issue queue for the module you're having a problem with.

Or simply figure out how to join #drupal on IRC (for that you can use http://webchat.freenode.net its simple and easy too use and compatible with any browser, since I'm using it ;) ), you can also choose your preferable channel from here http://drupal.org/irc or http://drupal.org/node/679904.

Remember the BOT named 'Drupalicon' is there for you, if you wanna learn how to interrogate with 'Drupalicon' on IRC read this http://drupal.org/project/bot, if in case you're finding it difficult just type a message in the Drupal channel 'bot?' (without quotes) there will be a reply 'I'M UP! I'M UP!'.

Please don't ask your question in http://groups.drupal.org/india because this is for location-specific activities, and there may be other people on drupal.org who'd also like to know the answer to your question (plus, your question on the drupal forums is searchable, so in a month someone else may have the same problem you're having and also wants to know the solution - be kind and place your question somewhere they can find it!).

If you're going to post a question in the issue queue, first read the Troubleshooting FAQ. If you're having a problem with your Drupal site, you're almost certainly not alone. Your questions may already have been asked and answered many times. Save yourself some time and start with this list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) before you post an issue in the queue.

Don't be a support leech. Play nicely! And learn how to be part of a community, particularly a self-organising one.

Lastly, read this post and follow all of this advice! It will transform you into the kind of person whom other people enjoy helping, and take you one step closer to being Certified to Rock! And if someone does something which violates any of these guidelines, gently point them to this post.

JQuery Popup | JQuery Slide Popup

Now a day’s JQuery’s are used almost in all websites. In today’s tutorial I am going to share a new way to show a pop up message. Everyone is getting bored with typical fade in fade out pop up messages. So let’s make it interesting with a pinch of jquery and css.

In this tutorial we are going to make two javascript functions which will be used to slide in and slide out a div.

[js]
function openOffersDialog() {
$('#overlay').fadeIn('fast', function() {
$('#boxpopup').css('display','block');
$('#boxpopup').animate({'left':'30%'},500);
});
}

function closeOffersDialog(prospectElementID) {
$(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#' + prospectElementID).css('position','absolute');
$('#' + prospectElementID).animate({'left':'-100%'}, 500, function() {
$('#' + prospectElementID).css('position','fixed');
$('#' + prospectElementID).css('left','100%');
$('#overlay').fadeOut('fast');
});
});
});
}
[/js]

In the first function we are making a call to a div to fadeIn and in that fade in function we are sliding our popup from right to left.

The next function is used to slide the function from center of the screen to the extreme left side so it appears us to be disappeared. In this function we also set the overlay div to fadeout.

So let’s construct with our HTML part.

[html]
<body onload="openOffersDialog();">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="overlay" class="overlay"></div>
<a onclick="openOffersDialog();">Click Here To See The PopUp</a>
<div id="boxpopup" class="box">
<a onclick="closeOffersDialog('boxpopup');" class="boxclose"></a>
<div id="content">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius laoreet. Quisque rutrum.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
[/html]

This was a small tutorial on sliding a popup without using any JQuery UI and making it different from other popups.

UPDATE: CHECK THE NEW DEMO FOR LOAD THE POPUP ON CLICK. THIS WILL NOT LOAD THE POPUP ON LOAD OF PAGE