When I was making some updates to the Portent Blog, I came across a strange problem. Whenever I highlighted the text with my cursor, I would get no visual feedback showing me what I had highlighted. I’ve actually run across this on a couple of other sites, which is why I thought I should share [...]
Articles by Jarrod Medrano
Jarrod has lent his extensive experience in web design, HTML, CSS and more to Portent for over 6 years.
How to Design Your Site Like It’s 1999
The internet today is filled with tutorials on how to design your web site 'web 2.0' style. I thought it would be fun to teach you some of the horrible design trends from the past. So I invite you to return to a simpler time, a time when people still listened to TLC's 'No Scrubs' [...]
Create Rusty Metal Text in Photoshop: Tutorial
Recently I was looking for a way to make some cool rusted metal text in Photoshop, and after searching through a few metal text tutorials on Google I decided that all of them were garbage. So I messed around for a while and created my own.
Actionscript 3 Particles Tutorial
In order to view the content on this page, you will need the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player. Click here to download it. Today I’m going to show you how to do something a little more fun than usual. We’re going to be making a simple particle system in Flash CS3. Example Files [...]
Advanced Actionscript 3 Preloader
Watch me do my best Bob Ross impression while teaching you how to create a preloader in Actionscript 3. No happy trees included. Download the example files here. Video after the jump!
Embedding Flash the Smart Way with SWFObject
There are several ways to embed Flash on a web page – some are better than others. Here’s the one we’ve found to work best: First, you’ll need to go to the SWFObject home page to download the javascript. You can also read up on SWFObject here. The example html included inside the zip file [...]
