What is interlace options when saving PNG image in Photoshop?

What is interlace options when saving PNG image in Photoshop?

When you Saving image in Photoshop with .PNG
You might wonder what is the interlace options stand for?
The answer is in this article.


Answer:

     -Interlaced When the website is loading, Your PNG image will display blurry and sharper while loading.
     -None When the website is loading, Your PNG image will loads from top to bottom and you only see a part of the image at first.

BTW, This option is not very necessary, because today, we have Hi speed internet. Interlaced PNG or none-interlaced you might not feel difference.

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How to Display PDF file in Joomla!

Sometimes if you wanna show your PDF File on your Joomla's website.
But you don't know how to do it. You need the plugin name Enbed pdf's...
And This Article will show you how to use it.


Step 1: First of all, Download this Enbed pdf's Plugin available here

Step 2: Go to Your Joomla Admin page, Install Plugin




Step 3: Enable Plugin - just go to Extension=>Plugin Manager and look for Enbed pdf's then click Enable




Step 4: Upload your PDF file, In this article I will upload the file Sample.pdf to the folder which namePDF




Step 5: Create New Article - Use This Code (You can specific height and width of PDF's display.)

{pdf}PDF/Sample.pdf|height:700|width:725{/pdf}

Step 5:Finish!! See the result! :)

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Introduction to 'Smush It' the best image optimiser from Yahoo!

If you wanna put the large image on your website(wider than 600 pixel)
like the picture below:

Click on image to view full size

Many webmaster often use function Save for Web in Adobe Photoshop. but the sharpness of the image will reduce if you use this function.

Comparison Images

If you wanna put the large image on your website with original sharpness , minimal size (for faster page load). I think 'Smush it' may be your answer.




Smush It is the image optimizer which developed by Yahoo Developer

Let's see how it works.

-Go to Smush It page (www.smushit.com) or Click Here

-Then Click at Uploader
-Browse your image and then just wait....



-Finished



-Very impressive result (24.89% reduction!)



You will love it!

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How to Enlarge Jcomments Avatar

Jcomments is one of the best joomla comments system.

Many great features:
-Multi Language
-Simple to use
-Support Smilies
-Custom BBCode
-Import comments from others components
-etc.

You can try it here:
Demo JComments

Download JComments here:
Download JComments

This component is working almost perfectly. But the default JComments' Avatar is too small (just 32x32 px)

See how small it is

If you want to enlarge it, Just follow my step here:



Step 1: Open the file style.css
(/components/com_jcomments/tpl/default/style.css)

Step 2: Looking for this line:

/* Avatar */
#comments .comment-avatar img {width: 32px}

Step 3: Change 32px to the size you want: (I prefer 48px)

/* Avatar */
#comments .comment-avatar img {width: 48px}

Finish: Save the file style.css, upload it back to its location, open your page and see the results!!

Now, JComments' Avatar is 48x48 px

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How to Change Database Collation to UTF-8

In some web hosting, They use Cpanel and Fantastico installer. It will automatic install your website and database. So You can not set your database collation by yourseft.

Cpanel Interface

Bad luck, Some web hosting set the default database collation to Latin Swedish. But if you wanna do Thai, Chinese, Korean Website. You need to set the collation of database to UTF-8.

How to change this!!!!

If the database is not UTF-8, The display of your language will not display correctly.

As you can see in this picture.

Don't worry there's a way :)


For changing the collation of database, You can manually do it in notepad or dreamweaver.
But it's not very easy to do. So I will explain you the easiest way:

Step 1. You have to download Tool from Phoca for Changing Collation (Click here to Download). It's very great.

Step 2. After finish downloading, Right click and extract the file to your PC. (If you have WinZip, or WinRAR, etc.)



Step 3. You will see the folder name tool_phoca_changing_collation.... (Tooooo long name). Rename the folder to collation.

Rename the folder name to collation

Step 5. Uploading the folder to the root of your website.




Step 6. Okay, It's almost finish... Open your web browser and enter this URL: (Yourdomainname/collation/index.php)




Step 7. You will see this screen appear.



Step 8. Enter the field and click Submit

• Database Host: Enter your host name


• Database User: Enter your username for connecting to database


• Database Password: Enter your password


• Database Name: Enter your database name


• Database Collation: utf8_general_ci

Step 9. Finish!!! Now the database change to UTF-8, Check your website and see the language display!





Thanks, Phoca Team Developer for this great stuff!!! :)

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