Webdevelopment & Graphic design Blog

Forum quietness
It has been to quiet in the forums the last months, so to breath a little life into her I'm going to organize Signature of the week contests again. The sign-ups for the first of the rest SOTWs starts Monday, you can sign-up in that entire week (Mon-Sun). Usually Goomy the CD Forum moderator would organize these contests but she is pretty busy with work, but no worries I can manage on my own for the time being.

Temporary custom skin
The forum has a temporary custom skin, the original PHPBB3 skin was just to different from the main site's design. This temporary skin has been modded by me, (some colors and the background gradient). I will be making a Celox custom skin (or: Culox skin) soon, but this one will do for now.

Guest tutorials
I've seen some people already found there way to the guest turorials submission form, so thanks for submitting your Photoshop (and other) tutorials. But before the launch of the Guest tutorials section I want some more tutorials added to the database, so what are you waiting for, submit a guest tutorial! You'll get a back-link to your own site which will improve your Search-engine ranking.

• Comment on the above post

There's now a new function in the tutorials section, you can now have your own tutorials published. Of course it wouldn't be fair if you didn't get something in return for your tutorials, so that's why I'll place a real back-link to your site at the end of the tutorial. This is a great way to gain quality back-links to your tutorial site from a 100% related site, this will most definitely boost your site up in the search results. Celoxdesign has 10000+ unique visitors each week so the link will probably send you a lot of traffic too. Below is proof of the 10000+ unique visits, keep in mind though that we're now in week 37.

Tracking is done by xtremetracking.com and is accurate.


So get your own tutorials published on a related website for free and get a real back-link. If the tutorial is of very high quality I might even pay you for it via Paypal, with of course adding the back-link to your site too.

• Comment on the above post

It's been a while since I've updated the Photoshop tutorials section, it was REALLY necessary to come with a new tutorial. Had quite a list in my to-do list of tutorials and saw a note that I never did a a neat menu bar tutorial. I think the outcome of the tutorial is pretty awesome and hope you feel the same way, if not, whatever .

• Comment on the above post

I've recently cleaned up some of my affiliates since they didn't had any link back to me for some reason. Now I'm searching some new reliable link partners and affiliates, please read the rules for each link option.

Link partners:

• Minimum pagerank 4
• Side-wide link
• Text links only

If your interested in becoming a link partner make your way over to the contact page, and send me your link info (Anchor text & link).

Affiliates:

• Minimum pagerank 3
• Side-wide link optional
• Text links amp; button links

If your interested in becoming an affiliate follow these steps

• Comment on the above post

Hey Folks,

There's been a slight delay on this news post because I had other things to do, like helping my brother take out tiles on a balcony (quite a job I must say). So what I had in mind for the revised version of Celoxdesign is a couple of things: Having a kick ass design with my new Cinema4D skills , and have less annoying advertisements.

The Design:
As for my previous 2-3 designs I wanted really light-weight designs to minimize loading time, though for this design I went for a total different direction. I started by making a wallpaper piece in Cinema4D, when I'd finished I kinda went from there with the template in Photoshop. Normally I do it reversed but I actually like this order better.

The ads:
I was a member for Kontera already so I've added these ads instead of the annoying flashy banner ads from Valueclick, the Kontera ads are less in your face compared to the Valueclick ads.

The rest:
The phpBB forum script is also updated to the new 3.0 version, though this version is still in beta but after some testing I've came to the conclusion that it's pretty stable already and converted the old forum.

Someone via email suggested to make a tutorial on the C4D 3D text (Thanks Aron!). A well explained beginners tutorial will follow soon (probably somewhere this week I'll have it finished). Though, I have to make some adjustments to the menu for this since I don't have a C4D category at the moment.

There's also been major improvements for the shoutbox script. For instance I added a bunch of extra anti-spambot security, like 2 hidden form fields, a bad words check (this one checks words commonly used by spambots here on Celoxdesign), an improved HTML checker, and of course the most obvious one a new Captcha security image. Let's hope the spam days at Celoxdesign are over, at least for the time being

• Comment on the above post

I know you can rotate different color schemes in 1 Google adsense code, but I was wondering if it was legal to rotate the Google Adsense codes on your site. For example I now rotate 6 different Adsense codes with the same colors, so only the sizes are differently. Now before I implemented this PHP script I mailed the Google Adsense support team about this matter and they wrote the following.



That should clear it all up for everyone that has question marks on this matter (like I had).

• Comment on the above post

When I came to Tutorialized today to submit my Page-curl tutorial I was shocked, at first I thought the site was hacked, but soon enough I saw Kurt's news post that Tutorialized is sold. The new owner seems to like to bomb the site with advertising which is a huge let down for everyone, it just looks to cluttered! I count 9 blocks of advertising at this point.. geez. Oh well it should be a pretty nice income for the guy with 9 adblocks and 50000+ unique visitors a day.

Btw, sorry for no click-able links to Tutorialized, the new owner just doesn't deserve a link back!

• Comment on the above post

As promised in the previous news post, the tutorial pagination is online. It was a bit hard at first but got it all to work eventually, tomorrow I will update the other pages that contain pagination to the new pagination format. If you find any bugs at all please notify me via the contact form so it can be fixed, thanks.

Recently I had to make an account online for which I had to use my hotmail account for, which I HARDLY use . I saw a nice effect they used for there switch from MSN Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail. And thought it would be cool to make a tutorial out of it since a lot of people would find it interesting cause it's a pretty nifty effect. If your still reading at this point here's the tutorial: Make a Page-curl in photoshop.

• Comment on the above post