Adding a text shadow or glow effect with CSS
One effect you might like to use is a text-shadow or glow effect using the text-shadow property in CSS. The text-shadow property has four different attributes separated by spaces: The first attribute is …
Adding a UI to display the score in a 2D game with Unity
This tutorial continues on from the previous tutorial on adding collectables and scoring to a 2D Unity game. In the previous tutorial, we improved the points scoring system and added …
Send SMS from Android app with Xamarin
In this tutorial you will learn how to make an Android app that can send SMS messages. Firstly, we will create a button that can send a pre-determined message to …
Form elements (text, text area and password) and PHP
This tutorial explains how to create forms which include a range of form elements include text (textbox), textarea, and password. text – this element is used to get a short …
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
A Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides a way for the game to provide information to the user or to read information from the user. This can be in the form …
Creating and animating 3D text in Maya
[glossary_exclude]This video explains how to add text to a scene and then animate it in Maya. You can manipulate text in the same way you manipulate many other 3D objects …
Arranging content using the float and clear properties
[glossary_exclude]In this tutorial we will use the float and clear CSS properties to arrange images and text on a web page.: float property – with the float property, an element can …
HTML Text formatting
You can use a range of tags in HTML to format text on your webpage. This tutorial covers the following HTML formatting tags: <strong> is used for bold (strong) text …
Typography in Adobe Illustrator CC
This video tutorial explains how to use typography in Adobe Illustrator CC to create the shape of a zebra with just words. [glossary_exclude]The aim is to be able to recognise the …
JavaScript prompts (input boxes)
A prompt (or input box) is a popup box which asks the user a question and allows them to type and submit their answer in a textbox. The user must …
Using the GetElementById() method in JavaScript
The getElementById() is a very useful method in JavaScript that you will likely use many times when working with JavaScript on a web page to manipulate or grab information from …
Working with Strings in JavaScript
This video tutorial explains some different tasks you can perform with strings including: how to concatenate (join) strings together how to convert from integer to string ho to change text to uppercase or lowercase letters …
Variables and Data Types in JavaScript
In this second video from the beginners JavaScript tutorial series, you will learn how to create variables and work with strings, integers, and float data types in JavaScript. Variables are …
How to create a clipping mask effect in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
In this video tutorial, I explain how to create a 3D clipping mask effect by using an image to fill in the letters of a text object in Adobe Photoshop …
How to mask text in Adobe Flash CS6
This video tutorial shows how to reveal text using a spotlight effect by using the mask tool in Adobe Flash CS6. You can view the video below or click here to …