Art, Technology & People

We've added a quick Digg button to the tutorials and we’re working on a nifty popup style sharing box that will quickly allow you too bookmark tutorials on social networks on the fly with all your favorite sites. Adam will be working on this tomorrow so we might see this up and running by Sunday night if all goes well, just keep an eye on the news for the announcement.

As for the Quick Digg link, you�ll see the little dig shovel guy icon next to the report and fave icons on each tutorial record. Click this to Digg that tutorial on the spot! Bear in mind that if you are the first person to Digg that tutorial, you will have to submit it to Digg.com first to register your Digg.

The new share box will allow you to post to Del.icio.us, Reddit, Technorati and more!

Enjoy and have a great weekend guys!

Dan

Pixel2life, LearnFlash, Total Training and Friendsofed are pleased to present the "Show the P2L Love" contest, where you can win some cool prizes by showing us how much you love P2L!

How to Enter:

Entering is easy! All you have to do is post a photo showing us how much you dig P2L and the 2 best pics win the loot. This is not based on photographic skills either, I'm looking for the most original and amusing photos submitted, so you don't have to have an awesome camera or mad photography skills to have a chance. Even a shot taken with a cell (mobile) phone camera will work.

So take a photo of you with PIXEL2LIFE across your forehead, write it out on your neighbor's driveway with chalk, cut P2L in to your dad's lawn, write it on the chalkboard at school (Just in time for back-to-school shenanigans), line up your beer cans, carve it in to a tree etc… be creative and have some fun and try not to do anything illegal or that lands you in to the ER.

Email or PM me your photos (You can email me at: info at pixel2life dot com) and feel free to submit as many photos as you like. Each unique photo you send me will be considered a separate entry, but don't send 10 photos of you doing pretty much the same thing.

Your email/PM should include your photo or a link to the photo, your name, your full physical mailing address and a description of what's going on in the photo just in case it's not obvious.

Please submit original photos only! You can do some post-shot editing to touch up colors and such, but please do not send in blatant photochops.

When does it end?

I will accept entries until 11:59PM EST (Eastern Standard Time) Friday, September 10, 2007. Winner will be announced the following Monday.

What are the prizes?

Here is what's up for grabs!

First Prize:

Complete set of LearnFlash.com DVDs including the following titles:

1. Flash Animations and Intros
2. Adding Video to your Website Using Flash 8
3. Flash 8 Professional 8 Quickstart
4. Introduction to ActionScript 2.0
5. Introduction to Flash 8
6. Building Websites in Flash 8

Total value is over $500!

Second Prize:

– Total Training for Advanced Flash Professional 8 ActionScript DVD
– A brand new copy of the book "From After Effects to Flash – Poetry in Motion Graphics" published by Friendsofed and written by P2L member Tiago Dias!

Total value is over $200!

P2L will cover all shipping fees but winner bidder is responsible for any applicable shipping duties and taxes should they be incurred.

Who can enter?

I will be judging this contest so this contest is open to everyone aside from…. ME!

Enjoy and good luck! Please post any questions or comments you may have.

Dan

Do you miss the good ol' days when there was a category dropdown on the main tutorial search bar? When we released the new version 4 layout, we introduced a new search system that allowed you to isolate specific category results quicker than ever, but some folks still preferred the old way of doing it, despite it being a bit of a slower process. Your wishes did not fall on deaf ears! As always, we listen to the community and try to develop new features based on your feedback and today I am happy to announce that you can now enable the category dropdown on the search bar!

Simply log in to your account and visit the User Dock at http://www.pixel2life.com/userdock/ and set the Tutorial Search Bar to classic and click save. Voila! Your category dropdown is back.

Another goodie brought you by Adam, thanks Adam!

Enjoy,
Dan

Fresh off Adam's development table, I'm proud to announce the release of the new Tutorial Navigation Bar, located under the main topic bar when browsing any tutorial relevant pages on the site. This new feature gives you a quick way to browse the most popular categories on the site, or click edit and set it to show "My Categories", which will set the bar to display categories you've tagged as favorites. (You can add categories to your My Categories list by simply clicking on the round checkbox icon located next to the title when on a specific category page.

For example, when you visit the Photoshop category at http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/adobe_photoshop/ you will see a grey check icon to the left of "Photoshop Tutorials". Click that icon and Photoshop will be added to your Tutorial Nav Bar and to the My Categories area in the Category Browser.

Should you wish to not see the new Tutorial Navigation Bar at all, simply click on hide and it will completely close the bar. To re-enable it, click on User Dock at the top right and set the bar to "Show Bar" and click Save.

Please note you have to be a member and be logged in to access the edit functions.

Enjoy and thanks to Adam for putting this together for us!

Dan