As you know, Windows Vista’s Graphical User Interface is very shiny. You can easily notice the shines in the Progress Bars! What we’re gonna do now is to create a Shiny Aero Glass Button in Flash. First of all, we’ll have to create the Aero Glass button with photoshop. The second step is to make it shiny. This is my first flash tutorial! Good luck

As usual I’m gonna show you the result in the beginning:

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The last tutorial I wrote was “How to draw a glossy black panel with photoshop”. Now, we’re gonna do something a bit similar but more useful for websites and GUI designers. I’m not going a lot through details, you should be a bit familiar with photoshop. Otherwise, you can check some older tutorials I’ve written on this blog. As usual, I’m gonna show you in the beginning what we will be working on:

Let’s start:
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Hey buddies,

You might notice a change in this minor design update. It might seem weird for the loyal readers because the stylesheet is still in your cache, so make sure you hit Ctrl+ Reload (Thanks Johny) to update your cache.

Lately, the perfomance of the Google Ads was really poor on ekhoury.com and of course it’s because of the bad placements of the ads. Actually, I’m not looking for profits from this blog but I’m just experimenting some placements because I’m preparing a new list of tips for AdSense on blogs and Wordpress blogs specifically!

Notice this Ad block on the top right; it is the purpose of this update and I think it will perform really well!