Intro

Creating virtual hosts is the better way to simulate the hosting server in your own development server. Simply your localhost folders will act as domains where you can easily test several sites in the local server as http://mysite.local or http://mytest.mysite. To create this kind of virtual hosts or virtual domains in your Apache server on Windows using WAMP server is just a matter of editing few files. Find the walk-through below.

Step 1 – Setting up the ‘host’ file

1. Find the ‘host’ file in ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc’ folder (or where you installed windows)
2. Open it with Notepade or any text editor.
3. You will see following lines

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
# For example:
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com         # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1       localhost 
::1             localhost

4. Add the desired domain names in the end of the text (after the default localhost settings indicated above) it can be anything with or without extension (see the examples below)

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To create a twitter icon, you don’t have to be an artist or expert in illustrator. By understanding some basic principals of gradients and transparency, you can create an excellent modern twitter icon to use in your blog.

Before we dive in to the steps, look at the final version of the twitter icon we are going to create.

I’m going to show the basic steps of drawing in illustrator and we shall move on to refine and get the final output in photoshop.

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Here I’m going to show you how to create a simple foggy, grungy discolored banner for your blog/website.

The final composition will look like this:

Creating this kind of banners is pretty simple as long as we find some source images to work with. There are advanced montages which will turn in to surreal type, sci-fi and so on. But this one is a basic one so, we need only few images.

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