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It is sometimes necessary to use multiple onload statements within the body tag of you website. You might use them to preload images for hover over effects, or to set values of a form if there are values being passed from a different page, ie. $_GET values in php.

Okay, first to explain why in the world you would need to use an onload javascript for values passed to the page through the url. Yes you could just as easily use php to auto populate the form. In fact this is usually the case, and what I do for most pages.

To use these statements is fairly easy

body onload="function(values);function2(values)"

When using multiple javascript functions with body onload you need to separate them with a semicolon (;). You can also use the following code if you need to execute many functions on page load, but want to keep your code looking nice.

body onload="allfunctions()"

function allfunctions(){
function1();
function2();
function3();...
}

Finding good tutorials is not always easy. While searching for more information about screencasts the other day, I bumped into what seems to be a good photoshop tutorial podcast by John Reuter.

I have only had a chance to watch a few of his podcasts, but I would have to say that he shows some pretty nice effects that can be done with photoshop, and since its a screencast, it is very easy to follow along and see exactly how to do it.

http://johnreuter.com/

I like these tutorials mainly because they teach the basic functionality of photoshop. There might be better ones out there, but I have found that these do a pretty good job. Unfortunately he hasn’t done a new screencast for a while.