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More thoughts on inspiration
By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997 Add to: After I posted that article last week about inspiration, I've been thinking more about it. One commenter stated that he gets his inspiration from the blank page, the empty Webmore
CSS 1 properties are a great start
By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997 Add to: If you're trying to learn CSS, you should first learn the CSS 1 properties. These are the most widely supported CSS properties and you won't go wrong with them. There are a lotmore
Don't use BR for layout
By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997 Add to: We have had so many conversations here about using (or not using) tables for layout, that I had forgotten about another layout 'tool' that many people like to use - the BR tag.more
Checkbox Highlighter
Web Development: JavaScripts : Background Find a Javascript: FREE Tech Newsletters Submitted: 11/07/2008 Use this script to highlight table rows in your checkboxes. It's easy to implement and effective. ?System Requirements: ?License: freewaremore
RIP Windows 3.1
Please enter your e-mail address or username below. Your username and password will be sent to the e-mail address you provided us. With little fanfare, Microsoft officially stopped serving licenses to the Windows 3.X series on November 1, 18 years aftermore
OpenID Q&A: Plaxos Joseph Smarr and John McCrea
After some recent considerable advances in the realm of OpenID, Webmonkey had the chance to chat with two of OpenID?s greatest evangelists and early adopters, Joseph Smarr and John McCrea. Smarr and McCrea are responsible for being among the first tomore
OpenID Q&A: Interview with Googles Eric Sachs
Please enter your e-mail address or username below. Your username and password will be sent to the e-mail address you provided us. As the race for an internet-wide single sign-on standard continues, Google has become the latest party to throw its hatmore
OpenID Is Here. Too Bad Users Cant Figure Out How It Works
Imagine a much friendlier internet, one where you only have to remember one password. A place where it?s easy to keep a tight grip on your personal contact information, deciding which websites have access to it and how much they?re allowed to knowmore
Ballmer Gets Diplomatic: Webkit in IE Interesting
A Wired.com user account lets you create, edit and comment on Webmonkey articles. You will also be able to contribute to the Wired How-To Wiki and comment on news stories at Wired.com. It's fast and free.more
SEO Reports - Are you trying to optimize for too short a keyword phrase?
Another common mistake people make when working on SEO is to try to optimize for a one-word keyword phrase. The reality is that people don't tend to use 1 word in search engines. They use several. For example, if I were looking up something to buy mymore
Does being a programmer mean that you can't design?
By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997 Add to: There is a wide-spread belief in the Web design world that if you're a programmer, that automatically means that you can't be a good designer. Something about the nature ofmore
Nested Functions in Python
In this final part of a nine-part series that focuses on Python, you will learn about namespaces, nested functions, and more. It is excerpted from chapter four of the book Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition, written by Alex Martelli (O'Reilly; ISBN:more
Building a Modular Exception Class in PHP 5
(Page 1 of 4 )Welcome to the final part of the four-part series Subclassing exceptions in PHP 5. By means of a hands-on approach, this series walks you through using inheritance to build finely-tuned exception subclasses. These subclasses can bemore
What Language Do You Game In?
The developer of an online game-building platform is switching from Java to Flash. The reason? Users don?t want Java. ?Up front, I?ll say that the reason we are moving to Flash is because of Java?s adoption rates. It is not, in fact, because ofmore
Simple Solutions to Help You Avoid the Google Fail Whale
Create some backup accounts ? This one is so obvious I?m always surprised to hear that not everyone does it. Gmail is free and lets you have an unlimited number accounts? so open a second one. Mine is just my usual account with .bak appended to themore
Gmail Adds a Way to View OOXML Files
Please enter your e-mail address or username below. Your username and password will be sent to the e-mail address you provided us. While Google Docs still cant convert your .docx files, Gmail has added the ability to at least view those files as HTMLmore
Popular WPA Wifi Security Scheme Cracked Open
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: a pair of researchers have announced a serious flaw in the WPA wifi encryption scheme, which was designed to keep your wireless traffic hidden from prying eyes. Security researchers Erik Tews andmore
Get Inspired by These Social Network Avatars
How many times have you joined a new social site and not immediately uploaded a picture to represent you? Probably more than you can count. So you know the feeling of making your way around sites while looking like every new user, with a default avatar.more
Where do you find design inspiration?
I was in the bookstore the other day and found a book that purported to be a book for Web design inspiration. I ended up not buying it because it was shrink-wrapped so I couldn't even look at the pages to see if it really would inspire me. And it cost amore
Poll: How would you rate your HTML knowledge?
By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997 Add to: Last SundayI posted a blog entry from 456 Berea Street giving different Levels of HTML Knowledge. As they listed them, they are: Level 0 - doesn't know what HTML is Level 1 -more
Why bother with CSS layouts?
I received a comment yesterday from Martin. He asks: i started to wonder, what really is the point? What are the benefits of having it use divs. And i started looking and found out that there are no real life scenarios that I care for that use divs. I'vemore
Scared of Social Media? You May Already Be a Pro!
I'll admit it. I used to be scared of social media. I didn't know what it was, nor did I want to. I'm rarely an early adopter of anything; in fact, some might call me a Luddite. (Yeah, I still use my 1994 HTML editor!) Let's just say that I resist changemore
Free SEMNE Passes
SEMNE (Search Engine Marketing New England) is offering High Rankings Advisor Newsletter subscribers 6 free passes to the November 18, 2008 networking event in Providence, RI featuring Nick Gerner from SEOmoz (one of the developers of the much talkedmore
Google Indexing Robots.txt Files? - Advanced Forum Thread
In today's forum thread of the week, it was actually ME who had a question! I noticed that our robots.txt file had been indexed by Google and was curious if others had ever had this happen.It is no big deal, more just a curiosity. The thread had somemore
HRA Wrap-up 243
That's all for today!I'm looking forward to PubCon next week. I'm not much of a gambler, but Vegas is still cool to visit now and then. And catching up with old friends makes it all the better. If you're at the conference, please try to come up and saymore
Video: Cleaning Up Your Web Site Code with MS Expression Web
Video author Garry Robinson shows us how to use Microsoft Expression Web to clean up your messy HTML code with ease!more
What is your favorite free Web editor?
I'm always looking for a good deal, and one of the best deals you can generally find is when something is free (assuming it's not spyware or malware... that would make it a bad deal). Anyway, I've updated my lists of free Web editors: Free Web Editorsmore
How to Pick a Shopping Cart: 7 Carts Reviewed
Selling online can be a great way to expand an existing business or start a new one. Sites like eBay and Etsy let you sell within their sites and use their shopping carts. You benefit from their traffic and marketing but they control the look andmore
Casual Games Trace iPhone Popularity
casual games rule. Though action games, which take advantage of the accelerometer, are quite popular, so are simple, graphics-light games that can be played in short bursts, but are also incredibly addictive. remains popular for paid apps, and four ofmore