The life expectancy of IE6
An analysis of IE6 usage statistics from three different sites, and an attempt to determine from current trends when IE6 will become irrelevant
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19 Ways to Build Your Design Business When Work is Slow
Some helpful reminders for freelancers of productive ways to use downtime.
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Top 10 Sites for Illustrator Tutorials
"Photoshop gets most of the attention when it comes to tutorials and blog posts, but Illustrator is also an excellent tool for designers. If you’re... more »
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Cluster Computing vs. Grid Computing
For quite some time I held the opinion that separating cluster computing and grid computing is rather a mute point at best. In fact, I always thought... more »
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Pushing the Limits: Building a Semantic Four-column CSS Layout
The example we will be looking at uses a combination of relative and absolute positioning to place columns where they are supposed to go. We'll start... more »
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Illustrator Make with Mesh
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Sometimes I think “what could I create next?”. Why not start with just 4 lines and 5 color swatches and see from there? Use the tools at hand and see... more »
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Effective Prioritizing for Freelancers
Freelancing is often a juggling act. Not only are you working on several different projects at any given time, but you’ve probably also got projects... more »
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PHP 5.3 and Closures
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I'm fairly excited because as of only a week or so ago I found the closures rfc, and not only did I find that the rfc has a working patch, apparently... more »
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The Source of Bugs
Bugs most commonly come from somebody’s failure to reduce complexity. Less commonly, they come from the programmer’s misunderstanding of something... more »
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Debugging PHP with Firebug and FirePHP
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FirePHP is a plugin for Firebug, the web development plugin for Firefox, that allows PHP scripts to talk to a Firebug panel. FirePHP installs... more »
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Create vector and cartoonish characters: Top 25 Photoshop tutorials
Creating a vector image of yourself or drawing a cartoonish character isn’t very easy. In this post I focused on collecting some of best tutorials on... more »
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Cutting Edge Browsers and Their Development Tools
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The ability to view and manipulate the entire DOM of a web page after it is rendered is crazy powerful. I’m not sure if Firebug was the first tool... more »
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Web Accessibility And Your Business - An Interview With Schalk Neethling
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On June 18th 2008 Schalk Neethling, Web Builder Zone Leader, was interviewed on Radio Today concerning the topic of web accessibility and how not... more »
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Collaborate and Connect with Subversion
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Consider this: You own a small web design and development shop. Maybe it’s just you and a couple of other people. Because of your size, you rely... more »
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Next Generation Javascripting
But even as Javascript—as well as the HTML elements it has access to— continues to mature, the general perception of what these technologies enable do... more »
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4 Easy Ways To Spruce Up Your HTML Markup
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In the last issue of the Tech Times, I mentioned I was hard at work with the team here on a new front page design for sitepoint.com. While most of our... more »
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25 Incredibly Artistic Websites - Part II
A nice collection of sites that feature illustration and artistic backgrounds - for inspiration.
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Google now offers easy great looking web galleries for your website
Picasa Templates Create great looking web photo galleries for your site with Picasa and web gallery templates. Come check out free and easy tutorials... more »
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CSS Layout Cheats
These CSS layout template cheats are tested in all browsers to provide workarounds for CSS browser issues and a killer starting point for a variety of... more »
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CSS Frameworks
Offers a description of 8 CSS frameworks to help with organization, cross browser problems, and faster development time.
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Warning: This Secret CSS Technique Will Surprise You!
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As the reader opens and closes the page, the illustration is pushed and pulled sideways behind the sheet. The result is a pretty nifty illusion of... more »
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Blogging Tips for Developers
Blogs are becoming an important and prevalent method for software developers to share knowledge, tips and code. Unlike code-sharing sites that have... more »
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Forget Photoshop start using tools closer to the bare HTML
Understanding the domain language, sketching the whole project down, positioning objects on a surface to fulfill the need and then build a... more »
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USPS PHP Rate Calculator
I have reworked a popular USPS PHP Rate Calculation script written by Mark Sanborn to include a few more options in the shipping calculation and also... more »
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Build Your Own Social Home!
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Many of us have many “homes” on the interwebs. Personally I use Twitter, Flickr, ScrnShots, and Facebook. These web services are cool enough to offer... more »
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