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We have assembled a large number of external links to quality websites and blog posts covering all aspects of web design, web development, SEO (search engine optimization, freelancing, content management systems, and so on.

There are two categories of web design and web development resources on our website: (1) those we describe onsite, and (2) lists of offsite resources, or external links. We identify all external links (that is, links that take you to other websites) with this image: .

Onsite resources: As far as we -- as a group of web designers and web developers -- are concerned, some web design and web development subjects are more useful to have at our fingertips than other subjects. There are some resources we use so often that we have written about them and presented them as content for this website. These ONSITE resources can be found on our sitemap (or site index) page.

Offsite resources: The easiest way to present web design and web development resources of interest is to create web pages of links to relevant, resource-rich websites. We have many such links, and most of them are on this page. When we have a significant number of resources in a given category, we split them off onto their own resources page. These separate resource pages are linked from this page.

Why do we go to the trouble to list all these resources, when it is so much easier and faster to just Google them? It's simple. The web design and web development resources that we list on our website consist of:

1. web design and web development resources that are of value to us,
2. resources we may visit repeatedly,
3. resources that contain information that is particularly useful to our clients in making decisions regarding features for their own websites or ongoing web projects, and finally,
4. resources we have noted and intend to research at a later time.

We hope you find these links helpful in your quest to learn more about these subjects or determine the needs for your own website(s) and web development projects.

Index of Web Design & Development Resources

This wonderful list of web design and web development resources is the result of many hours of research. I sincerely hope that someone besides me gets some use from this list.

1. Article Directories: Web Content Resources
2. Backlinks, Link Building for Nashville SEO
3. Blogging Tips
4. Blogware
5. Blogging Tips
6. Browser Compatibility
7. Business Resources for Smaller Companies
8. Code Snippets & Code Libraries for Web Development
9. Color Tools,Color Theory in Web Design
10. Content: Free Content for Websites
11. Content Management Systems (CMS) for Web Development
12. CSS Frameworks for Web Design
13. CSS Layouts: Starting Points
14. CSS Layouts & Templates: Free Web Design Resources
15. CSS/XHTML Layout Examples (200+, Onsite)
16. CSS/(X)HTML Layout Examples (Onsite): Typography-Based
17. CSS Layout Generators
18. CSS for Web Design
19. CSS for Web Development
20. Database Resources for Web Development - MySQL
21. Forms: Compact CSS Forms with Labels Inside Text Fields
22. Forms: Resources, Guides, & Tutorials for CSS Forms
23. Forms: CSS Form Examples
24. Form Validation Examples
25. Freelancing: Web Design & Development
26. Freeware Resources: Free Software, Free Apps
27. Google Web Services
28. Graphics Resources for Web Design
29. HTML Reference for Web Design
30. HTML 5 (HTML5) for Web Design
31. JavaScript for Web Development
32. Joomla Resources: Content Management Platform
33. Learning & Education Online
34. Lightboxes, Slideshows: Free Photo Gallery Resources
35. Lists: Web Design
36. Model Websites for Design Inspiration
37. MySQL Database Resources for Web Development
38. Open Source Applications: PHP
39. Photography and Web Design, plus a few resources for interesting pics
40. PHP for Web Development
41. Productivity in Web Design & Web Development
42. Reference Material for Web Design & Web Development
43. Security, Forensics, Hacking, PCI
44. SEO Megasites
45. SEO Resource Collections & Lists
46. SEO Resources - Analytics, Backlinks, Content, More
47. SEO Tools: Free Online Tools for SEO
48. Sitemap Generators: Free
49. Social Media & Web Development
50. Software & Apps for Web Design & Development
51. Tables for Web Design
52. Tools: Online Tools for Web Design & Web Development
53. Typography, Fonts
54. Web Design: Best Practices, Website Usability
55. Web Design Posts (Uncategorized as of Yet)
56. Web Design and Development Blogs
57. Web Design: Navigation
58. Web Development: General
59. Web Hosting Server Performance
60. WordPress
61. WordPress: Exporting & Importing Database to New Hosting Server
62. Wordpress Themes
63. Writing Web Content
64. Zzz: As Yet Uncategorized Web Resources
65. Entertainment: Anime
66. Entertainment: Humor

Article Directories: Web Content Resources

See Article Directories

Backlinks, Link Building for Nashville SEO

• Jim Western Link Building Guide
  Excerpt: I have been providing many thousands of links to my SEO clients and I have myself established a number of PR6 sites and almost won the biggest SEO (search engine optimization) contest ever with the means of huge link power...The purpose of this article is to help you in your link building using 5 steps.
• Jim Western Site Index
  Excerpt: SEO for WordPress: The Complete Guide; What a SEO Professional should know; Link Building Guide; Forums, Branding and Public Relations; Link Bait; Google Sandbox – All Latest Data; Future PageRank prediction; Tutorial: Feed your websites by blogging; My Guide to SEO and Success...
• Link Baiting
  Excerpt: Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building...It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page...and linking to it from their sites...
• The Art of Link Baiting
  Excerpt: In order to bait a link, you need a hook. Hooks come in variety of flavors, some of the more popular would include news hooks, contrary hooks, attack hooks, resource hooks, humour hooks...
• Link Baiting for Fun and Profit
  Excerpt: Linkbaiting is one of the most universally effective tactics for promoting a site, both for search engine rankings and short-term traffic boosts. There’s no special list of guidelines that sets linkbaiting apart from normal content building or promotion except the knowledge that you’re creating something that’s specifically designed to appeal to link-savvy bloggers and web content creators...

Blogging Tips

• Performancing - Helping Bloggers Succeed
  Excerpt: The goal of this website is to help bloggers succeed by creating a home for professional bloggers and a place where those new to blogging have a one-stop resource with tutorials, analysis, tips, metrics, plugins, themes, jobs, monetization tools and a community base to share ideas, & build strategic relationships...

Blogware

• Simple Log
• WordPress

Browser Compatibility

• Netrenderer :: plug in URL to view partial screenshot graphic; IE6
• Tredosoft :: instructions for installing Multiple IE to run and test multiple versions of IE on your PC

Business Resources for Smaller Companies

• Young Go-Getter
• Fast Company Magazine
• Wired Magazine

Code Snippets & Code Libraries for Web Development

• 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories
  Excerpt: The beauty of code snippets is their ability to save you time when developing a website... Whether you keep a file with your own often-reused snippets or turn to one of the many online repositories, snippets can really speed up your site development...
• JQuery
  Excerpt: jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript...

Color Theory in Web Design

See Color Tools, Color Theory

Add later: http://www.javascripter.net/faq/rgbtohex.htm

Content - Free Content for Websites

For lots of free content, be sure to check out the numerous Free Article Directories.

• DeveloperShed
  Excerpt: The Developer Shed Network is now offering you the chance to enhance your site using Developer Shed’s DevText feature. DevText allows you to feature Developer Shed’s content from your website – for free...

Content Management Systems (CMS) for Web Development

Please see Content Management Systems (CMS) for Web Development.

CSS Frameworks for Web Design

This web development resource has been moved to its own web design resources page: see CSS Frameworks.

CSS Layouts: Starting Points

This web development resource has been moved to its own web design resources page: see CSS Layouts: Stating Points.

CSS Layouts & Templates: Free Web Design Resources

The free CSS layouts and templates for web design in this section are more than just box models: they include sample logos, color schemes, content sections with filler text, sample form layouts, and so on. Web designers should use these kinds of CSS layouts when they are interested in a starting point that provides more than just empty box models.

Whereas most links on this Web Design and Web Development resources page will take you away from this website and to other websites, you can find links and examples of dozens of CSS layouts which I have already compiled and added to this website (BestWeb Nashville web development) here. If you are a new web design client and would like an easy and simple way to show us what type of site design you find appealing, this is a great place to look:

• Free CSS/XHTML Layouts :: open source, no-cost CSS/XHTML layouts from various sources
• Free Typography-Based CSS/XHTML Layouts :: open source, no-cost CSS/XHTML layouts with typography themes and relatively few images

Here are a few of the better websites we have found and reviewed which contain numerous -- in some cases, hundreds -- of free CSS/ (X)HTML layouts:

• Non-notorious CSS templates for websites :: Excerpt: The only place you should visit for free website templates and layouts...Template World (Absolutely top quality, unique and creative web site templates designed by certified web professionals); Studio7designs (Our Nautica series open source templates are free website templates for free use for non profit and individual users); Andreas Viklund templates (These are my free XHTML/CSS website templates. They are free to use for any purpose without any limitations or obligations); Solucija CSS Templates (Free CSS Templates from Solucija, can be used on a noncommercial site aswell as on a commercial one. All templates are hand coded and lightweight (under 60KB) which ensures fast loading.); OpenDesigns directory (Group of Open Source Website Designers providing free web design templates helping to make the global internet a prettier place.)...
• 50 Free High-Quality and New (X)HTML/CSS Templates
  Excerpt: In this post, we’ll showcase 50 free high-quality & new (X)HTML/CSS layout & templates...
• Best Collection Of Free CSS Templates from List-e-log
  If you want to find cross browser css templates, this collection is for you...
• 38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website Templates
  Excerpt: A friend once asked "why do you still surf for web templates when you can create one?". I answered, for fun. But then again I start to ponder and realiazed even if we are capable to create, there are still many great reasons to check out free templates out there...
• 101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1
  Excerpt: ... this should be considered as next step to web development process. There are a lot of really professional and high quality XHTML, CSS templates available for free... Here I represent to You the first part of free templates – every template is hand-picked; I picked only those CSS templates I thought were interesting in code or really exceptional according to standard layouts...
• 101 More Quality CSS, XHTML Free Templates: Part 2
  Excerpt: As promised second part follows, here I continue free XHTML and CSS template and free layout article...

CSS Layout Generators: Free Web Design Resources

The web design and web development resource websites in this section will allow users who know a little bit about CSS layout to create and automatically generate CSS layouts.

• Grid System Generator
  Excerpt: There are a lot of useful web code generators and graphics generators out there on the web, but did you know that there are also css layout generators too? Today we are focusing on CSS grid layout generators. These tools will help you create and visualize different web design layouts and draw grids in various ways to assist you in your design process...
• CSSCreator.com: CSS Layout Generator The layout generated has changed significantly from previous versions. The main reason for change was to simplify the layout and in doing so make it easier to use. It no longer provides fixed width columns with fluid center or full length columns by default... This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to three (3) columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages... Links to articles in the "Layout Hints" box to the right and the CSS Forum will provide help where needed... The generator requires a DOM-capable browser with JavaScript enabled... To create your layout, select the structural elements your site requires (header, footer, columns). Then specify a size in the field provided and choose a background color from the color chooser below...
• Layout-O-Matic We've already been through the pain of making our layouts cross-browser compatible, so you don't have to! In the spirit of the wonderful, here's the first of InkNoise's toys for the Web designer crowd... Select a layout type, width, and other options to the left, and then click Download or View and pick up your multi-column CSS layout starter kit (turning it into something unique and beautiful not included). You're welcome to use the resulting generated layouts for any purpose, personal or commercial... The resulting layouts have been tested in as many browsers as, appear to work in all of them except the 4.x browsers...
• HTML PHP CSS Website Template Maker This PHP - HTML - CSS template generator creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer. This PHP / CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs full featured tableless code i.e. tables are NOT used for the template with the column layout... The resulting template is actually a combination of several files (i.e. this is a true PHP, html, css template that makes it easy to control multiply pages at a web site). This template maker generates the following files... Bottom Line: This is a learn as you go code generator (i.e. by changing input values and then viewing the source code, it's possible to learn a lot about PHP, HTML and CSS column layouts). Since the generated page is broken up into the various files and all pulled together by PHP includes, the resulting page(s) will all be uniform in appearance. Not to mention, much easier to manage because changing one file (such as menu.html) will automatically change the content on ALL pages. Of course, using the external style sheet will automatically change all the fonts, colors, etc on all pages at once...
• FIRDAMATIC: The Design Tool for the Uninspired Webloggers :: Firdamatic™ is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customize layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze. This tool is available for free for personal/non-commercial use only, and comes with no technical support as my interest in web design has died down. Use it at your own risk...
• The Perfect Fluid Width Layout :: I’ve been thinking a lot about screen resolution lately and how the use of fluid width websites is the best way to accommodate all visitors screen resolutions. The alternative, static width websites, have to make a choice. You can optimize for 800px width, the lowest common denominator, and give up the use of several hundred pixels of width for users with larger screens. Or, you can optimize for 1024px and just make your 800px visitors horizontal scroll. Anything wider than 1024px is too much for static width sites, in my opinion... I think the best possible scenario is to make a fluid width site that accomodates everyone. Here is what I think would be the "Perfect" fluid width layout: Works in all major browsers, Shrinks to 780px (This accomodates users with 800×600 resolution, with no horizontal scroll), Grows to 1260px (This accomodates users with 1280×768 resolution and everything in between - This accommodates 90%+ of all internet users. You could easily make this layout grow larger, but be mindful of how line-length affects readability. Nobody wants to read a line of text 1980px long. Sidebars are of "equal height" to the main content, Page content is centered for users with even higher resolutions...
• Web Templates You Can Customize :: doTemplate is a catalog of free Web templates you can easily customize before download. Have a try or view demo and see how quickly you can create your own webdesign. We are constantly adding new free templates so don't forget to bookmark us and come back. You can follow us on Twitter and stay tuned for latest updates...

CSS Resources: Lists and Collections

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• List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers :: This is not an attempt to create a mega list of tools for CSS developers; only few but really useful tools have been selected and placed under appropriate categories. If you see that a really useful tool has been missed, please feel free to share the link in comments...
• Free-CSS.com: Huge List of CSS Resources :: This massive list of CSS resources includes CSS Tools, CSS Techniques, CSS Navigation Menus, CSS Layouts, CSS Specifications, CSS Literature...

CSS for Web Design

The websites and blog posts in this CSS for Web Design section contain a plethora of tips and tricks using CSS which can add functionality and pizazz to your web designs.

• CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites
  Excerpt: CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. It’s simple, powerful, and easy to use. But even with all its simplicity, it hides some important capabilities. Ask any designer, and they’ll tell you that the majority of their code headaches are caused and ultimately solved by CSS...We’ve put together a list of the most frustrating and time-consuming CSS headaches and, more importantly, their solutions...
• 50+ Fresh CSS Techniques, Tutorials, & Resources
  Excerpt: Learning CSS and how to use it effectively can be a reasonably easy thing to do for a beginning web developer. In the hands of a seasoned professional, CSS can be stretched and pushed it to its limits where it can seem complicated and yet perfect at the same time...In this article, we’ll bring you up to date with the latest in CSS development through a collection of fresh CSS tutorials...
• 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
  Excerpt: There are thousands of sites out there offering tips and tricks for using CSS... They’re all well-known for their mastery of CSS and all that goes along with it...
• Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS
  Excerpt: Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential...
• 5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started
  Excerpt: CSS frameworks have grown in popularity recently, enabling web developers to rapidly prototype web designs. The idea of CSS Frameworks is to do all the heavy lifting of the repetitive tasks you do over and over again on each site, allowing you to get faster results and get to the fun stuff designers love. Main features of good CSS Framework are to 1) rapidly speed up our development time, 2) should have a very small size, 3) have good documentation and tutorials and 4) have clean grid structure. You will need a basic understanding of the CSS framework you are going to use to understand why and how things get solved...
• 250+ Resources to Help You Become a CSS Expert
  Excerpt: CSS is the second-most-important thing you can master when it comes to web design, right after HTML... the capabilities of CSS can be staggering... more than 250 resources for mastering CSS...
• Grid System Generator
  Excerpt: This tool generates grid systems in valid CSS / XHTML for rapid prototyping, development, and production environments. The grid system generators offer the ability to customize the width, no. of columns, and margin(s) to allow more flexibility for various designs...
• Minimal and Modern Layout: PSD to XHTML/CSS Conversion
  Excerpt: In this web design tutorial, you’ll see a process for converting a Photoshop mockup to working HTML/CSS template. This is Part 2 of a tutorial series that will show you how to create the design, and then convert it to an HTML/CSS template...
• 25 Incredibly Useful CSS Tricks You Should Know
  Excerpt: Here are 25 incredibly useful CSS tricks that will help you design great web interfaces. You might be aware of some or all of these techniques, but this can be your handy resource to nifty CSS tricks that you should know...
• 6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography
  Excerpt: Typography is the art of designing letters, words, paragraphs, and how they interact with each other. Many designers and developers often equate typography with choosing a font or typeface, while others simply forget that 95% of web design is typography and tend to forget about it. Clearly, if typography is really 95% of web design, it should be at the forefront of the mind of every designer and developer. Here are Six Ways To Improve Your Web Typography...
• 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
  Excerpt: CSS is important... Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all, a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a CSS file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actually, it is... Over the last few years web developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques... Below you’ll find a list of techniques we, as web architects, really couldn’t live without... Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop websites...
• Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements
  Excerpt: CSS is one of the most important building blocks of modern web design. Standards demand the use of CSS for formatting and styling pages, and with good reason. It’s lighter-weight and capable of much more than older methods like tables... And CSS isn’t nearly as tricky as some people tend to believe. Below are fresh tips and techniques for creating and styling design elements with CSS. They’re a good place to start if you’re new to CSS but are valuable even if you’re a veteran designer. Not all the techniques are strictly CSS; some include integration with JavaScript or XHTML to extend the functionality of your site...

CSS for Web Development

• CSS: Techniques, Tutorials, Layouts
  Excerpt: Since web development is a quite dynamic field nowadays, new techniques are being developed and updated all the time. A primary example are CSS-related techniques, which emerge almost every day and offer more possibilities for fellows web developers... fresh CSS techniques, tutorials and layouts...
• The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins
  Excerpt: Out of all the CSS concepts designers have ever used, an award probably needs to be given to the use of Negative Margins as being the least talked about method of positioning. It’s like an online taboo—everyone’s doing it, yet no one wants to talk about it...
• The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property
  Excerpt: The CSS float property allows a developer to incorporate table-like columns in an HTML layout without the use of tables. If it were not for the CSS float property, CSS layouts would not be possible except using absolute and relative positioning... we’ll discuss exactly what the float property is and how it affects elements in particular contexts... we’ll showcase a few practical uses for the CSS float property...
• CSS Positioning
  Excerpt: The CSS positioning properties allow you to position an element. It can also place an element behind another, and specify what should happen when an element's content is too big... Elements can be positioned using the top, bottom, left, and right properties. However, these properties will not work unless the position property is set first. They also work differently depending on the positioning method. There are four different positioning methods...
• Understanding CSS Specificity
  Excerpt: Specificity can be tricky... There's a quick approach that I use that can hopefully help you out... When it comes to specificity, it just takes one class selector to override any style declared with just element selectors, and it takes just one ID selector to override any style declared with class and/or element selectors...
• Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Techniques and Resources
  Excerpt: ...a good overview of the different types of lists available, as well as some of the browser quirks that occur in relation to HTML lists...a showcase of various uses, techniques, and tutorials that utilize HTML lists. All of this should put strong emphasis on the importance of using lists in modern web design, reminding even experienced coders how HTML lists can improve the flexibility and maintainability of a website...
• Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3
  Excerpt: ...we’re going to focus on using those CSS techniques (and a little JavaScript) to create some practical elements and layouts. As before, caveat coder — a lot of the CSS properties we’re going to use have limited support, if any, in IE6/7 and probably 8. Firefox 3.5+ and Safari 4 are your best bet right now to see all the cool stuff going on in CSS right now (Chrome does a pretty good job, too)...
• What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS
  Excerpt: CSS 3 properties like border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow are starting to gain momentum in WebKit (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and Gecko (Firefox) browsers. They are already creating more lightweight pages and richer experiences for users, not to mention that they degrade pretty gracefully; but they are only the tip of the iceberg of what we can do with CSS 3...In this article, we will take those properties a step further and explore transformations, transitions, and animations...
• Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools
  Excerpt: Styling Design Elements we covered the basics of web design with CSS. In Part 2 we’re offering up some more advanced techniques and effects you can achieve with CSS. Everything from creating your own online apps (like calendars) to styling web pages for use with the iPhone to some basics of working with CSS3 is covered here...
• Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3
  Excerpt: ...we start by applying CSS3 to something we all have to create: buttons... Calls to action are critical for any website, and a compelling, attention-grabbing, clickable button goes a long way toward driving that engagement. In the past, really awesome buttons needed extra markup, sliding doors or other trickery. We’ll show you here how to create nice button styles without any hacks or cheats.
• The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look
  Excerpt: z-index has undoubtedly caused as much confusion and frustration as any other CSS property. Ironically, however, when z-index is fully understood, it is a very easy property to use, and offers an effective method for overcoming many layout challenges... In this article, we’ll explain exactly what z-index is, how it has been misunderstood, and we’ll discuss some practical uses for it...
• CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions
  Excerpt: Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. In fact, navigation menu is probably the most important element in web design: after all, it is being used more often than any other element on a given page...
• Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
  Excerpt: CSS has become the standard for building websites in today’s industry. Whether you are a hardcore developer or designer, you should be familiar with it. CSS is the bridge between programming and design, and any Web professional must have some general knowledge of it. If you are getting your feet wet with CSS, this is the perfect time to fire up your favorite text editor and follow along in this tutorial as we cover the most common and practical uses of CSS...
• Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics
  Excerpt: We won’t talk about design trends and styles that characterize modern CSS-based layouts. These styles are always changing. Instead, we’ll focus on the broad underlying concepts that you need to know to create the most successful CSS layouts using the latest techniques. For instance, separating content and presentation is still a fundamental concept of CSS Web pages. But other characteristics of modern CSS Web pages are new or more important than ever. A modern CSS-based website is: progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typographically rich...
• CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials
  Excerpt: With version three of CSS, many exciting features will be implemented. CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Many time-saving rules are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image, multi-column layout... only the most modern browsers currently support these effects... we will take a look at some interesting properties of CSS3 that you can put into practice in your website designs today...
• 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time - Part 1
  Excerpt: CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right... Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! This is just the first series, the second part will be coming soon...
• CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials
  Excerpt: Part 2 of our 101 CSS Techniques series takes a look at more handy CSS techniques that you can incorporate into your web designs...
• 20 Very Useful CSS Stylesheet Tips & Tricks
  Excerpt: Following are few CSS Tips and Tricks that I think every web developer should be aware of. You may already know many of these tricks... Disclaimer: Not all from the below CSS tricks are written by me. Some of them are taken from different sources on internet...

Database Resources for Web Development - MySQL

• 10 Ways to Automatically & Manually Backup MySQL Database
  Excerpt: MySQL is one of the most popular open source database management system for the development of interactive websites... If your site stores its sensitive data in a MySQL database, you will most definitely want to backup that information so that it can be restored... There are several ways to backup MySQL data. In this article we’ll look at how to backup your databases using different methods, we will also learn how to achieve an automatic backup solution to make the process easier. Starting with the mysqldump utility that comes with MySQL, we will review several examples using mysqldump, including the backup of your database to a file, another server, and even a compressed gzip file and send it to your email...
• MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up

Forms: Compact CSS Forms with Labels Inside Text Fields

• Fancy Form Design Using CSS :: This CSS forms article contains several versions of the CSS form using various features. Nice.
  Excerpt: Forms represent the one area of your web site where you absolutely must commit time and energy to ensure user accessibility. Even though forms represent some of the most complex interactions that can occur on a web page, in many cases these interactions are only represented visually -- via the proximity of a form element to its label, or grouping by borders and background colors. Users of assistive technology such as screen readers may not be able to see these visual clues, so it's vital that you support these users by ensuring accessibility. The key concept behind providing an accessible form is to have descriptive labeling of all its sections and input elements...
• Making Compact Forms More Accessible :: This CSS forms article features a compact form which has the labels inside the text fields, and includes the Javascript to make the in-textbox labels disappear with a mouse click.
  Excerpt: A designer recently handed me a compact-form design that included the oft-seen technique of putting field names directly inside of the text fields themselves... The typical method of marking this up is to put the field name in the value attribute of each input element. You would then throw in some JavaScript and server-side scripting to make sure that the user didn’t submit the form with the default values of...

Forms: Resources, Guides, & Tutorials for CSS Forms

• 47 Excellent AJAX Forms
  Excerpt: Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms... Thanks to AJAX, we can provide real-time feedback to our users using server-side validation scripts and eliminate the need for redundant validation functions and processing data...
• 40 CSS Form Style Tutorials
  Excerpt: When developing a project it’s important to have a good css form input structure throughout. Most commonly-used CSS forms will tend to be Login, Register, and User Profiles. If you have taken the time to develop a custom template for your project more often than not the default appearance of forms you have created are not ideally suited to your design's overall look and feel. We have gathered together a great list of tutorials that should have your new forms looking great, and breathe life into your existing form designs...
• Tips for Coding and Designing Usable Web Forms
  Excerpt: The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now... Call-to-action functionality often leads users to a form; purchases are made using forms; users register or subscribe using forms — the uses for forms are endless... While it is fairly easy to slap together a form in HTML, it’s not as easy to code, style, and design your form in a manner that makes it usable and accessible to the majority of users. Since forms play such a large role in website conversions and success rates, the tips below... should prove valuable for developers creating and coding web forms...
• Comment Form Styling: Examples and Best Practices
  Excerpt: Comment forms are an essential part of our blogs, social networks, and websites. Comment forms are our websites’ communication channel. Through these forms we get feedback on our content; therefore, it’s necessary to design them in such a way that they are easy to understand by our user base... A good comment form should align with our website’s main design, but at the same time it should be interesting enough to encourage easy commenting. It must be usable and accessible if we want to capture all of our visitors’ feedback... We searched for some examples and found original and creative ones. Below we present these examples along with a few guidelines that a designer should follow to make a great comment form...
• Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
  Excerpt: Designing effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience... Recently there have been a number of noteworthy techniques such as styling different form fields, live validation, Context highlighting, trading options from field to another, slider controls and more – using CSS and different Javascript libraries. Below we present findings of search to more than 40 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript...
• Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials
  Excerpt: CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches, and techniques -- definitely worth taking a very close look at! We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing...
• Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas
  Excerpt: The web form is often the main communication channel between visitors and site owners... it’s necessary to make sure that web forms are easy to understand and intuitive to use... Web forms don’t have to be boring and, using CSS or Flash, you can easily make sure that they are appealing and effective... Below we present over 40 (really) beautiful examples of web forms as well as modern solutions and creative ideas related to web form design. Some of the examples are Flash-based; however, in most cases you can easily create similar designs with pure CSS and (X)HTML...
• Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms
  Excerpt: Where should the link to the form be placed in the layout? How should we design it? How should we highlight the labels and how should we align them? How do web form design patterns look like in modern web-sites? These were exactly the questions we’ve asked ourselves. And to get the answers we’ve conducted a survey... Below we present findings of our survey of current web form design patterns — the results of an analysis of 100 popular websites where web-forms (should) matter. We have decided to start with sign-up forms first. We present the first part of our findings below...
• Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms, Part 2
  Excerpt: We have focused on sign-up forms as we wanted to consider further crucial forms (e.g. checkout forms) separately. Afterwards we’ve gone through each and every one sign-up form of the selected sites and analyzed the design approaches implemented in these forms. Below we present the second part of our findings — the results of our survey among web-forms of 100 popular web-sites where web-forms (should) matter... Please notice that this post is not about checkout forms — that’s a topic for another discussion, we may consider them separately in one of the upcoming posts.
• CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions
  Excerpt: In Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms can be found everywhere. Every start-up tries to attract visitors’ attention, so web forms are becoming more and more important for the success of any company. In the end, exactly those web forms are responsible for the first contact with potential customers. Let’s take a look, which modern solutions a web developer can use, designing his/her next CSS-based form...
• Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials
  Excerpt: Ideally, users will fill the web form with necessary information and finish their job successfully. However, people often make mistakes. This is where web form validation comes into play. The goal of web form validation is to ensure that the user provided necessary and properly formatted information needed to successfully complete an operation. In this article we will go beyond the validation itself and explore different validation and error feedback techniques, methods and approaches...
• 10 Intelligent Ways of using Form Elements
  Excerpt: When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty smart results using the FORM tag. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move... The post below is made up of 10 smart and intelligent ways of using FORM elements to produce some neat effects, components and plugins, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure...
• Beautiful Forms – Design, Style, & make it work with PHP & Ajax
  Excerpt: Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms... Thanks to AJAX, we can provide real-time feedback to our users using server-side validation scripts and eliminate the need for redundant validation functions and processing data... Today we wanted to share with you some great steps to get the perfect form: we will go through designing and usability you need to keep in mind, styling your form, spicing it up with some nice javascript effects, validating user’s input and finally getting it to work using PHP and AJAX...
• Validating Web Forms with JQuery
  Excerpt: This page lists jQuery plugins I’ve written. jQuery is a JavaScript library that makes writing JavaScript easy and fun...
• CSS Globe Forms Collection
  Excerpt: I am happy to present a new thing on CSS Globe: CSSG Collections! Approx. once a months I will design, code and give a way a collection of certain web elements for free. First in the series of CSS(G) collections are web forms. I am giving away 5 uniquely designed and coded web form styles. Hope you'll find them useful...
http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2008/07/27/Enhance-your-input-fields-with-simple-CSS-tricks.aspx http://articles.sitepoint.com/print/style-web-forms-css

Freelancing - Web Design & Development

• How To Find Time For… Everything!
• How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism
• Freelance Contracts: Do’s And Don’ts
• How To Persuade Your Users, Boss or Clients
• How To Identify and Deal With Different Types Of Clients
• Getting Clients: Approaching The Company
• Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make
• Essential Habits Of An Effective Professional Freelancer
• 10 Costly Money Mistakes Freelancers Should Avoid
• 10 Tips for Writing A Remarkable Resume in Today’s Creative World
• The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer
• Give your résumé a face lift
• 6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck
• How To Create A Great Web Design CV and Résumé?
• Creatively Handling the Admin Side of Freelancing
• Creatively Handling the Admin Side of Freelancing
• Invoice Like A Pro: Examples and Best Practices
• How to Make Yourself Stand Out as a Freelancer :: from Noupe.com
• 15 Helpful Blogs No Freelancer Should Forget :: from Noupe.com
• How To Create The Perfect Client Questionnaire :: from Noupe.com
• 60+ Unusual Business Card Ideas & Designs :: from Noupe.com
• Going Freelance: The Pros & Cons from Top Web Designers :: from Noupe.com
• 5 Simple Tips for Improving Designer-Client Relationships :: from Noupe.com

Freeware Resources: Free Software, Free Apps

See also Open Source Applications

• CNET Download.com :: CNET Downloads is the place where people go to discover free-to-try legal downloads. Featuring rated reviews, CNET Downloads is the trusted, safe, and secure resource for softwaremobile applications, and game downloads. With everything from PC starter kits to games, security patches, screensavers, and mobile apps, you can play with more than 80,000 free downloads. Features such as most-popular lists, editorial reviews, blogs, and how-to articles will help you find the software that is right for you... We provide timely, relevant, and credible information about important new software and game releases and updates as they become available. Our editors provide unbiased reviews and ratings for thousands of products, and they are committed to maintaining coverage that is accurate, and enlightening. All products in our library go through a rigorous testing process...

Google Web Services

• Google Custom Search :: With Google Custom Search, you can harness the power of Google to create a customized search experience for your own website... Include one or more websites, or specific webpages; Host the search box and results on your own website; Customize the look and feel of the results to match your site...
• Google Web Directory :: This is Google's version of the DMOZ (the Open Directory Project).
  Excerpt: The Google Web Directory integrates Google's sophisticated search technology with Open Directory pages to create the most useful tool for finding information on the web. Key improvements include the following: Importance ranking: The Google Web Directory starts with a collection of websites selected by Open Directory volunteer editors. Google then applies its patented PageRank technology and other factors to rank the sites based on their importance. Horizontal bars, which are displayed next to each web page, indicate Google's view of the importance of the page. This distinctive approach to ranking web sites enables the highest quality pages to appear first as top results for any Google directory category...
• Google Options :: This is Google's list of all its web services; and it is quite a list!
• Google Webmaster Central :: the login page for Google's set of tools for website services; once you verify your ownership of your website(s), you can start monitoring the site's statistics with Google Analytics; submit XML sitemap for each site to ensure all pages get crawled...
• Google Analytics
  Excerpt: Enterprise-class web analytics made smarter, friendlier and free... Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you're more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites......
• Google Cheat Sheet
  Excerpt: Here's a quick list of some of our most popular tools to help refine and improve your search. For additional help with Google Web Search or any other Google product, you can visit our main Google Help page...

Graphics Resources for Web Design

• 80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites :: from Noupe.com
• Outstanding Website Background Guide: 60+ Impressive Resources :: from Noupe.com
• 40+ Absolutely Stylish & Creative Hand-picked Wallpapers :: from Noupe.com
• Archive for the 'Freebies' Category :: a few grunge backgrounds
• Background pattern library
• Pattern backgrounds
• Tiled background patters
• Background pattern library - some are free
• Pattern backgrounds
• Tiled background patters

HTML Reference for Web Design

• HTML Codes - Characters and symbols :: Here is some assistance for the various HTML codes required for special characters... Standard ASCII set, HTML Entity names, ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet No. 1; Browser support: All browsers...

HTML 5 (HTML5) for Web Design

• HTML5 and The Future of the Web
  Excerpt: Some have embraced it, some have discarded it as too far in the future... Things like jQuery plugins, formatting techniques, and design trends change very quickly throughout the Web community... When looking for some stability, we can usually turn to the code itself as it tends to stay unchanged for a long time (relatively speaking)... In this article, I’m hoping to give you some tips and insight into HTML5 to help ease the inevitable pain that comes with transitioning to a slightly different syntax...
• HTML5 enabling script
  Excerpt: Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as ARTICLE, is to use the HTML5 shiv, I've quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements...html5.js must be inserted in the head element...
• Aside Revisited
  Excerpt: Since the HTML5 specification is not yet final, we can expect changes to improve on the good bits and cut out the bad bits. ASIDE — misunderstood a good bit — has now been tweaked, based on feedback from the web development community. In this article, we’ll take a look at what’s changed...When we previously discussed aside in Understanding Aside, its definition suggested that it should be used for content tangentially related to the content surrounding it, such as related reading links and glossaries. It did not appear to be an appropriate element for holding secondary content related to the site as a whole, typically known as a sidebar...
• Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch
  Excerpt: HTML5 and CSS3 have just arrived (kinda)... As web developers we shouldn’t get into pointless discussions of which markup is the best... While it is true HTML5 and CSS3 are both a work in progress and is going to stay that way for some time, there’s no reason not to start using it right now... That’s were Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation come into play... At the end of this article you’ll learn how to use Graceful Degradation techniques and technologies to keep things in place for legacy browsers; use Progressive Enhancement techniques and technologies to be up to date with the latest trends; Use HTML5 alongside a rising technology: Microformats; and, have a clear vision of some of the most exciting new features HTML5 and CSS3 will bring...

JavaScript for Web Development

• 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques
  Excerpt: CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for web designers and web developers...almost every day web designers and web developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques and share them with other web developers online. We regularly collect all these tricks, filter them, sort them, revise them and prepare them for Smashing Magazine readers... In this post, we present 45 useful CSS/JavaScript-techniques that may help you find clever solutions to some of your problems or just get inspired by what is possible with CSS. We cover interesting CSS techniques, navigation menus, CSS typography, CSS lists, and CSS buttons. The focus of this post lies on CSS; please notice that some of the techniques use JavaScript or PHP for enhanced functionality.
• 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
  Excerpt: Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload, auto-complete, image cropping, slideshows, tool tips, sliders and tables are being developed that use nifty JavaScript and AJAX scripts... When using these, web developers have to carefully consider many subtle techniques to help users get things done. In this article, we present 70 new and useful JavaScript and AJAX techniques, all of which are of the highest quality and are more or less easy to configure... jQuery, MooTools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste gets its due...
• 35 More Useful jQuery Plugins and Techniques
  Excerpt: jQuery has a fantastic library of plugins and tutorials that can speed the benefits of developing your site while demanding less time and improving workflow constraints... To present a better user experience, we often need to take good care of the little details like the functionality and interactivity of tables, forms, images or other media resources; excellent navigation and security is also a must. So here are 35 more useful jQuery resources covering those topics as well as many more...
• jQuery Tools: The Missing UI Library for the Web
  Excerpt: jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user interface components for the web. These are tabs, accordions, tooltips, overlays and scrollables. They can dramatically improve the usability and responsiveness of your site. They mainly focus on presenting information and visual appeal. After all, this is exactly what most websites desperately want: to present their content to the reader in an easy and visually pleasing manner... The most exiting fact about this library is that it is a single JavaScript file weighs only 5.59 Kb! This file can be included on your pages from free Content Delivery Network (CDN) so that it will be loaded to your customers fast no matter where they are on the globe... You don’t need to be a programmer to use these tools. and you can copy their source code to your site and things will work. Each tool is used in a similar manner and by learning one tool you can easily learn the other tools... This tutorial introduces some of the basic functionalities from each tool...
• 5 Sliding Content Techniques, Examples & jQuery HOW-TOs
  Excerpt: Today we would like to focus on sliding effects and how i can change the structure of a page in a truly unique and creative way. There are many transition effects that can be used to slide different contents, such as fading, horizontal sliding, vertical sliding, the list goes on. Try to pick the transition that best captures the style of your website... In this article we’d like to present 5 smart techniques for sliding and scrolling content using the power of CSS and the beauty of jQuery...
• Javascript For Designers: Getting on Your Feet Fast
  Excerpt: Web designers are a special breed... Web design isn’t for the faint of heart or those with any fear of failure... The most daunting ‘learning experience’ for developing web developers is to make the jump from the HTMLs and the CSSs of the world to web scripting. It looks good from the outside... But for some web designers, it proves to be a difficult lesson to learn, as scripting can require more focus, logic, and organization than the coding that you are used to...
• 5 CSS3 Techniques For Major Browsers using the Power of jQuery
  Excerpt: Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image... CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Not all current browsers support CSS3, but it is however possible to create equivalent effects and serve it with the power of jQuery. This article presents 5 CSS3 techniques which can dramatically get you a stunning user interfaces and how to achieve almost the same effects using jQuery for browsers that are not compatible yet with CSS3 new features...
• 20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tutorials for Everyday Project
  Excerpt: Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move... The post below is made up of the best 20 PHP + jQuery Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure...
• 10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content
  Excerpt: Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to present 11 smart javascript techniques you should always have handy when creating your next layout design... Page Sliders, Hiding Content, Image or Content Sliders, Animated Slideshows, Carousels, Tabbed content as well as resizable, draggable, & slidable, & lightbox modules that you can use for effective presentations of your content...
• jQuery vs. MooTools
  Excerpt: Most people getting started with JavaScript these days are faced with the challenging task of picking a library to use, or at least which one to learn first. If you're working for a company chances are they have already chosen a framework for you, in which case the point is somewhat moot. If this is the case and they've chosen MooTools and you're used to jQuery, then this article might still be of some use to you...Every day on twitter I see numerous posts that boil down to MooTools or jQuery? This article aims to help you make that choice...
• Tutorials: How jQuery Works
  Excerpt: This is a basic tutorial, designed to help you get started using jQuery. If you don't have a test page setup yet, start by creating a new HTML page with the following contents...
• jQuery Plugins
  Excerpt: jQuery offers a mechanism for adding in methods and functionality, bundled as plugins. Most of the methods and functions included in the default download are written using the jQuery plugin construct...Plugin writing comes in two steps. The first is writing any of your public methods and functions...
• 13 Awesome Javascript CSS Menus
  Excerpt: Every web designer tries to be creative when it comes to designing the main navigation of the website. Now we present you with 13 awesome Javascript CSS menus that will be very handy and easy to modify to suit your needs. Lets take a look at recent examples of these...

Joomla Resources: Content Management Platform

• Official Joomla home page :: Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone... Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone...
• Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla :: Welcome to Joomla!, a leading open source Content Management System (CMS) platform. You have made a really, really great choice to use Joomla! for your website. Joomla! is a well-tested, extensible and effective tool supported by a very active and friendly community of developers and users... Do you want to get started with Joomla!, but you have no idea where to begin? Are you concerned that maybe you don't have the technical skills needed to be successful? Does it all seem a bit overwhelming? If so, you have come to the right place. The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Joomla! is just for you. This guide is intended for those who have no clue where to begin but really want to learn how to use Joomla!. Helping you become successful installing, configuring, backing up and restoring, upgrading, and extending Joomla! is exactly the point of this guide...
• Joomla! Official Documentation :: As someone who has not used Joomla before, it is likely you have no clue how to get started using it. Maybe you have a friend or a neighbour who uses Joomla and you want a Joomla web site of your very own. Maybe you have a small business or a church or a community that needs a web presence and you want to use Joomla for that purpose. Maybe you are a seasoned Information Technology professional, but you have no idea where to get started using Joomla. If so, you are just starting a very enjoyable journey and we warmly welcome you to Joomla and encourage you to read the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Joomla...
• Joomla - Wikipedia :: Joomla! is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization. Joomla is used at 24, or 0.24%, of the 10,000 most popular websites (as ranked by Alexa)...
• Siteground Joomla Tutorials :: Joomla CMS is a multi functional Open Source application for creating websites. It is free to use and has a great community support... The following tutorial is dedicated to Joomla 1.0. If you should be using the latest Joomla!1.5 version, please check our Joomla 1.5 Tutorial...
• Official Joomla Glossary
• Dart Creations: Joomla Tutorials, Tips and Tricks :: Our tutorials will feature a number of articles to make it easier for web masters to correctly setup their Joomla site, thus making the most of this content management system.

Learning & Education Online

• Tutorom (Beta) :: lots of courses in many areas; graphic design, PHP, etc.

Lightboxes, Slideshows: Free Photo Gallery Resources

• Free Slideshow, Gallery, & Lightbox Scripts :: from Noupe.com

Lists: Web Design

• Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques :: from Noupe.com
• 8 different ways to beautifully style your lists
  Excerpt: The use of HTML lists (OL for an ordered list, UL for an unordered list) is very common these days. Today, we're going to look a little bit further than creating regular lists, by showing 8 different ways to beautifully style your HTML lists with CSS. We'll use some pure CSS techniques to make a bored list look awesome (and even have some extra functionality)...
• Sexy HTML List Tricks
  Excerpt: Behold the ubiquitous list elements, UL and OL! These two sexy elements help millions of websites display lists of information in clean, semantic fashion. Without them, we’d be crawling around like filthy cavemen, eating dirt and howling at the moon... But these list elements aren’t just sexy, they are also extremely flexible, enabling us humble designers to create robust list configurations that are semantically versatile and highly customizable. We all know how to throw down a basic list...
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/index.htm http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/index.htm http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/index.htm http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/index.htm

Model Websites for Design Inspiration

• Grid and Column Designs :: Very Nice! If you are looking for inspiration for grid and column design, here is a nice collection of 32 column-based websites. These sites show how grid layout can be applied on various type of sites — whether a massive content editorial site or just a personal blog. Check out how the layout can be divided into 3 columns, 4 columns, a mixture of narrow and wide columns...
• Model Websites - Various Categories :: Since 2007, every year I do a round up of best of CSS from Best Web Gallery (check out 07 and 08 collection). Well, it is the time of the year again...

MySQL Database Resources for Web Development

• MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up

Navigation & Menus for Web Design

• Dynamic Drive - CSS Library of Horizontal CSS Menus :: Welcome to Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast. This section has page after page of working examples of horizontal CSS menus, including dropdowns using JQuery and much more...
• Dynamic Drive - CSS Library of Vertical CSS Menus :: Welcome to Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast. This section has page after page of working examples of vertical CSS menus, including dropdowns using JQuery and much more...
• Accordion Style Navigation with JQuery
• Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices
  Excerpt: The horizontal navigation menu has become a mainstay in Web design. It is safe to say that nowadays most websites use some form of horizontal navigation to facilitate content browsing. The dominance of horizontal navigation over vertical navigation (i.e. down a sidebar) is obviously due to the design and content limitations of the latter. Notably, CNN discovered those limitations before switching from vertical to horizontal a few years back... There are, however, many styles of horizontal navigation in modern Web design. Some offer usability advantages for certain types of websites, while others are aesthetically better... In this article, we will focus on a variety of techniques and best practices to improve the usability of horizontal navigation bars, and we will note less effective styles. We’ll also look at several trends that developers can choose from when working on the navigation design for their next project...
• Free-CSS.com: Free CSS Menus :: about 60 different CSS-based navigation menus, from horizontal tabs to vertical buttons

Open Source Applications: PHP

• Noah's Classifieds :: the leading classifieds software on the web

Photography and Web Design

• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Photography Skills
• Beautiful Black and White Photography
• 50 Brilliant Bird’s-Eye Photos :: from Noupe.com
• Unique Picture Hunter :: a few good pics
• Wunderground :: fantastic and amazing photos galore
• ZinSight :: variety of photos

PHP for Web Development

• 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited
  Excerpt: This article is a rebuttal to 10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming — henceforth referred to as the previous article — published last November here on Smashing Magazine. The introduction sounds intriguing: Listed below are 10 excellent techniques that PHP developers should learn and use every time they program... Unfortunately, the intrigue devolves into disappointment. We disagree with many of the tips, and even when we don’t, the accompanying explanation is weak or misleading. In this article, we go through each and every tip from the previous article and provide our own commentary and evidence, either to validate and clarify the tip, or to refute it...
• Getting Started with PHP Regular Expressions
  Excerpt: The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text. These search patterns are written using a special format which a regular expression parser understands... Regular expressions are originating from Unix systems, where a program was designed, called grep, to help users work with strings and manipulate text. By following a few basic rules, one can create very complex search patterns...vAs an example, let’s say you’re given the task to check wether an e-mail or a telephone number has the correct form. Using a few simple commands these problems can easily be solved, thanks to regular expressions...
• Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which?
  Excerpt: PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language for many different reasons – flexibility, ease-of-use, among others – but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That’s where a PHP framework can help... PHP frameworks streamline the the development of web applications written in PHP by providing a basic structure for which to build the web applications. In other words, PHP frameworks help to promote rapid application development (RAD), which saves you time, helps build more stable applications, and reduces the amount of repetitive coding for developers. Frameworks can also help beginners to build more stable apps by ensuring proper database interaction and coding on the presentation layer. This allows you to spend more time creating the actual web application, instead of spending time writing repetitive code...The general idea behind the workings of a PHP framework is referred to as Model View Controller (MVC), an architectural pattern in programming that isolates business logic from the UI, thus allowing one to be modified separately from the other (also known as separation of concerns). With MVC, Model refers to data, View refers to the presentation layer, and Controller to the application or business logic. Basically, MVC breaks up the development process of an application, so you can work on individual elements while others are unaffected. Essentially, this makes coding in PHP faster and less complicated...
• PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website- Power Tips, Tools & How to’s
  Excerpt: Though many programmers and developers may be implementing PHP in their websites, the issue of PHP security is often overlooked when building a site. Insecure coding is rather common in PHP due to the fact that it’s such a forgiving language that will often work even when there are a few loose ends in the coding. These loose ends are what hackers are looking for, and in PHP, they’re not that hard to find. The key is for you to find them first, and to leverage PHP’s unique features to minimize your security vulnerability... PHP Security involves minimizing programming errors as much as possible, and putting proper code in place to protect against possible vulnerabilities – Often times this means putting 2-3 layers of protection in place to guard sensitive data against hackers that could otherwise cause a catastrophic result if compromised. Developers call this principle of redundant safeguarding Defense in Depth, and this concept has been proven over the years to be an extremely effective defense against malicious attacks...
• 20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tutorials for Everyday Project
  Excerpt: Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move... The post below is made up of the best 20 PHP + jQuery Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure...
• Beautiful Forms – Design, Style, & make it work with PHP & Ajax
  Excerpt: Web forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms... Thanks to AJAX, we can provide real-time feedback to our users using server-side validation scripts and eliminate the need for redundant validation functions and processing data... Today we wanted to share with you some great steps to get the perfect form: we will go through designing and usability, styling your form, javascript effects, validating user’s input, and finally getting the web form to work using PHP and Ajax...
• 20 Useful PHP Components & Tutorials for Everyday Project :: from Noupe.com
• Building Your First Simple CMS

Productivity in Web Design & Web Development

• File Management and Organization Tools and Ideas :: from Noupe.com
• 7 Steps for Systematizing The Design & Build Process :: from Noupe.com

Reference Material for Web Design & Web Development

• Special Characters in HTML This is a fine list of HTML special characters, and I listed this one specifically because it had one or two on the list which were omitted from other lists when I Googled "special characters". So thanks to DeGraeve.com from Stephen at BestWebNashville.com! More about this site - Excerpt: I like to give people the ability to do things they wouldn't normally be able to do. I like to take a fuzzy task and make it clear for the user. I want the user to finish the task quickly and easily but still let them have that proud feeling of, "Hey look what I just did!" The goal of DeGraeve.com is to provide free, high-quality, web-based tools that are easy to use for all users...
• 7 Steps for Systematizing The Design & Build Process :: from Noupe.com

Security, Forensics, Hacking, PCI

• 7Safe :: 7Safe is a leading Information Security firm offering a diverse portfolio of services including IT computer security training and certification, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance and audit consultancy, internal and external penetration testing, computer forensics, eDiscovery and litigation consultancy services and risk management compliance and audit consultancy...
• Dark Reading :: Dark Reading is a comprehensive news and information portal that focuses on IT security, helping information security professionals manage the balance between data protection and user access. We are a part of TechWeb, a unit of United Business Media (UBM), which serves the information and business needs of 10,000,000 business technology decision-makers like you that who use our websites, attend our events, utilize our services and read our magazines... Dark Reading is a member of the TechWeb Business Technology Network, a family of IT-oriented Websites and print publications led by InformationWeek, one of the industry's most popular IT publications...
• Computer Forensics World :: A Community of Computer Forensics Professionals - Computer Forensics World is a growing community of professionals involved in the digital forensics industry. It is an open resource, free for all to access and to use. It strongly encourages the sharing of information and peer to peer assistance...

SEO: Google Ranking Factors

• Google Ranking Factors - SEO Checklist :: To the extent that this information is accurate, it is among the most valuable information available on the secret Google methods and algorithms. Very interesting!
  Excerpt: There are "over 200 SEO factors" that Google uses to rank pages in the Google search results (SERPs). What are the search engine optimization rules? Here is the speculation: educated guesses by SEO webmasters on top webmaster forums. Should you wish to achieve a high ranking, the various confirmed and suspected Google Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Rules are listed below...
• Internet Summaries :: Vaughn's favorite sites and his "number 1s" in many categories. Pretty interesting.
  Excerpt: Adobe Reader Fix Sheet: How to make Acrobat Reader work reliably; CPM, PPC, and PPA Ads Compared; A risk analysis of competing internet ad types; Domain Name Registration: Select an alternate domain name registrar; eBay Buyers Guide: A new eBay user guide, with buying tips; How to Surf Google News: Helpful hints on how to surf Google News; How to Surf the Internet: Helpful hints on how to surf the Internet; Hughesnet Internet Access: Direcway satellite Internet access Notes; Internet Ad Networks: A summary chart of internet ad network alternatives; Internet Diagram: Central Office, backbone, bridges, routers; Microsoft PubCenter Help List: Microsoft PubCenter Help Topics Summary List; Modem Speeds Summary: 56K, ISDN, Cable Modem, DSL...

SEO Megasites: Top SEO Resources

• Search Engine Journal :: Excerpt: Search Engine Journal, established in 2003, is a 6 year old publication of Search & Social Media, LLC, which specializes in a community approach to the reporting of search engine news & the sharing of Search Engine Marketing knowledge & tactics.
• SEOmoz
  Excerpt: SEOmoz provides companies and individuals around the world with online tools and tutorials to help with their Internet marketing and search engine optimization needs...SEOmoz provides the leading on-demand software platform for search marketers worldwide, including the top search engine optimization resources...
• SEO-News
  Excerpt: SEO-News.com is a newsletter, search engine optimization (SEO) resource site and SEO Discussion Forum for webmasters and site owners who are interested in learning more about how the major search engines spider and rank web sites. At SEO-News, we are dedicated to bringing you the most timely and relevant search engine information available. Many of the Moderators in the SEO-News forums are experts in the areas of search engine optimization and marketing....
• SEOchat
  Excerpt: SEO-News.com is a newsletter, search engine optimization (SEO) resource site and SEO Discussion Forum for webmasters and site owners who are interested in learning more about how the major search engines spider and rank web sites. At SEO-News, we are dedicated to bringing you the most timely and relevant search engine information available. Many of the Moderators in the SEO-News forums are experts in the areas of search engine optimization and marketing....
• SEO.com
  Excerpt: Today there will be millions of searches performed on the Internet, many of them looking for exactly what you are selling. The process of getting your website to the top of the search engines is known as search engine optimization (SEO). SEO has proven to be one of the most cost-effective forms of marketing available. SEO.com is recognized as a world leader in the art and science of search engine optimization by Fortune 500 companies, emerging Internet entities, small businesses, and professional firms...
• Search Engine Optimization Journal
  Excerpt: With thousands of loyal readers the Search Engine Optimization Journal has become one of the top blogs and resources related search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing...This blog is written daily by the Search Engine Optimization Expert, Nick Stamoulis. Nick Stamoulis has over 12 years of optimization and online marketing experience and is currently the President of full service Search Engine Marketing Company, Brick Marketing...
• Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO)
  Excerpt: Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) Mission: SEMPO is a global non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing industry and marketing professionals engaged in it...Our purpose is to provide a foundation for industry growth through building stronger relationships, fostering awareness, providing education, promoting the industry, generating research, and creating a better understanding of search and its role in marketing...
• Search Engine Roundtable
  Excerpt: The purpose behind the Search Engine Roundtable is to report on the most interesting threads taking place at the SEM (Search Engine Marketing) forums. By enlisting some of the most recognized names at those forums, the Roundtable is able to not only report on these outstanding threads but also provide a synopsis that provides greater detail into those threads...The mission of this site is to provide a single source for the reader to visit to locate the most interesting threads covered at the SEM forums. This will help you save valuable time clicking through the forum threads to find the true gems. In addition, most people are only active in one or two forums - this will allow for comparative advantage to take place between the major forums...
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Forums
  Excerpt: Hey folks - if you're new to SEF, welcome! It's a great place to learn. If you're an old hand, hopefully this will be a quick and easy reference for you...SEF has thousands upon thousands of pages of detailed information on how to optimize websites, how to run effective PPC campaigns, how to build inbound links and more...
• SEO Pros
  Excerpt: SeoPros.org an Not For Profit Organization of search engine optimization consultants and internet marketers developing and implementing a set of "best practices" standards for search engine optimization professionals...If you provide optimization and submission services, are a remote technology developer or search portal and wish more information about the organization, the members index provides full information about the organization...
• Search Engine Land
  Excerpt: Welcome to Search Engine Land! Search Engine Land is a news and information site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry...This Search Engine site is led by... which also produces the Search Marketing Expo conference series and the Search Marketing Now...key pages with more information about Search Engine Land...
• Search Engine World
  Excerpt: Google saw its share of the search engine market in the United States fall slightly during January 2009, while its three largest rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and Time Warner's AOL each increased their shares, Reston, Virginia-based comScore said in an analysis released Wednesday...
• SEO Researcher
  Excerpt: High placement in search engines is critical for the success of any online business. Pages appearing higher in the search engine results to queries relevant to a site’s business will get higher targeted traffic... Internet companies employ various SEO techniques in order to optimize certain factors used by search engines to rank results. In the best case SEO specialists create relevant well-structured keyword rich pages... Unfortunately it takes months for this strategic approach to produce feasible results... many search engine optimizers use so-called "black-hat" SEO...

SEO Resource Collections & Lists

• Search Engine Watch
  Excerpt: This section of Search Engine Watch contains a collection of links relating to different search engine subjects. Especially for search engine users...
• Search Engine Directory
  Excerpt: SearchEngineDictionary.com is a project by Pandecta Magazine... started too long ago for anyone to remember, the Search Engine Dictionary grew quickly to become one of the most comprehensive glossaries of search engine related terms on the Internet...Other sites in the... network include search engine and SEM related sites and several graphic design web sites...
• Search Engine Lowdown - SEO Resources
  Excerpt: Welcome to Search Engine Lowdown, where we serve the latest search engine news, hot and fresh. Whether you are journalist analyzing the latest search engine trends or a search engine marketer, you'll keep up to date with the latest search engine announcements...
• SEO-News.com - 2009 Search Engine Articles
  Excerpt: SEO Do's & Don'ts, SEO Tips...

SEO Resources - Analytics, Backlinks, Content, More

• A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools
• Backlinks With Articles – 5 Killer Tips For Milking Your Articles
• 10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People
• Top Ten Search Engines - Top 10 SEs :: This is a great place to look to see the latest percentages of the market held by each of the major search engines. There are currently only three (3) "major" search engines having 9% or more of the search market in the U.S.: Google (70%), Bing (15%), and Yahoo (about 10%).
  Excerpt: Below is a listing of the top 10 search engines in the United States. These listings are displayed in ranking order for the top 5 search engines and alphabetical order for 2nd tier search engines along with links to their FAQ's and Add/Submit URI pages...
• SEO Glossary :: detailed glossary of SEO terms; great coverage
• SEO Blog :: SEO Blog: Dedicated to the fine art of Visitor and Semantic Engagement Optimization. Providing in-depth Internet marketing articles covering Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Optimization and, Gut Instinct SEO information...

SEO Tools: Free Online Tools for SEO

• SEOmoz: Free SEO Tools
  Excerpt: The SEOmoz toolset includes over twenty SEO tools designed to help with every aspect of search engine optimization, including on-page targeting, site crawlability, competitive analysis, rank checking and keyword difficulty...
• SEO Book
  Excerpt: SEO Book.com is a leading SEO website brought to you by...Our site offers marketing tips, search analysis...we have one of the oldest standing SEO sites that is still regularly updated... The site originally was designed as a blog that offered SEO tips and helped sell the leading SEO ebook...Search is the most powerful marketing medium ever created because it is demand driven. We don't see that changing anytime soon...
• SEOCompany: SEO Tools (136 SEO Tools)
  Excerpt: This SEO Tools page has links to the best SEO Tools on the Internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher...You can now submit your Internet based SEO Tools to this list at the SEO Tool Submission Page. There is a refundable review fee of $5. Only quality SEO Tools will be added to the list...
• Social SEO: The Top 15 Free SEO Tools
  Excerpt: We have used, reviewed, and analyzed many of the free seo tools online and have put together a short list of the top 15 free seo tools online...
• iWebTool: Over 40 Brand-Free SEO Tools for Your Website
  Excerpt: Free web tools including SEO and webmaster tools...Search Engine Tools include: Backlink Checker (Find a list of backlinks linking to a specific website); Cloaking Checker; Google Banned Checker (Discover whether a website is banned on Google); Google Datacenter Search (Search keywords/phrase through different Google data centers); Google PageRank Prediction (Predict your future Google PageRank); Index Checker (Check for the total number of pages of a specific website which are present on search engines)...
• Search Engine Journal: Online SEO Tools – the Ultimate Collection
  Excerpt: All tools listed below fall under the following criteria: they are all useful for SEOs; they are all web-based (no desk-top ones or FireFox extensions so far); they are all free...If you know of any online SEO tools that were not mentioned here, please comment...
• SEO Toolset: Free SEO Tools by SEOToolSet®
  Excerpt: The purpose of the SEOToolSet® is to popularize search engine optimization as a vital part of website development, marketing and promotion. Search engines have become an integral part of how people surf the web. While there are other means...there is nothing as cost effective as having your website rank for relevant keywords in free organic search engine listings. Our mission is to provide...tools and training needed to properly optimize their website in a way that improves their website content and helps the search engines become more relevant...
• Reaction Engine: A Free SEO Analysis Tool
  Excerpt: This is an instant, free and no-registration tool to analyse the SEO performance of a URI for a given keyphrase. SEO reports include a variety of useful search engine optimization information...
• Webmaster Toolkit: Search Engine Optimization Tools
  Excerpt: These tools offer help and guidance in the ever-changing world of search engine optimization...Keyword Research Tool: This utility will help you research appropriate words and phrases to include in your webpage's body text to aid in promotion; Search Engine Position Checker: This tool will automatically query the search engines you specify and check if your URI appears on the first page of results for your chosen keywords; Link Popularity Checker: This utility can give you an impression of how many websites are linking to yours...
• Search Engine Guide: Free SEO Tools
  Excerpt: If you're on an online marketer with a limited budget, then you're in luck. I've compiled a list of online or downloadable SEO tools... Each of these SEO tools has to do with the organic or natural search engine rankings of websites... use a combination of these SEO tools to analyze why one web page ranks better than another web page....
• Zunch: Free SEO Tools
  Excerpt: WordTracker.com: WordTracker is a useful tool for determining the right Internet marketing keywords for your search engine placement and ranking campaign. Shows the top 50 search terms for various search engines...Inventory.overture.com: Overture’s Search Term Suggestion Tool...Zünch Spider Sim: Powerful Search Engine Spider Simulator shows you how your site appears to search engines...Search Engine Decoder: Search-this.com - search engine optimization (SEO) articles and website marketing advice, tips, information on web site promotion, search engine positioning, and website ranking...
• Digital Point: Free SEO Tools
  Excerpt: Google AdSense Charts: Generate all sorts of nifty charts with your AdSense CSV data export...Google AdSense Sandbox: This tool will show you what Google AdSense ads will be displayed for any webpage on the Internet...Back Link Tracking Tool: Track backlink fluctuations to your web pages...
• Search Engine Marketing Tools - Website Development Tools
  Excerpt: In this section of the SEO Consultants Directory, you'll find onsite links to search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) tools along with tools and tips for web site design and development...
• Free SEO Tools :: from WebConfs.com
• 77 Free Tools for SEO and Website Research :: Welcome to Our Full Suite of SEO Tools... Use our free SEO tools for your comprehensive search engine optimization, analyis and research...

Sitemap Generators: Free

• Google Sitemap Generator :: This is the sitemap generator that I used for my BestWeb Nashville website; for one thing, it is not limited to 500 pages (like xml-sitemaps.com). Google has accepted all the sitemaps I have generated with it.
  Excerpt: This Sitemap Generator has been completely revamped - It's awesome! It is now part of our Webmaster Tool, simply click on the webmaster tool image to start. Below you will find instructions for creating XML Sitemaps, Google Sitemaps and HTML sitemaps...You're probably here to generate a sitemap for your favorite search engine? At one time, Google had it's own sitemap format, Yahoo had their own version and everyone else was trying to catch up. Fortunately, a standard was developed for XML Sitemaps which are now accepted by Google, Yahoo and others...
• XML Sitemaps Sitemap Generator :: Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML)... This website is to let you: Create an XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google, Yahoo and other search engines to help them crawl your website better... Create a Text sitemap to have a plain list of all your pages... Create a ROR sitemap, which is an independant XML format for any search engine... Generate an HTML site map to allow human visitors to easily navigate on your site...free up to only 500 pages...

Social Media & Web Development

• The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter :: from Noupe.com
• Ten Commandments of Social Media :: from Noupe.com

Software & Apps for Web Design & Development

• HTTRACK :: website grabber for offline browsing or ripping
• HTTRACK :: there was an error on the httrack site so I used this one

Tables for Web Design

• Data Tables In Modern Web Design :: from Noupe.com
• Striped Tables using JQuery
• Top 10 CSS Table Designs
• Sortable Tables using JQuery plugin

Tools: Online Tools (PDF Converters, etc.)

This section includes some really useful free online tools. Some of them are related to web design and web development, and some of them are not. I have been wanting to convert documents to PDF format for free for a long time, and I finally added those resources below.

• 40+ Useful & Handy Web Designer’s Web Services & Tools :: Online Tools include Image Optimizer, FavIcon Generator, Email Riddler, .htaccess Password, .htaccess Banning, Gradient Image creator, Button Maker, Ribbon Rules, DD Whois, and more free online web development tools
• MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up
• Color Palette Generator :: Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with...
• Color Picker :: no good directions but fiddle with it a bit and you will see that it is useful for coming up with color schemes...
• Multiple Tools :: several good tools here: Avatar Generator, Biorhythms, Business Card Generator, Color Palette Generator, Color Picker, Comic Strip Maker, Crapola Translator, Favicon Generator, Flickr RSS Feed Generator, IMG2TXT, Invent-a-Word, Rainbow Words, Ringtone Composer, ROT13, Subwords, TXT2GIF, Weather by Zip, What's Happening, Word Association...
• Neevia - Document Converter eXPress :: This one is useable but it links to the same online PDF converter I had used only moments before to convert an Excel invoice to PDF. As a result, it refused to convert my document as there is a limit of one (1) document every half hour. Also, Neevia is just one of many separate websites that lead to the same service: http://www.freepdfconvert.com/.
  Excerpt: By using the Neevia online doc converter you can create PDF or Image documents from many of the file formatsB (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt..) that you use on a daily basis. No need to install anything on your computer. Simply upload the file and select your delivery method...Upload limit: 1MB per file...
• Zamzar Document Conversion - Free Online Tool :: I liked this better than Neevia when using it to convert to PDF. You can even convert five (5) files in a single session; the limits on free conversions are not very strict at all! It rocks. The only negatives are that it takes a few minutes for them to send you the free file (they speed it up if you become a paying member) and that they try to get you to join. No big deal.
  Excerpt: How many files can I convert at one time ? Currently you can convert a maximum of 5 files in a single session, and as many files as you want throughout the day. However if you signup you can convert up to 20 files at any one time... Conversion Types: Zamzar supports conversion between a wide variety of different file formats. We're adding support for new formats all the time - if there's a format that you'd like us to support why not contact us and we'll do our best to add it...
• Zamzar Document Conversion - Free Online Tool
  Excerpt: Convert Microsoft Office, Open Office, Lotus, images, web pages and other formats to PDF. This free PDF converter and PDF creator is quick and reliable... Example: you need to convert a Microsoft Word document to PDF document. Use the "Browse" button to locate the Word file on your computer, select it and click the "Convert Your File" button. Done! ..
• Whois.com :: Find details re: owner of any domain.
  Excerpt: Welcome to Whois.com! We aim to be the most trusted brand for your identity on the net. Whether it's a domain name, open id or our uPOD personal id management tool - we differentiate ourselves by designing services that are first and foremost people-centric... whois? is a people-centric platform that enables users to create, manage and propagate their presence on the web. We build personal media technologies that empower users to aggregate all their online identities, services, and personas in one place. We aim to transform how people use the web and become the most trusted brand for the world wide web of people, or as we like to say here, the "Google of People"...

Typography, Fonts

• Web Typography: Font Embedding Services There are a lot of options out there for using other-than-websafe fonts in your website designs. Dynamic text replacement methods or resorting to very long fontstacks have long been the standard for using anything other than websafe fonts... But the @font-face function changes all that... services are cropping up all over for providing the fonts you want to embed on your site without eating up your bandwidth and server space... One of the biggest hurdles... while many fonts (especially open source fonts) have licenses that allow for embedding, others strictly prohibit it. Webfont services work with the type foundries to provide fonts for embedding while also providing the security that foundries insist upon... Currently, there are four such services available, though two (Typekit and Fontdeck) are still invite-only. Read on for more information about each...
• 45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts :: from Noupe.com
• 7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design :: from Noupe.com
• The website dedicated to webfonts & @font-face embedding :: Information: What are webfonts; Links to articles about webfonts; @font-face browser support; Links to demo pages; much more
• The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS :: Almost a year ago, Ty Gossman over at Stylegala asked me to write an article about elastic layouts... This article will walk you through creating a basic elastic layout; what exactly an "EM" is and how to calculate them, how to use EMs to create an elastic layer for content with scalable text and images, including basic vertical rhythm...
• Roundup of Font Embedding and Replacement Techniques :: There are more options than ever for getting unique, good-lookin’ fonts into your pages. Apart from @font-face, here are your options for font embedding services and font replacement techniques....
• Why webfont services are the future of fonts on the web :: The debate about webfonts just reached its peak at a panel discussion on this year’s TypeCon conference. (You can listen to the 2 hours audio at Typographica and read summaries at i love typography and NiceWebType.) The discussion left a lot of people puzzled about how the future of fonts on the web might look like. Here is my outlook... As a type and web designer, webfonts were always of great interest to me. As a type designer I was shocked, when Safari started to support linking TrueType and OpenType fonts (now usually called “raw fonts” in this context) with Safari 3.1 in march 2008. Web designers could now upload my commercial fonts to a public web server where everyone could easily download them. One year later almost all type foundries seem to remain in this shock....
• CSS font stacks, media style sheets & web standards :: The Code Style font sampler is a guide to the most common fonts on Windows, Mac and Linux. Select your platform to contribute to the font survey, or see the results pages for CSS font samples and images. Use the font sampler to pick the right font style codes for your site... Font stack builder thumbnail CSS fonts are specified using a comma separated font family list. If the first named font is not installed, the font style rule checks the next in line. Windows fonts, Mac and Linux font lists vary, so font styles need to be combined in order of preference...
• Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources :: CSS Font stacks are one of those things that elude a lot of designers. Many stick to the basic stacks Dreamweaver auto-recommends or go even more basic by just specifying a single web-safe font... But doing either of those things means you’re missing out on some great typography options. Font stacks can make it possible to show at least some of your visitors your site’s typography exactly the way you intend without showing everyone else a default font. Read on for more information on using and creating effective font stacks with CSS...
• Better CSS Font Stacks :: One aspect of designing for the web that almost immediately offends designers is the lack of fonts that are considered safe to use. While it is true that there are only a handful of web safe fonts, the ones we do have at our disposal can be quite powerful and diversely useful. On top of that, CSS gives us a nice little thing called a font stack. Font stacks give you freedom... Font stacks are prioritized lists of fonts, defined in the CSS font-family attribute, that the browser will cycle through until it finds a font that is installed on the user’s system. This means that you can use Gill Sans, and if your users don’t have it, you can give them an adequate substitute that will not diminish their experience... there are quite an array of typefaces that may be sitting on your user’s machine ready to serve your design needs...

Web Design: Best Practices, Website Usability

See Best Practices & Usability Studies for Web Design

Web Design Posts (Uncategorized as of Yet)

• 40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers
  Excerpt: Web development can be tricky and time-consuming. To be more effective and productive, we, web designers and web developers, can integrate useful tools in our daily routine. Also, handy resources can be very valuable as they can help us enhance communication with clients and other web developers... In this post, we present a couple of extremely useful and valuable tools and resources...
• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design
  Excerpt: One of the best parts of CSS is that it’s so simple once you know the basics. Where tables used to make incredibly complex and sometimes impossible-to-decipher code, CSS keeps things clean and simple. Add a few comments to keep everything organized and it becomes an absolute dream to work with... Below are 50 fresh CSS tricks, techniques, and tutorials that will help you to improve the quality of your next web design...
• Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
  Excerpt: Buttons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements... Web designers have many reasons to style buttons... One of the most important reasons, though, is that standard buttons can easily be missed by users because they often look similar to elements in their operating system. Here, we present you several techniques and tutorials to help you learn how to style buttons using CSS. We’ll also address usability...
• Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color
  Excerpt: Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. Color theory is a science in itself. Studying how colors affect different people, either individually or as a group, is something some people build their careers on. And there’s a lot to it. Something as simple as changing the exact hue or saturation of a color can evoke a completely different feeling. Cultural differences mean that something that’s happy and uplifting in one country can be depressing in another... This is the first in a three-part series on color theory. Here we’ll discuss the meanings behind the different color families, and give some examples of how these colors are used...
• Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know
• Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices
• 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
• Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design: Techniques and Tools :: from Noupe.com
• 7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good :: from Noupe.com
• Simplicity in Good Web Design : Advantages & How-to :: from Noupe.com
• 7 Steps for Systematizing The Design & Build Process :: from Noupe.com
• 20 Vital Techniques & Best Practices For Effective Web Design :: from Noupe.com
• The 10 Most Common Mistakes Web Designers Make :: from Noupe.com
• 50 Best-Of Designer’s Download Picks and Resources :: from Noupe.com
• 40+ Useful & Handy Web Designer's Web Services & Tools :: from Noupe.com

Web Design & Development Blogs

• Web Design and Development Blogs

Web Design: Navigation

• Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices

Web Development: General

• Position is Everything: browser bugs, cross-browser compatibility :: ...here I attempt to describe and demonstrate some of the bugs found in web browsers, and to show advanced CSS methods that work across all browsers...
• Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers
• JBVisions :: various web development links, CSS examples, backlinks, more
• Fresh Web Development Goodies Bag :: from Noupe.com
• 40 Useful Web Development Tools and Resources :: from Noupe.com

Web Hosting, Web Server Performance

• Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do
• 10+ Mod_Rewrite Rules You Should Know :: from Noupe.com
• The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do’s and Don'ts Of all the elements of web design and coding, htaccess can be one of the most intimidating. After all, it’s an incredibly powerful tool and one that has the potential to completely break your site if you’re not careful... Below are a dozen basic htaccess techniques and tips to get you started. They’re not nearly as intimidating as many people expect, and if you study the code for a few minutes, I’m sure you’ll quickly grasp exactly how they work and why... After that are a few bewares and don’ts for working with htaccess to help keep you out of trouble, and some more resources for further working with htaccess...

WordPress

• 10 WordPress HOW-TO: Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves
• 40 Exceptional CMS-Enabling WordPress Plugins :: from Noupe.com
• 25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS :: from Noupe.com
• 101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress :: from Noupe.com
• WordPress theme generator :: Artisteer
• Useful resources for creating a Wordpress theme To kick off my blog for 2007, I am going to write a series of posts for people wanting to know how to create a Wordpress theme...
• Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch
  Excerpt: A lot of people are martyrs and want to get their hands in the dirt and design their own WordPress Theme from scratch. That’s okay. I did that, and then got smarter. Let’s start with the smarter choice... First, find a WordPress Theme architecture that you like, be it one or two sidebars, or no header, or whatever you want. Forget about the colors, graphics, and fonts. Just concentrate on the layout. If nothing pleases you, then I recommend you try the new Sandbox Theme, another great way to start your WordPress Theme from scratch. Secondly: Download a couple of Themes you like and put them through their paces on your test site. Do you like the way the single post looks different from the front page, category, and archive pages? If not, try another. If yes, then it’s time to start to work...

WordPress: Exporting & Importing Database to New Hosting Server

• Seamless Wordpress Migration From Dreamhost to WiredTree – How To :: These are the best and easiest-to-follow instructions I have yet found on how to back up your WordPress site at web host A and then resurrect (import) the SQL backup to the WordPress installation at web host B. Very straightforward. Good luck!
  Excerpt: Migrating Wordpress blogs from server to server used to be enough to make me get a sick feeling in my stomach. I absolutely hated it. I had done it, but the process seemed sketchy at worst and lucky at best. But between my sucky webhosting lately, and my bad luck at choosing a good web host, I have transferred my blog all sorts of different places within the last month or so...Now that I’ve done it a few billion times, I’m quite confident... Here is my attempt at making a fool-proof guide to show you how to migrate your existing Wordpress blog from Dreamhost to WiredTree. The same process will work if you’re migrating your blog between any two other registrars, I will just provide specific examples from Dreamhost, and WiredTree... Web Ninja Skill requirement: Intermediate...
• Backing Up Your Database :: It is strongly recommended that you backup your database at regular intervals and before an upgrade. Restoring your database from backup is then possible if something goes wrong. Using phpMyAdmin... phpMyAdmin is the name of the program used to manipulate your database. Information below has been tried and tested using phpMyAdmin versions 2.5.3, 2.5.7-pl1, and 2.6.1-pl3 running on Unix. Backup Process with phpMyAdmin: 1. Log into phpMyAdmin on your server...
• Restoring Your Database From Backup :: Using phpMyAdmin: phpMyAdmin is a program used to manipulate databases remotely through a web interface. A good hosting package will have this included. For information on backing up your WordPress database, see Backing Up Your Database. Information here has been tested using phpMyAdmin 2.8.0.2 running on Unix...
• Restoring a backup that is a .sql.gz file type (6 posts) :: I recently had to delete my database and reinstall Wordpress (GoDaddy hosting). I was using a backup plug in that emailed me my file in a format with the extension .sql.gz... I went to the PHPMyAdmin/Import to try to restore, but when I try to upload in the "Location of text file" field, it says it only recognizes .zip files and no extension files. How do I get this backup file imported in?
• How to import WordPress SQL Database Backup File Without Having 'Create New Database' Privilege in phpMyAdmin :: In this article I have explained how you can import your WordPress SQL database backup file even when you do not have the 'create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin. This is particularly useful when you are trying to import the SQL database as part of transferring your site from one host (old-host.com) to another host (new-host.com) and your new host doesn’t have the 'Create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin... In your phpMyAdmin page check for the 'create new database' privilege. If the privilege settings looks like the example shown below then your database import following the normal method is going to fail as it will try to create a database and you don’t have permission to do that...
• WordPress @ T2: Tutorial Series :: Restore your database... WordPress 2.x.x uses a cache file. You MUST delete the cache or this will not appear to have worked. Delete everything in the /wp-content/cache directory before you upload the new files and before you do the following restore... Where are you restoring to? Restoring could involve changing the backup file you have. To guard against damage, make a copy of it on your computer now... If you have moved to a new host and you have a new database, do Step ONE... If you are restoring into the same database, do Step TWO...
http://davidseah.com/blog/moving-wordpress-part-ii-media-temple-ho/

WordPress Themes: Best Collections of Free WordPress Themes

• 100 Amazing Free WordPress Themes for 2009
  Excerpt: In January of 2008, we put together a list of 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes, over a year has passed and WordPress development has progressed very fast and gained even more in popularity. We felt it was the right time to put together an updated post and offer our readers the best free themes that Wordpress can offer... High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this WordPress theme compilation for 2009.
• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
  Excerpt: High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time... In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed, and tested over the last weeks and months. They all can be downloaded, customized, and used for FREE in both personal and commercial projects. Links to "demo" versions provide a direct preview of a theme... Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog, & videoblog...
• 40 Free High-Quality WordPress Themes
  Excerpt: High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). However, the quality of freely available themes has improved as well; in fact, some themes are very advanced and professional and can serve as a solid foundation for your next designs... There are a lot of choices out there for someone wanting to choose a WordPress theme for their blog. But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this WordPress theme compilation.
• 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
  Excerpt: Sometimes it’s just like searching for a needle in a haystack: if you’ve ever googled for free and quality WordPress Themes, you know exactly what we’re talking about. Most designers love to create WordPress themes, so they can demonstrate the quality of their work and add some fresh works to their portfolios... However, most Wordpress themes are either used too often (Kubrick theme, now K2, is definitely overused) or just have nothing to offer – particularly, if you are looking for a free, impressive and professional design. However, sometimes search is worth it. In the gallery below you’ll find 83 free WordPress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface. ..Links last checked: July 3, 2008...
• 15 High Quality Free Premium WordPress 2.7 Themes
  Excerpt: Significant features and redesigns were added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging more valuable than ever... Many users found their themes no longer work the way they were used to, others just wanted to enjoy the new features the new version is providing. That’s why today we wanted to present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress 2.7 Themes that are really impressive and was released recently to use all the new features the new version is providing...
• 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes
  Excerpt: We have been asked many time via email that we have to write a blog post about wordpress themes. So, this is the post in which we have listed down 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes. This is not the long list with all the available WordPress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free WordPress themes which are not less than premium themes and you may consider any of these themes as per your need before going to purchase any paid premium theme...
• 413 Best Free Wordpress Themes
  This is a collection of WordPress theme collections, so there may some overlap with other listings here. Excerpt: With 2008 coming to a close in a couple of months, we’re showcasing the best free Wordpress themes from around the web. Wordpress continues to go from strength to strength and the volume and quality of free Wordpress themes released in 2008 is staggering...
• The best minimalist WordPress themes (2006)
  Excerpt: I’m sharing some of the best—and, more importantly, interesting — minimalist WordPress themes that are freely available. Many may react to these designs by thinking ways they could have been (or should have been) enhanced, altered, etc., and I think that’s a primary reason so many WordPress users are searching for a "simple" theme... One note: Minimalism is just one school of design thought. There are plenty of others, each having different strengths and weakness and for different purposes. It’s silly to compare the designs of Google with Kaliber10000 because the objectives of each is completely different. Context is key...
• 13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
  Excerpt: WordPress, a fastest growing blogging platfrom and getting more and more every day. This is a reason that demands related to wordpress themes and plugins are increasing as well. No doubt, you may easily found thousands of free wordpress themes on internet but how about if we will help you and get the latest list of free and stunning wordpress themes... Today, we are posting another great post that covers 13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes that are premium-like free themes and you may consider any of these themes as per your need...
• Free Themes Directory (Official)
  Excerpt: Looking for the awesome WordPress themes? Here's the place to find them! Welcome to the Free WordPress Themes directory...
• Comprehensive list of 980+ Free WordPress 1.5 and 2.0 Themes, Templates available for download
  Excerpt: Unfortunately this is a rather dates list, but I decided to include it anyway... (Last Updated : 07/25/06 – Now listing 981 WordPress Themes available for download!) Themes that support sidebar widgets are labeled as: includes wordpress widgets support... WordPress 1.5+ uses a system that takes the template to the next level – WordPress themes. Not only are there many wordpress themes which are freely available to download and use in your own blog, but you can use Ryan Boren’s ThemeSwitcher plugin to allow your weblog visitors to change your blog’s WordPress theme on the fly (which is pretty darn cool) (and yes, the ThemeSwitcher does work with WordPress 1.5+ even though it was originally designed for 1.3)... Since I had to search all over the place to try to find WordPress templates (er, themes), I figured I’d save you all the time and maintain a list here of every single WordPress Theme I could find. I also tried to specify the rare WordPress themes with a three column layout. Make sure to bookmark this page, as I’ll be updating it regularly as more free WordPress themes become available...

Writing Web Content

• Writing Headlines
• Freelance Writing Advice on Starting an SEO Writing Biz
• Hubpages :: here are quite a few excellent articles on writing web copy from a sales standpoint...10 Little-known Secrets to Writing Your Own Powerful Web Copy, Are You Losing Visitors? You Need A Gripping Web Copy, Web Copy That Sells, Copy writing Tips - How To Write Quick Compelling Web Copy , Writing Web Site Content to Attract Readers, Write And Get Paid: A Look At 4 Writing Opportunities that Really Pay, Freelance Writing for a Living, Writing Sales Copy...and the list goes on...
• How to Write Effective Web Content
  Excerpt: There are two types of content on the web: killer and filler. Killer content gets the vast majority of page views. Filler content tends to be stuff that was originally created for print material and never properly formatted for the web. If you want to be a successful freelance web content writer, you must understand how to create your own killer content...
• Blogging Tips
  Excerpt: It’s important to remember here that you’ll need to find a place that is well-versed with search engine optimization and you want to find bloggers that know how to write and can put in both keywords and links seamlessly into the content they are writing. You want to find professionals because it’s important to make sure that you not only get traffic driven to your site but that you have good content waiting there...

Zzz: As Yet Uncategorized Web Resources

• FileFormatInfo: The Digital Rosetta Stone
  :: a fantastic resource site loaded with standards: file format standards, MIME types, image sizes, and on and on -- as well as dozens of conversion and other useful utilities.
• Unity in Business Network
  Excerpt: We are a growing network of business people connected to Unity churches. Join us in this network, and we'll advertise your business here to help you reach new customers and drive new traffic to your website. (Click here to view a current member's listing.) We have raised more than $4,000 for Unity churches by tithing on our members' listings. Our goal is to generate $10,000 in donations for Unity churches. Help us meet our goal, and we'll help you grow your business!
• An Investigation of Computer Forensics
  Excerpt: Technology has taken the world by storm in recent decades; the advent of the computer has completely revolutionized the way people live, work and play. Particularly, computers have affected businesses in numerous ways, allowing them to run more efficiently. However, there is a dark side to computers, when individuals use them to lash out malicious assaults. These assaults may include fraud, identity theft, hacking, embezzlement, and a wide array of other activities. When these individuals are caught, specialists are called in to seize and gather information from the computers. Computer forensics is the science of locating, extracting, analyzing and protecting types of data from different devices, which specialists then interpret to serve as legal evidence...
• Useful "Page not found" error pages
  Excerpt: Ever encountered a "404 error" message on a site? Also known as a "page not found" error, it can really annoy visitors. Some of these folks may never return to your site. If you don't handle these people with care, you could drive important traffic away from your site. Now, you really don't want to do that, do you? ...But that's no reason to allow visitors to leave disappointed! Every site must have a custom "404 page" that tries to help people find what they thought they'd find. Experienced web developers (of whom there are lots on the the list) know that such a page is essential for a large, high-traffic site. Or at least they ought to. If that's the case, why do some of the most popular sites on the Internet not have one? Here are some examples...
• 24 fun and inspiring Web 2.0 error pages
  Excerpt: Sooner or later all websites run into trouble (even Google) or have to perform maintenance that takes them offline... We make our living here at Pingdom by monitoring websites for problems, so we tend to stumble across more of these error pages than most people do. This post includes error and maintenance pages for 24 of the most popular Web 2.0 services out there. While two of them can definitely be considered examples of what NOT to do, the other 22 are here to give you plenty of inspiration and hopefully put a smile on your face...
• 404 Error Pages: Reloaded
  Excerpt: ...we’ve showcased some of the most beautiful, creative, and user-friendly 404 Error Pages; we’ve collected some interesting ideas one can use to help out the visitors once they got lost ony your page. We’ve also asked our readers to design their own 404 pages and promised to present the best solutions afterwards... Some of the solutions presented below might not be as helpful as they could or should be, however they include some creative approaches you should be aware of designing your 404 error pages...
• 21 very useful htaccess tips & tricks
  Excerpt: Apache web servers have a great way to manipulate information using .htaccess files. .htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration. The .htaccess file is placed inside the web tree, and is able to override a subset of the server’s global configuration; the extent of this subset is defined by the web server administrator. The original purpose of .htaccess was to allow per-directory access control (e.g. requiring a password to access the content), hence the name. Nowadays .htaccess can override many other configuration settings, mostly related to content control, e.g. content type and character set, CGI handlers, etc...
• 5 htaccess Tricks Every Webmaster Should Know
  Excerpt: If you're new to htaccess, here's a quick introduction. Otherwise, here are 5 sets of htaccess directives every webmaster should know...
• 16 Useful .htaccess Tricks and Hacks For Web Developers
  Excerpt: The .htaccess files (Hypertext Access file) is a very powerful configuration tool on Apache web server. The Apache web server has a number of configuration options that are available to the server administrator. The .htaccess is a simple ASCII text file placed in your website root directory. You can create and edit an .htaccess file using a text editor like notepad... Here in this blog post I have come up with useful 16 tips and hacks to configure your web server. As a configuration file .htaccess if a very powerful and a slight syntax error can result in a severe malfunction of your server. So to avoid that always try to keep a backup copies of all your files from the server before working with the .htaccess file...
• Stupid htaccess Tricks
  Excerpt: Welcome to Perishable Press! This article, Stupid htaccess Tricks, covers just about every htaccess "trick" in the book, and is easily the site’s most popular offering. In addition to this htaccess article, you may also want to explore the rapidly expanding htaccess tag archive. Along with all things htaccess, Perishable Press also focuses on (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, security, and just about every other aspect of web design, blogging, and online success. If these topics are of interest to you, I encourage you to subscribe to Perishable Press for a periodic dose of online enlightenment...
• Using htaccess Files for Pretty URLS
  Excerpt: While some claim pretty URLs help in search engine rankings, the debate here is fierce, we can all agree that pretty URLs make things easier for our users and adds a level of professionalism and polish to any web application. I could go over all the theoretical reasons for this, but I like real-world examples better. Like it or hate it we all must admit that Twitter is a wildly popular web application and part of the reason for that is most certainly how it formats URLs. I can tell anyone in the know that my Twitter username is noahhendrix, and they know my profile can easily be found at twitter.com/noahhendrix. This seemingly simple concept has vast effects in the popularity of your application...
• Free HTML Editors, Web Editors, and WYSIWYG Web Editors and Site Builders
  Excerpt: Looking for a better editor (or perhaps even your first editor) to design your website? This page lists free HTML editors, Web editors, WYSIWYG editors, web site builders, as well as specialized editors optimized for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or even the numerous web scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Java, JavaScript, ASP, etc... lists the Free HTML Editors / Free PHP/Perl/JavaScript (etc) Editors which are basically ASCII text editors with additional features that make it easier for you to code pages for the web. Very often, this includes syntax highlighting for the HTML/CSS elements (and perhaps also for PHP, Perl, JavaScript, ASP, Java elements as well). If you write your pages using raw HTML, or if you plan to learn to write HTML, these are the editors you will want to check...
• The 10 Best Free Web Editors for Windows: Free HTML Editors
  Excerpt: I have evaluated over 50 free HTML editors for Windows against over 40 different criteria relevant to professional Web designers and developers. The following editors are the 10 best free HTML editors for Windows, both WYSIWYG and text editors, in order... Each editor below will have a score, star rating, and a link to a more detailed review. All reviews were completed between September and November 2009. And this list was compiled on November 18, 2009...
• About Notepad ++
  Excerpt: Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License... Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment...
• Delete large messages stuck in your Outbox :: This happened to me in March 2010. There were two messages stuck in the outbox because the attachments were way too big (24MB each). I tried to delete them from the Outbox, but only one of them could be deleted. I tried and tried to delete the other stuck message but it would not delete; sometimes I got an error message to the effect of "Cannot delete because message is in the middle of being sent" (rough paraphrase). I found the solution: all I had to do was switch to offline mode, under the File menu item.
  Excerpt: We've all done it once or twice -- we'll have a message stuck in the Outbox because it's too large for Outlook to send. Deleting it doesn't work - Outlook returns an error because the message is being processed by the MAPI spooler. In most cases you can delete the stuck message if you set Outlook offline using the File, Offline menu. Wait about a minute or so for the spooler to shut down or close Outlook and reopen. Go to the Outbox and delete the message then put Outlook back online using the File, Offline menu... If you are unable to delete the message while in offline mode or cannot go into offline mode, you'll need to change your default delivery location: 1. Add a new PST using the File, New, Outlook Data File menu; 2. Open the Email Accounts dialog on the Tools menu; 3. Select view or Change existing email accounts and click Next; 4. Select the new personal folders file from the Deliver new email to the following location list; 5. Click Finish and restart Outlook... Browse to the old message store, delete the message from the Outbox and repeat steps 2 - 5 to restore the original PST as the default delivery location and close the new PST...
• Serial Shack :: I used this the other day because I could not find my old Fireworks serial number from which I was upgrading. Some serial/crack sites charge you a small fee, but Serial Shack is free -- at least for what I needed.
• Crack Serial Codes
  Excerpt: With our site you can search for cracks, serials, keygens, AND even warez! We strive to make this site as user-friendly as possible. We only list clean sites in our results, so your computer is much more safer using our site compared to some of the other crack sites out there! If you need to search for a crack, serial, keygen then this is the place to be! Our results are updated in real-time and rated by our users. If you find a crack, serial, or keygen that does not work on your software then please rate it for us - this way we can remove broken listings as soon as possible. We hope you enjoy using CrackSerialCodes.com - Now 974,174 cracks, serials, keygens available...

Entertainment: Humor

• The Office :: The Office is the title of several television situation comedy shows. It takes the form of a mockumentary. The original version of The Office was aired in the United Kingdom, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. It starred Ricky Gervais as the boss and main character. Initially broadcast on BBC Two on 9 July 2001, the show ran for fourteen episodes – two series of six, plus a two-part Christmas special...
• The Simpsons :: The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a working class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition...
• Extras :: Extras is a British sitcom about extras working on film sets and in theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO, and is created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom also star in it. Extras charts the lives of Andy Millman, his friend Maggie Jacobs and Andy's substandard agent and part-time Carphone Warehouse employee Darren Lamb, as Millman rises to fame...
• South Park - Wikipedia :: South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become infamous for its crude, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics. The ongoing narrative revolves around four children — Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick — and their bizarre adventures in and around the fictional and titular Colorado town...
• South Park Studios

Entertainment: Anime

• FLCL :: FLCL is the anime equivalent of an acid trip; you aren't likely to understand it any more than you understand the movie The Wall (Pink Floyd). FLCL (Furi Kuri, known in North America as Fooly Cooly) is an original video animation series written by Yo-ji Enokido, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax, Production I.G, and Starchild Records... FLCL follows Naota Nandaba, a twelve-year-old boy living in the fictional Japanese suburb of Mabase, and his interactions with Haruko Haruhara, who arrives in the quiet suburb, drawn by the industrial town houses and the Medical Mechanica building...
• Ghost in the Shell :: Ghost in the Shell (Ko-kaku Kido-tai, literally "Mobile Armored Riot Police") is a Japanese multimedia franchise composed of manga, animated films, anime series, video games and novels. It focuses on the activities of the counter-terrorist organization Public Security Section 9 in a futuristic, cyberpunk Japan... The first entry in the franchise was Shirow Masamune's Ghost in the Shell manga, first published in 1989 in Young Magazine. A collected edition was released in 1991; a sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface, was released in 2002; and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor, was released in 2003, which contained material that was planned but not included in the sequel...
• Cowboy Bebop :: Cowboy Bebop might be the anime equivalent of 007; Cowboy Bebop (Kaubo-i Bibappu) is an award-winning 1998 Japanese anime series directed by Shinichiro- Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and produced by Sunrise. Its 26 episodes comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the misadventures and tragedies of a group of bounty hunters, or "cowboys", traveling on their spaceship, the Bebop... The series' art direction centers around American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s-60s and the early rock era of the 1950s-70s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts recreates.[2]..

Google Web Services

• Google CheatSheet :: Here's a quick list of some of our most popular tools to help refine and improve your search. For additional help with Google Web Search or any other Google product, you can visit our main Google Help page...
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