November 2004
Combine CSS and images to create powerful visual effects. Chapter 3 of The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks explains how you can use CSS with images to create great effects,... Read More
Had a great conversation with a sales consultant colleague of mine today. He has discovered that lots of professionals hurt how they SELL their services because of the way they BUY goods and... Read More
Anyone who has done serious work with CSS will tell you that the most frustrating part of the process is dealing with strange browser bugs. Many (if not most) of these have been documented somewhere,... Read More
Some helpful tips for using the Photoshop Eyedropper… First, if you’re using a tool that involves a color (paint brush, paint bucket, vector shape tool, etc.), you can hold down the Alt... Read More
Check out the ActiveGrid press release. ActiveGrid represents a fundamental shift from traditional data center architectures, such as J2EE, by enabling transactional applications to be horizontally... Read More
This blog answers a question posed yesterday: How does a world-renowned consultant handle a common objection to value-based pricing? In his case, as you may recall, he charges $100,000 for 6 days of... Read More
Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah makes some fascinating and insightful remarks on Applications vs. W3C DOM (this goes back to July, 2003 BTW – skip past the ad). Stepping out of the discussion of rich web... Read More
Many of you know that the best way to improve the profits of your Web design/development business is by getting good at value pricing. Value pricing means that you don’t trade time for dollars,... Read More
MySQL is the database solution of choice for countless sites around the world. How did MySQL get so big? Who's behind it? How is the product developed? And what's in store for future releases? Zack... Read More
How about this file manager? The front end is XUL + Javascript and the back end ASP in this example (recommend Firefox 9.x+ – allow the popups from that site). The project is hosted at... Read More
Richard Rutter’s Onload image fades without Flash demonstrates a way of creating a “fade-in” effect for a photograph using dynamic alteration of the CSS opacity property. Opacity... Read More
Brian Jones has listed his ‘perfect world’ wish list from a system administrator’s perspective over at Linux.com. While we all will not agree on all points, he certainly raises some... Read More
A few days ago, I ran into what at first seemed like a major problem: My Photoshop wouldn’t start. The initial start-up screen would show up, with various plug-ins, fonts, etc. loading as... Read More
I’m about to launch a new subscription-based web service (to be announced soon with special offer to Sitepoint readers to beta test it). In creating this site, one thing has become abundantly... Read More
