September 2007

If you’re ever stuck wondering why Live HTTP Headers and Firebug are telling you your “Cookie:” request headers don’t match the “Set-Cookie:” response headers... Read More
The SitePoint Design Contests site has been shortlisted in the McFarlane Prize, which rewards excellence in web design by Australian web professionals. I know that our development team have put in an... Read More
Jeanne Jennings, email marketing guru and author of SitePoint’s The Email Marketing Kit, will be speaking at ClickZ’s event, ClickZ Specifics: E-mail Marketing, next Tuesday October 2nd... Read More
Basic hints and tips about using declarative databinding.Read More
 
Did you know Google AdSense allows for 9 billion different layout/size/color combinations of its ad units? Do you know which one is the best for your site, or for that matter, which ad network will... Read More
Gee, aren’t floors great? All flat and clean and smooth, they do a faultless job of preventing us from plunging headlong into the voids beneath them — a particularly useful trick in... Read More
I ran through this little Fireworks PNG trick in the Design View this morning and thought it was worth dropping in a blog post too. This is a method that’s been around for years, but I’m... Read More
It’s hard to believe it’s been 3-years since the release of Brendon Sinclair’s “The Web Design Business Kit”, with it’s 14-pounds of glory and retro-orange cover... Read More
 
Off the back of my esteemed colleague’s recap of why he loves his Mac so much, I thought I’d offer a competing view. OK, so I’m not actually advocating that you throw your Mac out... Read More
The following is republished from the Tech Times #173. Are you a Mac person or a PC person? Having recently dipped my toes in the Apple pool, I have a theory about why people seem to fall in love... Read More
+1.5 Years: Where Are We Now? The Dojo Toolkit’s Alex Russell notes the amount of time that has passed since IE7 was released, and how little has been said by Microsoft about IE.Next. Is... Read More
One of the first steps when designing a web application is figuring out how to administer the beast and where these admin tools should live. Often this comes down to one key question: should the... Read More
You know what, I really hate CAPTCHA. The other day I was speculatively signing up for a Facebook account (I’m not particularly interested in being on Facebook, I just wanted to have a nose... Read More
If you think freelancing is about being buried in design or code 24/7, think again. To achieve freelance success, you'll need to be a businessperson first of all, as well as part coder and designer.... Read More