May 2008

Give your fledgling site the kick-start it deserves! Here, Ken shows how careful and creative keyword research will gain your site links and visitors from the outset.Read More
From the Adobe camp This week saw the beginning of the Adobe Community Summit, a briefing event for Adobe Community Experts and user group managers. According to Aaron West’s Day 1 summary... Read More
Word out on the wire is that Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagged in the repository, so the gems should be available shortly. Being a point release, the changes aren’t major – mainly bug fixes... Read More
With thanks to 99designs, we’re very pleased to announce that for the next 30 days our book, The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, is free to download (normally... Read More
 
Matt Magain’s recent blog post about constructing the new SitePoint Book Matrix raised a couple of interesting questions, which I’m going to try to answer, since it was me who built it.... Read More
In this first instalment of graphics tutorials, Corrie demonstrates how to use Photoshop to style nifty navigation buttons of every shape and style -- from shiny and metallic to embedded and... Read More
In an article he posted a little while back, Alex Walker mentioned some trouble he had with <script> tags when trying to add the type attribute. The Google script Alex was embedding had no type... Read More
One point that came up from my last post (3 Golden Rules For Working From Home) was; how to handle phone calls during and after normal business hours, whilst working from home. There are three basic... Read More
 
cf.Objective() 2008, the third instalment of the “enterprise engineering conference for ColdFusion MX Programmers” run by Jared Rypka-Hauer, is now over for another year. cf.Objective()... Read More
While debuggers exists, there isn’t much of a tradition for using them in PHP. People have largely come to rely on injecting debugging code directly into the program, for inspecting program... Read More
In the MMO world (that’s an acronym for Making Money Online, for the rest of us), JohnCow.com and GarryConn.com are both notable blogs. As is the case with many markets, online and off, there... Read More
One of the things JavaScript libraries like jQuery, Dojo, and YUI can do for you is add support for features in the latest Web standards long before they are built into browsers. But are some... Read More
Against all odds, I found myself with a little spare time this week. Rather than do something sensible like clean the garage or get some exercise, I took the opportunity to learn a new programming... Read More
The article that we published today on SitePoint is an interview I conducted with 99designs addict Richard Scott called Design Contests Made Me A Better Designer. In the interview, Richard talks... Read More