March 2009

You can offer your clients more benefits by providing services beyond website design. Here are seven ideas for value-added services that can help create long-term relationships with your clients.Read More
Configuring remote MySQL databases with the command line or phpMyAdmin can be awkward. Craig shows you how to set up SSH tunneling so your website's database can be accessed with your favorite... Read More
It is official: Internet Explorer 8.0 and several other core components can be uninstalled in Windows 7. How will this affect Microsoft's legal battles?Read More
If you work with many websites, you probably have many user names, passwords and access codes. Is there a foolproof way to store all of this information so it's easily accessible and secure?Read More
 
Google is "delighted" when sites are optimized for search -- the Googlebot goes all warm and fuzzy when you do all the work for it, as Mihaela explains in this short collection of SEO-related... Read More
Can Microsoft successfully take on Google with its new Kumo search engine? Craig thinks they may have an uphill struggle.Read More
A compilation of three design professional salary surveys, tallying responses from designers all over the world and in all levels of their careers.Read More
Gmail goes down (again), Skittles’ new marketing campaign, Safari 4 beta, a Flash security hole, RSS required for stimulus money, and a Twitter design contest—all this and more in Episode 10 of... Read More
 
Is IE6 causing you grief? Fortunately, Craig has 10 possible solutions to your rendering problems that do not rely on hacks or conditional style sheets.Read More
Martin McEvoy has just released the RDFa Documents extension which will (soon) be available via Adobe Exchange once approved. For now you can grab it directly from Martin's site: v0.1.Read More
All designers need a supply of free stock photos to use in their day-to-day work. You don't always need to pay for good quality stock images though—in this post Alyssa lists more than 30 sites... Read More
We were amazed with the amount of entries in our latest Adobe sponsored competition, although it was a very cool prize on offer, so it's no huge surprise! Unfortunately there can be only one winner...Read More
CSS hacks and conditional style sheets can cause more problems than they solve. In this post, Craig discusses 5 reasons why such techniques should be avoided.Read More
Have you entered the Twitter background competition yet? In this post, Mihaela has put together a stellar collection of beautiful Twitter backgrounds that could inspire you to create your own... Read More