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Do Your Web Forms Suck?

by Shayne Tilley

Most web forms suck—whether that’s because of poor usability, a lack of aesthetic values, or both. Fortunately, our latest book, Fancy Form Design, shows you how to create fantastic, fancy forms that your users will love.

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | 4 Comments »

Can You Get Manipulative? Take This ColdFusion Quiz and Find Out!

by Andrew Gardner

We’ve just published a new quiz and tutorial on manipulating images on the server with ColdFusion 9. Check it out if you’re feeling manipulative!

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | No Comments »

Hack Attack: Two Events that All You Mashup Masters Won’t Want to Miss

by Andrew Gardner

The coming weeks see some exciting opportunities for Aussies who like to mash things up. GovHack and the Lonely Planet Hack Day both offer the chance for like minds to do exciting things with new sets of public data.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | No Comments »

Build Your Own Dev Server with VirtualBox

by Louis Simoneau

What’s the best way to test your web site on your local machine? Louis walks us through the setup of a virtual Linux server that you can run right inside your desktop operating system.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | 41 Comments »

Have You Reached Email Account Overload?

by Craig Buckler

How many email and webmail accounts do you manage? Has it become increasingly problematical to cope with multiple addresses?

Monday, October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | 15 Comments »

Announcing The 2009 Reader Survey Winner …

by Andrew Gardner

5,000 entries, 10 questions, 4 cool prizes up for grabs … but only 1 winner. Andrew announces the results of the 2009 SitePoint Reader Survey.

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | 9 Comments »

The CodeBurner Family Welcomes Three New Babies!

by James Edwards

Today sees the launch of a major upgrade to CodeBurner, our popular reference tool for Firefox, and also the launch of three new builds, for Opera, OS X Dashboard, and Adobe AIR.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | 27 Comments »

Exclusive Interview With Ben Firshman, Creator of JSNES

by Craig Buckler

Craig interviews Ben Firshman, developer of the JavaScript-based NES emulator JSNES. Find out how it evolved, why Google Chrome was 10x faster, and what response Ben received from the web community, Mozilla, and WebKit.

Friday, October 16th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | 3 Comments »

16 Fabulous Web Browser Options

by Sean P Aune

Why restrict yourself to the big four browsers when there are so many other options out there? Sean gives us a rundown.

Monday, October 12th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | 16 Comments »

Win Signed SitePoint Books at Web Directions South

by Matthew Magain

If you’re at the Web Directions South conference in Sydney and want to win signed copies of SitePoint books, then here’s what you need to do.

Friday, October 9th, 2009 | Posted in Web Tech | Comments Off