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Do any of you like to rave old skool style?
Tue 19th May 2009

If so there's a mix here from Jerome Hill made up of '91 tunes:

1. Lost "The Gonzo" 2. Waveform "Bitches and money" 3. Epitome of hype "Ladies with an attitude" 4. DJ D D Hass "Hitech music" 5. DJ Massive 'Massive Overload' 6. D.M.S...

Sick of Smashing Magazine
Mon 18th May 2009

For those that don't know, Smashing Magazine is probably the most popular online web design magazine.

But I've had enough of it and I'm unsubscribing from their feed.

There are some decent informative ar...

So you want to learn PHP?
Sat 16th May 2009

PHP is probably the world's most popular web development language. Started in the mid-90s in Israel and derived from the PERL language, it is used by thousands of web developers and is the constituent basis of millions of existing websites.

There are other languages in use such as Python, R...

New Google search features
Thu 14th May 2009

This week sees the launch of a number of new user-friendly elements to Google search. If you haven't notice yet, then run a search and click on the “Show options...” link at the top of the page. Here you'll see new options divided into four different sections: all results, any time, standard results and st...

The Campaign to Kill Internet Explorer 6
Sun 10th May 2009

Net magazine (Practical Web Design magazine in the US) have launched a Bring Down IE6 website and associated movement. They are hoping to whip up enough support to finally drive IE6 into the dustbin of history.

Despite being ...

Review of The Grid Book by Hannah B Higgins
Wed 29th Apr 2009

Grids have become deeply ingrained in the approach and working practices of today's web designers.

Some years back there was a reaction to the dead rigidity of tables in the form of the fluid layout, against which there has been another reaction that has lead on to a greater appreciation o...

Submit your site for inclusion in Patrick McNeil's second Web Designer's Idea Book
Mon 27th Apr 2009

If you feel that you have created a website that is above and beyond the call of design duty then why not submit the URL for possible inclusion in Patrick NcNeil's next instalment in his Design Meltdown series.

Yep, that's right, we are talking dead trees here - a book.

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Developing Websites for Mobile Phones
Wed 22nd Apr 2009

The release of Apple's iPhone has injected new enthusiasm into website design for mobile phones. Previously, the user experience for everybody was appalling. On my old(ish) Nokia, despite using the Opera Mini browser, even trying to access my email account is so frustratingly fiddly as to make it not worth th...

The ethics of banning entire countries to stop spam
Wed 22nd Apr 2009

At the end of last year I had a spam problem on a particular website. If I haven't hand-coded a site myself and I'm using a Content Management System then I always use the Mollom or Akismet applications as they are very effective at automatically filtering out the most obvious spam - I also use Bad Behaviour ...

Is Outsourcing to India a Good Idea?
Mon 13th Apr 2009

Outsourcing to India and elsewhere in Asia has increasingly become popular over the years as communication barriers have been breached and knocked down.

But anybody who is a BT customer and has had the unfortunate experience of ringing their repair line will testify that outsourcing to Indi...

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