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New Poll: Server Side Languages

Kubrick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:01:43 +0000

A bit of a cookie-cutter poll this time, but sometimes those lead to the biggest and most interesting discussions. This is for the folks around here who are more of web developers than web designers: What is your server-side language of choice? Poll is on the site in the sidebar for your voting pleasure.

SitePoint Podcast #52: Building Communities with Derek Powazek, Part 1

Kubrick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:33:19 +0000

Episode 52 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Kevin Yank ( @sentience ) and Patrick O’Keefe ( @iFroggy ) are joined by Derek Powazek ( @fraying ), co-creator of JPG Magazine and creator of Fray to discuss the care and feeding of web communities. Listen in your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser! Just click the orange “play” button below: A complete transcript of the interviews is provided below.

Stickybits App – Tag Real Objects With Digital Files

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Stickybits is an app and website which lets you use your iphone or android phone to scan in a barcode containing any kind of digital file from text, images, video and PDFs. The barcode is created by you on the Stickybits web site. You print it out and stick it anywhere you want.

How to Get Control of Your Business Finances

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:37:05 +0000

This installment of my business start-up series covers one very important part of business ownership – finances. As a business owner, or someone contemplating starting a business, having a solid process for creating, tracking and analyzing your budget is extremely important; it’s impossible to be profitable over the long-term if your business finances aren’t always on your mind

Do you want to learn every aspect of web design from scratch for free?

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:34:41 +0000

Well… we can teach you. Seriously.

Color In Design: Black

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:38:27 +0000

We’re coming close to the end of this series. Last week I posted about gray , with some examples of its use in web design. This week, we’re going darker and the focus is on black

Poll Results: Punctuation Inside or Out?

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:07 +0000

Quite a lot of people weighed in on this poll that went out in January . The question was: Should tags like em and strong go <em> (outside)</em> punctuation characters, or (<strong> inside them</strong> )? Like many polls around here, the question was interesting and stirred up some great conversation, but the question itself was probably flawed.

Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:58:06 +0000

Microsoft have reported that sales of Windows 7 have reached 90 million copies just 6 months after the new OS was launched to the public on October 22 2009 . The sales figures are more than double those of Vista throughout a similar period.

Express Yourself with Creative Prototypes

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:38:34 +0000

Today we’re excited to present Rapid Prototyping with SketchFlow , a tutorial by respected user experience professional Shane Morris. Shane starts off by touching on the history of prototyping tools, and the complex challenges that they once posed for designers who found themselves having to curtail creativity to cater to what the tools themselves were capable of. Fast forward a few years and the recent rise in demand for, and increased capability of prototyping tools has resulted in a new wave of resources that take a much more balanced approach to design and development.

All Scripts used in jQuery: Novice to Ninja are now FREE to download

Kubrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:40:29 +0000

It’s not something we’ve done before, so I thought it was worth sharing the news. For years we’ve offered a free sample for each of our books; a sizeable download comprising several chapters.