When the New York Times writes an article in their business section about Blogging as a marketing tool for small business, you know Blogging has made the Big Time. I’ve been saying this for a long time. For a small business the BEST way to promote yourself is with a website that is on blogging [...]

More than once I’ve had a client send me a scan of a logo, or hand me a piece of stationery or whatever, and say they want that bit there at the top of their website, and they also want other things to use the same font. My next question is invariably “What’s the name [...]

In learning more about the interface between the frontend (xhtml/css) of the websites I design and the backend (usually php), I’ve had to do quite a bit of poking around on the web and have accumulated some pretty good bookmarks on PHP, many of which are tutorial sites for using php, and some of which [...]

A List Apart has a great article on what’s coming in HTML 5, which throws out a lot of the current tag syntax and gives us more semantic structural markup via the DOM. It will also allow a more streamlined markup with a lot of cruft cut out and simplified. There will be a lot [...]

I’m a subscriber to Harald Heim’s The Plugin Site Newsletter, which always has links to new graphics tools, and since I’m an addict it feeds my addiction quite nicely. In his latest newsletter, in the free plugins section, he mentioned a couple new plugins from Xero Graphics, which I checked out, but what really caught [...]