Sep 19, 2007

I have two beautiful children, Matthew who is almost four and Erica who is going to be two in December. I rejoiced when my son was finally potty trained, and if things go like we expect my little girl will be out of diapers sooner than my son. It meant

Sep 18, 2007

Stripes seem to becoming popular again in designs. I have not used stripes in a web design for awhile, but after discovering StripeMania I might have to consider trying a design with stripes again. StripeMania is probably the easiest tool I have ever used to create a seamless striped image. I

Sep 17, 2007

I recently added a little snippet of PHP to Video Rambler to welcome people that were coming from StumbleUpon with a custom welcome. The website recently got Stumbled again and one of the people that gave the site a thumbs up stated: I only gave it thumbs up bc I'm

Sep 16, 2007

Every blog I visited last night and today, including Shoemoney, Dosh Dosh, Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim and John Chow, had something written about Blog Rush. What is it? Blog Rush is a new javascript widget that you can place on your blog to display the latest headlines from other blogs

Sep 15, 2007

Now I can't say I never win anything. I submitted a comment in Smashing Magazine's Anniversary Developer's Tools Giveaway post and my name was drawn! I have been wanting to try Crazy Egg, but have not gotten around to it with everything else that has been going on. I will have

Sep 13, 2007

I am always on the lookout for new ways to improve the websites I create and one of the best ways I have found to improve user input is to use Javascript to validate the data before sending it to the server. I recently came across not one, but two

Sep 12, 2007

I run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop and laptop here at my office/home and I really enjoy using it, but as a web developer I need to create websites that work in more than just Firefox on Linux. While I have a membership at BrowserCam, it is much faster sometimes

Sep 11, 2007

JenSense has a great wishlist of things she would like changed in Google AdSense Referrals. It is a great list, and I have to agree with her points. I have only used Google AdSense Referrals a few times, but I got so frustrated with the back button that I just

Sep 10, 2007

I was having a discussion with a client a couple of weeks ago about affiliate marketing and what programs might suit their website the best and gave them a great deal of information about some of the affiliate networks that I have experience with. These are the networks that I

Sep 10, 2007

The Domain Registry of Canada sounds like such an official name doesn't it? It sounds like they have some authority over website domains in Canada. That could not be further from the truth. The truth is they are a company that sends out domain name expiration notice letters to domain