Loved this post at 37Signals asking “Do Americans have bad taste?” What, was that a question? Let us consider the things that America made popular: McDonalds – True, we all have our gross fast-food stands, but they started it. Walmart – Biggest retailer in the country, richest family in the world, cheapest, tackiest China-import junk [...]

There’s a joke that goes: “I want to learn web design. How long will it take?” “A year or two.” “Great! That’s much less time than it took me to learn print!” “Oh, you used to be a print designer? In that case, it’ll take five to seven years.” We’re crazy about this post about [...]

This may come as an astonishing shock to some people, but Adobe Photoshop is not the only application in the world! Perhaps we could bring some fresh viewpoints to our design process, if we tried another tool just once… Illustrator – Scalable Vector Graphics, for instance. That’s actually closer to what the final product looks [...]

After the four destination websites just mentioned in the title, can you think of any other places to look something up on the web? Internet marketers tend to fasten their attention on these four, with most of the focus going to Google, of course. But the fact is, there’s dozens more out there that are [...]

Here’s a day vintage gamers never thought would come: Old Sierra classics such as Space Quest, King’s Quest, and yes, even Leisure Suit Larry, playable in your web browser! The games are hosted at sarian.net. They’re free and reportedly even perform well in IE6. Ajaxian reports on the development; however, contrary to the headline, the [...]

I was just browsing a post on the digital divide in the business world, by one of my favorite deep-thinking bloggers. It’s a long, thinky post, if you have the time. He starts with picking up a copy of USAToday delivered to his hotel room’s doorstep, and reflecting that what with browsing the news by [...]

This is the biggest risk for the modern social web, because nearly every website has a comment or feedback form where visitors can enter content and post it to your page for other visitors to see. Now, what happens when you type some Javascript into a comment form on your blog and post it? How [...]

If you are thinking of designing an interactive and a dynamic website, then using Flash may be your best option for your website.  Flash is essentially a type of media player and a designing environment created by Macromedia Technologies.  It is an environment that allows you to create compressed audio / video files that can [...]

Without a doubt, the most popular blog software is WordPress. And just like with Microsoft Windows’ being the most popular desktop operating system makes it the number-one target for attacks, WordPress is the blog software that most spammers and security crackers target. So here’s a little link list for getting your WordPress blog in shape. [...]