Securing your servers & applications is always at the forefront of any "good" development group's conscience. If it is not, then heck, you are amateurs and your company deserves to whither and die because this is not a business where the"Fisher Price - My First Web Company" type of stuff cuts it. This applies to the following people or companies: Web Freelancers...
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5 Must-Have FireFox Extensions for Developers
Although there are many many FireFox extensions out there, only a small handful have proven useful, especially for a developer like me. So, here I give you a short and sweet list of the most useful FireFox extensions for designers and developers. Web Developer Toolbar It has everything...seriously, EVERYTHING. Whether you need to view the CSS of a website, the...
What is Gmail Paper & Why Should You care?
NEW from Google - Gmail Paper! (BETA) - Google will print your email on demand and send them to you. Tagline: You Click. We Stack. You Get. With advantages such as: No pop-ups or flashy animations. Print 1, 1,000 or 100,000 emails - WHATEVER seems reasonable to YOU! Made from 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum - the environment actually gets healthier. Gmail...
Getting a USB Drive or Device to Boot or Autoplay / Autorun
This month's technical question seems to revolve around the following questions. 1) How do I get a jump drive to boot? 2) How do I make a bootable usb drive or device? 3) I JUST WANT MY %#$%ing THUMB DRIVE TO BOOT!!!!! Yeah, we feel your pain, so brace yourself for the harsh reality. Whether you want to get a jump drive to autorun or autoplay - here's the straight...
Web Design Contracts, Pricing & Estimates
Most designers and developers do not know how much they should be charging for any given project. Oh, sure - they usually charge what "seems" like a high enough fee to generally cover what the project entails - however - this kind of guesswork leads to two equally painful problems. You underbid the project because you did not account for each and every task. You...
HTML Email & using Javascript in your Messages
Since Javascript's are mainly a unique and proprietary element, and by this we mean that you can write 100 different scripts which all do basically the same thing but in a different manner, complex JavaScripts will always have trouble in your HTML email. Due to the wide variety of email clients, browsers, security settings, updates, and service packs installed, it...
How to send HTML Email with Entourage (Mac)
In preferences, you need to have "Display complex HTML in messages" and "Allow network access when displaying complex HTML" checked. Also uncheck and rechecked to see if that makes a difference. Entourage Product Support information: https://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/query?searchMode=Assisted&type=id&val=KC.113039 You may need to...
Lotus Notes & HTML Email Newsletters
Lotus Notes & HTML Email Newsletters Lotus Notes seems to be a source of frustration for many designers, marketing "folks" and other people who generally have a "tizzy" each and every time their email or marketing message comes across looking less than perfect. As evidenced by this email message we received recently from one reader: Tom, Lotus Notes [DELETED]...
AOL Formatting Tips for HTML Email
America Online is a source of frustration to a great number of Developers and Web Marketers around the world. When you consider AOL you have to remember that you are not just dealing with a custom web browser, but you are also dealing with the manner in which AOL runs their Network. AOL's browser is basically just a custom "skin" or "branded" version of Internet...
Flash Email – Update – How to send Flash Email
Flash Email: Dateline: 2 years ago: Everybody wanted to do it, no one seemed able to pull it off correctly. Flash Email: Dateline: Now “ See above. It's time for everybody's favorite Flash Email update once again! It's been a few years since we took a long, hard look at Flash Email, the promises of those pushing Rich Media technologies and those pesky little things...








