Software Recommendation – Scribus
In the past I have used OpenOffice.org Impress for page layout, but I downloaded Scribus today. Scribus is Open Source Desktop Publishing like Pagemaker or Quark. It’s for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows First of all it comes from Sourceforge so I trust it right away. It’s not very big, about 18MB. and at […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – 50 Coolest Websites of 2006
Here’s something for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Time Magazine has published the “50 Coolest Websites of 2006”. They cover most all catagories of websites and I can’t disagree with any of their choices (although I would have added my FastDiscontBanners.com). Surfing them can be a […]
CSS Drop Shadow
Here’s an interesting idea from WebToolKit.info This drop shadow is done entirely in CSS, there are no images involved. This could make putting a drop shadow on a block element much easier and cleaner. It’s something that I’m going to use. More…
What Not To Write About
I recently wrote a post called “What Should I Write About?” Today I found a new article by Brian Cooper called “What Not To Write About” a very good article that is about what it’s title says. I am always talking about constantly adding content to your website in order to attract more visitors through […]
Create Flash Presentations Online
Even though I am not a big fan of Flash there are some times when there is a use for it. It does make great slideshows and animations, but I always caution against using it for menus because the search engines don’t read it well or at all. So the question is that you want […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Free Fonts
Here’s something for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) With all of the Holiday hustle and bustle I forgot yesterday was Friday (sorry, my bad). So here’s some Friday Fun on a Saturday This is my favorite site to get fonts, with over 6500 free fonts you […]
Quick MySQL Backup
Backing up your data can be a hassle, but there is nothing worse than having something go wrong and losing all of it completely. Here’s a very good for an easy way to backup your MySQL database from zmanda.com. It uses all open source software so it is readily available and free. More
Is E-mail Marketing Still Effective?
Many people who claim to know say that e-mail marketing is dead. I don’t believe that. I think e-mail marketing can still be a very effective and economical tool if you do it correctly. I just put up a new site called FastDiscountBanners.com and the first thing that I did to promote it was to […]
Free CSS Layouts
Many times when I’m looking through places like Craigslist for work I see people advertising for templates for their websites. These people presumably have enough skill to plug in the data into each page of their site if they have the first page to use as a template and are looking to buy the first […]
