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HOW TO: Increase productivity with some simple scripts using PHP include, require, include_once, and require_once

Find out how PHP can streamline website maintenance and building dramatically, as well as get your feet wet with some dynamic website building.

Ever wonder how far Earth is from Mars ... in pixels?

Check out this interactive journey from Earth to Mars - works great in your browser or phone!

How to get started with WordPress theming

Here is a brief run-through of all the things you might need to create the next great WordPress theme.

Adobe acquires Behance in an effort to improve community in Creative Cloud

With this acquisition, Adobe's strengthens their goal to integrate Behance's site into Creative Cloud.

HTML5, WebGL, CSS3, and assorted JavaScript tech demos

Here are some great prototypes and samples demonstrating the cutting edge of the web!

HOW TO: Prevent hotlinking in WordPress, redirect to an attachment page for the image, or send 404 response

Hate losing bandwidth to hotlinkers? Do you become troubled when there are people using your sites' images, logos, or other picture assets for purposes such as forum avatars, content theft, or laziness? Here is a setup that will prevent hotlinkers from using your images at all!

How to get better SEO with five useful WordPress plugins

Here are five great and utterly simple plugins that you can use with WordPress to dramatically improve your SEO for little effort!

What makes a good web design? And how did we start?

Ever wonder how web design came to be? We take a look back from the beginning, and also preach about standards and guidelines.

Sample Web Developer or Web Designer contract for freelancing

What you do you do when there is a failure in your contract? You are not protected by any kind of written, agreed upon list of rules for your work. When you don't set boundaries for people, they often try to walk all over you, or at the very least, put little add-ons that slowly add up. Well, here is a contract outline that you can use to make your next project easier.

Craigslist overuse of the word Guru

WTF Craigslist? Why is it that whenever you look for a job on Craigslist, or a short HTML or PHP gig you see these same stupid posts about hiring a guru!? Why do people still use this word? It is so overused and so lame to use that when…

HTML: i vs em and b vs strong

Countless web developers and designers alike seem to misunderstand the usage of certain HTML tags. While we can berate them all day long about their poor coding skills (and really why wouldn't we?), it is much more charitable to help them! First,…

IE6 and IE7 standalone text input field bug

IE7 standalone text input and IE6 standalone text input bug While the separate install executable versions of Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 provided by tredosoft are great when used for testing CSS or most JavaScript functions,…