Did I mention that I like FREE TOOLS?? Matasano Security today rolled out a new Web-based open-source tool that scans for any firewall
rules that are outdated, redundant, or could potentially expose a network to security threats.
“Flint” makes sure nothing in your firewall changes and configurations creates a security problem,” according to Matasano, a
security consulting [...]

This week’s tip will help you produce themes/designs that stand up to real-world use.
The problem is all too common. You develop a design, and it looks great. Then you ship it off to a client, and it starts to look horrible. The reason? The client is putting in different content than you did.
The solution is [...]

This morning I’ve uploaded a mp3 audio recording of my presentation, Communicating In The Digital Age, to SlideShare, and synchronized it to my multimedia slides using the provided web-based interface. This was a breakout session at the annual professional development conference for the Pioneer Library Association in Oklahoma.
Communicating In The Digital Age By Wesley Fryer
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Today we are glad to release five grunge styles for Adobe Photoshop. These styles were designed by the german Photoshop artist Dirk Metzmacher and released especially for Noupe and its readers, including resources for textures, fonts and brushes.
You can load styles with the style palette. In case this window isn’t open yet, go [...]

Today we are glad to release five grunge styles for Adobe Photoshop. These styles were designed by the german Photoshop artist Dirk Metzmacher and released especially for Noupe and its readers, including resources for textures, fonts and brushes.
You can load styles with the style palette. In case this window isn’t open yet, go [...]

Meet John the client. John runs a reasonably large website. He is a marketer who considers himself smart, articulate and professional. That said, he doesn’t know much about Web design, and so he needs your help. John comes to you with a clear set of business objectives and asks for a quote. But [...]

In my opinion, anyone who is starting out in web design needs to take time to learn CSS. The problem with learning isn’t that there aren’t resources on the subject, but rather that there are thousands of resources out there, and no way to tell which ones are up to date and valid.  So I [...]

WP-Launch is an attractive magazine theme which could be used for business, personal blogging or a news portal.

Features:

Theme settings page
8 color options
2-Column Layout with Widgetized Sidebar
Optional Footer Widgets
Built-In Subscription Widget
Threaded and Styled Comments
Featured content glider for home page (optional)
Gravatar integration
Banner ad integration
Built-in post thumbnails
Logo/header image integration option via control panel
Built-in drop-down navigation
Social Networking Integration
Search Engine [...]

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few.
The problem with Web security is that, as [...]

by Edward Khoo
Well, a new year is upon us, it’s also the start of a new decade within the blogosphere. More and more people are building blogs, and that means there are lots of blogs competing for the same eyeballs and your blog is just one of many. Try finding accurate figures on how many [...]