Yes indeed, whether it’s web developers, licensed contractors, electronics, or an ugly wrinkly dog, that famous phrase still stands true, “You get what you pay for”. Recently I was in the market for one of those fancy newfangled big TV’s. I had done my research, knew exactly what I wanted, knew exactly what my price [...]

What is a CAPTCHA? In short, a CAPTCHA (hereinafter referred to as captcha, because I hate typing words in caps!), is a device which allows you to eliminate or at least reduce spam on forms that are available to the public to post to, eg. comment forms on blogs, quick contact forms on your website, [...]

Accessibility in websites boils down to about the same thing as accessibility in everyday life. It is strongly encouraged for public buildings to have wheelchair ramps wherever applicable, handicap parking spots, and other forms of accessibility that help disabled people of nearly every kind. The same applies to websites, we, as web developers, are strongly [...]

PHP 5 has been released for quite some time now, although it still seems to be the latest and greatest version of PHP, at least that is what people tend to think. It’s newer, it must be better, right? Well PHP5 may have been released over 4 years ago (July 14th 2004, for PHP5.0.0, to [...]

That’s right folks, we’ve just got done fixing all of our sites to render properly in IE7 while still maintaining 100% valid (X)HTML and CSS, and they’re dropping the latest IE bomb on us, by the end of 2008, according to Bill Veghte, who heads up Microsoft’s Windows and online services division.

These days there are a great variety of people using the internet, instant messenger, e-mail, and any of the 9 quadrillion times 40 quintillion squared different social marketing websites. People ranging in every aspect of life, age, race, religion, intelligence, etc. Today we’ll be talking about internet etiquette, or more notably, what not to do [...]

Perhaps you may have never heard of it. Perhaps you have heard of it. The point of this article is to discuss the differences and benefits between open source software, and closed source software. Open source software, for those that are still in the dark, is software that is released with the code behind it that makes it work, or at least that code is available somewhere, usually for free.