While working with Sesame Communications their top developer turned me on to IETester a full service free application that runs all versions of the dreaded Internet Explorer, even the ancient IE 5.5 (which I no longer support). Simply add the url to the bar and view your site in all versions of Internet Explorer at [...]

Marketcircle recently released Billings Touch for the iPhone to accompany their popular invoicing software Billings. When you first open up Billings Touch, you have two options. If you have Billings already set up on your computer, you can connect your iPhone to that account. By using that information, you can check up on your invoices [...]

There’s nothing worse than a client contacting you letting you know their site is down. Honestly it happens from time to time, some servers are better than others but the problem is, for the most part, unavoidable. I recently discovered Pingdom.com, an up-time monitoring service that pings your site a various intervals and if there’s [...]

What if you had a nickle for every time you heard: “I have the perfect idea for a great application!”? It’s the buzz on the street. The iPhone has created unprecedented excitement and innovation from people both inside and outside the software development community. Still for those outside the development world, the process is a [...]

One of my favorite little Firefox Add-ons is an interesting kind of site launcher called “Morning Coffee”. I know it’s probably a fairly well-known plugin but I’ve recently been asked what that little coffee icon is at the top of my browser a few times. So here goes…. I typically go through and check all [...]

As more and more people are beginning to start companies on their own either to be business ambitious or just to supplement some additional income, more and more are drawn to the big sand trap that is GoDaddy.com. My common practice when taking on new clients that are on GoDaddy is to immediately move them [...]

This Saturday morning I’ll be attending the LaidOffCamp & FreelanceCamp down in Miami at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Registration is free and it looks like a great opportunity to connect with other creatives, etc. Who should go?: Looking for creative ways to supplement your income or change your career Running your own business a [...]

As a designer, each of your clients and projects is unique. However, there are certain things that you will need to know or understand about all of your clients in order to produce your best work for them. An effective website will be built to address the specific needs of the business, which will require [...]

Adobe has finally released an update to the ever buggy Fireworks CS4. It’s supposed to solve some of the stability issues and common errors. Now if only they could sort out the issues involved when shifting spaces on Mac. 5/06/09 This update to Adobe® Fireworks® CS4 software greatly improves stability for users running Fireworks CS4 [...]

There’s little doubt that OS X is a popular platform for web designers – it offers an enormous range of software for designing, managing, developing and publishing websites. Whether you prefer to use an all-in-one environment for designing websites or a range of different applications, there’s a tool to suit you perfectly. This article will [...]

A nice little tutorial on manipulating WordPress using CSS. In this tutorial we’ll review the basics of CSS and WordPress, such as image alignment and useful classes, and then next week in part two, I’ll show you some examples of seemingly complex things you can accomplish with just a bit of CSS. http://wpcandy.com/articles/tutorials/a-guide-to-css-and-wordpress-part-1.html

Check out this nice collection of both free and professional Magento Themes for full service e-commerce sites. Magento is the next big thing in e-commerce, and so far it seems really powerful. I just installed one on my site for testing. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/05/25-magento-templates-for-your-e-commerce-business/