Last Friday Eric Hebenstreit a lead programmer at Microsoft announced that starting from end of April MS will start offering IE8 as an update for users who are still on IE6 or IE7.

IE6 was a huge ... 

Here is an easy and simple tutorial on how to set up and send out your own html newsletter using Mail.app on a mac. I am sure it can also be done on Thunderbird, Entourage and on any other email clients. ... 

digg.com is ... 

Google images can bring as much traffic to your site as google search itself. You just need to take a few important steps to make sure Google has an easy task at indexing them.

• Most importantly enable enhanced image search in google sitemasters tools. Find it under Diagnostics / Tools / Enhanced Image Search
• Give meaningful names to your images. picture1.jpg will not do. GreenSeaTurtle.jpg is much better.
• Give long description tags to your images. Example: longdesc="Green sea turtle underwater nature photography". (Thanks Steve for the tip!)
• The alt tag should be used for a short description such as alt="turtle" in case the image doesn’t appear for any reason and because most likely Google uses it to index the images as well. It should however be empty if the image is used purely for decorative purposes.
• Upload images as big as possible. Link big size images to the previews used on your site. The bigger the image the more priority is gets.
• The title of the page where your image resides matters. Although you will not be naming your page to optimize for the image, but still good to know.

You can check which ... 

Update: This bug has been fixed in Safari 3. Thanks Balazs N. for the tip!

Safari is a great browser, but not perfect. It doesn’t handle CSS background ... 

One of the most popular questions among webdesigners starting to learn CSS is: What is the difference between id and class?

First difference

Ids are to be used only once in your html layout. Classes can be used multiple ... 

We all know that bugfixing Internet Explorer for Windows is a headache. Fortunately there is one easy way to get around most problems.

You can create a conditional statement in your html to import a ... 

There’s only one thing on the net cooler than Google™ Maps. What could possible be cooler than that?

Putting an interactive map on your own website.

Google™ has released the API for their ... 

I’m going to give a very brief article about improving the PHP setup that comes with Tiger. This is a two step operation:

1. Install Marc Liyanage’s PHP
2. Install Eaccelerator

I will do some basic benchmarking using phpMyadmin and ab.

Default Setup
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Make your firefox HTML code widgets, such as radio buttons, input buttons and drop down menus as sexy as they are in Safari.

Download Firefoxy and put it into your Applications folder. Quit Firefox ...