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Do you like someone else’s web design color scheme? Curious as to what color codes are used? Try Red Alt - I Like Your Colors. Just enter a URl, and it fetches the colors used as defined in HTML or CSS (some sites seem not to give them up as easily, perhaps with the @import [...]

Do you remember when the web was young and everything was about having a “Home Page”? The legacy is still there in our web browser’s “Home” button (and do you wonder why we are limited to one home?). In fact, when I started our web server in 1993, like others, I made our primary [...]

Following a link in an email notification from Jay Allen’s Comment Spam web site, I came across the best “404 Document Not Found” page I’ve seen in a while:

For more fun things like this, or if you have some large amounts of time to idle away, check out the 404 Research Lab, which beyond featuring [...]

I recently wrote of some JavaScript glue-ing I did to create a tool that allows my to take any web page in view, and submit it with one click to Furl, del.icio.us, Connotea, and our own Bag of URLs (see A Cup of Connotea: A New del.icio.us Flavor of Social Bookmarking (and now a 4 [...]

Help!
I am in search of someone, some benevolent group, maybe a web design/development class project, willing to do an overhaul of a writing site that very much needs an update. Is this a lot to ask for? I just lack the time and resources to do it myself, and despite some flakiness, some 20,000 [...]

Wow, bonus feedback. This is from someone who has used our free jClicker Slide Show template to customize and use for showing off their model design and fabrication work:
Alan,
I just upload my personal portfolio on the net that I built my self. I am so happy with it. Base on jClicker slide show, I modified [...]

No, I did not have writers block or a novel to compose. Actually the email question was not even mine, but written to be sent under someone else’s name. Could this be Alan’s Secret Neutron Bomb that would eviscerate spammers?
Nahhhh, ya must be dreamin’.
Now, these are some messages that get generated from our 100% online [...]

I think I got here via scanning RSS from Roland Tanglao - one of the Gods of Explaining CSS to Mere Mortals, Eric Meyer has rolled out a nifty way to assemble a presentation without any touching and software from Redmond.

S5 is a fully web standards compliant XHMTL slide show creator- you can assemble [...]

Linkrot is a preventable scourge- it is rampant despite the available of utterly simple solutions.
What is Linkrot? Jakob coined it early, when web sites are “improved” or “redesigned”, often web urls are changed, or files are moved to a new directory, or just taken off the server. This is the case where a web developer [...]

Okay, 14 readers took the time to try the goofy, meaningless survey I posted as a quick demo of using phpQuestionnaire.
The survey is open, and I have set this one up so the results are publicly viewable:
http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/phpq/stats.php?sid=3.
What was nice was that I could tweak it in midstream based on the early feedbacks that said the [...]