CSS Juice has an interesting collection of rounded corner techniques to share:Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques. Even the father of Internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with their Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently. Actually, there are a lot of methods and techniques to create rounded corners with Cascading Stylesheets. Some are quite simple just need pure CSS, and a part of them need 2 to 4 background corner images and Javascript. Find them here.

Here is a massive color chart with the useful hex codes for about 1,500 different colors. What I like best about this chart is that it keeps all the similar colors grouped together (unlike just about every other color chart I can find.) There is also a complimentary Black and White color chart here. (more…)

Laura Milligan compiled a pretty good list of free image sources over on VirtualHosting.com.These resources are some of the most popular free stock image sites on the Web and with good reason. If you’re looking for some mainstream images, these are the first place to try. (more…)

For quick reference sake, here is a table with hex codes for a wide range of grays from White to Black. It should assist when you are needing to pick a color for text or backgrounds.There is a complimentary color hex code chart here. (more…)

There is a very useful, printable Unix cheat sheet available over on Fosswire.com.Jacob, the author had this to say:In an attempt to find a good Unix reference for you FOSSwire readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, why not make one?It is available in the following languages:EnglishRussianSpanishBrazilian PortugueseSimplified ChinesePolishJapanese

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design. It includes several options in each of the very long list of categories that follows:Graphics & Image generatorsColor generatorsCSS generatorsDomain Name generatorsEmail generatorsFavicons generatorsFlash generatorsForm generatorsMETATAG generatorsPassword generatorsPopUp generatorsrobots.txt generatorsRSS generatorsSiteMap generatorsText generatorsASCII generatorsPDF generatorsTooltip generatorsXML Forms generatorsHTACCESS generatorsFun & Humor

Something went horribly wrong with the previously planned server migration at ValueWeb and the company was responsible for keeping thousands of servers off-line for much, much longer than expected. HTMLHelp’s two dedicated servers were offline for over 75 hours.The worst part was that the company failed to communicate to anyone during the longer than expected outage as they went completely silent - at times not answering customer service phone calls, and sending no status update e-mails. Although unforeseen issues sometimes arise in complex hosting environments, I feel the complete and utter lack of ability to respond during this crisis means their systems are critically flawed - ...

I thought folks might be interested in the Nielsen Norman Group Report Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities. It describes 75 accessibility-related best practices based on actual usability studies, starting at page 35. (There is a lot of discussion about the study itself and about adaptive equipment in the first 34 pages.)

What do you do when your blog goes from a thousand pageviews a day to a million? Well, you start out by watching this video of a lecture on HyperDB and High Performance WordPress given by Barry Abrahamson and Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp 2007, in which they explain how they scale WordPress.com across hundreds of servers and constantly tweak and improve performance.This lecture occurred on Sunday July 22, 2007 from 10am-11am in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall. (more…)

Apple has published an article on writing Web pages for iPhone. It’s interesting to see that iPhone supports CSS3 media queries such as media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)". Also, JavaScript execution on iPhone is limited to 5 seconds per entry point, and Apple recommends auditing Web sites for unnecessary JavaScript (Google Analytics, anyone?) to improve site performance.

This is the video of the one hour long lecture given by Matt Cutts at the WordCamp 2007 conference in San Francisco, CA two weeks ago on the topic of Whitehat SEO tips for Bloggers. For those not familiar, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and this lecture is all about ways to make your Web site rank higher in Google and the other search engines. I’ve also written an article on this topic called Improving Search Engine Rankings.Matt’s presentation is available here, and when I get a chance I’ll try to go back and plug them into the video in the appropriate spots. In the meantime I did manage to get most, if not all, of them on film although they might be a lit...

This video features Google engineer Cuong Do, an engineering manager that helped scale the YouTube software and hardware infrastructure from its infancy to its current scale.He discusses challenges of dealing with the growth including hardware, software and databases. (more…)

There is a great little article over at CodeLair about HTML elements which have been depreciated and what to do about it:The W3C has set several HTML elements and attributes as obselete. This tutorial shows you the HTML you shouldn’t be using, and the best ways to replace your ‘illegal’ code.There are several HTML elements and attributes that have now been declared deprecated by the World Wide Web Consortium (the organization that sets HTML standards). ‘Deprecated’ means that the elements no longer serve a purpose and have been replaced by other methods, mostly involving cascading stylesheets (CSS). Although it is recommended that web browsers continue to sup...

This one hour session, entitled State of the Word, from the WordCamp 2007 conference features Matt Mullenweg giving an update on the current state and future plans for WordPress.This lecture occurred on Sunday July 22, 2007 from 3:30-4:30pm in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall. Matt gave the updates and then allowed those in attendance to ask questions and make comments. (more…)

This has to be one of the best tools I have seen for a while.I’m sure we all know how hard it can be to find the right domain. You know the drill. Come up with two or three keywords relating to your new Web site, then do a WHOIS on every combination you can think of, with every extension you can think of, only to come up with two poor choices after an hour of searching.Bust A Name means we don’t need to do that anymore! Just enter your keywords, click “Add”, and Bust A Name will search all combinations and find ones that are available.It’s actually quite addictive!