Today is Blog Action Day, thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue - Poverty. Blog action Day is a non profit, grassroots movement of thousands of individual bloggers coming together for one cause - End Poverty.

Blog Action Day originally began when a 27 year old Canadian student at Notre Dame University named Shawn got inspired by a speech given by Dr. [continued]

Compressing CSS is a great way to save some bandwidth, especially on more complex sites with stylesheets reaching more than 1000 lines of code. There are many websites out there that will compress your stylesheets for you, but the problem is maintaining them afterwards. Either search through a cryptic block of code, or keep backups and recompress after every change. While you might save file size, you'll probably lose development time.

With this CSS compressor, you upload and edit your stylesheet as you usually would. [continued]

For those of you who think that the BMW Hydrogen 7 is a new idea, someone has dredged up a video of a similar car from 1978 being showed off by Jack Nicholson.

The "news" report seems laughable now, but it's a good lesson for a world that seems to think "breakthroughs" happen every day. Feeding hydrogen into an internal combustion engine is and old idea and, it turned out, a bad idea. [continued]

June 27th 2008 marks the day that Bill Gates steps out of his role as nerd-baron and into the shoes of full-blown immortal philanthropist.

Here is some awesome work by Romàn Cortès, its a Homer Simpson written completely in CSS!

Enjoy!


Credits: Romàn Cortès

Hey Martin, thanks for bringing the world some change, justice and peace.

As a human being, fellow Web Developer, and Blogger (notsomuch), it is hard to see another person's property ransacked and taken from their hard working hands.

On March 12th 2008, Jesse McPherson, a Web Designer and Blogger's house was burglarized, and some personal belongings were stolen, including an Apple G4 Powerbook (which probably contained precious material for his web design business), an Xbox 360, a copy of Halo 3 and a Plasma TV. [continued]

In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised "greater transparency" in its development and business practices, outlining a new strategy to provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols for some of its major software products, including Windows and Office.

The move, inspired by the ongoing antitrust case against Microsoft in the European Union, shows the company finally acknowledging the significant impact open source and open standards have had on the industry and the company’s own business. [continued]

Are you on Facebook? If you are, check out this new application that I made this weekend. It allows you to upload music, create a playlist and play music directly on your Facebook Profile. This has recently been tried by others, but unsuccessfully - until now.

Check out My Profile Player

Google has come a long way from its famously sparse search page. Oh sure, the spartan look is still the default on Google's default search page, but the company's iGoogle personalized home page keeps getting more visual.

When it was launched last March, Google limited themes to a few it offered at the site. Now, borrowing a page from its Google Gadgets directory, Google is offering a Themes directory for users to post their work and share with others, and today I finished mine.

That's right. There is another version of IE on the horizon and it promises to pack to some big changes, including W3C compliance.

But first things first. What's going to be so different in IE? For starters, it is going to pack a brand new HTML rendering engine. The engine was written from scratch with the chief goal of delivering a browser that implemented the most important CSS 2.1 standards as correctly as possible. [continued]

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This is a really interesting article about the evolution of Apple Computers over the past 30 years. It reflects the technological and design advances innovative companies like Apple makes.

http://www.jowstr.com/2007/10/14/apple-evolution-poster

A New York web designer made a website about a girl that he saw on a New York subway in hopes that he would find her. This is one hopeless romantic guy\'s quest to find the girl of his dreams in New York City, with a little help of his inpulsive drawings of the dream girl he saw on the subway. [continued]

Hey folks!! I am excited to announce the newest version of SabiaDesign.com!

My ultimate goal for this project was to make it super user friendly, and I wanted to design the site in a higher contrast of colors. The newer pallet colors features sort of a 'Punk Rock' Pink, and Grayscale. If you notice, there is also a few grunge effects and transparency effects (Except in IE6, Sorry IE6 users), which gives the site a more exciting look and feel.

I built the whole site from the ground up, including the blog, so theres no more having to deal with Wordpress code. [continued]

Owing to a misconfigured server, Facebook exposed its homepage code to what the company called "a handful of users” over the weekend. The leaked code was promptly posted on a new blog, Facebook Secrets, for all of the internet to see.

Although Facebook hasn't specified what exactly was wrong with the server, it seem reasonable to conclude that some sort of mod_php error caused apache to serve the code as an ordinary text file rather than processing it as PHP.

The code leak does not constitute a security breach and there's probably no immediate reason to be concerned about your data. [continued]

Hey programmers! I know some of you visit my site, and a few have asked me the best way to insert a row into a database. Well, here is a function that I created in just a few minutes. It is very simple, all you need is to create an array that has the keys and corresponding values of the database you want to insert the row in. [continued]

Getting Into Google by Jill Whalen reports Dan Crow, director of crawl systems at Google, saying that Google is releasing a new META tag named 'unavailable_after'.
The 'unavailable_after' tag will allow you to tell Google when Googlebot should no longer crawl that page. This tag comes in handy when you have a limited time offer promotional page, and on this page, the promotion will expire on a specific date. By using the 'unavailable_after' tag, you can tell Google that they should not crawl this page, after the promotion expires, among several other practical scenarios for this tag.

40% of users will not return to a site when they have had a negative experience.

79% of users scan a web page.

62% of users do not find what they are looking for on a site.

25% of users read slower online than in print.

Most users spend less than 10 minutes on most web sites.

A user will decide within 20 seconds if they are going to browse past the home page of your web site.

This blog post was carried over from the last version of sabiadesign.com

You are being judged. Whether you like it or not, every set of eyes that comes to your website makes a judgment about what you have put up for everyone to see. What is really unfair is that these eyes judge your site on very little information. Quite literally, your site is like that book that everyone is judging by its cover – and if the first impression is not appealing, you will lose your visitor within a few seconds.

It has always been widely known that people judge websites quickly, but it was only recently that this judgment was determined to occur in less time than it takes for you to blink an eye. [continued]

How to deal with annoying people that talk on Bluetooth Headsets in public:



How to deal with annoying people on the elevator:

When you compare the cost of establishing a website to what it costs to promote your business in print or on the air, you'll see that a website is the cheapest form of marketing ever created. A radio campaign featuring several 30-second spots per week for three months could run you $5,000 - $10,000. That gets you five minutes per week of exposure for three months in the local area only. Newspaper and magazine ads are similarly highly priced, and they only last for the life span of that particular publication. [continued]

A small business can present as large or creative an image on the Internet as a bigger company - with the right design team. A website also allows easy, safe communication between the consumer and you so that anyone who visits your site can contact you at any time by sending an email. Unlike communications that originate from other forms of advertising, consumers who send emails don't have to deal with many problems of everyday business: pushy salesmen, remembering to call during business hours, having to battle crowds to get to your stores, spending time waiting on voice mail or getting the wrong information. [continued]