Feature Story: Illustrations: What HTTP Errors Look Like

What do HTTP errors look like? Cartoonist and illustrator Adam Koford has some ideas, and shares them in these hilarious illustrations. Which one is your favorite? Read more…

News & Trends

Jeff Bezos Gives Advice on Long Term Success

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is arguably one of the most successful Internet entrepreneurs of all time, so when he talks, people usually listen. His advice: plan for long term success, avoid the naysayers, expect to fail, and focus on customers, not competitors. Read more…

Poll: Is RSS Mainstream?

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Could RSS be crossing over into the mainstream? New data about RSS readers from one of the web's biggest blogs might suggest that it is. But data from one blog, no matter how large, isn't a big enough sample size, so vote in our poll and let us know what you think. Read more…

Google To Launch Customizable Search Tonight

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Google tonight will be opening up to the public an experimental feature they've been testing for a few months called SearchWiki, which lets users reorder and remove results, and leave comments on specific links. Read more…

10 Must Have Tools for Communicating with Clients

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Communicating your clients is a necessary evil of contract web development, design, programming, writing, or any other freelance art form. Our round up of ten must have web-based tools below will help you better communicate with clients, and and help you keep your sanity. Read more…

HelpingKind.org: A Pay It Forward Marketplace

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People helping other people is an old idea, but in today's hustle-bustle, impersonal world of online communications, it may actually seem novel. The idea certainly has legs, though, says Dave Dalton, which is why he started a marketplace for people to trade good deeds. Read more…

If Twitter Charges, Users Would Pay: Survey

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Would you pay to use Twitter? An unscientific survey conducted today found that about 50% of users would pay $5 per month or more for the service. Another survey found that a quarter of users would pay to remove ads if the service started putting them in feeds. How about you? Read more…

NASA Tests First 'Deep Space Internet'

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What do you get when you mix Vint Cerf, NASA, and a spacecraft zipping around space 20 million miles from Earth? The first interplanetary Internet, of course! NASA reports today on the successful trial of the first deep space Internet communications network. Read more…

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Design

Feature Story: The Art & Science Of CSS is FREE to Download!

For the next 14 days, one of SitePoint's most popular books is available to download for FREE. Just follow us on Twitter, and you'll receive a PDF of the top selling "The Art & Science Of CSS." No strings attached! Read more…

Tech

Feature Story: Why The data: URI Scheme Could Help Save Your Slow Site

Slow page loads getting you down? The data: URI scheme could be the solution! While not supported in all browsers yet, data: URIs allow you to embed images within an HTML documents, thus reducing the need for an http request. As Meitar describes, it couldn't be easier to use—whether you're calling images for content within your HTML, or for background decoration from your style sheet. Read more…

Business

Feature Story: What To Do About a Content Theft

I launched a new site a couple of weeks ago, and now it's coming in second on Google to a site that's scraping my content. What can I do about this? Read more…