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Nov

Photography Competition #56: White

"Please vote for your favorite entry!"

Read More... — Started by 613flavah in Competitions

Nov

Adsense "Featured Ad" Stars

"Looks like Google is testing a new "Featured Ad" gimmick. Exactly what makes these featured ads show is still a mystery, but some ads have little stars next to their titles now."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum

Nov

Site Speed to be Ranking Factor in 2010, Be Prepared

"If you haven't heard yet, Google plans to have the speed of a site become a factor for SERPs in 2010. Might as well be prepared, you can start with the tools in this thread."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum

Nov

Do you read "stickies" and "annoucements" ?

"I just caught myself skipping right over the "important" threads on a new forum, and I realized I always do it on new forums these days. Over the years I've noticed that some forums moderators have a habit of using the area "stickies" and "announcements" are found in for stuff I really couldn't care less about. I think part of me is so used to seeing the same stickies and announcements on other forums, that I'm subconsciously skipping them as if I'd already read them before, even though I haven't even read the title. Most forums use the same general layout. Anyone else just skip these sorts of threads ?"

Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion

Nov

Webmaster Tools Keyword "Significance"

"Google Webmaster tools seems to have added a new significance bar next to each keyword found on a site recently. Here's an interesting screenshot, I would never have guessed the..."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum

Nov

"This space intentionally left blank"

"For those of you who were following the side comments in the Sesame Street thread I don't think you were imagining things. It appears Google is playing with things again. At least on Internet Explorer 8. To view what I'm seeing, on these screen shots, you need to be using IE 8, with Google on Classic (not iGoogle), not logged in (I think) and not subscribed to any experiments."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion

Nov

Firefox the most vulnerable browser.

"Before you start thinking ATNO has gone mad, I'm not making it up. Among Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox had the largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities, followed by Apple Safari"

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion

Nov

Tutorial: Introduction to Windows PowerShell 1.0

"If you’ve been around Microsoft Windows any length of time, you’ve most likely seen or at least heard about the “Command Prompt” which, in Windows NT-based Operating Systems (Win2K and beyond), is executed via CMD.exe. Windows PowerShell is a similar relatively new command-line shell and is available to any Windows user (assuming you are using one of the supported operating systems listed below). However, PowerShell was particularly designed for system and network administrators."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Microsoft Windows Tutorials

Nov

Photography Competition #56: White

"Howdy! The next topic is : White. What does the word "white" make you think of?. Be creative!."

Read More... — Started by 613flavah in Competitions

Oct

Get ready for non-latin domain names

"Looks like we're going to have a new TLD that uses non-latin (latin being a-z,0-9,etc) characters. This ought to be fun."

Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion

Oct

Google Maps Navigation

"Google have introduced a free satellite navigation system which will first be available on the new Motorolla Droid phone."

Read More... — Started by SB in Google Forum

Oct

Google Search Goes Social

"This feature was announced last week at Web 2.0 summit as a new experimental tool and the social search results will be found under the link "Results from people in your social circle"."

Read More... — Started by synapse01 in Google Forum

Oct

458 Reasons to Stop Using Internet Explorer 6

"For one reason or another there are still people using IE6, for example, people still using Win2K where IE8 is not supported. Keep in mind there are other "safer" browser alternatives. The attached PDF contains a list of 458 known vulnerabilities, of which at least 396 are unpatched. After viewing the list, I hope you give some consideration to finding an alternative if you are still an IE6 user."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Website Security

Oct

Free Image Editing Software - Paint.Net

"I haven't had the chance to install Photoshop on my new laptop running Vista Business yet. I caught this link from tech republic yesterday and decided to install Paint.net and give it a shot. user-wise it's nearly as simple as the built in Paint that comes with the OS, but with many of the features of more complex and expensive editors like Photoshop. It includes all the basic familiar tools, like lasso, magic wand, fill, rectangle, ellipse, and many effects common to expensive editors. Image adjustments include auto levels, levels, hue, contrast, curves, etc. And like other editors you can easily work in layers."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Digital Art and Drawing Forum

Oct

Photography Competition #55: Celebration

"It's time to vote people! Please pick your favorite entry:"

Read More... — Started by 613flavah in Competitions

Oct

Tired of Nigerian Scam Emails?

"You may be seeing quite a few less of them in the very near future."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion

Oct

Motorola Droid specs hit the web

"Man, I'm ready for this phone to come out. PR stunt or not, I'm happy to see these features and numbers ahead of time so that I know to keep an eye on it..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

2009 Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year

"The winning photographs in the 2009 Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year competition. This competition was open to people in 94 countries and had a record 43,135. Find out which photograph won the main catagories here."

Read More... — Started by SB in Photography Forum

Oct

Adsense Image Ads get new Stealthy Google Branding

"Anyone else noticed that some image ads now use a tiny little gray "(i)" icon on the bottom corner now instead of the usual Google branding ? The branding is still there, but you have to mouse over the "(i)" to see it."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum

Oct

UPDATE: Python language could be locked down for a few years

"UPDATE: the moratorium has now been officially accepted."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Oct

Windows 7 feature comparison chart.

"From Tech Republic. A comparison of XP Pro, Vista Business, and Windows 7 Pro features."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Microsoft Windows Forum

Oct

Take a View - Landscape photographer of the year

"A look at all the top entries in this years Telegraph landscape photographer of the year (UK). Can you pick your favourite?"

Read More... — Started by SB in Photography Forum

Oct

Silly (in retrospect) Internet Misunderstandings

"Anyone remember things they thought about how the Internet worked that looking back at now seems silly ? I remember when I first learned what an "HTTP Referrer" was, I used to think that the referrer would contain the last page I was looking at even if I used a bookmark to go to the new page, so I..."

Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion

Oct

W3C Gets a Makeover

"I already looked, the most I can find is a missing character encoding warning on an obscure page. *wink*"

Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Design Forum

Oct

Recent Browser Performance Chart

"I hadn't seen a simple comparison of browser performance lately, until today."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Design Forum

Featured Tutorial: Multi-Column Layout Using CSS Float

For this tutorial, we're targeting a layout that has three columns of content with spaces at the top and bottom for a header and footer. The page will be a fixed width and will also be centered in the browser's display area (the figure to your left).

We'll begin with an XHTML page structure in its most simple form. In the <head> of our document, we'll point to an external CSS file.

Once upon a time, web developers used the HTML element <table> to layout content columns. This practice is now recognized as cumbersome and not very semantic.

These days, instead of using <table>, we use the <div> element as a container for content. Once you get the hang of it, using <div> becomes very liberating and greatly reduces the amount of markup needed to layout a page.

This is an intermediate level tutorial that discusses one method of multi-column page layout. It assumes the reader has a good knowledge and understanding of HTML and CSS.