Apple is offering a free lecture series geared to educators and students that covers , and .

Attend a free seminar to learn how creative professionals master the digital media mix.

From print and broadcast to web pages and podcasting, today’s college grads need to be fluent in every type of media imaginable. The Remix Tour brings creative-industry veterans to campus to discuss the ins and outs of integrated marketing in this fractured media landscape. They’ll share tricks of the trade, and introduce you to the industry-standard tools that will help your students create compelling content– no matter what the medium.

Southern California locations at UC Irvine (11/27) and both USC and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (11/30).

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As a , you know that one of the most difficult parts of growing your business is finding new clients to work for. You have the skills to do the work, and the salesmanship to close the deal, but finding people who need the work done consumes too much of your time. That’s where Free Quotes World (FQW) comes in.

If you’re interested in growing your business, but are tired of the time it takes to find new clients, you should try out FQW.

Competitors

The nature of other leads services such as guru.com, domystuff.com, elance.com, getafreelancer.com or rentacoder.com, seems to heavily favor FQW is different because it targets North American companies looking to build a North American client base.

Try Out Free Quotes World Today – FREE!

Update 10/30/07: FQW out of business? The handwriting was on the wall when my contact at FQW left them not very long after I first posted here. Today the FQW site was completely gone, showing only an ugly mysql_connect database error page. The lesson here is that startups with good intentions can quickly “go south” for a variety of reasons. Buyer beware.

sites open for business include elance.com, getafreelancer.com, rentacoder.com and gofreelance.com.

The accessibility color wheel is an online tool used to chose a color pair with good contrast and visibility. It simulates the vision of . Web designers who need good colors for text and background of their will find the accessibility color wheel useful.

New Zealand web firm provides enough detail to be truly useful, with proper explanations that really describe the meaning.
The Motive Web Design Glossary

above-the-fold

The portion of a webpage visible in the browser window when the page first loads is decribed as being ‘above-the-fold’. The phrase is a reference to the area of a newspaper visible when folded for display in a news stand, typically containing the masthead and lead story.

A more appropriate (medium-appropriate) equivalent being “before-the-scroll”.

The concept of a fold was seen as key in the early days of the web, based on the belief that only content placed in this area of the page—usually the first 300 vertical pixels—could be guaranteed “eyeballs”. Over time, users have become more accustomed to scrolling, however the first fold continues to be highly sought-after by advertisers.

Get your own domain. Use a good registrar like 1&1 which offers .com domains for only $5.99 a year – basically that’s only 50 cents a month! And that price includes domain privacy, so that no one can see who owns the domain.

Plus they have a deal where you can get 5 FREE .info domains – just be sure to register using their “Instant Domain” package. (You don’t even have to buy a .com domain to take advantage of the .info deal.)

Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) or dot-mobi, will become the suffix for Web pages that are formatted for cellphones and other wireless devices. A dot-mobi domain name costs $140 a year for trademark names and $45 a year for generic names, compared with about $10 a year for .com or .net domain names. The higher prices are meant to discourage cyber squatters from taking advantage of a new domain name. Registration will be open to generic names in September 2006.

Google and MSN are looking at advertising on cellphones, which is expected to be more effective than online advertising because the cellphone is perceived as a more personal device. Also worth noting is that in developing countries more people have cellphones than PCs. Time to brush up on web design for mobile devices.

A selection of wolf sound effects from sounddogs.

Cool montage of generic high fidelity sound effects or dog pack science fiction (will launch your default media player) from sounddogs. They offer AIFF (Mac), WAV (PC), MP3 (compressed), WMA (Windows Media), AU (Sun) file formats.

What if you wanted to quickly move 1,000 local files to your webhost?

My suggestion is to compress all of those files into one large file. FTP that one large file to your server. Then Telnet/SSH to the specific directory where that file lives and uncompress it.

FTP clients such as CuteFTP Professional have a Compressed Transfers feature that allows for streaming compression for faster transfers as well as manual compress/deflate to/from ZIP, CAB or GZIP/Tarball archives. This feature compresses the files into one file, and then FTPs them across much more quickly than moving them individually.

If your FTP client doesn’t have a similar feature, then you can simply compress the files using your favorite compression program.

Then you will need to use a Telnet/SSH connection to your webhost, log in and uncompress your files using the following commands:

All of the below commands assume that you are within the same directory that the compressed file is in. To be sure type:

ls {enter}
If the file is there, you’re ready to go. If not type:
cd /big/dom/xdomain/www/directory/ {enter}
replacing the path with the correct path to your file.

If a file ends in .zip (for example, file.zip) type:
unzip file.zip

If a file ends in .tar (e.g., file.tar) type:
tar -xvf file.tar

If a file ends in .gz (for example, file.gz) type:
gzip -d file.gz

If a file ends in .tar.gz (e.g. file.tar.gz) type:
gzip -d file.tar.gz
and then
tar -xvf file.tar

If a file ends in .tgz (e.g. file.tgz) type:
tar -xvzf file.tgz

Previously I posted about a gentle introduction to php.

To make your .htm or .html pages process like they were .php, just add this line to your .htaccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .php .htm

Or use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html /index.php

The .htaccess directory-level configuration file can also be used for:

Custom Error Pages
Password protection
Redirects
Prevent hotlinking of images
Preventing Directory Listing

PHP started out as a (relatively) simple server-side scripting language called Personal Home Page, developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It has grown to a full-fledged programming language supported by scores of open-source developers.

A Gentle Introduction to PHP

Ever since Netscape Navigator 2.0, many major web sites have used “JavaScript Remotes” as a convenient navigation tool. These first-generation remotes were based entirely on JavaScript. First you call a function to launch the remote, then another one, when the user clicks a link or submits a form, to load an URL in the main window. Until someone uncovered an undocumented feature, which made targeting the main window from within a remote as simple as loading a link in a frame.

How to launch a new window with HTML.
How to launch a new window with JavaScript.
How to specify the new window’s attributes.
How to manipulate the new window after creating it.
How to embed links and forms in the remote’s document.

1&1 is offering limited no cost .info domain registrations with free privacy protection. You can take advantage of this offer by following this link.

On the main page you’ll see a “Limited Time Offer” box. Click on it.

In the middle of the page that follows you’ll see a box labeled “Domains” with “Instant Domain” as a subheading. Click on the small “sign up” link near the bottom righthand corner of that box.

This gets you to the “Instant Domain” page. Click on the “sign up” button on this page. You should now be on a page that says “Register Free .info Domains”.

From here you select the domains you want to register. They’ll be added to your shopping cart for zero dollars. There’s a limit of 5 domains.

Previously we detailed the Enkoderform method to avoid spam from posting your email address on the web.

Here’s another technique using the :before and :after pseudo-elements of CSS. The reader’s comments are pretty interesting.

A lot of people seem to be missing the point of this article. What’s described is nothing more than a proof-of-concept technique; it is by no means perfect, or even the best way of masking your email address. I wrote this because it demonstrates some under-used CSS features that happen to solve a common problem. In the worst case scenario, it works as well or better than most other techniques, and at full steam, it’s pretty nifty.

How does your website look on Apple Safari ? Safaritest – mac browser compatibility tester – will return a screenshot of your page as viewed with Safari.