For those who have never heard of it, Digg.com is a social news website where users add and comment on various websites on the Internet with an emphasis on news. It was a pioneer in social news with its infamous voting structure, now copied on every other social news website on the planet. In simple [...]

The Internet has struggled with everything its received. Domain names have become a hassle for many individuals, companies and countries, hosting companies come and go without telling their customers, millions of users use websites that take little to no security practices into consideration, and so on.
A group of people that have suffered the most are [...]

When browsing the Internet today we’re accustomed to seeing the good ol’ “http://www” bit on the left side of our URL’s. However, it seems that a growing number of websites have decided that this is not good enough and have created rewrite rules to strip the “www” off of all their addresses, effectively turning http://www.example.com [...]

Occasionally a business may see the need to add some kind of social aspect to their website. For example, if you were selling software over the Internet and wanted to provide support in a community setting you may decide to install a forum script to handle this. If you were running a gaming website you [...]

The rise of top-quality stat tracking software is a great thing for webmasters. Using websites like W3Counter, Google Analytics or self-hosted methods has become almost necessary for webmasters and I would be lying if I said that I hadn’t lost a large amount of time inside one of these scripts looking at what my users [...]

“I’m very flattered that you’d want to ask me this. I do like you, but not in the way you were hoping for. I’m sorry.”
Somewhere in time you have said this to a web page. Despite being extremely helpful there are times when a web page wants more than a working relationship with you, and [...]

Recently I came across a quite perplexing question about Accessibility from someone I work with. Today, Accessibility is something we all demand from our web pages, although many websites commercial scripts still haven’t grasped the concept of accessible coding/design on the Internet.
The question arose from writing the Accessibility page in the FAQ for the script [...]

When I started this Blog I never really wanted to get involved in writing about Blog’s. You may find this ironic, but I detest the Blog. Six times out of ten Blog’s are full of opinionated shit that people use to back-up their own opinions. One only has to check the Digg website to see [...]

Over the past couple of years I have been involved with running many forums, from small forums to gigantic forums housing thousands of users. These were never business opportunities, only activities for fun because I enjoyed the communities I worked with. Still, over my time working with forums I was able to learn a lot [...]

For some reason at this point in time there are thousands of people looking to work for themselves over the Internet, whether they consider themselves designers, developers, entrepreneurs or enthusiasts. These people strive to work for themselves or in small teams in an environment where work is not a chore, but somewhere you look forward [...]