Monday, October 23, 2006

5 Ways to Optimize Your Web Design

"Everyday thousands of websites are being created based on the needs of website owners and not the needs of their visitors. Visitors are being ignored which is the biggest reason most websites are not successful; here are 5 ways to optimize your design."

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Footers in Web Design

With old table layout methods, vertical positioning is a fairly simple process. With CSS layout, it’s not quite so easy. "A List Apart" shows how to regain control of footers and other vertically positioned layout elements via CSS, JavaScript, and the DOM. Want to find a way to work around all those limitations? Here's how...

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Photoshop Brushes Resource Site

This is one of the most well put together Photoshop Brush Resource Site's we've ever found. Contains hundreds of brushed indexed by category. Chances are good that you'll find what you are looking for here. Not only is Adobe Photoshop a great tool for designing websites and perfecting photographs, but it can be used to create works of art. The possibilities are endless with all these brushes.

Online Color Palette Generator

This is a pretty interesting tool. Just enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

MySQL Master Master Repliction Tutorial

Web hosting at MLT Group is something we take very seriously. We want the highest amount of up-time for our clients as possible. So that means we need to take precautions and know exactly how to provide server stability. One of the features of being hosted at MLT Group is the ability to use MySQL, the world's most popular open source database. This tutorial describes how to set up MySQL master-master replication. For when you need to replicate MySQL servers to achieve high-availability (HA). In this case two masters are synchronized with each other so that if one of them drops down, the other could take over and no data is lost.