WebDesignerDepot‘s done it again, they’ve worked their web UI magic to produce another set of free high-quality web 2.0 graphics available to the world at no charge. “The kit called “Aresio” has a clean, elegant and modern look. You will ... Read more
Aresio Web UI Kit – Free Sleek Orange UI Graphics
My Emails Broke Again – Email Validator
It happened again. You designed a perfectly good email template, sent it to a coder (or did it yourself), and it didn’t come out the way it was supposed to. What happened? More than likely the code wasn’t “cross ... Read more
MailChimp – Free CSS Inliner Tool
It’s a HUGE headache to scour through your email template source code replacing and adding in manual inline CSS to images, tables, paragraphs, etc… to just make sure any CSS you add is applied across all email clients. MailChimp made ... Read more
Creating a Short URL with PHP, Python, JavaScript, and Java (snippet)
Kevin van Zonneveld wrote an article a long time ago about quick ways to generate a short URL in a few major programming languages. I snagged the free snippet and used it on a project which required URLs that couldn’t ... Read more
DinPattern – Free Seamless Patterns
Scouring the web for something to spice up your background? Constructing a custom digital wrapping paper? Setting up a new blog and just can’t find a decent repeating background? I’ve got good news, DinPattern has a great free resource library ... Read more
serFISH.com – A fast free Web-Based SSH Client
Back when I was traveling, I was unable to connect to a remove server directly with PuTTY as it caused all kinds of trouble with firewalls. I stumbled across the free online SSH client called “serFISH.com” which allowed me to ... Read more
Optimizing a Large MySQL Database
WordPress along with a few other web frameworks allow for things like “revisions” which keep track of your site’s content history. While it’s great to step back into time, in WordPress’s case, it clogs up the database and can write ... Read more
MySQL – Calculate The Size of a Database With an SQL Query
I found myself trying to determine the size of all MySQL databases for a MySQL user — quickly. Mkyong.com wrote a great article on how to accomplish that. One example which worked for me was: SELECT table_schema “Data Base Name”, ... Read more
Campaign Monitor Reduces Chances of Emails Being Marked as Spam
What Campaign Monitor’s Doing Campaign Monitor announced on March 6th, 2012 that they’ve begun adding in “automatic” authentication for users who haven’t opted into their email authentication service already. “If you’ve already set up your own authentication, we’re not changing ... Read more
WordPress 3.1 Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite Rules and Permalink Structure
One of my clients is using WordPress on an IIS server and is using a product called “Helicon” to help with rewrite rules. Having toyed with the HTACCESS and Permalink structure, I couldn’t get any page content to show up ... Read more