The hosts file is a local file in Windows and other operating systems that contains directives to map specific hosts to IP addresses which are prioritized over other means of DNS lookups like DNS servers. Quite a few applications exist for hosts files including blocking advertisement and other malicious domains from the computer system or [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

DENIM is a web design tool to help web designers in the early stages of the design process. The program provides the web designer with the means to sketch the website at various levels of refinement from a global site map view to individual pages and details on those pages. The main interface of the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a new program by Microsoft that is offering small web development companies the opportunity to join the program for free to receive web development software and server software coupled with support, training and business opportunities. Web design companies with less than 10 members are eligible to join the program for up to [...]

Categories: Microsoft

It is not only web designers who need to create image thumbnails regularly. There are many situations where image thumbnails come in handy starting from blogging and publishing websites to PowerPoint presentations or preview images of a photo collection. Some programs and online scripts – like WordPress for instance – create image thumbnails automatically whenever [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards. Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with [...]

Categories: Software, Web Development

If you do any web design, interior design, painting, graphic arts you know the importance of using complimentary color schemes. For many this is as simple as eying a color. For others it always seems an exercise in futility. Thankfully there are applications out there to help you out with your color schemes. These tools [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic, Web Development

If you are running a website, be it as a hobby, semi-professional or professional you need to know some tools of the trade. Webmaster tools can help the webmaster in many different areas like verifying that the website will display fine in all modern web browsers or ensuring that the search engines do not encounter [...]

Categories: Web Development

The MIX09 technology conference which concentrates on web design and development took place in Las Vegas from March 18 – 20, 2009. All of the sessions of the event have been recorded and made available online. A total of 122 sessions are freely accessible online and even available as downloads in various formats including Windows [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

As you all know, we started a web development section here on gHacks. After asking for your opinion and talking about it with Martin, we decided to keep writing 1-2 posts a week here, but move most of the material into a new site called Scriptastique. Right now we only have the blog, but tutorial [...]

Categories: Web Development