There are several well known bugs that affect only Internet Explorer 6 that can wreak havoc on your websites. One of the most annoying is the double margin float bug in IE6, simply if you float a block level element to the left it will double the margin you have applied to the element and [...]

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Giving good customer service as a freelance web designer is paramount to the lively hood involved with being your own business. Providing that invaluable level of intimacy with your clients is what distinguishes you from the larger ad agencies. The bigger some companies get the more attractive a freelance web designer can be. In order [...]

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Between choosing the most semantic markup, wrangling IE6 CSS bugs, and arguing which JavaScript library would win in a fight, it is easy to forget that the future of web design rests in the hands of a small group of people—those with responsibility for educating the next generation. Columnist Tom Green reports on the sad state of post-secondary education, and what it might mean for the future of effective web development.

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You might know your Facebook from your Odeo, but most companies couldn’t give a Flickr about social media. How do we let them know the opportunities that a Web 2.0 world can hold for them? Britt Parrott explains how to develop a coherent and buzzword-free web content strategy.

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It’s one thing to join an organization; it’s quite another to stick around.  And anybody wanting to become and remain a member of the Yahoo Publisher Network should probably pay attention to some guidelines posted on the program’s official blog.

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Managing employees who abuse their Internet access could be hindered by company policies written before the advent of Web 2.0 sites, an employment expert believes.

The warning comes after disciplinary action against 18 police officers who bragged about car crashes on Facebook.

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If you go down StopBadware.org’s top ten most malware infected network list, you’ll notice a pattern: the first four are Chinese. While the critic may find that unsurprising, number five on the list, Google, Inc., is worth a double take.

Google isn’t just one of the founders of StopBadware.org, it’s also a member. The company, in a weird twist, is also its own target. Google has its free blogging service Blogger to thank for all that junk gumming up its own network. Out of over 200,000 websites discovered to be infected, Blogger returned 4,261 infections.

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One prominent blog claimed the two tech companies were again discussing a takeover deal, others said it just isn’t happening.

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A new feature should start hitting Facebook profiles as the company adds the ability to comment directly on Mini-Feed stories directly from someone’s profile.

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The number of global Internet users will increase 44 percent between 2007 and 2012, reaching 1.8 billion users, according to JupiterResearch.

In 2012 one quarter of the world’s population will access the Internet on a regular basis. The growth in online populations of emerging markets will increase at double-digit rates over the next five years, leading to the expansion of the global online population.

The report says that online penetration levels will only reach levels the U.S. had in 2000 and at a minimum will lag behind developed nations by five years.

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