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John Pozadzides is a founder of the Web Design Group. He maintains a daily personal blog at OneMansBlog.com.

25 Rounded Corners Techniques with CSS

CSS Juice has an interesting collection of rounded corner techniques to share:
Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques. Even the father of Internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with their Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently.
Actually, there are a lot […]

More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design. It includes several options in each of the very long list of categories that follows:

Graphics & Image generators
Color generators
CSS generators
Domain Name generators
Email generators
Favicons generators
Flash generators
Form generators
METATAG generators
Password generators
PopUp generators
robots.txt generators
RSS generators
SiteMap generators
Text generators
ASCII generators
PDF generators
Tooltip generators
XML Forms generators
HTACCESS generators
Fun & Humor

100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images

Laura Milligan compiled a pretty good list of free image sources over on VirtualHosting.com.
These resources are some of the most popular free stock image sites on the Web and with good reason. If you’re looking for some mainstream images, these are the first place to try.

Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet

There is a very useful, printable Unix cheat sheet available over on Fosswire.com.
Jacob, the author had this to say:
In an attempt to find a good Unix reference for you FOSSwire readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, why not make one?
It is available in the following languages:

English
Russian
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Simplified Chinese
Polish
Japanese

Deprecated HTML elements

There is a great little article over at CodeLair about HTML elements which have been depreciated and what to do about it:
The W3C has set several HTML elements and attributes as obselete. This tutorial shows you the HTML you shouldn’t be using, and the best ways to replace your ‘illegal’ code.
There are several HTML elements […]

How WordPress Uses 300 Servers to Serve Millions of Blogs

What do you do when your blog goes from a thousand pageviews a day to a million? Well, you start out by watching this video of a lecture on HyperDB and High Performance WordPress given by Barry Abrahamson and Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp 2007, in which they explain how they scale WordPress.com across hundreds […]

Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

This video features Google engineer Cuong Do, an engineering manager that helped scale the YouTube software and hardware infrastructure from its infancy to its current scale.
He discusses challenges of dealing with the growth including hardware, software and databases.

XML Basics Video Instruction

Cape Clear’s CTO, James Pasley, presents a video explanation of XML. It’s a good little overview if you are not yet familiar with the concepts of eXtensible Markup Language.
This presentation introduces the basic concepts of XML, XML namespaces and XML Schema. As the name suggests, it’s not intended to be comprehensive, but if you’re […]

WordCamp 2007: Matt Mullenweg - State of the Word

This one hour session, entitled State of the Word, from the WordCamp 2007 conference features Matt Mullenweg giving an update on the current state and future plans for WordPress.
This lecture occurred on Sunday July 22, 2007 from 3:30-4:30pm in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall. Matt gave the updates and then allowed […]

Matt Cutts’ Lecture - Whitehat SEO Tips

This is the video of the one hour long lecture given by Matt Cutts at the WordCamp 2007 conference in San Francisco, CA two weeks ago on the topic of Whitehat SEO tips for Bloggers.
For those not familiar, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and this lecture is all about ways to make […]