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

Massive Hex Code Color Chart

Here is a massive color chart with the useful hex codes for about 1,500 different colors.
What I like best about this chart is that it keeps all the similar colors grouped together (unlike just about every other color chart I can find.)
There is also a complimentary Black and White color chart […]

Black and White Hex Code Color Chart

For quick reference sake, here is a table with hex codes for a wide range of grays from White to Black. It should assist when you are needing to pick a color for text or backgrounds.
There is a complimentary color hex code chart here.

HTML Elements Illustrated

The following images come from a collection on Flickr entitled “Visual HTML Jokes“. I got a good chuckle from some of these so I thought I’d share just a few.

HostWay / ValueWeb Incredibly Long Server Outage

Something went horribly wrong with the previously planned server migration at ValueWeb and the company was responsible for keeping thousands of servers off-line for much, much longer than expected.
HTMLHelp’s two dedicated servers were offline for over 75 hours.
The worst part was that the company failed to communicate to anyone during the longer than […]

HTMLHelp.com Server Migration July 27-28

As a heads up to everyone, our hosting provider has notified us that due to an aquisition they will be physically moving our server to a new facility sometime after 8pm on Friday July 27 on east coast US time (GMT -5).
Since HTMLHelp is hosted on two different dedicated servers I’m not sure […]

HTML as Art

Now here is something you don’t see every day… someone creates a work of art from what appears to be a massive table comprised of various colored backgrounds.
Very unique, and you just have to check it out.

WordPress WordCamp July 21-22

Howdy gang, I’ll be in San Francisco for WordCamp from Friday the 20th through Monday the 23rd. If anyone else is going and you’d like to meet face to face let me know. Otherwise if anyone has any good questions, suggestions or topics which you’d like to see addressed please let me know and […]

Review: BlogBackupOnline

BlogBackupOnline is a new online service provider that intends to give the 70 million or so blog owners out there a little peace of mind by backing up all their content. I heard about it weeks ago, but just got around to trying it this evening because I had assumed it was going to take […]

Firebug Web Authoring Tool Video Overview

Joe Hewitt is a Mozilla developer who has written software dear to the heart of all web developers, including the original Mozilla DOM Inspector.
Joe’s newest Mozilla tool is Firebug, an integral logging and debugging extension for Firefox that sets a new standard for its category. Joe provided a power-user tour while announcing Firebug 1.0’s […]

74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials

For those of you that are interested in learning to develop with Ruby on Rails, here is site that has compiled a list of 74 quality resources and tutorials. Enjoy.