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 of methods and techniques to create rounded corners with Cascading Stylesheets. Some are quite simple just need pure CSS, and a part of them need 2 to 4 background corner images and Javascript.

Find them here.

• 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

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.

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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

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 and attributes that have now been declared deprecated by the World Wide Web Consortium (the organization that sets HTML standards). ‘Deprecated’ means that the elements no longer serve a purpose and have been replaced by other methods, mostly involving cascading stylesheets (CSS). Although it is recommended that web browsers continue to support them, eventually they will become obsolete.

This page lists all the deprecated elements and attributes of HTML 4, and specifies the recommended replacements for them.

This lecture occurred on Sunday July 22, 2007 from 10am-11am in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall.
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He discusses challenges of dealing with the growth including hardware, software and databases.
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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 just getting started with XML it will introduce you the important aspects. Pay close attention to the section on namespaces - that’s the one area of the XML syntax that beginners find the most tricky.

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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 those in attendance to ask questions and make comments.
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For those not familiar, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and this lecture is all about ways to make your Web site rank higher in Google and the other search engines. I’ve also written an article on this topic called Improving Search Engine Rankings.

Matt’s presentation is available here, and when I get a chance I’ll try to go back and plug them into the video in the appropriate spots. In the meantime I did manage to get most, if not all, of them on film although they might be a little difficult to read - especially in the low quality versions required by the video hosting sites.
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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 here.
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There is a complimentary color hex code chart here.
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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 expected outage as they went completely silent - at times not answering customer service phone calls, and sending no status update e-mails.

Although unforeseen issues sometimes arise in complex hosting environments, I feel the complete and utter lack of ability to respond during this crisis means their systems are critically flawed - and I would not recommend Hostway / ValueWeb to anyone.

More detail about it over on my personal blog.

Since HTMLHelp is hosted on two different dedicated servers I’m not sure if they will both go down at the same time, or at different times, but when they do go down we are expecting it to take about 12 hours to bring them back up.

Please keep this in mind if you are going to be needing to access any of the reference materials or forums over the weekend as there will be periods of unavailability.

Very unique, and you just have to check it out.
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I’m sure we all know how hard it can be to find the right domain. You know the drill. Come up with two or three keywords relating to your new Web site, then do a WHOIS on every combination you can think of, with every extension you can think of, only to come up with two poor choices after an hour of searching.

Bust A Name means we don’t need to do that anymore! Just enter your keywords, click “Add”, and Bust A Name will search all combinations and find ones that are available.

It’s actually quite addictive!

Incidentally I’ve been talking to Matt about filming the speakers so hopefully that will go well and I’ll be able to share some or all of the lectures later after the event for those who were not able to attend.

If you are anywhere near San Francisco and you use Wordpress I would highly encourage you to attend. The event only costs $25 (scholarships if you can’t even afford that) and you’ll get to meet a lot of great folks and hear some fantastic lectures I’m sure.