Key Internet Domain Up for Grabs -

Who Will Run .Net?: "Regarded by most ordinary Internet users as '.com's' less-attractive cousin, '.net' is nevertheless the world's fourth-largest Internet domain and a key conduit for massive amounts of Internet traffic. This month, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the group that oversees the Internet's global addressing system, will begin deciding what company will run it. "......read the full story over t Biz Report....

Google Desktop Search Launched

Google If you're like me you have a trillion files on your computer and it's not always easy to find what you need. As if Google has read your mind they've created Google Desktop Search. I downloaded it yesterday and it looks like it'll come in handy. It even scans your email for related topics to what you're looking for. Read the story at Search Engine Watch....

Kanoodle Launches BrightAds

Kanoodle Kanoodle has launched it's new service called "BrightAds" which is it's version of contextual advertising. If you've been rejected by Google Adsense or you've been looking for other context ad programs to generate income from your websites, this might be for you. You'll have to go to this page and sign up then wait 3 days to see if you are approved or not for their program.

Adding drop caps effects to your paragraphs using CSS

CSS If you've been wondering how some website have a fancy drop cap applied to the first letter of a paragraph I'm about to let you in on their secret. It can be done with a little CSS but be aware it only works in IE 5.5 and higher. Check out the full tutorial...

Yahoo! Local - Find businesses and services near you.

Yahoo! Local . Yahoo Launched it's new Local Search and it looks pretty impressive. Check it out....

RSS Digest : Add RSS Feeds to Any WebSite Easily!

RSS Digest : Show RSS (or Atom!) on any Web page with no coding or software installation needed: "Place items and headlines from any RSS or Atom enabled site (or del.icio.us) onto your site, no programming or required. It can use either JavaScript, PHP, or an IFRAME as the inclusion method. Get no ugly ads, and use ANY feed!"

ShrinkMyLink.com

Make Shorter URL's Don't you hate those long url's? If you publish an ezine, like I do, or maybe you sell other people's products and want to hide the fact that you're including an affiliate link, ShrinkMyLink can help. You don't need to register to use this free service but if you do you'll have more options and can even assign titles to your shorter links so you can remember what they were for. Check it out and bookmark it....

Optimize Google AdSense Revenue by Reducing the Number of Ads on a Page

Optimize Google AdSense So Google now says you can add multiple ads to your website with Adsense? Think it's a great idea to load your pages up with ads? Better think again. Read this article that points out more ads on any one page actually translates into less dollars for you....

Learn How to Include Sound on Your Web Pages

Sound on Your Web Pages: "The tag is a general tag first implemented by Netscape to add many types of media into your Web page. You can embed many different objects that are supported by browser plug ins. ...."

Copyscape - Internet Infringement Detection - Find Web Plagiarism

Copyscape - Internet Infringement Detection: "Copyscape finds copies of your content on the Web. You can use Copyscape to identify sites that have copied your content without permission. Copyscape will also show you who is quoting your site. Simply type in the URL of your original content, and Copyscape does the rest... "

Ten CSS tricks you may not know

Ten CSS tricks you may not know CSS is pretty mandatory these days when designing your website. It makes format changes a lot easier in the future. Read over this list of 10 CSS tips you may not know about.

DeletedDomains.com: The ultimate source for deleted and onhold domains

DeletedDomains.com: If you're looking for a certain name don't just use a regular Registrar System. At DeletedDomains.com they have domains that have been recently released in the past 30 days that others may not be showing yet. I always come here when I'm trying to buy a particular name. Great Site! Bookmark it for future domain buying.

URLInfo- Find Tons of Info on Any Domain

"URLinfo is a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. To use it, type a URL (web page address) into the box in the top frame. Then choose a tab (such as General or Cache), and click on the name of the specific tool you wish to use. The Translate and Search tabs require a bit more, but should be self-explanatory. Click on the [info] link at the end of any tab for details about it. URLinfo includes 87 tools." Try it out for yourself

Yahoo Search blog

Yahoo Blogs Yes Folks, you heard it right here. Yahoo has officially gotten on the old Blog Bandwagon with what they call "Yahoo Search Blog". How creative is that? Think it took a lot of techs many hours to come up with that creative line? Hop over and take a look and if you use a News Reader they have a XML link you can copy and paste into your Reader. Oh how I love to Blog.

12 Website Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make Correctly (or you'll have to do it all over within a year)

12 Website Design Decisions Thinking of building your own website? Well, you might want to read over this very informative article by Dr. Wilson. It contains all of the major points you'll need to consider before building. Excellent read...

CssCreator - Live CSS Generator

CSS Creator If you're not using Cascading Style Sheets when designing your websites these days you really should. If you're short on time and want to create a quicky stylesheet you may find this online generator a very handy tool. Just copy and paste the code it produces.

Advice versus Control - Web Designers are Not Print Designers

Advice versus Control - Web Design Print is different then the Web and many people forget this fact when putting together a website. Read over this great tutorial on building great websites.

Design Matters

WebDesign Think the design of your website doesn't matter? You'll think twice after reading this informative article.....

htaccess: How To Create Custom Error Pages -

Customize Your Error Page: eDevCafe.com Ever go to a website and get the dreaded 404 error? Of course you have. You probably left in a hurry. But what if that page told you that the page had been moved and also gave you a menu of items to choose from? You would have stayed and looked around. Right? That's what happens when you make a custom error page for your site. Read on to find how just how simple it is.....

PagePainter - The Free Web Page Color Scheme Editor.

PagePainter A really cool free software program that allows you to test different colors on your website BEFORE you actually make the changes. Same colored pages as "Web Schemes" and try them on your site for size. If you've been thinking of redoing your site this program would be very helpful when it comes to color selection.