There is a great need for a reliable, easy-to-configure and easy-to-use on-line payment system for small traders and Amazon has stepped into this arena with it’s own on-line payment system called Checkout by Amazon.
Read more about it at C-Net…
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Whenever I’m building or designing a web site/web app, the most time-consuming part of the project will be the creation of graphical elements like buttons etc.
Well now I won’t be spending as much time doing that since I discovered iconzworld, a free icon resource web site. They put up new icon sets every couple of [...]

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Although Joomla is a very popular open source application for building content-rich web sites, the available documentation for version 1.0x leaves a lot to be desired.
Currently working on a pretty big, and complicated, project involving multiple Joomla sites, I went off in search of relevant material that would help me design and build custom components [...]

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Email marketing, although a proven and required part of a marketing strategy, can be costly with most online suppliers charging a hefty monthly sum to use their systems.
Those that operate for free have limitations, usually something like ‘100 recipients only’ which is ok for low level activity but unsuitable for a growing business.
Setting up your [...]

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I often write about or quote 37 Signals here, largely due to the respect I have for them as designers/developers and for the way they manage their business.
This week Matt Linderman has written the article “Advice for entrepreneurs: Throw out that five-year plan, build something now, and don’t take any money” where he’s brought together [...]

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I went on a bit of a Cheat Sheet binge this month. Working on a couple of projects using various technologies means I keep bouncing around looking for stuff so I thought I’d better get some cheat sheets up on my wall to save me time.
Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly named [...]

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Last month’s Inc. magazine featured clothing company Threadless on the front cover, a company founded by 2 college drop-outs (an interesting trend in itself – so many successful start-ups have college drop-outs at the helm) Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff.
Founded in 2000, Threadless is set to hit $5million is sales this year selling, wait for [...]

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Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, said in April’s Ruby Conference that Ruby and PHP are the languages of choice for new web applications.
Both Ruby and PHP are open source and therefore it comes as no surprise that both these languages are being taken up far more quickly than established languages like [...]

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When starting out in Joomla, either as a developer or site administrator, it’s likely one of the first questions to pop up will be what the difference between a Component and a Module is. Although it’s possible to ‘figure’ out what does what, it’s always a good idea to get the low-down from someone who’s [...]

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Danny Dover has written an amazing article over at SEOmoz about the information Google tracks and collects about every user to  its many service web sites e.g. from GMail, Google Desktop, Google Docs, Postini, YouTube, FeedBurner etc.
Most Internet users are aware of the usual information collected but here Danny Dover has put together an exhaustive [...]

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Technology has always moved fast and the Internet has made the pace even quicker.
This has raised the question whether the digital divide is growing bigger as those who can afford to stay updated with the latest technological know-how and those who can’t are left ever behind.
However new research from an American university shows that exactly [...]

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