http://www.killersites.com/blog Real world talk about web design, programming and the business of web design. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:49:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi, Yet another blog post based on an email question ... the email: Hello Stefan, I just got through watching your video on basic web design. Before I decide to purchase this beginning video I wanted to ask a few questions. I am currently seeking alternate ways to generate income. ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/web-design-as-a-small-business/ Hi, Once and a while I use an email question as the basis of a blog post. This time, someone wanted to know about Dreamweaver and PHP: Hi Stefan, I am looking to get some videos on using Dreamweaver cs4 creating dynamic sites with PHP and MYSQL, do you have any videos ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/dreamweaver-cs4-and-php/ Hi everyone, I am happy to announce our new Flash CS4 video tutorials are finally ready! It only took me a year to get Santo (the author of the video tutorial course) to finally do it - better late than never I suppose. :) ... I have to tell you, wrangling up good ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/new-flash-cs4-video-tutorials-released/ Hi, Today, the Web is a much more sophisticated place (dynamic shopping carts, blogs, DOM scripting, Ajax etc) ... a Web that requires much more sophisticated web designers. To be a competitive and modern web designer these days, you have to learn more than just HTML and CSS . The 'foundation' ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/beginners-javascript-video-tutorial/ Hi, The DOM is short for: Document Object Model. This is basically a virtual map of the currently loaded web page. You can use this map along with the help of Javascript, to travel about your web page and do things like: Insert tags Remove tags Insert text ... And a whole lot more. The ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/introduction-to-the-javascript-dom/ Hi, In this video I introduce you to two things: 1. Basic object oriented concepts. 2. The Javascript object hierarchy. The goal of this video is to give you a birds eye view of Javascript, to hopefully make it easier to understand how to use this language in later videos. This video is from ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/javascript-object-hierarchy-video-tutorial/ Hi, I just released and brand new course on the Javascript framework called jQuery. JQuery is a very popular Javascript library that many web designers will find themselves working with. You can find about 40 minutes of free videos from the course here: www.killerjavascript.com/beginners-jquery/ Thanks, Stefan Mischook www.killersites.com http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/new-jquery-video-tutorials/ Hi, As you may know, I am a big Wordpress fan and I use it on a few of my 'killer' sites. Anyway, I just discovered that the Wordpress nerds have used the Google Gears project to speed up the Wordpress admin user interface. What is Gears? Gears is basically a browser ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/speeding-up-wordpress-with-google-gears/ Hi, Once in a while, I use email questions sent to me as the subject of an article, this time the question is about whether someone should use a Mac or a PC if they want to get into web design. ... I'm thinking of becoming a web designer and I was ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/web-design-mac-or-pc/ I just updated to Firefox 3.5.2 in hopes that it might fix some issues I have been having with it on Mac. I can't say if it has fixed anything yet, but I did discover something new: Firefox now supports the free Open Video Format. What? Don't we have Flash already? Yes, ... http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/open-video-format-comes-to-firefox/