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Web Design-isms: 7 Surefire Styles that Work

Glossy buttons, ornamental backgrounds, futuristic interfaces. We ’ve all been guilty at one time or another of committing the 7 design-isms in this article from Larissa Meek. But that’s okay, she tells us, they’re classics for a reason.
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CSS Galleries: Free Web Designs for Download

A list of free CSS HTML Web design download resources including brief descriptions and screenshots of the repective sites. Includes generic and special resources for content management, forum, and blogging systems like e107, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, PHP-Fusion, phpBB, PHPNuke, vBulletin, Wordpress, and Xoops.
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Best MySpace Layouts That Don’t Look Like MySpace At All

There’s an underground trend that ’s been going on for quite some time among those who don’t enjoy the usual MySpace layout aesthetic - loud music, tons of animations, layout that’s falling apart and color matching from hell. These folks have gone to great lengths to make their MySpace profiles as different from the “standard” MySpace layout as poss
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/2008/ May Be the Year of the Open-Source Desktop

Over the past year, I ’ve been on a quest to find an operating system that balances ease of use, stability, low cost and high functionality. My experiences were the subject of an article in CIO magazine that described how I tried to use my enterprise applications with Windows XP, Mac OS X, Red Hat and Fedora.
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Anatomy of the Linux Kernel

The Linux kernel is the core of a large and complex operating system, and while it’s huge, it is well organized in terms of subsystems and layers. In this article, you explore the general structure of the Linux kernel and get to know its major subsystems and core interfaces.
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Mythbuntu 7.04 Public Alpha 1

After lots of hard work the past month, the Mythbuntu team is proud to present our first publicly announced Alpha. This alpha can be used for running a live frontend from CD, and provides a good representation of where the GUI is headed for the installer. The CD contains a backend/frontend full installation on disk with all plugins.
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A Dell/Ubuntu Laptop - Right out of the box

The day Dell announced I ordered one of their laptops, and today (May 31) it arrived. I popped open the box to see what’s included. The only Ubuntu-specific thing included was the CD. I half-expected to see the ‘DELL’ logo on the blue-shirted guy. ;-)
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Top Ten of Programming Advice NOT to Follow

A top programmer examines a number of the top items of programming advice commonly given, and makes a great case for why they should NOT be followed. Some interesting food for thought for any programmer.
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Essential HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP etc., via Marc Andreessen

There are a ton of free cheatsheets, quick references, and downloadable resources for programming languages and related technologies online — in this post I’ve tried to organize and list some of the best for web development.
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CSS layouts “for those who want to start a css-driven website quick”

I placed a comment with a link to CSSeasy.com in another story and you’re all digging it up so I thought it would be good to write a story about this simple site for people who want to start a css-driven website quick or for those people who want to start learning CSS by trial and error.
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10 Things to Know When Starting A Facebook Application

By releasing a development platform, Facebook’s enabled developers to create some amazing applications riding off their social network. It’s not too hard to get an application of your own up and running, but it’s nice to have some help, as the documentation’s not complete. Here are a few tips to help you get started!
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Let’s Build a Grid - Webdesign

So much web design work relies on establishing a grid and the constraints on that grid: ad sizes, display size, browser display area minus chrome, and so forth. Grids are, quite literally, everywhere. But learning how to effectively utilize grids– without becoming a slave to them– can make the difference between a competent layout and a great layout.
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