J Smiley Outlook Email: Problem and Fix!

Jun 25, 2010 | 13 Comments

What’s up with that J, yo? I’m going to assume you’re using Microsoft Outlook 2010 at this point – or you know someone who uses it. But even if you’re not in either camp, you should pay attention. The following fix applies to every single Microsoft Office program that uses its universal AutoCorrect feature. I’ve [...]

How to Organize Text and Programming Code

Apr 7, 2009 | 2 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Managing text in a single text file is a bit of a kluge. Let’s say that text happens to be code, such as PHP or CSS. You may want color highlighting, so that if you make a mistake you’ll be able [...]

How to Make Money With Web Design

Dec 5, 2008 | 36 Comments

This is Ashmiester’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my [...]

What Advice do you Give to Young Programmers?

Mar 22, 2008 | 33 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Programming is an excellent field to go into, and good Programmers are a hot commodity. That reminds me… if anyone out there is above excellent at working with Drupal, shoot me an email to chris@pirillo.com. Thanks to Grant for sending in [...]

Top Ten Tips for Web Site Design

Feb 26, 2008 | 10 Comments

Alec is a regular member of our live community. Recently, he sent me his top 10 list of tips to help you with good Web Design. Even though I wasn’t able to do a video on this email, I wanted to pass them along to all of you. Why? Why do you need a site? [...]

How to Learn

Feb 14, 2008 | 26 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Brian writes: “I’ve been watching your videos on YouTube for a few month now. I’ve been learning Java for a year now, and I’ve got some tips for learning computer programming. Hopefully, these will apply to other things, as well.” Learn [...]

How to Start a Website

Jan 31, 2008 | 41 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Have you ever wanted to have your own Website? Do you know how to go about getting started? Here are some tips sent in by Lewis that may shed some light on these questions… and more. Don’t go for the cheapest [...]

How to Get Started With Computer Programming

Jan 5, 2008 | 41 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Programming is NOT as scary of a task as you might imagine. I know some people who shudder at the thought of learning any programming language. However, take a read through these tips, and find out for yourself how to get [...]

Aptana Studio Web Development IDE

Nov 15, 2007 | 19 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed A community member who uses the name of Fatal email me today. He said he was looking for an alternative to Dreamweaver, and came across Aptana. This is a free, open-source application, and wanted me to try it out. Aptana Studio [...]

HTML to PDF

May 29, 2006 | 4 Comments

The Web address for this online tool will be astoundingly impossible to remember, but its functionality really whips the llama’s ass. It’ll create a PDF from any Web-based HTML document (read: Web page). Why wouldn’t you print to a PDF locally? (1) This HTML 2 PDF service is infinitely faster; (2) No clunky software to [...]

Mnemonic Web Design

May 22, 2006 | 3 Comments

I’ve been in tweak mode for the past few days, getting this blog ready to duplicate for a coming Lockergnome project (based on MultiUser WordPress). In futzing with my CSS, I’ve had to enter values for positioning left and right (literally). You can define the spacing for margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, and margin-left separately – or [...]

Wooden Background Truly Dead

May 17, 2006 | 2 Comments

Yeah. Visit the Web site if you don’t believe me. All new theme. All new engine. All new everything.