After my post on creating web widgets a couple of weeks ago, one of TTB’s readers let me know about a nifty one she created. Perhaps it’s time to start a thread on favorite web widgets? Add yours here. (more…)

If you’d like to make your PDF, Word, Powerpoint, Excel and other documents a little more accessible to your site visitors and give them more of a viral aspect, here’s a nifty free service to help you do so. (more…)

Dialup Internet access is certainly waning – but is it dead? Not quite. There’s still tens of millions accessing the web through dialup in the USA alone. (more…)

Site splash pages, i.e. a page that displays a presentation before moving onto the real home page can be quite impressive.. the first time they are viewed. (more…)

Accompanying the explosion of social bookmarking sites and feed reader services in recent years, increasing screen real estate is being taken up on sites giving visitors options of adding our feeds and pages to this or that service. A relatively new service for publishers does away with the icon clutter! (more…)

If you’ve always wanted to create your own social network and utilizing free services such as MySpace aren’t what you had in mind, this might interest you.. and yes, it’s free. (more…)

While on the topic of screen and display issues – do you specify background colors on your web pages; even if the background is just white? it’s a good idea to and here’s why. (more…)

It’s been around 4 months since I last took note of screen resolution statistics in relation to Taming the Beast.net’s visitors, so here’s a breakdown based on around 80,000 visitors over the last week. (more…)

Would you like to give your site visitors previews of any pages you link to without them having to leave the current page? A few simple lines of code can give you this handy feature. (more…)

When the Internet Explorer vs. NetScape browser wars were over, the dust settled to reveal NetScape lying bleeding in the gutter. I rejoiced, if only for not having to bother so much with cross browser compatibility issues any more – which were the bane of most web site developers back in those days.

Then FireFox reared its (insert term of choice here) head and I could see history repeating itself. (more…)