When designing or running a site its important that users have some way of contacting the site owner, you can just use the mailto: option but using a form is so much easier for users and looks more professional.
A major concern for site owners is the quantity of spam that contact forms can generate, to [...]

Building good solid backlinks is something that can only benefit your site, not only can it assist with SEO, it can also improve your site’s SERPs and it can help improve Google pagerank too.
There are hundreds of sites that offer backlink checking tools, the 8 listed here are top resources as they are all free [...]

Premium Wordpress themes can be very expensive, even more so if a designer creates you something custom. So the solution to this would be to design your own, totally custom for your blog and most importantly it would save you money.
If you haven’t coded for Wordpress before you might be a little phased by this [...]

Having the ability to add ratings and polls to your site can really do wonders for your project, by allowing your users to interact it can make them feel more involved.
Wordpress has a great selection of plugins for exactly this purpose, here I have listed some plugins that will allow you to add ratings, polls [...]

Name: Mindy Wagner
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Job Title: Web Designer, Viget Labs
Sites: mindywagner.net, viget.com
Twitter: @graphicsgirl

Today WebM.ag is speaking with Mindy Wagner, Mindy works out of Viget as a Web Designer, her name is frequently mentioned as one of the top female Web Designers in the world and is a role model to up and coming designers [...]

MySQL is an opensource solution for database management, it is one of the most popular options for many developers as it’s free, simple to use and very effective in serving its purpose.
To work on your MySQL database you will benefit from using some kind of “front end” to allow you to view and edit the [...]

IE6 is the bane of many designers lives, it is jam packed full of bugs and as it’s not a standards-compliant browser you have to apply a shed load of fixes and hacks to make it play nice.
Maybe it’s just me, but should I still be writing about fixes for IE6 in 2009? Probably not [...]