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Installing and Using Meeplace, the Business Review CMS
Meeplace is a business review script and content management system that you can install to turn your site into a professional...
Sending an HTML and Plain Text E-newsletter with ASP.NET, Part 2
Using ASP.NET and a database, you can create an electronic newsletter and send it to multiple recipients at once. ...
Create Multilingual Web Sites with Windows Unicode Fonts
To input text in languages other than your keyboard default on Windows platforms, you'll need to do some tweaking. Learn how...
Build a Shopping Cart Admin Tool for Your PHP Online Store
With an online shopping cart administration tool in place, you can easily create administrators and non-administrators for your...
Use Web Caching to Make Your Web Site Faster
Get an overview of how the multiple levels of web caching behave and how you can use them to make your site faster. ...
Creating an Online Shopping Cart Mechanism in PHP
Explore the PHP scripts behind a functioning online shopping cart and learn how to use them with a real-world example. ...
Log JavaScript Errors Using an AJAX-driven Web Service
JavaScript's error-capturing mechanisms not advanced enough for your web applications? Here's a novel way to log...
Installing the Elgg Social Networking CMS
One Open Source CMS that stands out above the rest for small businesses and personal networks is the Elgg open source...
Setting up an SSL Certificate in Apache
When the HTTP protocol was designed, it was assumed that data transmission would be secure. Times have changed and network...
Custom Scrollbars with CSS
CSS 3 is well on its way and promises some amazing features, including scrollable divs. There are several implementations of...

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A New Direction and a New Project
In an effort to increase adoption of web standards, we're going to try something new.
France and Germany call for the end of IE6
Google's disclosure of a December cyber attack, originating in China, prompts two major governments to push for the aging...
Be a True Blue Beanie Supporter of Web Standards
Monday, November 30, 2009 is the 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day. Started by Doug Vos, Blue Beanie Day is a way to show support for...
Introducing The Open Web Education Alliance
The W3C recently announced an exciting new incubator group - <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/owea/">The...
Interview with Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification.
You&#8217;ve heard it&#8217;s coming in 2012. Or maybe 2022. It&#8217;s certainly not ready yet, but some parts are...
InterAct translations and localizations
Work is well and truly underway to get WaSP InterAct translated into multiple languages. With an army of over thirty volunteers...
Help tidy HTML 5 (and get your name in lights)
The editor of the HTML 5 spec, Ian Hickson, calls for input on issues in the spec&#8212;typos, contradictions, or simply...
Purpose of Conficker Worm Uncovered
Late yesterday, members of the Internet Information Security Consortium (I2SecC) working in conjunction with a cadre of white-hat...
IE8 Has Arrived
With a greater focus on standards-compliance, it seems possible that Microsoft's latest browser may redeem itself in the...
The Dawn of the Education Era
We are proud to announce the WaSP InterAct Curriculum.