How To Hide Optional Fields on Long Web Forms

By Donovan Myers
Posted on Sep 29, 2007

Do you have a long form on your web site that might be intimidating to users? After all, you only require about half of the fields on your form? Now you can use XHTML and JavaScript to allow your users to hide the optional fields and only fill out what is required of them. Heck, you could even hide the optional fields by default.

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Photoshop pro tip: Turn a color photo into a stunning black and white

By Donovan Myers
Posted on Sep 23, 2007

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In the age of color photos and mega-pixel digital cameras, black and white photography has become pretentious and artsy. But, good news, now you can create pretentious and artsy black and whites from your color digital photos.

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Encrypted Email -- Bank and Credit Union Employees Unknowingly Put Banking Data at Risk

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Sep 21, 2007

PGP (www.pgp.com) is one of the most common methods of protecting financial data that customers submit through bank and credit union websites. PGP provides excellent data encryption, but many users leave sensitive PGP-encrypted data vulnerable without even knowing they’re doing so.

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Hiring A Skilled Designer Can Lower Your Hosting Costs

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Sep 20, 2007

Everyone wants to hire a designer whose visual design skills make jaws drop. But most people never consider the HTML coding skills of their website designer an important factor when choosing a design firm. As long as the site looks good, does it really matter how the designer constructs the HTML code? If you answered "No", you'd better read on.

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Google Plain Sight Secret: How to Tell Google to Return Only Recent Results

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Sep 18, 2007

Google offers a cool advanced search technique that you can use to find out which new pages Google discovered on your website in recent days. You can also use the same technique to find any new web content on a topic, such as a breaking news story.

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Photoshop Pro Tip: Sharpen photos when resizing

By Donovan Myers
Posted on Sep 16, 2007

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Have you stumbled across a web site or two that just had amazing photography? Everything looked sharp and professional, nothing like what your pictures look like. For some reason, your photos are always blurry.

Whenever you resize a photo in Photoshop, you are reducing the number of pixels and blurring them together. Thankfully Photoshop has a filter built in to help correct the blurring and make your photos look professional and sharp.

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