So it turns out you guys really like Notepad++. It was the clear leader of our last poll, with over 31% of the total votes. What surprised me, however, was that Dreamweaver was second in popularity, followed by Eclipse.
I’ve been running across several new UI PSD kits that cover a wide range of elements, everything from buttons to media players. I wanted to take a shot at making my own with a few simple elements – feel free to use the following UI elements in any project you’d like.
One of the most important characteristics you’ll find in successful individuals (especially entrepreneurs) is belief in themselves. It’s no secret, many athletes use it to give them an edge to beat competitors and current billionaires have used it in the lowest moments of their lives as motivation to keep going. A lot of us know the importance of this important trait yet fail to make use of it in our daily lives.
Jason Calcanis provided some really useful tips a while back about how to save money when running a startup. While they’re great tips, a lot of them don’t apply to budding entrepreneurs who are simply trying to save money during the actual “startup” part (buy an expresso meeting for how much?).
What is the difference between passion and obsession? For starters, an obsession is usually an act that you are always (and sometimes uncontrollably) preoccupied with. A passion, on the other hand, is a strong love that can be the pathway to a healthy relationship or to a harmful obsession.
A few users have asked me how I’ve created the Subscribe box in the sidebar and some have even called for a WordPress plugin that helps automate it. In reality, it’s just simple HTML/CSS paired with the Feedburner subscribe code and can be replicated very easily. Let’s take a look at the code used to create it:
I came up with this simple Polaroid design for a small project and wanted to share it as a quick freebie. Download the PSD, play around with it and use it however you’d like – no attribution or credit is required.
I’ve been trying to utilize HTML5 more recently in a few smaller projects and came across a really cool new attribute: ContentEditable. You can add this attribute to any HTML element and it automatically makes that (and any element within it) editable.
It turns out that the majority of readers here use either GoDaddy, Linode, MediaTemple or Host Gator as your current shared or VPS hosting provider. Somehow GoDaddy had the most votes (by a small margin) and, at least for me, is the most surprising result. Here’s a pretty pie graph of the complete spread:
One problem I used to frequently run into in my earlier days of freelancing was that I’d give a client a quote, start working on the project and halfway through realize that I was charging way too little for way too much work. I had vastly underestimated the scale of the project. Over the past year, I’ve been using a technique that is glaringly obvious but often overlooked when determining what to charge a client.
DevGrow is a journal on web design, development and usability written by Monji Dolon.
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