With the newest security updates released by Microsoft (MS) last week, they have decreased functionality of the IE browser. Specifically, where it involves ActivX control components/code. The release, tagged as a “critical update” was not critical to the security of any MS application, but more of a means (ploy??) for MS to ‘cya’. They are [...]

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We were recently provided with a short guide entitled: “Parents Guide to Internet Slang: Understand How Your Kids Communicate Online.”

Leetspeak, or ‘leet’ for short (a vernacular form of ‘elite’), is a specific type of computer slang in which a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically. Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways, using different substitutions and combinations.

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This is, by far, the best writing instrument I’ve ever used. Everything about this pen is indicative of the years of research that went into its development. The precisely balanced and weighted titanium shaft, plasmium filled grip, one-handed drive mechanism, and nitrogen-injected refill (based on the NASA technology enabling one to write upside down, in [...]

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A List Apart had a great tutorial on how to do this. What follows is a simplified step-by-step (adapt image tags to suit your needs):

Create the full banner (including the rollover image) as your working template. (Tip: the width of the image should be 2px smaller than the container (#rap) of the site.)
In an html [...]

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