COLOURLovers is a social network for color-lovin’ folk. We create and share colors, color palettes, and patterns. It’s an inspiring group and it’s fun to see so many gorgeous — and far out — color combinations. One of the many things I like about COLOURLovers is that you can upload a photo …
Firebug is a free web development tool that is used to inspect and edit CSS and HTML documents in real time. This is the most important tool in my web developer toolbox and I would feel handicapped without it. To customize your blogs just the way you like them, knowing how to use Firebug …
I’ve worked with Moveable Type and Blogger and while both of them are fine platforms, they don’t match WordPress for plugins. WP Plugins have the power to transform your WordPress blog into a fine, well-oiled machine. After the jump you can also read the list of 15 plugins that I recommend. By the way, …

To follow along with me, you can use a text editor and your web browser. Windows users can use Notepad and Mac users can use TextEdit. Please don’t use Microsoft Word — it’s not designed for editing plain text. Microsoft Word can introduce extra formatting that will cause lots of problems. Just so you …
I’ve received numerous requests for tutorials on how to use the PuglyPixel photo overlays (here and here). I’m happy to say this long overdue screencast is ready. The screencast below is a two-part tutorial. The first half shows how to use the photo overlays from here. Part two shows how to use the …