Jennifer shows how to create a simple letterpress effect using the Appearance and Graphic Styles panels in Adobe Illustrator. You can see the full article here on Design Festival.

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Brandon Eley ponders the implications of the recent disruptions suffered by clients of Amazon Web Services, including how the whole situation was handled.

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Over on RubySource, our resident PHP developer Mal Curtis discusses a feature of Ruby that eases the management of repeated code: mixins.Read the full article—Confessions of a Converted PHP Developer: Mixing Like a Baker—over on RubySource.

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You may have heard some discussion about “longdesc” recently which spiked when much debate broke out on whether to keep it in the HTML5 specification. Unless you’re a “veteran” web professional, you may not even heard of “longdesc”. So what is it, you ask, and should you be using it? Let’s examine.

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In this week’s Code Safari, Xavier reaches into his bag of Ruby tricks and explores some of the features of the Ruby standard library—namely, Threads.Read the full article on RubySource—Code Safari: Threading Ruby

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Using a combination of the Google Maps API, jQuery animation, and some newer CSS effects, Xavier Shay shows why there is no excuse for boring default maps.

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Would you like to use a foreach loop to iterate over items in a collection defined within your class? Craig provides a gentle introduction to object iterators in PHP.

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How do freelancers ever make time for holidays? Georgina reveals the not-so-glamorous truth about how she wangled her latest vacation from freelance work.

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If you’ve been frustrated by sluggish browser performance when using CSS effects, Craig provides a bookmarklet link which might help identify the problem.

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Ahead of a rather special new book project, Louis Lazaris explores what a slash can do to the syntax of the border-radius property.

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The speech bubbles are done. The page ribbons have been completed. This time, Craig creates attractive paper curls using CSS3 only. There’s no need for images or additional HTML elements.

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Following straight on from the last article in this series on color, Color Theory 101, we’re now going to take a better look at the RGB and CMYK color wheels.

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A quick trip around the many photo sharing sites on the web — or SitePoint’s own photography forums — confirms that there are may talented amateur photographers on the Internet. But how many know that they can make money selling those photos? Apparently, not many.

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Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that allows you to create and manipulate vector graphics in your web pages. It’s amazingly simple to use and is cross-browser compatible, as Andrew demonstrates in this short demo.

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Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the world, but just how important are its entries in shaping public perception? If the number of times Google thinks it is an authority on a subject is any indication, then the answer is very, very important.

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