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There are two types of emails: plain-text and HTML email. Everyone who us­es email has seen a plain-text email with no for­mat­ting. You can def­i­nite­ly still send plain-text emails to your sub­scribers, but in this ar­ti­cle we’ll be talk­ing about emails of the HTML va­ri­ety. HTML emails should be sent in mul­ti­part/al­ter­na­tive MIME for­mat; this in­cludes an HTML ver­sion, and a plain-text fall­back for email clients with HTML turned off or that lack HTML ca­pa­bil­i­ties. This means that when writ­ing and (...)

—Col­lege­Hu­mor Media: Paul Greenberg re­cent­ly joined as CEO of the com­pa­ny that op­er­ates CollegeHumor.com, Dorkly.com, TodaysBigThing.com and SportsPickle.com. He pre­vi­ous­ly served a brief stint as pres­i­dent of dig­i­tal at Time’s lifestyle group. Prior to that, he was EVP and GM of TV Guide Online. —ChaCha: Greg Siefert is now CTO, re­spon­si­ble for the com­pa­ny’s engi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy op­er­a­tions. He pre­vi­ous­ly found­ed and was pres­i­dent of Springhead, a lead­er­ship and tech con­sult­ing firm. (...)

Welcome to an­oth­er free video tu­to­ri­al cour­tesy of Think Vitamin Membership, the sim­plest way to learn web de­sign and de­vel­op­ment fea­tur­ing 100s of high qual­i­ty video cours­es and on­line con­fer­ences to keep you at the cut­ting edge. Topics in­clude Accessibility, CSS3, Design, Django, HTML & CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, NoSQL, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails and UX. No Video? Watch it now on Think (...)

StumbleUpon just made Android app dis­cov­ery sig­nif­i­cant­ly easier for users of its mo­bile app. The StumbleUpon mo­bile app for Android now has a be­ta fea­ture for app dis­cov­ery. StumbleUpon app dis­cov­ery func­tions much like the pop­u­lar StumbleUpon web ser­vice that al­lows users to dis­cov­er new web­sites based on the rec­om­men­da­tions of others. As the com­pa­ny ex­plains, you’ll “be able to stum­ble through, rate, re­view, and share apps we rec­om­mend for you, just like you can do with web pages on your (...)

Amazon.com is work­ing close­ly with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide cloud com­put­ing ser­vices for the space agen­cy's The Mars Exploration Rover pro­ject, ac­cord­ing to a press re­lease is­sued to­day. Although the re­lease claims that this pro­ject is the first NASA space mis­sion to use cloud com­put­ing for dai­ly mis­sion op­er­a­tions," NASA has used Amazon com­peti­tor Rackspace for its Nebula pro­ject. A pa­per called "A Scalable Image Processing Framework for Gigapixel Mars and Other (...)

In part­ner­ship with Adobe Business Catalyst, FreelanceSwitch is launch­ing a fun de­sign com­pe­ti­tion with a hu­mon­gous prize! The best re­design of a fic­ti­tious out­dat­ed 90s web­site, Mario’s Catering, will win a copy of Adobe CS5 Web Premium – val­ued at US $1,799 and avail­able for your OS of choice. Adobe CS5 Web Premium is a soft­ware bundle con­tain­ing the newest ver­sions of Adobe’s world fa­mous de­sign and me­dia soft­ware. Hit the jump to learn more! Up For Grabs Dreamweaver CS5 Photoshop CS5 (...)

As a web de­sign­er/de­vel­op­er, I’ve found that there ex­ist sev­er­al com­mon (if not near­ly uni­ver­sal) truths when it comes to clients. One of the­se is that they love to talk about func­tion­al­i­ty. I have had sev­er­al clients whose ini­tial ap­proach when they con­tact me is to provide me with a com­plete list of func­tion­al­i­ty – in other words, a list­ing of what they think that their web­site needs to do. What I tend not to get quite so often is a de­scrip­tion of what the pur­pose of the site is. To my (...)

It takes plen­ty of re­sources to bring you ar­ti­cles about de­sign and de­vel­op­ment free of charge. Without our spon­sors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch con­tent that you can en­joy and learn from. Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our spon­sors who sup­port our com­mu­ni­ty — com­pa­nies that al­so cre­ate amaz­ing prod­ucts and provide ex­cel­lent ser­vices to web pro­fes­sion­als like us. We’d like to thank our site spon­sors be­tween October 1 – October 31, 2010 and talk a (...)

Git is a ver­sion con­trol sys­tem used by de­vel­op­ment and pro­gram­ming teams, pop­u­lar open source pro­jects, and other team col­lab­o­ra­tion pro­jects. In this Git guide, we will dis­cuss the val­ue of ver­sion con­trol sys­tems, an overview of Git, ad­van­tages and dis­ad­van­tages of us­ing Git, how to in­stall Git, ba­sic com­mands, tools and essen­tial Git re­sources. (For de­sign­ers, al­so check out The Ultimate Guide to Version Control for Designers.) What Is Version Control? Essentially a ver­sion con­trol (...)

(Cross post­ed from the Google Code Blog) Thanks from the Geo API team for a mak­ing Google I/O a great event yet again! We re­al­ly look at I/O as be­ing for de­vel­op­ers by de­vel­op­ers, so each year our API engi­neer­ing team makes the pil­grim­age from Sydney, Australia to per­son­al­ly pre­sent the new APIs and fea­tures they’ve spent most of their time work­ing on. These fea­tures and new APIs are, in most cas­es, re­quest­ed by the Maps API com­mu­ni­ty so it’s a re­al thrill for us to de­liv­er on the­se (...)

If some­one asked you where you are right now, how would you an­swer? Would you say that you are at home, or at work? Maybe you are in a for­eign coun­try, in the park, or at your favourite cof­fee shop. These are just a few of the many places by which we nav­i­gate through our dai­ly lives. Maps ap­pli­ca­tions may see the world in terms of lat­i­tudes and lon­gi­tudes, but we think in terms of ‘Places’. In September of last year Google launched Place Pages on Google Maps. Each Place Page con­sol­i­dates (...)

Google I/O is al­ways a fan­tas­tic op­por­tu­ni­ty for the Maps API team to meet face to face with some of the many Maps API de­vel­op­ers world­wide. We be­lieve our de­vel­op­er com­mu­ni­ty is one of the biggest strengths of the Google Maps API, and with over 350,000 web sites ac­tive­ly us­ing the Maps API, there is no short­age of skilled and help­ful ex­per­tise to tap in­to. However Google I/O is not the on­ly way in which we en­gage with de­vel­op­ers. The Google Maps API Google Groups are thriv­ing (...)

It is amaz­ing what you can do the­se days with the ser­vices of­fered on the web. Flickr stores ter­abytes of pho­tos for us and con­verts them au­to­mat­i­cal­ly to all kind of sizes, finds peo­ple in them and even al­lows us to ed­it them on­line. YouTube does al­most the same com­plete job with videos, LinkedIn al­lows us to main­tain our CV, Delicious our book­marks and so on. We don’t have to do the­se tasks our­selves any more, as all of the­se sys­tems al­so come with ways to use the data in the form of (...)

Has Google's mod­el of spi­der­ing and in­dex­ing web pages in an ordered list be­come ob­so­lete? Is the old stat­ic mod­el of search about to be re­placed? Does a re­al-time on­line con­ver­sa­tion (a la Twitter) make for a more rel­e­vant and com­pelling search ex­pe­ri­ence? These are the ques­tions that I re­cent­ly posed to a group of search and Internet ex­perts. To say that the­se guys know their stuff would be a com­plete un­der­state­ment. It's more like the­se are the pro­fes­sion­als that have de­fined the mod­ern (...)

The pop­u­lar­i­ty of the Twitter Service has cre­at­ed a lot of chat­ters, chat­ters that are 1. Less than 140 char­ac­ters long, 2. Very easy to pub­lish any­time, any­where, ANY PLATFORM 3. Mostly rub­bish about what peo­ple had for lunch! However, sim­i­lar­ly to what hap­pened to the evo­lu­tion of blogs, more rep­utable (and knowl­edge­able!) peo­ple and com­pa­nies are start­ing to use twit­ter as a mean of com­mu­ni­cat­ing, brand­ing and mar­ket­ing mech­a­nism. As a re­sult, there are ac­tu­al quite a lot use­ful (...)