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Rupert Murdoch has suggested that News Corporation is likely to make its content unfindable to users on Google when it launches its paid content strategy . - Chris Coyier

rful web-based platform for creating and managing websites. Stay tuned for more details and dates regarding launch. - Chris Coyier

A wiki BarnRaising is a planned event in which a community meets at a designated time to build content on the wiki together. One person alone can't build all the content in a wiki, and a community of people needs to understand how to use the wiki, and feel a sense of buy-in for it to become successful. A BarnRaising achieves this because people come expecting to learn how to use the wiki, and they are able to interact with each other as they work, thus strengthening community bonds and creating a support network that keeps people using the wiki. - Chris Coyier

No scribe, they claimed, could make such perfect copies of a book. In order to stop being strung up and murdered in those terribly 15th-century churchy ways, Fust had to reveal his technology. Once he did, he was allowed to sell the bibles and drive his empty cart back to lovely Mainz, pockets lined. - Chris Coyier

What happens when a 28 year old guy makes a profile of a hot girl on a free dating site? A bunch of this... - Chris Coyier

Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be getting the best experience possible. Honestly, I can't even begin to think about what your entire experience on the internet must be like? (...probably like riding a bike on the highway while cars blow by you on their way to Costco to get gallons of mayonnaise and 60-inch plasma TV's). How will you ever be able to use this website?????? You wont. You're an asshole and your browser is an asshole. So look, I'm going to be honest: I kind of hate you. BUT we c-a-n make this work. Here is what I am going to need you to do: fire up your Toshiba ShitBook© that weighs about 45 pounds, wipe the Cheeto dust off the screen, download Safari ( http://www.apple.com/safari... ), delete Internet Explorer from your computer, punch yourself in the face, and get me a pulled pork sandwich. - Chris Coyier

The standard combination eggs, potatoes, sausage, and pancakes should be available in some form for under $10. It should come with toast, available in whole wheat or rye or sourdough, slathered with big pats of butter. It should also come with a cup of coffee. The coffee should come with refills, which should be offered as: "A little top-off, hon?" - Chris Coyier

"The Best Buy offer is a home makeover," Microsoft Vice President Tami Reller told CNET News. "For the price of a Mac you have a new notebook, a new Netbook, a new desktop, and a new router to bring it together with the help of the Geek Squad." - Chris Coyier

Useful quotes on User Experience On creating likeable software If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful. - Chris Coyier

For the person with 368,000 Twitter friends I ask, how lonely do you truly feel? - Chris Coyier

I try to be like this as well. When you open your mouth to say something, it should be with confidence. - Chris Coyier

Portland really was weird. - Chris Coyier

Spooner doing an XHTML/CSS conversion from photoshop, time lapse - Chris Coyier

Me too - Chris Coyier

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. - Chris Coyier

Nice design. - Chris Coyier

"As a designer, I'd love to say it's the most important element," said Benedetto. "Unfortunately, my experience is that the look and feel is often inessential, to the point of being irrelevant. Some of the most successful things I have worked on, in terms of traffic and conversions, have been successful almost in spite of the design, rather than because of the design. - Chris Coyier

An additional step you can take to ensure ideal lighting conditions in your workspace is to paint the walls with Munsell 8 Gray. This paint is specially formulated to have a flat spectral response with no color bias. Unlike other hues, this type of gray will not affect your perception of other colors in the spectrum. It creates a “pure” and neutral viewing environment. You may have noticed this color on the wall of photo studios and print shops. - Chris Coyier

My friend Aaron with a cool idea... a whole songbook of 2-chord songs. - Chris Coyier

I've stopped buying as many iPhone apps, especially games, because I never play them. Next time I do though I'm gonna check this out on a good recommendation. - Chris Coyier

"Father," I would say. "My CMS software is one iteration behind in its updates, and has been hit by a worm that infiltrates spambot code into the site's permalink structure using a classic JScript overflow exploit. Apparently, in addition to creating a ghost admin, it corrupts the entire MySql wp_ database so that only a nuke-and-rebuild can clean the malware..." - Chris Coyier

Amazing aeronautical photographs from around the world - Chris Coyier

Artisans flocked to this online marketplace, but few made enough to quit their day jobs. Now comes the struggle to keep them. - Chris Coyier

New search powers for WordPress via a custom API not yet built into the WordPress core. I really wanna try this both with fulltext search and the Google Search integration. - Chris Coyier

SVG images are just text so you can create them in any text editor. There are also heaps of tools to that create SVG images. I thought Inkscape looked interesting. - Chris Coyier

This site has a really nice background image technique I want to try and replicate. - Chris Coyier

“About the rss.php file”. - Chris Coyier

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Below are a dozen basic htaccess techniques and tips to get you started. They’re not nearly as intimidating as many people expect, and if you study the code for a few minutes, I’m sure you’ll quickly grasp exactly how they work and why. - Chris Coyier