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Tips and tricks to rescue overdue projects

Tips and tricks to rescue overdue projects
Original Post owner is Omar Al Zabir and the original post is located here
One of my friends, who runs his own offshore development shop, was having nightmare situation with one of his customers. He’s way overdue on a release, the customer is screaming everyday, he’s paying his team from [...]


Google Chrome and Windows Live

Woww I really still don’t believe it! Google released their Browser!!! It’s really so cool faster than IE and very light but will Microsoft open All Windows Live features for Google Chrome? We will find out in a few days.

Learn more About Google Chrome

The story behind Google Chrome

Watch a video from the development team on [...]


Egyptian Web designers Freelance Cost Survey

Freelance Website Designers in Egypt Charge
 

Hi All,
I would like to make a survey for all the Web Designers ONLY IN EGYPT.
Egyptian market is really expanding when we take about software or web design and I really noticed there is a HUGE need for web designers these days whether for a Full Time web designers or [...]


Home Page Usability for Designers

How to create successful home pages?
A lot of organizations focus on the home page BUT the home page is the least important page in your website. So it’s probably the page you should finish last not first.
You think it’s the first page everybody is going to see first. So you start working out on it [...]


Usability in Egypt 101 - Closer look on usability from scratch

Usability in Egypt 101

Usability is a qualitative attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The word “usability” also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design process. Usability consultant Jakob Nielsen and computer science professor Ben Shneiderman have written (separately) about a framework of system acceptability, where usability is a part [...]


The First Usability Group in Egypt

The First Usability Group in Egypt

WAHOOO! Finally I had the time to focus on making the first usability group in Egypt, I’m so excited to start this group as a return back to my community, sharing what I have learned so far and exchange my knowledge with the famous web designers here in Egypt.
Usability in [...]


When your client want to pay the half of your work

Real story we see hopefully not so often!
I would like to share this experience with everyone in the industry especially web designers in Egypt because we share the same culture and we face many of this problems everyday!

As always I was contacted for a freelance website with one of my satisfied clients, he asked me [...]


How to Make Deadlines to be your Friend

Hey it’s me again coming with an interesting article i just finished reading… Credits goes to the Author of the Article Steven Snell
The article is talking about every designer and developer nightmare which is (DEADLINES).
I’d like to take this opportunity to build on that post by looking not only at how we can increase our [...]


Making the Perfect Business Case for a Business Process

Another Article that i liked so Much. Patrick Gauthier you are Genius and your Article ROCKS!

Sometimes, business process and workflow redesign result in recommendations for very significant change in how “things” are done. If it is your job to establish the business case for substantive redesign or innovation in a given business process, it is best [...]


Online Shopping Carts Getting Sucks

This Article is Really wonder full Credits Goes to: bradkay
Have you ever noticed that online shopping is nothing (and I mean nothing) like the real thing?
One can argue that this is a victory for consumers – that the terrestrial retail model has been broken for a long time (e.g. long lines, attitude from the service [...]


Mozilla firefox website can’t handle all the traffic

as we all know mozilla was planning to make a record for the new Firefox3 final release, i don’t know what’s going on but looks like they will not be able to track even the number of downloads because there servers are down even the mirrors for the download is down also!
but that tells you [...]


New Features in FF3 CSS and JS

today i had some time to write since i’m working in a very big project that will move all the middle east to a whole new Generation of technology… more details will come when i finish it!
today i downloaded FireFox 3 the last release it’s not yet full version but will not be too many [...]


My Fun Night watching Step Up 2

It’s been ages i didn’t have some happy time. I went to the VIP Cinema at Citystars to see “Step up 2 Movie” i have to say the movie was amazing and the last Dance ROCKKKKKK. i really advice you if you didn’t see it yet you have to see it.
Fun Night watching Step Up [...]


Style your Form Buttons with Only CSS and Zero Javascript

hey welcome to my blog I’m happy you are here to check my CSS techniques today i will show you how to style submit button without any JavaScript and how to make rollover effect! can you believe it ZERO JavaScript and tested on all browsers.

CSS Used

#button {
display: block;
width: 175px;
height: 45px;
margin: 0px auto;
}
#button input:hover{
background-image:url(’images/clicktosend_hover.gif’);
background-position:left top;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}

HTML

<div id=”button”>
<input [...]


Why Do You Work So Hard?

My Advice to you is to not work hard but Work Smart
This article i’ve seen it before and i would like to share it with everyone here. It says:
There remains this enormous and wicked sociocultural myth. It is this: Hard work is all there is.
Work hard and the world respects you. Work hard and you can [...]


Web Design and Coding Rappers

Web Design and Coding Rappers
The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper)
i found this Vedio on YouTube very Helpfull information for designers jejejeje.
i REALLY Like it!


Technology Fun

DIYer builds fully-functional NES controller coffee table, earns mad respect
by Darren Murph, posted May 9th 2008 at 9:42AM

Nah, the idea of using a freshly-mushroomed NES controller as your coffee table isn’t new, but we’ve got to give props where props are due on this one. Kyle Downes has just completed a painstaking project that resulted [...]


Why To Use Em Instead Of Pixels

How to Size Text in CSS
by Richard Rutter
There’s been a welcome resurgence of interest in web typography over the past year or so, with many articles and conference talks offering techniques and theory. Frequently asserted is the notion that good typography requires accurate control of font size and line-height. But this is the web: it’s [...]


Simple SQL Injection Hacking Techniques

Original Article Written by: Hayes Potter - A 13 year old web developer and programmer.
I’m really wondering when he got the time to learn all of that! and how he started … i really wish him the best luck and i wish also my kids can be Genius Like him!
For those of you [...]