Web Design

960 Grid System for Designers

Jul 17th, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Web Design

I was playing around with the 960 Grid System earlier today and found it to be a compelling framework for web development. You will need to have at least a novice to intermediate understanding of CSS to utilize the 960gs. The video below is a nice overview of the framework and runs about 25 minutes.

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Cheap code snippets for the masses

May 17th, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Web Design

I ran across a website called CodeCanyon this morning that offers snippets of php code html, javascript, ASP.net and JAVA at extremely reasonable prices. Unlike some of the free script websites and resources this php code is actually a quality resource for modern web development and php code snippets ranging in price from $2 – [...]



Jing Project rocks

Nov 29th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Open Source, Web 2.0 and Beyond

I recently came across the Jing Project and was a breath of fresh (I mean free) air for screen capture. If you other bloggers and guerrilla marketing gurus have been on the hunt for an affordable and realiable screen capture look no further. I am still on road otherwise I would have taken the time [...]



Podcasts for designers and developers

Nov 28th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Web Design

Podcasts for designers and developers
I am traveling for Turkey-day and loaded up my ipod touch with an array of podcasts from one of my favorite resource sites– Smashing Magazine. I wanted to bone up on a few adobe products per the CS4 release and added some great podcasts for graphic designers and web developers. The [...]



StartupAddict.com is finally LIVE!

Mar 27th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Drupal, StartupAddict.com

Version 2.0 of StartupAddict is finally up and running. I want to thank everyone who waited patiently as SA was converted from a custom php/mysql application to Drupal 5.x. To see why I chose Drupal for the Startupaddict platform check this earlier post. StartupAddict is community driven and only as good as its’ users, [...]



DrupalCon 2008 – Day 2

Mar 5th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Drupal

Day two of Drupalcon was just as amazing as Day one. It’s astounding to see the diversity of Industries and number of people that comprise the Drupal ecosystem. The only thing more impressive than the diversity is the rapid rate at which the Drupal community is growing and the pure dedication everyone offers to better [...]



Day 1 at DrupalCon 2008 Boston

Mar 3rd, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Drupal, StartupAddict.com

Drupalcon 2008 got underway today and a great day it was. Dries Buytaert the original founder of Drupal kicked off the event with a Keynote about the release of Drupal 6 (only a month ago) and a discussion on where Drupal 7 is heading. Like any conference my head is still spinning from information overload [...]



Porn.com domain sells big…cha-ching$$$$

May 16th, 2007 | By Startup Addict | Category: Domains

The world of “type-in traffic” domains flirted with 8 digit figures this week. Cybernet is reporting a 9.5 million dollar sale for the domain second to sex.com for an estimated 12.5M and with Business.com trailing with a reported 7.5 million at the peak of the 1999 hayday.

For those of you unfamiliar with “type-in traffic”, [...]