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JavaScript for some is the bane of web development technologies - but it should not be feared or hated. As long as proper practices are followed it will not have any affect on the accessibility or function of the website other than to enrich the user's experience.

Today it is simply not enough to redirect a user to a generic "Page cannot be found" 404 page. In the spirit in trying to give your users the best possible experience they should be redirected to a page that tries to help them find what they were after.

The term Web 2.0 is a dreadful term, but it is useful being able to collate a series of ideals and standards under one banner. With this new ideal comes a common set of design patterns and colours. A starting point for any Web 2.0 design should be the logo, and here's how to do it using Adobe Photoshop. In this example I am using CS 2 though it should work in earlier versions, and hopefully in Photoshop Elements.

Sometimes you may find that your site needs to be innaccessible for a short period of time whilst updates are performed, such as updates to user logins. This should not be allowed whilst the site is being edited, but you may need to be able to check the site yourself during this update. Here's how to block others, except yourself during these periods.

Microformats is not really a new technology, but a way of tagging your content with additional information so that it is understood what the content is. Whilst relatively a new concept, many people are already doing it. This guide shows what they are, and how to use them.

Today the web is all about being social, and by this I mean social networking. It is how the web today is moving, and communities are growing from it. This guide shows how to integrate things such as tag clouds and blog rolls on your site.

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For the majority of sites it is an essential that they are secure, and as safe from hacking to some degree. It is impossible to state that a site is not hackable based on the belief that given enough time any site could be broken. This belief makes it necessary to find a comfortable balance between security and resources spent on making it so. Guide covers prevention of SQL injections, LDAP injections, XSS (Cross site scripting) and much more.

Making your content perfect for mobile devices need not be a hassle, and here's how to make sure it isn't.

Since the dawn of what people have dubbed Web 2.0, a series of common design elements have sprung up on many sites. One of these popular trends is to have objects having reflections as though they were standing on a shiny surface. Easy to understand reflections in Adobe Photoshop.

Apache has fast become one of the most commonly used web server solutions today. With its use comes the ability to manipulate the behaviour of your site in certain ways (server-side) from a type of file called .htaccess. This easy to read guide covers the various commands, and possibilities of using such a file.