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Version control is not only important for your code, but it is important for your designs. How many designers have to attach version numbers to their Photoshop or Illustrator files? Today there are hosted solutions so you do not have to go to the trouble of setting up your own server. Hosts such as Drteamhost even provide subversion as part of their hosting plan. Vitamin has a good post on how to usetup subversion and use it from a Web Designer’s perspective.

Vitamin: Subversion for Designers

Here are a few AJAX-y effects to add to your website. Though most of these are not really AJAX, they are more of the trend in Web2.0 design or just generally cool features to add to your website.

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Coding Horro looks at the multiple monitors study…

Let me be perfectly clear on this matter: more is more. More usable desktop space reduces the amount of time you spend on window management excise. Instead of incessantly dragging, sizing, minimizing and maximizing windows, you can do actual productive work. With a larger desktop, you can spend less time mindlessly arranging information, and more time interacting with and acting on that information. How much that matters to you will depend on your job and working style. Personally, I’d be ecstatic if I never had to size, position, or arrange another damn window for the rest of my life.

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Check out the links to 24 great niche gallery sites, from Wordpress only designs to light on dark.

24 Great Niche Gallery Sites

Seth Godin ponders the reason why folks simply send a resume with no cover letter for jobs. As Seth says and I am paraphrasing….Resumes are for chumps, you don’t get great jobs by simply a resume, you get a reason to go into the rejected pile…

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Here is an idea, use a random number as a captcha. Store the random number in a session variable and then have the user enter that random number in manually.

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Here are some useful tips to use when coding in PHP and making your applications secure. Simple things such as using the strip_tags function to tips on handling files are covered.

Secure PHP Programming

Cool tutorial on making a richly textured grungy business card.

Grungy Business Card

Lots of useful CSS tricks here including several rounded corner techniques, with images and without.

Most Used CSS Tricks

Floats have been a major pain in the you know where since the inception of CSS based layouts. While I would never resort to using a table to layout pages again for lots of reasons, floating continues to be a burden on us all. Well, with some clever backwards compatibility (it works in IE5.5/6 and other browsers) and the use of CSS3 style layout you can forget about using floats.