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In this sitdown of "FS Interviews:" we pull up a chair with reknowned blogger and designer Michael Martin of Pro Blog Design. We discuss what makes blogs work, his favorite project he's ever worked on, most visited sites, and the creative process behind designing a kickass website.

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In this episode we welcome in our new season with an extend time-slot and even more changes you'll notice through the episode and discuss the very important topic of "The Jump To Freelancing", leaving your 9-to-5 to become your own boss and live your dream. Areas we cover are: "Going into Freelancing straight out of High School", "The Pro's and Con's of Freelancing", "How to Build a Client Base", and "Tools and Reasources for Freelancers".

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In today's generation, an internet user can select from any range of browsers to use for their daily trudge through the net: IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, but this freedom of choice has turned into an uphill battle for web developers when it comes to CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. We're constantly faced with the challenge of making our codes and designs look and function the same in every major browser a client’s site receives.

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Help children around the world by blogging! Tutorial9's "Gift of Knowledge Giveaway"is still accepting submissions until the first of February, so hurry up and start blogging and save a child in the process!

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Time to recap our first 5 episodes of our podcast FS-Air!

It's been a month and a half since we first released our recordings to the net, and you all have been very responsive. So for all of you who haven't been following on the site or haven't subscribed to our iTunes feed, here's a small run down of everything that happened.

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Hi Everyone,

I've created a very short screencast today, to walk you through installing Wordpress.

I can do other CMS's and Scripts if you reply to the post with a comment for me with the CMS/Script name and a URL to their website.

The screencast goes for about 6 or so Minutes, and explains basically the simple steps to install wordpress such as downloading, adding in the database information and so on. I haven't included uploading or extracting the wordpress files, as it may be the topic for another screencast.
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Well after many months of planning and even more weeks of recording, editing, designing, and coding, FS-Air has finally been released! FS-A Launched at 12am (EST) Saturday the 29th with episode 1 "Coding in school" being the first episode available to the general public! And a new episode being released every Friday!

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We all know the saying Don't Judge a book by it's cover, but in the big virtual space we call the internet, the first look is vitally important.

It's those first few seconds where a user will scan your page and look at the design and a little content, i know i find myself doing this all the time. To me, i feel that if a website is going to have good quality content, then the author will at least try and put some effort into a quality design.

Below i've got some great examples of great design and some examples of horrible design. I'll be explaining how each appeals to me, and how it can also appeal to users. This is a show case and also a way for designers, developers and webmasters to learn about how design affects how users perceive your website on first impression.
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We're all inspired by good web design no? So, as a bit of collective inspiration for us all, here's the first in a series of articles that will show you the latest and top notch web designs from all over the web. Also, we'll include a link if the design is available for download, why not share?

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The latest Internet craze isn't "web 3.0" or jQuery or CSS3, it's a simple term, beta. Beta, a single word that has become the keystone of software development culture. The web is crowded with applications and scripts that tack this little word onto the ends of their names like a conjoined twin that if removed neither could survive.

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