Get yourself over to Chris Marquardt’s “tips from the top floor” and enter Chris’s self protrait contest to win a iPod Mini - contest ends Aug 21, 2005. Here’s my entry. Here’s Chris’s. I’m sure you can do better than either of us!
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This weekend found me taking several photographs near Freezeout Pass, on the edge of the Mallard-Larkin Wilderness. I was hoping the bear grass would be in bloom but it looks like it will be next weekend.

I finally have a plan for this website and blog. I’m moving the blog to willsimpson.org and the image bank to palousephotography.org. I couldn’t believe that palousephotography.org was still available. I think this change will make good sense as readers interested in me will go to willsimpson.org and those interested in photography of the palouse will go to palousephotography.org. I also plan to do something with kestrelcreek.com. I need to make it clear that kestrelcreek.com is dormant and that there is no new content available. I need to turn off the email and remove all references to the newsletter.

"Why create rough text? Well, it's a neat effect. You get a real "weathered" look to fonts. There are some rough-looking fonts available, but if you look at them, similar letters look exactly alike...not exactly random-looking. This effect produces some truly random rough text, and it's something that provides a good building block to apply other effects to...

Quick tips on some pretty cool CSS tricks. This article was written by Trenton Moss. Trenton's crazy about web accessibility and usability - so crazy that he went and started his own web accessibility and usability consultancy to help make the Internet a better place for everyone. He also knows an awful lot about the Disability Discrimination Act.

Java based online color picker web application. Pretty cool.

CSS is an excellent addition to plain HTML. With plain HTML you define the colors and sizes of text and tables throughout your pages. If you want to change a certain element you will therefore have to work your way through the document and change it. With CSS you define the colors and sizes in "styles". Then as you write your documents you refer to the styles. Therefore: if you change a certain style it will change the look of your entire site...

This file documents the the GNU Wget utility for downloading network data.

Snipe Gallery is a searchable PHP/mySQL photo gallery manager with web based admin and dynamic thumbnailing....Snipe Gallery is feature-rich while remaining compact and light...

Building CSS-based layouts can be a pain in the ass. In an attempt to save the sanity of myself and others, I offer these layouts that I've put together. Everything here is royalty-free, copyright-free, and warranty-free. Enjoy!

Neal Parikh's short MySQL Cheat Sheet