I recently created a complete site that is a link shortening tool which allows you to run your own public link shortener that keeps statistics on user clicks, and also displays a feed of what is ‘hot’ right now, based on the communities use / click throughs. This article is a quick rundown on how to set it up, and where to view a running demo.

Starting to freelance is a huge step, and it’s tough to find the right information. This list is the best 10 resources that I’ve come across to date that will help you in getting things right the first time around, and making sure you don’t miss anything.

This article is going to cover the basics in having a set list of elements fade through each other in rotation, but in a random order, so that your users aren’t always seeing the same items first and all the elements get a fair run.

I often see requests for help on how to create a simple dropdown menu without requiring too much effort, and usually I direct people to an article for ’son of suckerfish’, but since jQuery is in most sites I use now I have moved to using a jQuery based dropdown that is much simpler.

Sometimes you need Joomla to give you nothing but the components output. No template, no styling, nothing. Just the output. This article shows you how to do this, and tie it in with an Ajax call.

Often a full CMS is way too much of a hassle for a site. If the site you are building is only a handful of pages, having the overhead of a CMS like Joomla, Drupal or Wordpress can be too much overhead. Enter CushyCMS, an extremely simple CMS that allows you (or your client) to edit particular sections of content without the additional baggage.

A new javascript library was brought to my attention today to allow developers to very easily add rounded corners to their sites. The library, CurvyCorners is supported in all the major browsers.

That pesky SEO by Artio link jumps straight back in when you do an update or install the latest version of Artio’s JoomSEF for Joomla 1.5.x. Here’s how you get rid of it!

It’s getting closer, although I was expecting the release at the end of last month wordpress.org today released RC1, which they seem to think is pretty stable from their post…