While everyone else is running away from the newspaper business, Yahoo! is running straight at it. According to an interesting profile that the AFP has up today, Yahoo! is planning to lean on its huge global audience of over 500 million people to build out its own original news reporting arm.

The site has already landed some huge interviews — including one with South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, US president George W. Bush’s first online interview, and one with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “We get these interviews because we have this global audience of 500 million viewers,” Jessica Barron, the site’s director of editorial programming, told the AFP...

Hot in the heels of our own WordPress Plugin Competition (of which the results should be declared very soon), the folks at WPMU.org are running a WordPress MU plugin competition! The competition is already very much underway, with almost US$1500 worth of prizes already pledged and 8 great plugins submitted, ranging from XML-RPC add ons to simple domain mapping.

And there’s still a month to go (entries close September 24th), so get your MU hats on and submit your best and brightest! The process is much the same as at Weblog Tools Collection. Plugin authors can register at the site and write up their own plugins for publication, guidelines and more on that can be found here. Then there will be prizes (and some rather snazzy badges) for judged and peoples choice winners and ranking entries.

If you’re interested in adding to the prize pool, Andrew and James would love to hear from you too - just send them an email.

Written by Youri Souiah

Game websites are a little bit of a mystery. You won’t find them in the popular CSS-showcases since they are seldom fully CSS-based; however, they also rarely show up in sites that collect best Flash sites. The FWA, for example, has added only one game site this year. This is odd, because there are usually roughly hundred quality titles released each month, each with their own website.

During the research I’ve found out that there are a lot of creative game designs. This makes it extra strange that amongst all the showcases and studies we see on blogs and in magazines there is rarely one focused on game industry. High time we take a depth look into this area of web-design...

In many modern web applications, developers look for ways to make it easier and more intuitive for users to interact. A drag and select function can help your users select multiple objects quickly.

Step 1

We first need to create the group of objects that will be selected. More likely than not, most people will use server side script such as C# or PHP. Since that is beyond the scope of this tutorial, I will instead create them by hand. We can use most tags as objects. The only requirement is that the object must have basic mouse events assigned to them. For this tutorial I will simply use a table with two rows and five cells filled with DIVs with some basic CSS to give them shape...

Developing original work is something that artists strive for. Certainly we’re inspired by multiple sources, but ultimately it’s our synthesis of influence, discovery, passion, and process that determines the outcome of our work. Following are some steps you can take to drive your work forward into original frontiers...

Archives by Selected Categories

This WordPress plugin allows you to generate a list of posts separated by category. You can choose to display all categories, or just those you select. Under each category heading, the posts are sorted by date, with the most recent first. Additionally, the date for each post is shown next to the link.

WordPress Theme Changer & Showcase Plugin

Plugin with a widget which enables us to change the theme of a blog without having to login to the administrator’s room first. This is just like allowing visitors to change the theme of the blog...

So… did ya miss me? I had an awesome holiday, and have come back to an overflowing feed reader. Although I may touch on some of the big things that happened while I was away, I’m going to concentrate on the current week – otherwise this post would take you an hour to read and me all day to write!...

In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to create a semi-realistic object with gradients and layer blends. Also, we’ll learn more about the Blend Tool and how to create glass-like material with gradients and layers...